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Microfiche 

Series. 


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Collection  de 
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Canadian  Inttituta  for  Hiatorical  Microraproductiont 


Inttitut  Canadian  da  microraproductiona  hittoriquaa 


1980 


Ttchnicai  and  Bibliographic  Notaa/Notaa  tachniquaa  at  bibliographiquai 


Tha  Instituta  has  attamptad  to  obtain  tha  baat 
originai  copy  availabia  for  filming.  Faaturas  of  this 
copy  which  may  ba  bibliographically  uniqua, 
which  may  altar  any  of  tha  imagas  in  tha 
raproduction.  or  which  may  aignificantiy  changa 
tha  usual  mathod  of  filming,  ara  chackad  balow. 


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Colourad  covars/ 
Couvartura  du  coulaur 


I     I   Covart  damagad/ 


Couvartura  andommag^a 


Covor*  rattorad  and/or  laminatad/ 
Couvartura  raatauria  at/ou  pallicul4a 


I — I   Covar  titia  miasing/ 


La  titra  da  couvartura  manqua 


□    Colourad  maps/ 
Cartes  giographiquas  en  coulaur 


Coloured  ink  (I.e.  other  than  blue  or  black)/ 
Encre  de  couleur  (i.e.  autre  que  bieue  ou  noirel 


□    Coloured  plates  and/or  illustrations/ 
Planches  et/ou  illustrations  en  couleur 


Bound  with  other  material/ 
Rail*  avec  d'autres  documents 

Tight  binding  may  cause  shadows  or  distortion 
along  interior  margin/ 

La  reliure  serr^e  peut  causer  de  I'ombre  ou  de  la 
distortion  la  long  de  la  marge  inttriaura 

Blank  leaves  added  during  restoration  may 
appear  within  the  text.  Whenever  possible,  these 
have  been  omitted  from  filming/ 
II  se  peut  que  certaines  pages  blanches  ajoutAas 
lors  d'une  restauration  apparaissent  dans  la  texte, 
mais,  lorsque  cela  Atait  possible,  ces  pages  n'ont 
pas  AtA  filmAes. 

Additional  comments:/ 
Commentaires  suppiamentaires: 


L'Inatitut  a  microf  iimi  la  maillaur  axamplaira 
qu'ii  iui  a  At*  poaaibia  da  sa  procurer.  Las  details 
da  eat  axamplaira  qui  sont  paut-Atra  uniques  du 
point  da  vua  bibliographiqua,  qui  pauvant  modifier 
une  image  reproduite.  ou  qui  peuvent  exiger  une 
modification  dana  la  mAthoda  normaia  da  f ilmage 
aont  indiquAs  ci-dassoua. 


r~|   Colourad  pages/ 


D 


Pages  de  couleur 

Pages  damaged/ 
Pages  endommagAas 

Pages  restored  and/oi 

Pages  restaurAas  at/ou  pelliculAes 

Pages  discoloured,  stained  or  foxei 
Pages  dAcoiorAes,  tachettes  ou  piquAes 

Pages  detached/ 
Pages  dAtachAes 

Showthrough/ 
Transparence 

Quality  of  prir 

QukiiitA  inAgale  de  I'impression 

Includes  supplementary  materii 
Comprend  du  materiel  supplAmentaire 

Only  edition  available/ 
Seule  Edition  disponlble 


r~7|  Pages  damaged/ 

I    1  Pages  restored  and/or  laminated/ 

r~|  Pages  discoloured,  stained  or  foxed/ 

I      I  Pages  detached/ 

j      I  Showthrough/ 

pn  Quality  of  print  varies/ 

r~n  Includes  supplementary  material/ 

I — I  Only  edition  available/ 


Pages  wholly  or  partially  obscured  by  errata 
slips,  tissues,  etc.,  have  been  ref limed  to 
ensure  the  best  possible  image/ 
Les  pages  totaiement  ou  partiellement 
obscurcles  par  un  fauillet  d'errata,  une  pelure. 
etc.,  ont  At  A  filmAes  A  nouveau  de  fapon  A 
obtanir  id  meilleure  image  possible. 


CZI 


This  item  is  filmed  at  the  reduction  ratio  chackad  below/ 

Ce  document  est  filmA  au  taux  de  rAductlon  indiquA  ci-daasoua. 


10X 

14X 

18X 

22X 

2ix 

30X 

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20X 

24X 

2tX 

32X 

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Tha  copy  filmad  hara  haa  baan  raproducad  thanks 
to  tha  ganaroiity  of: 

Library  of  tha  Public 
Archivas  of  Canada 

Tha  imagaa  appaaring  hara  ara  tha  bast  quality 
possibia  considaring  tha  condition  and  lagibility 
of  tha  original  copy  and  in  kaaping  with  tha 
filming  contract  spacifications. 


Original  copias  in  printad  papar  covars  ara  filmad 
baginning  with  tha  front  covar  and  anding  on 
tha  last  paga  with  a  printad  or  iiiuatratad  impras- 
sion,  or  tha  back  covar  whan  appropriata.  All 
othar  original  copias  ara  filmed  baginning  on  tha 
first  paga  with  a  printad  or  illustratad  impraa- 
sion.  and  anding  on  tha  laat  paga  with  a  printad 
or  illustratad  impraasion. 


Tha  last  racordad  frama  on  aach  microficha 
shall  contain  tha  symbol  — ^  (moaning  "CON- 
*;!MUED").  or  tha  symbol  y  (moaning  "END"), 
vhsch^vsr  9nplias. 


L'axamplaira  f  ilmi  f  ut  raproduit  grAca  A  la 
gAnAroaitt  da: 

La  bibiiothdqua  das  Archivas 
publiquas  du  Canada 

Las  imagas  suivantas  ont  AtA  raproduitas  avac  lo 
plus  grand  soin.  compta  tanu  da  la  condition  at 
da  la  nattat*  da  l'axamplaira  film*,  at  an 
conformity  avac  las  conditions  du  contrat  da 
filmaga. 

Las  axamplairas  originaux  dont  la  couvartura  en 
papiar  ast  imprimis  sont  filmis  an  commandant 
par  la  pramiar  plat  at  mn  tarminant  soit  par  la 
darnlAra  paga  qui  comporta  una  amprainte 
d'imprassion  ou  d'illustration,  soit  par  la  second 
plat,  salon  la  cas.  Tous  las  autras  exemplaires 
originaux  sont  filmte  an  commandant  par  la 
pramiAre  paga  qui  comporta  une  empreinte 
d'imprassion  ou  d'illustration  at  en  terminant  par 
la  darniAre  page  qui  comporte  une  telle 
empreinte. 

Un  des  symboles  suivants  appara?tra  sur  la 
derniAre  image  de  cheque  microfiche,  selon  le 
cas:  la  symbols  — ^  signifie  "A  SUIVRE".  le 
sym^  ole  ▼  signifie  "FIN". 


Maps,  plates,  charts,  etc.,  may  be  filmed  at 
different  redi/r^ion  ratios.  Those  too  large  to  be 
entirely  included  in  one  exposure  are  filmed 
beginning  in  the  upper  left  hand  corner,  left  to 
right  and  top  to  bottom,  as  many  frames  as 
required.  The  following  diagrams  illustrate  the 
method: 


Les  cartes,  planches,  tableaux,  etc.,  peuvent  Atre 
filmte  A  des  taux  de  rAduction  diffArents. 
Lorsque  le  document  est  trop  grand  pour  Atre 
reproduit  en  un  seul  clichA,  il  est  filmA  A  partir 
da  I'angia  supArieur  gauche,  de  gauche  A  droite, 
et  de  haut  90  bas,  en  prenant  la  nombre 
d'imagas  nAcessaira.  Las  diagrammas  suivants 
iiiustrant  la  mAthode. 


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THE    CANADIAN 


BIOGRArmCAL    DICTIONARY 


AM* 


FORTH  AIT    GALLERr 


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EMINENT    AND    SELF-MADE    MEN 


Ql  KHE(;  AND  TIIK  MARITIMK  I'ROVINCKS  V(H.IMK. 


'    >»oi  ^»th  unit  ?er 
AMKRU  AN    BK.K         .'UiCAL    I'ItblisULVG    COMPANY. 

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PREFACE. 


"TpNCOUHACiKD  l>y  tlwir  hiiccchs  in  iH-tHlueiiij,'  the  niitaii.i  volmiie  of  tlio  ('axadian  Bin- 
-*— •  (iltAl'ilK'Ai.  Dictionary,  an<l  the  iinivbi-Hal  favor  with  which  it  was  ivceiveJ  by  tho 
public,  the  piiblislicrM  havi-  Uwn  Idl  to  iiaiie  the  volume  which  they  here  present,  coinpri«in;j 
tlie  bioj,'raphie.s  of  tlio  oininent  au'l  self-male  men  of  Quebec  and  the  Maritime  ProvinceM. 

In  publishing  this  volume,  tlie  constant  cmleaviw  has  been  to  produce  a  work  in  every 
rcHjiect  wortliy  of  tlie  naint^  it  bears.  And  iiuismueh  !>,s  the  value  of  a  work  of  this  character 
depends  uikiii  a  faithful  adhen-iice  to  fa 'ts  and  aeciracy  of  statement,  tlie  publishers  have  em- 
ployed evrv  means  in  their  power  to  secure  these  esieiitials,  aiming  faithfully  to  represent  (he 
various  interests  of  the*-  provinces.  Here,  in  a  coU'I  "seil  form,  are  to  be  found  the  leading 
events  in  the  lives  of  the  .staU'smcn,  preachers,  lawyers, teachers,  doctors,  nurehants,  manu- 
facturers and  arti.sans,  who  have  contributi'd  ho  largely  to  tho  material  wealth,  and  ]K>lit!(al 
and  social  <leveh)pnjent  of  the  !>(mnnif>u,  an<l  the  inHuence  of  whose  lives  ami  works  mu«t 
serve  as  incentives  to  ambitious  youth,  and  all  who  wouM  emidate  the  example  of  tlioHi>  whon 
the  countr\'  recognises  and  respects  as  her  successful  men  and  iM'nefnctors. 

The  datA  for  the  various  sketches  have  been  ciillucteJ  with  the  utmost  care,  and  at  great 
ex|>ense,  by  {KTSonally  interviewing  the  parties  who^e  liiographies  are  given,  or  their  intimate 
friends  or  relatives,  and  eachskeleh,  having  been  sul>mitted  for  correction  an<l  n^vision,  has  l)e«>n 
published  only  upon  approval. 

The  |)ortraits,  with  which  tin'  work  is  illu.str.iteil,  are  fac-similes  of  approved  photographs, 
wrought  in  the  highest  style  known  to  the  art  of  steel  plate  engraving. 

While  tho  publishei"s  would  not  tlatter  themselves  with  the  thought  that  the  work  is  fault- 
less, yet,  they  are  conscious  of  Imving  performed  their  labors  conscieutiously,  and  iKjIieve  it  to 
Ik?  as  nearl}'  ptufect  as  money,  tim<>  and  labor  could  make  it. 

( )f  the  value  of  such  a  work,  it  is  not  neci-ssar}-  to  speak  at  length.  The  desire  to  Im-  rem-'in- 
bercd  is  native  to  the  human  heart,  and  an  instinct  that  grows  strong  proportionately  to  one's 
consciousn«;ss  that  his  achievements  have  enhanced  tho  well-lK-ing  or  promoted  the  happiness  of 
his  fellow -men,  closely  allied  to  this  is  the  desire  to  know  those  who  have  made  life  succes.sful, 
and  their  lives  sublime,  and  whose  works  illustrate  tho  jMiwer  and  worth  of  sturdy  manlicxMl ; 
and  the  iiublishers,  in  i.s.sning  this  voltnne,  do  it  with  the  assurance,  Imth  tiiat  they  are  engaged 


II'  " 


1/i 


I! 


1 


PRRFACK. 

in  a  Uudablo  enterprise,  «nd  «t  the  name  ti.ne  ,«y ing  a  merite,!  tribute  to  the  men.  the  history 
of  whose  achievements  they  have  recorde<l. 

While  the  work  is  invah,able  to  tho«e  whom  it  n^presents.  how  much  ...on,  so  must  .t  be  t<, 
their  chihlren  and  families,  and  the  generations  that  follow.  What  legacy  can  a  father  leave 
that  W.1I  be  more  highly  prized,  than  the  record  of  an  hononible  and  successful  life.  These  and 
k.ndred  considemtions  give  to  the  B.oanAPH.cAl.  Dktionarv.  an  intrinsic  worth. 

With  the  conscious  assurance  of  having  done  their  best  in  the  duties  entrusted  to  then, 
and  w.th  a  feeling  of  g,-atitud.  towards  all  who  have  aided  them  in  bringing  their  work  to  a 
successful  completion,  the  publishers  present  the  result  of  their  labors,  asking  the  kind  indul.- 
o.ice  of  a  generous  public. 


THE    CANADIAN 


Biographical  Dictionary. 


QIEllEC  ASn  MARITIMK  PllOYIKCKS    VOl.UilK. 


MAHQr  IS   OF   LOKNE, 

OTTA  WA. 

r  I  iHE  succi'HHor  of  so  popular  a  Govemor-Qeneral  as  Lord  Duflerin  had  lii>forc  liiin  a  ditticMilt 
-^  took,  if  he  wouKi  occupy  as  high  a  place  in  the  cHtimatiuii  of  C'anadianit  as  tlid  that  din- 
tirgitiHhe*]  Irish  Peer.  Under  the  circumstances,  tlierefore,  the  api>ointnu'nt  of  one  so  closely 
allit-d  to  the  Throne  as  the  Manpiis  of  Jjornc  was  one  of  tlie  wisest  selections  tliat  Her  Majesty 
c<iuld  have  nia<te,  especially  in  view  of  the  fact  that  he  would  lie  accompanied  hy  Her  lloyal 
IlighnesH  the  Princess  Louise.  Endowed  witli  excellent  i|ualities  of  mind  and  lu-urt,  of  varied 
and  extensive  knowledge,  he  will  donhtlesH  exercise  a  |)otont  influence  on  the  atiairs  of  the 
Dominion,  and,  judging  from  the  sentiment  that  already  prevails,  will  lie  as  much  Iteloved  as 
was  his  eminent  predecessor.  Tho  present  CJovernor-Cieneral  is  descended  from  one  of  the  most 
illu.strious  and  ancient  families  in  Scottish  Iiistory,  tlie  annals  of  whose  ancestors  are  traced 
liack  until  they  become  dim  in  the  twilight  of  tradition.  But  since  (Sillespie  Campljoll,  in  the 
eleventh  century,  acquired  by  murriage  the  Loixlship  of  Lochow,  in  Argjdeshire,  the  records  of 
the  family  may  \w  plainly  followed.  From  him  descended  Sir  Colin  ('ampbell  of  Lochow,  who 
liecamc  distinguished  both  in  war  and  in  |M»ace,  and  who  received  the  surname  of  '  Mohr,"  or 
'  (Srcat."  Fi-om  him  the  chief  of  the  liouse  is  to  this  day  styled,  in  (Jat^lio,  "  MacCtiileiin  Mohr," 
or  "  The  (Jreat  Colin."  In  1280,  he  was  knighted  by  Alexander  III.,  and  eleven  yeai-s  later  he 
waa  slain  in  a  contest  with  his  [wwerfui  neighlxir,  the  Lord  of  Lorn**.  This  event  (K-casiimed 
bitter  feud  tietween  the  two  families,  which  existed  for  many  yeaiN,  but  was  finally  ter- 
minated romantically  by  the  marriage  of  the  first  Earl  of  Argyle  to  the  heiress  of  Lome.  For 
jiundreils  of  years  afler  this  time  the  history  of  the  family  is  inseparably  inwoven  with  the 
history  of  Scotland.  The  first  and  also  the  last  Mari(uis  of  Argyle  was  Gillespie  (Irumach,  or 
Archibald  the  Grim,  who  was  beheaded  during  the  reign  of  Charles  II.  His  .son,  taking  part 
against  the  reigning  Power,  escaped  to  the  Continent,  but  subsequently  returned  to  Scotlaiul 
to  invade  that  Kingdom,  simultaneously  with  the  Duke  of  Monmouth's  unlucky  rising  in  the 
South.     His  small  force  was  defeattid  while  marching  on  Glasgow,  and  he  was  captured  and 


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6 


THE  CAXADJAK  BIOGRAPHICAL  DICTIOKARY. 


Hiiflereil  tlio  HAmo  fato  a.s  his  father.  The  cstaU^s  were  ooiifincaUid,  ami  the  Tainily  flconiMt 
<lonin(Ml  t<)  extinction;  but  tho  llovoiutioii  of  10N8,  )>nju^'lil  it  once  more  into  |ironiinciicc,  an<l 
its  representative  waH  created  the  Duke  of  Argyle  and  Man|nis  of  Lome.  The  next  suoccRsor 
to  tho  titloR  playcvl  a  very  conspicuoiiH  part  in  the  liistory  of  his  time,  and  )ia.s  l*een  innnortal- 
i«jd  in  verse  by  Pope,  and  in  prose  by  Sir  Walter  Scott.  The  heatl  of  the  family  at  the  present 
time  is  the  eighth  Duke  of  Argyle,  a  celebrated  stiitesman  who  has  filled  Hcveral  important 
oiKcos  under  different  administrations,  and  who  has  achieved  considerable  reputation  as  a  man 
of  science  and  of  letters.  Upon  tho  formation  of  Mr.  Gliiditone's  ('abinet,  in  December,  ISGK, 
he  became  Secretary  of  State  for  India,  and  conducted  its  aff.iirs  with  marked  ability  until  tho 
Liberal  Government  was  deposed  in  February,  1M74.  General  Grant  has  said  that  the  Duke  of 
Argyle  inspired  in  him  a  higher  respect  than  any  other  man  in  Rumpc.  This,  from  the  ex- 
President  of  the  United  Stiites,  who.se  discriminating  scii.so  and  judgment  in  ol)serving  men  is 
unsurpassed,  and  who  has  met  nearly  all  the  distinguiished  men  in  the  world,  is  a  rare  compli- 
ment, but  doubtless  as  deserving  as  true.  In  1844,  the  Duke  niairied  Lady  Eli/Aljeth  (>eorgiana 
Sutherland  Leveson-Gower,  eldest  daughter  of  tho  second  Duke  of  Sutherland,  and  late  Mistress 
of  the  Royal  Ritltes.  By  this  imion  he  has  twelve  children,  the  eld«!.st  of  whom,  the  Right 
Hon.  Sir  John  George  Edward  Henry  Douglas  Sutherland  Campbell,  K.  'P.,  (J.  C.  M.  G.,  Manpiis 
of  I^>rne,  and  Governor  (Seneral  of  Canada,  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He  was  Ymvu  at  the 
Staffonl  House,  St.  James'  Park,  London,  on  the  0th  tlay  of  August,  IS45.  He  wa.s  early  edu- 
cated at  EUm,  and  afterwards  passed  successively  to  the  Univei-sity  of  St.  Andivws  ami 
Trinity  College,  Cinubridge.  In  186(i,  he  l)ecame  connected  with  tiie  military,  by  appointment 
as  Captain  of  the  London  Scottish  Volunteers,  and  in  IHCiM  was  com  missioned  Lieut-Colonel  of 
the  Arjryle  and  Bute  Volunteer  Artillery  Brigade.  For  literary  and  artistic  pursuits  the  Mar- 
(piis  jwssesses  much  natural  ability  as  well  as  a  cultivated  taste,  the  result  of  study,  observation, 
and  experience.  His  first  published  work  was,  "  A  Tour  in  the  Tropics,"  the  result  of  his  ob- 
servations during  a  trip  through  the  West  Indies,  and  the  eastern  part  of  North  America,  in 
1M(5G.  Although  the  author  was  very  young  at  this  time,  the  appearance  of  this  work  displayed 
to  the  public  the  keen  sense  of  observation  and  discriminating  judgment  which  he  inherits  from 
his  father.  During  this  trip  he  niade  his  first  visit  to  Cunada  and  conceived  a  very  favorable 
impres.si<m  of  this  country.  His  next  publication  was,  "  ( !ui«la  and  Lit.i,  a  Tale  of  the  Rivseta," 
a  meritorious  poem  which  attracted  much  interest,  not  so  Uiuch  on  account  of  its  titled  author, 
as  Itecause  of  the  genuine  worth  and  beauty  of  its  composition.  In  1877  appeared  from  his  pen 
"The  Book  of  Psalms,  Literally  Rendered  in  Verse,"  whii-h  is  doubtless  the  best  of  his  literary 
productions.     It  called  forth  considerable  praise,  and  is  really  a  work  of  great  mei'it. 

In  18G8,  he  became  a  Member  of  the  House  of  Commons,  representing  the  constituency  of 
Argyleshiri!,  and  was  re-elected  by  acclamation  in  two  subsecjuent  General  Elections,  and  con- 
tinueil  in  Parliament  until  his  appointment  to  Canada.     During  part  of  the  Duke  of  Argyle's 


TUF.  CASMtlAS  ltl<K,l{M'HIV.\L  lUVTIOSAKY.  7 

tt'tiii  uf  oHic*!  in  Mr.  (ilniUtoiic's  Ciiliiii«*t,  thi!  Mar<|uiN  nctu<l  nn  IiIh  private  Mevratary,  liiMplAying 
intich  aptitiKit'  for  nHairs  of  StJtt«>. 

On  the  2lHt  of  Maix-li,  lH71,li<*  wax  iiiiitml  in  marriage  to  Her  Itoyal  MighnuMM  the  PrinceNs 
UhiImc  ('aroline  Allu-rta,  Dik-Ih'm  of  Saxony,  tho  «ixth  fliiM  and  fourth  (laughter  of  Her  Ma- 
jesty <^neen  Vietoria,  whet  was  Ixirn  on  the  lJ<tli  of  Miireh,  IMH.  Since  lier  uiiirriHge  hronghl 
her  |ironiinently  liefore  the  puhlie,  xhe  h«8  Ihhu  reganled  with  niueli  affectionate  intert>Ht  l»y  tlie 
jtcojtle,  mill  lier  |ierMonal  iiualiti»H,  inilt'|N'ii(lentiy  of  her  high  rank,  aiv  such  as  to  have  eanuil 
for  her,  love  and  respect.  She  is  very  accomplished  in  ait  and  music,  and  hns  gindly  taken  her 
part  in  the  <luties  of  hos])itality  devolving  on  the  Governor-General,  since  her  advent  to  Canada 

Her  marriage  with  the  Marquis  took  place  at  Wind.sor,  in  St.  (Jeorgi-'s  t'hapel.  and  wa.s 
sulenmized  with  imposing  eeremonit-s.  Soon  after  this  event  tho  Maitpiis  of  l^irne  wajt  men- 
tioned in  <'oniiection  with  the  Governor-Genemlship  of  Canada,  and  it  was  generally  fctdieved 
that  he  woulil  he  the  .successor  of  Sir  John  Young,  hut  the  appointment  was  finally  given  to 
Lord  Dufl'erin.  I'pon  the  expiration  of  the  latter's  term  of  oHice,  however,  it  was  deemed  ex- 
pedient to  oH'er  the  appointment  to  the  Mai'i|uis  for  various  reasons,  and  he  and  his  Koyal  wife 
weiv  received  in  the  Dominion  with  great  popular  demonstrations  of  welcome.  On  the  occa- 
sion of  their  visits  to  all  the  principal  cities  in  Canada,  during  the  summer  of  iNlil,  they  were 
aveorded  a  welcome  which  could  scarcely  be  more  enthusiastic,  and  all  classes  seemed  to  vie  in 
diMug  honor  to  their  Queen's  representatives;  and  if  their  ivccption  be  any  criterion  of  the 
success  of  the  Mnri|uis'  administration,  it  will  be  unsurpas.scd  in  brilliancy  by  any  pre<M'd- 
ing  one. 


'^»ii  !■ 


SIU    Jircill    ANJ)    AM)Ki:\V    ALLAN, 

MONTREAL. 

IN  the  Southern  States  of  the  American  Union,  Cotton  is  King  :  in  more  than  one  of  the 
New  England.  .Middle,  and  Western  States,  a  Railway  man  is  King:  in  the  Dominion  of 
Canada,  a  Steamboat  num  is  King.  Sir  Hugh  Allan  is,  we  i)elieve,  the  only  ship-builder,  ship- 
owner, and  shipping  iiierchiint  in  Anui ica  who  has  been  Knighteil ;  tho  Queen  of  Kngland,  in 
1872,  conferring  the  honor  with  her  own  hands.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  it  retpiires  more  bmin- 
power  to  manage  a  net-work  of  railways,  all  iielonging  to  one  com|)any,and  thn-e  or  four  thou- 
sand miles  long,  or  half  a  do/A>n  lines  of  steamei-s,  all  under  one  general  director,  and  trading 
with  various  parts  of  the  globe,  than  it  does  to  govern  a  Province  or  a  Dominion.  Modern 
enterjtrise,  in  the  management  of  long  and  complicated  railroad  lines  and  of  ttcean  steam  navi- 
'  gation  companies  has  frequently  developed  the  best  talent  of  a  country,  and  shown  that  the 
greatest  men  of  a  nation  are  often  found  outbide  the  political  arena,  and  unconnected  with  the 
learned  ]>n»fe.ssions,     Self-iuade  men  are  usually  the  most  conspicuous  in  the  ranks  of  Natin-e's 


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THK  CASADIAX  HlOGHArHlCAI.  ItHTlOSAKV. 


nolilcincii ;  ami,  in  the  case  of  Hir  Hugh  Allan,  thJH  fact  in  amply  corrolioi-aU>«i.  HIm  im  \\w  niu»t 
conHpicuotiH,  Hii  it  may  b«!  Mti<l  to  be  thi>  moHt  HucoenMfnl  life,  in  connection  with  niaritimi>  c«>m- 
nit'ivc,  of  all  tilt'  men  who  have  Htiivcn  to  make  Canadii  an<l  Cunailian  entei-prittc  noted  in  the 
liiNttiiy  of  tlilN  ^reiit  milway  and  steamlMNit  np*. 

Sir  Hii^li  was  iHirn  at  Saiteoatx,  Ayrshiiv,  Seotlainl,  on  the  ^i)th  of  Se|it4>niU>i-.  IhIO,  hin 
parents  Im-Iii^  Alexander  and  ilnne  ;^(.'rawford;  Allan,  and  lie  the  Heeond  of  Kve  M4)nM.  IUh  father 
wa.s  a  well-known  ship-master  and  tra<lcr  Ix-tween  the  Clyde  and  Montreal,  lia%  in^' eomniand 
of  ships  for  a  jteriod  of  thirty  years.  He  was  a  very  ]iopular  man  and  a  great  favorite  with 
thtwe  who  had  oecasion  to  cross  the  (x:ean.  One  of  the  lirii^rs  whieli  ( 'apt.  Alexamicr  Allan  com- 
manded more  than  fifly  years  ago  was  ealled  the  Favorite,  and  on  that  vessvl  Sir  Hugh  camu 
to  Montreal,  sailing;  from  (Irecnoek  on  the  1:2th  of  April,  IS2(S,  his  elder  hroMier,  .lames  Allan, 
U'ing  the  Heeond  in  eommand.  The  suiijeet  of  dur  sketch  lit^re  found  cmployiuent  with  William 
Kerr  &'  Co.,  with  whom  he  iioi|uired  a  knowledge  of  liusine.ss.  He  afterwards  tiuvellcd  for  some 
time  in  the  Tnited  States,  spent  a  year  in  his  native  country,  and  returne<i  to  Montreal,  in  1N31, 
to  make  that  city  his  honu*.  For  the  next  four  yeai-s  we  Hnd  him  in  the  tnnployment  of  Messrs. 
.1.  Miller  A:  Co..  ship-builders  and  «hipi)ers,  where,  as  a  writer  hatt  expressed  it,  he  found  "  ample 
wope  for  the  display  of  his  ac(iuiix>d  knowleilge,"  and  gave  such  satisfai^tion  to  the  firm  that,  at 
the  end  <if  the  period,  he  became  a  member  of  it.  On  the  demi.se  of  Mr  Miller,  in  1838,  the  firm 
name  was  changed  to  Edmonstone  iV:  Allan,  and  in  I8.'»i  Ix-came  that  of  the  present  well-known 
jMirtnership  of  H.  A:  A.  Allan. 

Among  the  few  incidents  in  the  life  of  Sir  Hugh  Allan  was  that  of  tloing  military  duty 
for  a  few  months  in  1837-'38,  ax  captain  of  a  company  of  volunteei-s,  a  service,  at  that  excit- 
ing perils!  familiar  to  all  readt'rs  of  Canadian  history,  which  may  be  recalled  with  reasonablv 
pride. 

With  other  entei-prisi-s  l)esides  shipping,  .Sir  Hugh  has  been  largt-ly  identified.  Montreal 
claims  him  as  her  most  notable  and  public-spirited  citizen.  He  is  president  of  the  Canatlian 
Navigation  Company,  of  the  Montreal  Teleginph  ComjMiny,  the  I^ake  Memphreniagog  Company, 
the  Mulgrave  Oold  Mining  Company,  the  Montival  Warehousing  ('ompany,  the  Montreal  Citttoii 
I'ompany.  He  is  also  a  Director  of  the  Meirh.nits'  Iknk  of  (^anada,  and  «»f  several  other  busi- 
ness ent*.'ii)rises. 

In  184+  Sir  Hugh  Allan  nuirne<l  a  'laughter  of  the  lat.-  Mr.  .lohn  Smith,  of  Montreal,  by 
whom  he  lia.s  twelve  children. 

His  brother,  Mr.  Andrew  Allan,  the  fourth  son  of  ('apt.  A.  Allan,  aljove  referred  Ui,  was 
lM)rn  at  Saltcoats  on  the  1st  of  Decemh-r,  |Hi'2.  He  wius  educated,  like  hi.s  elder  brother,  in  the 
Old  Country,  and  came  to  Canada  in  18.S9.  For  several  years  he  was  connected  with  the  finii 
of  which  his  brotlier  was  a  partner,  and  became  a  member  of  it  in  1846.  Mr.  Andrew  Allan 
is  pofwessed  of  rare  business  qualifications,  and  is  an  enei-getic  and  efficient  co-operator  with 


riiK  lASM'iw  inot.ii.xriiirM.  imrntSMiy. 


hiH  luiitluT  in  c>arr.viii<,'  forwnul  tli«>ii'  ^rraiul  I'liU'ipriHeN.  Hi>  )io|iii«  tN'Vi>fal  ii\|Hirtant  |i«iHitiuiiH 
in  tliu  city  of  M(>ntn>Hl,  Ixin;;  I'li'Miilunt  of  (lie  Windvir  HoU'l  ('<>ni|mny,  nnd  alwi  of  ^,w  Mon- 
tn>Hl  IaiIiiInt  ('oin|Hiii,\.  He  iH  hNo  one  of  (lie  ( 'onnni-v«iun*  rs  >>f  (Ik- huilioi- of  MontivAl,  an<l 
a  <iiri'«-t<)i  in  s<>vi'i-al  |iul<lic  cDniiinnicM. 

In  1^44)  Mr  Amiivw  Allan  also  ninii'ic<l  ii  ilau;;lil<  r  of  tlir  late  Mr.  ilnjin  Sntitli,  >it'  Mon- 
tr«'al,  liy  ulioni  li-  Iiiim  t-iirlit  cliiltlnn 

To  no  citi/cnn  (if  til)'  lKiniini(/n  ih  ( 'uninla  more  iiiilolitcil  tlian  to  tlio  luotliui-M.  Sii  ilu^li 
Rn*l  An<lrc\v  Allan.  No  otliiT  men  in  Canada  liavc  ilnnc  m)  nun-li,  in  tlio  laxt  tliirt)*  year*,  to 
('.\|K."litv  tlit>  i-Hnying  of  tin-  niaiU  lM-tw«'*'n  tlii^  coiintn  and  (Srvat  Britain,  and  tu  extend  tlie 
nieaiiH  of  tranxjioiUtiMn  of  cvt  ry  kind.  Nearly  tliiity  yeain  ago  tlieir  attention  an  l)nMineH.s  men 
was  direct) 'd  to  tlu:  Hoo*!  of  imiiii<;iHtii)n  •>)-ttin^iii  on  tlieeaHlvrn  MhnreH  of  tluNCuntinent.  nearly 
all  uf  it  )li-Htin)Ml  f))i-  I'liit)-)!  StatcM  ports.  It  was  then  that  thu  Allan.s  eoiiD-iv)-)!  tli)-  id)>a  of 
cnlaixiii}.;  tlic  ta)iliti)-s  of  irniiH|Mir(ntion  lo-iwon  (  unaila  and  <<reat  Britain,  and  of  tlieiiiselveH 
taking  |iuit  in  iIdi  eanyinj.'  fiad>'.  In  is.'i."!.  t<i  lift<')'n  vchhi-Is  which  they  hail  afloat,  thi-y 
ad)lt>)l  tw<i  iron  scri'W  .st)'ainshi|is,  to  iradi-  Ih>(wi'imi  Liv)-r|i<iol.  t/in-lM-c  and  Moiiti'eal.  A 
little  lat)'r  llity  idIiIimI  two  oth)rs,  ami  in  |H.'>7  tlu'V  iiuuli-  arrHn;,'eiiunts  to  carry  fortnijjihtly 
mails  iiet\V)vn  IJvtriMioI  and  t^iiclo'c  in  tiu'  sumiiu'r.  and  between  Li\ei|))>ol  and  i'ortland  ;  Me.J 
in  the  winter,  ^5^|lts)•l|lu•nl  to  thin  the  ('iina)liaii  mail  nervice  wa-s  enlargtt)|  t))  a  wcekl}'  liiu-, 
which  coii,si«t.s  )jf  as  Hni'  a  Heet  of  st)'amsliins  lus  is  to  Imj  found  in  any  watci-s.  For  many  yeai-s 
l«ai"k  their  carrying;  Imsiness  of  i-very  kiiwl  has  continiu'd  to  cvpaml,  until  at  the  time  of  our 
writing;  (the  sprinj.'  of  INM)  the  f)illo\vin;^  st)'anihhi|».s  are  idyinj,'  in  the  Allan  Line  : — 

L'nvrjHH)!  Mail  J/me  :-  "  Parisian,"  'Polynesia?!,'  "Moravian,"  "Sariiiatian,"  "< 'ircassian, " 
"  Sardinian,"  "  lVni\  ian. ' 

Crl'i^jinf  Line: — "  Frus-Hian,"  "(Jrecian,"  "  Scindinavian,"  "  Waldeniian,"  'Buenos  Ayrean," 
"  Manitti'wn,"  "  Ph))'nician,"  "  ( 'ana)lian." 

St.  Joint  (.V,  F.  ,  Huli/ax  anil  liultiiuvt'e  L'uir.    -"  Hihernian, '  "  Caspian,'    "  Nova  Scotian. " 

lioilmi  l.liu: — "  Austrian,"  •Corinthian."  and  '  l.,ncern)'. ' 

Till'  a;r;;repite  toiiiiii;,'!'  )>f  these  tweiity-on)'  steamships  is  o\er  (i(),tHX»  tons,  to  which  is  to 
lie  ad)U)l  soni)'  loiiiti'iii  iron  sailing  ships,  owned  hy  the  tirm,  having  a  i;,'ioss  tonnay;)'  of  alioiit 
H)X)on  tons. 

TIh'  Mi'ssrs.  .\llaii  liavi  tin  (lodit  of  Ixiny^  the  fii-sl  to  adopt  tlu-  spar  or  tliish  th-ck  un  their 
steainert*,  and  in  iloin;;  this,  writis  iId'  author  of  "  Montreal,  it.s  History,  with  Biographical 
Sketches,"  "  they  weri'  oppo,Hed  strongly  l»y  tln'  Boanl  of  Tnule,  who  would  not  allow  ihem  any 
concession  in  the  way  of  ineasnrenient  for  harlMir  dm-.s,  kv..  and  thus  put  tlii>m  at  thi-  great 
)lisa)lvantagc  of  placing  snp)'rior  ships  at  an  extra  co.st  upon  tin- Transatlantic  lin)- of  traflic, 
without  the  slighU>st  ri'cognition  of  the  circnm.staiici's  in  their  favor.  But  when  the  nnfoi-tunat«3 
London  went  down  in  the  Bay  of  Biscay,  the  )leath-knell  of  the  open  deck  system  wa.s  tolled, 


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TH£  CANADIAN  ttlOGRAPHKAL  DICTIONARY. 


(iikI  the  Hoard  nf  Tiatle  wax  literally  'pooped,'  and  it  was  compelled  by  the  inexoralde  logic  of 
facts  to  take  coj^ni/jiiu*  of  the  value  of  the  Messrs.  Allans'  improvement  in  making  over  the 
uecessarv  criiiceHsionH  in  the  way  <>f  a  reduction  of  measurement. "  We  may  here  add  that  the 
al^sence  of  tin  spar  deck  on  steamers  in  the  Atlantic  trade  is  now  the  rare  exception  to  an 
almost  invarialtle  rule.  The  Hr.st  "  eovered-in  "  vessel  of  the  Allan  line  was  the  Hiltertiiuii.  built 
in  18GI,  and  now  in  the  St.  John,  Halifa.\,  and  Baltimore  line. 

Tlie  oHices  of  tlif  firm  of  H.  \-  A.  Allan  are  at    Montreal.  Liverpool,  (ilasijfow,  ami  Ronton. 


IKLN.    ALKA'ANDKK    ('H()S:>,    .I.C,).J]., 

AioNTIiKAL 

JriXJK  ( 'KtJSS,  of  the  (v'ueen's  Heneli,  tliou*;!)  a  native  of  Scutland.  lias  li«'<n  a  lesident  of 
this  piovince  since  five  years  of  age.  ami  .Montreal  has  been  tin-  witness,  almost  exclu- 
si\ely  of  his  honorable  earoii-.  lie  is  a  son  of  lioberl  Cross,  in  his  day  a  <rentleman  farmer  and 
landed  ]iroprietor,  and  was  born  on  the  < 'iyde.  Lanarkshire,  Scotlaml,  un  the  22nil  of  March. 
1821.  The  Cro.^s  family  have  lived  for  many  generations  in  Old  Monklaixls,  and  have  long  been 
among  the  well-to-do  class  in  that  part  of  "  Auld  Scotia.'  The  mother  of  oui'  subject  was  Janet 
Selkirk,  who  was  from  an  adjoining  ])aiish. 

Robert  Cross  died  about  a  year  after  lu'  bad  brMiii^ht  his  family  to  Canada,  and  that  sad 
e\-eii(  i/iade  it  necessary  for  the  family  to  retire  to  a  farm  on  the  Chateaiij;iia\  river,  the  place 
being  at  the  site  of  the  battle  of  that  name.  Our  -.uliject.  who  was  tlie  \ouiigest  .son,  as  he 
grew  towards  maidiood.  did  not  take  to  agricultmal,  so  much  as  literary  pursuits.  In  his  de- 
sire lor  knowleilge  be  was  en<o\iraged  by  his  eldei-  brother,  who  hail  been  educated  for  the 
Scotch  l5ar,  ami  who,  while  be  livnl,  rendered  Alexander  \almible  assistance  in  his  mental 
training.  At  sixteen  years  of  age  ;|.SS7  .  he  came  to  Montreal  and  was  a  pupil  in  Montreal 
college  at  t)ie  timi'  tlu'  rebellion  broke  out.  near  the  close  of  that  yi-ar.  The  classes  not  pro- 
gressing fast  enough  for  his  restless  and  andiitious  spirit,  he  left  the  institution,  and  fouml  more 
sMtisfu-tory  training  in  private. 

Mr.  ( 'ross  studied  law  w  itb  .bijin  J  l>ay,  of  .Montreal,  enlisting  aUo  as  a  volunteer  in  <  'ol. 
Maitlaud's  lialtalioii.  and  serving  until  the  close  of  the  rebellion,  retiring  with  the  rank  >pf  ser- 
gtant.  When  the  rebels  were  deflated  at  Iteaidiaruois,  in  IN.SN,  lie  was  one  of  the  first  to  reach 
that  villa:;e  after  the  lroo|  s  had  eiiteted  it  ;  and  while  a  law  student  there  be  was  elinsen  eleik 
of  the  first  mimicipal  ciauxil  for  the  cMinity  of  Heauhariiois,  then  endiracing  three  oi'  fnur  times 
its  present  area.  !?'o  well  did  lie  discharge  his  duties  at  the  first  meeting  of  the  coimcil,  that  he 
was  liighly  eoinpliineuted  for  bis  abilities  displayed,  by  such  men  as  L)rd  Selkirk  and  Edwanl 
Oilibou  Wakefield,  who  were  '^uests  af  tin'  seigniority  bouse,  tarrying  there  to  observi'  the 
working"-  of  the  ui'W  institutions. 


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Mr.  Ci-onw  w«s  railed  t<j  the  )  v  in  \HH,  aiwl  was  in  piuotice  in  Muiitical  nunc  tlian  thirty 
years,  at  fli-st  witli  Duncan  Fisher,  t^.C,  now  deceasoil,  and  later  with  Attoniey-dlenenil  (afttsr- 
wanlsjudjje)  Jamos  Smith. 

Dininjj  the  lonjj  i)t'rit>il  that  our  sul)j»»ct  was  at  tho  liar  he  had  an  cxt^Mwive  and  remuner- 
ative practice,  and  on  several  occasions  re)>resented  the  ci-own  while  connected  in  l»usine9.s  with 
the  distinguished  gentlemen  mentioned  altove.  He  was  created  a  Queen's  ^jounsei  in  ISfi*, 
during  the  administration  of  Lord  Metcalfe.     He  made  a  hrilliant  success  of  his  profession. 

Fmni  a  sketcb.  of  our  subject  ff»imd  in  the  second  volume  of  '•  Men  of  Progress,"  published 
in  New  York,  we  learn  that  he  was  present  at  the  burning  of  the  Parliament  houses  in  184!», 
"  and  nssistt^l  tlie  late  Sir  Louis  H.  Lafontaine  ami  some  others  of  the  notable  politicians  in 
making  their  escape  from  the  burning  buildings,  escorting  them  unmolested  through  the  turbu- 
lent crowd  of  rioters,  among  whom  he  could  exercise  a  certain  amount  of  influence." 

Judge  Cross  received  his  a|>pointment  to  the  Queen's  Bench  on  the  .SOth  of  August,  1877, 
and  took  his  seat  on  the  first  of  the  following  month,  at  a  session  of  the  court  held  in  the  city 
of  Quebec.  While  in  practice  at  the  bar  he  held  a  foremost  position  among  the  legal  fraternity, 
and  on  the  Bench  he  is  meeting  the  expectations  of  his  warmest  friends. 

Judge  Cross  seems  to  have  an  aversion  to  public  life.  In  his  younger  years,  and  even 
within  a  short  space  of  time,  he  was  offered  political  positions  of  honor,  Imt  declined  to  accept 
them.  The  lust  of  these  offei-s,  we  l»elieve,  was  that  of  attornej -general  iu  the  l)e  Boucherville 
Government.  He  declined  the  .secretaryship  of  the  codification  commission,  offered  t<>  him  by  the 
Lilterals,  while  they  were  in  power  in  iSd.S-'iik     His  leanings  are  to  that  class  of  politicians. 

Judge  (.'ross  is  a  mendter  of  St.  Andrew's,  Fresliyterian,  church,  and  has  held  .some  oflicial 
po.sitions  connected  with  that  .socifty.     He  is  a  man  of  good  impulses,  and  generous  to  the  poor. 

In  184s,  he  married  Julia,  daughter  of  William  Lunn.  Esq.,  in  his  day  a  prominent  citi- 
SMin  of  Montreal,  and  they  liave  si.K  sons  and  one  daughter  living,  and  have  buried  two  elnldron. 

In  the  sketch  from  which  we  have  already  quoted,  we  are  toM  that  Judge  Cross  has  at 
sundry  times  "  suggested  and  a.ssist«'d  in  framing  legislative  measures  of  general  utility,  among 
which  may  l)e  mentioned  the  tii-st  statiiti-  passed  in  ( 'anada  for  the  a)>olition  of  the  usury 
laws.  His  ideas,  as  well  on  the  subject  of  finance  as  on  the  theory  of  the  popular  principle  in 
the  election  of  representatives,  are  noted  for  the  originality  and  depth  of  thought,  and  he  is  the 
inventor  of  a  new  and  ingenious  method  of  notation  of  numlK'rs." 


HON.    Til  IX) DO  11 10    liOlJITAILLE, 

IS  Honor  the  Lieutenant-Oovernor  of  the  Province  of  Quebec,  was  born  at  V'arennes, 
29th  Jan.  1H3.'».     His  father,  Louis  Adolphe  Kobitaille,  who  was  a  notary,  is  a  tlescend- 
snt  from  one  of  the  oldest  French  families  who  have  inhabit'ed  this  i-nuntrv  ;  his  mother  was  a 


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Miss  Monjrnii,  liis  •rrarKlinotlior  a  Miss  Hroiletir.      \U'  who  was  to  ))e,  in  tin-  futiin-,  tlio  n'|irc- 
suiitativt"  of  thw  British  crown  in  his  nativo  province,  was  (juitu  yonn|i(  wlien  the  insnrruction  of 
l.s:i7  anil  1S38  l»roke  out.     Mr.  Lonis  Xdolplu-   Uobitaillo   was  then  oni«  of  the  most  zcahms 
amount  tliosi-  who  wore  called  tlie  patriots.     Ho  was  oven  eompronu.sod  and  arro.stod  in  hi.sown 
house,  in  his  alarmed  family's  midst,  durinjf  these  troubles;  ho  recovered  his  liberty  only  after 
the  paeitieHtioii  c^"  the  province.      The  early  veal's  of  the  Hon.  Theodore  Robitaillc  were  years 
of  anxiety,  and  ulthou<;h  then  quite  younjj  he  has  kept  these  events  in  inettaceable  recollection. 
His  family  at  all  times  have  paid  its  debt  to  the  country.      One  of  his  prand-uni-lcs,  the  Rev. 
M.  Hobitaille,  was  a  chaplain  in   the  active  militia  durin;;  tlie  war  of  l!SI2.     Another  of  his 
;jrand-uncles,  the  Rev.  M.  Louis  Hrodeur,  iifU.>r  havlnjj  devoted  several  years  of  bis  life  to  the 
missiims  ;  became  cuie  of  St.  Roi-h  dcs  Aulnets,  and  was  one  of  the  most  generous  pr  )tectt)r.s 
an<l  benefactors  of  the  seminary  of  Ste.  Anne's   in  its  infancy,  which   was  established  by  the 
Rev.  M.  I'ainchaud.     His  honor  made  his  ela.ssical  .studies  at  Ste.  Therese,  where  he  obtained 
brilliant  successes.      I>uring  a  visit  which  he  tnade  to  this  institution  a  short  time  after  his  ele- 
vation to  the  |>ost  of  lieutenant-governor,  he  received  (|uite  an  ovtition  and  the  warmest  recep- 
tion of  the  directors  and  p\ipiis  proved  to  him  how  Sie.  Therese  is  liiij)py  to  count  amongst  its 
children  the  first  dignitjiry  of  the  province.     After  his  cla.ssical  studies,  the  Hon.  Theodore  Robi- 
tjiille  decided  to  embrace  the  medical  profession  ;  he  commenced  his  professional  studies  at  the 
I.Aval  univei-sity,  which  at  that  time  had  ju.st  been  founde(l,and  terminated  them  at  Mcdill  col- 
lege, Montreal,  of  wliieh  institutiim  he  is  one  of  the  graduates.     In  185She  went  to  practise  as 
doctor  at  New  Carlisle,  in  the  county  of  Monaventui-e,  for  which  county  he  was  subse(|uently 
elected  in  the  year  18(>()a.s  neMid'+T  of  parliament  for  the  united  provinces  of  Lower  and  Upper 
Canada  ;  he  represente«|  this  county  constantly  until  bis  appointment  as  lieutenant-governor, 
in  187!>. 

In  18(57,  he  married  Marie  .losephine  Kmma  Quesnel,  daughter  of  P.  A.  Que.snel.and  grand- 
daughter of  the  Hon.  F.  A.  Quesnel,  who  played  such  a  remarkable  and  prominent  ehaiacterin 
all  the  brilliant  political  tigiits  of  Cana>la. 

In  1871  he  wjva  elected  member  of  the  H.)use  of  Assembly,  (.Quebec,  continuing  to  represent 
the  county  in  the  parliament  of  the  Dominion.  He  retained  the  local  mandate  until  l.S7;l,  when 
h  wa.s  obliged  to  resign  on  iK-ing  callctl  to  form  part  of  the  Federal  ministry,  as  receiver-gene- 
ral ;  b  "  "as  accordingly  sworn  in  as  }>rivy  councilor  on  the  rJDth  of  January,  187.S,  and  re- 
tAin<  ,)rtfolio  in  the  administration  of  Sir  John  A.  Macdonald  until  the  following  Novcm- 

l)er.  when  he  followed  the  fortunes  of  his  chief,  and  resigned   with  his  colleagues  on  the  ipics- 
tion  of  the  Pacific  railn>ad. 

In  1878,  when  the  Conservative  party  came  back  to  power,  with  an  immense  majority,  the 
Hon.  Theotlori'  Robitaille  did  not  form  |iart  of  the  new  cabinet,  as  he  was  reserved  for  a  higher 
di'jnity.     Accordingly,  im  the  i.'>th  of  July,  1870.  when  the  issue  of  the  monitMituus  drama  which 


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is  (l«>iiuiiiitiatu<I  tilt!  Letolliur  <|Ue8b!<)n,  whom  all  will  roiiiotnVtur,  bruuglit  %  change  of  governitnt, 
tho  Hon.  Theodore  Robitaille  >>ecaiiie  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  I'r()vinc»!  of  <^ueltec  on  the  fol- 
lowing day.  The  circumstances  were  eiitical ;  never  in  the  annals  of  the  Dominion  had  a  gov- 
ernor entiM'e<l  upon  such  res|Kinsil>le  <]utie.o,  under  such  troultlesome  auspices.  The  ]Militical  |>aN- 
Hion  had  arrived  on  lM>th  sides  to  its  highest  pitch.  The  Hous«;  of  Assembly  was  in  an 
extraordinary  state  of  excitement,  and  the  echo  of  its  deb.itcs  carried  agitation  and  trouble  to 
the  most  distant  parts  of  the  country.  The  political  atmosphere  was  at  its  stormiest,  when  a 
few  days  after  the  nomination  of  the  new  lieutenant-governor,  the  Legislative  Council  had  taken 
the  attitude  which  is  of  world-wide  notoriety.  All  the  old  parliamentary  tacticians  unani- 
mously admitted  that  the  position  was  excessively  perilous;  his  honor  the  lieutenant-governor 
under  any  circumstances  haply  knew  how  to  extrieat<;  himself  from  this  embroglio,  and  his 
prudence  and  moderation  contributed  not  a  little  to  quiet  the  public  excitement.  When  the 
Hon.  Mr.  .Toly,  at  tho  end  of  the  ciisis  resigned  his  portfolio,  he  (the  lieutenant-governor),  called 
the  chief  of  the  Op|K)sition,  the  Hon.  J.  A.  CUiapleiui,  to  form  a  new  administration,  which  since 
that  time  has  directed  the  affairs  of  the  Province  of  Quebec.  His  honor  the  lieutenant-gover- 
nor enjoys  the  esteem  of  all,  without  <listinction  of  nationality  or  religion  ;  he  is  the  fourth 
lieutenant-governor  which  Quebec  has  had  since  (J)nfedjratlon.  Hi  is  only  forty-six  years  of 
age,  and  perfectly  fit  ami  able  to  fulfil  a  long  and  useful  enreer. 


IIOX.    FREDERICK    W.    TORRAXCP;    M.A.,    H.C.L, 

MONTREAL. 

TT^REDERirK  WILLIAM  T0RRAN(;K,  a  puisne  judge  of  the  superior  court  of  Quelle,  is 
a  native  of  the  city  of  Montreal,  his  birth  l)eing  dated  July  Ki,  1823.  He  is  a  .son  of 
John  Torrance,  formerly  a  menhant  of  Montreal,  and  Elizabeth  Fi.sher,  his  wife,  his  father  1h»- 
ing  of  Scotch  birth,  and  his  motlior  of  Scotch,  Irish,  and  Moravian  descent.  He  commenced 
his  studies  in  the  private  schools  of  his  native  city,  continuecl  them  at  Nicolet  college,  P.Q.,  and 
at  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  under  private  tutoi-s,  ami  finished  them  at  the  Edinburgh  university, 
where  he  took  the  degree  of  n»aster  of  arts  in  18*4,  ranking  second  in  proficiency  in  the  classics 
and  mathematics  in  the  examinations  for  that  degree.  Prior  to  that  date,  in  1831>-'4<),  he  had 
attended  coui-ses  of  lectures  at  Paris,  at  the  Ecolt  (le  Meilicine,  the  Sorbonne,  and  the  Colle(/e 
lie  France. 

Judge  Torrance  studied  law  with  Duncan  Fi.sher,  Q.C.,  and  Hon  James  Smith,  afterwards 
attorney-general  for  Lower  Canada,  and  a  judge  of  the  superior  court,  and  was  called  to  the 
bar  of  Lower  ('anada  in  1848.  He  practised  his  profession  in  the  courts  of  the  Montreal  dis- 
trict for  twenty  yeai-s ;  he  was  appointtid  Queen's  counsel  in  1807,  and  to  his  present  ]>osition  on 


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the  ImjiicIi  on  Auj^UHt  27,  IH(;8.  Jiii|;ri>  Torranco  wan  one  uf  the  founders  of  t\w  f/ovoer  Canadu 
Jurint,  in  1857,  and  its  managing  uditur  during  the  Hrst  fuur  years  of  its  exiHtenee.  Througii- 
out  his  judicial  career  he  has  conunanded  the  respect  of  the  bar,  and  the  public  generally.  He 
is  notiMl  for  Iteing  very  painstaking  and  careful,  which  many  have  thought  indicated  slowness, 
but  in  reality  was  dictated  by  a  conscientious  desire  to  do  his  duty.  Whatever  il*>eision  he 
would  arrive  at,  no  one  ever  suspected  him  of  political  leaning,  or  bias  of  any  kind,  liowever 
distasteful  it  might  prove  to  the  losing  party.  He  is  always  respectful  in  his  demeanor  towards 
the  memliers  of  the  bar  practising  l)efore  him,  yet  invariably  exacts  from  them  the  ob9ervp',ice 
of  proper  decorum,  and  is  ever  mindful  to  maintain  the  dignity  of  the  bunch. 

Judge  Torrance  was  lecturer  and  professor  of  Roman  law  in  McGill  univeraity  from  18.i4 
to  1870.  From  that  institution  he  received  the  degree  of  B.C.L.  in  185tJ,  and  of  it  he  has  held 
the  oflice  of  a  governor  since  1870.  In  18<i.>,  ho  was  api>()inted  a  conmiis.sioner  to  inquire  into 
the  St.  Albans  raid  affair. 

He  has  been  an  elder  of  the  Crescent  street  Presbyterian  Church  since  185(i,  and  is  a  man 
of  solid  Christian  chai-acter.  In  I87o,  he  married  Mrs.  Laura  (Jenevieve  Pugh,  n^t>  Hensley,  of 
Frankfort,  Kent;:cky. 


ARCHIBALD    CAMP  HELL, 

QUEBEC. 

A  RCHIBALD  CAMPBELL,  of  "  Thomhill,"  two  miles  from  the  city  of  Quebec,  is  a  son 
•*-^  of  Li^u4:£olonel  Campbell,  of  the  famous  old  !>9bh  regiment  of  foot  (Prince  of  Wales' 
regiment),  descende«l  from  the  good  old  U.  E.  Loyalist  ,'<tock,  who,  at  the  close  of  the  American 
Revolution,  abandoned  everything  for  their  loyalty  to  their  sovereign.  His  mother  was  a 
daughter  of  Captain  Saxton,  of  the  Guards,  who,  having  refused  a  gcneralsliip  in  the  American 
army,  was  obliged  to  submit  to  the  confiscation  of  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Pennsylvania, 
Captain  Saxton  wbh  brother  to  Sir  Charles  Saxton,  Bart,  who  acted  as  second  to  the  Duke  of 
Richmond  (afterwards  Governor-General  of  Canada),  in  his  celebrated  duel  with  one  of  the 
Princes  Royal,  son  of  George  III.  Colonel  Campbell  sej'ved  with  distim^tion  during  the  last 
war  on  the  frontier  (1812-14),  and  was  engaged  in  several  actions  on  and  near  lake  Cham|)lain 
and  at  Niagara,  at  which  latter  place  he  was  taken  prisoner  by  an  overwhelming  force,  under 
General  Scott.  Colonel  Campbell  always  spoke  in  the  highest  terms  of  praise  of  the  kindneas 
which  he  experienced  at  the  hands  of  his  captors.  After  retiring  from  the  army  he  resi<led  at 
Quebec,  and  engaged  largely  in  shipping,  ship-building  and  the  lumber-trade  :  and  his  wonder- 
ful expertness  as  a  swimmer,  enabled  him,  at  various  times,  to  save  many  human  lives — more 
than  a  dozen  in  all.  And  here  we  may  add  that  his  son,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  in  early 
life,  partook  largely  of  his  father's  skill  as  a  swimmer,  having  three  times  swam  across  the  St. 


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Lawrence  opposite  (Quebec,  whore  the  wiieness  of  the  river  and  the  rapidity  of  the  current 
make  it  an  extraordinary  feat. 

Mr.  Caniplicll  received  his  literary  and  legal  education  in  Cjueltec,  being  for  many  yearn 
the  pupil  of  the  eelubratctl  Dr.  Wilkie,  and  was  admitted  tu  the  Imr  of  Lower  Canada  in  1847, 
pracliHiii^  Htuadily  and  .successfully  in  Queltcc  until  1N.>2,  when  his  health  failfl,  and  he  went 
to  Australia.  On  arrivin<r  tlierf  he  was  appointed  gold  coinnii.ssioner,  police  magistrAte,  and 
judge  of  the  t>vens  district.  After  about  eighteen  months'  absence  from  Canada,  he  ilecided  to 
return  home,  to  the  great  regret  of  those  among  whom  his  duties  ha<l  brought  him.  A  testi- 
monial of  a  valuable  set  of  silver,  int.,  was  presented  to  him;  and  his  skilful  and  very  satisfac- 
tory administration  of  justice  during  a  timo  of  great  political  excitement  among  the  gold  dig- 
gers. 8<j  pleased  the  government  that  he  was  offered  a  higher  official  office  if  he  would  remain 
and  settle  in  that  country  ;  but  home,  his  old  Canadian  home,  with  its  mountains,  broad  rivers 
and  snows  had  such  attractions  that  he  r<;fu.sed,  and  turned  his  liack  upon  U'lnptation,  in  a 
worldly  ]ioint  of  view,  very  seductive  to  many  people. 

On  ivturning  to  Quebec,  Mr.  Campbell  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profts^iun  with  hi.s  old 
partner,  Frederick  Andrews,  Q.C.,  and  forthwith  found  himself  in  possession  of  a  large  ami 
highly  remunerative  business.  Subsequently  our  subject  formed  a  partnei-ship  with  William 
Kerr,  Q.C.,  LL.D.,  then  dean  of  the  law  faculty  of  the  Quebec  district,  this  connection  continu- 
ing until  the  removal  of  Mr.  Kerr  to  Montreal. 

While  in  practice  Mr.  Canipbell  rose  to  the  front  rank  at  the  bar,  and  was  elected  baton- 
niii-  for  this  district. 

Mr.  Campbell  is  now  joint  prothonotary  of  the  superior  court  for  the  Quebec  district,  and 
is  filling  that  position  with  eminent  satisfaction  to  the  public,  being  attentive  to  his  duties, 
prompt,  kind  and  courteous.  Conscientious  and  correct  in  his  life,  Mr.  Campl>ell  has  so  lived 
before  the  public  as  to  secure  the  esteem  and  love  of  all  cla.sses. 

He  married  Isaliella,  daughter  of  Jo.seph  Prioi,  Esii  ,  wIio.h'  mother  was  a  daughter  of 
Captain  Campbell  of  the  42nd  (Black  Watch)  Highlanders,  who,  with  two  other  .sons  of 
Civmpltell  of  Carry  Huracli,  s.Mvcd  with  distinction  in  the  cjuijucst  of  Cina  la.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
CamplHjll  have  tivc  children  living,  two  daughters  and  three  sons.  Th"  elder  daughter,  Harriet 
.lulia,  is  married  to  Commander  Alfreil  Jephson,  of  the  royal  navy,  and  the  younger,  Agnes 
.losephine  Catherine,  to  Krnest  Hamel,  K.sq.,  of  Quelwc.  The  younjjest  son,  Kenneth  Jeffrey 
Rankin,  is  a  cadet  at  the  ]{oyal  Military  College  at  Kingston  ;  the  ehlest,  Colin  Frederick 
Wurtule,  is  in  the  lumlK?r  business,  and  the  second,  William  Wallace,  tini.shed  his  education  at 
Malvern  College,  England,  and  is  now  in  the  eelebratc'd  house  of  Falkner,  Bell  and  <'o.,  San 
Francisco. 

Mr.<.  Campbell  is  well  and  favorably  known  as  a  writer  and  author.  Her  account  of  her 
voyage  with  her  husband  to  Australia,  in  her  work  entitletl  "  Rough  and  Smooth,"  has  l»een 


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favorably  received  by  the  prewt  and  public,  and,  as  the  writer  of  thiH  nketch  knows  by  cx|M>ri- 
Mient,  is  a  decidedly  entertaining  volume.  It  was  written  fur  the  amuNcnicnt  of  her  chiltlren, 
without,  in  tho  first  place  any  idea  uf  puMishing  it ;  and  it  was  well  that  friends  |)ersuHdud  her 
to  put  the  manuscript  in  the  hands  of  n  publisher.  Her  e.\]MM'ienti's  in  "  Roughing  It "  by  h<m 
and  by  land  match  many  of  Mark  Twain's  ludicrous  and  serious  mishaps,  and  yet  aiv  veritable 
and  not,  we  believe,  overdrawn  pictures  of  "life  on  the  ocean  wave  "  and  in  the  "diggin's.' 
Mi's.  Campbell  has  largely  contributed  to  the  columns  of  the  Montreal  WUn«n8  and  the  Boufnn 
Tract  Society,  and  to  various  papers  and  pcrioilicals  in  Ontario  and  the  United  States.  Some 
of  her  poems  are  very  sweet,  and  have  Ijcen  extensively  copied,  as  they  deserved  to  be. 

A  gentleman  who  has  long  known  Mr.  ( 'ampbell,  thus  siieaks  of  him  as  a  lawyer  :  "  He 
entered  into  partnership  with  Frederick  A.  Andrews,  now  (Queen's  Counsel,  and  senior  member 
of  the  fiini  of  Andrews,  Caron,  Andrews  and  Fitzpatrick,  and  during  his  professional  career  he 
enjoyed  a  lucrative  practice.  He  was  at  all  times  noted  for  his  energy  and  zeal  for  his  client, 
iis  well  as  f<n-  high  spirit,  striet  integrity  of  conduct  ami  unb|emi.sli<Hl  eharacU-r. " 


IIUN.   .irsTJC'E    niCllAUl)    ALLEV>', 

(QUEBEC. 

r  I  "iHlS  gentleman,  who  has  just  liecn  raised  to  the  Bench  in  Lowiu-  Canada,  as  one  of  the 
-*-  jmlges  of  the  superior  eoiu't,  was  Itorn  at  Tral»olgan,  county  of  Cork,  Ireland,  on  2'.Hh 
April.  1830,  and  is  the  son  of  the  late  Connnander  Richard  Israel  Alleyn,  of  the  royal  navy,  by 
Margaret  O'Donovan,  daughter  of  Dr.  O'Donovan,  of  Clonnakilty,  Ireland.  The  present 
Bai'on  of  the  Excheijuer  Court  in  Ireland,  Richard  Deasey,  is  a  cousin  of  hers.  The  now 
famous  educational  college  at  Duhvich,  a  few  miles  from  London  in  England,  was  founded  by 
Edward  Alleyn,  an  ancestor  of  the  honomble  justice,  as  he  is  now,  but  who  was  pi-eviousiy 
tK'tter  known  as  Colonel  Alleyn,  eonunanding  officer  of  the  8th  battalion,  at  QueU'c.  Com- 
mander Alh'yn,  the  father  of  the  .subject  of  our  present  sketch,  in  the  early  part  of  the  century 
distinguished  him.self  in  many  of  the  naval  engagements  tliat  weitj  hapi)ening  at  that  )H>rio<l, 
under  such  admirals  as  Coehranc — afterwards  Earl  of  Uundonald.  One  incident  in  connection 
with  commander,  then  lieutenant,  Israel  Alleyn's  life,  we  extract  from  Allen's  "Battles  of  the 
British  Navy,"  as  it  is  well  worthy  of  record:  "On  the  8th  Maix;h,  18()G,  the  lioats  of  the  44  gun 
frigate  Hyyptiemn',  captain,  the  Hon.  Charles  Paget,  was  des]tatched  under  Commander  Philip 
( '.  Handfield,  assisted  by  Lieutenant  Richard  Israel  Alleyn,  U)  endeavor  to  cut  out  a  large 
privateer,  pierced  for  34  guns,  in  Muros  harbor.'  "  This  enterprise,"  Allen  says,  "was  gallantly 
conducted  ;  and  the  Bordeaux  privateer  Alcide,  moorfd  close  to  tlie  Iteach  (which  teas  lined  by  a 
bodi/  of  troopH)  was  towed  out  to  sea  by  the  Egyptiennf'n  boats,  licfore  the  face  of  the  enemy." 


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Judge  Alleyii  wa.s  oiluoalol  at  the  i^iu'Imt  Hoininary,  and  suUswiuentl}- at  I<aval  nnivei'sity, 
of  which  latti'i- institutiuii  we  shall  prcHcntly  hIicw  he  is  a  man  of  some  <listim>tiun.  In  the 
early  l>art  of  his  career,  he  studied  law  in  the  ortice  of  his  brotlier,  the  Hon.  l.'harles  Alleyn, 
who  was  Provincial  Secretary  for  i;>any  yeai^s  under  tlie  Macdonald-(  'artier  administration ; 
an<l  finally  pnstied  his  examination  at  Laval,  where  lio  was  called  to  the  Hiir  in  1>S.')7.  In  l^<7!^ 
he  had  the  honor  of  LL.D.  conferred  upon  him  at  Laval,  where  he  had  been  entrnst^'d  with  the 
res|H)nHil»le  professoi"ship  of  criminal  law.  This  gentleman  is  regarded  a.s  a  sound  criminal 
lawyer,  and,  with  the  exception  of  a  brief  peritxl  during  the  time  the  Joly  administration  was 
in  office,  he  has  conducted  for  the  past  1 1  years  all  the  criminal  cases  for  the  Attomey-Cienenil 
for  the  Province  of  Quebec,  in  the  district  of  Quebec. 

The  judge,  who  has  always  taken  a  very  active  part  in  military  affairs,  was  at  the  time  of 
the  "  Trent  "  affair  one  of  the  fiixt  to  propose  the  organization  of  a  general  volunteer  movement 
in  QuelKJc,  and  one  of  the  fountlers  of  the  Queltec  company  of  the  Victoria  RiHe.s,  which  even- 
tually became  embo<lied  as  No.  1  company  of  the  crack  8th  battalion  Royal  KiHes  of  Queliec,  as 
distinguished  a  corps  as  there  is  in  the  whole  Dominion.  At  this  time,  <  'olonel  Alleyn  :«,'rved 
in  the  ranks.  In  Decemlter,  lS(i4,  he  was  ordered  with  his  company,  No.  1,  of  which  he  was 
then  captain,  to  Windsor,  Ont.,  a.s  it  was  feared  trouble  might  occur  in  consecjuencj 
of  "raids"  at  Detroit,  Mich.,  and  other  places  on  the  frontier  line.  This  diity  occupied 
him  until  May,  18G5,  when  the  company  returned  to  Quebec,  ("olonel  Alleyn  has  served 
in  every  grade,  and,  by  his  indefatigable  energy  and  zeal,  may  lie  said  to  have  l)een  the 
means,  cordially  aided  by  his  officers  antl  the  men  under  his  command,  of  bringing  the  8th 
Roval  Rifles  to  it.-,  present  state  of  efficiency.  Colonel  Alleyn  was  called  out  again  on  active 
service,  with  his  regiment,  during  the  Fenian  troubles  of  March  and  June,  ISfJG,  and  performed 
the  duties  of  major,  commanding  the  regiment  which  fornx'd  the  reserve  of  the  force  under 
("olonel  Bagot,  of  Her  Majesty's  <!9th  regiment.  Colonel  Alleyn's  regiment  has  frequently  l»een 
called  out  to  aid  the  civil  authorities,  when  any  di.scpiiet  or  tlireatened  disturlmnce  has  broken 
out  in  QucIh'c  and  elsewhere.  From  the  time  of  his  entry  into  the  .service  up  to  the  day  of  his 
retiring,  on  the  30th  April,  1881,  he  has  never  mi.ss«'d  a  day's  service  with  his  regiment.  His 
connnissions  bear  date :  Ensign,  November,  18GI  ;  lieutenant,  February,  18(>l»;  eapttiin,  ^Ist 
August,  I8t)2  ;  major,  3rd  August,  18G7;  lieutenant-colonel,  2()th  September,  1872. 

He  represented  the  Quelx,'c  West  constitiiency  from  the  time  of  the  election  of  December, 
1877;  but  the  parliiiment  l)eing  (lis.soIved  in  the  following  May,  consequent  upon  the  Letcllier 
affair,  his  doings  in  the  House  were  of  little  or  no  importance.  At  the  general  election  in 
1878,  he  ottered  him.self  for  re-election,  but  was  defeated.  The  judge,  it  may  be  here  men- 
tioned, is  a  staunch  ("onservative.  He  belongs  t<i  all  the  Irish  national  .societies  in  Quebec; 
and  has  been  president  of  the  St.  Patrick's  society,  as  well  as  of  tho  Irish  Catholic  Benevolent 
society,  and  is  a  gentleman  deservedly  popular  among  all  clas.ses.     In  his  regiment,  he  is  ad- 

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mired  by  rank  and  file  ;  and,  in  the  lectuiv  room  at  liaviil,  the  HtudiMitH  are  luianiinous  in 
extolling  him  for  hin  many  personhl,  manly  and  amiable  ciiai-acteriHticH  ;  none  the  leas  is  he 
eHteemed  by  IiIh  confr^re8  in  hiH  profoHsiun,  who  expressed  the  greatcHt  approbation  on  his 
recent  elevation  to  the  Bem-h. 

lie  married,  on  the  20th  November,  1H77,  Miss  l*iith(>riiu>  .lom'phtf  Loni.se  de  L<?ry, 
daughter  of  the  late  Hon.  Al<.-xander  C'haimHegros  de  L<'ry,  whoKe  mother  was  a  MIhs  ( 'atherine 
Couillard,  Hecomi  <laugh(er  of  Antoine  roiiillurd.  In  connoctiDn  with  the  de  Lery  family  there 
iK  an  intcreHting  fact,  worthy  of  mention,  which  in,  that  one  uf  the  du  L^rys  wan  the  engineer 
who  constructed  the  fortitication.s  of  Queltec,  and  another  of  tho  same  name  and  family  wa« 
cngincer-in-chief  at  Badajoz,  and  completed  the  fortifications  thcrc. 


SIK   GEOR(JE    K.  CAKTIEU,  liAKT., 

MONTREAL. 

AMONG  the  tridy  great  names  which  are  found  in  Canadian  history,  arc  the  I 'artiers,  who 
for  generations  were  (juite  conspicuous,  particularly  in  the  field  of  politics.  He  whoso 
name  heads  this  ski'tch  was  a  son  of  Jacques  Cartier,  of  St.  Antoine,  and  was  born  in  1814. 
He  received  his  education  at  the  scIuk)!  of  St.  Sulspicc,  Montreal ;  here  also  he  road  law,  and 
was  ailmitted  to  the  bar  in  1835,  just  us  he  had  reached  his  majority.  Two  yeai-s  later  the 
rebellion  broke  out ;  Mr.  Onrtier  loaned  to  the  (Kipular  side,  and  for  a  .short  time  everything  was 
in  commotion.  Peace  and  quiet  licing  restored,  he  re-entered  upon  the  duties  of  his  profession, 
and  soon  rose  to  the  first  rank  among  the  Mcmtreal  advocates. 

Mr.  Cartier  entered  public  life  in  1848,  when  he  was  chosen  to  represent  in  parliament  the 
county  of  Verchdres,  which  his  grandfather  had  represented  many  yeai"s  before,  and  he  sat  for 
thnt  constituency  until  1861.  In  September,  1854,  he  was  the  ministerial  candidate  for  spcaker> 
and  came  within  thi-ee  votes  of  being  elected.  The  next  January,  the  coalition  government 
and  the  MacNab-Morin  ministry  having  l)oen  fonned,  Mr.  Cartier  was  appointed  provincial 
secretary,  holding  that  office  until  May,  1850,  when  he  was  appointed  attorney -general  in  tho 
Tachd-Macdonald  cabinet.  In  November  of  the  next  year  Mr.  Tach<?  retired  from  tho  govern- 
ment, and  our  subject  became  the  Lower  Canada  premier  in  the  Macdonald-Cartier  cabinet, 
which  became  the  Cartier-Macdonald  government  in  August,  1858,  and  continued  in  power 
until  May,  18C2. 

In  1861,  Montreal  having  been  divided  into  three  constituencies — cast,  west,  and  centre  — 
Mr.  Cartier  was  returned  for  Montreal  east,  which  he  repi-esented  part  of  the  time  in  the  Do- 
minion parliament,  until  1871,  when  he  was  defeated  by  that  brilliant  young  Reformer  and 
lawyer,  Hon.  Mr.  Jette,  now  one  the  judges  of  the  superior  court,  and  was   returned  for 


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BeauhamuiH.  At  the  next  general  election  lie  was  returned  for  Provencher  l»y  acclauiation,  anil 
waH  i-epresj'ntativo  of  that  Connervative  constituency  at  the  time  of  Iuh  dcnth,  which  ttccurred 
in  London,  England,  on  the  20th  of  May,  1H73,  while  he  was  traveling  for  his  health. 

While  representing  the  last  three  constituencies  he  was  very  prominent,  as  he  had  been 
previous  to  1864,  in  that  he  was  invited  to  form  a  government  on  the  collapse  of  the  J.  Sand- 
field  Macdonald-Dorion  cabinet,  but  motlestly  declined  in  favour  of  Sir  E.  P.  Tach^ ;  and  in  the 
Tach^-Macdonald  govenunent  Mr.  ('artier  again  became  attorney -general,  holding  that  |M)sition 
until  the  C'unfei'eration  in  lS«i7.  On  the  first  of  July,  in  that  year,  he  was  sworn  of  the  Privy 
Council  for  the  Dnniinion  of  Canada,  and  became  Minister  of  Militia  and  Defence,  Sir  Juhn  A. 
Macdonald,  premier,  and  held  that  position  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Sir  George  Cartier,  who  received  the  title  of  baronet  of  the  United  Kingdom  from  the 
Queen,  in  18G8,  was  very  active  in  securing  the  confederation  of  the  provinces,  attending  the 
Charlottetown  and  Quebec  conventions  in  1S64,  ami  was  among  the  leading  members  of  the 
colonial  conference  which  formed  British  North  America  at  a  little  more  than  two  years  later. 
Two  or  three  times  he  had  occasion  to  visit  Creat  Britain  on  im|»ort»int  business,  the  last  in 
18G8,  when  he  went  to  London  with  another  gentleman  to  secure  a  settlement  with  the  Hudson 
Bay  Company,  and  to  represent  certain  colonial  views  to  the  Imjterial  Government  respecting 
the  defence  of  the  colonies. 


HON.  JOSEPH    A.   OETAPLEAU,   Q.(;., 

(QUEBEC. 

ri^HE  subject  of  our  sketch  is  the  present  premier  and  minister  of  agricultural  works  for  the 
-*-  Province  of  Quebec.  He  is  descended  from  a  French  family  who  came  to  this  country 
anil  settled  at  an  early  period  on  the  seigniory  of  Terrebonne.  He  was  born  at  Ste.  Thdr^se  de 
Blainville,  Terreljonne,  on  the  9ti»  November,  IS+O,  and  educated  at  the  college  there.  Having 
directeil  his  studies,  after  leaving  sciio«jl,  to  the  law  as  a  profession,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  18G1  and  some  twelve  years  after  made  a  Q.C.  He  is  a  profe.s.sor  of  criminal  jurispru- 
dence at  Laval,  and  is  n'garded  by  the  authorities  as  well  as  the  students  as  a  man  possessing  a 
very  fail' knowledge  of  his  profession.  From  February,  187.1,  until  September,  1874  he  was 
solicitor-general  and  a  member  of  the  executive  council,  and  was  appointed  provincial  secretary 
and  registrar,  27th  January,  1877.  At  the  general  election.'  in  1872  he  contested  for  Ver- 
cheres  in  the  Commons,  but  was  defeated.  In  his  province  and  for  his  present  seat  for  Terre- 
bonne which  he  has  held  since  he  was  first  retuined  to  Parliament  in  1872,  he  his  always  been 
voted  for  by  acclamation,  a  fact  wliich  speaks  for  itself  of  his  popularity.  He  is  a  supporter  of 
the  Conservative  Governn\ent.     He  is  a  director  of  the  Laurentides  Railway  (\>.,  and  of  Le 


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Ci-e)l  it  Foniier  du  liiix  Canada.  It  is  only  jiiHtice  to  Mr.  Chapleau  tliat  wo  should  mention 
that  the  inHinnation  which  have  In-eii  reHected  upon  him  iis  having  (icriveil  pecuniarily  any 
aliHolute  i-ewaitt  for  his  connection  with  the  Credit  Koncuer,  mid  wliich  was  tirought  forward  in 
the  Lej^rislative  Assembly  this  present  season,  is  refjiirded  by  his  friends  as  not  only  devoid  of 
ti*uth  but  rather  a  cruel  accusaJon. 


WILLIAM    HALES    IIINGSTON,  M.T).,  L.U.('.S.,  EDIN.,   I).(\L., 

MONTREAL 

WILLIAM  H.  HINC.STON,  ason  of  Lieut.-Col.  S.  J.  Ilinjpiton,  formerly  of  Her  Majesty's 
10(kh  reyiment,  which  diil  jjo<i(l  service  in  this  country  in  the  war  of  181 2- 1 -t,  was  Iwrn 
at  Hinchinbrook,  2})th  June,  182!».  The  Hingstons  are  an  old  Irish  family,  and  are  connec- 
ted with  the  Cotters,  of  Cork  ;  the  elder  Latouches,  of  Dublin ;  and  the  Hales  family. 

( 'ol.  liingston  came  to  Canada  with  the  100th  regiment,  of  which  he  was  at  the  time  lieuten- 
ant and  adjutant ;  and  after  the  regiment  was  disbanded,  in  1819, he  received,  from  Lord  Dalhou- 
sie,  command  of  the  militia  force,  which  the  colonel  organized,  of  the  county  of  Huntingdon,  his 
residence  being  on  the  l)anks  of  the  Chateauguay  river.  Subsequently,  Sir  James  Kempt  gave 
him  command  of  the  county  of  Benuharnois.  He  finally  died,  in  1831,  when  our  .subject  was 
eighteen  months  old,  of  wounds  received  in  the  groin,  at  Chippewa,  many  yeain  before,  and 
which  made  him  walk  with  a  halt. 

At  thirteen  years  of  age,  our  subject  entered  the  Montreal  college,  where,  at  the  end  of  the 
tii-st  year,  he  canied  off  tliree  tii-st  and  two  second  prizes,  out  of  a  possible  five.  SuUseijuently 
he  .spent  three  yeai-s  in  the  study  t»f  j)harmacy,  and  then  entered  McGill  college,  where  liegmdu- 
ateil  at  the  end  of  four  years  (18.51).  He  tlun  went  to  Edinburgh,  where  he  obtained  the  di- 
ploma of  the  Royal  College  of  Surgeons.  \Vbile  in  Europe,  he  visited  .several  countries,  and 
spent  much  time  in  hospitals,  bringing  home  diploiuiis  from  France,  Prussia,  Austria,  and  Bava- 
litt,  a.s  well  as  from  Scotland.  "  One,  the  membership  of  the  Leopold  Academy,  purely  honorary 
and  given  only  to  authors,  was  the  fii-st  ever  obtained  by  a  Canadian."  This  fact  we  learn  from 
a  work  on  "Montreal,  its  Hist<jry,  with  Biographical  Sketches,"  by  Kev.  J.  Douglas  Borthwick, 
whence  othcsr  data  for  this  notice  are  derived.  Dr.  Hingston  had  made  up  his  mind  to  locate  in 
Edinburgh,  as  a.ssistant  to  the  late  professor  (afterwards  Sir  James)  Simpson  ;  but,  yielding  to  the 
wish  of  his  mother,  he  returned  to  Canada, and  commenced  practice  in  Montreal,  in  IS.").*],  where 
lu!  soon  built  up  a  large  i)ractice.  It  has  been  general,  with  surgery  as  his  leading  and  .special 
branch,  in  which  he  now  stands  high.  In  18G7  he  again  visited  Europe,  and,  at  the  invitation 
of  Sir  James  Simpson,  performed  a  difficult  surgiail  operation  on  one  of  Sir  James'  patients,  and 
was  sul>se(|uently  sjM)ken  of  by  the  same  gentleman  as  "  that  distinguishc.l  Aiiiciican  singeon 
lately  among  us." 


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Soon  aftcrconiiiK'ncing  practice  in  this  city.Dr.Hing.nton  was  appointed  surgeon  to  the  Eng- 
lish speaking  do]>artnient  of  the  Hotel  Dieu  hospital,  where  he  has  had  a  large  field  ft>r  the  exer- 
cise of  his  art.  There,  every  day,  for  many  years,  .  gave,  and  still  gives  clinical  instruction 
in  surgery  to  medical  students,  who  have  since  felt  their  indehtedness  to  him  for  his  invalualde 
teachings,  and  have  acknowledgetl  it  in  a  thousand  ways,  by  extending  his  reputation  to  tlie 
scenes  of  their  own  dist^tnt  lalxjra. 

Dr.  Kingston  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  McGill  Univei-sity  Society,  and  aided  \n  secin- 
ing  to  the  Alumni  the  appointment  of  Convocation  Fellows  of  the  l^nivei"sity.  He  was  one 
of  the  firat  ortice-liearers  of  the  .society.  When  Bi.sho}>'s  college  medical  school  was  organized, 
he  was  named  profes.sor  of  surgery,  and  afterwards,  dean  of  faculty;  hut  in  order  to  retain  his 
pa<^ition  at  the  hospital,  he  relinquished  his  professorship.  He  now  holds  the  c^hair  of  clinical 
surgery  in  the  school  of  Medicine,  and  with  it  the  position  of  attending  [thysician  at  the  hos- 
pital. 

He  received  the  degree  of  D.C.L.  from  the  University  of  Lennoxville,  in  IHTI. 

He  was  one  of  the  resuscitators  of  the  Medico-Chirurgicid  Society  of  Montreal,  and  has 
been  its  president  many  times  ;  he  was  the  first  .secretary  of  the  Dominion  Medical  Association  ; 
was  chosen  to  represent  Canada  at  the  International  Medical  Cot»gress,  held  at  Philadelphia  in 
lS7<i ;  was  president  of  the  Canada  Medical  Association  the  same  year,  the  highest  honor  in  the 
gift  of  the  profession  ;  and  is  a  governor  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  tiie  Pro- 
vince of  Quebec. 

He  is  consulting  surgeon  to  several  dispen.saries  and  to  the  hospital  for  women.  The  first 
Itoard  of  health  in  Canada,  of  any  consequence,  was  organized  through  his  efibrts,  and  he  has 
h)ngl»een  a  faithful  worker  for  the  sanitary  interests  of  the  city. 

He  had,  on  three  occasions,  been  solicited  to  permit  his  name  to  be  sul>mitted  as  a  candi- 
date for  tlie  nwiyoralty — but  declined.  In  I^Tj,  however,  he  consented,  and  was  elected  mayor  i  if 
Montreal  by  a  majority  of  ten  to  one  over  his  opponent,  and,  as  he  stated  at  the  time  "  without 
having  spent  one  moment  of  time  or  one  shilling  of  money  to  obtain  a  position  which  no  one 
should  seek,  but  which,  coming  as  it  did,  no  one  was  at  liberty  to  decline."  The  term  of  office 
in  Montreal  for  the  mayoralty  is  one  year.  The  following  year  he  Wiis  re-elected  by  acclama- 
tion ;  and  at  the  end  of  that  period  was  again  solicited,  but  declined. 

The  period  of  Dr.  Hingstun's  mavoralty  was  one  of  grave  interest  and  anxiety  to  the  ordei- 
loving  citizens  of  Montreal  ;  and  well  was  it  that  the  office  of  chief  magistrate;  was  occupied  at 
the  time  by  a  gentleman  of  character,  coolness,  anil  good  judgment.  We  cannot  do  iM-tU'r  than 
(juott?  from  the  Mvd'iuil  lieeord  for  February,  1H77,  the  intelligent  appreciation  of  Dr.  Hingston's 
services  :  - 

"  In  a  >luy  or  two  his  wonilii|)  tlio  mayor  will  Iny  luido  the  inaiKiiiii  of  otticn  which  hi>  amiiincil  (wo  yean 
aj{o.  Ar  Ur.  IliiigsUtii  t\iLil,oii  goventl  oocusioiiH  |>r«>vii>UHly,  (leoiinixl  iioiiiiimtioii  to  the  iiinyoralty,  hut  yieldiMi 
at  hut  to  tli<>  iiiiiteil  rei|iU!H(  of  thti  nii<nilH>rR  of  thu  iiitulical  profoRiioii,  it  woiiltl  not  \t»  aiiiisM  that  wu  ahoiilJ  take 


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a  rutrogpvvtivo  glance  at  liis  manner  of  discharj^ing  his  public  duties.  The  two  yeiu-s  which  have  elapsed  have 
been  remarkable  in  the  city's  history.  Montreal  will  not  soon  forget  the  intense  anxiety  which  reigned  diirin!< 
the  several  weeks  that  preceded  the  Guibord  funeral.  The  citizens  of  Montreal  of  nil  classes,  save  those  who 
gloat  over  riot  and  bloodshed,  will  ever  remain  grateful  to  Dr.  Hingston  for  the  tact,  prutlence,  wisdom  and  loy- 
alty with  which  he  averted  a  terrible  calamity  at  a  most  critical  juncture.  No  man  was  ever  placed  in  a  position 
of  greater  ditticulty  or  danger,  or  was  hampered  by  more  legal  and  sectional  difficulties  ;  but  our  worthy  mayor, 
by  pursuing  a  straightforward  but  conciliatory  course,  regardless  of  i>olitic.tl  or  party  issues,  carried  out  a  meas- 
ure in  a  way  which  left  no  sting  in  any  breast  ;  no  exultation  of  triumph  on  the  one  side  ;  no  heart-burning  on 
the  other.  The  press  of  the  country  has  already  sufficiently  chronicled  his  success.  His  personal  influence  was 
again  tested  last  winter,  when  several  thousands  gathered  at  the  City  Hall — where  they  had  smashed  the  windows 
a  few  months  befure— to  dema.:  J  bread  or  .  .  .  The  Riot  Act  was  about  to  be  read,  when  the  mayor  appeared 
on  the  scene  ;  went  alone  into  the  midst  of  the  crowd  ;  addressed  to  them  a  few  words  which  evinced  much  sym- 
pathy, but  no  fear  ;  and  ere  his  voice  had  died  away  the  crowd  quietly  dispersed  ;  a  few  hundred  remained  in  the 
neighborhood,  who  craved  permission  to  accompany  him  horn*,  to  prevent,  as  they  said,  wicked  persons  doing 
him  hann. 

"  The  social  duties  pertaining  to  the  mayoralty  are  onerous  and  expensive,  yet  few  visitors,  entitled  to  that 
courtesy,  jiassed  through  the  city  without  being  invited  to  partake  of  our  chief  magistrate's  hospitality.  He  was 
])unctual  in  his  attend>ince  in  Council,  and  never  has  there  been  greater  decorum  than  during  his  period  of  occu- 
pancy. The  uiiseeming  brawls  between  councillors  themselves,  and  sometimes  between  them  and  the  mayor, 
never  took  place  during  his  term,  and  in  the  one  or  two  instances  in  which  there  was  nu  appeal  to  the  Council, 
the  Council  inianimously  supported  the  decision  of  the  chair.  He  carries  away  with  him  (he  res]>ect  of  the  en- 
tire body  over  which  he  presided.  The  labor  pertaining  to  the  office  seemed  to  be  performed  with  ease,  without 
sacrificing  the  claims  of  an  extensive  practice.  Even  the  hospital  received  his  daily  visit  as  usual.  |{ut  that  for 
which  Dr.  Hingston  accepted  the  mayoralty,  and  for  which  he  labored  most  energetically,  was  the  establishment 
of  a  Hoard  of  Health  ;  and  of  this  The  Piililic  IImIIIi  Jounxil  thus  speiiks  : 

"  '  Wlit-n  Dr.  Hingston  waH  elfcted  niayiir,  the  health  of  the  city  was  totally  neglected  (excejrt  what  was  done  by  exAliler- 
men  Kennedy  and  Ale.xamler).  The  Board  (if  Ifealth  existed  only  on  ps|>«r,  ami  itx  bylaws  have  l>een  only  enforced  a  few 
times  sint^e  its  form-ktioii.  Alter  Dr.  Dingston's  eli'Ction  (which,  liy  the  way,  was  principally  on  sanitary  grounds),  he  at  once 
re-organi/.ed  the  Itoard.  The  health  officers  now  know  their  duty,  and  are  made  to  do  it,  Tlie  meat  ins|>evtor8  are  made  to 
make  returns  of  the  amoiuit  of  meat  contiscateil,  from  wliom  token,  and  what  was  the  reasin  of  siieh  action  ;  also  all  diseased 
animals  are  seizeil.  The  sanitary  |silice  are  also  ri>m|ielled  to  make  daily  reports  of  the  places  vi.iited.  The  sanitary  inspector 
submits  his  report  also,  with  the  foregoing,  to  the  Hoard  of  Health,  at  iUi  weekly  meetings.  These  meetings  are  held  at  4,. SO 
p.m.,  on  every  Weilnesilay,  and  are  presided  over  by  the  mayor.  The  Im-'iness  is  gone  through  ill  an  orderly  and  satisfactory 
manner,  whieh  otlier  committee'j  of  the  oor|N>ratioii  shmilil  emleavor  to  imitate. 

" '  There  is  a  weikly  mortality  table  ;dso  suliinitteil ;  it  is  very  complete.  The  diseases  are  all  proiierly  classitied  acvnrding 
to  age,  nationality  and  ilistiiit.  In  fact,  it  is  in  such  a  form  that  scieiititic  statists  uan,  at  a  glance,  compare  it  with  the  docu- 
ments of  a  similar  character  in  other  parts  of  the  world.  The  citizens  well  know  and  appreciate  Dr.  Hingstoii's  exertions  as 
chief  magistrate,  but  as  president  of  the  ls>ard  of  health,  he  has  rendered  services  intinitely  more  valiialile  though  not  of  so 
public  a  nature.  While  our  press  in  Ontario,  and  the  Medical  Associations  on  this  continent  are  talking  of  estalilishing 
Isiards  of  health  for  each  state  and  province,  Dr.  Hingston  lias  siuceedid  in  istalilishing  a  Isiard  of  health  in  this  city  ii|Hin 
a  perninneiit  liasis.  The  work  that  is  done  weekly  is  of  iucidciilable  lienetit,  and  the  manner  in  which  it  is  done  is  a  niislel  for 
olhei-s  elsewhere.  Hesides  the  examining  of  reisuts,  the  board  has  acted  with  •%  stmng  and  vigorous  will  in  a  manner  not  liefore 
attempted.  We  refer  to  the  ordering  of  drains  through  private  property,  when  the  inten-st  of  health  ilemands  it,  and  without 
anv  leferenre  tu  expropriation,  lu  this  way  work  has,  in  some  instanres,  been  commenced  within  twenty-four  hours  of  the 
lime  from  the  issuing  of  the  or  ler.  Some  may  think  that  the  mayor  lias  stretched  )iis  authority  a  little  too  far,  Imt  the  citi- 
Zi'ii'i,  kiiiiu'ing  it  is  for  the  p.iMie  gisi.l,  arecpiite  prepared  to  sii|iport  him  in  his  actions.' 

"  Whonanepidemic  sinall-pox  rei.;ned  in  the  city,  and  when  the  auti-vaccinatora  contiiiiud  their  mischiev  >ua 
teachiii<j;«,  Dr,  Hingston,  under  cover  of  'A  Few  Instructions  to  Vaccinators,'  wrote  a  piper  on  the  disputed 
points  in  controveisy,  which  efl'ectually  silenced  his  opponents.  The  paper  was  i|Uoted  all  over  this  coi.tinent, 
and  attracted  notice  in  Europe. 

"  liiuit  autumn  he  was  unaniniuusly  chosen  by  the  I'hiladelphia  International  Medical  .Vssociatinn  -the  larg- 
est and  most  important  medical  gathering  the  world  has,  perhaps,  ever  seen-  representative  for  t'anaila,  and  at- 
tracted notice  in  the  debates  which  took  place.  We  copy  from  one  of  our  October  exchanges,  the  fidlowing  :  — 
'  The  lield-day  in  the  surgical  siction  was  that  which  gave  lis  the  discussion  on  Ooxalgia.  K.mcy  a  tilt  between 
tiruBsnud  Agnew,  of  I'hilaalelphia  ;  Lister,  of  Edinburgh  ;  Adams,  of  Ijondon  ;  lliiiyiidm,  of  Montreal  ;  Moore, 


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of  Roclieiter,  and  Sayre,  <>f  New  York,  and  other  less  able,  bnt  not  less  earnest  men  !  These  ^entlonien  iis^d 
no  buttons  on  their  foils. ' 

"  At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Canadian  Medical  ARsoclation  in  Toronto,  in  August  last,  our  mayor  was 
unanimously  chosen  president,  and,  at  the  meeting  to  be  held  here  in  September,  will  preside. 

"  It  has  been  a  matter  of  surprise  to  many,  how  Dr.  Hingston  could  attend  to  so  many  duties  without  ap- 
pearing to  neglect  any  of  them.  It  is  due  to  utilizing  the  minutes  and  hnlf  minutes  which  so  many  throw 
away  ;  and  to  punctuality  in  his  every  appointment. 

"  Dr.  Uingston  at  his  first  election  received  ten  votes  f>>r  his  opponent's  one;  and,  at  the  second  election,  he 
«as  chosen  unanimously.  He  had  but  to  yield  to  the  wishes  of  his  friends  to  (Kcupy  again  the  civic  chair  ;  but 
in  his  reply  to  the  deputation  headed  by  Hir  Francis  ilincks,  he  stated  he  had  succeeded  in  doing  Iub  duty  thus 
far  without  sacrilicing  the  interests  of  his  patients,  but  could  not  hope  to  continue  tu  do  so  without  making  calls 
on  hib  strength  and  energy  and  purse,  which  he  thought  unwaiTauted. 

"  Montreal  has  had  many  eAicient  mayors,  but,  we  say  it  without  fear  of  contradiction  that,  in  education, 
gentlemanly  manner,  dignity  of  bearing,  social  standing,  hcmesty  of  purpos'e  and  thorough  business  habits,  the 
ranks  of  our  profession  have,  in  Dr.  Kingston,  furnished  one  wh<>,  in  those  ({ualities  reipiisite  for  the  discharge 
of  important  public  duties,  will  compare  favorably  with  any  who  have  preceded  or  may  hereafter  follow  him." 

Dr.  Ilingst<in  now  confines  biniself  almost  exclusively  to  professional  matteis,  and  tliieHy 
to  surgery  and  thj  surgical  diseases  of  women,  in  which  few  in  the  Dominion  equal, and  none 
excel  him.  He  is  said  to  liave  performed  some  of  the  large  operations,  as  ovariotomy  and  lith- 
otrity  more  fretiuently  than  any  other  surgeon  in  Canada. 

In  looking  for  contriltntions  from  his  pen,  we  find  fewer  during  the  last  years  tlian  for- 
merly. Morgan,  in  his  "  Bililit)theca  Canadensis,"  mentions  a  large  number  of  articles  which  ap- 
peared from  time  to  time  in  our  medical  periodicals.  Latterly,  however,  contributions  are  less 
frequent,  and  are  chiefly  on  surgical  subjects.  His  address  as  president  of  the  Canadian  Medi- 
cal Association  was  not  inferior  to  anything  of  the  kind  delivered  at  any  annual  gathering  of 
the  profession. 

In  1875,  Dr.  Hingston  married  Margaret  Josephine,  daughter  of  the  Honourable  D.  A.  Mac- 
donald,  late  lieut.-governor  of  Ontario,  and  they  have  two  aons. 


WILLIAM    ALVJ^sI)E\,  .M.A.,   M.D., 

QVEHKC. 

DR.  MAUSltKX,  a  voluminous  writer  on  medical  and  collateral  subjects,  an  old  practitioner 
in  Quebec,  a  censor  of  the  ineilical  profession,  and  ilean  of  the  Faculty  of  QucIm-c, 
dates  his  birth  at  Bolton,  Lancashire,  Eng.,  February  1(S,  l.S(»7.  His  father,  Thon-.as  Mars- 
don,  brought  his  family  to  Canada  in  1812,  just  as  the  war  with  the  United  States  commenced; 
and  they  were  captured  by  the  British  frigate  /li(/*7oy«',  being  on  Itoard  the  American  brig, 
Kl'»za,  Capt.  Wayne,  bound  for  New  York,  and  were  carried  to  St.  Johns,  Newfoiuidland,  anil 
came  thence  to  (Quebec ;  where  the  father  was  engaged  for  some  years  in  his  profession  of 
teacher. 


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O'lr  subject  was  ediirated  in  the  aiis  at  tlio  r»»yal  institiitiun,  Queltec,  and  inoi'ically  at  St. 
Thomas'  liospital,  London,  Eny.,  and  wjis  lici-nsed  to  practiso  in  tho  spring  of  l.s:l().  The  (U'j^n't' 
of  M.I),  was  lonjj  ago  conferred  upon  him  by  botli  British  and  Anicrican  eollegos. 

With  the  exception  of  a  little  more  than  five  years — 18+2  to  l.S+T  -spent  at  Nicolet,  where 
he  had  charge  of  the  metiical  department  of  the  eolli'ge,  Dr.  Marsden  has  resided  in  the  city  of 
tJueVtec.  where  he  is  .still  engaged  in  select  and  consulting  practice  ;  he  has  been  a  medical  ex- 
aminer since  IS.Si,  being  the  oldest  now  living  in  this  province. 

The  Doctor  is  ex-president  of  the  Canadian  Medical  Association  ;  ex-president  and  gover- 
nor of  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  Lower  Canada;  honorary  fellow  of  the  Medico- 
Botanicai  society  of  London;  corresponding  fellow  of  the  Medical  Society  of  London;  honoraiy 
niemlK'r  of  the  Montreal  Pathological  Society  ;  honorary  fellow  of  the  Berkshire  Medical  Society 
anil  Lyceum  of  Natural  History,  and  Doctor  of  Medicine  (in  honore)  j  honorary  fellow  of  the 
Medico-Chirurgical  Society  of  New  York ;  and  of  the  Obstretical  Society  of  Edinburgh  ;  and 
corresponding  member  of  the  Gyno-ocological  Society  of  Boston. 

Seeing  the  necessity  that  existed  for  medical  training  before  the  organization  of  medical 
schools  and  colleges  in  Lower  Canada,  Dr.  Marsden  built  a  private  dissecting  room,  and  engaged 
as  an  independent  lecturer  on  anati>my  and  physiology,  materia-niedioa  and  botJin\-,  and  several 
.special  subjects ;  and  his  lectures  were  accredited  in  Edinburgh  as  those  of  the  incorporated 
schiM)ls  and  colleges. 

lie  was  the  foremost  man  in  originating  and  organizing  the  Dominion  Medical  Association, 
he  bringing  the  suliject  Wfore  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  a  meeting  held  in 
Montreal  in  Ma\',  1S(!7,  the  year  of  the  completion  of  tlie  work  of  Confederation  ;  he  made  a 
report  on  the  subject,  but  no  action  was  then  taken.  The  work  was  consunuuated,  hosvevi'r, 
in  October  of  the  .same  year,  when  by  means  of  circulars  sent  out,  every  province  of  the  Domin- 
ion was  represented,  Dr.  Marsden  being  chairman  of  the  committee  of  organization. 

For  more  than  forty  jeai-s  he  has  been  very  busy  with  the  pen,  writing  largely,  but  not 
whoU}^  on  medical  subjects.  At  one  period  of  his  life  he  edited  the  (.Quebec  3/<!r('((r^,  one  of 
the  oldest  newspapers  in  the  province ;  he  luis  al.so  written  many  eilitorials  ami  other  articles 
for  political  pajjcrs. 

He  is  the  authoi-  of  a  series  of  progressive  and  somewhat  prophetic  letters  on  public  sub- 
jects—transcontinentivl  railroads,  navigation  and  .seat  of  government,  which  appeared  in  the 
(Quebec  Gazette  and  Toronto  (Uobc,  from  time  to  time,  during  the  past  forty  years. 

His  chief  medical  writings  have  been  published  in  the  Edinburgh  Med'icdl  mvl  Sanjienl 
Joiivnnl  ((piarterly),  the  Edinburgh  Midiail  JuKntnl  (monthly),  the  British  American  Joitr/oti 
of  Miidkal  in\il  PhifMicnl  Science,  the  Lancet,  the  MfiUnd  Chion'tch'  and  Montreal  Month! ^ 
Journal  of  Meiliiiiic  lunl  Sun/fr;/,  the  Philadelphia  Afrdirul  and  Sitiylnd  Jti'portei;  the 
British  American  Jinirmd,  the  I'pper  Canada  Jomnid  if  Mrdii(d,  I'hi/slctd  and  Stuylad 


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Scietire,  tlic  (lutrtd;  MvdUiilc,  aiiil  the  Ctiiiada  Meuical  Journal  und  Muntlilij  Rccv-d  of  Me<li- 
)iil,  and  Suiyical  Scicna; 

We  appoiid  a  list  of  a  few  of  the  subjects  whieli  tlie  Doctor  lias  tieated: — 

Ob»orvati<iii»   mi    C'liiirbon,    with   cnsem  (Maligii'tnt  ynnckery,  etc.,   in  the   Unitoil   StHtos  :  mi   IViisiiniii^' 

I'listiitu).  by  Strychnine  ;  on  Aero-Narcotic  I'oisonti,  with  cas«"n, 

IVpurg   on     Kc-vinion   of   tlie    Huinenis   after   live  and   Poisoning   by  Digitalis  ;  on   Limoiiis   and    I'ara- 

iiionthH'  fracture  ;  on  Exoatosig  witli  Caries  ;  on  Ohio-  gensis. 

riiforin  and  Anii-stlieticg;  on  the  Use  of  Tea  as  a  lk>v-  A  paper  on  tjiiiiiraiitiiie,  with   an  original  plan  of 

erage  ;  on  (ilci8siti»  ;  on  lilood-letting  in  Cholera  ;  on  (Quarantine    for    Asiatic    Cholera,    approved    liy   the 

«he   Contagion  of   Cholera  ;  on   death   from    Uterine  American  Medical  Association  and  the  United  .States 

Hemorrhage  ;  with  a  Keport  of  the  case  of  The  l^ueen  <iovernment,  the  Sanatary  and  (Quarantine  authorities 

i:h.  ISurke,  for  Murder  ;  mi  Extra  I'teriiie  I'regnancy,  of  New   York  and   Hoston  ;  aiirl   in  Miiccessful  opera- 

with  roiiiarkg.  tion  at  the  port  of  New  York. 

Practical  Jicuiarks  and  SuggestioiiH  on  AHiatic  Choi-  A  large  number  of  anonymouM  papers  mi  Hygiene, 

era,  in  its  Helatioiis  to  QiiHriiiitiiie.  Cholera,   Contagion,  and  (Quarantine,   in   the  (Quebec 

Papers  on  Mis-menstruation  with  iiterility  ;  on  the  Mtroinj,   <ih.wnvi-,    Munuiuj  Chrnuirli ,    Hiiiflh,   and 

successful  application  of  Electro- Biology  to  Surgery  ;  other    periodicals    over   the   signatures   of    "  Delta.'' 

on  Synchronous  Double  Aniputatioim  ;  a  description  "  Kpsilon,' etc. 

of  the  United  African  Twins,  with  plates  ;  on  the  Ap-  An  essay  on  the  .Asiatic  ('holera,  in  its  Itelatioiis  to 

]ilication  of  Statistics  to  C,)ue8tious  of  Medical  Science  ;  (Quarantine  ;  its  infection,  contagion,  portability  and 

on   Injuries  of  the   Intestines,  with  cases  and  critical  comniunicability  ;  with  a  Brief  History  of  its  origin, 

coinmentaires  ;  on  the  Use  and  Abuse  of  Tobacco  :  on  course  and  progress  in  Canada,  from  18;i'i.     Presented 

the  Use  of  Cold  Water  in  Scarlet  Fever  ;  on  the  DiH'er-  to  and  approved  of  by  the  "  .\nierican  Medical  Asso- 

ential  Stethoscoi)e  or   Stetliophone,   with   plates  ;  on  ciation.'' 

The  above  list  of  papers,  etc.,  was  published  prior  to  the  year  l.S(J7;  and  since  then  his  pen 
has  been  as  bu.sy  as  ever;  his  last  paper  that  has  come  under  our  notice,  on  "  Ectopia  Ilenalis," 
appeared  in  the  Edinbui'oli  Meilitid  JouriKd  for  December,  18S();  he  spoko  tlirouifh  his  pen — 
his  great  source  of  intellectual  life. 

He  was  the  first  physician  in  Quebec  to  vulunteer  atteiidaiuo  at  the  choler.i  hospital  on 
the  outbreak  of  Asiatic  cholera,  on  the  .Jth  June,  18:12,  and  was  a  witness  of  the  fii-st  case  on 
this  continent ;  he  was  also  pliysician  in  charge  at  the  Blue  Stone  cholera  hospital,  in  18.S4. 
In  the  zealous  exercise  of  his  iirofessioii  hi-  contracted  two  severe  attai'ks  of  Asiatic  cholera, 
and  one  of  typhus  fever,  and  has  inaile  the  former  a  specialty,  «in  which  he  formed  his  system 
of  "  (Jiuarantiiie  for  (.'holcia,  which  is  now  in  general  operation  on  this  continent.  He 
astonished  the  members  of  the  .American  .Meilical  Association  at  one  of  its  annual  meetings  by 
declaring  that  by  "  Isolation,"  and  an  absolute  .system  of  domestic  ipiarantine  (strict  non-inter- 
course), he  could  exterminate  Asiatic  cholera,  or  any  other  infectious  or  contagious  disea.se  in 
any  house,  or  block,  or  locality,  in  any  city.  He  is  the  originator  of  this  system,  which  is  eom- 
nionlv  called  "  stumping  out,"  now  in  so  effective  and  genera!  use,  and  is  ci-e<lited  for  it  by  such 
Hanitarians  as  I.  Y.  Simpson,  of  Kdiidiuigh,  and  Elisha  Harris,  of  New  Vork,  who  have 
atlojited  it. 

In  lH(i(i,  Dr.  iMarsden  drew  up  a  plan  for  a  cholera  (quarantine  station,  with  valuable  sug- 


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gestioDhi  in  regard  to  its  divisions,  sub-divisions,  etc.,  and  it  was  highly  approved  tiy  parties  in- 
terested in  sucIj  matters,  lieing  adopted  by  the  United  States  and  now  in  use  there. 

He  ir,  visiting  physician  to  the  Finlay  asylum  and  the  Women's  (.hristian  Association,  of 
Quebec,  and  has  always  been  liberal  in  his  gratuitous  attendance  on  the  piKir. 

Dr.  Marsden  married  in  1830,  Miss  Esther  Maria  Whale,  a  native  of  Fiiiiadeiphia,  and  she 
is  still  living.     They  have  no  issue. 


HOX.   ^^1R    HECTOll    L.   LANGEVi:^,   C.Ji.,   Q.C.    K.C.M.C;., 

■  (QUEBEC. 

SIR  HECTOR  LOUIS  LANOEVIN,  minister  of  public  works,  ar.u  one  of  the  leading  men 
in  the  Province  of  Quebec,  was  Itorn  in  the  city  of  Quel)ec,  on  the  2jth  of  August,  182G  ; 
was  educated  at  the  seminary  in  his  native  city;  studied  law,  was  called  to  the  bar  iu  18.)(), 
and  wiis  created  a  Queen's  Counsel  in  1864. 

Sir  H.  L.  Langcvin  was  a  member  of  the  oity  council  of  Queliec  for  several  years,  and  was 
chairman  of  the  water-works  committee ;  a  little  later  he  was  secretary-treasurer,  and  after- 
wards vice-president,  of  the  North  Shore  railway  company ;  was  mayor  of  Quebec  for  three  con- 
secutive years,  commencing  with  January,  18.')8 ;  was  president  of  St.  Jean  Baptiste  Society, 
QuelK?c,  in  1861  and  1862,  and  of  the  In^titut  Canadien,  of  the  same  city,  in  1863  and  1864. 

Sir  H.  L.  Langevin  represented  the  county  of  Dorchester  in  the  Canadian  Assembly  frouj 
1857  until  the  Confederation,  and  was  a  member  of  the  executive  council  of  that  body  from 
March  30,  1864,  until  the  British  North  America  Act  went  into  force  in  the  .sunmier  of  1867. 
He  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  preliminary  steps  towanls  Confederation,  being  a  delegate  tu 
the  Charlottetown  union  conference  in  1864,  to  that  held  at  Quebec  in  the  .same  year,  and  to 
the  London  colonial  conference  of  lS66'(i7,  to  complete  the  terms  of  the  union. 

While  a  member  of  the  executive  council  of  Canada,  Sir  H.  L.  Langevin  occupieil  more  than 
one  highly  trustwoithy  jmsition,  holding  the  ottiee  of  solicitor- general  from  the  30th  of  March, 
1864,  to  November,  1866,  and  that  of  postmaster-general  from  the  latter  date  to  the  Confedera- 
tion. And  then  we  find  him  in  two  legislative  bodies— the  Provincial  As.sembly  and  the  House 
of  Commons,  representing  Dorchester  in  both  from  1867  to  1871,  and  in  the  Comuions  until 
1874,  when  he  retired.  From  1871  to  1874  he  represented  Quebec  centre  in  the  Local  House 
being  returned  by  acclamation. 

Sir  H.  L.  Langevin  was  sworn  of  the  Privy  Council  on  the  1st  July,  1867,  when  he  was  ap- 
pointed .secretary  of  state  for  Canada,  retaining  that  office  until  transferred  to  the  public  works 
department,  on  the  8th  of  December,  1869.  From  the  PurUamenlary  ('ompiinion,  we  learn 
that  Sir  H,  L.  Langevin  was  commissioned  to  assist  the  Speaker  in  the  management  of  the  in- 


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terior  t'conoiny  of  the  House  of  Commons,  and  wr«  also  chairman  of  the  railway  committee  of 
the  Privy  Council.  In  compliance  with  the  wishes  of  this  council,  1871,  he  visited  British 
Columbia,  in  order  to  a<'(\uire  a  knowledge  of  that  far-away  and  then  new  province,  in  relation 
to  the  Pacitic  railway,  and  its  western  terminus ;  and  also  to  study  the  requirements  of  that 
provinct!,  and  ascertain,  by  aecuiate  and  careful  observation,  what  public  works  it  most  needed. 

Sir  H.  L.  Liingevin  was  the  leader  of  the  liower  Canada  Conservatives  in  the  memorable 
ses.sion  of  1873,  while  Sir  George  E.  Cartier  was  aUsent  in  England  ;  was  also  designated  by 
the  Conservative  members,  after  the  death  of  Sir  George,  in  June,  1873,  as  their  leader  in  the 
I'rovince  of  Quebec  ;  and  in  November  of  that  year  he  went  out  of  power  with  the  rest  of  the 
ministry  of  the  Dominion. 

Sir  H.  L.  Langevin  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Commons  for  Charlevoix  in  January,  1870 ; 
was  re-elected  for  the  same  constituency  in  April,  1877,  after  being  unseated  on  petition;  con- 
tested Rimouski  without  success  nt  the  general  election  in  September,  1878  ;  ami  was  elected  by 
acclamation  for  Three  Rivers  in  the  November  following.  He  wa.s  sworn  of  the  Privy  (^ouncil 
as  postiaaster-goneral  on  the  19th  of  October  of  that  year,  and  held  that  office  until  transferred 
to  the  public  works  in  May,  1879. 

Sir  H.  L.  Langevin  was  created  a  companion  of  the  bath  in  18G8,  a  knight  connuander  of 
St.  Gregory  the  Great  in  1870,  and  a  knight  bachelor  of  (Srent  Britain,  and  a  knight  commander 
of  St.  Michael  and  St.  George,  on  the  i'4th  May,  1881. 


110:N.    WILLIAM    ir.   AVEBE,   Q.C., 

AlELBOUENE. 


"TTTn^LIAM  HOSTE  WEBB,  a  prominent  lawyer  a 
'   '      cis,  was  born  in  Hampshire,  England,  on  the  24 


and  politician  in  the  district  of  St.  Fran- 
nth  of  November,  1820.  His  father  was 
Captain  Edward  Webb,  wlio  was  of  the  royal  navy,  serveil  under  Sir  William  Hoste,  one  (.f 
Lord  Nelson's  celebrated  officers,  and  owed  his  promotion  to  deeds  of  bravery  and  valor,  coming 
to  Lower  Canada  in  1836,  with  his  family,  and  dying  at  Brompton.  The  mother  of  our  subject, 
before  her  marriage,  was  Saiali  Ann  Whitcomb,  a  native,  like  her  hu.sband,  of  Hampshire. 

Mr.  Webb  was  educated  at  the  royal  navy  school,  near  London  ;  studied  law  with  Messrs. 
Mack  and  Muir,  of  Montreal ;  was  admitt«'d  to  the  bar  of  Lower  Canada  in  1851,  and  for  thirty 
years  has  Ikjcu  practising  in  the  several  courts  of  the  district  already  mentioned,  lieing  made  a 
Queen's  Counsel  in  I8(>4i ;  his  standing  in  the  profession  is  highly  creditable 

Ml.  Welfb  entered  public  life  in  18.">7,when  he  was  elected  to  the  Canadian  Parliament  for 
the  counties  of  Richmond  and  Wolfe,  and  held  that  seat  until  the  ( 'onfe<h'ration  in  I8r»7.  when 
he  was  returned  to  the  House  of  Commons  for  the  san>e  constituency.     At  the  general  election 


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held  ill  January,  1H74,  lie  was  defeated,  and  the  next  year  wa.s  sent  to  the  L(!<^i.sliitive  Council 
for  the  Wellington  <livision,  of  which  hody  he  is  .still  a  niend)ei'.  He  has  done  much  yood  work 
as  a  le^^islator,  and  is  the  author  of  several  hills  which  t)ecaine  laws,  but  none  of  them,  i)erha|t», 
of  sutticient  importance  to  be  more  particularly  mentioned.     He  is  a  Con.scrvative. 

Mr.  Webb  has  l)een  mayor  of  Melbourne,  and  the  first  warden  of  tlie  county  of  Richmond, 
and  has  been  a  trustee  of  St.  Francis  collej^e,  Richmond,  since  its  commencement.  He  is  a 
leading  man  in  tlie  county,  and  highly  lespected  for  his  public  spirit,  and  other  good  qualities. 
He  is  a  churchman,  and  has  been  a  delegate  to  the  synod  at  different  times.  Men  like  lun» 
constitute  a  portion  of  the  best  kind  of  wealth  of  a  countr}'. 

In  184G,  Mr.  Webb  married  Isabella  A.  W.  Morris,  daughter  of  the  late  Lieut.-Col.  William 
Morris,  of  the  J>7th  regiment,  and  they  have  had  seven  children,  losing  (me  of  them. 


.lOTIN    AV.   DAWSON,   M.A.,  LLD.,    F.Pv.K,   (;.M.(5., 

PHneipal  Mid  Vire-ChnnceUor  of  MrOill  Unirertity, 
MONTREAL. 

JOHN  WILLIAM  DAWSON,  principal  of  McGill  college  an<l  one  of  the  leading  scientific 
men  on  this  continent,  was  born  at  Pictou,  Nova  Scotia,  on  the  13th  of  October,  1820,  his 
parents  being  James  and  Mary  Rankine  Dawson.  The  branch  of  the  Daw.son  family  t<»  which 
his  father  lielonged  was  from  the  north  of  Scotland.  He  received  his  academic  training  in 
the  college  of  Pictou,  when  it  was  under  the  ])rincipalship  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  McCuUoch,  and  re- 
garded as  one  of  the  best  institutions  of  the  kind  in  tliat  province.  Befoie  he  had  fairly  en- 
tered upon  his  academic  studies,  when,  in  fact,  only  ten  years  old,  our  subject  began  to  collect 
fossil  plants  of  the  coal  period  ;  and  during  the  time  that  he  was  prosecuting  his  college  studies, 
he  made  exten.sive  collections  in  natural  hi.story,  and  showed  a  taste  for  scientific  inquiry  and  a 
tident  for  original  investigation.  After  finishing  his  college  course,  Mr.  Dawson  proceeded  to 
Scotland,  and  devoted  one  winter  to  study  at  the  university  of  Edinburgh  ;  then  returned  to 
Nova  Scotia,  and  entered  with  renewed  vigor  and  great  zest  upon  geological  research,  more 
particularly  with  reference  to  the  rocks  and  fossils  of  the  (carboniferous  period.  In  I.S42  and 
again  in  18.")2,  he  accompanied  Sir  Charles  Lyell  in  his  geological  explorations  in  Nova  Seotiii. 
While  with  the  great  geologist  he  aided  materially  in  field  investigations  which  threw  much 
light  upon  both  the  Mora  and  fauna  of  the  Ciirboniferous  period  and  the  classification  of  the 
CarlKiniferous  formations  in  British  America.  With  Sir  Charles  Lyell,  "  he  discovered  the 
iKines  of  the  earliest  known  carlioniferous  reptile  of  America;  he  himseif  found  the  oldest  land- 
snail  anil  the  (ddest  millipede.  In  18G4  Dr.  Daws  )n,  by  his  microscopic  skill  and  comprehen- 
sive insight,    recognised  the  foraminiferal  structure  of  J\(nni>n  ('aniiih'n»e,  mv\  afUr  a  sharp 


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contest,  cstaliliHhed  its  claim  to  the  position  he  had  assigned  it  as  the  oldest  known  form  of 
uuiinal  life,  the  uncouth  piwursor  of  the  myriad  forms  that  with  ever  more  distinct  difterentiH- 
tion  of  ftmction  an<l  so  with  ever  higher  iyye  of  structure  have  marched  in  long  succeasiou 
iKToss  the  stage  of  existence."* 

In  the  winter  of  184ii-47,  while  again  in  Edinburgh,  studying  practical  chemistry 
and  other  branches,  Mr.  Dawson  contributed  to  the  Roj'al  Society  of  that  city,  papei-s  on 
the  "  Formation  of  (lypsum,"  and  on  the  "Boulder  Formation,"  and  an  article  to  Jameson's 
"  Edinburgh  Philosophical  Journal,"  on  the  "  Renewal  of  Forests  destroyed  by  Fire."  At 
least  five  years  earlier,  when  only  twenty-one  yeare  of  age,  he  began  to  write  and  publish  on 
scientific  subjects.  In  IS^-l  he  contributed  to  the  Wernerian  society  of  Edinburgh  his  first 
scientific  paper,  the  subject  being  on  the  species  of  field  mice  found  in  Nova  Scotia.  Two  years 
later  he  communicated  to  the  Geological  Society  of  London,  a  paper  on  the  rocks  of  eastern 
Nova  Scotia,  and  a  year  later  still  a  paper  on  the  "  Newer  Coal  Formation."  In  1845,  he  exploretl 
and  reported  on  the  iron  mines  of  Londonderry,  Nova  Scotia,  which  have  since  become  so  im- 
portant.    In  the  same  year  he  published  a  ])apei'  on  the  coal  formation  plants  of  that  province. 

On  his  return  from  Edinburgh  in  the  spring  of  1847,  Mr.  Dawson  pursued  his  geological 
researches,  and  foi-  two  or  three  years  continued  to  publish  valuable  papers  on  his  favorite 
branch  of  science,  the  most  important  of  the.se  papers  being  :  1.  "  On  the  Triassic  Red  Sand- 
stones of  Nova  Scotia  and  Prince  Edward  Island;"  2.  "  On  the  Coloring  Matters  of  Red  Sand- 
stones ; "  3.  "  On  Erect  Calamites  found  near  Pictou ; "  4.  On  the  "  Metjunorphic  Rocks  of 
Nova  Scotia."  He  also  published  his  "  Handbook  of  the  Geography  and  Natural  History  of 
Nova  Scotia,"  and  delivered  courses  of  lectures  on  natural  history  and  geology  in  the  Pictou 
academy,  and  in  Dalhousie  college,  Halifax,  and  reported  to  the  Nova  Scotia  government  on 
the  coal  fields  of  southern  Cape  Breton. 

We  have  already  mentioned  the  fact  that,  in  18.>2,  our  subject  accompanied  Sir  Charles 
Lyell  in  his  second  geological  tour  in  the  Maritime  Provinces,  where  these  .scientists  made  a  re- 
examination of  the  celebrated  South  Joggins  section  in  the  Cumberland  coal-field,  and  visited 
the  remarkable  deposit  of  albertite  at  Hillsborough,  New  Brunswick,  our  subject  publishing 
papers  on  each  of  these  topics.  His  papere  on  the  "  Structures  in  Coal "  and  on  the  mode  of 
"  Accumulation  of  Coal,"  were  the  direct  fruits  of  these  further  studies  of  the  Joggins  section. 

A.  writer  in  the  "  Popular  Science  Monthly,"  (1875)  speaking  of  this  period  in  our  subject's 
life,  and  of  his  subsequent  publications,  thus  writes : 

"It  waa  during  the  visit  to  the  Joggina,  j>ist  referred  to,  that  the  remains  of  DendretyfAon  AeiuHannm  and 
PhP<i  rttwita  were  found.  With  the  exception  of  Baphete*  planiceps,  which  Dr.  Dawaon  had  discovered  in  tlie 
year  previous  at  Pictou,  but  had  not  describeil,  De.ndrerpeton  Acadianum  waa  the  first  reptile  found  in  the  coal 
formation  of  America  ;  Pnpavetusta  waa  the  first  known  Palasozoic  land  anail.  These  discoveries  were  followed 
by  the  finding  and  describing  of  several  other  reptiles,  and  of  the  first  carboniferous  niilli|)ede  (XylMtis  slgil- 


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laritf).     About  this  time,  bUo,  a  lecond  report  on  the  AcaUia  irnii  mine  was  pruparo<l,  ami  an  elaborate  Heries  of 
ttHaayg  of  coal  made  for  the  (jeiieral  Minin;;  Association. 

*'  In  IH55  he  published  tho  first  edition  of  his  '  Acadian  (Seology,'  a  complete  account,  up  to  that  date,  of 
the  (ieology  of  the  Maritime  Provinces  of  British  North  America.  In  185U,  though  now  trammeled  by  the  ar- 
duous duties  incumbent  upon  the  principal  of  a  iiuiversity,  he  still  continued  his  geological  work  in  his  native 
province,  and  prepared  n  description  of  the  Silurian  and  Devonian  rocks.  During  the  same  summer  ho  visited 
L:ike  Huperior,  and  wrote  a  paper  and  re^vort  on  thecupperregions  of  Maimanse  and  Ouorgian  Bay,  in  which  he 
discussed  the  geological  relations  of  the  then  little  known  cop])er-bearing  rocks  of  the  north  shore  of  Lake 
Superior,  and  the  origin  of  the  deposits  of  native  copper. 

"  In  the  two  following  years  ho  made  a  number  of  contributionu  to  the  ('iniwlinn  Naturalist,  and  the  JoW' 
ual  of  the  OniloiiJeiit  Socirtij,  and  counuenced  the  study  of  the  Post-pliocene  deposits  of  Canada.  In  1859  his 
'  .\rchaia,'  or  studies  of  Creation  in  (ienesis,  appeared,  a  work  showing  not  only  a  thorough  knowledge  of  Na- 
tural History,  but  also  considerable  familiarity  with  the  Hebrew  language  and  with  biblical  literature. 

"  In  18(i()  Dr.  Dawson  issued  a  supplementary  chapter  to  his  '  Acadian  Geology.'  He  also  continued  his 
work  in  fossil  botany  and  in  the  Post-pliocene,  [lublishing  several  papers  on  these  subjects,  as  well  as  desultory 
researches  on  such  subjects  as  the  '  Flora  of  Mount  Washington,'  '  Indian  Anti(|uities  at  Montreal,'  '  Marine 
Animals  of  the  St.  Lawrence,'  '  Earthiiuakes  in  Cmada,'  '  Classitication  of  Animals,'  etc. 

"  In  1803  he  iss\ied  his  '  Air-Breathers  of  the  Coal  Period,'  a  complete  account  of  the  fossil  reptiles  and 
other  land  animals  of  the  coal  of  Nova  Scotia.  This  publication  was  followed,  in  18fi4,  by  a  'Handbook  of 
Sciontitie  Agricultiiro.'  It  was  in  18<>4,  moreover,  that  Dr.  Dawson  niiido  what  may  bo  considered  as  one  of  tho 
m  'st  imjiortant  of  his  sciontitie  discoveries— that  of  EoxMm  Caimdeusi'.  This  fossil  had  already  been  noticed  by 
Sir  William  Logan,  but  Dr.  Dawson  to  whom  Sir  William  submitted  his  specimens,  was  the  first  to  recognize  its 
foraminiferal  attinitios,  and  to  describe  its  structure.  Previo\is  to  this  the  rocks  of  the  I^aurentian  age  were 
looked  upon  as  devoid  of  animal   remains,  and   called  '  Azoic'   Dr.  Dawson  now  substituted  the  term  '  Eozoic' 

"  In  18(i5  Dr.  Dawson,  at  the  meeting  of  the  British  Association  at  Birmingham,  gave  illustrations  of  his 
researches  on  the  'Succession  of  Palwozoic  Floras,'  the  '  Post-pliocone  of  Canada,'  and  the  'Structure  of 
Eozoon.' 

"  In  1808  appeared  the  second  edition  of  '  Acadian  Geology,'  enlarged  to  nearly  700  octavo  pages,  with  a 
great  number  of  illustrations  from  the  author's  drawings  ;  and  which  still  remains  the  standard  work  on  tho 
geology  of  the  Maritime  Provinces,  while  it  also  treats  of  many  of  the  more  difticult  problems  of  general 
geology.     (It  has  since,  1880,  gone  on  to  a  third  edition.) 

"  While  in  England,  in  1870,  Dr.  Dawson  lectured  at  the  Royal  Institution.  He  also  read  a  paper  on  the 
'  Affinities  of  Coal  Plants  '  before  the  Geological  Society,  and  one  on  the  "  Devonian  Flora"  before  the  Royal 
Society.  The  same  year  his  '  Handbook  of  Canadian  Zoology '  appeared,  being  followed  in  1871  by  a  '  Report 
on  the  Silurian  and  Devonian  Flora  of  Canada,'  and  a  '  Report  on  the  Geological  Structure  of  Prince  Edward 
Island,'  in  which  he  was  ably  assisted  by  Dr.  Harrington.  His  studies  of  tho  Dev(mian  plants  were  begun  as 
early  as  1858,  and  Gaspfe,  St.  John's,  and  Perry  in  Maine,  were  twice  visited  in  order  to  collect  material  to  aid 
in  their  prosecution. 

"  His  "Notes  on  the  Post-pliocene  of  Canada"  were  published  in  1873.  From  them  we  learn  that  the 
number  of  known  species  of  Post-pliocene  fossils  had  been  raised,  principally  by  his  labors,  from  about  thirty  to 
over  two  hundred.  We  also  find  that  Dr.  Dawson  is  still  what  he  has  always  been,  a  stanch  opponent  to  the 
tlioory  of  general  land  glaciation.  '  The  Story  of  the  Earth  and  Man,'  issued  in  1873,  was  a  republication  of 
papers  published  in  the  Leimre  Jlour  in  1871  and  1872.  It  gives  a  popular  view  of  the  whole  of  the  Geological 
ages,  presented  in  a  series  of  word-pictures,  and  with  discussions  of  the  theories  as  to  the  origin  of  mountains, 
the  introduction  and  succession  of  life,  the  glacial  period  and  other  controverted  topics.  A  report  on  the  '  Fos- 
sil Flora  of  the  Lower  Carboniferous  Coal  Measiires  of  Canada,'  and  communications  to  the  Geological  So- 
ciety of  London,  on  the  probable  Permian  ago  of  bods  overlying  tho  coal-measures  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  also  oc. 
curring  in  Prince  Edward  Island  ;  on  recent  facts  as  to  the  mode  of  occurrence  of  Eozoon  in  the  Laurentian 
rooks,  and  on  the  Phosphates  in  the  Laurentian  rouks,  are  still  more  recent  labors.  A  course  of  six  lectures  de-  * 
livered  in  New  York  in  the  winter  of  1874-'75  has  been  largely  circulated  both  in  America  and  in  England,  un- 
der the  title  of  '  Science  and  the  Bible ; '  and  in  1875  there  also  appeared  in  London  and  in  New  York,  a  p  >pu- 
lar  illustrated  irsmu*  of  the  facts  relating  to  Eozoon  and  other  ancient  fossils,  entitled  "  The  Dawn  of  Life." 
At  the  Detroit  nieeting  of  the  American  Association,  Prof.  Dawson,  as  A'ice-President  of  Section  B,  delivered 
an  address  in  which  he  vigorously  combated  the  doctrine  of  evolution  as  held  by  its  more  extreme  supporters." 


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The  laU'Mt  imblii-ations  IVoiu  tlu'  pen  of  Mr.  DawNon  tire  "  Fossil  Men,"  piiblishuil  in  1S7H, 
and  tlip  "  ( 'hain  of  Life  in  (Jfolojficnl  Tinio,"  1!H«().  Tlic  former  is  inteiidt'ii  to  apply  modern 
facts  relating  to  the  aU)rigines  of  America  in  aid  of  the  solution  of  ipioHtions  as  to  prehistoric 
men  in  Kuropo. 

The  "  Chain  of  I^ife  in  Uoological  Time  "  treats  of  tlie  grouping  of  animals  and  pliints  fol- 
lowing each  leading  gioup  through  its  geological  history  from  its  origin  to  its  extinction,  in  so 
far  as  known. 

While  Dr.  Dawson  is  very  widely  known  as  a  scientist,  he  has  also  achieved  a  great  repu- 
tation as  an  eilucator.  While  a  resident  of  Nova  Scotia,  f»ir  three  years— lN."i(>-lX.>3— he  held 
the  post  of  superintendent  of  education  in  that  province,  and  during  that  period  was  initru- 
niental  in  establishing  the  provincial  normal  school,  and  introducing  other  improvements  of  the 
etlucational  system.  In  LS."*.*)  he  was  appointetl  by  Sir  Edmund  Head,  one  of  the  commissioners 
to  improve  the  univer.iity  of  New  Hrunswiek,  and  took  an  active  part  in  t)ic  noble  work  of 
putting  that  institution  on  a  substantial  basis. 

The  impulse  which  he  gave  to  the  course  of  popuhir  education  in  the  .Maritime  Provinces, 
by  lecturing,  writing  and  aiding  to  establish  institutions  of  learning  of  a  high  grade,  became 
well  known  in  other  parts  of  what  is  now  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  and  opened  for  him  a  wider 
field  of  inrtuence  as  an  educator. 

In  1S.').5  he  was  called  to  his  preient  position  in  the  univei-sity  of  McGill  college.  At  that 
time,  with  the  exception  of  the  medical  department,  the  institution  was  in  a  depressed  condi- 
tion ;  and  he  had  a  herculean  t.^sk  before  him  to  create  new  educational  machinery,  and  to 
place  the  departments  of  arts  and  law  on  a  solid  foun<lation,  and  in  a  flourishing  condition,  as 
well  as  introduce  a  faculty  of  applied  science.  This  he  did  by  calling  to  his  aid  the  intluentiai, 
moneyed,  and  liberal-hearted  men  of  the  city.  The  college  took  a  '  new  departure,"  and  for  a 
(juarter  of  a  century  has  pursued  an  upward  line  of  march. 

In  1>S.')7,  through  the  assi.stance  of  Hon.  P.  J.  O.  Chauvcau,  Superintendent  of  Public  In- 
struction for  the  Province  of  Quebec,  and  aided  by  the  powerful  influence  of  his  old  nnd  abiding 
friend,  Sir  Eduuind  Head,  then  Governor-General,  Dr.  Dawson  secured  the  estjiblishmeut  of  tlie 
McGill  normal  school,  as  a  training  school  for  Prote.stant  teachers.  Of  tliat  institution  he 
took  the  principalship,  and  held  it  until  1870,  lecturing  every  year  during  that  period  of  thirteen 
years,  to  the  students  on  natural  history  and  other  subjects,  and  performing  an  amount  of  men- 
tal liibor  which  would  break  down  any  man  not  of  strong  physical  constitution.  Though  for 
the  bust  ten  years  relieved  of  the  oversight  of  the  normal  school  the  doctor  is  seemingly  as  bu.sy 
as  ever  in  his  educational  work.  Latterly  he  has  paid  especial  attention  to  the  department  of 
practical  and  applied  science,  which  grew  out  of  the  school  of  civil  engineering,  which  was  es- 
tablished in  185H,  succumbed  to  hostile  legislation  five  years  later,  and  was  revived  under  the 
nanu!  given  above,  and   on   a   more   comprehensive  plan  in   1871.     He  has   made   this  de- 


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partiiiunt  uf  practical  Hcience  especially  attractive,  and  it  han  become  a  rich  t'eudur  of  tiie  uni- 
versity. 

For  the  last  oi<,'ht  or  nine  years,  Dr.  Dawson  has  been  a  inembor  of  the  Protestant  boanl 
of  school  commissioners  of  Montreal,  anil  is  also  a  member  of  the  Protestant  committee  of  the 
council  of  public  instruction  of  the  Province  of  Quebec. 

Dr.  Dawson  is  an  M..\.,  of  Edinburgh  university,  LL.D.  of  McGlU,  fellow  of  the  Geological 
Society  of  London  (18.54),  and  of  the  lioyal  Society  (18G2),  and  is  an  honorary  or  corresponding 
member  of  many  scientific  societies  in  the  old  world  and  new,  no  man  in  Canada  being  thus 
more  highly  or  extensively  honored.  In  the  present  year  (1881),  Her  Majesty  has  been 
pleased  to  confer  on  hin>  the  companionship  of  the  order  of  St.  Michael  and  St.  George. 

In  1847,  Dr.  Dawson  was  married  to  Margaret  Ann  Young,  daughter  of  the  late  Walter 
Mercer,  Esq.,  of  Edinburgh,  and  they  have  five  .surviving  children,  of  whom  the  eldest,  Dr.  G. 
M.  Dawson  is  an  as.sistant  director  of  the  geological  survey  of  Canada,  and  is  the  author  of  sev- 
eral important  reports  on  the  geology  and  resources  of  the  western  territories  and  of  British 
Columbia. 


ilC).\.  LOUIS    r.   G.  BABY,   Q.C,  P.C., 

JOLIETTE. 

LOl'IS  FRANCOIS  GKOUGE  BABY,  member  of  Parliament  for  oliette,  an<l,  at  the  time 
of  our  writing  (1880),  Minister  of  Inland  Revenue,  is  a  dosccmlant  of  one  of  the  oldest, 
most  respectable  and  lionorable  families  in  the  Province  of  Quebec.  Th(^  founder  of  tho 
family  in  this  country  was  Jacques  Baby  de  Ranville,  a  nobleman  from  the  south  of  France, 
who  was  an  officer  in  the  celebrated  regiment  of  C'c(»*ij/?)(m-iS«///e(T.>*,  and  came  to  Canada  in 
'(i<)2.  Representatives  of  the  family  have  distinguished  themselves  on  the  battltf-fiehi,  as  well 
as  in  the  Councils  of  the  State.  The  last  Governors  under  the  French  regime,  had  occasion, 
many  a  time,  to  call  the  special  attentioii  of  the  King  of  France  to  the  meritorious  deeds  and 
gallant  actions  of  meml)ers  of  this  notable  family.  Several  of  the  distinguished  men  who  bore 
the  name  of  Bidiy  were  killed  in  battle. 

The  subject  of  our  sketch  is  the  eldest  son  of  Jo8e|>h  Haby,  Esij,,  long  a  uotitiy  pul>lic, 
and  a  prominent  citizen  of  Joliette,  where  he  died  in  1871,  and  of  Caroline  Guy,  daughter  of 
Hon.  Louis  Guy,  in  his  lifetime  king's  notary,  and  a  Legislative  Councilor  for  the  old  Province 
of  Quebec.  His  gramlfather  was  Hon.  Francois  Baby,  an  Executive  and  Legislative  ( 'ouncillor, 
and,  in  177'>,  adjutant-general  for  the  .same  province,  taki  ig  a  very  active  \wvi,  together  with 
his  brother-in-law,  Charles  I'arieude  Lanaudiere,  then  A.  D.  C.  to  Lml  Dorchester,  in  the  events 
of  the  time.  His  gmndmother  was  Marie  Anne  de  Lanaudiere,  a  descendant  of  M.  tie  lianaudierc, 
Governor  of  Montreal  in  1<M)4.  He  is  also  closely  allied  to  the  Lem(»ine  dc  Longueuils,  de  Sala- 
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M  Baby  was  born  in  the  city  of  Montieal,  on  the  2Gth  of  August,  1834 ;  was  educated  at 
St.  Sul{)ice  college,  in  liis  native  city,  and  at  the  Joliette  college ;  studied  law  in  Montreal, 
with  Messieurs  (now  Juilges)  Drummond  and  Loranger ;  was  called  to  the  bar  in  1857  ;  practised 
his  profession  several  years  in  Montreal  in  partnership  with  Hon.  Louis  T.  Drummond,  when, 
his  health  becoming  impaired,  he  removed  to  Joliette,  where  he  continued  his  practice.  He 
was  created  a  Queen's  Counsel  in  1873.  As  a  lawyor  he  has  long  held  a  foremost  place  among 
the  fraternity  in  his  part  of  the  province,  and  will  before  long,  most  likely,  take  his  seat  on  the 
bench  of  hii  native  province,  being  especially  fitted  for  the  same,  not  only  by  his  legal  attain- 
ments, .sound  judgment,  and  unimpeachable  character,  but  also  by  his  high  sense  of  honor  and 
intogi'ity. 

Pi-evious  to  his  admission  to  the  Imr,  M.  Baby  was  a  clerk  in  the  Civil  Service  of  Canada 
for  several  years,  and  ho  hiis  been  mayor  of  Joliette  for  four  or  five  terms.  The  late  Sir  Ceorge  E. 
Cartier,  with  that  keen  eye  which  made  him  discover  merit  wherever  it  existed,  prevailed  upon 
him  to  leave  the  Civil  Service,  and  enter  the  political  arena,  where  ho  now  holds  so  command- 
ing a  position.  Among  the  ;uany  praiseworthy  deeds  of  M.  Baby's  life  is  the  valuable  assistance 
he  rendered  in  the  founding  of  the  Montreal  Historical  Society,  of  which  he  has  been  an  effi- 
cient memlH!r  from  its  inception.  He  is  himself  an  historian  of  some  repute,  having  spent 
much  time  in  researches  of  an  historical  character,  particularly  with  reference  to  Canada,  and 
has  brought  together,  not  without  considerable  expense  and  trouble,  one  of  the  most  precious 
private  collections  of  Canadian  manuscripts  known.  The  historical  department  of  his  large  and 
valuable  library  is  especially  rich  and  attmctive.  In  Canadian  history  it  seems  to  lack  nothing. 
He  is  also  an  antiiiuarian,  and  a  coiuioisseur  in  the  tine  iirts. 

M.  Baby  is  an  honorary  member  of  the  Iiistitut  Canadien  of  Quebec,  and  also  of  Ottawa, 
and  a  member  of  the  Anticpiarian  and  Numismatic  society  of  Montreal.  For  this  last  branch  of 
study  he  seems  to  have  a  passion  :  he  has  devoted  more  or  less  time  to  it  for  yeai-s,  and  his 
private  collection  of  coins  and  medals,  Canadian  and  Foreign,  is  one  of  the  l)est  in  the  province. 
His  cabinet  of  numismatical  treasures  is  specially  rare  and  valuable.  It  is  siiid  that  if  offered 
for  sale  it  would  pi'obably  bring  him  ilJi.OOO  or  ?5,000 ;  though  it  is  doubtful  if  he  would  part 
with  it  for  twice  the  larger  sum  named. 

Though  l<mg  deeply  interested  in  politics,  M.  Baby,  wo  believe,  diil  not  enter  public  life 
until  1867,  w'len  he  was  a  candidate  for  Joliette  for  the  Domini<m  Parliament.  At  this  time, 
ho"  ever,  from  over  confidence  on  the  part  of  his  friends  and  supportei-s,  he  failed  to  l»e  electe<l. 
Five  years  later,  at  the  General  Election  (1872)  he  was  returned  by  acclamation;  was  re-elected 
in  1874  ;  unseated  on  petition  on  the  28th  of  October  of  that  year;  was  re-elected  on  the  lOih 
of  the  following  Deceml^or  by  a  much  larger  majority,  and  again,  at  the  General  Election  in  Sep- 
temb«;r,  1878,he  was  rettirned  by  a  still  increased  majority.  On  the  2Gth  of  the  next  month,  on 
the  return  of  the  Conservatives  to  power,  he  was  called  to  a  seat  in  the  new  Cabinet,  his  port- 


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folio  being,  as  we  have  already  stated,  that  of  Minister  of  Inland  Revenue,  a  post  which  he  has 
held  with  firmness  and  tact,  and  much  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  public  at  large. 

It  was  M.  Baby  who,  in  1875,  introduced  the  bill  for  abolishing  the  death  penalty  in  cases 
of  assault  with  attempt  to  commit  rape,  &c. — a  bill  which  was  subsequently  taken  up  by  Mr. 
Blake,  and  carried  through  Parliament.  Since  entering  the  Cabinet,  he  has  successfully  passed 
through  Parliament  Acts  for  the  consolidation  and  amendment  of  the  Weights  and  Measures, 
the  Excise  Laws,  Stamp  Acts,  Tobacco  Laws,  &c.,  and  has  taken  an  active  and  patriotic  interest 
in  the  affairs  of  the  nation. 

In  July,  1873,  M.  Baby  was  joined  in  wedlock  to  Marie  H^lene  Adelaide,  daughter  of  the 
late  Dr.  Berthelot,  of  Montreal  (Knight  of  the  Order  of  St.  Sepulcre  of  France),  by  Dame  H^l&ne 
Guy.  He  has  no  issue.  M.  Baby  is  a  member  of  the  Catholic  church,  a  prominent  and  beloved 
mover  in  society,  and  a  notable  figure  in  literaiy  and  religious  circles,  and  appears  never  to  forget 
his  family  motto  :  Dire  vrai ;  /aire  Men.  • 


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HON.  JOSEPH  KOEL  BOSSE, 

QUEBEC. 

THIS  gentleman,  who  only  so  recently  as  December  last  retired  from  the  judgeship  in  the 
superior  court,  was  bom  at  Cap  St.  Ignace,  on  25th  Decembtn-,  1807,  and  is  the  son  of 
Captjiin  Joseph  Boss^  by  Marie  Louise  Blais.  The  lady's  ancestors  were  lielieved  to  have  settled 
in  Berth  ier  on  their  fii-st  arrival  in  this  country  from  France,  and  are  amongst  the  olilest  French 
families  in  Queliec.  Captain  Blais,  the  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Bossd  was  at  the  head  of  the  British 
Loyalists  at  the  engagement  of  St.  Peter,  RiviSre  du  Sud,  in  1775,  while  singularly  enough,  the 
judge's  granilfather  headed  the  opposing  foree  in  the  same  engagement.  He  was  educated  at 
Quebec  seminary,  and  after  leaving  school  made  a  few  sea  voyages  on  Itoard  some  of  his  father's 
ships. 

After  about  twelve  months  at  sea  he  was  placed  with  Mr.  Hamel,  the  eminent  Advocate- 
General  at  Quebec,  and  subsequently  was  admitted  to  the  bar  on  the  14th  of  June,  1833.  In 
1843  he  was  appointed  judge  commissioner  to  establish  a  court  at  Madeleine  Islands,  in  the 
Gulf  of  St.  Lawrence ;  hence  he  visited  these  islands  in  that  year  with  this  view,  and  again 
journey«'<l  thither  the  following  year,  and  succeeded  in  establishing  for  the  first  time  a  court 
there.  In  1864  he  was  elected  memlwr  of  the  Legislative  Council  for  division  De  la  Durantayo 
by  a  majority  of  1000  against  the  Hon.  T.  Fotnier,  now  one  of  the  judges  of  the  Supreme  Court. 
In  1865  he  was  made  a  Q.C.,  and  called  to  the  Senate  in  1867  ;  in  1868  was  appointed  judge  of 
the  superior  court  of  the  districts  of  Montmagny  and  Bcvice,  both  of  which  districts  contain 
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The  judge  is  author  of  an  interesting  and  valuable  memorial  (which  we  believe  he  com- 
piled for  the  Hon.  Mr.  Viger,  then  Prime  Minister),  a  statement  of  the  produce  of  the  Fisheries 
of  the  Gulf  of  St.  Lawrence.  He  was  formerly  colonel  of  the  4th  battalion  in  Quebec  He  is 
independent  in  politics. 

Universally  respected  and  much  esteemed  by  all  whom  he  comes  in  contact  with ;  and 
those  who  have  the  pleasure  of  his  friendship  unanimously  proclaim  him  as  possessing  the 
attributes  of  a  fine  old  Canadian  gentleman.  He  is  a  Roman  Catholic ;  and  married  on  the  1st 
June,  1835,  Miss  Lucy  Ann  HuUett,  daughter  of  William  Hullett,  of  Bath,  England.  By  this 
alliance  there  has  been  issue  thirteen  children,  but  only  three  boys  and  three  girls  survive.  His 
eldest  son,  Joseph  William  Bossd,  Q.C.,  and  now  Batonnier-Qeneral  for  the  Province  of  Lower 
Canada,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1860,  since  which,  and  until  1868,  he  has  practised  in 
partnership  with  the  judge,  and  they  are  said  to  have  about  the  largest  practice  in  Quebec. 


LOUIS  L.  L.  DP]SAULNIERS,  M.D.,  M.P., 

MONTREAL. 

T  GUIS  LEON  L.  DESAULNIERS,  member  of  the  House  of  Commons  for  St.  Maurice,  is  a 
-*— ^  son  of  Francois  L.  Desaulnieis  and  Charlotte  Rivard  Dufrene,  and  was  born  at  Yama- 
chiche,  Quebec,  on  the  16th  of  February,  1823.  He  is  descended  from  Charles  Lesieur,  notary 
public  and  Solicitor-General  under  the  French  Government,  and  of  Francoise  de  Lafond,  niece 
of  Pierre  Boucher,  Governor  of  Three  Rivers.  His  maternal  grandfather,  Augustin  Rivard 
Dufrene,  was  the  first  deputy  of  the  county  of  St.  Maurice  in  1791,  and  his  father  was  also  the 
deputy  for  the  same  county  before  the  insurrection  of  1837-'38,  and  also  after  the  union  of 
the  two  Canadaa  in  1841.  Our  subject  is  the  brother  of  three  professors  in  philosophy,  mathe- 
matics, theology,  etc.,  in  the  colleges  of  Nicolet  and  St.  Hyacinthe,  two  of  whom  were  very  dis- 
tinguished men. 

He  was  educated  at  Nicolet ;  studied  medicine  one  j'ear  at  Three  Rivers ;  finished  at  Har- 
vard university,  Boston,  Mass.,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.,  in  1846,  and  practised  for 
several  years  in  his  native  parish,  meeting  with  marked  success  in  his  profession.  He  retired 
from  practice  four  years  ago,  and  since  1876  has  resided  in  Montreal,  where  he  has  acted  as 
confidential  agent  of  the  Quebec  Government,  still  retaining  his  farm  and  other  property  in 
Yamachiche. 

Dr.  Desaulniers  has  been  for  many  years  member  of  the  Council  of  Public  Instruction  for 
the  Province  of  Quebec  ;  is  a  member  of  the  Medical  Society  of  Massachusetts ;  a  justice  of  the 
peace  for  the  whole  Province  of  Quebec ;  lieut.-colonel  of  volunteer  militia ;  and  for  the  last 
twelve  years  has  been  Inspector  of  Prisons  and  Asylums  for  the  same  Province. 


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He  first  contested  the  county  of  St.  Maurice  in  1851,  in  which  election  he  was  defeated. 
He  was  elected  in  1854  as  a  member  of  the  Canadian  Assembly ;  held  that  seat  until  1863,  and 
was  elected  by  acclamation,  in  1867,  to  the  House  of  Commons.  He  resigned,  in  1868,  to  accept 
the  office  of  inspector  already  mentioned,  and  was  once  more  elected  to  the  House  of  Commons 
in  September,  1878.  He  has  ever  been  a  Conservative,  under  the  leadership  of  Sir  George  E. 
Cai-tier,  the  great  French  Canadian  statesman,  and  possessed  the  confidence  and  friendship  of 
that  celebrated  man,  from  the  time  of  his  first  acquaintance  to  his  death.  ,   •  ,  .  •. 

In  IS.'iO,  Dr.  Desaulniers  mamed  Miss  Flora  Josephine  MeiTill,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  and  has 
eight  children  living.  One  son,  Alexander,  is  a  priest  at  Arthabaska ;  another,  Dionis,  is  a 
lawyer  in  Montreal ;  one  daughter  is  married  ;  another  is  a  sister  of  charity,  and  the  younger 
children  are  completing  their  education. 

He  has  a  good  deal  of  experience,  &s  is  here  seen,  in  legislative  bodies.  He  had  many  bills 
under  his  care,  that  became  laws  of  the  Stiite ;  was  always  a  hard  working  man,  and  is  si-ill 
veiy  attentive  ^  his  official  duties.  He  has  done  and  is  doing  good  service  to  his  country,  and 
especially  to  his  native  province.  He  is  one  of  that  class  of  men  who  arc  likely  to  remain  in 
Parliament,  or  in  the  public  service  in  some  capacity,  &s  long  as  they  will  consent  so  to  serve 
therein.  He  has  ever  been  very  popular  iu  his  county  and  neighboring  counties,  where  he  has 
made  many  speeches,  and  performed  many  acts  of  liberality,  by  taking  the  lead  in  all  public 
transactions,  and  by  spending  money,  months  and  years  of  his  time  in  the  construction  of  build- 
ings for  public  and  lienevolent  purposes. 

In  the  year  1875,  the  Quebec  Government  sent  him  to  Europe  to  visit  the  prisons,  asylums 
and  reformatory  schools,  in  England,  France,  Belgium,  Germany  and  Italy,  to  study  the  different 
systems  established  in  those  countries,  and  watch  on  the  spot  the  workings  of  those  institu- 
tions with  the  intention  of  introducing  into  ours  what  would  be  beneficial  and  convenient  in 
our  jKJsition.  On  his  return  he  made  a  long  and  elaborate  report  as  the  result  of  his  observa- 
tions which  he  presented  to  the  Goverament  of  Quebec. 


THOMAS  wTrm-;  m.r, 

MONTREAL. 

THOMAS  WHITE,  momlxir  of  the  House  of  Commons  for  Canlwell,  is  a  native  of  the  Pro- 
vince of  Quebec,  and  was  Vx)rn  in  the  city  of  Montreal,  on  the  7th  of  August,  1830.  His 
father,  Thoma>i  White,  came  to  Canada  from  Westmeath,  Ireland,  in  1820,  and  was  a  leather 
merchant  in  Montreal  for  many  years,  dying  in  1877,  at  the  age  of  81  years.  The  mother  of 
our  subject  was  Dorothea  Siuoaton,  who  died  in  1875  in  the  seventy-eighth  year  of  her  ago. 


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Mr.  White  was  educated  in  the  Montreal  high  school,  and  in  184C  entered  the  establish- 
ment of  the  late  T.  C.  Panton,  to  learn  the  grocery  business.  He  served  his  apprenticeship  of 
three  years,  and  in  May,  1849,  went  to  Brantford,  Ontario  ;  spent  a  few  months  in  the  store  of 
E.  Roy  and  Company,  and  before  the  clase  of  that  year  proceeded  thence  to  Peterboro',  and  con- 
tinued in  the  capacity  of  clerk  a  few  months  longer ;  but  he  does  not  seem  to  have  liked  the 
business.  In  1850  we  find  him  in  the  Queen's  printing  office,  Toronto,  where  he  learned  the  prin- 
ter's trade,  accompanying  that  office  on  its  removal  to  Quebec  in  1851.  There  in  1852,  he  was 
engaged  to  assist  in  editing  the  Quebec  Gazette,  the  late  Mr.  Stewart  Derbyshire  being  editor-in- 
chief.  The  next  year  Mr.  White  returned  to  Peterboro',  and  started  the  Review,  semi-weekly 
at  first,  but  soon  changed  it  into  a  weekly,  which  was  all  that  Peterboro'  wa.s  able  to  support  in 
those  days.    The  paper  is  now  a  daily. 

In  18G0,  our  subject  entered  the  law  office  of  Hon.  Sidney  Smith,  of  Cobourg,  passing  his 
examination  for  atlmission  to  the  Law  Society  of  lTp|)cr  Canada,  and  studied  for  four  years;  but 
his  love  for  journalism  was  evidently  greater  than  for  the  law;  and  in  1864>  he  and  his  brother, 
Richard  White,  purchased  the  Hamilton  Spectator,  and  conducted  it  until  1870,  when  our  sub- 
ject returned  to  Montreal,  and  became  one  of  the  editore  and  proprietors  of  the  Gazette,  the 
oldest  newspaper  in  Canada,  the  leading  Conservative  English  journal  in  the  province. 

While  at  Peterl)oro'  and  Hamilton,  Mr.  White  served  on  the  grannnar  school  boards ;  he 
was  also  for  some  time  reeve  of  the  town  of  Peterboro.'  During  the  last  decade,  he  has  l>een 
a  verj-  prominent  member  of  the  Montreal  Board  of  Trade.  He  represented  it  a  number  of 
years  in  the  Dominion  Boanl;  was  for  three  years  a  member  of  the  executive  council  of  the 
Dominion  Board,  and  for  five  years  represented  that  body  at  the  meetings  of  the  National 
Board  of  Trade  of  the  United  States.  He  is  well  known  among  commercial  men  and  journal- 
ists in  the  United  States. 

Mr.  White  was  a  candidate  for  South  Wentwortli  for  the  Legislative  Assembly  of  Ontario, 
in  18G7  ;  for  the  Houmc  of  Commons  for  the  county  of  Prescott,  Ontario,  in  1874,  and  for  Mon- 
treal West  in  1874  and  187.'» ;  and  it  is  noteworthy  that  the  aggregate  majorities  against  him 
in  the  firat  three  elections  was  only  sixteen  votes.  Once  he  came  within  three  votes  of  Ijeing  re- 
turneil,  and  at  his  first  contest  in  Montreal,  actually  polled  a  majority  of  fourteen  of  the  votes, 
but  was  thrown  out  by  the  returning  officers,  on  account  of  spoiled  ballots.  In  1878  he  con- 
tested Card  well,  and  was  successful.  He  is  a  Conservati  \  e,  a  thorough  protectionist,  and  his 
first  sj)eech  made  in  Parliament  (1879),  was  on  the  tariff  question,  in  which  he  ably  advocatctl 
what  is  known  as  the  "National  Policy"  inaug  rated  by  his  party.  He  also  spoke  during  that 
first  session  of  the  fourth  Parliament  in  favor  of  removing  Lieut.-Gov.  Letellier.  In  the  seasion 
of  1880  his  ablest  speech  was  on  the  Pacific  railway  question,  mainly  in  reply  to  Hon.  Edward 
Blake.  It  was  the  good  fortune  of  the  writer  of  this  sketch  to  be  present  and  hear  most  of  Mr. 
White's  speech,  which  was  one  of  the  most  logical,  pointed  and  incisive  made  during  the  debate 
on  that  questioa     He  stands  in  the  front  rank  of  debaters  in  the  House. 


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Mr,  White  has  done  a  great  deal  with  his  jien  and  otherwise  to  aid  in  bringing  emigrants 
from  the  old  world  to  Canada ;  and  twice  (18G9  and  1870),  he  was  sent  to  Great  Britain  by 
the  provincial  government  of  Ontario  as  a  s{)ecial  commissioner,  to  further  that  movement.  The 
first  time  he  went,  he  gave  two  lectures,  one  in  Glasgow  and  the  other  in  Liverpool.  The 
Messrs.  Allan,  of  the  Allan  line  of  steamships,  caused  100,000  copies  of  the  Liverpool  lecture  to 
be  printed  in  pamphlet  form,  which  were  scattered  broadcast  over  Europe.  The  second  time 
he  spoke  in  different  cities  and  large  towns  ;  and  on  both  occasions  gave  a  new  impulse  to  emi- 
gration. 

In  1853,  before  leaving  Quebec,  Mr.  White  married  Miss  Vine,  by  whom  he  has  had  ten 
children  still  living,  and  one  which  died  in  infancy.  His  eldest  son,  Robert  Smeaton  White 
is  editor-in-chief  of  the  Montreal  Gazette,  and  another  son,  Thomas  Coyle,  is  in  the  same  office, 
acting  as  his  father's  private  secretary. 


JONATHATs   S.  (\  WURI^ELE,  Q.C,  M.P.P., 

MONTREAL. 

JONATHAN  SAXTON  CAMPBELL  WURTKf.E,  meml)er  of  the  Quebec  Assembly  for 
Yaniaska,  is  a  son  of  Jonathan  Wurtele,  seignior,  in  his  lifetime  of  River  David,  and 
Louisa  Sophia  Campbell,  and  was  born  in  the  city  of  Quebec,  on  the  27th  day  of  Januaiy,  1828. 
The  Wurtelcs  in  this  province  were  from  Strumfelbagh,  a  village  near  Stuttgard  in  Wurtem- 
burg,  Germany,  the  family  being  traced  back  in  the  church  records  to  155!t. 

In  the  infancy  of  our  subject,  the  family  moved  to  River  David,  county  of  Yamaska,  he  re- 
ceiving a  good  cla-ssical  and  French  education  in  that  village  and  at  Quebec,  in  which  latter 
place  he  studied  law  with  Hon.  Jean  Chabot,  at  that  time  M.P.P.,  for  Quebec,  and  commissioner 
of  public  works,  and  afterwards  a  judge  of  the  superior  court,  and  was  called  to  the  bar  on  the 
Gth  of  August,  1850. 

Mr.  Wurtele  accepted  the  offer  of  a  partnership  with  Henry  Judah,  Q.C.,  of  Montreal,  and 
practised  in  that  connection  until  1852,  the  year  of  the  great  fire  in  Montreal  when  the  Trust 
and  Loan  Company  of  Canada  agreed  to  advance  $400,000  to  aid  the  sufferers,  and  Mr.  Judah 
was  appointed  the  solicitor,  and  our  subject  the  agent  of  the  company,  the  latter  retaining  that 
agency  until  185G,  when  he  was  obliged  to  return  to  River  David.  While  there  he  held  the  offi- 
ces of  mayor  of  the  parish,  president  of  the  school  commission,  justice  of  the  peace,  commissioner 
for  small  cases,  and  president  of  the  county  agricultural  society.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  and 
president  of  the  Yamaska  Navigation  Company,  which  was  established  to  open  steam  naviga- 
tion in  the  interests  of  the  county  on  the  Yaniaska  and  St.  Francis  rivers.  He  wa-^  'so  one  of 
the  founders  and  president  of  the  St.  Jean  Baptiste  Society  of  St  David. 


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In  1802,  Mr,  Wurtele  returned  to  Montreal,  and  for  four  years  was  chief  clerk  in  the 
seignoiial  commission,  his  first  law  partner,  Mr.  Judah,  being  the  chief  commissioner.  While 
thus  engaged,  he  was  charged  with  an  investigation  into  the  difficulties  between  the  seignoress 
of  Rigaud  and  a  number  of  her  ccnsitaires,  and  on  the  adoption  of  his  report  by  the  Govern- 
ment, he  was  entrusted  with  the  settlement  of  the  matter  and  received  a  public  expression  of 
the  thanks  of  the  parties  interested.  In  connection  with  the  settlement  of  affairs  consequent 
on  the  abolition  of  the  seignorial  tenure,  he  went  to  Bcauharnois  and  remained  there  for  two 
yeare ;  during  his  su^y  in  Beauharnois  he  was  president  of  the  local  board  of  liealth,  and  was 
made  and  acted  as  J.  P. 

He  was  connected  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  with  Hon.  J.  J.  C.  Abbott  from  18G(5  to 
1868,  in  the  latter  year  forming  a  partnership  with  Frederick  T.  Judah.  His  firm  of  Judah  and 
Wurtele  was  the  solicitor  of  the  Trust  and  Loan  Company  of  Canada,  the  largest  landed  credit 
institution  in  the  Dominion.     He  was  created  a  Queen's  Counsel  in  1873. 

In  1878  he  entered  into  partnej-ship  with  D<?sird  Girouard,  Q.C.,  D.C.L.,  the  M.P.,  for  Jacques 
Cartier. 

We  learn  from  a  work  entitled,  "  Montreal,  its  History,  with  Biographical  Sketches,"  that 
at  the  time  the  abolition  of  the  seignorial  tenure  was  agitated,  Mr.  Wurtele  acted  as  secretary 
of  the  as.sociation  of  seigniors  fonned  to  secure,  by  co-operation,  a  fair  indemnity,  which,  by  the 
aid  of  veiy  able  counsel,  they  succeeded  in  doing.  The  Bill  before  the  Legislature,  to  which 
exceptions  were  taken,  was  modified  and  the  Seignorial  Act  of  18.54  was  passed,  doing  justice 
to  the  seigniors  and  to  the  censitaires.  And  here  we  may  add  that  Mr.  Wurtele  i.s  the  last  Cana- 
dian seignior  who  rendered  fealty  ami  homage,  he  doing  so  on  the  3rd  of  February,  1854,  be- 
tween the  hands  of  his  Excellency  Lieut.-Gcneral  Rowan,  administrator  of  the  Government. 

On  the  completion  of  the  Cadastres  for  his  seigniories  of  Bourg  Marie  de  I'Est  and  Riviere 
David,  the  seigneurial  pew,  which  he  had  surrendered,  was  granted  to  him  and  his  wife  for  life 
by  a  public  vote  of  the  pari.sh,  as  a  testimony  of  the  good  feeling  existing  between  the  censi- 
taires and  himself. 

Mr.  Wurtele  was  appointed  a  lecturer  on  commereial  law  in  McGill  university,  in  18C7  ; 
received  the  honorary  degree  of  B.C.L.  from  the  same  iastitution  in  18V0,  and  the  next  year 
was  appointed  associate  professor  of  commereial  law,  with  the  Hon.  J.  J.  C.  Abbott,  whose 
pressing  professional  duties  interfered  with  his  lecturing.  On  Mr.  Abbott's  nomination  as  a 
governor,  in  1880,  he  succeeded  to  the  professorship  of  commercial  law, 

Mr.  Wurtele  has  been  for  many  years  honorary  counsel  of  the  German  Society  of  Montreal, 

He  was  first  elected  to  Parliament  for  his  present  seat  in  1875,  and  was  re-elected,  after 
the  dismissal  of  the  De  Boucherville  administration  by  a  majority  of  810  in  May,  1878,  his  poli- 
tics being  Liberal  Conservative.  In  the  Legislature  he  has  devoted  his  attention  to  legislation; 
and  has  carried  through  many  measures  of  importance.     He  is  eveiy  session  intrusted  with 


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numerous  and  important  private  bills.  He  waa  chairman  for  several  years  of  the  special  com- 
mittee on  the  municipal  code,  and  is  chairman  of  tho  standing  committee  on  private  bills,  to 
which  he  has  recently  devoted  his  time  most  assiduously. 

In  1880  he  prepared  and  carried  through  a  Bill  to  incorporate  the  "Credit  Foncier  Franco- 
Canadien,"  a  company  organized  in  France,  with  a  capital  of  twenty-fivo  millions  of  francs,  to 
be  increased  according  to  the  demand,  and  formed  by  himself,  the  honorable  Mr.  Chapleau,  the 
honorablo  Mr.  Paquet,  and  Mr.  Carrier,  of  Ldvis,  for  the  purpose  of  aHbrding  their  fellow  coun- 
trymen the  {)08sibility  of  paying  off  their  hyjwthecary  indebtedness  and  of  improving  their 
farms  with  loans,  at  a  low  mte  of  interest,  redeemable  in  capital  and  interest  by  annuities 
during  a  long  term,  but  of  small  amounts.  He  is  the  managing  director,  or  "  administrateur 
dcl^gu^,"  of  the  company. 

In  tho  spring  of  1880,  he  was  sent  to  Europe  by  the  Provincial  Government  to  negotiate  a 
loan  of  iJi.OOOjOOO,  which  he  succeeded  in  doing  in  Fmnce  without  the  least  trouble  or  delay, 
making  a  brilliantly  successful  mission  and  having  been  absent  only  thirty-eight  days. 

Mr.  Wurtele  was  first  married  on  the  7th  of  January,  l^.'Si,  to  Julia,  daughter  of  the  late 
Dr.  Wolfred  Nelson,  of  Montreal ;  she  dying  in  1870  leaving  five  children,  and  the  second  time 
on  the  Ist  of  June,  1875,  to  Mi-s.  Sarah  O'Brien,  daughter  of  the  late  Thomaji  Branitf,  of  New 
Brighton,  Staten  Island,  N.Y.  ^ 

Mr.  Wurtele  is  not  a  brilliant  or  eloquent  speaker,  but  he  has  the  fjvcility  of  expressing 
himself  in  a  terse  and  forcible  manner  and  commands  attention  when  he  rises.  He  is  an  able 
and  sound  lawyer  and  a  practical  and  hardworking  legislator,  popular  with  his  own  party  and 
respected  by  both  sides.     His  motto  is  '  Honneur  ct  devoir," 


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ST.  HYACINTHE. 

T  OUIS  TELLIER,  member  of  the  House  of  Commons  for  the  county  of  St.  Hyacinthe,  is  a 
-*— ^  son  of  Zephirin  Tellicr,  of  Ste,  Mdlunie  de  Daillebout,  yeoman,  and  Luce  Ferland,  daughter 
of  Prisque  Ferland,  and  was  born  at  Berthier-en-Haut,  DecemlKjr  25,  1844.  The  Tellier  family 
came  from  France  about  1789,  its  progenitor  in  this  province  settling  at  Berthier-en-Haut.  Mr. 
Tellier  was  educated  at  Joliette  college ;  began  the  study  of  law  at  Joliette  under  Hon.  Mr. 
Baby,  now  Federal  Minister  of  Inland  Revenue,  and  finished  at  St.  Hyacinthe,  under  Hon. 
Hubert  W.  Chagnon,  now  a  puisne  judge  of  the  superior  court,  and  was  called  to  the  bar  at 
Montreal,  on  the  IGth  of  October,  18G6,  and  since  1873  has  been  in  practice  at  St.  Hyacinthe, 
being  senior  memlier  of  the  firm  of  Tellier,  DeLabruere  and  Beauchemin.    He  has  a  liberal  share 


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of  business  in  both  the  civil  and  criminal  courts,  and  an  honorable  standing  in  the  profession, 
being  a  hai"d  student,  woll-informed  in  law  matters,  and  preparing  his  cases  with  the  greatest 
care  and  credit.  His  opinion  on  legal  points  is  not  given  hurriedly,  but,  once  expressed,  can 
be  relind  on.  Ho  is  very  precise  and  honorable  in  all  his  dealings.  His  law  library  is  one  of 
the  best  of  its  kind  in  the  district  of  St.  Hyacinthe. 

Mr.  Tellier  was  deputy-prothonotiiry  of  the  s)iperior  court  for  this  district,  and  depiity- 
clerk  of  the  circuit  court  for  the  same,  from  1H63  to  1873,  an<l  crown  attorney  for  the  same, 
from  the  last  named  date  until  187H.  He  w»is  first  elected  to  Parliament  in  Septendier,  187H, 
and  is  .serving  his  first  term  in  a  legislative  body.  His  politics  are  Conservative.  Though 
younger  than  a  majority  of  his  political  confreres  in  the  district,  very  few  of  them  have  more 
talent,  prestige  and  influence.  When  elected  to  Parliament  he  drew  more  than  the  full  party 
vote.  '   -■ 

Mr.  Tellier  was  married  in  St.  Hyacinthe,  on  the  2<)th  of  May,  1808,  to  Hermine,  second 
daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  Adolphe  Malhiot,  and  Hermine  Lamotlie,  who  died  on  the  7th  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1878,  leaving  one  son,  Louis  A.  A.,  now  in  his  eleventh  year.  The  family  belong  to  the 
Roman  Catholic  cliui-ch,  and  on  the  24th  of  June,  1880,  Mr.  Tellier  was  a  delegate  to  represent 
St.  Hyacinthe  at  the  gmnd  national  fete  held  in  Queln-c.  - 


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ST.    HILAIRE. 

rriHAT  branch  of  the  Campbell  family  from  which  the  subject  of  this  sketch  sprung  has 
-*-  been  identified  with  the  military  history  of  Canada  for  nearly  a  hundred  and  forty 
ycaiu  In  1744,  Duncan  Campbell,  of  Inverawe,  Scotland,  rai.sed  a  company  of  tlie  Black 
Watch,  or  42nd  Royal  Highlanders,  and  of  the  same  regiment  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
major  in  1755.  That  regiment  was  at  the  battle  of  Ticonderoga,  and  heroically  faced  death, 
and  half  of  its  numbers  met  it  before  the  formidable  French  works.  Among  the  brave  men 
who,  on  the  Briti.sh  side,  fell  in  that  memorable  engagement,  was  Major  (Campbell,  and  his  only 
son,  Donald  Campljell.  The  former  was  the  great  uncle  of  Major  Thomas  Edmund  Campbell, 
father  of  ( Japt.  Edmund  Alexander  Charles  Campbell,  whose  name  heads  this  sketch. 

Major  Campbell,  or  according  to  his  provincial  rank,  Col.  Campbell,  as  we  learn  from  Tay- 
lor's "Sketch  of  British  Americans,"  was  born  in  London,  England,  in  1809,  entered  the  East 
India  Company's  military  academy  at  Addiscombe,  in  1823,  became  ensign  in  the  52nd 
Light  Infantry  in  1825,  and  the  next  year  was  promoted  to  an  unattached  lieutenancy,  and  a 
little  later  to  the  2nd  Dragoon  Guards.     He  finished  his  military  education  at  Sandhurst ;  in 


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1832  was  appuintod  aide-do-cainp  to  Lioiit-Oeneral  CampljoU,  commanding  the  Inland  Distr* 
and  not  long  afterwards  liecame  connected  with  the  7th  Hussars,  and  was  selected  by  L 
Palnierston  to  accompany  Col.  Considino  to  the  VAat  to  assist  in  drilling  the  Sultan's  army,  the 
Turks  lieing  at  war  with  tile  Koords.     On  arriving  in  Asiatic  Turkey,  finding  tlie  war  was 
over,  Major  Camphell  matlc  a  three  months'  trip  to  Russia,  Ijecamo  the  guest  of  the  Czar 
Nicholas,  and  liad  the  pleasure  of  seeing  5(),()()0  troops  encamped  on  the  Steppes.     Reaching 
Constantinople  on  his  return  from  the  north,  and  .starting  for  Egypt  and  Sjria  on  an  emlias.sy 
for  tlie  British  And)assador,  Lord  Ponsonhy,  he  learned  that  his  regiment  had  orders  for  Quebec, 
a  n-liollion  having  broken  out  in  Canada.     He  hastened  home  to  join  the  7th  Hussars,  which 
reached  Quebec  June  4th,  1838.    At  the  .second  outbreak  he  had  conunand  of  the  Indians  at 
Caughnawaga.     In  183!»  he  was  invited  by  Hon,  C.  Poulett  Thomson  (Lord  Sydenham),  Gov- 
ernor-tJeneral,  to  liecome  aide-de-camp  to  his  Excellency,  and  held  that  office  until  he  was 
appointed  military  .secretary,  which  ])ost  he  retained  until  the  Governor-General's  death 
1S41. 

Major  Campb(!ll  now  riyoined  his  regiment,  followed  its  fortunes  back  to  Europe,  and  in 
ISKJ  retired  on  half  pay,  came  to  Canada,  and  .settled  on  his  .seignorial  property  at  St.  Hilaire. 
With  a  good  deal  of  relucUmce  he  served  a  .short  time  as  Lord  Elgin's  Secretary,  resigning  to 
attend  to  the  improvement  of  his  property.  In  1854  he  was  created  by  Her  Majesty  the 
Queen,  a  companion  of  the  civil  order  of  the  bath  ;  the  next  year  was  offered,  but  declined,  the 
appointment  of  adjutant-general  of  militia,  and  in  1858  he  was  elected  to  the  Legislative 
Assembly  for  the  county  of  Rouville,  and  sat  through  that  Parliament.  He  was  at  one  period 
a  nieml)er  of  the  board  of  agriculture,  a  director  of  the  Bank  of  Montreal,  a  member  of  the 
council  of  Bishop's  college,  Lennoxville,  and  a  director  of  the  Grand  Trunk  railway,  and  was  a 
stirring,  public-spirited  man  until  his  demi.se  on  the  5th  of  August,  1872. 

In  1841  he  married  Henrietto  Duchesnay,  daughter  of  Col.  Juchcrcau  Duchesnay,  of 
Quebec,  the  seitjueur  of  Fossambault,  and  deputy  adjutant-general  of  the  militia  of  Lower 
Canada,  and  by  her  he  had  ten  children,  nine  of  them  sons,  of  whom  Capt.  Campbell,  who  suc- 
ceeded to  the  seignory  of  Rouville,  is  the  oldest  living.  He  was  born  in  Brighton,  England,  on 
the  11th  of  October,  1843,  and  wa.s  educated  by  his  father,  with  the  exception  of  one  year 
devoted  to  study  at  Bishop's  college.  In  1803  he  entered  the  military  college  at  Sandhurst,  and 
for  seven  years  was  soldiering  in  different  parts  of  Great  Britain.  In  1870  he  accompanied  his 
regiment,  the  92nd  Gordon  Highlanders  to  India,  where  he  served  for  six  years ;  went  through 
the  steps  of  promotion  from  ensign  to  captain,  and  in  187C  sold  out,  and  returned  to  Canada  to 
take  aire  of  the  property  left  by  his  father,  it  being  quite  extensive.  It  consists  of  about  300 
acres  in  the  home  farm.  Mount  St.  Hilaire,  with  its  hundreds  of  acres  of  pasturage  and  wood-land, 
and  other  pi'operty.  On  his  mountain  property,  three  miles  from  his  residence  and  from  the 
St.  Hilaire  railway  station  of  the  Grand  Trunk  railroad,  he  and  one  of  his  brothers  have  a  large 


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and  elegant  hotel,  calletl  the  Iroquois  House,  a  charming  summer  resort,  where  the  Lieut.- 
fiovernor  of  Quebt>c  spent  a  short  time  in  the  summer  of  1880. 

Capt.  (Jampbell  is  not  only  engaged  in  farming,  but  in  stock  breeding,  Ayrshire  cattle, 
llorkshire  swine,  and  tine  horaes.  He  is  greatly  improving  the  surroundings  of  the  "  Manor 
House,"  whi(!h  his  father  purchased  ami  began  to  remodel  in  1846,  and  which  he  greatly  en- 
larged and  improved  from  time  to  time.  Eventually  the  captain  will  make  it,  with  its  lilac 
fences  and  its  scores  of  other  attractions,  a  paradise  of  rural  charms. 

Since  his  return  to  Canada,  Captain  (,'ampl>ell  has  become  very  much  intercstetl  in  politics, 
being  a  Conservative,  and  working  zealously  during  a  canva-ss  for  the  success  of  his  political 
confreres  who  are  "  up  for  office."  We  believe  the  only  offices  he  himself  holds,  are  those  of 
justice  of  the  peace  and  ma.ster  of  the  Montreal  Fox  Hounds,  the  latter  being  considered  in 
England  a  very  high  position  for  a  gentleman  to  hold.  In  India  Capt.  Campbell  was  a  member 
of  the  Ma.sonic  order,  and  rose  to  the  Royal  Arch.  ' 

In  March,  1874,  he  married  Kllon,  daughter  of  the  late  Francis  M.  Lind,  commissioner  of 
Meerut,  India,  and  they  have  tw  ,  cltildren,  both  sons,  named  Edmund  Archibald  and  Bruce 
Hutchinson. 


STANLKY  CLARK  liAG(J, 

MONTREAL. 


rr^HE  ancient  family  of  Bagg  claims  «lcscent  from  the  Noi-semen  ;  and  the  first  ancestor  of 

-■-      whom  any  authentic  record  is  preserved  cjime  from  the  ice-bound  shores  of  Sweden,  in 

the  time  of  Hardicanute,  al»out  the  your  1()40,  and  settled  in  England,  where  a  branch  of  tho 

t'amil}'  still  exists.         :  '  ' -  .•  . 

The  coat  of  arms  of  the  Bagg  family  of  Plymouth  is  as  follows  :— Shield:  Palt>y  aiul  Bendy 
of  six,  counter-charged  or  and  gu.,  on  a  chef-or,  three  cimpie  foils  az.  Crest:  a  cinque  foil  az., 
between  two  wings  endorsed ;  the  dexter  gu.,  the  other  or.  Tho  motto  "  Ilemembei,"  is  an  ex- 
pression, under  which  mysteries  were  supposed  to  bg  concealed,  it  being  the  la.st  woid  uttered 
by  King  Charles  the  Martyr,  1649. 

Towards  the  end  of  the  last  century,  the  gnindfather  of  the  subject  of  the  present  sketch 
— who  was  connected  with  the  Grosvenoi-s  and  Fortescues  in  England — married  a  daughter  of 
the  house  of  Stanley,  and  came  out  to  America. 

The  late  Stanley  Clark  Bagg,  the  only  son  of  Stanley  Bagg,  and  Mary  Anne  Clark,  was 
bom  in  Montreal,  December  23rd,  1820.  He  received  his  early  education  from  a  clergyman  of 
the  Church  of  England,  and  completed  hLs  studies  at  McGill  college. 


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In  1842,  he  was  ndiiiittod  to  the  notarial  profession,  and  practised  siiccossfiilly  for  some 
years,  but  was  snbse(|ueiitly  induced  to  relinquish  it  in  order  t^>  j(ive  his  personal  supervision  tti 
the  management  of  his  estates,  which  he  had  inherited  from  his  grandfather,  as  well  as  a  free- 
hold property  in  England.  He  was  at  this  time  (after  the  Seigneurs  of  St.  Sulpico),  the  largest 
landed  proprietor  on  the  island  of  Montreal. 

As  early  as  the  Rebellion  of  1887-38  Mr.  Bagg's  ever  thorough  loyalty  to  the  Crown  was 
evinced,  when  ho  voluntoercd  as  an  ensign,  and  was  at  the  battle  of  St,  Eustache:— siibsc- 
quently  rising  in  the  service  to  the  rank  of  captain.  He  was  also  an  honorary  momlHjr  of  the 
Montreal  Field  Battery  of  Artillery,  an<l  of  the  Light  Infantry. 

He  was  appointed  one  of  Her  Majesty's  justices  in  185!),  and  for  a  time  perfonned  judicial 
duties. 

In  January,  180."),  a  large  deputation  consisting  of  seven  representatives  from  each  ward  in 
the  city  waited  on  him  to  solicit  his  acceptance  of  the  jwsition  of  mayor,  which  he  declined. 

In  politics  he  was  a  Conservative,  and  although  refusing  a  seat  in  Pariiami'nt  or  any  politi- 
cal appointment,  he  worked  hard  for  the  sujtport  of  the  party  to  which  ho  belonged. 

The  loeal  proas  was  largely  indebted  to  his  pen,  and  many  of  oiu-  readers  are  acipiainted 
with  his  Numismatic  and  Arclucological  'rreati.ses.  Among  his  writings,  which  have  all  Ikjou 
warndy  noticed  by  the  press  of  England  and  America,  may  be  mentioned,  I.  "Notes  on  Coins." 
i.  "  ( 'oins  and  Niv  dais  as  ,\ids  to  the  Study  and  Veriticatii>n  of  Holy  Writ."  l\.  "  A  Chronologi- 
Cid  Nuniisnuitie  Compendium  of  the  Twelve  Ci>N.i's."  4.  "  Arcluoologia  Americana."  .').  "("an- 
adian  Arehmolngy."     (!.  "Tadousac."     V.  "  Th^  Antiquities  and  Legends  of  Durham." 

Mr.  Bagg  took  a  great  interest  in  the  boiu'volent,  literary,  and  .scientilie  soiieties  of  Mon- 
treal ;  having  l)een  one  of  the  fomiders,  and  first  pii-sident  of  the  "English  Woikingmen's  Bene- 
fit Society,"  which  has  been  of  iiu-aleulable  value  to  the  families  of  hundreds  of  its  members 
who  were  induced  to  join  through  his  instrumentality  and  patronage.  He  was  also  one  of  tiie 
founders  of  Mt  Numismatie  and  Anti<|uarian  Societ}-,  and  its  president:— victi-president  of  the 
Montreal  disj>ensary,  life  governor  of  the  I'lotesUmt  Hous(>  of  Industry  and  Refuge:  ami  a  life 
niembi'r  of  the  following  societies  : — The  British  As-sociation  for  the  Advancement  of  Science, 
(^athedral  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  The  Natural  History  Society,  The  Mechanics'  In- 
stitut«s  The  Numismatic  Societies  of  iiondon  and  Philadelphia,  and  a  corri'sponding  memlR'r  of 
the  State  Historical  Society  of  Wisconsin. 

Owing  to  Mr.  Bagg's  appreciation  of  antit|uities,  his  extensive  travels  through  Europe  were 
particularly  interesting;  and  while  the  grandeur  of  the  scenery  in  Switzerland  appealed  to  his 
love  of  the  pictureNijue,  the  classic  .shades  of  Italy  were  his  delight,  atul  he  lingered  with  live- 
liest enthusiasm  ain<mg  the  ruins  of  Herctdaneum  and  PomiH-ii ;  but  it  was  in  viewing  all  the 
points  of  interest  in  Rome  that  he  found  his  greatest  pleasure.  The  historical  ami  archieological 
associations  which  surround  every  object  of  this  grand  old  city,  whether  it  were  the  catacombs, 


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the  Cohunliaria,  the  Basilicas,  or  tlie  broken  arches  and  stately  pillars  of  tho  Colosseum,  or 
fallen  temples  of  heathen  divinities,  all  kindle<i  in  turn  his  warmest  feeling  of  delight  and 
appreciation,  and  gave  employment  to  his  vigorous  pen. 

Mr.  liagg  was  baptized  in  the  Church  of  England,  and  was  a  staunch  and  devoted  nuunlwr 
of  it  to  the  day  of  his  death. 

He  married  the  eldest  daughter  of  Ilobert  Mitc!io.son,  Ks(|.  (of  Durham,  Kngland),  and 
Frances  MaelSregor  (of  MentiMth,  Scotland),  a  lineal  th'scondant  of  the  ehiefUiins  of  the  clan, 
and  of  the  ancient  kings  of  Scotland,  heirlooms  of  whom  are  still  in  the  p(jsse.ssion  of  the 
family. 

Mr.  Bagg  died  after  a  short  illness,  on  August  the  Nth,  A.D.  1S7.S,  at  his  residence,  "  Fair- 
mount,"  Montreal,  surrouudoa  by  the  mendtei-s  of  his  family,  and  by  clergy  and  friends. 


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AI.PiroNSK  ])KS,)  AUDI  NS,  presi.tent  of  the  .lae.|ues  ( 'artier  bank, of  Montreal,  and  mem- 
ber of  the  Dominion  Parliament  for  ITochelaga,  is  u  memlier  of  a  French  family  that  .si't- 
Med  inC'anada  before  its  cession  to  England  in  17(iO.  I  lis  parents  —ere  E<louar<l  and  dosephiiie 
(Panneton)  Desjardins,and  his  birth  is  dated  May  (i,  bSH.at  Terrebonne,  P.Q.,  when>  his  father, 
wlio  WHS  for  many  years  deputy  slieritl"  of  the  district  of  'iVirebonne,  is  still  living.  Mr.  Des- 
jardins  wivs  educated  at  M.isson  college  ami  the  .seminary  at  Nicolot;  studied  law  lirst  with 
Wilfrid  Provost  and  then  with  Fabn-,  be.sage  and  tb-tte,  Moiitical  ;  was  called  to  the  liar  in 
I.Sd'J,  and  j.ractisetl  his  professicm  iii  Nb)ntreal  until  bS()7,  when  he  abandoned  law  and  took  up 
journalism,  editing  L'Onlir,  with  associates,  up  to  tho  autumn  of  ISTI.nnd  /,<■  Xitiiiraii  Minnie 
from  1872  to  bS7!),  both   iiidepemlent  Conservative  paj)ers.     'riirongh   his  pen,  Mr.  Desjardins 

ilid  an  intluential  work  in  strengthening  his  party,  and  paved  tho  way,  no  iloubt,  to  Parliament- 
ary honors.  . , 

The  ilirections  he  gave  to  the  la.st  paper,  from  the  .seasion  of  1874,  greatly  contrilnited  to 
bring  the  several  sections  of  the  (Conservative  party  into  working  more  harmoniously  together, 
and  to  prepare  public  opinion  for  the  reaction  that  culminated  in  the  i-eturn  of  a  large  Conser- 
vative majority  in  the  rejjre.sentation  from  tlu?  Province  of  (4)uebe('. 

He  is  the  president  of  the  ilacipies  Cartier  bank,  of  which  he  was  previously  a  director  for 
some  years.     He  is  one  of  the  directors  of  Lc  Cicdit  Foncler  du  lias  Cuindlu. 


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\\v  Kaiii  from  the  Parlunnentary  Companion  that  Mr.  Desjardins  made  a  visit  to  Rome 
in  1>7-  .  that  lie  had  an  interview  with  His  Holiness,  and  that  he  was  created  a  Knight  of  the 
Ordii-  .1*  Pius  IX,  on  the  30th  of  June  of  tliat  year.  He  was  one  of  the  leading  men  in  organ- 
iziii-  till'  Caiiadian  zouave  contii./ent,  which  went  to  the  assistance  of  the  Pope  in  1808 ;  and 
aided  in  pujiaring  the  so-called  Programme  Catholique,  published  in  April,  1871,  which  was 
ofl'tivd  til  till'  Conservative  party  "as  a  basis  on  which  the  several  opposing  sections  of  that 
party,  then  I'Ugiiged  in  a  warm  contest,  iilight  agree." 

Ml.  Desjardins  was  first  elected  to  his  present  seat  in  Parliament  by  acclamation  at  the 
utiieral  election  in  1874,  and  was  re-elected  in  1878.  He  is  classed  as  an  independent  Conser- 
\ati\e.  The  principal  subjects  on  which  he  has  spoken  in  the  Hou.';e  of  Commons  are,  the 
Pacific  railway,  he  favoring  a  national  route,  and  on  emigration.  Ho  strongly  endorses  the 
protective  policy  of  the  Government ;  favored  an  amnesty  to  Riel  in  the  celebrated  troubles  of 
1870-'71,  on  the  occasion  of  the  purchase  of  the  North-west  territories  by  Canada;  the  Roman 
Catholic  minority  in  New  Brunswick  on  the  school  (piestion,  and  is  in  favor  of  separate  schools. 

On  the  19th  of  May,  XHiii,  Mr.  Desjardins  married  Virginie,  eldest  daughter  of  Hubert 
Par«^,  Esq.,  dece}v.sed;  she  dying  February  1.'),  1879,  leaving  four  children,  two  having  preceded 
lier ;  has  married  since,  Hortensc,  youngest  daughter  of  Jo.seph  Barsalou,  Esq.,  of  Montreal. 


I'UOF.   DrXCAN    M.   NP'K.XCII  K.\  X,   IM;.(  W.S. 


DUN(  "AN  M.  McEA(  'HK,\N  was  l)on»  in  ( 'anipbeltown,  Argyll  shire,  Scotlaiul,  on  (lie  27tri 
of  October,  1841,  being  the  oldest  .son  of  the  late  David  McF^aehian,  senr.,  liailie  of  that 
town.  He  received  his  earlier  eilucation  in  his  native  pince,  and  at  the  age  of  «i  venteen  entered 
on  his  professional  studies  at  Kilinburgh,  under  the  late  Professor  Dick. 

In  the  autumn  of  18(!2,  became  to  Canada, and  located  at  Woodst<K!k,  Ontario,  where  he 
practiseil  with  considerable  success  for  nearly  three  years,  at  the  same  'ime  being  engagi'd 
during  part  of  each  winter  in  giving  a  course  of  lectures  at  Toronto,  there' ly  rendering  valuable 
assistance  in  the  establishment  of  the  Veterinary  college  in  that  city.  'Juring  his  residence  at 
Woodstock,  he  contributed  in  many  w^ays  to  the  advancement  of  hi:-  profession,  by  lectures 
at  farmers'  meetings,  by  contributions  to  the  agricultural  press,  an'i  by  the  publication  of  a 
manual  of  veterinary  science.  "  The  Canmlian  Horse  and  His  Diseas  s,"  which  was  issued  under 


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the  joint  editorship  of  liimself  and  his  friend,  Prof.  Smith,  of  Toronto,  which  immediately  ran 
through  two  editions,  and  a  third  was  eagerly  called  for,  but  the  author  having  hopes  of  finding 
time  to  write  a  large  work,  has  never  allowed  it  to  be  re-issu».-d. 

In  18CC,  Professor  McEachran  left  Ontario  and  settled  in  Montreal ;  and,  as  we  learn  from 
the  Canadian  lUmtratvd  News  of  June  24,  1S7G,  when  he  left  that  Province,  "  the  Board  of 
Agriculture  for  ITpper  Canada  passed  a  very  complimentary  resolution,  expressing  regret  at  liis 
departure,  and  he  was  entertained  by  a  largo  number  of  his  friends  at  a  public  dinner  in  Wood- 
stock." 

On  his  arrival  in  Montreal,  thanks  to  his  reputation,  which  had  preceded  him,  and  the 
influence  of  his  numerous  friends,  his  success  was  si)eedily  assured.  Through  the  inHuence  of 
tlie  late  Major  Campbell,  president  of  the  Board  of  Agriculture,  aided  by  Principal  J.  W.  Daw- 
son, and  Prof.  G.  W.  C^ampbell,  dean  of  the  medical  faculty  of  McGill  university,  an  airangement 
was  made  for  Mr.  McEachran  t<)  deliver  a  course  of  lectures  on  veteiinary  science  in  connection 
with  the  medical  school,  which  was  the  commencement  of  the  now  widely-known  Montreal 
Veterinary  college.  In  187."),  the  present  connuodious  college  buildings  were  erected  on  Union 
Avenue,  at  the  expen.se  of  the  founder  and  princijial,  the  government  guaranteeing  a  grant 
of  ^I.SOO,  for  ten  years,  with  the  privilege  of  sending  thirteen  French  and  seven  English 
students  annually,  free.  The  school  is  considered  the  first  of  its  kind  in  America,  and  justly 
ranks  high,  even  compared  with  many  European  schools,  owing  to  the  high  appreciation  of  its 
head  for  thorough  education.  It  is  creditable  to  the  school  that  it  was  the  fii-st  in  all  English 
schools  of  its  kind  to  extend  the  coui-se  to  three  sessions  of  six  months  each,  preceding  even  the 
Royal  Veterinary  college  itself  While  the  veteriiuvry  .schools  in  America  admit  pupils  without 
mati  iciilation,  and  guarantee  them  in  two  sessions,  here  a  matricjilation  is  required,  and  the 
course  extends  over  three  sessions. 

The  high  stai\ding  of  the  school  is  shown  from  the  fact  that  Professor  McEachran  has 
associated  with  him  in  teaching  such  n)en  as  Prof  J.  W.  Daw.son,  LL.  1).,  ])nncip'U  of  McGill 
universit}',  and  Professor  Wm.  O^icr,  physiologist  and  [>athol(igical  anatomist  of  the  same 
university. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  professors  and  stdyects  taught  at  the  time  (jf  writing  as  pub- 
lished in  the  annual  aiuiouneement  of  the  college  : — 

Botany  ami  Ztioloij'j.; — J.  W.  Dawson,  LL.D.,  &c.,  Principal  McGill  Univei-sity. 
Chemixt)'}/. — 0.  P.  Girdwood,  M.D.,  Profes.sor  of  Chemistry,  McGill  Univei-sity. 
I nstitufi'n  of  Mi'dicuit',  indinUn;/  Phyniolojif,  llixluli);///,  awl  I'dtholon;/. — William  Osier, 
M.D.,  M.U.('.P.L.,  Professor  of  Institutes  of  Medicine,  McGill  University. 

Vclerinary  Anatomy,  invliuiiity  Practical  Anatomy. — M.  (  .  Baker,  V.S.  •' 

Veterinary  Materia  Mediea. — James  liell,  M.J). 


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Veterinary  Obstetrics  and  Cattle  Pathology. — W.  McEachran,  M.D.V.S, 

Veterinai'y  Medicine  and  Surgery. — D.  McEachran,  F.R.C.V.S. 

ClinicMl  Instructions  and  Pharmacy. — The  Principal  and  Assistants. 

Entozoa  of  Domestic  Animals. — Professor  Osier. 

MicroscoiHC  Demonstrations. — Occasionally  l>y  each  Professor.  Specially  hy  Professora 
Osier  and  McEachran. 

Year  by  year  the  progress  is  marked  l)oth  in  the  number  and  educational  standing  of  the 
pupils,  r^udents  are  attracted  to  this  college  from  all  parts  of  the  United  States  and  Canada. 
Lectures  are  delivered  in  both  French  and  English. 

A  veterinary  medical  association  has  been  established  in  connection  with  the  college  for  the 
reading  of  papers  and  discussion  of  professional  and  collateral  subjects,  and  a  well-furnished 
library,  containing  mast  of  the  old  works,  and  all  the  new  ones  embraced  in  veterinary  litera- 
ture has  been  added  to  the  college,  mainly  through  the  efforts  of  the  principal.  By  valuable 
contributions  to  professional  journals,  aj»ricultural  press  (lieing  one  of  the  editors  of  the  Journal 
of  Agriculture  and  the  Weekly  Witihcss)  as  well  as  by  public  lectures,  he  has  worked  iudefatig- 
nbly  for  the  ailvancement  of  his  profession. 

Ill  1875,  he  urgently  pressed  upon  the  Dominion  Oovernnient  the  necessity  of  a  (piarantine 
system  to  prevent  the  importation  of  cattle  di.seases  from  Europe,  in  which  they  were  prev.ailing 
with  deplorable  results  to  the  agriculturist.  In  April  I87l»,  he  w.xs  appointed  chief  inspector,  and 
organized  the  first  Canadian  cattle  quarantine  in  Canada,  at  Point  Levis.  He  still  holds  the 
position  of  chief  inspector  for  the  Dominion. 

In  January,  187!),  he  was  sent  by  the  Canadian  government  to  the  United  States  to  investi- 
gate the  lung  plague,  pleuro-pneumonia,  visiting  New  York,  Long  Island,  New  Jersey,  Pennsyl- 
vania, Maryland,  Virginia  and  District  of  Columbia.  Professor  McEachran's  report  established 
the  fact  that  the  disease  prevailed  extensively  in  the  above  States,  and  was,  without  doubt,  one  of 
the  links  in  the  chain  of  ciicumstances  which  led  to  the  embargo,  immediately  after,  placed  on 
the  importation  of  cattle  from  the  United  States  into  Great  Britain  and  Canada,  which  requires 
the  slaughtering  of  all  cattle  exported  from  the  United  States,  at  the  port  of  debarkation, 
within  fourteen  days  of  landing,  reduces  the  selling  value  of  each  bullock  twenty  or  thirty 
dollars,  or  a  total  loss  to  the  cattle-raisers  of  the  Jnion  of  S2,.500,Ol)0,  for  the  last  season  alone. 
Canada,  owing  to  her  freedom  from  disease,  and  the  perfection  of  the  (piarantine  system,  has  the 
advantage  of  the  same  sum  per  head,  or  about  !#1,500,()00.  Professor  McEachran  has  rendered 
valuable  assistance  to  the  government  in  this  connection,  by  the  soundness  of  his  advice,  and 
the  faithful  carrying  out  of  the  regulations  liy  himself  and  staff" of  assistants,  and  his  name  will 
ever  he  a.ssociated  with  the  early  history  of  the  export  cattle  trade,  in  the  protection  and  devel- 
opment of  which  he  has  taken  an  active  part. 


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In  recognition  of  his  valuable  services  in  the  advancement  of  his  profession,  the  fellowship 
degree  was  conferred  on  him  by  the  Koyal  College  of  V^eterinary  Surgeons  of  England  in  1877, 
ho  being  the  only  member  of  the  profession  in  Canada  on  whom  the  distinction  has  been  con- 
ferred. 


HON.  EDWAPD   BO  WEN. 

ailERBliOOKE. 

rriHE  late  Chief  Justice  Bowen  had  a  remarkably  rapid  rise,  being  appointed  Attorney- 
-*-  General  of  Lower  Canada  at  twenty-eight  years  of  age,  and  judge  of  the  King's  Bench' 
at  thirty-two.  lie  became  chief  justice  of  the  superior  court  in  1849,  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
nine,  he  being  born  in  1780,  at  Kinsale,  Ireland.  His  father,  who  was  a  surgeon  in  the  King's 
forces,  died  while  in  his  prime,  leaving  the  care  of  our  subject  to  a  faithful  and  tender-hearted 
mother,  who  educated  him  at  the  Drogheda  academy,  Ireland.  In  the  autunui  of  17i)7,  by  invi- 
tation of  a  great  aunt,  Mrs.  Caldwell,  wife  of  Colonel  Henry  Caldwell,  lleceiver-Cleneral  of  Lower 
Canada,  young  Bowen  came  to  the  city  of  Quebec,  and  the  next  year  became  a  law  student 
in  the  office  of  John  Caldwell,  Esi^.  He  finished  his  legal  studies  with  Hon.  Jonathan  Sewell, 
and  was  called  to  the  bar  in  180*3.  While  a  law  student,  Mr.  Bowen  was  appointed  Deputy 
Clerk  of  the  Crown  for  Lower  Canada,  the  clerk  himself,  in  those  days,  residing  in  England  ; 
and  not  long  after  opening  a  law  office,  he  received  a  patent  of  precedence  as  King's  (Jounsel, 
the  first  of  the  kind,  it  is  said,  ever  issued  in  this  province. 

Mr.  Bowen  early  distinguished  himself  as  a  lawyer,  and  as  already  intimated,  was  early 
selected  as  Attorney-General,  his  ai)pointment  >)eing  dated  in  1808.  He  went  on  the  bench. 
May  3rd,  1812,  and  wore  the  ermine  honorably  for  nearly  fifty -four  years,  dying  on  the  11th 
of  April,  186G.  No  man  in  what  is  now  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  ever  held  that  exalted  posi- 
tion for  so  long  a  period,  and  when  death  cau.sed  him  to  vacate  it  he  left  it  without  a  stain,  and 
with  a  shining  name. 

But  the  honors  l)estowed  upon  Judge  Bowen,  were  not  limited  to  tho,se  appertaining  to  the 
Ijench ;  in  1823,  he  was  sumnione<l  to  the  Legislative  (.'ouncil  of  Lower  Canada,  of  which  body  he 
became  Speaker  in  1837.  Four  years  later,  on  the  re-union  of  the  provinces,  he  retired  from 
Parliament  and  political  life,  and  gave  his  entire  time  to  his  judicial  dufies.  We  find  his  name 
among  the  members  of  that  important  court,  which,  in  18.J4,  settled  in  a  peaceful  manner,  tlie 
long-pending  and  vexatious  (juestion  of  the  Seignurial  Tenure. 

In  a  sketch  of  Judge  Bowen,  in  Notman's  "  British  American  Portraits,"  Mr.  Taylor  makes 
mention  of  some  "  pliysical  rough  usage,"  which  the  judge  received  in  the  spring  of  1847,  while 


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on  his  way  to  the  village  of  Deschambault,  to  hold  a  court,  "  the  injury  he  sustained  in  the 
'  judge's  procession '  to  court,  being  not  only  painful  in  itself,  but  in  a  gix'ater  or  less  degree 
attendc<l  with  inconvenient  and  disabling  consequences." 

The  writer  quoted  above,  spoke  of  the  judge  as  follows,  the  year  before  his  demise:  "  In 
his  graceful  old  age,  the  venerable  chief  justice  should,  like  nie,  wearied  with  labor,  have  the 
right  to  fold  his  robes,  and  lay  aside  his  work,  and  in  the  calm  and  rest  of  the  late  eventide, 
which  precedes  the  night  fall  of  life,  should  have  leisure  to  muse  j)eacefully  on  a  career,  sj)ent 
in  the  public  sei-vice,  and  devoted  to  this  public  weal,  governed  by  one  principle  and  signalized 
by  one  object,  the  desire  to  do  justly  and  to  judge  '  according  unto  right.'  " 

In  1807,  C'hief  Justice  Bowcn  married  Eliza,  daughter  of  Dr.  James  Davidson,  surgeon  to 
the  Royal  Canadian  volunteers,  and  on  the  6th  of  October,  1857,  they  held  their  jubilee.  Mra. 
Rowen  was  the  mother  of  eight  sons  and  eight  daughters,  and  died  in  1859.  A  sketch  of  one  of 
the  .sons  follows  thi.s. 


GEORGE   F.   BOWEN, 

SRERBROOKE. 

r^  EORGE  FREDERICK  BOWEN  is  a  son  of  the  late  Chief  Justice  Bowen,  whose  sketch 
^-^  appeals  on  the  preceding  i)age,  and  wa«  Ixjrn  in  the  city  of  Quebec,  on  the  19th  of  March, 
1811.  He  received  a  good  classical  education  in  Quebec  and  Montreal ;  studied  law  in  the  former 
city  with  Robeit  Sewell,  son  of  Chief  Justice  Sewell,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  com- 
menced practice  in  that  city  in  1832,  on  attaining  his  majority.  In  1835,  he  settled  in  Sher- 
brooke,  and  here  continued  his  }uactice  until  1844,  when  he  was  ai>iiointed  sheriff  of  the  district 
of  St.  Francis,  an  office  M'hich  he  has  held  steadily  from  that  date.  He  has  been  sheriff,  prolw,- 
bly,  longer  than  ati;'  oilier  man  in  the  Province  of  Quebec,  and  although  having  rounded  up  the 
■scriptural  ago  of  man,  he  js  a  hale  and  cheery  old  gentleman,  bidding  fair  to  retain  the  shrie- 
valty of  the  district  another  decade  or  more.  His  good  habits,  the  excellent  care  which  he  has 
always  taken  of  himself,  and  his  cordial  good  nature,  will,  no  doubt,  add  to  the  rotundity  of  his 
years,  as  they  have  done  to  his  body.  In  build  and  in  generosity  of  disposition,  he  reminds  tho 
writer  of  Dickens'  picture  of  the  Cheeribles  in  "  Nicholas  Nickleby."  The  world  cannot  be  too 
full  of  that  class  of  people. 

Mr.  Bowen  became  connected  with  the  militia  at  the  age  of  si.xteen  years,  and  was  on  the 
frontier  during  the  rebellion  of  1837-'38.  He  was  also  on  duty  at  the  time  of  the  Fenian  raid, 
having  been  promoted  from  time  to  time,  and  now  holding  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel  of 
volunteer  militia,  a  mnk  previously  held  in  the  sedentary  militia. 


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Colonel  Bowen  was  the  first  mayor  of  Sherbrooke,  being  choeen  in  1852  ;  has  hold  the  offices 
of  commissioner  in  bankruptcy  an<l  chairman  of  quarter  sessions ;  has  been  a  justice  of  the 
peace  for  a  long  poriotl,  and  a  trustee  of  Bishop's  college  since  its  inception.  From  that  insti- 
tution he  received  the  honorary  degree  of  master  of  arts.  Ho  has  held  at  sundry  times  the 
office  of  warden  of  St.  Peter's  Episcopal  church,  and  has  always  lieen  a  liberal  supporter  of 
religious  and  benevolent  institutions. 

Colonel  Bowen  was  married  on  the  Gth  of  July,  1843,  to  Eliza  Jessie,  daughter  of  William 
Wyatt,  merchant,  London,  England,  and  of  six  children,  the  fruit  of  this  union,  four  sons  and  one 
daughter  are  still  living.  Edward  Charles,  the  eldest  son,  of  London,  England,  is  a  railroad 
builder  in  Canada,  and  the  Empire  of  Brazil ;  Francis  Arthur,  of  Chicago,  111.,  is  general  mnnag3r 
for  his  brother's  railroad  in  Brazil;  Frederick  William  Wyatt,  is  in  the  Customs  Department, 
Sherbrooke;  Cecil  Hale,  is  traveling  for  his  health  ;  and  Jessie  Katharine,  is  the  wife  of  William 
J.  Hunt,  contractor,  Sherbrooke. 

Mrs.  Bowen  died  November  9,  18G2,  much  to  the  ref";t  of  tiie  whole  comunity.  Siic  was 
especially  active  as  a  Christian,  and  a  leader  in  every  good  word  and  work. 


]IEV.  WILLIAM  ANDERSOI^^, 

MONTREAL.  ■  ■ 

T^EV.  WILLIAM  ANDERSON,  honorary  canon  of  Christ  Church  cathedral,  Montreal,  is 
-*- •'  a  iiativf  of  this  province,  Iwiug  bum  in  tho  city  of  Qutsbec,  in  January,  ISll.  His 
parents  were  the  late  Jolin  Andei-son,  an  old  respected  citizen  of  the  city,  and  Maiy  Pctiy  ;  his 
father  was  the  younger  brother  of  Anthony  Anderson,  of  Hedley  Lodge,  formerly  M.  P.  P.  for 
Wegantie.  Tho  brothers  wore  of  English  lineage,  belonging  to  the  landed  gentry  in  Northum- 
berland, England,  and  came  to  (^anada  at  the  clo.se  of  the  last  century. 

His  mother  wa.s  of  old  (Jerman  descent,  being  tlio  daughter  of  Frederick  Petry,  of  Niorstein, 
on  the  Rhine,  and  niece  of  Dr.  William  Petry,  who  was  a  surgeon  in  tho  Prus.sian  army,  under 
Frederick  the  Great,  having  principal  charge  of  the  field  Lazaretto,  under  that  monarch,  during 
the  seven  years'  war,  and  who  aftcrwaixls  served  under  General  Herkimer,  of  New  York,  during 
the  American  Revolutionary  War,  dressing  that  general's  wounds  on  the  battle-field.  Honorable 
mention  is  made  of  Dr.  Petry,  during  the  Iwrder  troubles,  in  Stone's  "  Life  of  Brandt,"  Bt)th 
before  and  after  the  Revolution,  he  was  a  prominent  physician  and  surgeon  in  the  Mohawk 
Valley.  The  Honorable  Rolmrt  Earl,  Judge  of  tho  Court  of  Appeals,  and  Samuel  Earl,  Es(|., 
advocate,  of  the  town  of  Herkimer,  are  the  grandsons  of  Doctor  Petry,  through  the  marriage  of 
his  daugliter,  and  the  Ea)l  family  now  occupy,  in  that  beautiful  town,  the  original  Petry  estate, 


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for  which  they  entertain  a  high  regard.  Frederick  Petry  was  a  merchant,  and  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War,  having  espoused  the  royal  cause,  he  came  to  Canada,  settling  and  dying  at  Quebec 
in  1804! ;  one  of  his  sons,  William  Petry,  deceased  not  many  years  ago,  became  a  prominent  and 
prosperous  merchant  in  that  city. 

Our  subject  was  educated  at  the  classical  school  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Wilkio,  Quebec,  and  of  the 
Rev.  E.  Parkin,  first  rector  of  Chanibly;  ho  studied  theology  at  the  Bishop  Stewart  theological 
academy,  Chambly,  with  Bishop  Fuller,  of  Niagara,  and  the  late  Archdeacon  Patton,  of  Ontario, 
among  his  fellow-students,  and  with  the  private  Divinity  Class  of  the  Right  Rev.  Dr.  G.  J. 
Mountain,  then  Archdeacon  of  Quebec.  He  was  ordained  deacon  in  1834,  and  priest  in  1835,  by 
the  Honorable  and  Right  Rev.  Bishop  Stuart,  of  Quebec,  and  after  being  two  years  curate  of 
St.  Peter's  chapel,  Quebec,  became  first  curate,  then  rector  of  Christ  Church,  Sorel,  in  1830,  and 
is  now  the  last  surviving  rector  in  the  Dioceses  of  Quebec  and  Montreal,  who  holds  his  appoint- 
ment direct  from  the  Crown — a  post  which  he  still  retains  at  Sorel.  In  18G5,  he  was  appointed 
honorary  canon  of  Christ  Church  cathedral,  Montreal,  by  the  Right  Rev.  Bishop  Fulford. 

Mr.  Anderson  has  had  a  few  sermons  publi.shed,  but  does  not  seem  to  have  over  been  very 
desirous  of  "  getting  into  print."  He  has  lived  a  quiet,  industrious,  eminently  useful  life,  con- 
tented to  strive  to  serve  the  Master  faithfully,  and  to  await  the  results  in  another  world.  The 
pretty  little  church  of  Sorel ;  the  rectory,  the  endowment  fund,  etc.,  are  all  under  God,  among  the 
results  of  Mr.  Anderson's  labours.  He  has  been  through  life  an  im varying  and  warm  supporter 
of  Protestant  and  Evangelical  truth,  in  all  his  ministration,  .seeking  to  proclaim  Christ  as  all 
sufficient,  and  sufficient  for  all.  Sorel  was,  for  many  years,  the  official  summer  residence  of  the 
Governoi-s-General  and  Conunanders-in-Chief  in  Canada.  And  among  his  hearers  and  ever  his 
warm  friends  througli  life,  Avere  Lieutenant-General  Sir  Jno.  Colborne  (afterwards  Field  Marshal 
Lord  Seaton),  Lieutenant-Generals  Sir  Richard  Jackson,  Sir  Benjamin  D.  Urban,  and  Sir  William 
Eyre,  officers  of  European  fame,  and  of  high  Christian  character. 

In  1840,  Mr.  Anderson  was  joined  in  wedlock  with  Miss  >>.nnie  Champion  Hen.shaw,  youngest 
daughter  of  the  late  John  L.  Henshaw,  Esq.,  of  Montreal,  and  a  member  of  one  of  the  most 
prominent  families  in  New  England,  and  they  have  buried  three  or  four  children  and  have  five 
living ;  three  sons  and  two  daughtei-s.  His  eldest  surviving  son,  William  J.  Anderson,  is  manager 
of  the  Montreal  Bank  at  Broekville,  Ontario  ;  Montague  A.  Anderson,  is  manager  of  the  Union 
Bank  at  Ottawa ;  and  the  youngest  son,  Charles  Henshaw  Andei-son,  is  in  a  mercantile  house, 
Montreal.  Alice  is  the  wife  of  ex-Alderman  N.  Mercer,  of  Montreal,  and  Constance  is  at  home. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Anderson  met  with  a  very  severe  loss  in  the  fall  of  1878,  in  the  death  of  a  grown- 
up son  and  daughter,  Iwth  of  typhoid  fever,  within  a  day  of  each  other,  their  names  being  Helen 
and  Ernest  F.  Anderson,  the  latter  a  fine  business  young  man,  in  the  office  of  the  Giand  Trunk 
Railway.  Both  were  young  pei-sons  of  much  promise,  on  whom  their  parents  had  built  many 
hopes ;  but  young  as  they  were,  tliey  were  prepared  by  their  unwavering  trust  in  the  Lord 


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Jesus  Christ,  for  their  sudden  summons  to  "  conio  houie,"  and  this  is  the  great  consolation  to 
their  bereaved  family.  Their  first  born  son,  Dr.  J.  Colbourne  Anderson,  a  graduate  of  McQill 
college,  and  a  young  man  of  sterling  merits  and  high  promise,  died  in  187'4.  From  failing  health, 
Mr.  Anderson  resides,  at  present,  chiefly  in  Montreal,  visiting  frequently,  however,  his  old  parish 
and,  as  occasion  reciuircs,  constantly  promoting  its  interests,  and  supervising  its  atiairs. 


RAPIIxVEL  BELLEMARE,  .    ■ 

■  '  MONTREAL. 

~r)APHAEL  BELLEMARE,  district  inspector  for  the  revenue  district  of  Montreal,  is  des- 
-*-  ^  cendeil  from  a  family  which  came  from  France  to  Canaila  about  l(JoO,  liis  father  being 
Paul  Bellemare,  a  farmer  at  Yamachiche,  where  Raphael  was  born  on  the  22nd  Febmary,  1S21. 
His  mother's  name  was  Marguerite  Giilinns,  who  also  sprang  from  the  same  old  French  Canadian 
family.     Botii  parents  are  now  dead. 

That  family  does  not  descend  from  any  of  the  families  existing  in  France  under  the  name 
of  Bellemare.  Its  ancestors  came  to  Canada  from  La  Saintonge,  native  province  if  Samuel  do 
Cliamplain,  the  founder  of  this  colony,  and  were  settled  at  Three  Rivers  when  the  first  census 
was  taken  in  IGGl,  under  tlit^  name  of  G(?linas. 

Joan  (lelinas,  .son  of  P]tiennc,  and  a  native  of  Saintes,  was  juarried  to  Friin(;()i.se  de  Cluir- 
menil.  From  that  marriage  twelve  children  were  born  at  Three  Rivers.  According  to  a  usage 
of  that  time,  when  tlie  families  were  ,so  numerous,  Mr.  Jean  Gdlinas  gave  suvnameg  to  two  of 
his  sons,  calling  one  J.  B.  U<!linas  dit  Bellemare,  and  another  P.  ( i(;linas  d'tt  Lacourse.  These 
twii,  with  their  brother  Etienne  Gdlinas,  were  the  tirst  three  settlers  of  the  now  flourishing  parish 
of  Ste  Anne  d'Yamachiche. 

The  subject  of  this  notice,  Mr.  R.  Bellemare,  is  a  ilirect  descendant  on  both  sides  from — 
Joan  Gdlinas  and  Fran(;oi.se  do  Channenil — 


ON    PATERNAL   SIDE—  ON    MATKUNAf.   SIDK— 

From  J.  B.  GtOinasi/iV  Hellemare&Jeaniie  Bissiimneau  From  Etioniie  Golinas  it  Maigueritu  Henoit. 

[dit  St.  Onge.  "     I'ierre  Oo'linas  iV  Marie  IVnvttical  Cliarboniioail. 

"     J.  \^.  Bulloiiiare  &  Marie  Fraiivi'ise  Desaiiliiiers.  "     J.  B.  Gt'liiia.s  iV  Mario  Losioiir  Desaiiliiiers. 

"    Jciseph  Belleinare  &  Mnrguerito  LeMaiic.  ''     Josoph   (ieliiiaa   &   Marie    Lacerte,   father   and 

"     Paul  liellemare  it  Marguerite  Uoliiias,  iiis  father  mother  of  Marguerite  Gehiiivs. 

anil  mother. 

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These  two  branches  of  the  .same  family  are  still  mostly  in  possession  of  the  farms  first  cul- 
tivated by  their  fathers,  and  they  have  enlarged  their  sphere  in  a  \'ory  remarkable  progression 
in  their  district  and  over  the  whole  Province  of  Quebec. 

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college  of  Nicolet  to  follow  a  course  of  clnAsical  studieH.  Ho  was  afterwards  professor  of  belles 
lettres  in  that  renowned  institution,  from  1845  to  1847.  Having  decided  to  study  the  law,  he 
went  to  Montreal  in  August  of  the  latter  year,  and  made  arrangements  to  follow  his  couine 
with  the  late  P.  R.  Lafrenaye,  Q.C.,  and  transferred  the  same  afterwards  to  the  office  of  Judge 
Coursol. 

At  the  same  time  (18-t7),  Mr.  Bellomare  was  intrusted  hy  Mr.  Duvernay,  proprietor  of  La 
Minerve,  with  the  editorial  department  of  that  newspaper,  as  successor  to  Mr.  Gdrin  Ijajoie,  his 
most  intimate  friend.  He  remained  connected  with  that  journal,  which  was  the  principal  organ 
of  the  Reform  party  (or  Lafontainc-Morin  party),  as  chief  editor,  up  to  February,  1835,  when 
ho  retired  from  the  editorial  chair,  three  yeara  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Duvernay. 

During  that  period  of  his  life  he  displayed  a  great  amount  of  energy  and  industry.  Several 
questions  of  great  interest  for  Iiower  Canada  were  then  agitated.  The  Union  of  the  Provinces 
had  l)een  imposed  against  the  will  and  protest  of  the  Frencli  popidation.  They  had,  however, 
accepted  the  new  form  of  government,  and  were  then  struggling  to  secure  for  Canada  the  full 
concession  of  responsible  government,  in  opposition  to  the  policy  inaugurated  by  Lord  Metcalf 
in  1842,  which  was  supported  by  the  Vigev-Draper  administration.  The  victory  having  l)een 
won,  the  Lafontaine-Baldwin  administration  was  formed  in  1848.  The  Relnjllion  losses  indem- 
nity Act  created  the  following  year  a  very  hot  agitation  in  the  country,  and  the  pr<!ss  had  a 
hard  task  to  perform.  The  sanction  of  the  Act  by  Lord  Elgin  was  followed  by  the  destruction 
of  the  piirliamentary  library  by  a  mob,  and  the  city  was  kept  in  a  state  of  terrorism  for  three 
days. 

After  that  lamentable  excitement,  Toronto  and  Quebec  unittsd  their  influence  to  depriv(> 
Montreal  of  the  seat  of  government,  on  the  condition  that  the  public  oHiees  would  !»•  icmoved 
every  four  years  from  Quebec  to  Toronto  or  Toronto  to  Quebec,  which  was  called  the  j)€ramhu- 
lating  system.  The  system  of  public  education  was  then  on  trial,  and  the  press  had  to  su|)port 
the  public  men  charged  to  enfoice  it.  La  Minerve  was  always  foreniost  in  the  exeenlinn  of 
that  duty.  The  parliamentary  reform  was  also  discussed  and  executed  at  that 
al)olition  of  the  "  Federal  Regime  "  was  one  of  the  mo.st  important  questioi:    ^i  1 1  ^  ^,„ 

period. 

Mr.  Papineau,  lately  returned  from  France,  having  succeeded  in  foii.  i^r  a  smnli  party  of 
young  French  Canadian  liberals,  in  opposition  to  the  Reform  Government  of  Jiafoi  '(ine-Rald- 
win,  three  French  newspapers,  L'Avcnir,  Le  Monitcur,  and  Le  Pays,  were  successively  started 
at  Montreal  against  La  Minerve.  Mr.  Bellemarc  was  very  often  the  object  of  their  animosity 
and  pei-sonal  attack,  but  his  cool  temper  never  failed  him  ;  he  was  equal  to  the  task.  His  per- 
sonal character,  his  ability  and  general  reputation,  did  not  suffer  any  damage  from  the  abuses 
hurled  at  him  (it  is  the  fate  of  all  political  writers),  and  the  position  of  La  Minerve  was  as  gooil 
as  ever  when  he  left  it  in  18-55.  .  ,        - 


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Mr.  fiellemare  was  a  stiong  supfwrter  of  the  authority  and  doctrines  of  hiH  Church,  and 
consequently  in  favour  of  religious  education  in  the  schools.  The  Liberal  papers,  on  the  contrary, 
were  advocating  independence  from  the  teachings  of  the  Church,  urging  the  almlition  of  tithes, 
granted  by  law  to  the  clergy,  demanding  that  no  religion  be  taught  in  the  schools,  and  generally 
that  the  rights  of  the  priests  Ihj  limited  to  the  inside  of  their  churches.  Above  all,  these  papei-s 
were  openly  and  continually  agitating  for  the  annexation  of  Canaila  to  the  United  States.  Mr. 
Belleniare,  or  La  Mdutvc,  had  to  resist  all  that  sort  of  libenilism,  and  to  guard  the  people 
against  giving  any  assent  to  such  newly-imported  idealism.  He  upheld  the  Conservative  prin- 
ciples so  effectively  that  the  Liberal  programme  hatl  to  be  modified  on  the  above  questions,  and 
the  Liberal  papers  started  to  disappear  one  after  the  other,  whilst  the  influence  of  the  Minervc 
was  increasing. 

In  May,  18.').'>,  Mr.  Belleniare  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  but  he  tuner  practised,  having  been 
appointed  on  the  5th  June  of  the  same  year,  revenue  inspector  for  the  1st  division  of  the  district 
of  Montreal.  Tt  was  the  title  then  given  to  the  oflieem  doing  the  business  now  performed  by 
the  collectors  of  inland  revenue. 

After  the  Confederation  of  the  Provinces,  Mr.  Bellemare  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  district 
inspector  for  the  revenue  district  of  Montreal,  which  position  he  still  occupies.  This  district 
comprises  half  of  the  Province  of  Quebec,  or  eleven  judicial  districts,  over  which  the  inspector 
has  the  supervision,  with  regard  to  all  revenue  matters.  He  has  unquestionably  filled  his  func- 
tions, which  is  the  highest  in  his  district,  with  a  good  deal  of  tact  and  judgment,  as  no  complaint 
of  any  kind  has  ever  been  heard  against  him  during  twenty-five  years  of  official  life. 

Mr.  Bellemare  was  always  held  in  high  estimation  by  all  the  public  men  of  his  time,  and  he 
was  particularly  honored  with  the  friendship  of  the  late  Commandeur  Jacques  Vigor,  first 
mayor  of  Montreal,  the  celebrated  antiquarian  of  that  city,  and  was,  with  him,  one  of  the 
foundei-s  of  the  Socit'te  Jlistorvjuc  de  Montreal,  conjointly  with  Mr.  I'Abbd  Veneau,  the  late 
Judge  Beaudry,  the  Honorable  G.  Baby,  and  Major  Latour.  Mr.  Viger  was  elected  1st  presi- 
dent of  that  society  in  1857.  After  his  death,  which  occurred  in  ISo.S,  Mr.  I'Abbd  Verreau  was 
chosen  to  succeed  him,  and  Mr.  Bellemare  was  elected  vice-president.  He  is  now  the  principal 
secretary  of  that  useful  society  to  which  he  has  given  interesting  contributions.  He  possesses 
one  of  the  best  private  libraries  of  Montreal,  containing  a  most  rare  collection  of  books  and 
documents  on  the  early  lustory  of  the  country.  ,  .     t  ..  i 

He  has  received  a  diploma  as  corresponding  member  of  La  Society  des  AntiquaircH  de 
Normandie  (France),  and  another  as  corresponding  member  of  the  Historical  Society  of 
Wisconsin.  ».    ,  ' 

In  1850  Mr.  Bellemare  was  elected  an  alderman  of  the  city  of  Montreal,  representing  the  St. 
Lewis  ward  in  the  city  council,  and  held  that  office  for  six  years  in  succession.  When  he 
retired  in  18C5,  on  account  of  increased  business  in  the  revenue  department,  he  was  honored 


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with  a  vote  of  thanks  by  the  city  council,  in  recognition  of  his  valuable  services,  which  was 
presented  him  printed  in  gold  letters  on  an  ornamented  card. 

He  has  always  shown  a  great  attachment  and  regard  for  all  the  institutions  and  men  with 
which  lie  had  any  relation.  Jn  1806,  Judge  Loranger,  and  Mr.  Rivard,  now  mayor  of  Montreal, 
suggested  to  him  the  idea  of  calling  a  great  gathering  of  the  clergymen  and  gentlemen  of  all 
professions,  who  had  followed  their  course  of  study  at  Nicolet,  with  a  view  to  p.ay  a  visit  one 
day  to  their  Alma  Mater,  and  requested  him  to  act  as  secretary.  He  undertook  the  task  con- 
jointly with  Mr.  Rivard.  It  required  a  very  extensive  correspondence,  and  he  carried  it  out 
most  successfully.  Tlie  great  gathering  took  place  at  Nicolet,  on  the  Queen's  birthday,  24th  of 
May,  186G,  and  w^as  considered  the  most  brilliant  demonstration  of  that  kind  in  this  country — 
an  archbishop,  sevenil  bishops,  a  very  numerous  clergy,  several  judges,  eminent  public  men, 
lawyers,  notaries,  etc.,  of  all  ages  and  of  all  positions,  having  answered  the  call  with  enthusia.sni. 
It  was  acknowledged  that  much  of  the  success  -was  due  to  Mr.  Bellemare's  intelligent  exertion. 

He  was  one  of  the  gentlemen  composing  the  committee  that  so  successfully  organized 
detachments  of  Canadian  Zouaves  and  forwarded  them  to  Rome  to  contribute  Lo  the  defence  of 
the  Pontifical  States  in  1807  and  1808. 

In  1848  he  was  elected  secretary  of  the  St.  Jean  Baptiste  Sciiety,  and  was  re-elected  every 
year  up  to  1872,  when  he  remitted  the  archives  to  younger  hands.  He  was  one  of  the  most 
active  and  inHuential  members  who  succeeded  to  keep  up  that  society  aftei"  the  death  of  Mr. 
Duvernay,  its  founder. 

Mr.  Bellemnre  is  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church,  and  is  one  of  the  board  of  the 
Fabrique  of  Notre  Dame,  at  Montreal,  which  is  an  institution  of  very  great  importance,  having 
the  administration  of  the  temporalities  of  the  church.  He  is  also  one  of  the  directors  of  the 
Montreal  City  and  District  Savings  Bunk. 

As  old  journalists  generally  do,  Mr.  Bellemare  has  taken  an  Interest  in  public  matters  with- 
out interfering,  however,  ostensibly  in  any  party  demonstration,  knowing  perfectly  well  that  a 
public  orticer  .should  avoid  such  an  exhibition  of  party  spirit,  Hosvever,  since  his  retinnnent 
from  political  journalism,  he  is  known  to  have  been  a  considerai)le  contributor  to  the  press  on 
dirt'erent  matters,  and  under  different  novis  de  itlame. 

He  is  now,  and  has  been  for  twenty  years,  president  of  tho  St.  Vincent  <le  Paul  Society,  an 
eminently  useful  charitable  institution,  which  numbers  over  l,(iOO  members  at  Montreal,  and  is 
subdivided  into  sixteen  conferences,  having  each  a  determined  circumscription,  in  such  a  way 
that  the  poor  can  Ik)  visited  and  attended  to  all  over  the  city,  by  some  of  its  nu'ndiers,  at  a 
moment's  notice.  It  is  a  branch  of  n  similar  society  first  estabiished  in  Paiis,  France,  where 
there  is  a  general  council,  with  which  the  Canadian  Society  is  in  regular  communication. 

In  1849  he  marrietl  Miss  Anastasie  (ieotlrion,  daiighter  of  llomain  lleoHVion  d'd  St.  Jean,  of 
Boucherville,  and  she  lias  had  five  children,  only  three  of  them,  two  daughters  and  one  son,  now 


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living.  Maihikle,  the  elder  daughter,  is  the  wife  of  D.  L.  Desaulniei-s,  advocate,  and  Josephine, 
the  youngest,  is  married  to  P.  A.  Jodoin,  founder  and  merchant,  also  of  this  city,  and  Hercules, 
who  is  rather  sickly,  lives  at  home. 

His  eldest  son,  Alphon.se,  who  was  a  very  promising  young  man,  died  some  years  ago  at  the 
age  of  22.  After  having  followed  a  brilliant  course  of  classical  study  at  the  Jesuits'  college  at 
Montreal,  he  had  successfully  gone  through  the  whole  course  of  legal  training  in  the  Victoria 
university,  Montreal  branch.  He  had  already  given  proof  of  good  literary  talents  by  many 
contributions  to  tlie  daily  press  and  literary  periodicals. 

Although  a  government  official,  and  rarely  absent  from  his  post  of  duty  in  business  hour.-!, 
and  rather  retiring  in  his  disposition,  Mr.  Bellemare  is  also  attentive  to  his  duties  in  connection 
with  religious  and  iKjnevolent  organizations,  and  does  a  great  deal  of  good  in  a  very  quiet  way. 
Such  men  are  missed  when  they  leave  this  world.  '  ' 


LIEUT.-COT..  JOSKPIl  (J.  IJL.V^CIIET,  M.l),  M.  P., 

LEVIS. 

JOSEPH  (JODERIC  BLANCHET,  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons,  is  a  de.scen.lant  of 
one  of  the  first  families  that  came  to  La  Noiivelle  France,  and  is  a  .son  of  Louis  Blanehet 
of  St.  Pierre,  Riviere  du  Sud,  and  Margaret  nee  Fontaine,  her  family  being  from  Pieardy, 
France. 

Our  subject  wa»s  bom  at  St.  Pierre,  on  the  7th  of  June,  1829;  educated  in  the  arts  at  the 
Quebec  .seminarj-  and  at  the  Ste.  Anne  college ;  studied  medicine  at  Quebec  with  his  uncle, 
Jean  Baptiste  Blanehet,  M.  1).,  and  since  1X.')2  ha.s  been  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  at 
Ldvis,  having  an  extensive  business,  and  standing  liigb  in  the  me<licai  fraternity. 

Dr.  Blanehet  has  long  lieen  connected  with  the  militia  of  tlie  Provinoe  of  Quebec,  ami  in 
l86Ji  raised  tlie  17th  battalion  of  volunteer  infantry,  which  he  still  coniinands,  holding  the  rank 
(if  lieut-colonel.  He  commanded  the  3rd  administrative  Ijattalion  on  the  frontier  during  the 
St.  Alban's  raid,  in  18(55,  and  the  active  militia  force  on  the  south  shore  of  the  St.  Lawrence 
river,  in  the  Quebec  district,  during  the  Fenian  Raid  of  the  next  year,  and  also  in  1870. 

Dr.  Blanehef  has  long  been  a  prominent  citizen  of  tlie  town  of  Li-vis,  and  was  its  mayor 
for  six  years.  He  was  elected  president  of  the  Ceirlr  de  Qii/'hec  in  1871,  president  of  the  Ldvis 
and  Keiiiieliei  Railway  in  1872,  and  was  appointfd  a  iiioinlier  of  the  ( 'ntholic  section  of  the 
council  of  public  instruction  for  the  Province  in  1H7H.  Tlioiigh  usually  a  very  busy  man  in  his 
profession.  Dr.  Blanehet  has  for  more  than  twenty  years,  given  a  portion  of  his  leisure  time  to 
the  study  of  politics,  a  science  in  which  he  cviilently  takes  much  interest.     As  early  as  1837 


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he  was  a  candidate  for  L^vis  in  the  Canadian  Assembly,  but  was  unsuccessful.  Four  years 
later  he  wiw  again  a  candidate  for  the  same  constituency,  and  succeeded,  and  sat  from  1861 
until  tlie  Confederation,  18C7,  when  he  was  returned  by  acclamation  to  the  House  of  Commons. 
Tlie/e,  as  we  learn  from  the  "  Parliamentary  Companion,"  he  continued  to  sit  untii  1874,  being 
meanwhile  speaker  of  the  House  of  Assembly  of  the  Province  of  Quebec  from  the  meeting  of 
the  first  parliament  after  tne  Confederation,  until  the  dissolution  of  the  second  parliament  in 
1875.  The  year  before  this  latter  date,  in  consequence  of  the  Act  respecting  dual  representa- 
tion, our  Hu'itject  resigned  his  seat  in  the  House  of  Commons  in  order  to  continue  to  hold  one  in 
the  Provincial  Assembly,  which  he  did,  representing  L^vis  until  the  general  election  in  1875, 
when  he  was  defeated.  In  November  of  that  year  he  was  elected  for  Bellechaase,  to  fill  the 
vacancy  caused  by  the  elevation  of  the  sitting  member,  now  Hon.  Justice  Fournier,  to  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  Dominion ;  and  in  September,  1878,  he  was  once  more  returned  for 
L<?vi.s. 

VVIiiio  Dr.  Blanchet  was  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Assembly  of  his  native  province,  he 
developed  fine  tfilents  in  that  capacity,  making  an  admirable  presiding  officer  ;  and  sometime 
before  the  fourth  parliament  had  met,  his  name  was  mentioned  prominently  in  connection  with 
the  si)eakershij>,  he  being  a  Conservative  and  that  party  again  in  power.  When  the  House  of 
Commons  was  organized,  on  the  13th  of  February,  1879,  with  great  unanimity  of  feeling,  and 
an  outburst  of  enthusiasm,  he  was  elevated  to  that  office ;  and  it  was  a  wise  selection,  for 
Speaker  Blanchet  is  not  only  a  thorough  adept  in  parliamentary  rules  and  tactics,  but  is  prompt 
and  impartial,  and  hence  possesses  the  good  will  and  highest  respect  of  all  paitics. 

In  August,  1850,  Speaker  Blanchet  married  Emilie,  daughter  of  Mr.  G.  D.  Balzaretti,  of 
Milan,  Itfdy,  and  they  have  two  children  living,  and  have  lost  four,  three  of  them  in  early 
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MttNTHEAL. 

TWENTY-FIVE  j-ears  ago,  a  young  man  who  had  barely  entered  upon  his  twentieth  year, 
but  whose  strong  common  sense,  prepossessing  manners,  remarkable  quickness  of  appre- 
hension, and  facility  of  expression,  rising  uj)on  occasions  to  manly  eloquence,  niarkeil  him  as  a 
youtli  of  no  ordinary  talent,  was  singletl  out  by  his  fellow  citizens  of  '-'t.  Mary's  war<l,  tlie 
most  pdp'ilous  and  intluciitial  eastern  subuib  of  Montreal,  and  invited  to  become  their  repre- 
scntativi;  in  the  city  conncii.  Acceding  to  this  Hattering  invitation,  Joseph  Duliamcl,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch,  came  forwanl,  and  was  elected  over  the  heads  of  aspirants  of  greater  age  and 
experience,  as  the  representative  of  St.  Mary's  wai'd. 


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An  aldennan  at  nineteen,  Mr.  Duhamel  had  already  served  two  years  in  the  city  council 
before  he  attained  his  majority,  an  example  of  popular  favor  up  to  that  time  unknown  in  the 
history  of  municipal  government  in  Montreal.  In  those  days  the  question  of  representation, 
according  to  nationality  in  the  city  council,  was  more  prominent  than  it  is  now,  the  exigencies 
of  the  case  seeming  to  demand  the  very  best  talent  that  it  was  possible  to  secure.  In  this  point 
of  view  it  will  be  admitted  that  the  responsibilities  which  devolved  upon  one  so  youthful  and 
inexperienced,  were  of  no  ordinary  character ;  and  it  is,  perhaps,  the  highest  compliment  that 
can  be  paid  to  the  subject  of  this  brief  notice  to  say — and  those  who  are  acquainted  with  the 
facts  will  admit  the  t;  i»th  of  the  observation — that  Mr.  Duhamel  did  not  disappoint  the  san- 
guine anticipations  of  those  who  had  thus  brought  him  forward.  Indeed,  so  thoroughly  satis- 
fied were  they  with  their  choice,  that  when  the  term  for  which  he  had  been  elected  liad  ex- 
pired, his  constituents  strongly  urged  him  to  present  himself  again,  but  he  declined  on  account 
of  professional  duties.  Some  years  afterwards,  yielding  to  the  pressure  of  some  of  his  friends, 
leatiing  merchants,  lawyers,  etc.,  of  the  East  ward,  Mr.  Duhamel  was  re-elected  for  three  years 
more  their  representjvtive,  during  which  time  he  devoted  himself  with  much  zeal  and  assiduity 
to  the  interests  of  his  constituency. 

Joseph  Duhamel  was  born  in  the  city  of  Montreal,  on  the  20th  January,  183G,  a  stirring 
period  in  the  history  of  Lower  Canada.  Ilis  parents  were  Joseph  Duhamel,  Sr.,  merchant,  and 
Doniethilda  Mousset.  At  the  age  of  seven,  our  subject  entered  the  preparatory  department  of 
the  college  of  Ste.  Tlierese.  Subsecpiently  he  followed  an  Art  coui-se  at  St.  llyacinthc,  and 
finally  passed  with  honors  through  the  Jesuits'  college  at  Montreal.  Having  selected  law  as 
the  profe.s.siori  to  which  his  tastes  inclined  him  to  devote  him.self,  he  entered  the  ofHce  of  Messrs. 
liadgley  and  Abbott,  a  firm  of  eminence,  where  he  pas,sed  the  tern,  of  his  legal  study.  Upon  his 
admission  to  practice,  on  the  7th  April,  1<S.")7,  he  at  once  became  a.ssociated  in  partm-rship  with 
the  late  Mr.  (iyrille  ArchambauU,  a  gentleman  very  popular  in  the  profession,  who  came  to  an 
untimely  end  by  the  explosion  of  the  boiler  of  the  steamer  Ht.  John.  Some  years  afterwards, 
Mr.  Duhamel  entered  into  partnership  witli  Mr.  Oustave  Drolet,  now  retired  fiom  the  piaetice 
of  his  profession,  and  a  Chevalier  of  the  Legion  of  Honor.  Afterwards  ho  became  the  head  of 
tl»e  firm  of  Duhamel,  Rainville,  Uinfret  and  llainville,  which  was  later,  on  account  of  one  of  tlie 
firm  having  ai'cepted  a  superior  court  judgeship,  changed  to  its  present  name  of  "  Duhamel, 
and  Rainville,"  a  firm  which  ha-s  been  engagei'  in  many  <«'  the  most  important  cases  before  the 
Courts,  and  which  also  enjoys  one  of  the  largi!st  consultation  practices  in  the  city  of  Montreal. 
He  was  appointed  Queen's  Counsel  in  June,  1S78. 

Throughout  his  career  Mr.  Duhamel  has  enjoyed  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  classes  of 
his  fellow  citizens,  and  outside  of  his  own  social  and  professional  circle  is  highly  respected  by 
all  whose  opinion  is  n\ost  worthy  of  regard.  He  is  always  ready  to  defend  and  uphold  what  he 
lR>lieve8  to  be  right.     His  jtolitiail  proclivities  have  ever  Ihh'u  Lil)eral,  and  to  his  a.ssistance, 


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both  by  his  pen  and  as  a  speaker  on  the  public  platform,  the  Liberal  party  of  the  Province  have 
been  under  very  considerable  obligations,  and  as  a  mark  of  respect,  as  well  as  an  acknowledg- 
ment of  his  well  known  talents  and  faithfulness  to  his  political  party,  at  a  general  convention 
of  the  Liberal  party  of  the  Province  of  Quebec  which  was  held  at  Montreal,  on  the  28th  of 
April,  1881,  Mr.  Joseph  Duhamel  was  unanimously  elected  president  of  "  The  Reform  Associa 
tion."  '  'i^  ' 

Mr.  Duhamel  has  been  repeatedly  solicited  to  become  a  candidate  for  legislative  honors, 
but  has  always  preferred  to  devote  himself  to  the  law,  a  career  in  which  his  energy  and  ability 
have  l)een  crowned  by  the  highest  success.  It  is  not  unreasonable  to  suppose  that  the  sterling 
qualities  which  have  enabled  Mr.  Duhamel  to  acquit  himself  so  well  in  all  the  duties  that  he 
has  undertaken  in  the  past,  will  win  success  in  a  still  more  extensive  field  of  action,  and  should 
he  uitiniatel}'  consent  to  enter  the  political  arena  he  will,  no  doubt,  attain  the  eminence  which 
his  conspicuous  ability  seems  to  mark  out  for  him.  If,  however,  he  should  still  prefer  to  devote 
himself  exclusively  to  the  law.  as  he  has  done  in  the  past,  his  great  experittnce,  research  and 
eminently  judicial  cjualitios  entitle  him  to  look  forward  with  confidence  to  one  of  the  most  dis- 
tingiiished  positions  in  the  profession. 

Mr.  Duhamel  was  married  in  1859  to  Miss  Aiphonsine  Masson,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Mr. 
Damu«e  Masson,  who  was  formerly  one  of  the  most  eminent  merchants  of  the  city  of  Montreal, 


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HON.  CHRISTOPUEU  DUiN^AN,  M.A.,  D.C.L., 

KNOWLTON.] 

i^HRlSTOPHER  DUN  KIN,  a  Privy  Councillor  for  Canada,  and  one  of  the  judges  of  the 
^^  superior  court  of  tlie  Province  of  Quebec,  was  boin  at  Walworth,  near  London,  England, 
on  the  2.jth  of  September,  1812  ;  his  parents  being  Summerhays  and  Martha  (Heunuing)  Dunkin. 
He  received  his  early  education  at  a  private  boarding  school  in  England ;  attended  for  two  years 
at  what  is  now  Univei-sity  College,  London  (then  known  as  the  Univei-sity  of  London) ;  ono 
year  (1830-31)  the  logic  class  at  the  Glasgow  University,  with  Rev.  Dr.  Wilkes,  now  of  Montreal, 
as  a  fellow  student;  and  in  the  summer  of  1831,  his  father  being  dead  and  his  mother  having 
married  again,  and  lx;ing  resident  in  New  England,  he  followed  her,  and  entered  the  junior  class 
in  Harvard  University,  Cambridge,  Mass.  Shortly  aftei-wards  his  health  being  somewhat 
impaired,  he  severed  his  student  connection  with  that  institution. 

In  1833,  when  the  class  which  he  had  joined  was  about  to  graduate,  he  wa.*  offered  the 
position  of  instructor  in  Greek  and  aceepte  1  it.  At  the  end  of  one  year  he  received  the  honorary 
degree  of  Bacliclor  of  Arts  from  that  Univei-sity,  and  the  next  year  beca,me  tutor  there  in  Greek. 


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In  18M,  he  resigned  the  tutorship,  married  a  daughter  of  his  step-father,  the  late  Dr.  Jonathan 
Barber,  who  had  been  for  some  years  a  teacher  in  the  same  university ;  and  spent  some  time  in 
travelling  in  the  State  of  New  York,  and  sojourning  in  New  York  city. 

In  the  spring  of  1837,  our  subject  visited  Canada ;  settled  in  Montreal ;  edited  the  Moiiiing 
Vourier,  about  fifteen  months,  and  in  the  summer  of  1838,  ww*  offered  by  the  Governor-General, 
Lord  Durham,  the  post  of  secretary  to  the  Education  Commission.  A  year  or  two  later,  when 
Charles  Poulett  Thomson,  afterwards  Lord  Sydenham,  had  taken  the  i)lace  of  Lord  Durham,  the 
new  Governor-General  continued  to  give  Mr.  Dunkin  employment ;  fii"st,  for  a  year  or  more  in 
educational  matters,  and  afterwards  as  secretary  of  the  Post  Office  Conmiission.  A  little  later 
(184/),  he  was  appointed  Assistant  Provincial  Secretary  for  Lower  Canada,  ami  held  that  office 
until  1847,  when  he  resigned,  liaving  meantime  lx;en  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Lower  Canada,  in 
July,  1846.  He  practised  in  Montreal  until  1802,  when  he  moved  into  the  country  and  .settled  at 
Knowlton. 

As  a  member  of  the  bar,  Judge  Dunkin,  perhaps,  most  distinguished  himself  by  hi.s  advocacy 
of  the  right  of  the  Seigneui's  of  Lower  Canada,  at  the  peiiod  of  legislative  change  in  the  tenure 
by  which  the  bulk  of  the  older  settled  land  of  that  Province  was  held.  This  matter  involved 
several  years  of  careful  investigation  of  ancient  records,  customs  and  laws. 

He  was  first  heard  at  the  bar  of  the  Legislative  Assembly  agiiinst  the  (loveinment  nil!,  then 
standing  for  second  reatling ;  and  which  some  thre<'  months  after  wa.s  thrown  out  by  the  lions- 
lative  Council,  without  his  being  there  heard  again.  Later,  be  was  heard  by  tin-  Legislative 
Council  against  the  then  bill  of  a  later  Goveinmi^iit ;  which'  pas,sed  aftei'  amendments,  altoge- 
ther changing  its  chai-acter.  That  measure  providingfor  settlement  of  all  manner  of  cjuestions  of 
law,  affecting  the  tenure  "by  the  Judges  sitting  together  as  a  Seigniorial  Coinl,"  lie  was  tiiere 
retained  for  the  Seigneurs,  with  Messrs.  C.  S.  (.-herrier,  Q.  C.,  and  Miiekay  (now  .Judge  Mackay,  of 
the  r  uperior  court) ;  and  the  decisions  of  the  Court  were  most  favorable  to  the  Seigneurs. 

While  in  the  practici' of  law  in  Montreal,  our  subject  eontirvied  to  figure  extensively  and 
prominently  in  politics.  He  went  into  Parliament  in  the  ses.sion  of  l.S.)7-»8,  refiresenting  the 
counties  of  Drunmiond  and  Arthabaska,  during  the  0th  Parliament;  sat  tiirough  tlit!  7th  and 
8th  Parliaments  for  the  county  of  Brome  ;  and  at  the  time  of  Confederation  (I8(i7),  was  elected 
to  both  the  House  of  (^nmion.s,  and  the  Provincial  A.s.sembly,  becoming  a  member  of  the  Execu- 
tive Council,  and  accepting  the  portfolio  of  Treasurer  of  the  Province  of  Quebec.  In  180!»,  he 
resigned  his  place  in  the  (M)inot  of  the  Province,  and  accei)ted  under  the  premiership  of  Sir 
John  A.  Macdonald,  a  seat  in  the  Privy  Council  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  and  the  portfolio 
of  Minister  of  Agriculture;  resigning  that  honorable  position  in  November,  1871,  to  accept  the 
judgeship  already  mentioned. 

While  in  the  Legislature,  Mr.  Dunkin  gave  enlightened  attention  to  the  Temperance  Reform, 


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constructing  and  carrying  tlii-ough  Parliament  a  bill  for  the  restriction  of  the  sale  of  iiitovicating 
li(liiorH.  This  measure  "  The  Temperance  Act  of  1864,  commonly  known  as  the  DunkinAct," 
has  been  ptit  in  operation  by  the  vot«s  of  the  people  in  many  parts  of  Canada,  with  the  happiest 
results. 

In  the  year  1839,  the  unusual  distinction  of  honorary  degiee  of  Master  of  Arts,  was  con* 
ferred  uix>n  Mr.  Dunkin,  by  Yale  College,  Conn.,  and  in  1865,  Bishop's  College,  Lenno.wille, 
eonfcried  upon  him  the  degree  of  D.  ('.  L.  He  holds  also  the  M.  A.  degree  of  Harvard.  In  1867, 
he  was  created  a  Queen's  Counsel, 

Judge  Dunkin  was  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  Montreal  Light  Infantry,  from  1856  to  185!>, 
and  from  September,  1 866,  until  he  was  appointed  to  the  bench,  he  was  lieutenant-colonel  of 
volunteei-s,  in  and  near  Brome  County.  ;      -  •,  .  '      '  '  i    ^ 

He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Council  of  Public  Instruction  of  Lower  Canada  since  its  orga- 
nization, and  a  governor  of  McGill  Univei-sity  since  1852,  in  both  which  positions  he  has  rendered 
active  and  able  service. 

The  Judge,  as  is  here  seen,  is  largely  identified  with  the  eduimtional,  political  and  judicial 
history  of  Canada,  and  his  record  in  all  respects,  in  all  his  connections  with  public  life,  is  untar- 
nished and  honorable.  Lakeside,  his  residence,  one  mile  from  the  village  of  Knowlton,  and  over- 
looking Brome  Lake,  is  fitted  up  with  much  tiwto  and  is  a  charming  spot. 


KKV.    SAMUKL    MASSKY, 

MONTREAL. 

ri^lHIS  esteemed  and  well-known  minister  of  the  Gospel  is  descended  from  an  ancient  family 
of  tlie  county  of  Cheshire,  Kngland,  bearing  the  motto — "  7'*  Iho  at  most  of  vi>j  power." 
It  may  1h'  said  that  those  words  are  (juite  clmracteristit-  of  the  family,  the  nu-ndiers  of  which 
have  been  generally  distinguished  for  their  great  energy,  bemvolence,  and  kindness  of  heart 
Several  t<»wnshi|is  and  manors  are  designated  by  that  name  which  has  long  been  known  and 
honored  in  the  military  circles,  and  battle-fields  of  Old  FIngland,  as  well  as  in  various  depart- 
ments of  literature,  and  the  Gospel  ministry. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  at  Winchiini,  in  said  county,  in  l)ec(!mber,  1817,  and 
was  united  in  marriage  to  Mi.ss  Mar}'  Fryer,  daughter  of  Thomiui  Fryer,  of  Winnington, 
in  the  year  1840.  Eight  children  have  been  the  issue  of  their  marriage,  five  sons  and  three 
daughters,  all  of  whom  survive,  and  occupy  positions  of  responsibility  arid  importance,  both  in 
.society  and  business.  William  Moreton  Ma.s.  v,  of  the  fiim  of  Caswell  &  Massey,  chemists  and 
driiggists,  Broadway  and  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  is  their  I'ldest  son.     Al!  the  sons  were 


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cducnte.l  at  the  Mansion  House  Academy  and  High  School,  Montreal ;  and  the  daughtei-s 
recei\cd  their  education  nt  Say-Brook  Hall,  an  excellent  educational  establishment  conducted 
by  Mrs.  Eleanor  Lay,  assisted  by  a  skilful  and  experiencetl  staff  of  teachers. 

The  Rev.  gentleman  received  Ins  education  at  an  academy  in  Lostock  CJralnm,  W.  Weston, 
Es(}.,  being  heiul  master,  a  gentleman  well  and  deserve<lly  known  as  a  successful  teacher.  His 
theological  training  was  conducted  by  a  clergyman  in  the  neighl>orho<xl,  and  was  chiefly  of  a 
private  nature.  But  from  his  youth  ho  evinced  a  great  love  for  reading,  English  literature, 
theology,  and  religious  biography,  being  his  favorite  subjects';  consequently  he  has  been  in  great 
measure,  his  own  instructor  in  these  departments.  Having  read  and  thought  much  upon  theo- 
logical subjects,  and  Iteing  free  and  untrammelled  by  any  denominational  creed,  he  has  formed 
his  own  opinions,  which  may,  in  a  certain  restncted  sense,  be  termed  literal.  He  is  a  practical 
man,  intensely  earnest,  and  prudent,  full  of  sympathy  for  suffering  humanity,  a  lover  of  good 
men,  a  good  hater  of  all  pretense  and  show,  and  of  ecclesiastical  priestism  wherever  found.  His 
creed,  if  he  has  any,  is  r.hat  of  "  faith  working  by  love." 

As  a  preacher,  he  is  serious,  clear,  and  forcible  in  his  expositions  and  application  of  the 
Divine  Word,  and  conse<juently  he  has  rarely  any  sleepy  or  inattentive  hearers.  A  woman,  on 
one  oceaaion,  when  leaving  the  church  at  the  close  of  the  st:rvice,  remarked  that  she  liked  to 
hear  Mr.  Massey,  because  "  he  always  stuck  to  his  text,  and  gjive  over  when  he  had  done."  In 
pastomi  work  he  clelights,  and  perhaps  in  this  department  ho  has  lieen  most  useful,  following 
up  the  preaching  of  the  Word,  by  timely  pastoral  visits  to  the  homes  of  his  hearei.s,  and  by 
pei-sonal  conversation,  and  the  distribution  of  religious  literature,  seeking,  and  often  securing, 
their  attention  and  attendance  on  the  means  of  grace,  thus  "  compelling  "  them  to  come  in  to 
the  House  of  God. 

When  a  young  man,  for  upwards  of  eight  years,  he  was  engaged  in  teaching  in  the  British 
Public  Schools,  at  Hels'iy  and  Poynton,  (Cheshire,  but  he  retired  in  order  to  enter  upon  more 
direct  Oliristian  work.  He  went  to  Montreal  from  Manchester,  where  he  had  been  for  some 
time  connected  with  tlie  City  Mission,  in  the  fall  of  1853,  and  since  that  time  he  has  continued 
bis  Christian  and  philanthropic  labors  there  with  considerable  success.  The  first  eleven  years 
after  his  arrival  he  labored  in  connection  with  the  Young  Mens'  ('hristian  Association.  He 
has  uiiginatod  and  established  several  flourishing  Sunday-.schools  and  churches,  and  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  Sailor's  Institute.  For  eleven  years  he  was  pastor  of  the  Chaboillez  Square 
and  Inspector  street  church,  a  commodious  and  substantial  edifice,  erected  .specially  for  him  and 
his  work  by  Christian  friend.s,  and  which  sUmds  to-day  a  fitting  memorial  of  his  efforts  to  do 
good  in  that  part  of  the  city.  He  has  paiil  unremitting  attention  to  the  poor,  the  stranger,  and 
those  for  whom  no  one  cares.  He  has  also  constantly  ministered  to  the  comfort  of  those  con- 
fined in  the  various  institutions  of  the  city.  *  " 

Temi'Euanck.-  -All  these  years  he  has  been  an  earnest  ami  successful  worker  and  advocate 


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in  the  cauHe  of  Temperance  reform,  and  by  his  peraiHtent  efforts  and  instrumentality,  many  liave 
been  reclaimed,  and  a  strong  sentiment  created,  especially  in  tlie  minds  of  the  young,  against  the 
use  of  intoxicating  litjuoi-s  as  a  beverage,  and  in  favor  of  total  abstinence,  throughout  the  city, 

Relkjious  Litekature. — He  lias  written  and  published  ii  considerable  number  of  tractates 
and  small  books  of  a  practical  and  useful  character,  thousands  of  which  have  been  disposed  of, 
and  distributed  among  all  classes  of  citizens,  sailors  and  immigrants.  The  following  titles  of 
some  of  these  publications  will  indicate  their  character : — "  A  Voice  to  Christian  Mothei-s  ;  " 
"  Self-Improvement ; "  "  The  Dying  Peer  ;  "  "  Sir  Henry  Havelock ;  "  "  Jesus  and  the  Poor  ;  " 
"  Papers  for  Young  Men  ;  "  "  The  Black  and  Dark  Night ;  "  "  Breakers  Ahead  ;  "  "  What  went 
ye  out  for  to  See  ? "  and  others  of  a  like  character.  f)f  the  extent  of  the  gotid  done  by  these 
messengers  of  truth  and  peace  we  cannot  speak,  "  but  the  day  will  declare  it."  Ho  has  also  been 
a  frequent  contributor  to  the  religious  press,  both  in  England  and  Canada. 

With  the  late  excellent  Dr.  P.  P.  Carpenter  and  others  he  founded  the  first  Sanitary  A.ssoci- 
ation  which  for  years  did  good  work  in  cleaning  tlie  lant's  and  yards,  and  ventilating  and 
improving  the  hoiues  of  the  citizens,  more  particularly  in  the  lower  ])arts  of  the  city.  This 
useful  institution  cuhnitmti'd  in  the  present  city  Board  of  Health,  which  is  now  an  important 
department  in  connection  with  the  City  Council.  He  has  always  taken  a  practical  interest  in 
all  that  concerned  the  welfare  of  the  city,  iind  while  he  has  "  known  no  man  after  the  flesh,"  he 
has  ([uietly  persevered  in  doing  good  to  all,  of  whatever  nationality  or  creed,  and  the  citizens 
have  on  various  occasions  testified  tlieir  esteem  and  good  will  towards  him  by  presenting  him 
with  valuable  testimonials  which  are  being  preserved  as  memorials  of  their  appreciation  of  his 
distinguished  labors.  Before  the  abolition  of  slavery  in  the  United  States,  the  fugitives  who 
came  to  Canada  by  "  the  underground  railway  "  were  frequently  sent  to  him,  and  to  them  he 
was  a  (iood  Samaritan,  binding  up  and  healing  their  wounds,  by  his  sympathy,  and  practical 
aid,  not  forgetting  to  point  them  to  Him  who  is  the  common  Saviour  of  all  men,  and  who  has 
invited  the  oppressed  and  weary  to  come  to  Him  for  rest. 

In  October,  1S7«,  he  preached  a  sermon,  or,  more  properly,  delivered  an  address,  in  Salem 
church,  giving  an  account  of  his  twenty-five  years'  Christian  work  in  Montreal.  That  exceed- 
ingly interesting  address  was  published  in  the  Montreal  Gazette,  and  from  it  we  derive  much 
of  the  material  for  this  brief  sketch  of  an  eminently  useful  life.  What  we  have  .said  above 
in  rewanl  to  his  labors  as  a  Minister  of  the  Gospel,  building  up  churches,  or  among  seamen, 
the  poor,  the  destitute  and  the  wretched  of  the  city,  in  the  cause  of  Temperance,  Sunday' 
schools,  in  religious  literature,  in  sanitary  and  other  directions,  is  the  merest  hint  at  what  he 
has  done.     A  full  account  of  his  unselfish  and  interesting  labors  in  Montreal,  would  require  a 

portly  volume. 

As  Pastor  of  Salem  church,  he  is  well  known  and  highly  esteemed  for  his  work's  sake. 
He  found  the   church,  Sunday-school,  and  all  its  other  departments,  paralyzed,  almost  dead 


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and  pastorless.  By  liis  energy  and  perseverance,  it  lias  been  quickened  and  raised  into  a  new 
life,  in  all  its  departments,  so  tliat  it  has  again  taken  its  place  among  the  living  and  useful 
churches  of  the  Commercial  Metropolis  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada. 

The  Rev.  Gavin  Lang,  minister  of  St.  Andrew's  church,  Montreal,  when  delivering  an 
address  (now  published  in  pamphlet  form),  on  the  occasion  of  the  close  of  a  ten  years'  ministry, 
made  use  of  the  following  words  : — 

"  It  (Salem  church)  has  had  a  che(|uercd  Iiistory,  but  I  am  happy  to  gay  that  under  (he  unwearied  ministry 
of  Rev.  S.  Masscy,  it  lias  been,  for  upwards  c)f  three  yours,  successful  beyond  the  most  sanguine  expectations. 
Mr.  MnsHcy  is  one  who  does  not  know  what  insuperable  diflicuUioa  are,  and  neither  situation  nor  opposition  has 
prevented  the  perfect  prosperity  of  his  labors." 

A  clergyman  who  is  intimately  acquainted  with  Mr.  Massey,  thus  speaks  of  his  labors  in  a 
letter  to  the  editor  of  this  work  : —  . 

"  Although  by  natural  ability  and  education  qualified  for  the  pastorate  of  any  average  church,  Mr.  Massey 
has  chosen  rather  to  follow  the  arduoiis  toils  of  a  missionary's  life  ;  and  what  work  is  more  Christ-like  than 
spending  one's  life  in  the  streets  and  lanes,  hovels  and  garrets  of  a  large  city,  neekiiig  to  save  the  lost,  trying  to 
reclaim  the  drunkard,  befriend  the  poor,  warn  the  careless  and  encournije  the  desponding,  instruct  the  young, 
visit  the  fatherless  and  the  widow  in  affliction,  console  the  dying  and  bury  the  dead  1  Such  has  been  Mr.  M.'s 
work  for  nearly  thirty  years.  Amidst  surroundings  enough  to  discourage  a  hundred  men,  this  unwearied,  hope- 
ful, persistent  and  conscientious  man  of  Ciod  has  endured  the  heat  and  burden  of  the  day,  inhaled  the  pestilential 
air,  exposed  hiu^self  to  dangers  in  order  to  preach  Christ  and  him  crucified,  and  from  house  to  house  warn  men 
with  tears.  His  influence  is  boundless  in  the  worst  part  of  the  city.  He  is  a  born  leader,  and  had  he  been  what 
nature  fitted  him  for,  a  military  officer,  he  w(.)uld  have  led  his  forces  on  to  victory.  He  has,  however,  by  grace 
been  (]ualified  for  a  nobler  calling,  and  has,  single-handed,  confronted  and  fought  the  enemy.  His  work  is 
simply  marvellous,  often  in  a  single  day  visiting  from  forty  to  fifty  families.  He  writes  his  own  tracts  for  dis- 
tribution. He  has  reared  and  educated  a  large  and  delightful  family,  and  with  his  excellent  wife,  has  '  soon  his 
children's  children  and  peace  upon  Israel.' " 

Snch  is  our  brief  but  imperfect  sketch  of  the  clergyman  whose  name  stands  at  the  head  of 

this  paper,  and  who  has  lived,  so  as  to  be  missed,  when  he  is  gone.     "  His  works  will  follow 

him." 


HON.  JACQUES   ().  BUREAr,    N.I»., 

MONTREAL. 

ft  111  AT  brKUch  of  the  Bureau  family  from  which  Jacques  Oliver  Bureau,  Sejiator  for  Do  Lor- 
-^  iinier,  is  descended,  came  from  Nantes,  France,  near  the  clo.se  of  the  17th  century,  and  .settled 
at  Ancienne  Lorjtte.  We  have  before  us  the  marriage  contract,  wiitten  in  France,  an<l  dated  2.5th 
July,  168G,  between  Louis  Bureau  and  Marie  Gauvain,  the  bridegroom  being  a  son  of  Mathurin 
Bureau  who  was  from  the  City  of  Nantes.  We  have  also  the  marriage  contract,  dated  10th  of 
September,  1695,  between  Louis  Bureau  and  Marie  Coc(iueiet,  which  marriage  was  graced  with 
the  presence  of  the  dignitaries  of  the  Province  of  Quebec.    Then  follow  the  marriage  contracts. 


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24tli  April,  1712,  Iwtwoen  Jean  Uaptisto  Bureau  and  Mnriu  Alain  ;  iltli  Folunary,  1740,  het.woon 
Ji'iin  Baptist*^  Bureau  and  Marie  Magdalene  Cochon.and  17th  January,  17(57,  St.  Jean  Baptiste 
Buro.ui  iind  Marie  Angeli(pie  Alain,  whicli  bringH  us  down  to  the  grandfather  of  our  suttjeet.  It 
will  be  Hcon  liy  the  above  that  the  blood  of  some  of  the  Iwst  families  in  Canada  is  mingled  with 
that  of  the  Bureaus.  An  uncle  of  our  subject,  Joseph  Pierre  Bureau,  wa.s  in  i'arliament  from 
the  time  ho  was  of  a  suitable  age  jintil  his  death,  representing,  successively,  the  Counties  of  St. 
Maurice  and  Maskinonge. 

The  father  of  our  subjeet  wa.s  Jactjues  Bureau,  at  one  time  a  merchant  at  Three  Itivers, 
r.Q.,  where  the  son  was  l»orn  in  (Jth  February,  1820.  His  mother's  maiden  name  wa-s  Fran<;oise 
Deveau.  Ho  was  educated  at  Nicolet  (JoUege  ;  was  adn)itted  as  a  Notiuy  of  Lower  Canada  in 
1H43,  and  is  still  engaged  in  that  business,  being  Ncjtary  of  La  Banqiie  Natioyiale  at  Montreal. 

Mr.  Bureau  entered  jiublic  life  in  1854,  when  ho  sat  for  Napierviile  in  tlie  Canadian 
Assembly,  representing  that  constituency  until  September,  1852,  when  he  was  elected  for  tlie 
"  De  Lorimier  "  division  in  the  Legislative  Council,  which  he  re|)resented  until  the  Confederation. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Executive  Council  and  Provincial  Secretary,  .-.ucceediiig  his  cousin 
Hon.  A.  A.  Dorion,  from  January  to  May,  18(57,  in  which  latter  montii  he  was  called  to  the 
Senate  of  the  Dominion  by  Royal  Proclamation.     He  is  a  Refoinier. 

Before  entering  puldic  life  Mr.  Bureau  became  deeply  interested  in  the  Anti-seignorial 
que.stion,  and  on  entering  Parliament  was  one  of  the  most  active  promoters  of  that  movement. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Reform  ( 'onvention  which  met  at  Quebec  to  discuss  that  subject.  And 
here  we  shall  take  the  liberty  to  insert  a  little  item  in  the  secret  political  history  of  Canada. 
In  1858,  at  the  time  the  Brown-Dorion  (Jovernment  was  formed — lasting  forty-eight  hours — 
Hon.  d.  Sandtield  Macdonald  went  to  Mr.  Bureau  and  suggested  that  lie  (Mr.  B.)  should  abandon 
his  advocacy  of  the  Seignorial  duos  and  their  redemption  by  the  treasury ;  that  in  that  ca,se 
they  would  agree  to  form  a  Government.  But  Mr.  Buieau  peremptorily  declined  to  recede  from 
his  position,  and  added  that  if  his  pet  measure  was  not  in  the  platform,  he  would  propose 
immediately  a  vote  of  non-confidence  in  the  Government.  Mi'.  Bureau  carried  his  point.  After 
that  Government  was  put  out.  Sir  George  E.  Cartier  promised  the  same  reform. 

Mr.  Bureau  was  one  of  the  earliest  and  is  one  of  the  ablest  advocates  of  Colonial  rights  in 
the  treaties  of  Groat  Britain  with  other  countries.  He  cannot  see  why  the  colonies  should  not 
have  a  .share  in  the  benefits  of  such  treaties  relating  to  commerce.  Wo  give  in  his  own  words 
and  in  his  mother  tongue,  his  views  on  this  subject  in  a  very  few  words,  in  a  .speech  made  in 
the  Senate  on  the  Ist  April,  1870 : — 

La  France  a  droit  en  Aiigleterre,  et  cotte  derniere  a  droit  en  France,  sous  tons  les  rapports,  au  traitement  do 
la  nation  la  plus  favoris^e.  Ces  deux  pays  doivent,  par  consequent,  proiiter  immediatement  et  aaiis  condition 
de  toute  favour  ou  immunity  de  privilege  ou  abaissciuent  de  tarif  pour  Tiniportation  des  marchandises  mention- 
ne'es  ou  non  dans  les  trait^s,  qui  sont  ou  peuvent  utre  accordes  par  la  France  on  par  I'Aiigleterre  &  un  autre 

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Tjb  r6^iino  de  la  nation  la  phii  favoriauo  est  6guloiuent  gai-anti  il  cea  Etati,  par  nioatiro  de  rioiprocito,  pour 
tout  CO  qni  concerno  lu  transit,  I'untrupot,  I'exportntion,  la  rtSexportation,  lui  droits  locanx.  lo  courtago,  loa  fcir- 
nialitiig  du  dminno,  ten  6chi>ntilli>ii8,  loa  deaains  do  fabri<iiie,  do  mdinu  c|ue  puiir  tout  co  i|ui  a  rapport  h,  rexerciuo 
dii  commerce  ut  do  rinihistrio. 

Lea  diapoaitiuna  des  traitis  no  aont  paa  applicables  anx  proluhitiona  on  ruHtrictiona  tompornirea,  i\  I'tintritti 
o)i  i\  la  aortio,  ipie  le  gimvornemcnt  juge  n^cessairc  d'6tablir  on  co  i|ui  concenio  la  controbande do  gnorro  on  pour 
doa  motifs  aiinitairo!).  Un  no  uonaidoro  commo  poasoaaion  britanniipio  en  Europe  i|ue  laUrande-Bretagno  (Anglo- 
torro  et  Uuoaae,  Irulande  ot  loa  lalos  de  Jeraoy,  do  Uuornoaey  ut  d'Aurigny).  Los  trait6g  ne  sunt,  par  consequoui, 
pas  applicables  aux  provinces  du  Malte  et  do  Uibraltar. 

Senator  Buruau  lias  a  just  approciation  of  the  extent,  wealth,  and  happy  condition  of  the 
Canadian  colonies,  and  in  the  speech  from  which  we  have  just  ([uoted,  he  thus  beautifully  dis- 
courses on  the  pastoral  riches  and  comforts  of  the  people  : — 

Our  principal  source  of  riches  consiata  in  our  agricultural  products.  Wo  felicitate  ourselves  on  this  fuct. 
The  tillor  of  the  soil  feels  very  little,  if  at  all,  the  commercial  and  industrial  crises.  Ho  is  a  stranger  to  strikes, 
to  pauperism,  and  to  the  causes  which  menace  at  one  time  or  another,  political  and  social  order.  On  his  farm, 
little  or  large,  he  reigns  as  master,  and  he  tinds  happiness  in  the  bosom  of  the  domestic  home.  Rarely  does  the 
land  refuse  to  yield  him  the  nucussaries  of  life,  and  frequently  he  has  an  abundance  for  which  he  finds  a  good 
markut.  The  economical  farmer  will  ac(|uiro  ease  and  comfort,  and  the  ability  to  contribute  to  the  settlement  of 
his  children  :  this  is  what  is  seen  every  day  in  Canada. 

And  Mr.  Bureau  believes  that  if  Canada  could  share  fully  in  the  benefits  of  commercial 
treaties  made  by  Great  Britain  with  other  powers,  Canadian  products  of  the  farm  and  the  fac- 
tory would  have  a  still  better  market,  and  the  people  would  be  still  more  prosperous  and  happy. 
Such  an  end  is  being  gradually  brought  about.  Mr.  Bureau  and  others  have  not  pleaded  for 
ecjual  rights  on  this  subject  in  vain. 


IJOKATIO   A.    iVKLJ^ON    M.P.P. 

MONTREAL. 

HORATIO  ADMIRAL  NELSON,  one  of  the  prominent  merchants  of  Montreal,  and  mem- 
ber of  the  Quebec  As.sembly  for  Montreal  Contic,  is  of  Scotch  descent  on  his  father's 
side,  and  of  Irisl\  on  his  mother's,  his  parents  being  Ezekiel  and  Ruth  (Harkins)  Nelson.  He 
was  born  in  Richmond,  Cheshire  county,  N.  H.,  October  22,  1816  ;  was  educated  in  the  district 
schools  of  that  town;  farmed  in  his  younger  years;  was  afterwards  a  commercial  traveller,  and 
in  February,  1841,  came  to  Montreal,  where  he  has  been  in  business,  manufacturing  and  mer- 
chtandising  for  nearly  foiiy  yeai-s.  At  one  time  he  wa.s  engaged  making  wooden-ware  and  corn- 
brooms  ;  at  another,  pails  and  clothes-pins,  and  latterly  lias  limited  himself  to  the  manufacture 
of  brooms,  brushes,  etc.,  and  to  merchandising.  For  about  twenty  years  lie  was  of  the  firm  of 
Nelson  and  Buttei-s,  then  of  Nelson,  Wood  and  Co.,  and  now  he  is  of  H.  A.  Nelson  and  Sons. 
They  have  a  double  store  on  St,  Peter  street,  C3  by  120  feet,  and  six  stories  high,  filled  from 


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bottor.)  tf<  top  with  a  splendid  stock  of  European  and  American  fancy  goods,  and  have  also  a 
br&nfh  store  in  Toronto,  doing  a  large  business  in  both  places. 

Mr.  Nelson  has  been  alderman  of  the  West  ward  for  the  last  fourteen  years,  and  chairman 
of  the  finance  coniMiittee  of  the  city  conned  the  last  five  jears,  and  has  fine  business  ({ualifiea- 
tions.  He  was  elected  to  parliament  at  the  last  general  election  held  in  May,  l^f78,  and  hence 
has  had  but  little  experience  in  legislative  mattei-s  ;  but  his  business  talents  and  habits  of  indus- 
try must  make  him  a  valuable  member  of  the  Assembly.  His  politics  are  Lilwral,  which  party 
is  in  the  minority  in  the  province  just  now.  "  He  is  in  favor  of  economy,  and  of  the  finishing 
cf  the  railways  commenced  as  soon  as  the  finances  will  permit."  When  he  has  ma<le  up  his 
mind  what  is  for  the  best  interests  of  the  country,  he  is  very  prompt  to  act. 

Mr.  Nelson  is  an  elder  of  tiie  American  Presbyterian  church,  chairman  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees, and  superintendent  of  the  Sunday-.school — a  man  of  the  old  Puritan  type  of  character, 
which,  in  his  case,  has  never  been  impeached  or  suspected  of  blemi.sh.  No  communitj'  can  have 
too  many  citizens  of  his  cla.ss. 

In  Jum,  1841,  Mr.  Nelson  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Maria  I).  Davison,  at  Burling- 
ton, Vermont,  and  they  jiave  buried  throe  children,  and  Juavo  seven  living.  Two  of  the  sons, 
AIlK'rt  D.  and  Frederick  E.  Nelson,  are  in  eompitny  witli  tlulr  t'atlier  in  Montreal,  and  two 
others,  Horatio  W.  and  Charles  H.  Nelson,  are  niana^';ing  tlie  lirancli  store  in  Toronto,  all  being 
first-class  business  young  men. 


KEY.  llICTrAirD  W.  >:OPiMAK,  ]\t.A.,  D.dl.., 

MONT  REAL. 

ir)V.\.  RICHARD  WHITMORE  NORMAN,  a.ssistant  at  ot.  James' church,  and  honorary 
--L  \)  canon  Christ's  church  cathedral,  Montreal,  is  a  descendant  of  an  old  Kent  family,  Eng- 
land, and  was  born  in  Bromley,  in  that  count} ,  en  tin;  2l-t]i  of  April,  1820.  His  father  was 
Richard  Norman,  many  yeai-s  a  merchant  in  Lrtndon,  dying  in  Canada  in  18(50 ;  and  his  mother, 
before  her  marriage,  was  Emma  .Stone,  whose  father  was  the  senior  partner  in  one  of  the  oldest 
banking-hou.ses  in  Lon<lon.     She  died  in  England  in  182[t. 

Our  subject  was  eJucjited  in  the  arts,  partly  at  King's  ollege,  London,  and  partly  bv  pri- 
vate tuition,  and  in  the  classics  and  theology  at  the  university  of  Oxford;  was /.rraduated 
bachelor  of  arts  in  18.51,  and  master  of  arts  in  18.5;{ ;  and  was  onkined  deacon  in  I.S,">2,  and 
priest  in  185.'1,  by  the  Bishop  of  Oxford. 

Mr.  Norman  did  parish  work  one  year  in  connection  with  St.  Thomas'  church  Oxfonl,  and 
tlun  entereii  mi  his  educational  career,  teaching  for  S'ven  years  as  clas-^ical  nwvster  at  Radley 
college,  near  Oxfnril,  and  si.s  years  as  head-nmslcr  of  the  same.     \i\  the  course  of  that  time,  in 


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the  year  1857,  for  six  months  he  was  head-  master  of  St.  Michael's  college,  Tenbury.  During 
the  periofl  in  which  Mr.  Norman  was  an  educator  at  Radley,  he,  no  doubt,  lalH)red  too  hard, 
ior  in  ISC'I  he  was  obliged  to  vacate  the  chair  of  head-master  on  account  of  ill-health.  In 
order  to  make  a  radical  change  of  climate,  he  CAme  to  Canada,  and,  after  resting  awhile,  re- 
sumed his  favorite  profession,  preparing  young  men  in  private  for  college,  etc.,  at  the  same 
time  acting  ivs  an  assistant  at  St.  John's  church,  Montreal.  During  the  last  eight  years  he  has 
been  an  a.ssi.stant  at  St.  Jamea'  church,  in  this  city.  He  has  one  of  the  largest  Bible-clas.ses  in 
Montreal,  and  his  success  as  a  teacher  in  this  department  of  knowledge  is  rarely  excelled.  He 
18  a  D.C'.Ii.  of  Bishop's  college,  Lennoxville  ;  his  specialties  as  a  student  are  the  classics  and 
theology.  He  is  a  profound  scholar,  an  elegant  writer,  and  an  eminently  successful  teacher. 
Pei"sons  accustomed  to  hear  him  preach,  regard  his  sermons  as  especially  rich  in  Gospel  truth, 
and  unusually  instructive.  His  warmest  admirers  are  those  who  hear  him  oftenest,  and  know 
him  best. 

Dr.  Norman  is  one  of  the  school  commissioners  of  the  city  of  Montreal  ;  member  of  the 
council,  and  vice-chancellor  of  Bishop's  college,  classical  examiner  of  the  college  and  school,  and 
matriculant  examiner  of  its  medical  faculty  ;  honorary  canon  of  Christ  Ciiurch  cathedral,  and  a 
visitor  of  the  Montreal  proprietary  school.  He  takes  much  interest  in  matters  of  art,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  council  of  the  Art  Association,  and  vice-president  of  the  Montrtal  Philharmonic 
Society.     His  musical  talent,  as  well  as  taste,  is  of  no  inferior  order. 

We  learn  from  the  "  Clerical  Guide  ami  Churchman's  Directory,"  that  among  the  publi- 
cations from  the  pen  of  Dr.  Norman,  are:  '^1)  "  Occasional  sermons  ;"  (2)  "  School  sermons  ;" 
(3)  "  Manual  of  prayers  for  the  use  of  schools  ;"  (4)  "  Teaching  of  the  Church  on  confession  and 
absolution,"  three  sermons ;  (5)  single  sermons  on  "  Toleration,  duty  of  chuichmen,"  "  St.  John, 
a  lesson  to  churchmen  at  the  present  day,"  "  Obedience  to  law,"  and  "  The  ministry  of  angels ;" 
(•»)  "Thoughts  on  the  best  mode  of  the  conversion  of  tlie  heatheu,"  etc. 


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EUGEXE    ETIIONNE  TAC'IIE, 

ri'l  1 1 K  nauio  of  Tach^  is  so  well  known  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  our  vast  Domin- 
-^  ion,  and  in  fact  in  England,  that  it  may  be  said  to  be  a  household  one.  The  subject  of 
<i'ir  skettih,  the  present  AasisUint  Coinmi.ssioner  of  Crown  Luids  for  the  Prov>in'e  of  Quel>ec,  was 
l»oin  at  Montmagny,  St.  Thomas  fen  l>a.s),  on  2+th  <)ct*>ber,  IH.'K),  and  is  the  eldest  son  of  the 
jlbistrious  Vremier,  the  Hon.  Mir  Kticnnr  P.  Tache,  M.Ij.C,  who  died  in  IHtl.'l,  whih'  holding  the 


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reins  of  government  for  the  tliird  term.  The  deceased  was  president  of  the  (V.iiference  which 
eHtahli.shed  the  basis  of  Confederation,  and  associated  himself  from  1812  with  every  political 
matter  of  impoitancc  connected  with  the  country.  He  was  one  of  the  Militia  Commissioners 
at  the  time  of  the  Trent  aflair,  and  took  a  lively  interest  in  everything  connected  with  the 
Militia  Department — in  fact  all  the  regulations  now  in  existence  may  be  said  to  have  been 
framed,  or,  at  any  rate,  emanated  from  him.     He  was  A.  D.  C.  to  the  Queen. 

Eugene  E.  Tach^  was  educated  at  the  somin^y  at  Quebec,  where  he  took  up  a  classical 
course,  but  it  was  at  Toronto,  in  the  Public  Works  department,  where  he  gave  promise  of  his 
engineering  and  architectural  abilities  under  Mr.  F.  P.  Rubidge,  and  his  aptness  for  the  pro- 
fession he  had  chosen  was  more  fully  exhibited  while  engaged  on  the  staff  of  the  Ottawa  Ship 
Canal  Survey,  under  Walter  Shaidy  the  engineer  of  the  Ottawa  Ship  Canal,  one  of  the  grandest 
enterprises  ever  conceived  i.i  the  IJoniinion,  and  which,  it  is  believed  by  many,  will  at  seme 
future  period  be  realized,  and  thus  mateiiaily  serve  to  develop  the  country.  Probably  for  the 
ability  I:  displayed  in  these  services,  and  the  undeviating  care,  assiduity  and  zeal,  with  whicli 
he  invariably  performed  all  and  every  duty  entrusted  to  him  (which  it  may  be  mentioned  is 
even  now  one  of  his  characteristics,  although  he  has  nearly  reached  the  top  of  the  ladder  in  his 
department),  may  in  some  very  great  measure,  irrespective  of  his  known  ability,  knowledge  and 
aptitude,  acquired  under  Messrs.  Rubidge  and  Shanly,  be  attributed  his  appointment  to  the 
Crown  Lands  defKutmcnt  in  18)11,  with  which  department  he  has  been  connected  uninterrup- 
tedly to  the  |)reseiit  time.  Ciintirmatoiy  of  tliis  i';  the  fact  that  in  18()!)  he  was  promoted  to 
his  jtresent  position,  solely  for  l)is  assiduity,  zoal,  and  acknowledged  al)ility.  The  maj)  of  the 
Province  of  Quebec,  which  he  published  in  1870,  as  well  as  the  various  sectional  maps  of 
Saguenay,  (laspe,  and  Ottawa,  are  all  valuable  additions  to  the  topographical  department  of  the 
continent. 

The  new  provincial  parliament  building  in  the  St.  Louis  road,  Quebec,  is  from  the  design 
of  Mr.  Taithe.  and  may  be  nimibertMl  amongst  the  noble  modern  piles  of  the  Dominion.  He  was 
awarded  the  bronze  ni«'<ial  uf  tbo  Paris  Kxpositiim  of  187.S  f<ir  his  map  of  the  Province  of  (^)uebee, 
and  during  his  travels  in  Knglainl,  France,  ami  Italy,  in  18(>7,  added  considerable  to  his  already 
pos.Hi'ssed  architectural  and  engineering  lore.  He  studieil  oil  and  water-colour  painting  uiiilcr 
Haniel,  ami  is  considered  an  artist  in  Queb.jc  of  n<>  mean  ability.  Mr.  Tache  is  one  of  tho.so 
<iHicials  who  is  hfld  in  nuicli  e.st'  mi  by  all  his  confreres,  whether  tliey  be  superiors  di  juniors, 
and  .socially  ailmired  l>y  all  who  have  the  pleasure  al  his  acipiaintance  of  every  political  liiii  nn- 
ination,  although  lie  is  a  sUvunch  sup|»ort('r  iif  the  dark  blue. 

The  great  grandfatbei'  of  the  subject  of  our  sketch  came  to  this  country  from  the  .south  of 
France  in  M'Mk  and  nuiirieil  one  of  tin-  dauglitt^rs  of  the  Mi.ssiMsi])pi  Jolliette,  The  Taclie 
family,  it  niay  hi,>re  be  mentioned,  is  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  ernin.'nt  in  tin-  Dominion 

Mr,  Taelie  is  a  Honian  Catholic,  and  cousin  of  Archbishop  Tache    of   .Mani(.<»l>a,  ami  l>r. 


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Tache  of  Ottawa.  He  iimnied  Miws  Eleanor  Bender,  in  1859,  wlio  died  in  187cS,  and  in  October, 
1879,  he  married  Miss  Clara  Duchesney,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Antoine  Duchesney,  a  connection 
of  the  De  Salaberry  family.  The  present  Miis.  Tache'.s  grandfather  took  part  in  the  war  of  1812, 
and  was  captain  of  a  company  at  the  battle  of  t'hateauguay.  There  has  been  one  daughter 
Marie  Antoinette  Claire  Louise,  born  1st  August,  1880,  the  issue  of  the  latter  union. 


HON.    ASA    P..    FOS^rEI{, 

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nriHE  parentage  of  Asa  Belknaj)  Foster  may  be  found  in  a  sketch  nf  his  father,  Dr.  S.  S. 


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Foster,  on  other  pages  of  tliis  work.     He  was  one  of  the  four  children  who  were  lioi'n  in 


Newfane,  Vermont,  the  date  of  his  birth  being  April  21,  1817.  He  received  a  common  English 
and  French  education,  and  early  showed  good  business  tpialities,  comment  ing  as  a  merchant  in 
Waterloo,  in  company  with  another  man.  Not  long  afterwards  he  went  to  New  England  ;  bo- 
came  a  railroad  contractor  on  ditl'erent  roads,  mainly  in  Massachusetts  and  Vermont,  he  building 
part  of  the  Boston  and  Maine  and  (Central  Vermont  railway,  and  operating  part  of  the  time  in 
comjiany  with  his  maternal  uncle,  Swell  F.  Bolkii,»|),  who  resided  at  Dummei-ston,  Vermont. 

About  1852  or  1853  Mr.  Foster  returned  to  Canada,  .md  soon  became  a  contractor  on  the 
(band  Trunk  railway,  then  being  built.  SuUseijucntly  he  had  tontracts  on  the  Stanstead, 
Shefllord  and  Chambly  railway,  of  which  he  was  a  dircctoi',  and  which,  when  completed,  ho 
leased  for  a  term  of  yeara ;  the  Montreal  and  Vermont  Junction  railway  ,  the  < 'anada  Central 
and  the  South-easte  n  railway. 

During  this  perioil  of  railroad  buiMing,  he  held  several  civil  an<l  military  positions  of  high 
honor.  He  was  elected  to  the  Legislative  Assembly  in  1858,  by  his  (^'onservative  friends ;  two 
years  later  he  lesigned,  and  was  elected  by  acclamation  to  the  Legislative  Council  for  Bedford 
r>ivision,  which  he  continued  to  represent  until  the  C(mfederation  i'l8(i7j.  At  that  time  he  was 
called  to  the  Senate  by  Ko^al  proclamation,  and  held  a  seat  in  that  boily  until  1874,  when  ho 
resigned  in  order  to  take  a  contract  on  the  Canada  I'acitic  Railway.  At  the  tim  ■  of  his  death, 
which  occurred  on  the  Ut  of  November,  1877,  he  lield  (li.  rank  nf  lieut.-cojnnel  of  the  1st 
battalion  of  Slufford  militia. 

Mr.  Foster  was  a  man  of  great  energy  and  executive  abilii  v,  and  did  a  noMe  work  in  aid- 
ing to  build  the  .sevt;ral  railways  'u\  South-western  Quebec,  mentioned  ab(i\e.  He  was,  so  to 
spetvk,  the  father  of  one  or  two  of  them  ;  and  but  for  his  foresight  and  prompt  planning^,  their 
construction  might  have  been  dolaye<l  a  lustrum — possii)ly  a  decade. 

While  interested  in  the  devchipnumt  of  the  whoh,'  country,  the  lieai  t  of  Mr.  Foster  Hoeni.s 
to  have  been  set  especially  on  building  up  Waterloo.     Ho  did  a  good  deal  to  encouiage  mami- 


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facturers  to  settle  here  ;  put  up  the  railroad  buildings,  and  a  large  and  commodious  hotel — the 
Foster  House — opened  new  street'i  and  erected  houses  on  them,  built  a  saw-mill,  and  made  a 
present  of  it  to  a  manufacturing  company,  and  in  short,  did  all  he  could  to  encourage  settlers  to 
come  here  and  make  the  place  pleasant  for  them.  He  generously  encouraged  the  building  of 
churches  in  Waterloo  and  the  surrounding  country,  in  all  cases  giving  them  handsome  sums  of 
money,  and  in  one  or  two  cases  both  a  site  for  the  house  and  fiinds  to  help  build  it. 

In  1865  he  erected  a  house  for  his  own  use,  on  an  eminence  overlooking  the  town  and  a 
large  tract  of  country — a  stately  mansion  displaying  good  taste  in  its  architecture  and  all  its 
arrangements.  There  his  widow  resides.  She  was  Elizabeth  Fish,  daughter  of  Champion  Fish, 
of  HatleJ^  Stanstead  county,  P.Q.,  he  being  the  first  male  child  born  in  that  township.  She 
was  married  in  1840,  and  has  five  children  living,  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  all  married, 
and  has  lost  five.  Charles  W.  is  living  in  Waterloo  ;  Asa  B.  at  Cowansville  :  one  daughter  in 
California,  and  two  in  W^aterloo.  Three  of  the  deceased  died  quite  young  ;  one  daughter  at  the 
age  of  fifteen,  and  another,  the  wife  of  T.  A.  Knowlton,  at  the  age  of  thirty-two,  leaving  four 
children. 


HON.   HEXRY  T.   TASCIlEnKAU, 

FKA.SERVILLE. 

-rqrENllY  TH(^MAS  TASCHERLAU,  ;\  pui.sne  judge  of  the  superior  t-ouit  of  the  Province 
-' — *-  of  Quebec,  is  a  son  of  Hon.  Jean  Thomas  Ta.scherean,  late  judge  of  the  Supremo  Court 
of  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  and  whose  sketch  !ij)peai"s  on  preceding  pages,  and  -vas  born  in  the 
city  of  Quebec,  on  the  Gth  of  October,  1841.  He  is  the  fifth  member  oi'  the  Taschereau  family 
who  have  sat  on  the  bench  of  thi.'t  Province  or  tlie  Dominion,  and  is  a  Mephow  of  His  (Irace 
the  Archbi.^shop  tf  QueU'C.  Tiie  t'amily  is  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  distiiiguisluvl  in  this 
province,  its  founder  in  this  country  being  Thoma.s  Jacijues,  of  Touraine,  France,  "son  of 
Christopher  Taschereau,  King's  councilor,  director  of  the  mint,  and  treasurer  of  the  city  of 
TouiM,  having  come  to  Canada  toward  the  beginning  of  thy  iH.st  century,  was  appointed 
treasurer  of  the  marine,  and  in  IT.'iti  ol)tained  the  cession  of  a  st  iguiory  ois  the  banks  ol"  the 
Clt.iudiere." 

Oiu-  subject  is  a  giandsou  of  Hon.  .lean  Thomas  Taschereau,  senior,  A'ho  fought  toi  a  long 
time  for  constitutional  liU'rty  in  the  Parliament  of  Lower  Canatlit.aml  wius  i  apriscmcd  in  !S1C, 
and  afterwards  raistil  to  the  Bench,  where  he  distinguished  himself. 

Judge  Taschereau  was  eilueiited  at  the  Quebec  scuiinRry,  and  at  Laval  university,  from 
the  latter  in.stitution  obtaining  the  degree  of   B.L.  in  INfil,  and  B.<Mi.  in  l.S(;2.     He  was  calle.i 


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to  the  bar  in  18G3,  and  practi.sed  at  Quobof,  with  marked  success,  until  he  was  appointed  to 
the  bench,  as  ah'eady  mentioned,  in  1878. 

He  was  at  one  time  a  member  of  the  city  council  of  Quel>ec,  and  represented  that  city  on 
the  Nortli  Shore  Railroad  board.  He  edited  Les  Debuts  in  1862,  and  was  one  of  the  editoi's  of 
Lii  Tribiiite  of  Quebec  in  18(i3,  in  which  year  he  was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  fur  Dorchester 
in  till'  Canadian  AsseniMy.  He  was  first  elected  to  the  House  of  Conniions  in  1872  to  repre- 
.sent  Moutmaj^ny,  and  re-elected  in  IST-t,  the  last  time  by  ac(;lamatioii,  his  politics  being  Liberal. 

He  litw  but  recently  gone  on  the  bench,  and  his  history  there  is  yet  to  be  made.  He  is  a 
man  of  splendid  talents  and  fine  culture,  with  a  good  judicial  mind,  and  will  be  likely  to  do 
credit  to  this  family  of  eminent  jurists. 

One  of  the  finest  literary  (^tiorts  of  his  life  was  made  at  a  dinner  given  in  honijr  of  the 
}»i)et,  .Mr.  Louis  H.  Fr^-ehette,  in  Novend)er,  1880.  It  was  a  worthy  tribute  to  the  genius  of  tlu' 
.■^ulijeet,  couched  in  most  elegant  language,  and  .showing,  to  the  best  advantage,  the  great  ora- 
torical powers  of  the  speaker. 

Till-  wife  of  Judge  Taschereau  is  a  daughtei-  of  K.  L.  Taeaud,  Ks(p,  advocate,  of  Arthabaska, 
P.Q.,  married  June  22,  18G4.     They  have  seven  children. 


CAPT    JEAX   11   LABELLE, 

MONTREAL 

~l"EAN  B  APTISTE  LABELLE,  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  captain  of  steamers  on  the  St.  Law- 
^  rence  river,  and  now  the  populai-  general  passenger  agent  of  the  Quebec,  Montreal,  Ottawa, 
am^  Occidental  Railway,  is  a  descendant,  on  the  paternal  side,  of  a  very  old  French  Canadian 
far  lily,  the  progenitor  coming  from  the  old  country  as  a  .soldier,  and  never  returning.  On  the 
maternal  side  the  family  was  also  originally  from  France,  ami  has  been  a  long  time  in  <  'anada. 

Our  subject  was  born  at  Sorel,  Province  of  Quebec,  on  the  27tli  of  May,  iN.'Mi,  his  parents 
being 'I'ou.ssaint  Ijivljelle,  navigator,  and  Margueiite  Oenton  Dauphiiu5.  He  received  a  pari^sh 
school  ediH!ati(m  ;  took  to  the  water  like  an  aipiatic  bird;  soon  learned  how  to  command  a 
steamer,  ajid  tor  about  twenty-five  years  had  such  a  command,  his  route  being  l>etween  Quebec 
and  Nbuitreal.  He  became  very  popular  and  well  known  over  the  greater  part  of  the  Dominion, 
being  for  some  time  chief  navigation  ofiicer  of  the  Richelieii  and  Ontario  Navigation  Comjiany. 

On  the  1st  of  March,  1880,  Capt.  Lalwlle  was  appointed  t^^eneral  passenger  agent  of  the  Q. 

M.  0.  and  O.  Railway,  and  the  dutii  s  of  that  office  he  is  performing  with  his  accustomed  tact, 

energy  and  l)tipuhion.    He  is,  no  doubt,  one  of  the  most  intelligent  and  astute  business  men  in 

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In  the  early  part  of  May,  1S80,  occurred  the  opening  of  the  paltice  drawing-room  and  sleep- 
ing cars,  the  Martin  Junction  on  the  railway  just  mentioned,  on  which  pleasant  occasion  Capt. 
Labelle  presided.  In  giving  an  account  of  that  opening,  L'Opinion  Publique  illustrated  the 
scene  at  the  lunch  and  presented  the  likeness  of  the  captain  and  of  other  pei-sons  present,  that 
of  the  former  being  much  the  largest  and  recognized  at  a  glance.  That  paper  spoke  of  his  suc- 
cess in  connection  with  the  Richelieu  Company  ;  of  his  great  reputation  in  all  the  countiy  ;  his 
courtesy,  his  ability,  and  his  coolness  and  intrepidity,  exhibited  on  several  occasions,  and  men- 
tioned particularly  his  groat  presence  of  mind  and  heroic  behavior  during  the  inundation  of  1805, 
and  the  burning  of  steamer  Montreal  in  1857.  The  same  paper  congratulated  the  Government 
on  placing  so  efficient  a  man  as  Capt.  Labelle  in  the  position  which  ho  holds.  "  Men  like  him," 
it  said,  "  are  extremely  valuable  in  enterprises  which  demand  activity,  devotion  to  business  and 
an  initiative  mind." 

Once  Capt.  Labelle  was  persuaded  to  run  for  a  political  ottice.  In  18(j8,  ho  consented  to  bo 
the  Co!isorvativo  oandidato  for  the  Quebec  Assembly,  for  Richelieu,  and  came  within  nine  votes 
of  an  election.  We  cannot  learn  that  he  has  made  a  second  attempt  to  get  into  Parliament, 
though  the  first  might  have  been  much  more  discouraging. 

The  wife  of  Capt.  Labelle  was  Mi.ss  Delphino  Crebassa,  daughter  of  Narcis.se  Crebas.sa,  Es»|„ 
notary  of  Sorel,  a  descendant  very  remotely  of  a  Spani.sh  family,  wliicli  went  to  Holland  and 
came  thence  to  Canada;  their  marriage  taking  place  in  1800.  They  have  four  children  living, 
and  have  buried  two. 


HON.  ^EA^    L.   BEAUDRY, 

MONTREAL. 

JEAN  LOUIS  BEAUDRY,  member  of  the  fiegislative  Council  of  Quebec  for  Alma,  is  a  son 
of  Piudent  and  Marianc;  (Boh<?mier)  Beaudry,and  wa.s  born  at  Anno  des  Plainos  on  the  27th 
of  March,  18011.  The  first  settler  in  the  province  of  Queboc  of  the  name  of  Beaudry  came  fiom 
Velluire,  France,  in  KiflG,  was  a  member  of  the  R<)y£  Co.,  and  evidently  moved   in  the 

higher  circles  of  .society  in  those  early  days,  for  his  wodd  the  city  of  Montreal  was  attended 

liy  the  governor  and  other  dignitiiries  of  the  colony. 

Our  subject  loceived  a  common  school  education ;  wa«  a  meichant's  clerk  in  Nrontreal 
a,  while,  and  afterwanls  at  Merrieksville,  Ontario,  to  which  place  lu  aided  in  giving  its  numo. 

Mr.  Beaudry  returned  to  Montreal  in  1 831, and  for  three  years  wa-s  engaged  as  a  clerk,  after 
which  he  went  into  mercantile  b)isines,s  for  hiniHelf,  being  very  successful  am)  retiring  with  a 
coiuj)etcnrv  &\»>»t  IHCiii.     He  now  busies  himself  in  looking  after  his  property,  coll<<.ting  his 


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rents,  and  attending  to  legislative  and  other  public  business.  He  had  for  some  time  a  partner 
in  the  mercantile  tmde,  and  in  1840  went  to  FIngland  and  commenced  importing  goods. 

Mr.  lieaudry  joined  the  militia  nearly  fifty  yeare  ago,  and  now  holds  the  rank  of  major  of 
the  Isl  Montreal  Reserve.     In  1837-38  he  was  vice-president  of  the  Scms  of  Liberty. 

He  was  mayor  of  Montreal,  and  president  of  tlie  Ja^ues  Cartier  Bank,  and  of  the  Mutual 
Fire  A.ssurance  <  'o.  He  was  warden  of  Trinity  House,  Montreal,  for  twenty-eight  years,  until 
it  wa.s  merged  in  the  Harbor  Commission,  of  .vhich  he  has  been  a  member  for  six  or  seven  years. 

He  was  appointed  a  justiic  of  the  peace  in  1842,  and  eventually  w»is  endowed  with  the 
}>owers  of  two  magistrates.  No  magistiate  in  Montreal  has  acted  so  often  and  on  so  many  im- 
jiortant  cases  as  he  has.     He  lias  served  on  the  bench  at  quarter  .sessions  on  several  occasions. 

He  contested  M(mt  real  unsuccessfully  for  the  Canadian  Assembly  in  18.")4,  and  iigain  in 
18,i8,  and  vas  called  U\  his  [>resent  legislative  othce  in  1808.  He  was  tlie  author  of  several 
bills  of  importance.  Hi.s  politics  are  C<m.servative.  He  was  mayor  elect  of  Montreal  for  seven 
years,  viz. :  1862  to  18«6,  1877  to  1879.  and  1881. 

In  1S2."  Mr  Heaiidry  married  Miss  Thercse  Vail<;e,  of  Montreal,  l>y  whom  lit!  has  five 
childn-ii. 


THOMAS    BRASSARD, 

KNUWLTON. 

rr^HR  subject  of  this  sketch,  registrar  of  the  county  of  Brome,  is  a  native  of  the  county  of 
-*-  Cliarievoix,  ill  this  })ro\  incc.  dating  his  birth  at  .Malbaie,  January  Kith,  1.S27.  His  father, 
.Joseph  Hiu.s.sard,  was  a  fariniT,  ami  dit-d  at  Malbaie,  in  1H7G.  His  mother,  Marie  Josephte 
l}ra.ssai'd,  aee  Bouchard,  is  yet  living.  In  his  youtli  Tliomas  took  a  partial  course  of  instruction 
at  the  t.i)uebec  Seminary,  leaving  on  ac-ount  of  ill  healtli ;  then  studied  law  and  taught  school 
two  years,  continuing  his  legal  stuilies  three  years  more,  having  all  the  while  particular  ref- 
(srence  to  the  ottice  of  notary,  to  which  he  was  admitted  at  Montreal  in  18.^5.  He  practiced 
that  profession  eight  years  at  Henry ville,  county  of  Iberville;  he  then  removed  to  Waterloo, 
county  of  Shetinrd,  and  etmtinued  in  the  same  line  of  business  until  two  years  ago.  While  at 
Waterloo  he  served  as  secretary  of  the  county  for  fourteen  years,  eight  years  as  secretary  of 
the  Vioard  of  township  schi>ol  commLssioners  and  three  years  as  chairman  of  the  lioard  of 
.school  commis.sionors  of  the  village  of  VVaterloo,  making  himself  a  very  u.seful  man  by  liis 
public  services. 

Ill  May,  1879,  Mr.  Bra.ssard  was  appointed  registrar  of  the  county  of  Brome,  and  settled  at 
Knowlt-on,  the  county-town,  where  he  is  discharging  the  duties  of  his  oflice  with  fideiit}-  to  the 
people  and  creditably  to  hiiaself      He  in  also  acting  as  deputy  clerk  of  the  county  court  ar.-l 


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assistant  secretary  of  the  county.  Though  coniparatively  a  new  man  in  this  countj',  Mr.  Bras- 
sard is,  owing  to  his  position,  Incoming  well,  and  at  the  same  time  favorably  known.  lie  has 
always  lived  in  this  Province,  and  has  made  a  good  record  wherever  he  has  residcfl.  In  1857 
he  married  Miss  Marie  A.  A.  Senecal,  of  Lacadie,  P.  Q.,  and  they  have  six  chililren  living,  and 
have  lf)st  three. 


EDWARD    MURPHY 

MONTREAL. 

AMONG  the  leading  merchants  and  philanthropic  citizens  of  Montreal,  is  Edward  Murphy, 
one  of  the  best  known  residents  of  the  city.  He  is  descended  from  the  good  old  stock  of 
Murphys  in  the  county  of  Carlow,  Ireland,  whose  ancestors  were  of  the  "  Murroes,"  of  the  county 
of  Wexford,  the  ancient  territory  of  the  O'Murphy's  ;  and  is  the  eldest  son  of  Daniel  Murphy, 
deceased,  and  was  born  in  the  county  mentioned,  on  the  2Glh  of  July,  1818.  The  maiden  name 
of  his  mother  was  Mary  B3-rne,  she  being  descended  from  the  Wicklow  clan  of  the  O'Byrnes. 
When  Kdward  was  six  years  old  the  family  emigrated  to  Canada,  and  .settled  in  Montreal,  wheic 
his  father  resided  until  his  death  in  184(i. 

Having  received  such  a  business  education  as  this  city  could  furni.sh  fifty  years  ago,  at 
fomteen  year.s  of  age  he  became  a  clerk  in  the  hardware  store  (jf  Benjamin  Brewster.  A 
writer,  who  has  long  and  intimately  known  our  sultjeet  says :  "  Well  mav  the  youth  of  the  present 
time,  with  their  su])erior  advantages,  for  many  of  which  they  are  indebted  to  Mr.  Murphy,  look 
up  with  unfeigned  admiration  to  the  merchant  prince  of  to-day,  who  at  so  temler  an  age  com- 
menced to  carve  out  for  himself  the  career  he  has  so  successfully  achieved." 

hi  1S4(!,  Mr.  Murphy  became  salesman  in  the  old  and  highly  respectable  firm  of  Frothingham 
.■md  Workman,  wholesale  hardware  merchant;;,  on  St.  Paul  Street,  a  post  which  he  filled  with 
utKpialilied  approval  until  I8.")!l,  when  he  was  ailmitted  into  the  firm,  the  trade  of  vyhich  he  is 
steadily  aiding  to  extend.  It  is  the  largest  i'<unmercial  huu.se  of  its  kind  in  the  Doininiim 
of  Canada,  and  its  name,  wherever  known,  is  a  synonym  for  piomptness  ami  integrity;  .and  we 
m.-iy  add,  that  Mr  Mnrpliy  has  done  his  share  in  giving  character  to  it  All  its  members  are  ster- 
ling business  men. 

The  Septendiei  number  (1880)  of  The  Harp,  a  periodical  published  in  Montreal,  contained 
a  sketch  of  cmr  subject,  together  with  a  portrait  engraved  on  wood.  The  sketch  is  understood 
to  b<'  from  the  graceful  pen  of  J.  J.  Curran,  Q.  C,  one  of  the  best  writers  among  his  countrymen 
ip  the  district  of  Montreal.  The  latter  part  of  it,  speaking  of  the  moral  leform  labors,  the  reli- 
gious and  ]iolitical  connections,  etc..  of  Mr.  Murphy,  we  produce: 


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good  Father  I'helan.  In  1841,  he  was  elected  secretary  of  the  association,  and  so  continued  until  1802,  when  ho 
was  pniMuiitoil  with  a  massive  silver  jug  and  a  most  flattering  address  by  the  society,  in  recognition  nf  his  inval- 
uitbln  st'rvicos  in  the  total  abstinence  cause.  Long  years  of  active  work  did  not  cause  him  to  abate  his  efforts 
in,  what  may  be  termed,  the  cherished  object  of  his  life,  the  propagation  of  temperance  principhts  amcrngst  his 
fullow-countrymon.  He  was  several  times  elected  president  of  the  St.  Patrick's  Temperance  Society,  and  again 
in  1872,  its  mumbers  feeling  that  something  more  ought  to  be  done  in  recognition  of  such  devotion,  they  pre- 
sented him  witi)  a  life-si/.o  portrait  of  himself  in  oil.  He  has  now  been  for  over  forty  years,  one  of  tlie  main 
|iillars  of  total  abstinence  in  his  adopted  home,  and  may  without  Hattery  be  styled  the  standard  bearer  of  the 
cause.  It  has  often  been  said,  and  with  a  great  deal  of  truth,  that  the  Irishman  who  appears  to  forget  the  old 
land  makes  a  very  inditt'erent  citi/.on,  wherever  his  lot  may  bo  cast. 

Mr,  Murphy  is  a  striking  example  of  the  class  that  contribute  so  much  to  the  progress  and  prosperity  of 
their  adopted  homo,  and  yet  never  cease  to  sympathise  with  the  land  of  their  forefathers.  In  the  good  old  days 
of  1842,  when  the  Irishmen  of  Montreal,  Catholic  and  Protestant,  formed  one  grand  brotherhood,  ere  i:arrow- 
minded  political  tricksters  had  succeeded  in  dividing  them  into  two  hostile  camps,  Mr.  Murphy  became  a  member 
of  the  original  St.  Patrick's  Society,  under  the  presidency  of  the  late  Benjamin  Holmes.  In  those  days  and  in 
later,  such  men  as  the  late  William  Workman,  Sir  Francis  Hincks,  and  many  other  distinguished  Irish  Protestant 
gentlemen,  were  joined  hand  in  hand  with  their  Cathr)lic  brethren,  and  the  Irish  people  of  Montreal  were  res- 
pected, and  their  influence  felt  throughout  the  land.  Mr.  Murphy  was  indefatigable  in  his  exertions  to  promote 
the  well-being  of  his  feUow-countrymen,  through  the  medium  of  the  national  organimtion.  In  IStiO,  he  was 
elected  president  of  the  St.  Patrick's  Society,  a  position  he  filled  with  credit  to  himself  and  benefit  to  that  body. 
About  this  time  he  was  gazetted  captain  in  the  Montreal  Militia,  4th  Batallion  :  he  wan  also  named  in  the  com- 
mission of  thu  peace,  and  in  18U1,  he  (jccupied  the  resp<m8ible  position  of  commissioner  of  the  census  for  the  city 
of  Montreal,  under  the  Canadian  (lovernment. 

In  1872,  Mr.  Murphy  revisited  the  scenes  of  his  childhood,  and  cast  once  more  a  loving  glance  on  the 
green  hills  and  pleasant  valleys  of  his  n.ative  land.  Diu-ing  his  absence  in  Ireland,  ho  was  elected  a  dircL'tcji'  of 
the  City  and  District  Savings  Hank  of  Montreal.  This  position  he  tilled  until  1877,  when  he  wiw  elected  to  the 
presidency  of  tliat  Hourishing  instittition,  an  oftice  to  which  he  ha?  been  annually  re-elected,  and  which  he  holds 
at  tlie  present  time.  Mow  he  finds  time  to  perform  the  duties  of  his  muUifarioiis  ottieo.i  i.s  iciilly  marvellous,  lie 
tills  the  important  trust  of  muniiiiller  of  the  pariah  cliuieh  of  Notre  L)ame,  a  singular  mark  of  tlie  confidence 
reposed  in  him,  and  tlie  kindly  feelings  evinced  toward  lilm  by  his  French  Canadian  fellow-oiti/eiis.  Again  and 
again  he  has  been  solicited  to  accept  municipal  and  parliamentary  honors,  which  he  has  always  declined.  Never- 
theless, he  has  not  abstained  from  participating  in  the  jiolitical  struggles  of  the  country.  A  friend  of  liberty  for 
lii!<  own  people,  he  syiiipatliised  with  tlio  gallant  liand  of  patriots,  whose  blood  shed  on  tlu'  lield  of  battle,  and 
trickling  down  the  soallold  in  18;t7  and  1838,  secured  fort'anada  the  priceless  boon  of  constitutional  governnuMit. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Liberal  Conservative,  and,  through  good  report  and  evil  report,  he  always  manfully  stood  by 
the  [larty,  that  his  experience  has  led  him  to  believe  has  the  true  interests  of  Canada  at  heart.  Kiijoyment  of 
the  blessings  of  constitutional  freedom  in  t'anada  has  made  Mr.  .Muqihy's  syuiiiathetic  heart  yearn  for  similar 
advantages  to  his  native  land.  From  the  year  !84l  to  1847,  he  was  one  of  the  most  ardent  repealers  amongst  thu 
many  good  and  true  Irishmen  in  Canada,  who  responded  to  the  appeals  of  the  great  O'Coiinell.  In  187:!,  when 
the  nation  was  again  aroused  to  make  one  more  grand  struggle  for  constitutional  freedom,  by  the  magic  el(H|nencc 
of  the  illu8trio\is  Isaac  Hutt  and  his  colleagues,  Mr.  Murphy  was  the  prime  organizer  of  the  Montreal  branch  of 
the  Hinne  Kide  League,  an  organization  that  flourished  for  .several  years,  and  assisted  by  its  generous  contribu- 
tions, anioiiiitiiig  to  hundreds  of  poun<la,  towards  the  progress  of  the  movement  tliat  has  since  accomplished  such 
noble  results  ;  whilst  tlie  e.\istencu  of  such  a  body  in  this  far-otl'  British  province  evinced,  in  an  unmistakable 
manner,  the  syiiiiiathy  felt  for  struggling  Ireland  through  the  empire. 

With  inch  a  record  any  man  might  well  rest  content,  to  see  his  name  go  down  to  posteritj' ;  but  Mr. 
Murphy  has  still  other  claims  to  public  gratitude.  As  far  back  as  twenty-five  years  ago,  mainly  through  his 
exertions,  the  '  early  closing  movement'  was  carried  into  ett'ect,  whereby  the  clerks  in  the  hardware  trade  secured 
the  afternoons  of  Saturday,  for  their  recreation  and  mental  improvement,  a  boon  that  has  since  been  widely 
extended  for  the  benefit  of  clerks  in  other  branches  of  business.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Natural  History  Society 
of  this  city,  also  of  the  Numismatic  and  Antiipiarian  Society,  and  also  of  the  .S'n.^iV^e  H Utoriqur  de  MoiUieal,  and 
a  life  governor  of  thu  Montreal  General  Hospital,  in  the  transaction  of  which  he  has  taken  an  active  part.     For 


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Mveral  yekiw,  and  until  recently,  he  wm  une  of  the  Catholic  sohtwl  oammiwiionen  of  Montreal.  In  thi*  potitipn 
he  felt  more  acutely  than  ever,  the  great  need  of  a  good  M>lid  commercial  education  for  our  youth,  and  hit  ener- 
gies wore  centered  t<>  effect  that  object.  To  give  an  impetiu  to  the  movement,  he  generously  founded  the 
'  Edward  Murphy'  price  of  the  annual  value  of  $100,  in  perpetuity,  for  the  '  encouragement  of  commercial  edu- 
cation in  Montreal.'  This  prixe  ounsiitB  in  a  gold  medal  i>f  the  value  of  $60,  and  a  purae  of  a  like  amount,  and  it 
open  to  all  competitor*.  During  those  long  years  of  arduous  labor,  Mr.  Murphy  has  found  time  to  cultivate  his 
taste  for  scientific  pursuits,  and  his  public  lectures,  always  delivered  for  the  benefit  of  charitable  objects,  on 
'  The  Microscope  and  its  Revelations,'  and  on  *  Astronomy,'  have  invariably  met  with  a  hearty  receptimi  by  the 
public.  He  purfued  these  favorite  studies  in  the  few  moments  he  could  siwtch  from  his  prefwiii;;  niriiiiatiiiii!,, 
and  the  success  that  has  attended  his  efforts  is  another  proof  of  how  much  can  lie  arciiiii|ilifilit>il  li\  wi'll  directed 
labor.  The  last  post  of  honor,  entailing  arduous  duties  as  well,  conferred  mi  Mr.  Murphy,  ik  that  of  harbor 
commissioner,  which  he  now  fills. 

He  was  twice  married,  first,  eai'ly  in  life  to  Miss  MrBridc,  i>f  (his  cil),  and  secuudly  to  Miss  Power, 
daughter  of  the  late  Hon.  Judge  Power,  of  the  Superior  CKiii't  nf  t^iii'lifc.  Mrs.  Murphy,  who  inherits  her  father's 
talenta  an<i  generosity,  is  the  coadjutor  of  her  husbaml  in  Iiih  nnrkH  of  Itenevolence,  and  his  sympathetic  fellow- 
worker  in  his  many  labors  of  love.  What  a  noble  example  for  the  rising  generation,  have  we  not  in  the  career 
so  hastily  and  imperfectly  t^ketched  in  this  pa|ier  >.  Mr.  Murphy  is  identified  with  the  progress  and  the  pnaperity 
of  his  adopted  home. 

As  a  successful  merchant,  his  word  is  ns  good  as  his  bond  in  the  commercial  uoninii:nily.  He  is  the 
patron  of  educatiitn,  the  noiseless  toiler  in  scientific  pursuit,  a  sincere  and  devout  Catholic,  whose  name  will  ever 
l)e  connected  with  the  St.  Patrick's  church  and  its  asylum,  of  which  he  has  been  a  trustee  for  over  twenty  years, 
and  kindred  institutions.  He  is  reiitected  and  trusted  by  his  fellow-citizens,  of  all  origins  and  creeds,  as  a  loyal 
and  devoied  son  of  Canada,  and  one  who  has  never  lieen  afraid  or  a*!ianifd  to  stniitgle  with  might  and  main  for 
even-handed  justice,  to  liig  fellow-c«inntrynien  in  the  lami  of  his  birth. 

Ti»  the  nbovf  mliiiiralilt'  tril»ut<'  to  the  worth  of  Mr.  Murphy  a.s  a  citizen,  we  have  only  to 
a<l(I  that  he  hiiH  a  vmy  iiK-asant  a*l<lri"'-i,  a  kindly  tli.spoHitiun,  aH'able  manners,  and  all  the  qnali- 
tieH  of  the  ntiined  ( 'hri.stian  <'(>ntlenian. 


OKKN     15.    KK^II^ 

'  WATKHUti). 

OREN  BAKER  KEMP,  cmwn  land  agent  at  Waterloo,  is  a  grandson  of  Elijah  Keniii,  a 
pioneer  in  Fivlighshurg,  and  for  years  a  prominent  citizen  of  that  village  and  of  St. 
Armand  E«»st ;  and  a  son  of  Oren  J.  and  Patience  (Biikerj  Kemp,  dating  his  hirth  at  Freliglis- 
Itnrg,  county  of  Missis<|uui,  June  29,  182C.  His  father  was  a  merchant,  manufacturer,  uiugiM- 
trate,  crown  land  agent,  and  lieutenant-colonel  of  militia ;  his  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Joseph 
Iteker  of  Dunham ;  the  Bakera  heing  early  settlers  and  a  prominent  family  in  that  township. 

Mr.  Kemp  was  educated  in  the  elementary  branches,  and  left  schixjl  when  ten  years  old, 
never  attending  more  than  thret;  or  four  months  after  that  age.  He  gave  himself,  howevfi-,  in 
later  yeai's,  a  giKsl  business  education  ;  farmed  and  clerked  for  his  father  until  he  reached 
manhoo<l ;  and  from  1849  to  1802  he  was  engaged  in  agriculture  exclusively,  at  Frelighshurg. 


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THK  CAXADLtX  liloaUM'HICAL  DICTIOSAKY. 


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While  there  he  held  various  offices,  in  which  he  inade  himself  eminently  useful,  Huch  as  secre- 
tary-treasurer of  the  municipal  council  seven  years,  school  commissioner  six  years,  clerk  of  the 
magistrates  and  commissioners'  court,  and  a  trustee  of  the  grammar  school.  At  the  death  of 
his  father,  in  186G,  ho  took  his  place  as  crown  land  agent,  and  three  years  later  was  added  the 
tiniljer  agency,  llie  historian  of  Shefford,  speaking  of  the  official  connection  of  our  subject 
with  his  native  town,  thus  writes :  "  The  ability  with  which  he  (Mr.  Kemp)  filled  these  dif- 
ferent offices,  his  social  (jualities  and  ]M>litene.sH,  greatly  endeared  him  to  the  citizens  of  the 
place.  On  his  departure,  tliej'  presented  him  with  a  valunltle  silver  tea-service  as  a  testimonial 
of  their  esteem." 

In  1871  Mr.  Kemp  removed  to  Oranlty,  where  he  filled  Ihe  office  of  crown  land  ngont  until 
March,  1H74,  when  he  removed,  to  Waterloo.  During  his  first  year  here  ho  was  crown  lanti 
agent  only  ;  in  187')  he  was  also  employed  a.s  a.ssistant  .soerotary-tre;isurer  of  the  town.ship  of 
Shefl'ord,  village  of  Waterloo,  and  county  «)f  Sliefford,  In-ing  ai.so  copyist  for  John  P.  Noyes, 
Kst|.,  advocate  ;  in  187<i  was  appoiiit«!il  secretary-trea-Hurer  of  the  village  and  township  eouiu-ils, 
and  he  is  likewise  couunissioner  tor  the  superior  court  for  the  districts  of  l^'dford,  Montreal, 
and  St.  Francis,  and  tivasurcr  of  the  school  couuuissioners  of  Waterloo,  rweiving  the  las^  ap- 
pointment in  May,  \t  X 

Mr.  Kemp  was  marriei.  ihe  1st  of  October,  18.50,  to  Miss  (ieorgiana  Pell,  of  Dunham, 
county  of  Miaslsquoi,  and  he  has  had  three  children,  losing  one  of  them,  a  twin  son,  (leorge 
Herbert,  at  < Sranby,  in  his  18th  year.  Alice  AllN-rta,  the  oldest  child,  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  H. 
licroy  Fuller,  of  Sweetsburg;  and  ('harles  Andrew  is  clerk  in  a  wholesale  and  reUiil  hardware 
store  at  Sherbrooke. 


in:iN('U*AL    rWiEI.    K.    AK(MlA^f^A^^LT, 

MOSTHEAI,. 

URr.KL  ElKiKNK  AH«"HAMhAI'I.T,  principal  of  the  <  'atliolic  cmntnereial  aaidemy,  and 
su|ierintendent  of  all  the  Montreal  schools  under  the  control  of  the  Catholic  Commis- 
sioners,  whs  born  at  L'A.ssoniption,  P.  t^.,  on  the  27tii  <>f  May.  IKU,  his  father,  Louis  Arehain- 
bault,  a  farmer,  Iteing  also  born  there.  The  family  came  from  France,  and  settled  on  the  Island 
of  Montreal  about  ItJoO,  and  the  descendants  of  the  fiiNt  settlers  are  now  Ibuinl  in  many  paits  of 
the  Province  of  Quebec,  lieing  quite  numerous  at  1/As.somption.  At  Iea.st  thive  or  four  of  these 
lle^'cendents  have  In^in  meud»ers  of  I'arliament.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Marie  Ang<<li(|uc 
Prud'honuue,  a  memlter  of  another  veiy  old  family  in  the  Province  of  yuelw.  The  earlier  part 
of  his  education  was  obtained  at  Ij'Aswmiption.  At  seventeen  years  of  age  (I8.')|)  he  coni- 
menceil  teaching,  continuing  that  pursuit  for  five  suc<.-e8sive  years  at  St.  Ambroisc  of  Kildare, 


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L'Assoiiiption  and  ( 'hateau};u«y ;  nftor  which  he  attended  Jac<|iieH( 'artier  Noniial  Svh(N)l,  Mon« 
tivjil,  nninhiiig  his  Hchool  t-ducation  in  18i>H.  In  that  }'ear  lie  I'esuineil  \m  fornifr  and  prt^Hont 
piitfeH-sion,  t«><»chinf;  one  year  at  St.  Constant,  and,  Hinco  1M59,  ii!'"  V^en  l'rinei|>al  of  the  Catho- 
lic Comnicifial  Acu<leniy,  Montreal.  Ho  w  very  snccesNfiil,  lioth  as  an  educAtor  and  organizer, 
and  very  induHtrious.  \\'\n  duties  as  inspeetor  of  the  several  kc)io,i!s  under  the  Roman  Catholie 
Conunissioners  take  eonsiih'ralile  time,  and  he  d(Hw  all  Ids  work  well.  His  manners  are  very 
pleasant,  mid  his  ndatioiis  with  the  ti-acrhers  and  students  in  the  (\)iinii(>reial  Academy  are  very 
a^rc«-alili>.  He  has  done,  and  is  doing,  a  jgreat  deal  to  promote  the  cau^e  of  edueatioii  amon;^ 
llir  Calholii-  popiiliilioti  ofliis  Province. 

i'riiii-ipal  Areliainiianit  Iiim  taken  •jreat  pains  to  ae<|iiaiiit  himself  with  the  various  and  hest 
sy.st<-iiis  of  iastriK'tioii  and  iiietluKis  of  discipline,  and,  with  this  ciiil  in  view,  hiis  truvi-llcd  in 
various  parts  iif  the  nniti-d  States  and  in  th*!  old  etnintiy.  In  IS70,  In-  visiti'd  lioston,  New 
York,  riiiladclphia,  lialtimore,  Washington,  and  lliehimmd  (Va.).  and  made  the  aei|iiHin»anee  of 
some  of  the  In-st  ediicutors  in  the  I'nit^Ml  States,  together  with  their  systems  of  teaeliing,  gov- 
erning, iVf..  \e.     In  1S7«!  he  visit-  d  the  Centennial  exhiliition  to  the  sjime  juirpnse. 

In  1^7^.  he  visitod  Kranee,  going  out  as  a  Commissioner  for  Seliola.'<t i<-  K\liil>itioti  to  the 
Kxposition  held  in  Paris  that  year,  and  served  aji  a  memlK'r  of  the  diiry,  Class  (i.  on  rrimary 
Kdueation.  While  there  he  gave  his  liest  attention  i/o  the  system  of  eilueation.  WhiU-  in  Franee 
he  obtained  the  decoration  of  O^ujc  ii'Aca<y>iue.  He  is  a  ineinher  of  the  Sitcif'tt^  ilf  (rAMfiiiphin, 
Franee. 

In  IWiO,  he  married  Marie  Philoni'w  A/ilda,  daughter  of  Dr.  James  Robitaille,  of  St.  Il<x'h 
de  I/Aehigan,  and  they  have  lost  five  children,  and  have  five  daughters  and  one  son  living. 


COL.   GEOKGE    ('.    DVKIi, 

SUTTON. 

aEOUOK  CHl"XrKR  DY'KR,  one  of  the  most  successful  husiness  men  in  the  county  of 
Brome,  V.().,  is  a  native  of  this  pntvinee,  dating  his  hirtli  at  St.  Armand  on  the  3rd  of  ( )cto- 
Im'I-,  IMO.  His  father  was  Joseph  N.  Dyer,  farmer,  who  was  fmni  the  Htiite  of  RIkkIo  Island,  the 
family  Iteiiig  originally  from  Knglan<l,and  settling  in  the  staU;  intmtioned  some  time  in  the  17th 
century.  Joseph  N.  Dyer  was  a  brother  of  Edwanl  Dyer  of  Rutland,  Vt.  Our  subject  is  a  cousin 
of  Dr.  Olin  Dyer,  of  Brandon,  Vt.,  and  of  Dr.  Volney  Dyer,  of  Cliicago,  111.  His  relations  are 
scattere<l  largely  over  Vermont,  and  are  found  in  many  of  the  states. 

The  mother  of  Mr.  Dyer,  liefore  her  marriage,  wan  Dinah  AuHtin,from  Washington  county, 
N.  V.  He  was  educated  mainly  in  the  Whitehall  Acatlemy  and  High  School  at  CiranviMe,  N.  V., 


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paying  particular  attention  to  Hurveying  unJ  the  higher  niatheniaticM,  inchiiling  geometry  and 
trig«»nonietry,  8ul>9e«]iiuntly  teaching  for  eiglit  wintent  in  the  county  of  Bromu,  commencing  in 
1829.  At  that  period  he  gav^'^is  time,  during  the  other  peaaons  of  tlie  year,  to  a  variety  of 
occupationN,  male  ing  a  purchase  of  wihl  land  in  the  town  of  Sutton,  where  he  now  lives. 

In  theHpring  of  1834,  Mr.  Dyer  went  to  Montreal,  and  watt  clerk  a  »\\ori  time  in  a  storo. 
It  waH  at  the  time  of  the  .*«econ<l  visit  of  the  cholera  to  that  city ;  people  began  to  drop  olf  rapidly, 
including  some  of  Ium  acquaintances  ;  and  hu  deemed  it  prudent  to  return  to  Sutton,  which  ho 
did  that  summer.  Soon  afterwanls  he  opened  a  small  stock  of  goods,  which  he  continued  to 
enlarge  as  the  country  became  more  and  more  settled.  He  has  been  a  trader  here  for  forty-Hi.\ 
years ;  has  done  business  uniformly  in  an  honorable  manner ;  has  had  the  confidence  of  the 
people  in  liis  honesty  and  fair  dealing,  and  has  \>een  remarkably  successful. 

During  all  the  long  period  that  he  has  been  a  merchant  at  Sutton,  Mr.  Dyer  has  also  Iteen 
engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  commencing  with  sixty-six  acres,  and  now  having  at  least  five 
hundred  in  his  home  farm,  something  like  two-thirds  of  it  under  improvement.  He  has  taken  the 
first  premium  sieveral  times  for  the  Itest  farm  in  the  ttiwnship,  and  in  1871  took  the  second  premium 
for  the  second-best  farm  in  the  county.  He  keeps  a  large  stock  of  graded  horses,  cattle  and 
sheep,  and  takes  a  large  share  of  premiums  at  the  town  and  coimty  fairs  on  live  stock. 

He  has  always  been  a  memfter  of  the  county  agricultural  society,  and  has  done  a  goo<l  deal 
U)  encourage  horticulture  and  gardening,  as  well  as  agriculture.  , 

At  the  time  when  the  relR'Hion  broke  out  in  1837,  Mr.  Dyer  promptly  joined  the  volunteer 
force,  and  was  promote*.!  from  time  to  time  until  he  now  holds  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel  of 

the  reserve  militia. 

Col.  Dver  was  the  first  bailiff' of  the  town  of  Sutton  ,  has  lifon  postmaster  since  1841 ;  was 
one  of  the  district  councilloi-s  when  their  meetings  were  helil  at  Sweetsburg;  and  was  .seciftary 
(if  the  town  couiu-il  for  some  timo,  when  the  meetings  of  that  body  were  held  at  his  house.  He 
is  also  a  iiia"isti-ate.  lie  dis-s  not  seem  to  have  shrunk  fiom  the  burdm  of  ofKce-lH-aring,  In-in^r 
l»ublic-si)irite«l  and  always  ready  to  aid  in  municipal  an<1  other  matters  pertaining  to  the 
inf*'ivsts  of  the  community.  He  has  lK?en,  until  a  year  or  two  ago,  a  director  of  the  Soiitli- 
easteni  railway  from  the  time  of  the  organimtion  of  the  company. 

He  is  an  adheivnt  of  the  Cliureh  of  Kngland,  to  which  his  family  In^hmg,  and  is  a  regular 
atU'ndant  at  and  lilsM-al  contributor  U)  the  sanu-.  His  neighbors,  who  have  known  him  longist, 
jrivt  him  cr»Mlitasl)eing  unusually  generous  in  his  contributions  toward  the  buililingof  ehui-ches 
in  this  part  of  Canada,  and  in  his  iH-neHcent  acts  towanls  the  unfortunate.  In  him  the  |>oor 
have  a  friend  not  only  able,  but  willing  to  help. 

Col.  Dyer  joined  the  Kn-enmsons  about  thirty  years  ago,  but  has  not,  wi>  Itelieve,  gonealNive 

the  thinl  degiw. 

On  the  2J)th  of  Octolier,  \M7,  he  married  Miss  Jane  lloyce,daiighU«r  of  Major  Calct  Royee, 
of  Richford,  Vt.,  and  they  have  one  son  ami  one  daughter,  lx»th  married,  the  son  having  a  second 


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wife.  Eugene  AlphonMe  Dyer,  bom  in  1888,  has  been  in  business  with  his  father  since  IHOO, 
and  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  thorough^ing  citizens  of  the  town,  having  l)eon  town 
councillor  t«n  years,  secretary  of  school  commis-siuners,  mayor  di  the  town  two  or  three  Uu-ms, 
and  wanlen  of  the  county  one  term.  He  is  a  blue  lodge  mason,  and  has  been  n)a.stor  of  the 
Sutton  lodge.  The  daughter  of  Col.  Dyer,  Annette  Eugenie,  is  the  wife  of  George  T.  Ramsay, 
of  Lemington,  Vt.    The  Colonel  has  eleven  grand-children. 

There  is  a  goo<l  lesson  for  young  men  in  the  history  of  Col.  Dyer.  Owing  to  financial 
reverses  of  his  father,  at  nine  years  of  age,  he  was  thrown  u|X)n  his  own  resourccH,  and  t<K)k 
care  of  himself  At  twelve  he  commenced  receiving  wages  working  at  ?♦  a  month  in  tlio 
summer  season.  The  next  year  he  had  IJMJ,  then  88,  and  at  eighteen,  $20  p»'r  month.  When  ho 
settled  in  the  town  of  Hutton  in  1834,  all  he  had  was  sixty-six  acres  of  land  not  wholly  paid  for. 
He  is  now  one  of  the  largest  tax-payers,  if  not  the  largest,  in  the  county  of  Brorae  ;  and  all  he 
has  is  the  fruit  of  economical  and  industrious  habits,  and  prudent  management.  Being  &  man 
of  good  habits,  having  in  no  way  abused  or  injured  his  constitution,  we  see  him,  at  thrce-scoro 
years  and  ten,  the  allotted  age  of  man  in  good  health,  standing  perfectly  erect,  as  sound  and 
elastic  ati  many  men  arc  at  fifly-tive  and  sixty,  and  as  prompt  in  dispatching  busine.ss  as  at 
almost  any  period  of  his  life. 

It  may  not  Ik-  improper  here  to  add  that  Daniel  V.  Dyer,  of  Sutton,  in  a  brother  of  the 
Colonel,  coming  here  at  the  same  time,  and  always  living  here,  lieing  a  thrifty  farmer.  He  has 
two  sons,  George  E.  and  Albert.!.  Dyer,  who  are  among  the  beiit  clxss  of  pei>ion.s  in  tluN  town. 


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MOSTRKAL. 

JOHN  SFROTT  ARCHIH.MJ),  lVofess<.r  of  Criminal  and  Con.stitutional  Law  in  McGill 
I'nivei-sity,  and  one  <»f  tlie  rising;  young  lawyers  of  Montreal,  is  a  native  of  Halifax 
County,  Nova  Scotia.  He  was  born  in  the  village  (»f  Musi[U(NlolKiit,  on  the  8tli  of  SeptemlMi-, 
18-13.  His  father,  William  G.  Airhilmlil,  is  a  native  of  the  same  county.  The  family  weie 
originally  from  tiondonderry,  Ireland.  The  mother  of  John,  Nancy  .XrcliilMiJil,  a  cou.sin  of  his 
father,  was  liorn  in  Trind,  N.S.  He  is  the  fourth  child  in  a  family  of  five  cliiidreii ;  was  edu- 
cated in  |)art  at  the  Piv,sbyterian  Si>minary,  Truro ;  in  18<>4  came  to  Montreal  and  took  tho 
Art*<  course  at  Mel  Sill  University,  gradiiat»'d  Jiachelor  of  Arts  in  lS(i7,  and  took  the  I'rince  of 
Wales  g«)ld  medal  for  st^mding  in  Mental  and  Moral  Philosophy. 

Mr.  Archilwld  studied  law  in  the  office  of  the  late  John  A.  Perkins,  Uiking  meanwhile,  the 
law  coui-se  at  McGill,  graduating  B.  C.  L.  in  1870,  and  taking  the  EUzalieth  Torrance  gold 
medal. 


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He  wa8  atlmitietl  to  the  bar  on  the  10th  of  January,  IN71,  ami  Hince  that  date  han  nU'adily 
piiniuctl  his  |ii-actici>  in  this  city,  awhile  alone,  an<l  now  is  of  the  firm  of  Archiltald  \'  McC'(>nnick. 
Tliey  have  a  j,'(xmI  practice  in  tlie  several  e4turt»i  of  the  Province.  The  Judges  of  the  Montreal 
Itencli,  att  the  writer  hap|K>nH  to  know,  reganl  Mr.  Archibald  as  a  strictly  honorable  an<l  \erv 
studious  lawyer,  and  a  ^^^wing  man  in  the  pn)feHHi«>n. 

In  the  autumn  of  IN7I,  Mr.  Archibald  was  ap))ointeil  lecturer  on  Criminal  Iaw,  Mcliiij, 
iind  in  the  spring  of  1SS(),  was  apfxtinted  ProfeHii4)r  of  Criniiniil  and  Constitutional  l^aw,  in  the 
same  institution,  a  {Ktsition  which  he  ha>t  sufficient  ability  and  ambition  to  till  with  cre<lit  to 
him.scif  and  the  college.  He  pre|>ares  himHi>lf  with  gii'at  caiv,  and  is  nnderstcHxl  to  be  well 
liked  by  the  students. 

Mr.  Aix'lubaid  is  a  memlH>r  of  the  Presbyt«>rian  Church,  and  we  cannot  learn  that  in  his 
case  there  is  any  ditticulty  in  practising  law  and  the  precepts  of  the  Oospel.  He  was  married 
to  Mis-s  Kllen  Hutchin.son,  of  Bluevalf,  Ontario,  on  the  l.^th  of  July,  IH7I,  and  they  have  three 
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SHAW  BROTTTERS  ANT)  CASSILS, 

".■  MONTREAL 

T  I  IHE  original  name  of  the  firm  of  Shaw  Brothers,  .so  well  known  all  over  the  Dominion  of 
-*-  Canaila,  was  F.  Sha.v  and  Brothei-s,  wliich  is  still  the  Boston  name  of  the  tirm.  It  consists 
of  three  brothers,  Fayette,  Brackley  and  William  Shaw,  sons  of  Bracklcy  Shaw,  many  yenrs  a 
leather  manufacturer  of  ( 7umnungton,  Mass.,  where  all  the  sons  were  iK^rn.  The  8hav\swe;o 
caily  settlers  in  Abbington,  same  State,  the  progenitor  of  the  family  coming  over  from  the  old 
cituntry  in  the  17th  century.  The  grandfather  of  the  brothei-s  mentioned  was  a  .soldier  in  the 
war  for  American  independence,  dying  in  Cummingtou  at  the  age  of  eighty-seven  years.  The 
wife  of  Brackley  Shaw,  si>nior,  had  nine  children,  all  are  .still  living. 

The  firm  of  F.  Shaw  and  Brothers  was  formed  in  I84!t,  and  commenced  inaiiufiicturing  leather 
at  Cummingtoii,  on  a  UKKlei-ate  scale.  Two  yeai-s  later,  Bi-ackley  Shaw  wtiit  to  De.vter,  Maine, 
and  started  a  branch  of  the  business,  which  was  managed  by  William  Sliaw  and  a  younger 
brother  i\aiiied  Thaxter,  together  with  an  uncle,  Charles  Shaw,  a  little  lat«'r,  and  which  ext<*nd.s 
over  111!  the  eastern  part  of  that  State.  The  uncle,  and  the  .sons  of  the  uncle  now  own  tin- 
business  there. 

In  l!S.')9,  Brackley  and  William  Shaw  came  to  Canada  and  started  business,  with  the  firm 
name  of  V.  Sluiw  ami  Brothei-s.  William  returning  U^  Maine  alx>ut  ten  years  ago.  With  hcad- 
(juarters  at  Mciitreal,  they  commenced  opi-mtions  in  this  Province,  by  staiiing  a  tanneiN  at 


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Roxtnn  FaHm,  i-nunty  of  ShefToiil,  aii«l  liavu  mnco  ndiltNl  taniicrk-M  at  WhUtKio,  Dnininioiulvillo, 
(iraiilty.  an*l  .<H>vcrHl  other  plaocH,  they  now  liaviii);  fourteen  tnnncrieH  in  ( 'ana<la,  wliicli  they 
either  own  or  Hiipply  with  liiileH. 

In  .Inniiary,  1874,  Mr.  John  <  'iiwilH,  a  native  of  OhiH^iw,  Hcotland,  and  a  renident  of  Montreal 
Hinee  early  youth,  enterc<l  the  tinn,  which  then  took  the  name  of  Shaw  HrotherHand  ('HwiU. 

It  iH  doin<;  the  largont  liuninem  of  any  leather  manufactory  in  Canada,  ainountin);  in  thiM 
country  alone,  to  ab«Mit  (i,000,(MN)  |H)undM  of  leather,  or  4<M),(MK)  Hides  annually,  couHuniing  :)0,4N'O 
eonls  of  Itark.  ItH  market  extends  ail  over  the  Dominion  and  into  Newfoundland,  hut  itn  leading 
ItUNineMM  Ik  done  in  Montix>al,  which  \*  the  centre  of  the  nhoe  buHincHs  in  ( 'amuln,  there  U'ing 
from  twenty-five  to  thirty  factoricH  here,  and  a  do/A3n  or  more  of  them  Ki-MtclaxH.  The  Hrm  alto 
ex|N)rt>«  from  one  to  two  million  |H)unds  of  leather  annually  to  England. 

They  have  an  intei-eHt  in  the  Mt«)re  of  Warren,  Toln-y  and  Co.,  at  Toronto,  and  itM  hraiich  Htoro, 
P.  CreHH  and  Co ,  at  I'ort  Elgin,  Ontario.  Connecteil  with  all  their  tannericH  in  ( 'anada,  munt  be  at 
leaHt  '*'!{)  workmen,  not  reckoning  collateral  lal>or.  Sixty  thouHand  dollartt  being  |>aid  out  yearly 
in  tnnnerN'  wages.    Such  industricR  are  of  incalculable  lienefit  to  a  countiy. 

The  three  Shaw.s.  brothers,  nientioneil  at  the  commencement  of  this  sketch,  have  all  had 
more  than  thirty  yeai-s' exiH'rience  in  manufacturing  and  mei-chantlising.  nnd  are  well  known  in 
the  great  centres  of  the  leather  market  in  the  Uniti^l  States  as  well  an  Canada.  They  all  have 
an  interest  in  the  Hrnis  of  F.  Shaw  and  Brothers,  Boston,  and  Shaw  Brothei-s  an<l  C&ssils,  Mon- 
treal. 

Fayette  Shaw  lives  in  Brenton,  Mu.ss.,  near  Boston  ;  Brackley  SI  aw,  in  Montreal ;  and 
William  Shaw,  in  Dorcht-r^tcr,  Mhsm.,  all  having  families.  As  far  as  we  can  &scert*in,  they  are 
rather  (|uiet  and  unobtrusive,  declining  public  offices,  and  contented  to  be  known  as  upright  and 
succes,sful  business  men.  Brackley  Shaw,  the  only  mcnd^er  of  the  family  in  Canada,  married  in 
ls.'i2,  Miss  .Marca  Bartlett,  of  Cummington,  Ma.ss.,  and  they  have  one  daughter  and  four  .sons 
living.  Kva,  the  eldest  child,  is  the  wife  of  Archibald  Ca-^sils  ;  and  the  sons  aix-  Cliarles  Thnxter, 
Howard  W.,  William  Sutherland  and  Brackley  M.,  the  eldest  being  in  his  twenty- third  year. 


(lASPAlJl)    DHOLKT, 

.  QVEHEV. 

I)f)SSlBLY  a  more  indu.strious  official  of  the  civil  service  d«H»s  not  exist  than  the  subject 
of  our  sketirh,  who  is  auditor  of  the  Province  <>f  C^ucInh'.  He  is  the  son  of  the  well 
known  advocate  whosc>  Christian  name  he  liears,  his  mother  lieing  a  MiiN  Marie  Antoinette  Le 
Bloutl.and  was  Ijorn  in  (jueliee  in  January,  1828.  He  went  through  a  fidl  and  complete  coui-se 
of  cla.s.sics  at  the  Quel»ec  Seminary.     He  was  president  of  the   Institut  Canadien  for  18.59-60; 


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waN  roinmimionor,  in  lH((j),  on  th<>  ominiry  on  tlie  civil  wrvicv  of  the  Pl'ovince  of  Qni-lKtc,  anil 
HubniitUMi  Huino  valuable  Hii^geHtionH  in  regard  to  itH  reor^nizatiun.  He  wan  aim)  aii|M)inte«l 
coinnuHHioner  witli  •!.  0.  \Vtm4  and  J.  Dunliiir,  Q.  C,  to  cn({uire  into  the  settlement  of  the 
Qn4>)N?c  fin;  loan.  An  oarly  an  IW'2  he  entered  the  public  service,  his  first  appointment  Iteinj; 
made  by  the  public  works  de|iartmont  at  Ottawa,  and  in  Si^ptemlter,  18G7,  he  was  ap[K>inted  to 
his  pivsent  ])osition  wherein  he  has  carrieil  out  the  duties  of  his  important  office  with  so  much 
comnirndabie  /4!al  that  he  haa  on  more  than  one  occasion  elicitt>d  the  marked  approval  of  his 
imniediati>  siiitcrioi-s.  (Socially,  he  is  a  man  who  has  the  friendship  of  all  who  have  known  him 
for  any  lenjrth  of  time,  and  his  courteous  demeanor  {i^ains  for  him  a  warm  appreciation  froiu  all 
his  lifSM  intimate  acquaintances.  During  the  furore,  regarding  the  Trent  affair,  he  was  captain 
of  th<>  7th  Battalion  of  Cliasseurs.  A  Roman  (*atholic  in  ndigion.  He  marrietl  at  Montreal,  in 
1N50,  MiHH  Marie  L.  Eugenie,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  J.  C).  Bruneau,  justice  of  the  Superior  Court. 


HKV.    \\\H\\\    -FOIJXSTOX,    M.A.,    H.I)., 

MONTREAL. 

"T^EV.  HUGH  JOHNSTON,  pastor  of  St.  James  church,  Montre»il,  the  historic  Metlxxlist 
-■-  *  church  of  Canada,  is  a  native  of  the  province  of  Ontario,  having  been  born  in  the  town- 
ship of  Southwold,  January  .">,  1840.  His  father  was  John  Johnston,  yeoman,  of  Scotch  extrac- 
tion, and  his  mother  was  Mary  Ann  Teetzel,  whose  grandfather  was  from  (iermany.  In  youth 
our  subject  prepared  himself  for  a  teacher,  attending  at  the  Normal  School,  Toronto,  where  he 
received  a  firat-class  certificate,  innnediately  afler  which  he  commenced  teaching  the  Itigb  .school 
at  Arkona,  coimty  of  Lambton.  AfV'r  teaching  for  a  year,  he  lx.'came,  at  the  agt'  of  eighteen 
y*>Hix,  a  candidate  for  the  ministry  of  the  Methodist  church,  and  to  complete  his  studies,  Iteeaine 
an  undergraduate  in  the  university  of  Viet^tria  college,  at  Cobourg,  and  took  a  full  course  in  the 
artM,  l)eing  gratluated  in  I8(i4  us  medaUist  and  valedictorian  of  his  class. 

Mr.  Johnston  was  ordained  that  year,  and  ap]>ointed  to  Toronto;  in  18(J0  came  to  this 
city  as  nn  assi.>«tant  of  Dr.  Douglas  in  the  Montreal  West  charge  ;  the  next  year  returned  to 
Ontario,  and  had  the  pastorate  of  a  church  at  Windsor  for  three  yeai-s.  At  th.>  end  of  this 
|)astoral  term,  he  was  invited  again  to  Toront(»,  While  there  he  pursued  his  studies  in  Hebrew, 
with  Dr.  Ilerschfelder,  and  in  IN74  i-eccived  from  his  Alma  Mater  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of 
Divinity.  From  Toi-onU*  West  he  went  t«)  the  Centenary  ••hun-li,  Hamilton,  the  largest  church 
in  the  Lontlon  conference,  and  three  years  later  was  appointed  to  th<*  Wesli  y  church  of  the 
same  city,  where,  under  hissufterintendeney,  a  large  ami  beautiful,  church  was  completeii.     At 


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the  en<l  of  two  ycara  (1N7H),  an  urgent  rc(|ii«Nt  from  the  quarterly  otKeial  Itoan I  of  St.  JaiiU'H 
Htreet  church,  w&s  sent,  to  have  him  trannferre*!  to  the  Montreal  conference,  and  the  requeHt 
waH  complied  with.  He  iu  now  Hervin^  hin  third  year  in  the  {Muttorate  here,  and  w  feeding  liiH 
hearera  on  giMxl  solid  meat,  and  havin^r  the  natisf action  of  Heeinj;  the  church  f^ow  in  Njiiritual 
stren^^h  an  well  as  numliei-s.  He  is  in  nil  res|K;etK  an  excellent  pivacher,  and  in  oxe^is  he 
liaH  few  equals,  his  tine  scholarship  there  ap|icaring  to  the  very  best  advanta^f.  He  is  spirit- 
ually-minded, yet  cheerful,  conmiending  relijrion  to  the  world  by  the  genial  fei-vor  of  his  nature, 
lis  well  as  by  his  p»>wei-ful  logic 

Mr.  Johnston  has  written  a  goo<l  deal  for  the  ndigious  pa|)erH  of  his  denomination,  several 
review  articles,  anti  more  or  less  foi*  diti'erent  peri(Klicals.  He  has  also  contributed  at  times  to 
the  secular  pi-ess.  He  was  the  iHol>e  corres{K>ndent  in  the  cx])edition  whrch  went  out  through 
British  C'olunibia  to  the  Pacific  coast ;  and  his  letteix  were  very  fresh,  i-acy,  and  {Hipular,  In-ing 
copied  not  only  into  Canadian,  but  into  I'nitcd  States  and  English  newspapers.  He  is  a  vtMsa- 
tile  writer,  and  cajwible  of  interesting  jieople  im  any  subject  whii^h  he  undertakes  to  discu.><s. 

In  18(>7,  Mr,  Johnston  was  joined  in  marriage  with  Kliza,  daughti>r  of  Alderman  Kiiliard 
HollamI,  of  Montreal,  and  of  six  children,  the  fruit  of  this  union,  five  are  still  living. 


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MONTREAL. 

ROBERT  CRAIK,  emeritus  professor  in  the  Faculty  of  Medicine  in  the  University  of  Mc- 
Giil  college,  Montreal,  was  Ikjiti  in  this  city  on  the  22nd  of  April,  1829.  His  father, 
Robett  Craik,  senior,  was  a  native  of  Scotland,  and  came  out  to  Montreal  with  his  young  bride, 
Jane  I)ick.son,in  IS18  The  literary  education  of  Robert  was  chiefly  obtained  at  a  private  school, 
taught  by  Mr.  John  Bnice,  who  was  a  noted  teacher  forty  years  ago,  and  afterwards  (Sovernnient 
school  inspector,  dying  only  a  few  years  ago.  Many  proinirient  Inisiness  men  in  Montreal  were 
educated  by  him.  Our  subject  studied  medicine  with  the  late  Dr.  William  Frasei,  and  is  a  gra- 
duate of  McGill  college  class,  18.>4,  ranking  first  in  honors.  The  same  year  he  becauic  house 
surgeon  to  the  Montreal  General  Hospital,  resigning  in  1860,  and  entering  on  general  practice, 
which  he  .still  continues. 

In  18.50,  Dr.  Craik  was  appointed  demonstratoi  of  anatomy  in  McGill  Fniversity,  and  held 
that  position  until  1861,  when  he  was  appointed  professor  of  clinical  surgeiy,  continuing  in 
that  chair  until  the  session  of  1806-()7.  During  that  session  he  lectured  on  chemistry  for  the 
late  Profes.sor  Sutherland,  whom  he  succeeded  in  that  chair  in  1867,  and  which  he  retained  for 
thirteen  years,  resigning  in  1870.     He  now,  as  already  stated,  holds  the  post  of  emeritus  pro- 


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fcHMor  in  tlie  Faculty  of  Medicine.  Hh  wbh  for  eight  years  registrar  of  the  faculty,  and  Hince  I875, 
haH  lKH>n  its  treahurer.  He  waa  ap]K)inted  attending  physician  to  the  Ocneral  Hospital  in  INGO, 
and  in  now  one  of  the  constdting  physicians  and  a  life-governor  of  that  institution. 

l)r.  ('raik  formerly  contiibuted  somewhat  extensively  to  the  medical  press,  chiefly  Canadian, 
and  some  of  his  articles  liad  a  wide  circulation,  being  copied  into  Unite<l  Stati's  and  British 
nuiga/ines  And  here  we  may  mention,  as  a  noteworthy  circumstance,  that  Dr.  Craik's  thesis,  nt 
his  graduation,  was  on  the  Nature  of  Zymotic  Diseases,  in  which,  more  than  a  quailer  of  a  ct>n- 
tury  ago,  he  shadowed  forth  the  germ-thoory,  which  has  recently  made  a  very  strong  impression 
on  the  public  mind.  The  thesis  wa-s  published  in  thv  liritiKli  American  Meilivtil  Journal  of 
Montreal. 

Dr.  Craik  is  a  governor  of  the  college  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  the  Province  of  Quel)ec, 
and  has  long  held  an  excellent  .standing  among  the  medical  brotherhoixl. 

In  1S5(),  he  married  Alice  Symmers,  (laughter  of  Alexander  Syuimers,  formerly  solicitor  in 
Chancery,  Dublin.  Ireland,  and  she  died  in  1874,  leaving  no  issue. 

Dr.  James  Craik,  of  Virginia,  many  yeai"s  the  family  jjhysician  of  (leneral  Wiushington.and 
his  attendant  at  his  death-bed,  came  from  the  same  family  with  our  subject,  and  was  the  grand- 
father of  Rev.  Jumes  Craik,  D.D.,  of  Louisville,  Ky. 


I{K\.    MAriJlCK    S.    P.ALDWIN,    M..\., 

MONT  HEAL. 

MAITRICK  SCOLLARD  HALDWIN,  M.A.,  rtictor  <>f  the  parish  of  Montreal,  and  Canon  of 
(^lirist  Church  cathedral,  was  l>orn  in  the  city  of  Toronto,  in  Mu>  year  iSHti.  and  is  a 
son  of  the  lutf  .lohn  Si)rcad  Baldwin  and  of  Anni'  Shaw,  daughter  of  Major-(  u-ncral  Shaw,  his 
wife.  The  Hon.  Rol>ert  l^ldwin,  so  long  and  so  favourably  known  in  Canadian  politics,  was  a 
lii*st  cousin  of  the  subject  of  our  notice.  Having  received  his  early  education  at  i'pper  Canada 
( Villege,  he  sulwequently  entered  th<'  University,  and  graduated  at  Tiinity  <  'ollege,  in  18.'>!>.  Hav- 
ing decided  to  take  holy  ordei-s,  he  wiw  ordained  deacon  by  the  late  Dr.  Cronyn,  then  Bishop  of 
Hiinm,  in  April,  iSliO,  and  was  by  him  apiMiinted  to  oIKciate  as  curate  to  the  Rev.  Dr.  OaulKeld, 
at  St.  Thomas,  County  of  Elgin,  Ontario.  In  I8(>i'  he  was  apptinted  iiicumlH'nt  of  Port  Dover, 
in  the  County  of  Norfolk.  In  1S65  he  was  elected  incumbent  of  St.  Luke's,  Montreal,  to  which 
city  he  at  this  time  removed.  In  1870  he  was  appoint<>d  by  the  late  Very  R«v.  Dean  Bethune, 
assi.stant  nnnister  in  Christ  Church  cathedral,  and  in  October,  1872,  on  the  death  of  the  Dean, 
he  wa.s  unanimously  elected  rector  of  the  parish  of  Montreal.  His  api)ointment  to  the  canoniy 
dates  from  June,  1871. 


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u  faitlifiil  anilmHHatlor  of  ChriNt,  ht>  in  wLU'ly  known  and  appreciati><I  in  tho  Dumiiiion.  His 
tliscoiii'M'H  are  invHrinhly  il«-livt>rc«l  cxteui|K>raneouHiy,  with  a  ul«ar  and  diiitinct  utteranco,  and 
aH  an  uioditioniNt  he  pix>bably  \h  not  HurpasHed  in  this  city.  He  is  remarkable  for  hiH  t-arncHt- 
nuHH,  hiM  inu'oniproniiNin;(  fidelity  to  revealed  truth,  and  his  singular  devotion  to  his  work.  "  Ax 
a  ]>aMtor,"  writea  a  friend  of  his:  "he  lian  peculiar  Htnesx  for  itH  duties,  by  reason  of  IiIh  dtH>p 
insi^jht  into  spiritual  truth,  to  ^niide  and  e<lify  his  Hock,  leading  them  constantly  to  Christ  an 
their  only  and  All-suiticient  Oiiide."  Another  of  his  friends  says  he  is  "  the  enilMHlinient  of 
everythin);  good  and  holy,  )>eing  nMuarkably  tender  and  sym|)athotic  in  all  his  words  and  actions. 
His  visits,  whether  especially  |)aHtoral  or  not,  are  always  turned  to  proKtablo  account.  His 
ministrations  to  the  sick  and  dying  appear  to  have  a  marvellous  influence  for  good  on  all  who 
happen  to  Xtc.  present  on  such  occasions." 

( 'anon  Baldwin  is  a  man  of  great  industry,  setting  a  true  value  on  time,  and  making  good 
tise  of  it.  Iksides  his  clerical  lat)or8,  he  has  done  a  great  deal  of  work  with  the  pen,  having 
written  several  pamphlets,  and  at  least  two  works.  One  of  the  latter,  "  A  Break  in  the  Ocean 
Cablf,"  WHS  tirst  published  at  Montreal,  in  1877,  and  no  less  than  10,000  copies  of  it  have  iiecn 
re-published  in  Knglish  editions,  it  is  a  work  calculated  to  do  a  vast  amount  of  gool, and  it  is 
to  be  hoped  that  its  circulation  will  continue  to  widen  in  all  parts  of  Christendom. 

"  The  last  work  from  hi.s  |)en,  entitled  "  Life  in  a  Look,"  publisheil  in  Montreal,  in  ISNO,  is 
hinlily  n^garded  by  those  who  appreciate  evangelistic  truth.  Both  of  these  Iswks  are  «'min- 
ently  clear  and  scriptural,  and  much  to  In*  commended  for  general  use.  They  give  a  very  cor- 
rect idea  of  the  views  and  style  of  their  gifttsd  author. 

The  wife  of  Canon  li«iltlwin  is  Sarah  Jessie,  youngest  daughter  of  John  J.  Day,  t^.C,  Mon- 
treal, their  marriage  ln'ing  dated  in  April,  1«70.  They  have  four  children,  one  son  and  thi*eo 
daughters. 


NAI'OLKON    lioniASSA, 

MiiNTHEAL. 

NAPULKON  BOl'KASSA.a  prominent  artist  in  the  city  of  Montreal,  is  a  <le,scendant  of 
one  of  the  families  whi<"h  were  driven  out  of  Acadia  in  17'')5,  and  found  ivfuge  in  Lower 
CMimda.  He  was  Iwrn  at  Lacadie,  P.Q.,  on  the  Ulst  of  Octolter,  1828,  being  a  .son  of  Frani/ois 
Bouras.sa,  a  farmer,  and  (Senevieve  Patenauile,  who  came  from  an  old  French  Canadian  family. 
Mr.  Bouitissa  received  a  classical  education  at  the  Montreal  Colle;;e;  studied  law  a  short  year 
in  the  office  of  Norbert  Dumas,  K.s«i.,  Montreal,  and  then  alwndoned  the  idea  of  Itccoming  an 


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inlvocate,  ami  Htiidied  purtiuit  painting  two  yeara  with  Mr.  Tiidophile  HaiiH'l.  Mi',  l^oiii-astia 
thon  went  to  Florence,  Italy,  whore,  for  four  years,  he  devoted  himself  a.s,siduou.sly  and  almost 
exclusively  to  fresco  painting  from  religious  designs.  In  l^-io  he  returned  to  Montreal,  and 
since  that  date  has  given  himself  at  times  to  painting,  scidpture  and  architecture,  and  other 
times  to  lit^Mary  labor,  having  written  largely  for  different  periodicals  on  art  ami  other  sulijt  cts. 
Nearly  twenty  years  ago  lie  wrote  for  the  Hi'fiir  C'iDiiitlittnif.  a  .serial,  entitled  Jiiijiu's  ct 
Marie,  a  liistorical  romance,  being  a  souvenier  of  the  dispei-sed  Acadians,  doing  in  prose  what 
Mr.  Loiij^ellow,  in  his  popular  poem,  KiuDij/i'liiiPyhaa  done  in  poetry.  The  story  of  Jacijue.'t  it 
Morie  is  very  largi-ly  hist<irieal,  the  interest  being  intensified  by  the  little  thread  of  romance 
running  tluough  it.  In  l.SliO  it  was  published  in  a  volume,  by  a  Montreal  house,  and  has  sinee 
been  translated  into  English,  and  had  a  good  circulation  in  both  languages.  We  add  some 
commendations  of  this  work  : — 


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La  (lurtit;  liistiiric|i)e  du  Jnfniies  et  Mu/ie  est  au-degsug  de  tout  diuge.  La  peiuturo  du  IV-t.-.t  du  Canada  li 
la  veille  de  la  chute  du  la  dniiiiiiatiun  franvaise  ct  la  degcriptiun  de  la  batnillo  de  8te.  Fuye  rosteront :  co 
siint-li'i  dv8  tableaux  du  iniiitre.  II  y  i^giio  line  aiiiiiiatinii  uxtraonliuaire,  uno  umotidii  patrintiqiiu  profmido. 
La  vie,  I'ligitation  di'chaiiit'ug  dans  cutte  iiumeiise  fresijue  higtoriiiiie  est  tullu  iiii'il  8uiiil>lu  vraiinunt  <|iie  lua 
cvuneinents  out  0(>iumiiiii<|ue  an  tableau  leur  muuvenient  irregigtible,  (pril  a  k.e  puint  an  sortir  dii  terrible  gpoc- 
tiicle,  gous  le  coup  de  IVtl'royable  uatagtrophe.  Jamais  on  n'avait  fait  revjvro  aiiisi,  sous  nog  yeiix,  nog  pi'rug  et 
k'urg  ani^oisges  du  la  duriiiere  lieure  ;  jaiuais  nous  n'avi<jiis  seiiti  a  ce  point  lu  coiitri'i'oiip  de  leur  di-seHiioir,  lo 
choc  c|ui  les  sc'imra  de  la  France.  ♦  *  »  »  » 

Le  style  du  M.  Hoiirasga  est  chnrmaiit.  Cegt  nn  heiireux  mi?lango  do  ginct'rile  dans  le  sentiment,  d'or- 
iginaliie  on  d'eiitrain  dans  I'idt'i',  de  ^laee  etde  vivacitc  dnns  IVxpression.  On  n'tiorit  paH  plug  naturelleiiicnt. 
Aucun  eti'ort,  point  de  pieteiition.  LVcrivain  laitse  la  |duniu  aiissitot  (pril  cesse  de  guntik,  ou  g'il  oontiiiue, 
L-'est  .\  goii  corpg  defendant.  II  faut  (|u'il  soit  de  belle  hunieur  pour  eerire  deg  choseg  gaies,  ou  emu  pour  ucrru 
dug  choseg  emouvautes  :  nulle  feiiite  u'altere  son  idee,  ue  uiasijue  sun  seutiment. 


Ce  style  pur,  charinant,  egt  chez  M.  Bouragga  un  don  de  nature,  une  grace  d'^crivain  ;  il  ne  s'est  point 
laborieugeiueut  formu,  il  s'est  module  tout  naturellement  siir  la  pensid  de  I'ecrivain.  Son  imagination  est  douce, 
aiuple  et  riche  ;  elle  embraase  aiseiiiunt  lus  targes  horizons,  maig,  meine  en  son  vol  le  plus  puissiint,  elle  nc  perd 
pas  de  vue  la  rualite,  le  coin  de  terre  d'oii  elle  s'est  elevee  dans  leg  airs,  le  detail  familier.  liC  draiue  national 
Ri>  der  .,ile  dans  toiite  sa  grandeur  et  sa  vari^tc  guns  les  yeux  du  spectateur  ;  en  avaui  et  jusiiu'aii  «ein  deg  masHus 
pop"lairesnroupeus  diiiiR  le  fond  ilu  la  gcune  eclatent  librement  leg  inciduntg  caract6ristii|uen  de  la  vie  r6elle. 
L'artiste  excelle  a  la  fois  dunn  la  fre>i|Ue  et  dans  le  tableau  de  genre. 

—  Hon.  H.  F\iihk, 

Hi  i-in   Viiiiiiiliiinu  ,  18(Hi. 

«  •  •  •-  •  •'  •  « 

i.Miaiit  an  talent,  a  Tesprit,  aii  travail,  ils  dubordent.  II  y  a  des  pages  lies  eKxpieiites,  des  etudes  de 
oaraclereg,  des  tableaux  de  sentiments,  dune  veritt-,  d'un  interet  i|u'on  cherchurait  en  vain  dans  les  oiivrages 
canadiung. 

Noug  ne  ciaigiions  |mis  du  declarer  ipie  la  publication  dun  livro  coninie  ,fuiii>u\'<  il  Maii,'  egt  un  eveiieiuent 

pour  lu  moiide  littiTaire  en  Canada. 

—  La  Afimni',  IHth  December,  1H»H». 

We  have  mentioned  the  fact  that  otu-  subject  is  an  architect  as  well  as  a  painter  and 
.sculptor.     He  did  all  the  decorating  of  two  churches  in  Montreal — Na/areth  and  Notre  Dame 


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de  Lourdes,  both  on  St.  (Jatharine  street.  Notre  Dante  de  LourdeH,  his  last  work,  completed  in 
the  Hummer  of  1880,  lie  took  from  the  foundation,  drawing  the  designs  and  .supervising  the 
enterpn.se  from  the  beginning  to  the  end,  and  the  whole  is  a  gem  of  workmanship. 

At  the  time  of  the  dedication  of  Notre  Dame  de  Lourdes,  a  Montreal  paper  thus  spoke  of 
the  church  : — 

"  Notre  Dame  de  L<>iirdu8  is  'nily  worthy  of  thuHv  Byzantine  vhurches  which  have  served  as  ita  model.  It 
is  a  reunion  of  all  that  painting  ott'itn  that  is  most  brilliant  of  design,  the  most  vnried  and  holy  legend,  the 
must  instructive  anc'  most  edifying.  The  saintly  figures  whiuh  surround  yuu  and  the  verses  of  the  saored  scrip- 
ture which  accompany  Ihem,  raise  the  Hon!  in  prayer  and  nioditaliun  ;  while  the  golden  splendors  and  the 
pictures  give  one  the  sentiment  of  infinite  beauties.  We  seeni  to  see  reflected  in  these  splendors  the  beauties 
of  heaven  which  the  Holy  Spirit  reveals  to  us. 

"Notre  Daiue  is  a  Masa-book,  gold-embellished,  flower-crowned,  a  Bible  of  the  Middle  Age  in  the  grand- 
est proportions,  a  sanct\iary  which  the  faithful  will  always  have  to  admire,  as  one  lives  to  peruse  a  book  of  holy 
images  without  growing  weary  in  his  pious  contemplations.  Near  each  image  will  be  found  the  text.  Every- 
where, tastily  arranged,  are  inscriptions  of  legends,  sentences,  names,  monograms,  patterns  of  the  beautiful 
calligraphy  of  old  manuscripts.         *        «        *  .\ngels,  apostles,  prophets,  doctors,  patriarchs,  people,  the 

cupolas,  the  vaults,  the  pillars  and  the  arcades.'' 

When  the  Nazareth  church  was  completed,  Ln  Minrrrr  of  May,  1872,  thus  .spoke  of  it;  — 

L't'difice  dans  Tensemhle  ct  les  details  fait  U>  plus  grand  honnour  iv  M.  iriouracsa,  les  divisions  sontie.\cel- 
lentes,  les  details  sont  bien  etudies,  bien  exrcuti'S,  I'ensemblc  est  des  plus  agroables  ot  plait  il  tons.  Eiltin  un 
fait  de  decorations,  nous  avons  vu  rarement  une  nef  auHsi  cunaideralfle  oil  les  conditions  du  dossin,  et  de  I'ajjrc- 
ment  des  couleurs  ont  6t^  aussi  complHement  observes. 


Montreal  a  done  nn  xanctimire  de  |>1uh,  ut  un  ssnctuaire  vraiment  digne  de  In  Sir.  Vicr^'c.  .Vucun  pciiitre 
t-ncorc  dans  la  ville  n'avnit  eti'  appoli'  k  executer  une  <i'uvre  aussi  considerable,  en  y  uonsacrnnt  toutus  los  ressour* 
ces  de  la  ]>einture  decorative. 

En  cette  u'uvro  M.  Bourassa  s'est  roveic  conimo  nn  maitre,  il  a  tStudir,  il  a  reussi,  de  nmnit>re  i\  mun' 
trer  ce  iju'il  jmuvait  faire.  11  n'a  pas  cniint  d'y  consacrer  un  temps  considerable,  i|Uoii|ue  ce  fut  plus  or.'reux 
pour  lui,  mais  il  a  voulu  conduiio  son  (cuvre  a  toutc  la  perfection  <|u'elie  lui  temblait  rcclnmer. 

—  L(i  Minvrvf,  0  Mai,  1872. 

At  the  oiK'ning  of  Notre  Dame  do  Lourdfs,  on  the  22nd  of  June,  1880,  Mi.  Bouriuwa  j,'avo 
iiM  addres.s,  or  what  he  modestly  cMllcd  a  V<ni!<erlf,  wliioh  was  pulilished  in  pamphlet  form,  in 
which  he  sets  forth,  in  elegant  language,  the  dirtiiiilty  he  had  in  ilesigning-  the  work,  and  Ins 
iiliject  in  building  it,  etc.,  etc.  As  a  literary  tHort,  it  is  highly  meritorious,  and  doi's  credit  to 
his  literrry  talents  ami  nttainmeiits.  K<niall\  as  niucli  may  bo  .suid  of  an  address  wliicli  In  dt- 
livereii  '♦  Ottawa.  Ontjii in,  on  the  (ith  of  Manli,  1880,  at  the  inauguration  of  the  Canadian 
Academy  of  Fine  Arts,  a  copy  of  which,  in  pam{ihlet  form,  lies  before  ns.  Tin-  addre.ss  was 
miule  to  the(ioveinor-(J"nt'ial,  who  had  been  the  leaiier  in  organizing  the  Society,  and  to  whom, 
as  well  as  to  Ifer  Royal  Highness,  the  IVincess  Louise,  he  paiil  a  very  high  eompliment  for 
their  own  ta.sto  in  matt*jrs  of  art,  and  the  gitat  interest  they  had  taken  in  tljQ  enterprise,  Thti 
whole  text  of  the  address  was  happily  conceived  and  admirably  written. 


THE  CANADIAN  HIOOHA  I'fllCAL  hlCTlONAIiY. 


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Mr.  Boiirassa  is  Vico-PreHident  of  the  Montreal  Academy  of  Ai-ts,  and  has  a  high  standing 
in  the  community,  both  as  an  artitst  and  as  a  citizen. 

His  wife  is  Axijlie,  daughter  of  the  late  Hon.  Louis  J.  \  ^^mcaa,  wliose  biographical  sketch 
appciirs  on  other  pages  of  this  work.  They  were  married  in  1857,  and  have  five  children,  two 
sons  and  three  daughters. 


GKOKGE    BlUTSII, 

MONT  HEAL. 

aEOROE  BRHSH,  proprietor  of  the  Eagle  foundry,  and  the  oldest  iron  nmiuifacturer  now 
living  in  Montreal,  was  born  at  Vergennes,  Vt.,  on  the  0th  of  January,  17!)3,  and  is 
consecjuejitly  eighty-eight  years  of  age.  His  business  is  entrusted  to  the  care  of  his  eldest  son, 
(leorge  S.  Brush,  liut  the  old  gentleman  is  often  seen  at  the  ottice  on  King  Street,  and  is  active 
and  energetic  tor  a  man  who  eiirries  such  a  weight  of  years.  He  is  the  .son  of  Elkanah  and 
Alatlica  (Krink)  Brush,  his  father  being  a  native  of  Hhcwle  Island.  He  received  a  connnon 
school  education  in  his  native  town,  where  he  also  served  an  apprenticeship  of  six  years  in  a 
country  store,  and  subseqtiently  turned  his  attention  to  ship-building,  having  both  laste  and 
skill  for  the  mechanical  arts.  In  l!Sl6  and  1817  he  eoninianded  a  steaudwat,  named  "Cham- 
plain,"  on  the  lake  of  the  same  name,  it  lieing  the  seeotnl  craft  of  the  kind  })uilt  on  that  lioily 
of  water. 

At  the  close  of  navigation  iii  1817,  Mr.  Brush  settled  in  Montreal,  and  for  sixteen  years 
was  engaged  in  steandxiating  and  steamboat  building  on  the  St.  Lawrence,  having  command  of 
a  boat  in  the  season  of  navigation  during  all  that  perio<l  (1818-18.S4')  He  also  commanded  a 
lK)at  on  I^aki;  Chamjilain  when  only  twenty-two  years  of  age. 

Mr.  Brush  superinttmded  the  building  of  sonu(  of  the  early  steamers  put  on  the  St.  Law- 
rence to  ply  iM'tween  Quebec  .ind  Montreal  -among  them  the  Hriflx/i  Amrriatn  fa  tow  and 
pass'-nger  boat),  tire  St.  Groiy  ami  Cmiiiiht.  It  was  Mr.  lirush  who  liuilt  tlui  Ilcrnih'»,  in  1H2H, 
tlie  first  tow-boat  put  on  this  river. 

In  the  autimin  of  1838,  Mr.  Hrush  pureha-sed  a  third  interest  in  the  Eagle  foun<lry,  wliich 
ha<l  been  started  by  the  Wards  in  1822,  one  of  the  first  manufactories  of  the  kind  in  the  city 
of  Montreal.  In  184.')  he  bought  out  the  two-thirds  interest  of  the  Wards,  and  managed  the 
foundry  alone  until  18.'>2,  when  his  oldest  son,  already  mentioned,  was  of  sutticient  age  to  assist 
him.  . 

The  shops  of  this  manufactory  occupy  No^.  14  to  34  on  King  street,  running  through  to 
Queen,  and  usually  reipiire  from  (50  to  100  skilled  workmen,  doing  from  STO.OOO  to  $100,(KM)  a 


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year,  acconJing  to  the  conditions  of  tlie  times,  and  demands  of  the  tiude.  The  principal  articles 
manufactured  are  steam  engines,  steam  lioilers,  hoistin<;  engines,  st«am  p)impH,  ciivular  saw 
mills,  bark  mills,  shinirje  mills,  ore  crushers,  mill  gearing,  shaftinjj,  hanf(ei"s  and  pullies,  hand 
and  jK)wer  hoists  for  warehouses,  etc.,  etc. 

Mr.  Brush  is  also  a<,'ent  for  "  Waters' "  Perfect  Sti'ara  Enj,'ine  Governor,  and  "  Heald  & 
Sisco's  "  Centrifugal  Pumps,  so  well  known  among  mtichinists  in  other  countries  as  well  as  in 
Canada.  . 

The  Eagle  foundry,  which  has  U'en  enlarged  from  time  to  time,  and  rehuilt,  and  is  full  of 
fii-st-class  machinery  for  manufacturing  purpo.ses,  has  the  reputation  of  furni.shing  fii-st-class 
work  of  every  kind,  and  its  goo<l  name  never  stowl  better  than  it  does  to-day  under  the  ettieient 
management  of  the  son.  The  market  for  its  wares  e.xteuds  froni  one  end  of  the  Dominion  to 
the  other. 

The  subject  of  this  .sketch  has  lived  an  uiuisuaily  industrious  and  (juiet  life,  studiously 
shunning  public  offices,  and  attending  to  his  own  bu.siness.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American 
Presbyterian  church  and  a  trustee  of  the  same. 

Mr.  IJrush  married  Miss  Eliza  Maria  Seymour,  of  Vergennes,  Vt.,  ami  has  six  cliiMri>n  living 
and  has  lost  three.     His  wife  is  living  and  active,  aged  seventy-nine  years. 

George  8.  Brush  is  also  married,  the  maiden  name  of  his  wife  being  Fanny  Maria  Hrewster, 
He  has  three  son.s,  the  eldest  K-ing  in  the  Engle  foundry  office. 


JEAK  li.  kolla:xj), 

MONTREAL. 

ONE  of  the  most  striking  e.vamples  of  "self-help"  and  success  in  business,  is  that  of  Jean 
Bapti,ste  Rolland,  who  came  to  Montreal  early  in  the  spring  of  1S32,  .starting  with 
twenty-five  cents  in  his  pocket,  walking  forty-five  miles,  having  no  luggage,  and  reaching  here 
with  five  cents,  a  sound  constitution  and  a  plucky  heart — his  .sole  worl  liy  pos,sessions.  To-day 
he  is  among  the  wealthy  men  of  this  wealthy  city,  and  noti'd  for  his  public  spirit  and  generous 
deeds — his  accui  lulations  being  entirely  the  result  of  industrious  habHs,  prudent  management 
and  honorable  dealing. 

Mr.  Rolland  i  and.son  of  Pierre  Rolland,  senior,  who  came  from  France  something 

like  a  century  ago,  aiKi  son  of  Pierre  Rolland,  junior,  a  native  of  the  parish  of  Vercheies,  where 
.lean  Baptiste  also  was  born  on  the  2nd  of  January,  1S15.  His  mother  was  Euphrasine  Donais, 
of  the  pari.sh  of  Contreoeur,  and  a  member  of  an  old  French-Canadian  fanuly.  The  families 
of  Rolland  and  Donais  have  been,  during  a  certain  period  of  time,  the  richest  in  the  parishes  of 


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Verchi^ics  iiiid  ( 'ontrecii'ur ;  but  the  father  of  Mr.  J.  B.  Rulland  had  Itecoiue  pool-  liy  a  series  of 
misfortunes. 

Ill  the  diiidhoo<l  of  oui  suliject,  his  parents  nioveil  to  St.  Hyaciutlie,  where  In-  was  educated 
in  a  ]>arish  school.  It  was  on  the  first  duj'  of  April,  l.S.'}2,  that  lie  reaclu-d  Montreal,  after  a 
forty-five  miles  tramp  over  the  poorest  apolo<,'ies  for  roads,  crossing  the  Chamhly  livir  when 
it  was  full  of  ice  and  very  danj;erous.  Hi-  know  no  one  here,  and  it  is  noteworthy  that  the 
first  house  where  he  called  for  infornrition  was  the  fii-st  projierty  which  he  purchased — that 
where  he  is  now  doinp;  business  on  St.  Vincent  street. 

Soon  after  reacliing  Montreal,  Mr.  liolland  entered  the  office  of  Ln  Mini'rvc  as  an  appren- 
tice to  the  printer's  trade,  and  served  in  that  capacity  until  of  ape,  after  which  he  worked  as  a 
journoyinan  for  four  years  on  the  morning  Conrrli'r.  During  the  next  two  or  three  yeai-s  he 
was  in  the  job  pi intiiig  business  with  Mi.  John  Thompson,  the  firm  of  Holland  ^:  'rhomp.Hon 
l.ieing  dis.solved  at  the  end  of  that  time. 

Since  184:2  Mr.  Kolland  has  lieen  in  the  book  and  fancy  articles  trade,  his  stand  being  at 
Nos.  12  and  14  St.  Vincent  street,  where  he  has  also  a  job-printing  office  and  bindery. 

For  many  years  he  has  been  an  Importer  of  French,  Oerman  and  English  fancy  products- 
fancy  pa|>er,  fanc}'  hardware,  fancy  gold,  \:c ,  ite..  making,  in  fact, .a  specialty  of  inijwrting  as  a 
commissioner  European  "  ncjtions"  for  otlu  r  parties  as  well  as  himself,  and  having  an  unusually 
prosperous  busines.s. 

At  an  early  day  in  the  printing  business,  to  help  on  the  cause  of  education,  he  juiblished 
school  books.  He  was  also  one  of  the  firet  men  in  the  pntvince  to  edit  and  liring  out  the  works 
of  provincial  authors,  placing  them,  through  his  Euroi)ean  agents,  in  the  hands  of  foreign 
readers,  showing  the  world  that  Canada  has  a  highly  ereilitable  literature.  He  is  also  an 
importer  of  foreign  literatiue,  particularly  the  sacred  and  choicest  among  French  writers. 

During  the  last  fifteen  yeai-s  Mr.  Holland  hivs  let  his  oldest  sons  attend  largely  to  his  mer- 
cantile business,  and  he  has  paid  a  good  deal  of  attention  to  building  in  Montreal  and  the 
adjoining  village  of  Hochelaga,  acting  as  his  own  architect  as  well  as  contractor.  He  has  put 
up  and  owns  two  rows  of  stone  dwelling  houses  on  St.  Denis  street,  with  four  Ikjuscs  in  one  and 
thirty  in  the  other;  on  Berry  stn-it,  a  row  of  iiiin'  houses,  all  of  tin-  above  first  class  and  very 
valuable  ;  twelve  tenements  on  St.  Dominiiiue  street,  and  foiu'  shops  and  four  dwelling  houses 
on  Onta.io  street.  At  Hochelaga,  where  ho  owns  a  hundred  vacant  lots,  he  has  si.\  beautiful 
cottages  in  a  row.  which  he  built  for  his  family,  and  two  rows,  aguiegatiiig  forty  tenements,  on 
Moreau  street. 

His  private  residence  on  St.  Denis  street  is  a  first  clas>,  stone  house  ;  his  country  residence 
at  Longue  I'ointe  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  finest  rural  nmnsions  in  the  vicinity  of  Montreal. 
In  addition  to  these  are  the  Ituildinjfs  on  St.  Vincent  street,  which  eoutain  the  book  store, 
printing  office  and  bindery. 


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Here  we  may  with  propriety  add  that  the  correspondence  of  J.  B.  RoUand  &  Fils  is  one 
of  the  most  extensive  among  the  merchants  of  Montreal,  they  doin^;  business  in  all  parts  of  the 
Dominion  and  considerable  in  the  old  world. 

In  politics  Mr.  RoUand  has  always  been  an  outspoken  C'onservativc,  yet  he  lias  a  gentle, 
conciliatory  disposition,  and  kcci^s  on  the  most  cordi&l  terms  with  all  classes  of  {xilitituans  and 
all  sects  in  religion,  being  himself  a  Roman  Catholic. 

In  his  younger  yeaiu  Mr.  Rollan<l  was  connected  with  the  militia  of  the  province,  entering 
as  sergeant,  and  rising  to  the  rank  uf  captain,  leaving  the  militia  many  yeara  ago.  Hu  was 
alderman  for  East  Montreal  ward  for  a  period  of  nine  years,  and  has  been  a  magistrate  since 
about  1855. 

Ho  has  been  president  of  the  lioaril  of  trade  and  manufactures,  and  of  the  St.  Jean  Bap- 
tide  Societi' ;  and  is  a  tlirector  of  the  Citizens'  Insurance  Co.  of  Canada,  and  a  harbor  com- 
missioner. Mr.  Holland  has  always  been  prompt  in  identifying  himself  with  any  enterprise 
•likely  in  any  way  to  help  build  up  th«»  city  of  his  adoption. 

In  1839,  Mr.  RoUand  was  joined  in  we<ilock  with  Miss  Esther  Dufresne,  of  St.  Laurent,  and 
she  is  the  mother  of  si.x  sons  and  six  daughters,  four  of  each  still  living.  Three  of  the  sons, 
Jean  Damien,  Stanislas  Jean  Baptiste.  and  Octavien,  are  in  business  with  their  father,  the 
firm  name  being  J.  H.  Rollaml  et  Filx ;  Donatien,  the  other  son,  is  a  student  in  Montreal 
college ;  Ernestine,  the  oldest  daughter,  is  the  wife  of  J.  L.  Archamymult,  advocate,  Montreal  ; 
Hermentine  is  the  wift;  of  R.  Prefontaine,  al.so  an  advocate  in  this  city,  and  member  of  the 
Queliec  A.ssembly  for  Chambly,  and  Mayor  of  Hochelaga;  Lumina  has  recently  finished  her 
studies  at  the  HocheUj^a  convent,  and  Euphrasie  is  pursuing  her  studies  at  the  Congregation  of 
Notre  Dame.  • 


LOUIS    ().   TAILLOX,   M.P.P., 

MONTHS  A  L. 

LOUIS  OLIVIER  TAILLON,  who  has  reprc.scnt.fd  Montreal  Ejvst  in  the  Quebec  As.senibly 
since  187.'>,  is  a  son  of  Aimd  Taillon  and  Marie  Jasephte  Daunais,  and  was  Iwrn  at  Torre- 
bonne,  P.Q.,  on  the  26th  of  Keptcnd»er,  18+0.  The  Taillon  family  were  early  settlors  at  Terre- 
Itonne.  Our  subject  was  educated  at  M>is.son  college;  he  studied  law  in  Montreal  with  Hon.  L. 
A.  Jett^,  now  judge  of  the  Superior  Court,  and  Ddsir<;  Girouard,  M.P. ;  was  called  to  the  bar 
of  Montreal,  in  186.5,  and  has  been  in  practice  here  from  that  time,  doing  a  highly  remuner- 
ative business  in  the  several  courts.  He  is  of  the  firm  of  Taillon  and  Nantel ;  is  unusually  well 
read  in  law,  a  close  student,  and  has  a  good  position  at  the  bar. 

Mr.  Taillon  was  one  of  the  instigators  and  promoters  of  the  great  French-Canadian  national 
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St.  Jean  Baptiste,  when  more  than  fifty  thousand  people  were  present,  coming  from  all  parts  of 
the  United  States,  as  well  as  the  British  North  American  provinces.  Mr.  Taillon  and  his  co- 
workers in  organizing  that  grand  fSte,  received,  at  the  time,  as  they  deserved,  great  prai.se  for 
the  complete  and  brilliant  success  of  their  undertaking. 

Mr.  Taillon  was  first  elected  to  Parliament  for  his  present  seat,  at  the  general  election  in 
187-1,  and  was  re-elected  at  the  last  general  election,  held  in  May,  1878.  His  seat  is  on  the 
Conservative  side  of  the  Assembly,  and  he  gives  that  party  a  steady  and  earnest  support. 

Mr.  Taillon  married  in  July,  1875,  Marie  Louise  Georgina,  daughter  of  the  late  Hon.  P, 
Urgel  Archambault,  for  several  years  a  member  of  the  Legislative  Council  of  Canada.  His 
wife  died  on  the  24!th  of  January,  1876. 


KDWAKIJ   D.   WOllTIIl^GTON,  A.M.,  M.D.,  F.K.C.S.,  Kdin.. 

8HERBR00KE. 

ONE  of  the  oldest  physicians  and  surgeons  in  the  district  of  St.  Francis  is  Edward  Dagge 
Worthington,  who  has  been  in  active  practice  for  forty  years,  and  lias  long  had  the  i*e- 
putation  of  being  the  first  surgeon  in  this  part  of  the  province.  He  was  born  in  the  Queen's 
county,  Ireland,  Decembei-  1st,  1820.  His  father,  John  Worthington,  and  Mary  Daggo,  his 
mother,  left  Queen's  county  on  the  11th  April,  1822;  sailed  from  Dublin  the  2nd  May,  and 
landed  at  Quebec,  June  23.  In  1828,  John  Worthington  was  induced  to  remove  to  Upper 
Canada.  Taking  his  family  with  him,  he  left  Quebec  on  the  28th  April,  and  arrived  at 
Qiieenst^m  on  the  12th  May.  One  almost  might  "do'"  the  pyramids  in  that  time  now;  but 
this  jouiTiey,  mmle  by  steam,  fiat-lwttomed,  or  Durham-lraat,  occupied  fourteen  days.  In  this 
year  of  1880,  it  can  be  made  in  twenty -four  hours.  Misfortune,  and  fever  and  ague  wore  the 
n'sult  of  that  disastrous  jouniey  ;  and,  on  the  7th  May,  Mr.  Worthington  returned  to  QihIhjc, 
a  sadder,  wiser,  and  poorer  man.  He  remained  in  Quebec  to  the  time  of  his  death,  he  and  his 
wife  having  l)een  residents  of  that  ancient  city  for  more  than  half  a  century.  His  remains  lie 
in  Mount  Henuon  cemetery,  surrounded  by  the  graves  of  his  wife,  and  seven  of  their  ehildivn  ; 
the  subject  of  this  notice  and  one  brother,  John,  a  druggist  in  Brooklyn,  N.Y.,  being  all  that 
remain  of  a  once  numerous  family. 

In  18.'H,  Dr,  Worthington  was  indentured,  for  seven  years,  to  Dr.  James  Douglas,  of 
Quebec,  the  most  famous  surgeon  of  his  time  in  ('anada,  he  and  Valentine  Mott,  of  New  York, 
being  the  two  most  accomplished  oiiemtors  in  America.  After  completing  rather  more  than  five 
years  of  his  indenture,  Dr.  Douglas  released  it,  to  enable  his  pupil  to  accept  an  appointment  ius 
staft'  assist.-surgeon  in  the  army,  in  which  position,  after  passing  an  examination  before  a  special 


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nriiiy  mtdical  IhuuiI,  ho  st-rvt'd  for  two  years;  hut  liis  j,'n'nt  aiiihition  b<!iii<;  to  <^o  t«i  Kdiiildirgli, 
aii<l  then  to  cngairp  in  privnte  pmctioo,  lu'  left  tin-  ami}',  an<l  in  tin-  aiitinnn  of  1H4I  wt'ut  to 
ScotIan<l.  At  that  time  tlio  rity  of  (^nohoc  had  no  recogniM-d  incdiail  school,  and  to  his  yrcat 
disappoiiittncnt,  )h'  found,  on  Ids  arrival  in  KdinbiUKh,  that  its  Univi-rsity  could  not  admit  Iiini 
to  examination  for  its  di'j,'rce — aithoii;,di  ho  iiicmorializt'd  the  Si'ikiIum  upon  the  siilpjcct — until 
after  he  had  j)assed  thioe  years  in  study  in  Kdinliui;;h,  or  some  other  Ihitisii  eoileye  or 
university.  The  state  of  his  tinances  made  this  iuipossiiile  ,  so  he  attended  the  lectures  of  tho 
University  and  College  of  Surgeons  until  May,  I.SW,  when  he  obtained  the  diploma  of  L.K.l'.S, 
of  (Jlasgow,  :ind  the  M D.  of  St.  Andrew's  tmiversity.  lie  had  then  litenilly  expeiidi'd  his  last 
shillin;,'.  While  iu  Kdinl>urj,di,  however,  he  was  awarded  the  medal  of  the  lloyal  Collejfe  of 
Surgeons,  and  won  the  friendshijt  of  m«n\'  of  her  eminent  men,  witlt  some  of  whom  hi;  still 
eurresponds.  He  had  for  contemporaries  in  Kdiidmrgh  from  this  side  of  the  Atlantic,  Sir  Charles 
Tui)per,  C.H.,  Ml).;  tlie  Hon.  Dr.  D.  McNeil  Parker,  of  Halifax;  ami  Dr.  R.  H.  Russell,  of 
toilet K'c ;  and  here  it  niaynot  be  improper  to  I'emark  that,  as  a  rule,  students  in  medicine  from 
Canada  have  distinguished  theni.selves  at  the  medical  schools  of  CJreat  Riitain — a  fact  that 
speaks  well  for  medical  education  in  this  country. 

Cn  August  J.st,  1848,  Dr.  Wortlungton  received  the  license  of  tho  Montreal  medical  board, 
and  immediately  settled  in  Sherbrooke,  where  ho  soon  built  up  an  extensive  practice,  wlii.-h  lio 
continues  to  lioM.  He  has  the  fullest  confidence  of  the  community  in  liis  skill  as  a  phvsician 
— has  Iiad  for  thirty  yeais  nearly  all  the  surgical  practice  in  the  vicinity  —and  possesses  in  a 
marked  degroe  the  contideiice  of  liis  confreres,  who  fre(|uently  send  for  him  in  consultation 
from  long  distances;  he  has  also  received  substantial  mark-;  of  public  favor.  Ont>,  a  solid 
silver  tea-service,  for  his  gratuitous  services  to  the  poor;  and  <jn  another  occasion,  a  gold  watch 
and  chain,  for  his  energetic  and  successful  etibrts  to  prevt.'iit  the  spread  of  that  most  loathsoinu 
of  all  diseases,  smallpox,  in  Sherbrooke. 

In  I8.j4,  the  university  of  Hi.shop's  college,  li«'nnoxville.  conferred  on  him  the  di';;ree  of 
MA.  (hiiin'ris  niiinii)  ■  and  in  1.SG8,  Mcdill  college,  Montreal,  that  of  M.D.,  C..M.  (ii<l  finidtiity 
He  is  also  fellow  of  the  Royal  College  of  Surgeons,  Kdinbuigh  ;  corresponding  mendicr  of  tho 
.Medico-chirurgical  Society  of  .Montreal,  and  of  the  (!ynaeo|o<rical  Siciety  of  Ho.ston,  Mass.; 
mendier  of  the  Canada  .Mcilical  A.ssociation,  and  in  1877  vice-president  for  the  Province  of 
<,hielK'c;  Surgeon- Major  in  the  voliniteer  militia;  ami  a  governor  of  the  Colhge  of  Phvsicians 
and  Surgeons,  P,(^. ;  and,  with  the  exception  of  an  interval  of  tliiee  years,  has  held  that 
honorable  position  since  18ti0. 

Dr.  Worthington  was  the  first  surgeon  in  Canada  who  performed  a  cuinful  oiternt'inti, 
untler  ether,  as  an  aiiiesthetic,  and  was  also  the  Hrst  in  the  use  of  chloroform.  On  March  lOth, 
1847,  he  amputated  below  tho  knee,  under  other.  In  .fanuary,  1848,  three  ca.ses  under  chloro- 
form, one  beiu''  excision  of  bone. 


TiiK  casmhan  HKKiRAniHAL  nirrios'Ain'. 


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On  tlie  Kitli  Octolior,  184r>,  Dr.  Woitliinjjton  inarritHl  Fanny  Loniw  Sin illi,  oldest  daughter 
of  tlit>  lat<>  Hon.  Mollis  Kniitli,  ineuiln'r  of  tli(>  I^giHlative  Council  for  the  division  of  Welling- 
ton. Of  fight  children,  five  are  now  living,  two  daughtera,  and  three  sons.  Tin?  eldest  son, 
Kilwnrd  Bruen,  aged  20,  is  studying  the  notarial  profe.s,Hion.  Arthur  Norrey.s,  aged  18,  is  a 
student  lit  Bishop's  college,  Lennoxville  ;  and  the  youngest  .son,  Hugh  Stan<lish,  is  aged  1- 
years. 

The  doctor  is  a  inenilM'r  of  the  Church  of  Kngland,  and  has  l»een  a  delegate  to  the 
Provincial  Synod.  He  is  a  descendant  of  an  old  Irish  family;  his  grcat-greiit-granilfather^ 
Bruen  VVorthingtoii,  of  Ashton  Hayes,  in  the  county  of  Cheshire,  and  of  Bhilpotstown,  in  the 
count)'  of  Mcath,  having  heen  clerk  of  tin-  Irish  House  of  Commons,  up  to  1734.  This  lirucn 
Worthington  was  the  lineal  descendant  of  Hugh  Worthington,  of  Worthington,  in  the  county 
of  Lancashire,  and  of  the  manor  of  Adiington  in  Stamlish  pari.sh.  He  held  the  lordship  of 
Worthington  in  the  13th  year  of  Edward  IV.,  A.D.  1+74.  * 

The  doctor  has  written  a  good  deal  for  medical  p<'riodicaI.s,  and  especially  the  "  Canada 
Me<lical  Journal,"  published  at  Montreal;  and  some  of  his  papers  have  been  copied  intD  the 
medical  journals  of  (Jreat  Britain  and  the  United  States.  Among  the  many  papers  contributed 
to  the  Canadian  periodicals,  are  :  "  A  new  method  of  l)cd-making  in  fractures"  (1871) ;  "(ilue 
handage  in  fractures"  (1872);  "Case  of  shot-gun  woun<l  in  alnlomcn,  with  ])erforation  of 
stomach"  (1875);  "  Acute  Hhrinous  bi*onchitis,  with  expectoration  of  tul)e  ca-sts"  (I87(i). 


VKNKK.M'.LK    .\  l{(  ^11  DKACON     I.INDSAV, 

W  ATE  HI  MO. 

RKV.  DAVII)  IJNDS.W,  for  thivty  years  a  preacher  of  the  CJospei  in  the  county  of  Slicf- 
ford,  and  Archdeacon  of  liedford  since  liS7t>,  was  born  in  the  city  of  Lomlon,  Kngland, 
on  tile  1st  of  Fi'liiiuiry,  1821,  his  father,  James  Lindsay,  being  a  merchant  there  for  many  years. 
His  mother,  before  her  nmniage,  was  Klizabeth  Kinchan,  both  parents  being  Kngiish.  He  was 
educated  in  the  art,s  in  his  native  city;  came  to  < 'aiiada  Kast  in  1843;  stmlied  for  the  mini.stry 
at  Bishoi)'s  college,  Lennoxville,  province  of  (Quebec;  was  onlained  in  Montreal  by  Bishop 
Kulford  in  March,  liS.M.and  sent  as  a  missionary  to  Frost  village,  township  of  ShcH'oid,  two 
miles  from  Wat«'rl(M>,  at  that  time  Frost  village  being  the  county  town.  Stukely  was  al.su 
embraced  iti  his  tii-st  Held  of  labor.  There  .Mr.  Lindsay  labored  until  l(S()2,  when  Fi-ost  village 
and  Waterloo  became  one  jMirish,  and  he  was  appointed  incumbent  and  moved  to  the  latter 
villflge, 

In  1874,  he  was  appointed  rural  dean  of  the  district  of  Bedfonl,  and  two  years  lat<>r  Arch- 
deacon.    He  has  built  cimrches  at  Fort  village,  Stukcl)-,  Waterloo,  and  Fulfonl,  and  inaugurated 

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missiouR  at  Boscobvl,  South  Ely,  ami  one  or  twu  otli<  r  pointH.     He  has  also  clone  more  or  Icmh 

good  work  outnide  Iuh  ministerial  lalntrs,  having  served  for  some  time  as  a  school  commissioner, 

trustee  of  the  Waterloo  aca<lemy,  etc.     He  has  lieen  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of 

the  Diocesan  Syno<l,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Provincial  Synod. 

The  author  of  the  "  History  of  Shcflbrd,"  thus  s|H'ak8  of  him  :  ' 

The  life  of  Mr.  Lindsay,  during  his  residence  in  Shelford,  hna  been  une  of  earnest,  patient,  and  unre- 
mitting tuil.  Keenly  alive  to  the  responsibility  resting  u|M>n  him  oa  a  minister  of  the  gosfiel,  he  has  devoted  his 
time  and  all  his  physical  and  mental  energies  to  the  furtherance  of  the  work  he  has  had  in  hand.  He  h»s  warmly 
espoused  the  temperance  cause,  and  there  is  no  doubt  that  his  exhortations  and  lectures,  united  with  his  example, 
have  done  much  good  in  this  direction,  A  lover  of  literary  pursuits,  he  has  always  endeavored,  by  the  encour- 
agement of  schools,  libraries  and  literary  societies,  to  awaken  a  taste  for  them  in  those  around  him,  and  it  has 
ever  been  a  source  of  sorrow  to  him  to  see  the  young  of  his  parish  neglecting  the  cultivation  of  their  minds. 
His  works  of  benevolence  are  manifested,  and  in  them  he  has  always  been  ably  and  heartily  assisted  by  Mrs. 
Lindsay. 

In  the  year  in  which  he  Ijecame  misnionary  at  Frost  village,  Archdeacon  Lindsay  married 
Sophia  Adamson,  daughter  of  Dr.  Adamson,  chaplain  to  the  Senate  of  C'anada,  and  they  havo 
had  nine  children,  eight  of  whom  are  still  living. 


]|(hN.    WIIJJAM    UAIKJLKY,    D.C.L., 

MONTREAL. 
r  I  "iHE  subject  of  this  biograjijiical  notice,  late  a  puisne  judge  of  the  Court  of  (Queen's  Bcuch, 


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Q>iel)ec,  was  born  in  the  city  of  Monti oal,  on  the  27th  of  Manli,  l.SOl,  being  a  .sun  of 


Francis  and  Elizabeth  (Lilly)  Badgley.  His  father,  who  sprang  from  a  Derbyshire  family,  Eng- 
land, and  who  was  born  in  London,  was  for  years  a  merchant  in  Montreal,  an<l  represented  this 
city  in  the  Provincial  Parliament  from  1«01  to  liSOo.  His  maternal  giant  If  ather  came  to  Montreal 
in  17<>5,  .sofjn  after  Canada  was  ceded  to  the  English, 

Judge  IJadgle}  liui.^hcd  his  education  with  the  Rev.  .\k\undor  Skakil ;  studietl  law  in 
Montreal ;  was  called  to  the  bar  in  Novend)er,  182S,  and  civjited  a  Queen's  ( 'ounsel  in  ISiT.  Mr 
received  the  honoraiy  title  of  Doctor  of  Civil  Law  from  Mc(!ill  university  in  IcS+.S.  He  was  in 
pnictiei'  at  the  bar  of  the  Montreal  district  for  about  twenty  years,  and  distinguished  him.self  iu 
his  profe,ssion.  He  is  the  author  of  a  work  entitled,  "  llemaiks  on  Register  Offices, "  jmblished 
in  1837. 

In  1840, he  was  appointed  a  commissioner  of  bankrupts,  holding  that  position  until  ]SH, 
in  which  year  he  was  appointed  a  circuit  judge. 

Judge  Badgley  was  secretary  of  the  Constitutional  Association,  which  aided  in  etTeetin^the 
Re-union  of  the  Canadas  in  IHU),  and  two  or  three  years  Iiefijre  that  Act  was  consummated,  was 
one  of  the  delegates  sent  to  England  to  further  that  moveiqent. 


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He  resigned  the  oiKce  of  ciivuit  judge  in  l«+7;  wiva  api^inteJ  a  puisne  judge  of  the 
Superior  Court  of  Lower  Canada  on  the  27th  of  January,  iS.'jo  ;  remained  there  until  the  12th 
of  September,  18G2,  when  he  waw  transferred  to  tlie  Court  of  Queen's  Bench,  as  assistant  judge 
tenijMirarily,  and  afterwards  he  was  app«>inte<l  a  puisne  judge  of  that  court  on  August  17, 
l.srt(i.  He  retired  on  a  jiension  in  June,  187+,  resigning  liecause  of  his  partial  deafness.  While 
on  the  bi'neh  his  career  wi\s  an  lionor  to  the  eniiine. 

At  one  perio<l  of  his  life  Judge  Biidgley  figured  rather  prominently  in  politics.  He  sat  for 
Missisijuoi  in  the  Canadian  AsweiiiMy,  from  1844  to  18')l,  and  for  the  city  of  Montreal,  from  the 
latter  date  until  the  general  election  in  1854,  when  he  vn\n  defeated.  It  is  noteworthy  that 
Judge  Badgley  took  his  .seat  in  Parliament  (1851)  to  represent  Montreal,  just  a-half  century 
after  his  father  tiist  took  the  same  seat,  the  one  to  represent  Lower  Canada  in  the  Local  Assem- 
bly, the  other  the  United  (!anada.s.  The  judge  was  a  menilier  of  the  Executive  Council  and 
Attorney-Genenil  for  Lower  Canada,  from  April  23,  1847,  to  March  10, 1848,  when  the  Ministry 
resigned.    His  politics  are  Conservative. 

Many  years  ago  Judge  Budgie^'  took  some  interest  in  military  matters,  and  held  at  one  time, 
and  ))erhaps  still  holds,  the  mnk  of  major.  A  lirother  of  his,  James  Thomp.son  Badgley,  was 
connected  with  the  surveying  service  in  tlie  British  navy,  rose  to  the  rank  of  captain,  and  died 
a  long  time  ago  of!"  the  coast  of  Africa,  and  was  buried  in  the  sea. 

The  Judge  has  lieen  a  Free  Mason  for  a  long  period  of  time,  and  District  and  Provincial 
(Jmnd  Master  for  England,  since  December,  184!>. 

In  1884,  our  subject  was  married  in  London,  England,  and  has  six  children,  four  sons  and 
two  daughtei-s.  His  wife  died  in  1874.  The  eldest  son,  William,  is  a  colonel  in  the  British  .service, 
Ijeing  on  the  staff  corps  in  India ;  James  is  Lieutenant  of  Royal  Engineers  in  Afghanistan  ;  the 
other  two  sons  are  in  commercial  pursuits  in  Canada,  and  the  two  daughters  are  with  their 
father. 


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LIEUT.-COLONEL   JOHN    SCIU\'Eri, 

HEMMINOFORD.  . 

JOHN  SCRIVER,  who  was  b<jrn  at  Lacolle,  in  the  province  of  Lower  Canada,  on  the  3rd  of 
June,  1792,  and  died  at  Hemmingford,  county  of  Huntingdon,  on  the  17th  of  April,  1873, 
was  one  of  those  courageous  men,  who,  born  in  the  woods,  and  early  inured  to  privations  and 
liardships,  axe  in  hand,  cut  their  way  to  a  competency  ;  by  industry  and  pluck,  and  the  grace 
of  (lod,  he  developed  the  sturdiest  virtues,  and,  living  an  eminently  u.seful  life,  died  to  be  remem- 
bered and  lamented.    He  was  a  son  of  Frederick  Scriver,  or  Schryver,  as  the  name  was  spelt 


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by  lii.s  (Jeniian  anccHtors.      lit'  oinij^ratfd  from  Diu-heMH  county,  New  York,  to  Ltwor  Canmln  in 
the  year  17!>0,  preferiin)i(,  with  thouHamlH  of  othei's,  to  live  umier  the  British  Hnjj. 

In  1800,  Frederick  Scriver  removed  from  Lacolle  to  Hemiiiin^'ford.  Thert-,  for  twt'Ivf  wai"», 
he  aHHisted  Iuh  father  in  foiling  trecH,  tilling  the  Hoil  nnd  improving  the  homestead,  huring  the 
war  of  1812-'14  he  wan  most  of  the  time  in  the  service  of  his  country,  having  lnjcn  drafted  as  n 
militiaman,  hut  his  mechanical  talents  were  soon  discoveroil,  ami  on  the  Isle  aux  Noix,  where,  at 
fii-st,  his  company  was  stationed,  his  skilful  hands  aided  in  the  construction  of  a  liarraek.  The 
seconil  year  of  the  war,  having  been  drafted  a  second  time  for  field  service,  he  procured  a  suh- 
stitute,  and  liecame  foreman  of  a  squad  of  mechanics,  being  employed  part  of  the  time  in  ptn-- 
chasing  supplies  of  timber,  cattle,  etc.  He  aided  in  capturing  the  American  sloops,  Jiilin  and 
Ormvler,  which  had  been  sent  from  Plattsburg  to  take  Isle  aux  Noix,  and  vobmteered  his  ser- 
vices on  two  or  three  other  occasions  for  active  service  in  the  field,  but  at  such  times  there  was 
iinpemtive  need  of  his  help  in  other  departments. 

Most  of  the  above  facts  we  gather  from  the  Cunadian  (flmver  (Huntingdon),  a  copy  of 
which,  dated  April  24,  1873,  lies  l)efore  us.  From  the  same  source  we  learn  that  at  the. close  of 
the  war  just  referred  to,  Col.  Scriver  returned  to  Hemmingford,  with  a  considerable  amount  ^f 
money,  the  fruits  of  his  industry  and  frugality,  and  in  the  autumn  of  181.1  purchased  the  land 
which,  for  nearly  sixty  3'ears  of  an  honored  life,  In;  made  his  home.  As  there  was  no  store  wiHiiii 
ten  miles  of  Hemmingford  in  1820,  Col.  Scriver  opened  a  small  one  near  his  house,  receiving,  in 
{•art  pay,  conmion  ashes  and  "  black  salt,"  and  in  some  ca.ses  waiting  for  months  and  even  years 
for  his  pay,  so  destitute  of  fund,-)  were  the  early  settlers.  His  kindness  in  giving  them  credit, 
and  his  patience  in  waiting  for  the  cancelling  of  their  indebtedness,  were  not  forgotten  by  such 
persons  until  the  day  of  their  death. 

It  was  Col.  Scriver  who,  as  early  a.s  1819,  took  the  first  step  toward  securing  better  roads  be- 
tween Hemmingford  and  neighboring  towns,  and  by  the  aid  of  his  early  and  kind  friend,  Sir 
James  Kemp,  the  Govenior  of  Lower  Canada,  he  secured  for  the  "  squattii-s "  in  his  vicinity,  a 
good  title  tti  their  lands,  by  their  simply  paying  fifty  cents  an  acre,  in  instalments  liberally 
Hcparated. 

Before  the  outbreak  of  1837,  Col.  Scriver,  being  an  eainest  Reformer,  zealously  .sought  for 
an  improvement  of  the  laws  of  the  land,  and  a  peaceful  redre.s.s  of  grievances;  but  had  no  sym- 
pathy with  those  who  were  bent  on  seeking,  by  violence  and  bloodshed,  to  bring  alx)ut  .such 
ends.  When  Odelltown  was  threatened.  Colonel,  then  Major,  Scriver,  calling  together  .sevemi 
companies  of  the  Hemmingford  militia,  hastened  to  that  point,  with  his  raw  recruits,  drove 
the  enemy,  and  received  the  thanks  of  Sir  John  Colborne.  Shortly  afteiwards  he  was  com- 
missioned lieut.-colonel,  "  in  coasideration  of  his  services  in  the  field."  That  position  he  held 
until  about  1861,  when  he  resigned  his  commission  and  retired,  '  retaining  his  rank." 

In  1843,  Col.  Scriver  wa.s  i)er3uaded  by  his  friends  to  be  a  candidate  for  Parliament,  in  the 
then  county  of  Beauharnois  ;  but  in  most  of  the  townships  the  influence  of  the  Seigniory  was 


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overwlielniin^r,  and,  oh  be  expected,  lio  wan  ilefeateil,  though  in  the  few  townsliips  inilside  of 
those  iiiHiienceM,  thi'  votes  in  liis  favor  were  ahiiont  unanimous.  He  waH  one  of  the  i\i>t  men  to 
mow  for  inunieipal  inHtitutionn  in  Beaiihiirnois  county  ;  wan  a  menilter  of  its  Krst  municipal 
council;  remaineii  in  it  for  several  years,  and  aided  in  cArryin^,'  out  many  public  improvements  ; 
and  when  lie  died  he  was  at  the  bead  of  the  municipality  wh»'re  lie  bad  spent  the  last  seventy- 
three  years  of  his  active  and  very  useful  life.  A  dozen  yeai-s  or  moie  before  he  died,  be  plai'ed 
all  bis  business,  mercantile,  bniilierin^,  etc.,  in  the  hands  of  his  sons,  Julius  and  John  A.  Scriver. 
and  retiring  from  such  pui-suits,  live<l  ipiite  at  bis  ca>:e.  He  is  crediteil  by  the  |>aper  which  we 
hnve  mentioned,  as  lieing  the  originator  of  the  enterprise  which  rcsidted  in  the  construction  of 
the  railway  from  lake  Obnmplnin  at  IMattsitur};,  to  ( 'au;;hnawa^ra,  on  the  river  Kt.  Lawrence: 
was  a  yenerous  contributor  to  the  building'  of  churches  and  school-houses,  and  for  thirty-six 
years  was  an  etticient  worker  in  the  Wesleyean  Methixlist  Church.  The  hardy  pioneer,  the 
Ixild  danger-facer,  the  ardent  patriot,  the  true  citizen  and  kind  lu-arted  neiL;blH»r,  ended  his  life 
ill  the  ealiiine.ss  and  .serenity  of  unfalterinrr  faith. 


JULIUS    SCRIVER,   M.R. 

HKM^frNaFORD. 

fTlUE  subject  of  this  bi()i,'rapbieal  notice  is  of  CSerman  descent  on  bis  father's  side.  The  family 
-^  settle<l  in  Duchess  county,  N.Y.,  prior  to  the  outbreak  of  the  American  colonies,  the 
j^iandfatber  of  our  subject,  B^rederick  Scbryver,  bein<j;  loyal  to  Kiriij  (Jecrge,  but  too  young  to 
shoulder  a  gun  ;  and  on  account  of  bis  iidherence  to  the  (,'rowii  be  left  New  York  and  settled  at 
Lacolle,  province  of  Quebec,  in  17!U).  The  father  of  Julius  was  John  Scriver,  mentioned  on 
preceding  pages;  bis  mother,  Lucretia  Manning,  who  is  still  living,  l)eing  in  her  S8tb  year. 
Her  father  was  likewise  an  American,  also  too  young  to  fight,  but  a  sympatbLser  with  tlio.se 
who  fought  for  independence. 

Mr.  Scriver  was  born  at  Heinmingford,  February  .')tli,  182(! ;  was  educated  at  the  University 
of  Vermont;  learned  the  mercantile  business  in  bis  father's  stove,  and  carried  on  that  business 
for  h'mself  vintil  1870,  Ix-ing  successful  and  retiring  with  a  competency. 

Mr.  Scriver  was  for  several  years  chairman  of  the  lH>ard  of  school  commis.sioners  of  Hem- 
mingford  ;  chairman  of  commissioners  for  the  trial  of  small  causes  ;  justice  of  the  peace ;  com- 
missioner for  taking  affidavits  relating  to  matters  before  the  superior  court  of  the  district  of 
Beaubarnois,  and  president  of  the  Quebec  Frontier  railway  company. 

He  snt  for  the  county  of  Huntingdon  in  the  Quebec  Assembly  from  the  Confederation 
(18(J7),  until  September,  18(if),  when  be  resigned,  and  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Commons  by 


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acclamation.  He  was  re-elected  in  the  same  manner  in  1872,  and  was  returned  in  1874  and 
1878,  having  never  l»een  defeated  in  any  political  contest.  He  is  a  Libeml,  and  gave  the  late 
Administration  of  Mr.  Mackenzie  an  independent,  yet,  in  most  measures,  a  cordial  support. 

In  July,  18.')G,  Mr.  Scriver  married  Miss  Frances  A.  Stevens,  of  Potsdam,  N.  Y.,  and  they 
have  three  children,  all  sons.  Tiie  family  attend  the  Presbyterian  church,  of  which  Mr.  S.  is 
an  adhorciit.  He  has  the  reputation  of  lieing  an  lionorable  gentleman,  as  well  as  a  faithful 
legislator. 


PIEPiRE    S.   GENDRON, 

MONTREAL. 

"P)IERRE  SAMUEL  CENDRON.  prothonotary  of  the  Superior  Court  of  the  province  of 
-■-  Quebec  for  the  district  of  Montreal,  was  born  at  Ste.  Rosalie,  P.Q.,  on  the  31st  of  August, 
1828.  He  is  descended  from  one  of  the  oldest  French  families  in  Lower  Canada,  the  progeni- 
tor coming  over  here  as  a  soldier  in  the  army,  in  1G17,  and  .settling  at  St.  Francis,  Isle  of  Or- 
leans. His  father,  Simon  Gendron  lived  to  enter  on  his  ninety-third  year,  ami  his  mother, 
Marie  Louise  Dion,  died  in  1837,  and  if  now  living  would  be  eighty  yeaix  old. 

Our  subject  received  his  education  at  St.  Hyacinthe  college,  at  the  same  time  with  his  de- 
ceased brother,  Rev.  P.  S.  (Jendron,  who  was  priest  and  professor  of  philo.sophy,  chemistry,  physics, 
and  mathematics  in  that  college,  dying  in  1870.  On  leaving  college,  Mr.  (iendron  engaged  in 
teaching  in  the  country,  continuing  that  occupation  for  nine  years.  During  that  period  he 
studied  law  with  Mr.  Louis  Tache,  at  St.  Hyacinthe,  and  in  1860  was  admitted  to  practise  his 
profession  in  spite  of  the  opposition  made  l)y  Ids  class,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  most  dis- 
tinguished members. 

Mr.  Cenilron  practised  as  notary  in  tlic  parish  of  Ste.  Rosalie,  district  of  St.  Hyacinthe, 
from  18(50  to  187<i,  when  lie  was  called  to  the  post  of  prothonotary,  already  mentione<l,  a  posi- 
tion which  he  still  tills  witli  gieat  satisfaction  to  all  the  courts  which  have  business  with  the 
office  under  his  direction.  Ho  maybe  called  a  model  business  man,"  kind,  obliging  and  at- 
tentive, everything  about  his  (jtliee  moving  withijut  friction,  and  with  conunendable  dispatch. 

Bef  jrc  moving  to  Montreal,  and  after  having  been  a  teacher,  Mr.  (Jendron  held  simulta- 
neously the  offices  of  secretary  of  the  municipal  council  of  the  county  of  Bagot ;  secretary  of 
the  municipal  coi'ncilof  the  ;  arish  of  Ste.  Ro,salie ;  secretary  of  the  agricultural  society  of  the 
same  place  from  1855  to  1870;  and  also  occupied  several  other  positions,  such  as  member 
of  the  chamber  of  notaries  at  St.  Hyacinthe,  and  coumiissioner  for  issuing  affidavits  before  the 
Superior  Court. 


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In  1867  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  House  of  Commons  for  Bvgot,  and  also  of  the 
Provincial  Assembly,  against  his  two  opponents  Hon.  Maurice  Laframhoise  and  Mr.  Joseph 
Pilon.  In  1871  he  ngain  contested  the  county  of  Bagot,  having  for  his  opponent  Professor 
Francois  S.  Langelier,  of  the  university  of  Laval,  an<l  his  personal  i-  id  and  parishioner,  and 
Mr.  (iendron  was  elected  by  a  majority  of  nearlj'  300  votes.  In  1872  he  was  re-elected  to  the 
House  of  Commons  against  Mr.  W.  Forsyth. 

In  1873  the  law  admitting  of  dual  representation  was  alx)li.shed,  and  it  was  necessary  for 
our  subject  to  vacate  one  of  the  seats  which  he  then  occupied,  and  he  preferred  to  leave  the 
House  of  Commons,  and  remain  in  the  Local  Legislature.  His  place  in  the  House  was  tilled  by 
that  estimable  gentleman,  Mr.  Joseph  A.  Mousseau,  whose  sketch  appears  on  other  pages  of  this 
volume,  and  who  was  elected  in  January,  1874. 

It  was  on  the  Hth  of  June,  187C,  that  Mr.  Gendron  was  notified  of  his  appointment  to 
his  present  office,  and  he  did  not  feel  at  liberty  to  decline  the  honorable  post  of  prothonotary 
— honorable,  yet  full  of  responsibility.  He  took  the  place  of  Mr.  Arnedee  Papineau,  who  re- 
signed. ,     . 

Since  1871,  Mr.  Gendron  has  lieen  a  director  of  the  railway  from  the  junction  of  lake 
Champlain  and  the  St.  Lawrence  river,  and  in  December,  187.'),  was  elected  j)rosideiit  of  the 
company,  and  still  holds  that  position. 

He  was  the  founder  and  has  been  a  president  of  a  colonization  society  which  operated 
in  the  county  of  (,'ompton  with  much  success,  this  society  forming  the  liase  of  tlie  movements 
of  many  Canadians  in  the  United  States. 

Mr.  Gendron  is  a  meml»er  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church.  He  was  married  on  the  13th 
May,  1850,  to  Dame  Loui.se  Fournier,  and  they  have  si.\  children,  of  whom  the  second  is  priest 
and  professor  of  philosophy  in  the  seminary  at  St.  Hyacinthe. 


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HON.    FiiANCIS    (1.   -lOIIXSON,  JlDdE    s.   ('.. 

MONTREAL. 

IT^KANCIS  (iODSCIIALL  .lOlLNSON,  one  of  the  judges  of  the  Superior  <  'unit  fur  the  .lis- 
trict  uf  Muntreal,  was  l>oni  at  Oakley  Hou.se,  Bedford.shire,  Kng.,  on  tlie  1st  of  January, 
ISl'.t,  his  father,  Godschall  Johnson,  being  mi  oHicer  of  the  lOth  Royal  llu/.zars,  then  known  as 
the  I'rinee  of  Wales' regiment.  His  mother  was  Lucy  Ris.shopp,  a  tianghter  of  Sir  Cecil  Hiss- 
hopp,  a  prominent  man  in  his  day,  and  a  sister  of  Col.  Cecil  Ris,shopp,  who  was  killed  in  the  wai' 
with  the  United  States  in  18l2-'ll',  and  who  was  buried  at  Niagara,  Ontario,  where  his  monu- 
ment is  often  visited  liy  strangers.  Our  sulj-ct  was  educated  at  St.  Omer,  B'rance,  and  at 
Bruges,  Belgium.     He  emigrated  to  Canada  in  1833  ;  studied  law  with  Hon.  Justice  Day  ;  was 


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TIIK  (ASADtAN  liUKJIlAI'llWAL  Dll'TUtSARY. 


called  to  the  bar  in  1840  ;  practised  in  Montreal,  and  was  create<l  a  Queen's  t'ounsel  in  1840, 
being  under  thirty  years  of  age.  When  in  practice  at  tlie  Itar  he  was  noted  for  his  eloquence, 
in  this  respect  having  very  few  peers  in  the  province.  While  acting  as  crown  j)rosecutor  his 
splendid  talents  showed  to  the  best  advantage.  •        • 

During  the  perio<l  that  he  was  in  practice.  Judge  Johnson  held  one  or  two  civil  ottices.  He 
was  .secretary  of  the  comnmsion  which  revised  the  statutes  of  Lower  Canaila;  and  was  ap- 
pointed recorder  of  Rupert's  Land  and  governor  of  A.ssinniboine  (now  Manitoba),  holding  that 
position  four  yeai"s,  and  returning  to  Montreal  in  18.')S. 

Here  he  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession,  and  continued  it  until  June,  lH(i5,  when  ho 
wa.s  appointed  a  judge  of  the  Superior  Cotnt,  in  which  position  his  fine  abilities  continue  to  l»o 
.seen  in  their  purest  lustre. 

In  1870,  Judge  Johnson  was  given  special  leave  of  absence,  and  sent  by  the  Dominion 
Government,  as  a  commissioner  to  Manitoba,  to  report  upon  and  organize  the  courts  of  that  new 
province,  and  also  sole  commissioner  for  tlie  settlement  of  the  rebellion  los.ses  claims. 

He  returned  in  1872,  and  was  appointed  lieut.-governor  of  Manitoba,  but  was  never  sworn 
in,  as  that  office  would  have  been  incompatible  with  that  of  Judge,  and  he  preferred  to  remain 
in  the  latter  position,  for  which  he  is  so  eminently  qualified. 

Juilge  John.son  is  a  member  of  the  ( 'hurch  of  England,  and,  as  far  as  we  can  ascertain,  his 
moml  character,  like  his  judicial,  stands  well.  He  was  Hrst  married  in  September,  1840,  to 
Miss  Maiy  (Jates  Jones,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Jone?.,  Montreal,  .she,  dying  in  July,  18o;j,  leaving 
three  children,  who  still  survive  her.  His  second  mariiage  was  in  March,  18.57.  to  Miss  Mary 
Mills,  daughter  of  John  Melliken  Mills,  of  Somersetshire,  England,  by  whom  he  has  also  three 
children. 


|{KV.   .lOJJJS     IILNKINS,    D.I).,     LL.I).. 
MoyriiEA  L 

a"^IIK  .siiliject  of  Ibis  bi()grai)hicul  notice  is  of  Welsh  pareiitagr,  and  w.i.s  bom  in  tin  citv  of 
-  Exeter,  Eiig.,  on  the  .")th  of  December,  18i:$.  His  father  al.so  ".loliii,"  belonged  to  a  very 
old  Welsh  family  ;  and  his  mother,  whoso  maiden  name  was  Mary  Evans,  was  also  Welsh. 
This  worthy  couple  removed  from  Wales  to  England  shortly  before  the  birth  of  their  .son.  He 
was  educated  at  the  Momit  Fladford  school  an<l  college,  E.xeter,  and  sub.se(|uently  at  King's  eol- 
lege,  London,  where  he  took  certain  classes  in  arts.  He  received  his  profe.ssional  education  at 
"Hoxton  Academy,"  Londtm,  where  he  took  the  three  yeai"s'  course,  graduating  in  1837.  He  was 
ordained  in  August  of  the  same  year  at  St.  Peter's  chapel,  Leeds,  and  }>rococded  to  India  as  a 


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missionary  in  the  following  September  under  appointment  of  the  Wesleyan  missionary  society, 
Injing  stationed  in  the  Mysore,  where,  in  the  city  of  Bungiilore,  his  well  known  son,  Edward 
Jenkins,  lately  member  for  Dundee,  Scotland,  and  author  of  "  Ginx's  Baby,"  was  born. 

Dr.  Jenkins  remained  in  the  Mysore  about  five  yeai"s;  then  returned  to  En^dand  on  acctiunt 
of  enfeebled  health.  He  subsequently  resided  two  yeai-s  in  Malta,  acting  as  chaplain  in  an 
English  chapel.  In  IS+T  he  came  to  Montreal,  and  for  the  six  years  followini,'  was  mini.ster  nt 
St.  James  street  church,  the  oldest  Methoilist  church  in  the  province  of  Quebec.  During  this 
period  he  delivered  his  celebrated  course  of  lectures  entitled,  "  A  I'rotestant's  Appeal  t>  the 
Douay  Bible,"  which  were  attended  by  several  thousands  of  hearei"s  of  all  denominaiions,  in- 
cluding many  Roman  Catholics.  Of  these  lectures  four  largo  editions  were  sold  in  the  first 
year  of  their  publication.  Toward  the  close  of  his  pastorate  in  this  church  he  was  appointed, 
by  the  British  conference,  "  Gcneial  Superintendent  of  missions  "  for  the  province  of  Quebec. 
This  appointment  he  declined.  lie  shortly  afterwards  resigned  his  position  as  a  minister  of 
the  Wesleyan  body,  and  became  pastor  of  the  Calvary  Fresljyterian  church,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
wliieh  post  he  occupied  for  ten  yeais. 

Leaving  Philadelphia  in  1.SG3,  Dr.  Jenkins  returned  to  England,  and  resided  in  London  for 
a  year.  At  the  end  of  this  time  he  was  invited  to  become  minister  of  St.  Paul's  Presbyterian 
church,  Montreal,  which  position  he  still  occujiics  much  to  the  gratification  as  well  as  edifica- 
tion of  its  meml)ers  and  congregation.  A  brotiicr  of  his  in  the  ministry  thus  writes  in  regard 
to  Ids  pulpit  talents  : — 

"  Dr.  Jenkins  has  ever  stood  high  as  a  preacher.  Reading  widely  and  wisely,  his  mental 
stores  are  a1)reast  of  the  times.  He  makes  careful  preparation  for  the  pulpit,  and  having  a  good 
English  style  of  composition  and  speech,  an  excellent  voice,  and  a  true  earnestness,  he  secures 
the  attention  and  impresses  the  minds  of  the  large  audiences  to  which  he  is  accustomed  tn 
minister.  This  was  the  ease  in  Montreal  aforetime,  afterwards  in  Philadelphia,  and  now  ami 
for  .some  years  in  Montreal." 

For  nearly  twelve  years  Dr.  Jenkins  was  chairman  of  the  Protestant  board  of  school  coni- 
mi.ssiouers,  and  it  may  be  .sai<l  that  the  advance  of  Protestant  education  in  the  city  to  its  pre- 
sent state  iif  ellicieiicy  is  hugely  owing  to  the  energy  and  ability  which  he  displayed  in  that 
imjwrtant  and  onerous  position.  In  recognition  of  th6  valuable  services  thus  niideied  to  the 
cause  of  education,  the  university  of  McOill  college  confericil  upon  him,  in  l.ST'J,  the  honorary 
•  legree  of  Doctor  of  Laws.  The  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  was  conferred  upon  him  sevt  ral 
years  earlier  (IS.')!)),  by  the  university  of  New  ^'ork.     A  fiiend  thus  speaks  of  this  work  : — 

"  Dr.  Jenkins  has  taken  a  deep  interest  in  the  educational  affairs  of  the  provinces  of  Quebec, 
and  of  the  city  of  Montreal  in  particular,  Appointed,  in  l!Sfi"»,  a  member  of  the  Pi-otestant 
board  of  school  commissioneis  of  the  city,  he  was,  in   ISfiiS,  elected  chairman,  and  presided  fur 

us  abilitvover  the  delilterations  of  that  body,  letirinj'  from 


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THE  CAKADIAX  BWaHAPHICAL  DICTIOXARV. 


the  chairiiiaaship  only  when  the  work  of  organizinj,'  an  effcctivo  system  of  coininon  and  hij,fh 
schools  in  the  city  had  been  conipK^ted.  To  tliis  work  the  Rev.  gentleman  contributed  iuhnir- 
able  tact  in  the  conduct  of  difficult  attairs,  unusual  business  talent,  ingenuity  in  devising  com- 
prehensive plans,  and  a  clear  understanding  of  the  just  relation  of  <letails  to  each  other  and  to 
the  whole  scheme.  It  was  therefore  with  sincere  regret  that  his  able  coadjutors  received  his 
resignation  of  the  position  of  chairman  in  1878.  He  still,  however,  remained  a  member  of  the 
board,  and  not  only  in  that  capacity,  but  as  a  member  of  the  corj)oratioii  of  Meliill  university, 
and  as  a  trustee  of  Queen's  college,  he  rendered  substantial  .service  to  the  cause  of  eilucation, 
both  elementary  and  advanced." 

Dr.  Jenkins  has  a  high  standing  in  his  denomination,  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  and  has 
more  than  once  been  called  upon  to  preside  over  the  supreme  court  of  his  church.  In  18((9  he 
was  elected  moderator  of  the  synod  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Canada,  in  connection  with 
the  Church  of  Scotland.  He  sub.sequently  took  an  active  part  in  promoting  the  union  of  all 
the  Presbyterian  churches  in  the  Dominion,  and  in  1878  was  elected  moderator  of  the  general 
assembly  of  the  united  churches. 

Dr.  Jenkins  was  firet  married  in  1837  to  Harriet,  daughter  of  George  Shepstone,  Esrj.,  archi- 
teet,  of  Bristol,  Eng.,  she  dying  in  1875,  leaving  .seven  children;  and  the  second  time,  in  1877,  to 
Louisa  Mar}-,  eldest  daughter  of  the  late  Rev.  John  MacLennan,  minister  of  the  pari.sh  of  Kil- 
chrennan,  Argyle.shire,  Scotland. 


IJKV.   A.    LKE    JIOLMKS.  .ALA., 

STANSTEAD. 

THE  Stand.stead  Wesleyan  college,  at  the  head  of  which  institution  stands  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  had  its  incipieiicy  in  the  winter  of  1870-71,  when  the  pvo.speetus  of  a  college  for 
youths  of  both  sexes  for  the  Province  of  Quebec,  was  issued.  It  was  incorporated  by  Act  of 
Parliament  in  1872,  and  opened  for  use  in  January,  1874'.  The  design  of  its  fminders  was  to 
establish  "  a  real  peoftle's  college,  suited  to  the  actual  wants  of  the  present  day,"  and  to  the 
southern  section  of  the  provinces,  Stanstea<l  being  near  the  Vermont  line.  The  location  is  in 
the  heart  of  a  rich  agricultural  district,  on  high  and  healtliy  lands,  and  far  removed  from  the 
distiacting  and  dissipating  intluences  of  a  city.  The  college  building  is  pleasantly  loeateil,  well 
arranged  for  educational  purposes,  and  has  a  fair  supply  of  apparatus  and  other  appurtenances, 
neces.sary  for  such  an  institution.  It  has  the  monil  support  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  confer- 
ence of  ( 'anada,  and  the  cordial  support  of  the  conununity,  diH'erent  denominations  being  lepre- 
senteil  in  its  lH)ard  of  trustees,  \i'.  Its  courses  of  instruction  consist  of  the  connnon  Engli.sh, 
academic,  college  pieparatorv,  commercial,  musical,  an  i  two  ladies'  collegiate  coinses. 


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From  the  start  the  college  lias  had  for  its  principal  the  subject  of  this  notice,  ho  iK'ing  a 
native  of  Derby  line,  Vt.,  one  mile  from  Stanstoad.  He  was  lK)rn  on  the  17th  of  June,  184«!, 
his  parents  being  William  H.  and  Julia  (J.  (Moulton)  Holmes.  His  parents  are  natives  of  Stan- 
stead.  He  was  cducateil  at  Stanstead  academy  until  eighteen  years  of  age,  attending  school  in 
the  winter  and  working  on  a  farm  in  the  summer.  At  the  age  nientioned  ho  commenced  teach- 
ing district  schools,  and  a  year  later  took  a  course  of  instruction  in  the  military  school  at 
Quebec,  being  graduated  from  the  same.  ' 

Mr.  Holmes  finished  his  education  at  Victoria  college,  Cobourg,  Ont.,  being  graduated 
in  the  arts  in  1871,  teaching  five  terms  in  the  Stfinstea<l  academy  while  pursuing  his  college 
studies.  The  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  was  given  him  in  course,  by  his  ahiiu  mater.  After 
leaving  college  he  wa.s  on  tiie  circuit  two  years,  supplying  the  Methodist  church  at  Blenheim, 
Ont.,  one  year,  and  one  year  Ihe  eliurch  at  St.  Landjort,  near  Montreal. 

When  the  Wesleyaii  college  was  ready  to  be  opened,  our  subject  was  appointed  principal, 
and  the  school,  as  has  already  been  intimated,  has  had  no  other.  It  is  highly  prosperous,  and 
growing  in  publie  favour  as  it  increa.ses  in  age.  Mr.  Holmes  is  a  very  studibus  man,  and 
is  perhaps  aj)plying  himself  too  closely  to  mental  work,  though  he  appears  to  be  in  robust 
health.  Just  now,  he  teaches  Latin  ami  mathematics.  We  have  the  authority  of  one  of  his 
teachers  at  Cobourg  to  state  that  "  his  career  at  the  university  was  exceedingly  creditable.  He 
showed  himself  to  be  posses.sed  of  talents  of  a  high  order,  and  his  diligence  was  unremitting, 
so  tint  few,  if  any  have  left  the  college  more  valued  either  on  the  ground  of  scholarship  or  gen- 
eral character.  Since  graduation  he  has  fidly  met  the  expectations  entertaineil  of  him  at  thi! 
time  of  his  admission  to  the  degree  of  B.A." 

In  July,  187:5,  Mr.  Holmes  marritid  Miss  Mary  W.  Pierce,  daughter  of  ('.  W.  Tierce  of  Bos- 
ton, Ma.ss.,  and  they  have  one  sim. 


^riio.MAs   I  J.  i»iiK>:Tiss, 

AYI.MEl;. 

TH()M.\S  BRIGH.VM  PRKNTISS,  ex-mayor  of  Aylmer,  and  long  a  leading  n\erchant 
here,  is  a  native  of  Clielse.i,  Orange  county,  Vermont,  and  was  burn  August  "ill,  1S()!>. 
His  lather,  Robert  I'lentiss,  a  blacksmith  by  trade,  aii<l  a  native  of  Winchester,  N.H.,  was  nf 
remute  Engtish  descent;  his  mother,  whose  maiden  name  was  Su.saiuia  Wriglit,  was  of  Seotcli 
ilescent.  Thomas  finished  his  education  at  Jericho,  Vermont,  in  an  academy  taught  by  I'ro- 
fe.s,sr)r  Bieknell,  a  graduate  of  Middlebury  college,  and  an  excellent  teacher;  worked  awhile  in 
a  woollen  factory  at  Jericho,  carding,  spinning,  dressing,  ifce. ;  camo  to  the  province  of  Lower 
Canada  in  18H1  ;  located  at  Ohelsea,  in  the  centre  of  the  township  of  Hull,  county  of  Ottawa ; 
rented  au  old  carding  mill,  with  dilapidated  machinery;  repaired  the  same  with  his  own  hands, 


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and  ran  it  three  seasons  ;  teacliinf,'  school  at  the  same  period  'luring  the  winter,  and,  a  little 
lat«r,  also  during  two  sumniei-s.  Sulisefjuently,  Mr  Prentiss  wont  into  the  mercantile  business 
at  Chelsea,  connnencing  on  a  capital  of  !*oO(>;  and,  lieing  in  general  trade  there  for  fourteen 
years,  he  secured  a  |iost-office  at  C/'helsea  ;  was  the  fii-st  postmaster,  and  for  six  years  carried 
the  mail  once  a  week  to  Bytown,  Ontario,  for  live  dollars  a  year,  and  paying  his  own  ferriage. 
He  held  that  oHice  until  IS.')."),  when  he  left  Chelsea  and  settled  at  Aylmcr,  where  he  has  con- 
tinued in  trade  until  the  present  time.  He  has  always  been  a  prudent  manager;  for  fifty 
yeai-s  has  done  a  thrifty  business  ;  has  never  been  sued ;  has  never  failed  to  pay  one  hundred 
tents  on  the  dollar,  and  was  long  ago  placed  in  independent  circum.stances.  He  has  found 
])unctuality,  as  well  as  "  honesty,  the  best  policy,"  and  has  made  the  two,  comVuned,  pay  him 
well.     Almost  any  young  man  can  make  a  similar  investment,  and  receive  good  dividends. 

Mr  Prentiss  was  a  magistrnte  for  years  before  leaving  Chelsea  (Quebec),  and  resigned  ; 
lint  was  re-appointed  on  coming  to  Aylmer,  and  still  holds  that  oltice.  He  was  mayor  in  bS7M, 
and  made  an  efficient  chief  magistrate  of  the  town,  looking  faithfully  after  its  every  interest. 

He  is  a  royal  arch  mason,  a  member  of  the  grand  lodge  of  Quebec,  and  has  held  the  offices 
of  master  of  the  lodge,  junior  deacon,  junior  warden,  ki:.,  \c.  He  is  now  grand  register  of  the 
grand  lodge  of  the  province. 

He  is  a  Baptist,  holding  his  connection  with  the  church  in  the  city  of  Ottawa,  Ontario,  of 
which  he  is  the  oldest  deacon,  and  a  liberal  supporter.  He  is  a  man  of  very  kindly,  as  well  as 
generous  feelings,  and  a  true  friend  of  the  i>oor. 

3Ir  Prentiss  was  Krst  married  in  lf<.1.)  to  Miss  Salome  Brighaui,  also  a  native  of  Chelsea, 
Vermont,  and  a  school-mate  of  his  youth,  she  living  only  two  years  and  three  months,  leaving 
one  son,  Howard  B.  Prentiss,  now  postmaster  at  Chelsea,  (^>uebec.  His  present  wife  was  Miss 
Hannah  Folsom  Weymouth,  from  Tunbridge,  Vi-iniont,  by  whom  he  has  had  four  children,  all 
yet  living,  but  one  son,  Thomas  Daniel  Prentiss,  wiio  died  at  Detroit,  Mich.,  in  February,  l.S7!>. 
Another  son,  George  W.  Prentis.s,  is  a  physician  at  West  Bloonifield,  New  York;  Salome  is  tlie 
wife  of  John  Aylen,  a  physician  and  lawyer,  practising  the  latter  profession  at  Aylmer  ; 
and  the  other  daughter,  Hannah  Josephine,  is  at  home. 


FHA^'K   BULLEPi,   :N[.D., 

MUXTIIKA  /,. 

FRANK  BlTLTiKR,  Lecturer  on  Di-seases  of  the  Eye  and  Eur  in  Mcdill  university,  and  one 
of  the  most  skilful  men  in  his  profession  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  is  a  native  of  the 
Province  of  Ontario,  being  lM)rn  near  Cobourg,  on  the  4th  ui  May.  1844.  He  is  the  f(Uirth  .son 
of  Charles  O.  and  Frances  ElizaVieth  (Boucher)  Buller.     His  father  was  educated  for  the  Church 


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of  Kn<,'land  ministry,  but  declining  holy  onlers,  emigrated  to  Canadi,  in  I8:)l,  and  settled  near 
the  town  of  Cobourg,  preferring  agricultural  life  to  any  other  means  of  earning  a  livelihootl. 
The  Buller  family  has  for  centuries  occupied  a  prominent  position  in  the  South  of  Knglaud,  antl 
it  is  well  known  that  many  of  its  meml)ors  have  ln'cn  ilistinguishi'd  for  energy  and  ability  dis- 
played in  the  service  of  their  country. 

Dr.  Buller  received  the  foundation  of  a  liberal  education  at  home,  and  subsequently  studied 
in  the  High  School  of  Peterlioro'.  Having  decided  to  enter  the  Medical  profession,  after  the 
usual  course  of  study  he  was  graduated  in  the  Vict<jria  School  of  Medicine.  Toionto,  in  1S()!(, 
and  shortly  afterwards  went  to  London,  England,  where  hf  soon  received  the  diploma  of  niem- 
bersliip  of  the  Royal  College  of  Surgeons.  Having  .spent  the  best  part  of  a  year  in  the  further 
study  of  general  medicine  and  surgery  in  St.  Thomas  Ho.spital,  and  satisfied  himself  that  there 
was  no  such  thing  po.ssible  as  the  attainment  of  perfection  in  all  the  branches  of  a. science  so  far 
reaching  as  that  of  medicine,  ho  resolved  to  devote  himself  to  the  study  of  a  specialty,  having 
reason  to  believe  that  the  Medical  jirofession  in  ( 'an.ida  would  Ik-  willing  U)  sustain  any  specialist 
who  could  bring  evidence  of  having  received  a  suHicieiitly  thorough  training  to  merit  public 
confidence.  Keeping  this  assumption  steadily  in  vifw,  he  spared  no  pains  to  become  thoroughly 
proficient  in  the  specialty  he  had  cliosen.  At  that  time  the  renowned  Von  (Iriife  was  still  living, 
and  shedding  tlu;  lustre  of  his  great  fame  ovei-  the  l^niversity  of  Jierlin :  Hehnholtz  too,  the 
discoverer  of  the  ophthalmoscope,  honored  the  chair  of  physical  scienct?  in  the  .same  University. 
To  receive  instruction  from  two  such  men  was  to  drink  from  the  very  source  of  the  fountain  of 
knowledge.  Thither  Dr.  Buller  betook  himself  early  in  the  year  1870  ;  nor  was  he  disapjuiinted 
in  his  anticipations  of  the  benefit  to  l)e  derived  from  the  instructions  of  these  illustrious  masteis. 
The  outbreak  of  the  Franco-German  war  called  for  the  ser\  ices  of  every  availalile  medical  man, 
and  Dr.  Buller,  like  many  other  foreigners,  volunteered  his  services.  During  eight  months  he 
acted  as  assistant  Surgeon  in  the  military  hospiUds  of  North  (iermany.  After  the  termination 
of  the  war  he  continued  his  studies  in  Berlin,  and  .serveil  for  one  year  as  a.ssistant  in  the  ( iriife- 
Kwers  Ophthalmic  Hospital. 

Early  in  187-  he  returned  to  England,  and  was  appointed  t'linieal  assistant  to  the  Royal 
Lonilon  Ophthahnic  Hospital,  from  which  position  he  was  promoted  to  the  othce  of  junior,  and 
soon  afterwards  to  that  of  senior  house  surgeon,  a  situation  which  he  held  with  credit  to  him.self 
and  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  the  Institution  for  nearly  three  years.  Having  thus  acipiired,  in 
a  few  years,  an  amount  of  knowledge  and  experience  that  under  less  favorable  circumstances, 
could  not  have  been  gained  in  a  lifetime,  he  was  prepared  to  take  advantage  of  the  first  oppor- 
tunity that  ottered  for  establishing  liimself  in  the  practice  of  his  profession.  For  this  he  had 
not  long  to  wait.  For  reasons  tliat  need  not  be  described,  Montreal  was  chosen  as  the  field  for 
future  labors.  Early  in  1870  Dr.  Buller  commenced  practice  in  this  city,  and  owing  to  the  cor- 
dial good  will  of  his  professional  confreres,  obtained  a  lucrative  practice  fiom  the  very  outset. 
In  the  month  of  May,  187(J,  he  was  appointed  Ophthalmic  and  Aural  Surgeon  to  the  Montreal 


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(leneral  H(>H|>iUvl,  and  Lecturer  on  Diseases  of  the  Eye  and  Ear  in  McOill  Univoi-sity,  iwsitions 
which  lie  still  holds,  and  judging  l»y  the  past,  we  antici|>ato  for  him  a  long  career  of  honor  and 
great  usefulness. 

It  should  Ikj  mentioned  that  Dr.  Buller  is  a  self-made  man,  and  that  he  in  a  great  measure 
bore  his  own  expenses  while  securing  his  eduoitiun,  so  broa<l  in  its  range,  and  so  admirable  in 
his  specialty.  He  is  a  g(K)d  example  of  what  pluck,  energy  and  perseverance  can  do,  when  the 
object  in  view  is  self  advancement  by  means  of  earnest  work. 


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AMES,   TIOLDKN    AND    CO., 

MONTREAL. 

1 1  "iHK  largest  shoe  factory  in  Montreal,  and  probably  the  largest  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada, 
-*-  is  that  of  Ames,  Holden  and  Co.,  one  of  the  pioneer  Hrma  in  tiiat  branch  of  manufacture 
in  this  city.  It  was  commcnccil,  in  1855,  by  Silas  D.  Childs  and  Francis  Seholes,  tin'  former 
from  Massachusetts,  the  latter  from  Ireland,  or  of  Irish  descent.  They  began  on  a  small  scale, 
and  yet,  twenty-five  years  ago,  theirs  was  one  of  the  very  few  shoe  factories  in  Montreal 
deserving  of  the  name.  In  1H57,  Mr.  Evan  F.  Ames,  who  had  been  in  Montreal  for  two  years, 
acting  as  .salesman  for  Brown  and  Ciiild.s,  becauKs  a  member  of  the  firm.  Mr.  Chiltls  being  re- 
moved by  death  thi-ee  years  later,  his  interest  was  purchased  by  Messi-s.  Seholes  and  Ames,  ami 
tills  firm  name  continued  for  .seven  or  eight  years,  when  Mr.  Seholes  retired,  and  Roliert  Millard 
and  George  VV.  Milliinl  took  his  place,  and  the  firm  of  Amos,  Millard  and  Co.  continued  until 
November  1871,  when  James  C.  Holden  and  Andrew  Jack  bought  out  the  interest  of  the 
Mi  Hards. 

With  the  e.xceptiim  of  a  few  thousand  dollars  paid  in  by  Mr.  Ames,  all  the  money  in  the  firm 
has  been  made  in  the  liusiness,  each  \\&vf  member  simply  rejjlacing  the  funds  taken  out  l)y  the 
ictiriiig  party.  The  same  year  that  the  present  firm  was  formed,  they  were  burnt  out,  having 
;*1()0,000  worth  of  property  destroyed,  with  one-half  insurance  on  it.  This  calamity  caused  but 
little  delay  in  their  business,  and  none  in  meeting  obligations  against  the  firm  as  they  matured. 
Tlie  firm  has  gone  on  gradually  increasing  its  business  from  time  to  time,  until  the  factory  gives 
employment  to  three  hundred  men  and  women,  to  whom  they  are  paying  out  alwut  .^75,000  per 
year.  Before  the  extensive  introduction  of  machinery,  they  paid  some  years  over  ?1()0,000, 
Tliey  are  doing  from  «4(M),000  to  $500,000,  and  turning  out  from  300,000  to  .S50,000  paii-s  of 
shoes  annually.  Alontrcal  has  nearly  thirty  shoe  factories,  large  and  small,  not  including  .shops 
wli'ie  half-a-dozen  men  are  employed,  and  Ames,  Holden  and  Co.  stand  at  the  head  in  amount  of 
business,  although  there  are  a  dozen  first-class  establishments  of  the  kind,  all  of  them  in  every 
way  creditable  to  the  city.     In  financial  standing,  and  in  all  the  elements  which  give  character 


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to  a  buRine.sH  hoiiso,  the  tiriii  of  Aiii&h,  Holden  and  Co.  has  but  few  peers  among  the  many  nmnii- 
facturerH  in  Montreal. 

Mr.  AnieH,  the  senior  memlter  of  this  firm,  is  a  native  of  Amherst,  Miws.,  born  in  1N22,  and 
(•(bleated  in  that  rural  town,  noted  for  being  the  seat  of  one  of  the  oldest  colleges  in  the  Old 
Bay  State.  He  learned  the  mercantile  business,  and  for  several  years  was  in  trade  at  Conway, 
in  his  native  State,  and  while  there  represented  that  town  two  years  in  the  Legislature.  Mr. 
Ames  maiTied  Miss  Caroline  M.  Brown,  of  New  York  City,  and  has  one  son,  Herbert  B.,  who  is 
a  student  at  Williston  Academy,  East  Hampton,  Mass.,  where  he  is  preparing  to  enter  colleg(^. 

James  C.  Holden  is  a  native  of  Belleville,  Ontario,  and  a  son  of  Dr.  Holden,  many  years  a 
leading  practising  physician  in  that  city.  He  was  a  prosperous  business  man  in  his  native  town 
before  his  removal  to  Montreal,  and  has  all  the  traits  of  chara  ter  necessary  for  the  successful 
prosecution  of  the  extensive  business  in  which  the  firm  are  engaged. 

Andrew  Jack,  the  other  member  of  the  firm,  belongs  to  a  Scotch  family,  and  is  a  native  of 
the  Province  of  Quebec.  He  is  the  principal  travelling  man  of  the  house,  very  successful,  and 
is  known  far  and  wide  for  his  energetic  habits  and  e.\ccllent  tact  as  a  salesman. 


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WATERLOO.  ■  . 

JOHN  POWELL  NOYES,  the  leading  lawyer  in  Waterloo,  son  of  Heman  B.  and  Sarah 
(Powell)  Noyes,  was  born  at  Potton,  county  of  Bromo,  on  the  l.jth  of  SjptembL>r,  18+2. 
His  father  was  from  Tunbridge,  Vermont,  where  six  generations  of  the  family  arc  buried.  They 
were  originally  from  England.  The  Powells  are  also  of  English  dts.scent,  coming  through  New 
Hampshire  to  this  province,  the  mother  of  our  subject  1)eing  born  at  Potton.  One  of  the  grcat- 
grandfathei-s  of  our  subject,  Nathaniel  King,  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Freewill  Baptists, 
who  had  their  origin  in  New  Duihatn,  New  Hampshire,  in  1780,  and  which  denomination  have 
recently  held  their  centennial.  In  the  early  youth  of  J((lin,  the  family  moved  to  Bangor, 
Franklin  county,  N.  Y.,  where,  and  at  Fort  Covington  academy,  he  received  his  education,  evinc- 
ing an  ardent  love  of  study,  and  laying  a  good  foundation  on  which  he  has  since  built. 

In  18G1  Mr.  Noyes  returned  to  this  province,  and  .settled  at  Waterloo  ;  studied  law  at  first 
with  Me.ssrs.  Huntington  and  Lay,  and  afterwards  with  Hon.  Maurice  Laframlioise,  and  was 
graduated  at  the  law  school  connected  with  St.  Mary's  college,  Montreal,  and  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  Octol>er,  ISGO.  While  pui-suing  liis  law  studies  he  filled  the  ottice  of  s(^cretarytr(»a.surer 
of  Sheftbrd,  and  after  Waterloo  was  incorpomted,  he  held  the  same  office  for  the  village. 

He  has  been  for  several  years  secretary  of  the  Stanstead,  Shott'oid  and  Clmndily  Ujiilway, 
and  is  now  chairman  of  the  board  of  school  eonnni.ssioners  of  Waterloo. 


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Mr.  Noycs  comnicnci'd  the  i)ractifo  of  liis  profession  with  Hon.  L.  S.  Huntington  and 
Jo.seph  Le  Blnnc  ;  suhscqncntly  with  Mr.  Huntington  only,  iukI  hitterly  ha«  practised  alone. 
The  records  of  the  superior  court  and  other  courts  sliew  that  lie  has  a  gixxl  practice,  as  exten- 
sive proltahly  ns  that  of  any  lawyer  in  the  district.  He  was  created  a  Queen's  Counsel  in  187!). 
Mr.  No^'os  gives  his  personal  and  careful  attention  to  his  cases,  makes  a  thorough  preparation, 
and  is  usually  successful.  In  large  and  very  important  causes  in  connection  with  mercantile 
matters,  he  has  l>een  very  fortunate,  mrely  failing  to  win.  He  is  a  talent<'d  ami  a1>Ie  pleader, 
and  early  .showed  his  character  as  in  all  resjwcts  honorahle  to  the  profession. 

Mr.  Noyes  has  cjuite  a  literary  ta.ste,  and  an  inclination  at  times  to  display  his  fine  talents 
in  the  use  of  the  pen.  In  early  manho(Ml  he  l>egan  to  write  for  the  local  paper,  and  when  Mr. 
Huntington  vacated  the  editorial  chair  of  the  Waterloo  Ailroi'mer  in  ISUl,  Mr.  Noyes  took  his 
place,  and  held  it  uhtil  187"),  Iteing  proprietor  as  well  as  editor  the  first  five  years.  That  was 
a  very  business  period  of  his  life — managing  a  fair  run  of  legal  business  anil  conducting  a 
weekly  new.spaper  ;  yet  he  did  it  in  a  highly  creditable  manner.  He  made  the  Athrvflxcr  a 
strong  exponent  of  the  principles  of  the  Lil>eial  party,  to  which  he  always  lx»longed,  and  at  tlie 
same  time  a  very  readable  gazetteer  of  local  and  general  news,  such  as  the  families  in  the  town 
and  county  usually  welcome  with  pleasure.  He  is  attorney  for  the  Waterloo  branch  of  the 
Eastem  Townships  Bank  and  the  British  American  Land  (!ompany. 

The  religious  artiliations  of  Mr.  Noyes  are  witli  the  Episcopal  churcli  of  which  his  wife  is 
a  member.  She  was  Lucy  A.  MeiTy,  daughter  of  Joseph  Merry,  of  Magog,  and  was  mairied  in 
November,  18C7,  having  four  children  living,  and  have  buried  two.  Mrs.  Noyes  was  educated 
at  McGill  normal  .school,  and  was  for  three  years  the  popular  preceptress  of  the  Shetlbid 
academy.     Her  grandfatlier  was  one  of  the  foundei-s  of  Magog. 


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IIOX.   GA1M)^'EK    G.    STEVENS, 

WATKRWt). 

aAUDNER  GREEN  STEVENS,  senator  for  the  district  of  Bedford,  dates  his  birth  at 
Brompton,  P.Q.,  on  the  13th  of  Decenilier,  1814,  his  parents  being  Gardner  and  Deborah 
(Harrington)  Stevens.  His  father  wa.s  born  at  Newfane,  Windham  county,  Vt,  and  his  grand- 
father, Lemuel  Stevens,  at  Petersliani,  Worcester  county,  Mass.,  the  family  moving  into  Canada 
soon  after  the  close  of  the  struggle  for  the  independence  of  the  colonies,  they  being  strong  ad- 
herents of  the  British  crown.  The  mother  of  Senator  Stevens  was  from  Brookfield,  Vt.  Gard- 
ner Stevens  was  one  of  the  early  settlei-s  in  Brompton,  and  was,  in  his  day,  an  industrious, 
well-to-do-fnnner,  and  a  prominent  citizen  of  that  township,  Iteing  killed  bj-  accident,  in  184.'), 


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at  tilt'  age  of  sixty-tliree  years  ;  he  m  the  father  of  Hon,  John  Harrington  Stevenn,  of  Minne- 
H}M))is,  Minn. 

Senator  Stevens  received  the  ordinary  education  of  farmers'  sons  in  this  locality  fifty  years 
ajfo ;  aided  his  father  in  cidtivating  the  soil  until  of  age ;  then  took  charge  of  a  farm,  mill  and 
■tore  at  VV'atcrville,  county  of  Conipton,  \mng  thus  employed  for  ten  years,  and  then  in  March, 
iX.'il,  Itecame  agimt  for  the  British  American  Loan  Company,  taking  up  his  residence  at  Water- 
loo ;  and  he  has  since  devoted  his  attention  almost  entirely  to  that  agency. 

Except  four  years  sjient  at  llo.xton  Falls,  he  has  resided  here  for  thirty  yeaix,  holding  vari- 
ous positions  of  trust  and  honor,  l»oth  at  Roxton  and  Waterloo.  While  at  tlu)  former  place  he 
was  muniiripal  councillor  and  mayor  of  the  town ;  here  he  has  l)een  justice  of  the  peace  for  a  long 
period,  has  been  councillor,  mayor  of  the  township  from  1S70  to  187.>  inclusive,  and  warden  of 
the  county.  Wiiiie  warden  he  was  cx-offivio  a  director  of  the  South-eastern  Railway ;  he  has 
been  a  director,  and  is  now  vice-president  of  the  Stanstead,  ShefTord  and  Ghambly  Railway,  of 
which  company  he  was  the  first  treasurer.  He  is  one  of  those  enterprising  men  who  like  to  have 
a  hand  in  any  movement  calculated  to  benefit  tiic  country — its  material  interests,  or  the  im- 
provement of  the  people.  Since  February  IJ),  1870,  he  has  represented  the  constituency  of  Bed- 
ford in  the  Senate  of  the  l>ominion,  taking  the  place  of  Hon.  Asa  B.  Foster  on  his  resignation. 

In  l<S't7,  Senator  Stevens  married  Relief  Jane,  daughtin-  of  Sidney  SjwiHbrd,  of  Compton, 
and  they  have  five  children,  three  soas  and  two  daughtei-s.  (Jardner,  the  eldest  son,  is  post- 
master at  Waterloo  ;  Sidney,  is  teller  of  the  bank  at  Stanstead  ;  Edward  Albert,  the  youngest 
son,  is  in  Texas ;  Clara  Jane  is  the  wife  of  Henry  E.  Williams,  merchant,  of  Knowlton,  and 
Mary  is  at  home.     Senator  Stevens  attends  the  Methodist  church,  to  which  his  family'  belongs. 

The  C'tronider  of  Shetibrd  thus  speaks  of  our  subject : — 

Mr.  Stevens  is  emphatically  a  self-made  man,  and  like  all  men  of  his  clagi,  his  perceptive  faculties,  sharp- 
ened by  cultivation,  make  I'im  keenly  cognizant  of  whatever  atfecta  his  own  interests  or  anything  committed  to 
his  trust.  A  man  of  extensive  reading  and  retentive  memory,  with  ready  powers  of  conversation,  he  is  emi- 
nently qualified  to  amuse  or  instruct.  Accustomed  to  habits  of  industry,  he  appreciates  tliis  ijuality  in  others, 
and  while  he  is  over  ready  to  assist  the  young  man  who  is  bravely  fighting  the  battle  of  life,  he  has  no  sympathy 
for  one  who  shrinks  from  hardships,  or  who,  with  everything  in  his  favor,  makes  shipwreck  of  liis  possessions. 


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It  was  during  the  first  term  of  Senator  Stevens'  service  in  the  mayor's  chair,  that  Prince 
Arthur  visited  Waterloo,  June  13,  1870,  and  he  had  the  honor  of  presenting  to  His  Royal  High- 
ness, an  address,  in  the  course  of  which  he  made  the  following  happy  remarks : — 

In  the  eastern  townships  of  this  province,  Your  Royal  Higliness  will  find  a  loyal  and  |>atriotic  people, 
earnest  in  their  attachment  to,  and  veneration  for,  your  gracious  mother.  Her  Majesty  Queen  Victoria.  In  other 
tiutes,  the  people  of  this  section  have  more  than  once  displayed  their  tidelity  to  Her  Majesty's  Government, 
and  it  is  with  profound  gratification  that  we  know  that  Your  Koyal  Highness,  as  a  pwticipant  in  the  late  move- 
ments to  repel  the  Fenian  invasion  of  our  province,  has  had  an  opportunity  to  witness  the  gallantry  of  eastern 
townships  men  in  defending  their  country,  and  in  evincing  their  stem  loyalty  to  a  throne  that  they  revere. 

We  are  not  prone  to  vaunt  our  loyalty,  but  prefer  rather  to  express  it  by  action.     We  trust  that  Your 

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Uoyal  Highness  will  be  i)leased  to  convey  to  Her  Majesty  the  Queen  the  expression  of  our  deep  seated  attach- 
ment fur  her,  and  that  the  prayer  uf  our  i>eople  ifi,  that  Her  Majesty  may  long  be  spared  to  rule  over  a  united 
and  prosperous  country.  We  earnestly  lioi>e  that  Your  Royal  Highness'  sojourn  here  will  be  pleasant,  and  that 
tiie  recollections  of  the  eastern  townships  will  not  be  among  the  least  agreeable  of  those  you  will  carry  back 
with  you,  of  the  country  which  is  proud  to  honor  the  son  of  so  good  a  sovereign. 


UFA'.   JOSEPH    A.   LOBLKY,   :M.A.,   D.C.I.., 

LENNOX  V I LLE. 

JOSEPH  ALBERT  LOBLEY,  'principal  of  Bisliop's  college,  Lennoxville,  is  n  son  of  Ben- 
jamin Lobiey,  joiner  and  builder,  and  Mary  Harrison,  and  dates  his  birth  at  Liveipool, 
Enj;!.uid,  on  the  10th  of  February,  1840.  He  was  educated  at  Trinity  college  in  the  Univei-sity 
of  Cambridge,  taking  his  degree  of  bachelor  of  arts  in  1803,  distinguished  himself  as  the  eighth 
wrangler  in  mathematics  and  second  cla.ss  in  classics.  Two  years  later  he  was  elected  a  f»'llow 
uf  his  college — a  record  indicating  a  very  high  order  of  soholai-ship.  In  December  of  the  year 
in  which  he  was  gratluated  he  was  ordained  ileacon  by  the  Bishop  of  Winchestei-,  and  priest  the 
ne.\t  year  by  the  Bishop  of  Ely.  In  18GG  he  was  appointed  vicar  of  the  then  new  parish  of 
"  All  Saints,"  Hamer,  near  Rockdale,  containing  more  than  4,000  pei-sons,  and  during  his  incum- 
bency there  he  did  a  great  amount  of  parochial  work,  including  the  completing  of  a  new 
church,  the  building  of  a  parsonage  and  of  one  or  more  school-houses  for  the  children  of  the 
parish. 

In  1871  our  subject  was  designated  bj'  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  to  the  bi  hoprie  of  Vic- 
toria, Hong  Kong,  but,  acting  under  the  advice  of  English  medical  men,  he  declined  the  appoint- 
ment. In  187'?,  by  invitation  of  Rev.  Dr.  Oxenden,  at  that  time  Bishop  of  Montreal  ami  Me- 
tropolitan of  Canada,  Mr.  Lobiey  came  to  this  country  and  became  principal  of  the  new  diocesan 
theological  college  at  Montreal,  a  position  which  he  held  until  the  death  in  1877  of  the  Rev.  (!. 
H.  NichoUs,  D.D,  principal  of  Bishop's  college,  when  oni'  subject  was  appointed  to  fill  the  va- 
cancy,    lio  is  a  D.C.L.  of  this  univei'sity. 

In  February,  1880.  Principal  Lobiey  was  invited  by  the  lorporation  of  Trinity  colK 
Toronto,  to  succeed  the  venerable  Archdeacon  Whitnker  in  the  chair  of  divinity,  and  as  pi 
vost  of  the  college,  but  fortunately  for  Bi.^liops  college,  he  declined  to  leave  Lennoxville. 
About  thi't  time  a  .Montreal  cc)rres[>ondent  of  the  Jhiniiiion  Clnirrlimoii,  to  who.se  comnnmica- 
tion  we  are  indebted  for  several  data  for  this  .sketch,  thus  .spoke  of  him  : 

It  hii.s  liccu  jusUy  observed  that  Dr.  Lobiey  is  not  only  u  gentluuiau  of  high  attainments  ;  ho  is  Iwsides  a 
man  of  the  most  sincere  anil  unobtrusive  piety.  His  administrative  capacity  is  of  a  very  high  order,  and  with 
tliitthe  ciMiibines  ti  wonderful  pdwer  of  attracting  students  and  stimulating  them  to  worthy  ambition.  Hut 
knowing  nil  tl.is  about  the  nniu,  personal  intercnurse  h  still  absulntuly  necessary  to  know  hi.-i  full  worth.  He  is 
the  most  untiring  'if  li'iichcrs,  and  those  »  i  know  him  give  it  an  their  linn  conviction  that  ho  would,  with  the 
most  unrutllcd  composure  lecture  hour  after  hour  from  six  a.m.  until  twelve  at  i.ight,  and  then  be  sorry  that  his 


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work  ghoiilU  suffer  from  the  necessary  interruption  of  sleep.  He  is  particularly  enthusiastic  about  iiiathomatics, 
which  he  evidently  loves  for  its  own  sake,  but  both  in  claasius  and  uiathematios,  it  is  very  seldom  one  attains 
8\ich  a  high  pitch  of  excellence. 

Dr.  Lobley  is  an  jicctiiato  and  elegant  scholar  of  that  careful  thoughtful  type,  which  it 
8cenis  to  1)0  the  reward  of  Cambridge  univeiNity  to  count,  in  no  scant  numbers,  amongst  her 
alumni.  The  diligence,  ability  and  success  which  marked  him  as  a  student  have  followed  his 
path  as  an  educator  in  Canada.  The  theological  college  of  Montreal  owes  its  estaVilishment, 
ami  the  marked  success,  which,  despite  many  difficulties,  attended  the  first  year  of  its  exist- 
ence, to  his  scholar-like  nietho.i,  rare  ability  to  instruct,  and  untiring  zeal.  His  recent  trnnsrer 
to  Lennoxville  has  given  to  educational  affairs  there  an  impetus  of  the  happiest  and  most  pro- 
mising kind. 

He  was  Maitland  prize  es.sayist  at  Cambridge  in  1870,  the  subject  being  mining  work, 
which  was  published  in  a  volume  of  138  jmge.s. 

In  18G7,  l>r.  Lobley  married  Klizabcth  Ann,  daiighter  of  Uev.  Jtihn  Mais,  rector  of  Tin- 
turn  Parva,  and  they  have  one  child. 


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.lOiV.    FRANCOIS    X.   7\.   TIHn)KL, 

MoyriiEA  I.. 

-[T^UANCOIS  XAVIEK  ANSKLMK  TRUDKIi,  .senator  for  De  Salaberry,  is  a  -^on  of  Francois 
-L  Xavier  Trudel,  E.s(j.,  of  St.  Prosper,  P.Q.,  by  Julie  Langevin,  a  granddaughter  of  J.  A. 
llamelin,  Ksi].,  seigneur  des  Cirondines,  and  grandson  of  Oliver  Trudel,  Ksi|.,  of  Ste.  Genevieve  de 
Hatiscan,  who  represented  Champlain  in  the  Lower  ( 'anada  As.sembly  f(  i'  a  long  tin\e.  The 
Trudel  family  came  from  Finance  to  Canada  sometime  during  the  seventeenth  century,  and  set- 
tled at  L'Ange-(iardieii,  below  (Quebec. 

Our  subject  was  l>orn  at  St.  Anne  de  la  Parade,  V.^.1.  on  the  'JDth  of  April,  l.SSS;  was  edu- 
acted  at  Nicolet  college  ;  studied  law  partly  with  Messrs.  Leblanc  ami  Cassidy,  and  partly  with 
Moreaii,  Ouimet  and  .Morin,  and  was  ealliMl  to  the  bar  of  Lower  Canada  in  December,  18()1  ; 
he  is  senior  partial' of  the  tirni  of  Trudel,  Charbonneau,  Trudel  and  Jjam>)the,  who  practise 
in  all  the  courts  of  the  province,  and  have  an  extensive  liusinos.s.  .Mr.  Trudel  was  created  a 
•  Queen's  (!oun.sel  in  IsT-'i;  has  been  president  of  diH'erent  literary  societies,  amongst  others  the 
Cercle  Litteraire,  tlie  I'nion  Catli<ilii|ne,  of  Montreal  ;  he  is  an  ho'iorary  member  of  the  Cerele 
Catholi()ue,  of  Queliec. 

Mr.  Trudel  has  been  engaged  in  .several  important  c»i.ses  in  the  la,st  twelve  y»'ars,  ncjtably 
the  celebrated  lUiibord  case,  in  which  he  was  retained  for  the  defence  by  the  Fabri(iue  of  Notre 
Damo  de  Montreal.    In  his  .s],)eech  made  in  that  cause  he  maintained  the  complete  indeitendencu 


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of  the  Roman  Catholic  church,  in  its  civil  rights ;  anil  his  pleadings  developing  the  question  of 
Ia  Propriety  Ecclesiastique,  created  much  discussion  by  the  press,  and  caused  his  dismissal  by 
his  clients,  though  his  position  was  commended  by  publicists  and  canonists  in  France,  B«'lgium 
and  Spain.  On  his  dismissal  from  the  case,  the  matter  was  referred  to  the  canonical  advisei-s 
of  the  Holy  See,  and  his  arguments  were  pronounced  sound  and  approved,  and  indeed  his  whole 
pleadings  received  the  warmest  encomiums  of  the  eminent  canons  at  Rome. 

In  1860,  while  still  pursuing  his  law  studies,  Mr.  Trudel  edited,  for  aliout  si.\  months,  La 
Minerve  ;  and  the  taste  and  talent  which  he  then  manifested  for  writing,  seems  to  have  been 
gratified  in  part  since  that  date,  for  he  has  written  occasionally  for  French-Canadian  newspa- 
pers and  periodicals,  and  now  and  then  a  pamphlet  on  different  subjects,  amongst  others :  "The 
Union  of  the  Canadian  Literaiy  Societies,"  "  Temperance,"  "  The  Relations  Itetwoen  Cliurch  and 
State,"  etc. ;  he  was  one  of  the  authors  of  the  Programme  Cotholique  of  1 871 ;  ha.s  written  for 
law  reports,  for  the  Revue  Canadienne  and  other  periodicals,  and  is  the  author  of  "  Nos  Cham- 
bres  Hautes,  Sdnat  et  Conseil  L<!gislatif,"  published  in  French,  in  January,  1880,  and  which  \n 
now  being  tmnslated  into  English.  This  last  work  has  drawii  forth  the  highest  encomiums  of 
the  French  aiid  English  jurists  and  statesmen. 

Mr.  Tiudel  entered  public  life  in  1871,  representing  Champlain  in  the  Quebec  As.sembly, 
from  that  date  until  the  general  election  in  1875,  and  was  called  to  the  Senate  of  the  Domin- 
ion on  the  31st  of  October,  1873.  In  tliat  chamber  he  has  taken  a  prominent  part  in  nil  the  im- 
portant measures  which  were  .submitted  to  Parliament  since  1873,  amongst  them :  on  the  Act 
establishing  the  Supreme  Court,  on  the  national  |)olicy,  on  the  building  of  the  Pacific  rail- 
way, on  the  repeal  of  the  insolvency  law,  on  ail  mattei-s  concerning  fiscal  policy,  navigation 
railways,  agriculture,  etc.  Politically  he  is  a  Conservative  and  strong  Protectionist ;  religiously, 
II  Roman  Catholic. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Trudel  was  Marie  Zo(5  Aiiude  Renaud,  daughter  of  Hon.  Louis  Ronaud,  late 
senator  for  De  Salaberry  division,  their  marriagf  bein;,f  dated  in  April,  18(i4.  They  have  had 
nine  children,  only  four  of  them  now  living. 


LTVTKG8T0KK    E.   MORRIS,  Al.A.,   LL.M., 

SUERBnonKE. 

LIVINGSTON  EDWARD  MORRIS,  prothonotary,  son  of  Lieut.  Colonel  William  Morris 
of  Her  Majesty's  07th  regt.,  and  Mary  Livingston,  was  lK)rn  at  Watford,  England,  on 
the  16th  of  Octolter,  1823.  His  father  came  to  Canada  in  183o,  settleil  at  Ascot,  county  of 
Sherbi-ooke,  and  died  in  1851.  His  mother,  a  native  of  Newfoundland,  was  of  tlie  Livingston 
family  of  New   York.     Mr.   Monis   was   educated   at    Bishop's   college   school;   studieil    law 


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with  Judge  Cross  of  Montreal ;  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Lower  Canada  in  1849  ;  com  - 
menced  practice  that  year  in  Montreal ;  removed  to  Sherbrooke  in  1853,  and  continued 
his  practice  until  185.),  when  he  was  appointed  prothonotary,  an  office  which  he  has  held  for  a 
quarter  of  a  century,  and  the  duties  of  which  he  is  discliarging  in  an  eminently  satisfactory 
manner. 

Mr.  Morris  is  master  of  arts,  master  of  laws,  and  professor  of  law  in  Bi.shop's  college, 
Lennoxville,  and  trustee  of  that  institution. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Church  of  England  and  of  the  provircial  synod  of  the  same. 

In  1851)  Mr.  Morris  married  Isabella  M.  Felton,  daughter  of  Hon.  William  B.  Felton,  of 
Belvedere,  Sherbrooke.    They  have  three  children.     Beaumont  is  their  residence. 


irOliART    BUTLEU,  A.^t., 

BEDFORD. 

ONE  of  the  best  educated  and  beijt  known  men  in  the  county  of  Missisquoi,  is  he  whose 
name  lu-ads  this  sketch,  and  who  is  an  instructor  of  large  experience  and  of  eminent 
Huccfss.  In  several  towns  in  this  county  and  in  the  adjoining  county,  and  also  in  Northern 
Vermont,  are  found  many  young  men  and  young  women,  and  others  in  middle  life,  whom  he 
has  fitted  for  college  or  for  usefulness  in  the  various  walks  of  life.  Holwrt  Butler  was  born  in 
the  town  of  Berkshire,  Franklin  county,  Vt.,  on  t'.ie  15th  of  August,  1830,  his  parents  l)eing 
Samuel  S.  and  Su.san  S.  (Richards)  Butler.  His  father  was  a  physician,  and  a  surgeon  in  the 
army  during  the  second  war  with  the  mother  country,  and  his  graiidfatluM-  Butler  was  a. soldier 
in  the  war  for  the  independence  of  the  American  colonies.  The  Butlers  are  an  old  Vermont 
family. 

Mr.  Butler  prepared  for  college  at  Dunham  Academy,  Missisquoi  county,  and  was  gradu- 
ated at  the  University  of  Veiinont  (Burlington),  in  1853,  teaching  .school  three  winteix  while 
pui'suing  his  college  course,  to  aid  in  defraying  his  expen.ses.  After  leaving  college  he  continued 
to  teach  exclusively  until  18G0,  lieing  at  the  head  of  aaidemies,  part  of  tlie  time  in  ( Jranby,  Slief- 
ford  county,  P.Q.,  and  part  at  Clarencevilie  and  Stanbridge  East,  Missisquoi  county,  preparing 
young  men  for  college,  and  Inith  .sexes  for  various  spheres  of  industry. 

In  ISnO,  Professor  Butler  commenced  the  study  t)f  law  at  Stjinbridge  East,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  l>ar  at  Montreal,  18G4,  since  which  date  he  has  been  in  practice  in  Missisquoi 
county,  doing  b'  jiness  in  the  several  courts  of  the  district  of  Bedford,  During  ail  this  [)eriod  he 
has  also  been  Principal  of  the  Bedford  Academy  which  is  still  wholly  under  his  charge,  having 
usually  two  or  three  assistants.  The  recitations  which  he  hears  are  those  only  of  the  more 
advanced  classes  in  Latin  and  I5reek.     He  acqtiired  a  good  knowledge  of  the  French  language 


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when  quite  young  at  St.  Hyacinthe  college,  and  has  taught  it  in  the  several  institutions  of  which 
he  has  hail  the  charge. 

A  former  pupil  of  Prof.  Butler,  now  holtling  a  prominent  position  in  the  Quebec  Govern- 
ment, states  that  our  subject  "  has  been  one  of  the  most  successful  teachers  in  this  Province. 
He  has  always  had  a  large  and  flourishing  .school,  and  was  alwaj-s  universally  respected  by  his 
8chf>lai's."  So  great  was  their  esteem  for  him  that  it  .sometimes  cropped  out  in  little  keep-.sakes 
which  they  presented  to  him,  appointing  one  of  their  members  to  make  the  presentation  speech. 
Such  little  tokens  of  regard  become  very  precious  mementoes,  and  our  subject  has  heart  enough 
to  know  how  to  prize  them. 

Professor  Butler  was  President  of  the  Provincial  As.sociiition  of  Protestant  Teachers  in  1H78, 
and  is  President  of  the  Board  of  Examiners  for  the  distiict  of  Bedford,  which  is  composed  t)f 
the  three  counties  of  Missisquoi,  Shefford,  and  Brome,  and  also  President  of  the  Teachers' 
Association  for  the  same  district,  he  being,  in  fact,  a  leader  in  educational  enter]>rises  in  this 
part  of  the  Province.  Though  not  very  old,  he  is  regarded,  in  this  section  of  the  Province,  as  a 
literary  patriarch,  outreaching  all  other  teachers  in  this  vicinity  in  age,  experience  and  .skill. 

Profos.sor  Butler  is  also  very  prominent  in  the  fraternity  (^f  Free  Masons  II(;  was  the  first 
Master  of  Bedford  Lodge,  No.  .">9  ;  is  1st  Principal  of  the  Bedford  Chapter  of  Royal  Arch 
Masons,  and  a  meinbei'  of  the  Boar<l  of  (Jencrai  Purposes  of  the  (>rand  Lodge-  of  Quebec,  and 
also  of  Lafiiyette  Conimandery,  St.  Allians,  Vt. 

The  wife  of  Profe.ssor  Hutler  was  Miretta  Ann  Wariiei',  daughter  of  Hethbeit  VViuner,  of 
Heniyvilie,  P.<^.,  and  great  grauddaughtei  of  Col.  Seth  Warner,  a  distinguished  officer  in  the 
Revolutionary  war.     They  were  married  in  185.'>. 


•lAMKS    I)()X>sI:LLY, 

,sT.  JOHN'S. 

TAMES  DONNELLY,  editor-in-chief  of  the  F iiinro-Canadlcn,  a  tri-weekly  and  weekly 
^  Lilieral  newspaper,  published  at  St.  John's,  and  eonducted  with  miirked  ability,  is  a  son 
of  Thomas  and  Eli/al)eth  (Crilibenj  Donnelly,  and  wa.s  born  at  Kildare,  Ireland,  on  the  l.st  of 
May,  IS-li.  Both  jmrents  died  of  fever  on  .ship-board,  while  on  the  way  to  America  in  18.")4. 
leaving  six  children,  of  whom  our  subject  was  the  fouith.  (^n  reaching  Quebec  he  was  placed 
in  the  hands  of  a  kind  French-(.'anadian  family  on  the  Island  of  Orleans,  opposite  that  city,  and 
where  he  had  the  best  of  care  taken  of  him.  The  name  of  the  family  is  C!os.seliii,  who  looked 
well  to  his  welfare,  and  gave  him  an  excellent  education.  He  was  sent  to  the  Laval  normal 
school,  Quebec,  where  he  made  great  pr  )ficiency  in  his  studies,  and  soon  became  noted  for 
transcendent  talents,  taking  the  first  prize  in  French  literature  -  in  a  language  that  was  not  his 


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own.  He  received  his  diploma  in  1860,  and  was  immediately  appointed  professor  of  English  in 
the  same  institution,  soon  becoming  an  expert  as  an  educator. 

In  1802  Mr.  Dcmnelly  went  to  Ottawa,  Ontario,  and  studied  law  under  Mr.  Martin  O'Gara, 
occupying  at  tlio  same  time  the  French  chair  in  the  (Ottawa  grammar  school,  at  that  time  the 
leading  literary  institution  in  that  city. 

Subsccjuently  our  subject  spent  four  or  five  years  in  the  United  States,  where  he  followed 
his  occupation  as  teacher  of  languages.  In  1870  he  was  appointed  assistant  editor  of  tlu' 
Voun'ier  du  Canada  of  Quebec;  in  1872  became  editor-in-chief  of  the  Quebec  Budget,  holding 
that  position  four  years;  in  187(5  accepted  a  situati<m  on  the  editorial  staff  of  the  Xation(d  of 
Montreal,  and  in  1879  iH-eame  the  editor  of  the  Franco-C<i  nadien,  whicli  he  makes  a  strong 
and  influential  expontuit  of  the  sentiments  of  the  Liberal  party.  He  is,  we  believe,  the  first 
Irishman  to  edit  a  Canadian  pajjer  i)rinted  in  French.  Mr.  Donnelly  is  a  man  of  gieat  versa- 
tility of  talents,  and  writes  equally  well  in  prose  or  verse,  he  l)eing  a  poet  of  no  mean  order.  He 
seems  to  be  equally  happy  in  writing  original  poetry,  or  translating  Knglish  verse  into  French. 
His  translation  of  one  of  Moore's  jwems,  "  Dead  Man's  Isle,"  is  a  gem. 

An  intimate  acquaintance  of  Mr.  Donnelly,  residing  in  the  county  of  St.  John's,  in  a  letter 
to  the  editor  of  this  work,  thus  speaks  of  him : 

"  He  is  one  of  the  most  remarkable  poets  of  the  Dominion,  and  it  may  Ite  .said,  without 
exaggeration,  that  some  of  his  poems  can  be  called  master-pieces.  The  principai  ones  are 
'  L'lt'la»de,'  '  Exiyeranza^  and  '  Lc  Canada.'  The  translation  of  .Moore's  poem,  already  men- 
tioned, was  pronounced  by  Le  Journal  de  l'  InstnufioH  I'lMiquc,  when  imder  the  control  of 
Hon.  P.  J.  O.  Cliauvcau,  as  superior  to  the  original." 


liKU^'Alil)    .1.    IIAinnKdTCLN,    i;..\.,    I'li.l)., 

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T^KRNAHl)  JAMES  HARRIN(iT()N,  professor  of  mining  and  a.s.saying,  and  lecturer  on 
-■--'  chemi.stry  in  Mc<  Jill  university,  Montreal,  was  born  at  St.  Andicw's,  Quel)ec,  on  the  5tli 
of  August,  1848.  His  father  is  a  native  of  the  same  place,  while  his  mother  was  liorn  in  the 
Eastern  Townships.  Profe.s.sor  Harrington's  early  education  was  received  chiefly  from  private 
teachers,  and  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  he  matriculated  in  McGill  college.  In  I8(i!>,  he  graduated 
as  bachelor  of  arts,  obtaining  first  rank  honors  in  natural  .science  and  the  I^ogan  gold  medal. 
The  .same  year  he  Ixigan  a  "post-graduate"  course  in  the  Sheffield  scientific  school  of  Yalo 
college,  Connecticut,  and  after  devoting  himself  there  for  two  years  to  the  study  of  chemistry, 
mineralogy,  mining,  etc.,  graduated  with  distinction,  receiving  the  degree  of  doctor  of  philo- 
sophy, and  carrying  off  the  mineralogy  prize.  ^  - 


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Shortly  after  leaving  Yale,  he  accompanied  Principal  Dawson  to  Prince  Edward  Island,  in 
order  to  assist  him  in  exploring  the  island  for  coal.  The  results  of  this  survey  are  to  be  found 
in  a  report  published  the  same  year,  by  authority  of  the  Prince  Edward  Island  Government. 

In  the  summer  of  1871,  Dr.  Harrington  was  appointed  lecturer  on  mining  and  chemistry  in 
McGill  college,  and  about  a  year  later,  received  from  the  Dominion  Government  the  post  of 
chemist  and  mineralogist  to  the  geological  survey,  rendered  vacant  by  the  resignation  of  Dr. 
T.  Sterry  Hunt.  Previous  to  assuming  the  responsibilities  of  the  latter  position,  however,  he 
crossed  the  Atlantic,  and  spent  several  mouths  in  the  principal  mining  and  manufacturing 
centres  of  ths  mother  country.  His  connection  with  the  geological  survey  lasted  for  seven  yeai"s, 
but  was  severed  in  1879,  owing  to  increased  duties  at  the  university,  where  he  had  continued  to 
act  up  to  1 874  lis  lecturer,  and  subsequently  as  professor. 

While  yet  a  student,  Dr.  Harrington  began  to  write  for  scientific  periodicals,  and  since  then 
numerous  papers  and  reports  from  his  pen  have  been  published.  One  of  his  earliest  productions, 
we  Itelievc,  was  a  paper  entitled  "  Notes  on  the  Botany  of  the  Counties  of  Hastings  and  Adding- 
ton  (Ontario),"  published  in  the  Canadhui  Xiitu  ro.linf,  1870.  "  Notes  on  Dawsonite,  a  new  farbo- 
nate;"  "  Notes  on  a  few  Dykes  Cutting  Laurcntian  Rocks;"  Notes  on  Chrome  Garnet  Pyrrho- 
tite  and  Titaniferous  Iron  Ore,"  and  a  biographical  sketch  of  Sir  William  Logan,  are  to  be  found 
in  the  same  journal.  The  last  named  wius  reproduced  in  the  American  Journal  of  Science,  and 
in  the  report  of  the  geological  survey  for  1875-70. 

Among  Dr.  Harrington's  ofiicial  reports,  the  most  important  are  entitled,  "  Notes  on  the  Iron 
Ores  of  Canada  and  their  development"  (1874);  "  Notes  on  a  few  Canadian  Minerals  and  Rocks" 
(187'») ;  "  Report  on  Minerals  of  some  of  the  Apatite-bearing  veins  of  Ottawa  county,  Quebec, 
with  notes  on  Miscellaneous  Rocks  and  Minerals,"  (1878);  and  the  "  Descriptive  Catalogue  "  of 
economic  minerals  forwarded  from  Canada  to  the  Paris  Exposition  of  1878.  The  report  on  Iron 
Ores  was  reproduced  as  a  series  of  articles  in  the  London  journal  Iron. 

Dr.  Harrington  is  one  of  the  vice-presidents  of  the  Natural  History  Society  of  Montieal, 
and  for  several  yeai-s  has  jdited  its  journal  the  Canadiun  Xaturalixt.  He  was  married  in  I87(i 
to  Miss  Anna  Lois  Dawson,  eldest  daughter  of  Principal  Dawson  of  McGill  university. 


LIEUT.-COL.  HON.   FELJX    (i.   .MARCH AND,  M.IM»., 

ST.  JOHN'S. 

FELIX  GABRIEL  MARCHAND.  member  of  the  Provincial  Parliament  for  St.  John's,  i,  a 
grandson  of  liouis  Marchand,  many  years  commander  of  a  merchant  .ship  on  the  high 
seas,  and  son  of  Gabriel  Man-hand,  who  came  from  Quebec  in  1802,  .settled  in  St.  John's,  was  a 
pioneer  merchant  here,  and  establisheil  the  trade  in  lumber,  taking  it  from  Lake  Champlain 


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and  tlio  lliclicliou  river  to  Quebec,  a  rovei-sion  of  the  present  order  of  things.  Ho  retired  from 
business,  in  independent  circumstances,  in  1810,  and  died  in  1852.  His  wife  was  Mary  Mc^ 
Niiler,  who  died  tlneo  years  later.  Our  subject  was  the  youngest  of  three  sons,  and  was  care- 
fully educated  at  the  8t.  Hyacinthe  college,  after  which  he  made  a  trip  to  Europe,  and  spent  a 
few  months  in  Paris  paying  particular  attention  to  French  literature. 

In  185.')  he  was  admitted  to  the  notarial  profession,  which  he  has  ever  .since  practised  in 
St.  John's.  In  18G0  he  with  the  late  Hon.  C.  J.  Laberge,  founded  the  Fninco-Caiutdion,  a 
liberal  paper,  which  he  conducted  with  marked  ability  until  March  1878,  when  he  retired 
from  the  position  on  being  called  to  accept  a  portfolio  in  the  QueV)ec  government,  under  Hon, 
H.  G.  Joly.  He  ha-s  contributed  f(jr  a  number  of  years,  in  the  literary  periodicals  of  Canada, 
and  many  of  his  articles  have  been  reproduced  in  different  journals,  an<l  highly  commended, 
|»articularly  by  the  French  press.  He  is  author  of  Fantanv'dle  and  Errenr  riestfas  Cumiite, 
two  comic  plays,  which  have  been  acted  repeatedly  in  Quebec  and  Montreal,  and  smaller 
cities  in  (>anada,  and  in  towns  in  the  United  States  where  the  French  are  largely  represented, 
The  press  has  been  very  lavish  in  its  prai.se  of  these  plays,  which  are  in  print  and  hav<!  been 
read  with  eagerness  by  the  Canadian  literary  public. 

At  this  point  we  may  as  well  add  that  Mr.  Marcliand  has  just  completed  another  comedy 
in  live  acts,  in  ver.se.  Leu  /Vi****  BriJItinfs,  of  which  the  French  litterateui-s,  who  have  hail  the 
pleasiue  of  reading  it,  spoak  in  enthusiastic  terms.     It  is  no  doubt  his  chef  d'<euvre. 

In  January,  18(12,  in  conjiinctinn  with  Hon.  C.  J.  Labarge,  Mr.  Marchand  formed  the  Hrst 
French  Canadian  battalion,  known  as  the  21st  "  Iliclieliou  Light  Infantry,"  of  which  he  beeamo 
the  lieutenant  colonel  in  July  18(50.  He  and  his  battalion  took  <juite  a  prominent  part  dur- 
ing both  Fenian  laids,  being  summoned  to  the,  frontier,  while  other  battalions  took  their  place 
temporarily  at  St.  John's.  In  1870  he  had  command  of  a  brigade  eompo.sed  of  the  five  follosv- 
ing  regiments:  1st  Prince  of  Wales,  'h\l  Victoria  RiHes,  0th  Hochelaga  Light  Infantry,  .")th 
Royals,  and  his  own;  this  militia  brigade  and  the  riHe  brigade  being  under  the  general  com- 
nuind  of  Lord  Uussidl  at  St.  John'.s.  Immediately  after  Lieut.-Col.  (Tsborne  Smith's  skirmish 
with  the  Fenians  at  Eccles'  hill,  Col.  Marchand  received  ordeix  to  take  his  brigade — about  1200 
men — in  gi-eat  haste,  to  the  relief  of  that  otheer.  At  midnight  he  had  his  men  on  board  tl>e 
cars  at  St.  John's,  took  tluni  to  St.  Armand,  and  then  marched  twelve  miles  to  Kccles'  hill,  and 
was  ready  for  duty  at  5  o'clock  in  the  morning.  The  response,  so  piompt  to  the  command  of 
the  officer,  was  very  handsoniely  executed,  and  elicited  high  encomiums  of  military  men  who 
could  best  "  take  in  the  situation." 

Col.  Maichand  was  first  elected  to  Parliament  for  his  present  .seat  in  18()7  ;  was  re-elected 
by  acclamation  in  1871,  and,  »fter  a  lively  contest,  in  1875  and  1878.  He  was  appointed  Pro- 
vincial Secretary  on  the  8th  of  l*Iarch,  1878;  became  Minister  of  Crown  Lands  in  March,  1870, 
And  b»Jd  that  otfice  untU  the  Jo3jr  administration  went  out  of  power  in  October,  1879.     While 


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Ite  was  a  member  of  Government,  and  virtually  at  the  head  of  the  educational  dejmrtment,  the 
French  Government  sent  liim  the  decoration  of  Officer  of  Public  Instruction. 

At  one  period  of  his  life  Mr.  Marchand  gave  considerable  attention  to  farming,  and  to  the 
encouragement  of  agricultural  pursuits  on  the  part  of  others,  acting  for  sometime  as  president 
of  the  St.  John's  Agricultural  Society,  and  as  vice-president  of  the  Lower  Canada  Agricultural 
Association. 

Col.  Marchand  mairled  on  the  12th  of  Soptemlwr,  18.54,  Miss  Marie  Herzelie  Turgeon,  of 
Terrebonne,  and  they  have  had  eleven  children,  only  six  of  them,  one  son  and  five  daughters, 
now  living. 


FE^VINCOJS   llSiiJJEllT   A.   La   KUE,  Al.A.,  M.1)., 

QUEBEC. 
T I  IHE  subject  of  this  biographical  sket«h  is  a  son  of  Nazaire  La  Rue,  notary,  and  Adelaide 


Roy,  and  was  bom  in  the  Isle  of  Orleans,  25th  of  March,  183.3,  he  being  the  7th  genera- 


tion from  the  progenitor  of  the  family  in  this  province.  The  name  was  originally  Do  La  Rue. 
In  this  country  it  is  a  family  of  notaries,  that  profession  being  largely  represented  in  tlie  last 
four  or  five  genemtions.  The  La  Runs  are  of  nobiliary  origin,  and  connected  by  marriage  or 
otherwise  with  several  prominent  families  in  this  province. 

Dr.  La  Rue  was  educated  in  the  Quebec  Seminary,  Laval  Univeraity,  and  at  Louvain,  Bel- 
gium, Paris  and  Boston,  and  is  an  M.A.  and  M.D.  of  Laval,  of  which  university  he  was  the  first 
pupil  licentiate  (1S5.5)  and  the  first  doctor  (1859). 

In  1854  Dr.  La  Rue  was  sent  to  Europe  by  the  directors  of  Laval  university  to  prepare 
himself  to  occupy  the  chair  of  medical  jurisprudence,  toxicology,  etc.,  in  Laval  univei-sity,  and 
with  that  end  in  view  visited  medical  institutions  in  (iermany,  France,  England,  Italy  and  Bel- 
gium, returning  to  Quebec  in  185G,  when  he  commenced  lecturing  in  the  university. 

Professor  La  Rue  was  one  of  the  foundeis  of  Les  Soirees  Canndiennc^  and  Le.  Foi/er  Cana- 
dien,  the  two  principal  French  periodicals  published  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada. 

Prc)fes.sor  La  Rue  has  been  a  very  diligent  man  with  his  pen,  as  a  list  of  the  works  he  has 
written  and  published  will  show.    They  are  as  follow : — 

Le  Ddfricheur  de  langue  (poeme  hf^roi-coiiiique,  1850) ;  Th^se  sur  le  suicide  (1859) ;  Elements 
de  chiraie  et  de  physique  agricoles  (18(38) ;  Chansons  populaires  et  historiques  de  Canada  (18G2); 
M<;lange8  historiques,  litt^-aires,  etc.,  (1870)  ;  Petit  manuel  d'agriculture,  etc.,  (1870)  ;  Eloge 
funbbre  de  I'abb^  L,  T.  Casault,  founder  and  first  rector  of  Laval  university  (1863);  Eioqo 
funebre  de  I'abb^  Laverdi^re,  celebrated  Canadian  historian  (1873) ;  Les  corporations  reliKieuses 
de  la  cit^  de  Quebec  (1870),  translated  into  English  ;  Etude  sur  les  industries  de  Quebi-e  (1870) ; 
Mani^re  d'^lever  les  jcnes  enfants  au  Cann<la  (187<»);  Histoire  po|)uiaire  du  Canada  (1870)  ; 


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Voyage  sentimental  sur  le  iiier  St.  Jean,  Quebec  (1879) ;  Giauuuaire  Francaise  ^lenientairu 
(1880) ;  Petite  histoire  ties  Etats-tuni8(1880);  besides  a  great  many  literary  and  scientitic  contri- 
butions published  in  {periodicals,  Canadian,  American,  English,  French  and  Belgian. 

Professor  La  Rue  has  an  extensive  acquaintance  witli  literary  and  scientific  men  of  France, 
Belgium  and  the  United  States,  and  is  a  warm  friend  and  admirer  of  Mr.  Parkman,  the  grent 
historian,  who  usually  makes  his  home  with  the  professor  when  visiting  this  city. 

His  writings  are  characterized  by  originality,  vivacity,  freshness  and  solid  sense,  with  occa- 
sional streaks  of  sparkling  humor.  In  some  of  his  works,  like  "  Mdlanges  historiques,"  for  in- 
stance, he  shows  himself  to  be  a  keen  observer,  a  faithful  delineator  of  character,  and  rich  in  ban- 
ter and  original  and  pleasing  fancies.  His  scientific  writings  fairly  exhibit  the  generouw  breadth 
of  his  scholastic  attainni^nts. 

In  1860  our  subject  was  joined  in  marriage  with  Miss  Alphonsine  Panet,  daughter  of  the 
late  Judge  Panet  of  Quebec,  and  they  have  six  children  living  and  have  buried  four. 

He  is  now  engaged  in  the  revision  of  his  course  of  chemistry,  which  will  Ix;  published  dur- 
ing the  current  year  by  one  of  his  pupils.  In  a  few  months  will  appear  another  book  from  his 
pen,  entitled  "Two  Years  in  Europe,"  or  "  Souvenirs  du  deuxieme  Empire." 

Besides  his  titles  of  M.A.  and  M.D.,  Professor  La  Rue  is  a  corresponding  member  of  the 
medical  society  of  Louvain,  Belgium,  public  analyst  for  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  and  member 
of  several  scientific  and  literary  institutions. 


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JOSEPH   A.   OUIMET,   LL.1J..   M.P., 

MONTREAL. 


JOSEPH  ALDRIC  OUIMET,  Q.C.,  member  of  Parliament  for  Laval,  belongs  to  one  of  the 
oldest  families  in  the  district  of  Montreal,  settling  here  more  than  a  century  ago.  He  is  a  son 
of  Michel  Ouimet,  justice  of  the  peace,  and  Elizabeth  St.  Louis  Filliatrault,  the  mother's  family 
being  also  early  settlers  at  Jesus'  Island  (now  county  of  Laval.)  He  was  born  at  Ste.  Rose  on 
the  20th  of  May,  1848  ;  educated  at  the  .seminary  of  Ste.  Therese  de  Blainville;  studied  law  in 
Montreal  with  Edmund  Barnard;  was  graduated  LL.B.,  at  Victoria  college,  Cobourg,  Ontario, 
in  1809 ;  and  called  to  the  bar  in  1870,  and  since  that  date  has  been  in  practice  in  Montreal, 
being  the  head  of  the  law  firm  of  Ouimet,  Ouimet  and  Nautel.  They  have  a  large  practice,  al- 
most exclusively  in  the  civil  courts.     Our  subject  is  one  of  the  rising  advocates  of  the  Province. 

Mr.  Ouimet  was  for  several  yeara  a  member  of  the  board  of  Roman  Catholic  school  commis- 
sioners, and  is  now  a  director  of  the  Montreal  city  and  district  savings  bank.  He  is  also 
lieut-colonel  of  the  G.Hh  Mount  Royal  rifies,  in  which  he  had  previously  served  as  captain. 

Mr.  Ouimet  was  fii-st  elected  to  the  House  of  Commons  for  his  present  seat  in  187:$,  to 


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take  till'  place  of  Hon.  Joseph  Hyaciiitlie  Belierose,  who  was  appointed  to  the  Senate  in 
Octoher  of  that  year;  and  was  re-elected  by  acclamation  in  1874,  and  1878.  He  is  a  stronj,' 
tariff  man,  and  has  made  one  or  two  carefully  prei)ared  speeches  on  that  subject  in  the  liouse. 
He  also  spoke  on  the  Letellier  (piestion  in  favor  of  removing  that  public  functionary,  and  on 
the  Supreme  (.'ourt,  in  favor  of  abolishing,'  that  Court,  at  least  in  its  civil  jurisdiction.  Mr. 
Ouimet  is  a  clear-headed  man,  and  an  able  debater.  He  is  a  firm  supporter  of  the  general 
policy  of  the  pre-sent  Conservative  government.  His  standing  in  his  jtarty  and  in  society  is 
highly  creditable.  He  seems  to  have  early  struck  out  for  himself  a  noble  coui"se,  and  his 
career,  tluis  far,  at  least,  is  worthy  of  the  iuaUxtion  of  any  young  man  wlio  possesses  the  spirit 
of  emulation. 

On  th(!  SOth  of  July,  1874,  he  married  Theresa,  daughtei-  of  Alfred  La  Roc(pie,  Es(i.,  of 
Montreal,  by  Dame  Kmelie  Ik>rthelot,  an<l  Mrs.  Ouimet  hits  had  three  children,  losing  two  of 
them. 


noX.   ETFENNE    I^TEODOr.E    Pj\C^)rEi;   M.V.W 

QUEliEC. 

ETIENNE  THEODORE  PAQUET,  Provincial  Secretary  and  Registrar  of  the  Province  of 
Quebec,  and  the  youngest  member  of  the  Cabinet,  was  born  at  St.  Nicholas,  county  of 
Levis,  P.Q.,  on  the  8th  of  Jannuary,  18.")(>,  his  father,  Etienne  T.  Paquet,  sr.,  being  a  leading  mer- 
chant and  agriculturist  of  that  place.  The  family  came  from  France  more  than  two  centuries 
ago,  the  pioneer  settling  on  the  island  of  Orleans,  opposite  Quebec ;  and  it  is  now  distinguished 
for  the  literary  and  theological  attainments  of  some  of  its  members,  two  of  them  being  doctoi^s 
of  divinity  and  holding  chairs  in  Laval  university. 

The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Anathalic  Mofiat,  who  is  descended  from  a  Scotch  family. 

Mr.  Paquet  received  his  classical  education  at  the  Quebec  seminary,  and  Fordham  college, 
New  York,  receiving  the  degree  of  Ii.B.  and  his  legal  at  Laval  Tinivei"sity,  having  conferred  upon 
him  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  April  1872. 

He  was  appointdl  notary  on  the  4th  of  May,  following,  and  went  into  the  practice  of  that  pro- 
fession in  his  native  village.  He  Wa.s  tii-st  elected  to  Parliament  for  his  present  .seat  at  the  general 
election  in  1875,  when  only  twenty-five  years  of  age,  against  Hon.  J.  0.  Blanchet,  late  Speaker 
of  the  Quebec  Legislative  Assembly  and  now  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons,  and  was  re- 
elected at  the  last  general  election,  held  in  May  1878,  his  politics,  at  first,  being  Nationalist. 
His  affiliations  are  now  with  the  Liberal-Conservatives. 

Since  entering  Parliament  he  has  made  speeches  on  education,  the  finances  of  the  province, 
and  various  other  subjects  under  discussion,  showing  himself  to  Ite  a  clear  thinker  and  a  logical 
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Mr.  Pa(juot  Ih  prcNidt'iit  of  tlio  agricultural  socioty  of  tlie  county  of  Levis.  IIo  was  at 
one  time  a  director  of  the  Levis  and  Kennebec  Ilailway,  wlicli  position  he  resigned  when  called 
to  ortice.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Quebec  Fire  Insurance  Company,  and  is  one  of  the('ana- 
dian  Directors  of  the  Credit  Foncier  Franco-Canadien,  an  institution  which,  now  in  full 
operation,  has  rendere<l  great  .service  to  the  province  in  lowering  the  rate  of  interest,  and  per- 
mitting public  corporations  and  farmers  to  liberate  themselves  from  endmrrivssmcnt  by  paying 
annuities.  Mr.  Fa<piet  was  the  originator  of  that  institution,  for  tho  establishment  of  which  ho 
has  l)een  working  for  three  or  four  yeai-s. 

'.  Ho  is  also  tho  promoter  and  initiator  of  the  new  commercial  and  financial  relations  opened 
for  some  time  with  France,  and  whicli  will  continue  to  be  developed  to  the  greatest  ailvantage 
no  doubt  of  the  country. 

In  order  to  establisli  tho.se  important  relations,  and  believing  that  the  late  governujent  (!oiild 
not  do  it,  on  the  29th  of  October,  187i*,  Mr.  Paquct  declared  himself  in  favour  of  a  motion  of 
conciliation  and  coalition  between  parties,  which  motion  being  curried,  led  to  the  fonnation  of 
the  present  administration. 

Mr.  Paijuet  was  n)arrie<1  on  the  11th  ol  Ma}',  1880,  to  Miss  Kmma  Lame,  daughter  of 
Charles  A.  Larue  of  Three  111  vers,  P.Q. 


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AMONG  the  oldest  and  most  respected  citizens  of  Bedford,  county  of  Mi.ssisqnoi,  is  Richard 
Dickinson,  notary  public  and  registrar  in  tliis  district.  He  is  descended  from  a  Welsh 
family,  which  moved  to  England  a  long  time  ago,  his  father  being  born  in  London  within  tlur 
sound  of  the  Bow  Bells.  His  mother  was  Mary  Morgan  before  her  marriage,  and  her  maternal 
grandfather  is  .said  to  have  been  one  of  the  parties  who  established  the  first  bank  in  England, 
his  name  being  Flood. 

Mr.  Dickinson  was  born  in  England  in  1805,  and  in  1817  came  to  Quebec,  his  fathci-  being 
in  the  ordnance  department.  In  that  city  principally  the  son  finished  his  education,  and  wa.H 
there  articled  as  a  notaireti  apprentice  to  W.  F.  Scott,  being  admitted  to  practice  in  1828,  In 
July  of  the  ne.\t  year,  he  went  to  SheH'ord  county,  being  appointed  notary  public,  ami  a  year 
later  also  registrar.  When  the  inferior  district  of  Bedford  was  formed,  consisting  of  three 
counties,  he  had  his  choice  of  the  three,  and  settled  in  Missis(juoi.  That  wa:  nearly  forty 
yeais  ago  ;  and  the  offices  we  have  alrea<ly  mentioned  he  has  held  around  fifty  yeans,  lieing 
faithful  and  true  in  every  trust. 


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In  early  manhooil,  Mr.  Dickinson  was  connected  with  tlie  militia,  and  served  as  quarter- 
master in  1837-'38,  freely  giving  up  his  own  funds  in  defence  of  his  adopted  country. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  served  for  a  long  period  as  warden  of  the 
same.  He  has  strictly  obej-ed  the  injunction  of  the  Scriptures  to  remember  the  widow  and 
the  fatherless  in  their  atHiction,  and  lia.s,  to  all  appearance,  kept  liimself  unspotted  from  the 
world.  A  kinder  friend  to  the  poor  and  unfortunate  than  our  subject  it  is  ditticult  to  find  in 
these  parts. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Dickinson  was  Betsy  Foster,  daughter  of  Dr.  S.  S.  Foster,  a  member  of  the 
Canadian  Parliament  for  eight  years,  sometime  prior  to  the  Confederation,  and  a  very  promi- 
nent man  in  the  county  of  Sheftbrd,  ami  later  in  life  in  the  county  of  Brome,  where  he  died. 
Mi's.  Dickinson  had  one  child  that  died  in  infancy,  and  reared  an  adopted  ilaughter,  who  was 
married,  and  died  in  September,  187l>.  Mre.  D.  most  heartily  co-oiHjrates  with  her  husl>and  in 
his  neighborly  courti'.sies  and  benevolent  acts,  doing  everything  in  an  unostentatious  and  tpiiet 
way. 


LOLTIS    TACMFE, 

ST.  HYACINTH E. 

LOUIS  TACIIE,  sheriff  of  the  district  of  St.  Hyacinthe,  was  born  at  Kamouniska,  province 
of  Quebec,  on  the  2.')th  of  April,  ISii.  He  is  the  second  son  of  Charles  Tacht^,  captain 
of  Voltigeurs  in  the  war  of  1812-14,  and  of  Henriette  de  la  Bioquerie,  and  brother  of  Dr. 
Joseph  Charles  Tachd,  deputy  of  the  Minister  of  Agiiculture  in  the  Cabinet  of  Canada,  and  of 
his  Grace  the  Archbishop  of  St.  Boniface. 

Sheriff"  Tachd  wa.s  educated  at  St.  Hyacinthe  college  ;  studied  law  in  order  to  prepare  him- 
self for  the  notarial  profession,  with  Hon.  Louis  Lacosto,  Q.C,  batonnier  of  the  Montreal  bar, 
and  was  admitted  as  a  notjuy  at  Montreal,  in  1845.  He  practised  his  profession  for  three 
yeai"s  at  Bela'il,  acting  meanwhile,  also  a.M  postmaster  of  that  village,  receiving  his  commission 
from  the  Qiieei  .iiid  in  1848  settled  in  St.  Hyacinthe.  Here  he  continued  the  notarial  business 
until  18(54,  in  which  year  he  was  appointed  sheritt'.  He  was  secretary  of  the  county  council 
several  yeai-s,  resigning  in  order  to  accept  the  ottice  just  mentioned.  At  the  same  time  he 
resigned  the  ottice  of  revenue  inspector,  which  he  had  held  since  1858. 

Sheriff  Tach<?  has  also  held  a  variety  of  other  ottices,  civil,  military,  agricultural,  religious, 
and  temperance,  having  been  a  town  councilman,  lieutenant  and  adjutant  of  the  sedentary 
militia,  deputy-clerk  of  the  circuit  court,  school  conuuissioner,  justice  of  the  peace  (still  holding 
that  ottice),  president  of  the  St.  Jean  Baptiste  society  of  St.  HyHcinthe,  president  of  the  county 
agricultural  society,  president  of  the  local  temperance  society,  and  the  promoter  and  president 
of  the  Eastern  Townships  eoloni/.atioii  society.     He  has  cleared  more  than  JUM)  acres  of  wocmI- 


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lainl  in  this  coimty, has  a  farm  of  700  acic's,  and  for  yeai-s  lias  l)een  engaped  in  agiiculiuml  pur 
suits,  doinjif  his  share  in  opening  the  country  and  improving  the  soil,  one  of  the  noblest  vcK-a- 
tions  in  which  man  can  engage.     He  was  many  times  solicited  to  l)o  the  candidate  for  the 
House  of  Commons  of  Canada,  and  also  to  be  a  legislative  coimcillor  for  Quebec. 

He  has  been  a  temjierance  man  since  1843,  and  a  zealous  worker  for  this  cause,  setting  a 
good  example  before  the  young  men  of  the  county,  and  trying  to  .save  them  from  a  life  of  di.ssi- 
pation  and  ruin.  Any  community  is  fortunate  which  has  a  liberal  representation  of  .such  warm 
and  noble-hearted  men  as  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He  is  a  true  friend  of  his  fellow  man, 
willing  to  make  n*al  sacrifices,  if  need  lie,  to  benefit  a  neighbor. 

Sheriff  Tachd  wa.s  married  in  January,  1835,  his  wife  Ix^ing  Odile,  daughter  ofCiodfrey 
Beaudet,  oi  Coteau  du  Lac,  county  of  Sotilangcs.  They  had  one  daughter  and  foin-  .sons,  the 
the  ehlest  being  private  secretary  to  the  Hon.  Mr.  C^hapleau,  Premier  of  the  Provinci>  of  Quelwc, 
and  the  second  was  travelling  througl  EuroiH!  during  the  last  year  Iwfore  his  admission  to  the 
practice  of  law. 

Sheritl"TiU'h<?  died  on  the  1st  of  April  la.st  (1881),  and  the  numerous  and  sympathetic 
assistiuice  at  his  funeral  proved  the  cstime  which  every  one  felt  for  him. 


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HATEHLOO. 

JOSKPH  LKP'KHVRE,  a  notary  by  profession,  and  registmr  of  the  county  of  Sheflbnl,  is 
ii  son  of  Toussaint  and  Anast.asie  (Surprenant)  Lefebvre,  and  was  born  at  Laprairit\  P.Q., 
on  the  nth  of  Novi'inlu'r,  IH.'H,  his  fathiT  also  being  born  at  the  .same  plac  The  family  camo 
tVoin  France  in  the  early  part  of  the  17th  century.  Young  Lefebvre  received  an  Knglish  edu- 
cation at  the  Laprairie  academy,  taught  liy  Humphrey  O'Hegan,  well  known  in  that  part  of 
the  province  and  in  Montreal  especially,  where  many  of  his  pupils  hold  responsibli'  positions  ; 
at  sixteen  years  of  age  went  with  the  family  to  the  township  of  Ely,  county  of  Sheflord,  and 
■settled  on  wild  land,  to  the  clearing  of  which  our  subject  gave  two  years'  hard  work  ;  married 
Miss  Kulalie  Hoisvert,  of  the  townsliip  of  Stukely,  in  F<bruarv,  18.'>2,  ami  in  Sept<'mber  of  the 
following  year  became  a  clerk  in  the  Btore  of  Erastus  Lawrence,  of  Lawrenceville,  in  the  same 
townshijt.  He  was  appointed  secretary-trea.surer  of  the  municipality  of  North  Stukely,  and 
held  that  position  until  ISoti,  when  ho  was  appointed  deputy-registrar  of  the  county  of  Brome, 
and  .soon  afterwards  commenced  studying  the  notarial  professitm  iinder  the  late  Henry  liomly, 
one  of  the  first  notaries  in  the  eastern  townships.  To  that  profession  he  was  admitted  in  18(13, 
after  a  carefid  examination  by  the  board,  in  Montreal,  and  for  eight  years  he  was  the  oidy 
n<)t,ary  in  Brome  county,  his  residence  being  at  Knowlton.     While  living  there,  he  was  for  a 


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number  of  years  clerk  of  tlie  Circuit  Court,  commencing  in  1858 ;  later  (180!))  was  made  clerk 
of  the  District  Magistrate's  Court,  and  he  was  secretary-treasurer  of  the  Brome  county  agri- 
cultural society  for  fourteen  or  fifteen  yeai-s. 

In  1873,  upon  the  prospect  of  the  immediate  building  of  a  railway  to  run  through  Knowl- 
ton,  liis  health  not  being  very  good,  and  thinking  he  might  improve  it  by  out-door  exercise,  Mr. 
Lefobvre  left  the  office  he  then  held  in  the  charge  of  his  brother,  Jean  Moise  Lefebvre,  notary 
public,  and  undertook  the  building  of  a  large  manufactory  on  the  shore  of  Brome  Lake.  Tiiis 
enteiiirise,  in  1875,  he  turned  over  to  his  two  sons,  Joseph  Hubert,  and  William  Raymond 
Lefebvre,  and  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Waterloo  in  company  with  Thomas 
Brossard.  Owing  to  the  want  of  railway  connection,  as  at  first  expected,  coupled  with  the 
financial  crisis  which  came  on  about  that  time,  the  enterprise  in  which  he  had  invested  his 
savings  failed.  Both  of  his  sons  are  now  living  in  Waterloo,  William  R,  being  engaged  in 
manufacturing  household  furniture,  and  the  full  history  of  Joseph  H.  is  given  at  the  end  of  his 
father's  sketch. 

The  several  offices  which  he  held  in  Brome,  Mr.  Lefebvre  resigned  in  July,  1870,  in  order 
to  accept  the  office  of  registiar  of  the  county  of  Shefibrd,  in  the  place  of  J.  B.  Edgerton,  Kstiuirc, 
removing  his  famii)'  to  VVutitloo  in  the  December  following.  He  has  excellent  (pialitictvtions 
for  tins  office,  and  is  well  liked  by  the  community. 

In  politics  he  is  a  Liberal-Conservative,  and  took  part  in  nearly  all  elections  in  Brome  and 
Shefibnl  counties  from  1855  to  1.S70.  When  an  active  politician,  however,  ho  was  not  a  bitter 
partizan,  and  had  the  friendship  and  good  will  of  all  parties. 

Mr.  Lefebvre  has  had  something  to  do  with  military  matters,  bi'ing  first  appointed  ensign 
company  (!.  5:ind  battalion,  in  1800,  at  the  time  of  the  Fenian  raid,  and  was  appointed  lieu- 
tenant in  18(i!l,  captain  in  1870.  and  paymaster  of  the  battalion  mentioned  in  LH7.3. 

As  the  result  of  the  marriage  already  mentioned,  Mr.  Lefebvre  has  six  chiiibcn  living,  fi\e 
sons  and  one  daughter,  and  lias  buried  six  children.     The  eldest  is  sketched  below. 


JOSEPH  HT^RKRT  LKFKBVRE  dates  his  birth  at  Lawrenccville,  Maich  3rd,  185;?.  He 
spent  six  years  in  an  l^nglish  academy  at  Knowlton,  took  a  classical  course  at  St.  Hyaeinthe 
collegr;  also  a  business  cour.se  at  the  Montreal  branch  of  Bryant  and  Stratton's  tollege; 
was  iutieled  to  his  father  as  a  law  student  in  1870  ;  and  was  admitted  a.s  a  notary  in  1877; 
from  bs73  to  1870  he  was  in  the  lumber  business  with  his  brother,  William  R.  L  'febvre,  iind  .sold 
out  to  hint  when  he  left  the  place. 

On  being  admitteil  to  the  notarial  i)rofession,  Mr.  Lefebvre  practised  awhile  at  (iranby, 
Kcttling  in  Waterloo  in  May,  187!),  succeeding  to  the  business  of  Mr.  Bra.ss,.rd,  who  had  a  large 
practice,  which  was  transferred  into  the  liands  of  our  subject,  whose  busiT  ess,  consequently,  was 
brisk  from  the  start,  and  is  steadily  increasing.    Ho  has  excellent  tjuali*  cations  for  the  i)iisition 


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which  he  occupies;  does  everything  })ioinptly  and  well,  and  is  a  favorite  with  the  people.  He 
is  secretary  of  the  municipality  of  the  township  of  Shefford  and  village  of  Waterloo,  and 
secretary-treasurer  of  the  school  corporation. 

Mr.  Lefebvre  was  a  volunteer  in  the  frontier  corps  at  the  time  of  the  Fenian  raid  of  1870  ; 
and  was  graduated  at  the  military  academy  at  Montreal,  in  1872.  On  the  10th  of  April,  1877, 
he  married  Miss  Clara  Dorval,  daughter  of  the  late  Cajetan  Dorval,  formerly  a  merchant  and 
j)ostmastcr  at  St.  Cdsaire,  and  they  have  two  children. 

Jean  Moise  Lefebvre,  brother  of  Joseph  Lefebvre,  and  mentioned  above,  is  a  notary  public 
at  Knowlton,  clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court,  secretary-treasurer  of  the  county  of  Brome  agri- 
cultural and  horticultural  society,  justice  of  the  peace,  and  a  valuable  citizen  of  that  place. 
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JAMES    O'TIALI.ORAN,   M.A.,   Q.C., 

i'OWANSVILLK. 

"TAMES  O'HALLORAN,  one  of  the  oldest  and  ablest  attorncys-at-law  in  the  county  of 
"  Mi.'jsisciuoi,  Quebec,  is  a  native  of  the  county  of  Cork,  Ireland,  being  born  near  Fernioy,  in 
September,  1821,  His  pavonb.  were  Joseph  and  Margaret  (McGlenn)  O'Halloran,  members  of 
the  farming  community,  and  emigrating  to  Vermont,  in  1828.  Our  subject  learned  the  printer's 
trade,  and  fitted  himsi'lf  for  college  while  working  at  it ;  taught  school  during  the  vacations 
while  in  college,  and  was  graduated  from  the  University  of  Vermont  (Burlington),  at  the  dose 
of  1843.  He  s-tudied  law  at  Cowansville,  with  his  brother-in-law,  now  Judge  Dogherty,  of 
Sherbrooke  ;  was  admitted  to  practise  in  1852,  and  created  a  Queen's  (Jounsel  in  ISCii.  For 
neaily  thirty  years  he  has  been  in  practice — mainly  civil — at  Cowansville,  and  has  been  suc- 
cessful in  his  profession.  A  gfutleman  who  knew  him  in  (oiicge,  and  lia.s  lieen  intimate  with 
him  ever  since  that  time,  gives  him  credit  for  high  scholastic  attainments,  and  great  lluency 
and  ease  as  a  s[)eaker,  having  early  distinguished  him.self  as  a  juiy  lawyer. 

Mr.  O'Halloran  was  tirst  elected  to  the  Canadian  Assembly  in  1801,  to  reproent  the 
county  of  Mi.ssisi[Uoi  ;  was  re-elected  by  acclamation  in  18().S,  and  sciAcd  to  the  endnftliat 
teriu  (18ti(i),  and  then  retired.  He  was  the  author  of  .some  bills,  but  of  none.  p('rhii|is,  of  sutli- 
cient  interest  to  be  mentioned.  He  earnestly  opposed  Confederation,  deeming  tho  measure  too 
precipitate  and  not  well  considered,  and  signed  tlie  remonstrance  to  the  Home  CJovernmtnt 
against  it. 

Mr.  O'Halloran  lias  always  taken  a  deej)  interest  in  local  matters;  was  at  ime  period 
chairman  of  the  lioard  of  schuoj  coinmissioners  of  the  township,  and  has  held  vinious  other 

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offices,  indicating  a  w  illingness  to  bear  his  shai-e  of  such  burdens  for  the  sake  of  benefiting  the 
community. 

He  was  one  of  the  projectors  of  the  Sotith-eastein  railway,  which  runs  tliiough  Cowans- 
villc,  and  which  has  done  a  gi-eat  deal  to  develop  the  agricultural  wealth  of  the  county  of 
Missisijuoi,  bringing  a  market  to  the  door  of  many  farmere.  He  was  president  or  vice- 
president  of  that  company  during  the  first  twelve  years  of  its  existence,  and  is  now  one  of  its 
direetors.  This  road  brings  the  citizens  of  C'ownnsville  and  Sweetburg  within  three  houi-s  of 
the  Montreal  market,  and  twelve  of  the  Boston. 

Mr.  O'Halloran  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  and  has  been  Deputy  Grand  Master  of 
the  (Irand  Lodge  of  Quebec.  In  1851  he  married  Maiy  Ann  Finky,  <liiughter  of  Edward 
Finley,  of  the  township  of  Durham,  which  includes  tlie  village  of  Cowansville  :  and  they  have 
had  fourteen  children,  losing  six  of  them. 

Mr.  O'Halloran  has  a  delightful  residence  in  a  four-acre  lot,  on  the  eastern  outskirts  of  the 
village,  the  groimds  being  laid  out  with  neatness  and  taste.  He  has  also  a  large  farm  in  the 
parish  of  St.  Armaml,  and  other  propeity,  the  procfe<ls  of  his  profession  placing  him  in  com- 
fortable cironnstances  yeai-s  ago. 


DANIEL   THOMAS, 

SIlElihliOOKE. 

I  ^ANIEL  THOMAS,  registrar  of  the  registration  division  of  Sherbrooke,  is  a  son  of  Daniel 
-*-^  Thomas,  snr.,  one  of  the  early  settlers  in  Melbourne,  Quebec,  lieing  from  Woodstock,  Vt,, 
and  Elizalieth  Ann  Armstrong,  who  was  from  Belfast,  Ireland.  His  father  was  a  notary  public 
for  many  years  at  Melbourne,  and  a  leading  citizen  of  that  place,  being  especially  prominent  in 
(Mhuational  matters,  dying  in  March,  1<S.')G. 

Mr.  Thomas  was  born  at  Mell)ourne,  November  2G,  IMS.'),  received  an  academic  education 
at  Richmond,  P.  Q. ;  at  sixteen  years  of  age  went  to  Austialia,  and  engaged  in  raining,  return- 
ing to  Canada  in  IHitT.  He  filled  the  post  of  deputy-registrar  at  Richmond  for  two  years,  and 
at  Sherbrooke  from  Jfi.311  to  187.');  lias  been  notary  since  18625,  and  has  been  registrar  since  the 
20th  May,  1870,  being  the  first  appointL-d  after  the  law  took  effect,  preventing  registrars  from 
neting  as  notaries.  He  is  one  of  those  careful,  accurate  and  trustworthy  men  who  accept  an 
office  with  the  determination  to  do  their  duty,  and  to  give  satisfaction  to  the  pul)lic,  in  which 
respects  he  is  succeeding  admirably. 

Mr.  Thomas  is  a  Knight  Templar  in  the  Masonic  order,  and  has  held  the  office  of  Grand 
Seiiioi-  Warden  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,  and  Grand  Junior  Warden  of  the  Grand  Lotlge 
of  Canada;  is  idso  an  Oddfellow  and  has  held  the  several  subonlinate  oHices  in  that  fraternity  ; 


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lias  likewise  been  Grand  Treasurer  of  the  Provincial  Lodge  of  Orangemen  of  British  North 
America,  and  is  a  member  of  the  order  of  Foresters.  His  connection  with  these  several 
societies  has  made  him  well-known  in  the  province.  His  religious  connection  is  with  the  Church 
of  England. 

Mr.  Thomas  married  July  1,  1801,  Miss  Leonora  M.  A.  T.  Edie,  daughter  of  James  Edie,  of 
the  city  of  (Quebec,  and  they  have  lost  one  son,  and  have  three  children  living. 


|{i:V.   .IAMI':s    ROY,    M.A., 

MiiXTUEAL.  ' 

EEV.  JAMES  ROY  is  pastor  of  Wesley  (Congregational)  church,  Mortreal,  in  which  city 
he  was  born  on  the  12th  of  November  ISS-t.  He  is  of  Scotch  descent,  his  father  being 
born  in  Edinburgh.  He  obtained  his  collegiate  education  at  Bishop's  college,  P.Q.,  Lennoxville, 
and  Victoria  college,  (Jobourg,  Ontario,  receiving  the  degiee  of  Bacliebn-  of  Arts  in  ]<S(i8,  and 
that  of  Master  of  Arts  in  course.  Long  prior  to  this  period,  indeed  as  early  as  IHo^,  wlien 
only  twent}'  years  of  age,  he  entered  the  ministry  of  the  Methodist  church,  and  befoie  coining 
to  ^lontreal  held  pastorates  at  St.  Andrew's  and  Laclnite,  L'Orignal,  Onslow,  VV'akcliold,  Port 
Dover,  Duiniville,  (Sauanoiiue,  Siierbrooke,  and  Huntingdon. 

While  living  at  Cobourg  and  after  finishing  his  studies,  Mr.  Roy  was  principal  of  the  Col- 
legiate Institute  ;  and  on  vaoating  that  position,  the  students,  his  assistant  teachers  and  other 
friends,  made  him  several  valuable  present.;,  including  a  silver  set  of  six  pieces  and  a  silver 
tray. 

When  he  left  the  college  at  Cobourg,  Mr.  Roy  was  valedictorian  of  his  class,  and  he  liolds 
a  prominent  position  among  the  many  noted  .scholars  wlu/  have  been  giaduated  from  that  insti- 
tution in  the  last  thirty  years.  He  has  been  appointed  French  examiner  to  the  university  of 
Toronto  seven  years  and  served  six  of  them. 

He  became  pastor  of  the  Sherbrooke  street  Methodist  church,  Montreal,  where  writes  a 
friend,  "  he  at  once  gained  the  respect  and  attachiiK'iit  of  his  congregation.  His  .sermons  were 
remarkable  from  the  first  by  their  depth  of  doctrine,  tlieir  catholic  sj)irit  and  that  liberal  inter- 
pretation of  the  Scriptures  which  places  charity  and  universal  brotherhood  as  the  broad  plat- 
form uiH>n  whicli  all  Christians  can  meet  and  work  together  for  individual  improvement  and 
the  regeneration  of  the  world.  In  the  course  of  time  his  teachings  were  found  fault  witli  in 
high  ([uartcrs,  and  the  controversy  ended  in  an  investigation  and  the  resignation  by  Mr.  Koy 
of  his  |x>sition  in  the  Methodist  body.  His  congregation  stood  by  him  nolily.  On  the  !tth  of 
May,  1S77,  he  received  an  address,  '^^igned  by  the  majority  of  his  congregation,  lauding  his 
teachings  and  expressing  the  determination  to  stand  by  his  fortunon  and  share  his  fate,  and 


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this  (letcrinination  was  canioti  out.  It  was  resolved  at  once  to  buihl  a  church  for  Mr.  Roy, 
and  on  the  18th  of  July,  187H,  the  corner  stone  was  laid  of  Wesley  Conj^regational  church, 
one  of  the  finest  ecclesiastical  structures  in  Montreal.  Durin<j;  the  interval,  service  was  not  sus- 
j)ended  for  a  single  Sunday,  the  exercises  taking  place  in  the  Academy  of  Music. 

"  Mr.  Roy  is  known  as  one  of  the  lit'st  scholars  and  most  powerfid  pulpit  orators  in  Can- 
ada ;  and  the  effect  of  his  instructions  is  to  elevate  the  .soul  and  revive  it  toward  the  pursuance 
of  a  clear  Christian  ideal  and  a  thoroughly  practical  purpose.  Amongst  his  published  writings 
there  are  two  that  have  attracted  wide  attention,  one,  a  sermon  entitled  '  The  Hard  Things  of 
the  Bible,' and  the  other  a  bulky  pamphlet  on  '  ('atliolicity  and  Methodism;  or  the  Relation 
of  John  W  ..ley  to  Modern  Thought.'  'I'his  work,  drawing  a  distinction  between  the  '  legal 
standard'  of  Methodist  theology  ami  those  not  technically  known  as  legal,  anil  assuming  the 
superior  binding  and  interpreting  force  of  the  former,  is  an  attempt  to  show  that  Methodism 
contains  within  itself  the  elements,  which,  under  statesmanlike  management,  might  enable  it, 
without  sacrificing  any  principle,  to  unite  within  its  communion  all  that  is  truest  in  science 
and  best  in  spiritual  life." 

Mr.  Roy  has  written  several  magazine  articles,  on.-  of  which,  on  the  French  language  in 
Canada,  received  much  attention  ami  high  conuuendation,  being  favorably  noticed  in  several 
French  puiilications. 

In  187t)  he  received  the  ad  eundem  degree  of  M.A.,  from  McGill  cullege,  in  his  native  city. 


FltAXCOlS    VEZINA. 

QUEIIEC. 

PRE-KMINRNTLY  amongst  the  business  men  of  Quebec  stands  forth  in  bold  relief  the 
name  of  Vezina,  the  present  cashier  of  the  Rancpie  Nationalo — an  institution,  be  it  ro- 
mendiered,  that  owes  its  present  position  in  the  lianking  world  to  the  untiring  energy,  undevi- 
ating  as.siduity,  and  pei-severing  zeal  of  the  sul)ject  of  the  sketcli  we  have  liefore  us. 

The  ancestors  of  Mr.  Frani/ois  Vezina  came  from  the  parish  of  lveyrab\il,  in  d'Aunis,  in  the 
bishopric  of  La  Rochelle,  France,  and  setticid  i»i  Caniida  in  l(i.')0;  and  the  family  has  been  one 
of  the  nitist  respectable,  there  not  being  in  its  whole  history  a  blot  or  l)lemish  on  the  character 
of  any  of  its  members.  The  father  of  Francois  Vezina  was  born  in  the  house  which  has  been 
occupied  by  the  ancestors  of  the  Vezina  family  since  lliti;},  and  now  in  possession  of  the  cousin 
of  oui'  subject,  situate  in  the  parish  of  L'Ange  (ianlien,  near  Montmorency,  and  was  conceded 
to  the  V\'/,iiia  family  by  the  Bishop  of  Laval,  who  was  .s(!igiieur  of  the  north  coast. 

Mr.'Fian<;ois  Vezina  was  the  son  of  Fran<;ois  Vezina,  wlio  married  a  Miss  Claire  Moisan ; 
he  was  born  on  I3tli  August,  iHliS,  in  the  liouse  situate  at  the  corner  of  St.  Joachin  and  Ste. 


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Oencvievp  streets,  in  the  subtirb  of  St.  Jolui,  Iwlonyiny  to  the  Moisan  family.  Kilucatotl  at  tho 
seminary  of  Quebec,  where  he  took  up  a  full  claH.sical  course;  on  completing  his  studies,  he 
entered  the  firm  of  Messi"s.  Babinean  and  (laudry,  in  1840,  at  a  salary  of  .£30  per  annum.  Wo 
merely  nienti(m  tho  stipend  to  evince  tho  progress  this  gentleman  has  made  in  his  journey 
through  life,  which  might  well  bo  put  forward  as  a  pattern  and  example  for  the  young  men  of 
this  day,  and  as  an  illustration  of  the  lusults  of  industry,  integrity,  ami  perseverance.  Having 
deservedly  won  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  the  partners  of  the  firm,  we  find  him  a  few  years 
after  appointed  to  a  position  more  lucrative,  in  the  (yompagnie  d' Assurance  du  Ciinada,  under 
the  direction  of  Mr.  Daniel  McCallum.  The  latter  gentleman  soon  a,scortainod  the  intuits  of 
his  young  clerk,  and  was  not  slow  to  express  his  appreciation  of  his  merits  in  tho  most  eulogistic 
terms,  and  furthermore  always  regarded  Mr.  Vezina  wi*h  the  highest  esteem.  The  failure  of 
the  company  threw  the  young  financi(!r  out  of  employ,  but  the  reputation  he  hail  made  now 
stood  him  in  good  stead,  and  ere  long  we  find  him  in  the  supervisor  of  cullers'  oflice,  where  his 
qualifications  as  an  able  administrator,  as  well  as  a  clever  financier,  ver}'  speedily  obtjiined  for 
him  the  confidence  and  respect  of  the  late  Mr.  John  Sharpies,  who  looked  upon  the  s\ibject  of 
our  sketch  as  a  man  possessing  more  than  ordinary  ability,  in  fact,  as  one  of  very  superior 
business  (jualificaticjns.  Presently  the  post  of  secrctary-tioasurci'  of  the  Quebec  building  society 
Ijecamo  vacant,  and,  although  the  Knglish  shareholders  strongly  opposed  the  appointment  of  so 
young  n  man  to  so  important  an  otiico,  Mr.  Sharpies,  who  well  knew  his  aptitude  for  the  posi- 
tion, combined  with  his  stoiling  integrity  and  worth,  over-ruled  their  many  objections,  and 
eventually  obtained  for  him  the  situation,  which  was  a  lucrative  one  for  so  young  an  oHicial. 
In  taking  up  his  new  position,  he  very  thoroughly  investigated  and  oveihauled  all  the  books 
of  tlie  comjiany,  and  found  them  in  far  from  a  satisfactory  state.  Upcm  this,  he  set  to  work 
with  commendable  zeal,  and,  after  considerable  dilKeulty  and  labor,  got  them  into  a  business- 
like condition,  which  not  only  gained  for  him  the  highest  commendations  of  those  who  were 
his  patrons,  but  also  obtained  for  him  the  highest  approbation  ami  apprecriation  from  tlioso 
amongst  the  shareholdei-s  who  were  at  first  opposed  to  his  being  aj)j)ointed  to  the  important 
office.  Irrespective  of  his  arduotis  and  onerous  dutii^s,  as  secri'tary-treasurer  of  the  (Quebec 
building  socrietj',  he  gratuitously  undertook  the  responsibility  and  ilirection  of  La  ('ais.so 
<l'Kconomie;  and  it  may  be  here  stated  that  it  is  entirely  attributable  to  the  interest  and  labor 
which  he  devoted  to  these  two  societi(?s,  that  they  are  in  their  present  substantial  and  prosper- 
ous condition. 

As  ca.shier  of  la  Banquo  Natioiiale — in  fact,  we  may  say  founder — it  is  well  known  what 
position  it  holds  in  the  confidence  and  estimation  of  connnercial  men,  and  its  sUmiling  is  oidy 
another  in.stane*!,  if  it  wen;  wanting,  of  Mr.  Fran(;ois  Vezina's  peculiar — n'»y,  wonderful — (|uali- 
fications  as  a  financier,  banker,  a<lministrator,  to  .say  nothing  of  his  especial  knowledge  and 
aptitude  in  all  and  every  branch  of  commerce.  Since  the  establishment  of  the  ( !redit  Foncier 
Fmnco-C'anadian  branch  in  Quebec,  Mr.   Vezina  has  Iteeii  specially  appointi'd  as  conimi.ssioner 


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comptroller  of  the  Quebec  district.  It  will  not  be  denied  that  he  stands  in  the  rank  of 
Canadian  bankers,  and  is  highly  esteemed  and  respected  both  inside  and  outside  of  business 
life.  Socially,  he  has  friends,  in  the  very  best  8en.se  of  the  word  ;  and  his  urbane  gentlemanly 
demeanor,  together  witn  his  benevolent  and  charitable  disposition,  ren<ler  him  a  general  favorite 
with  both  poor  and  rich  of  every  creed  and  denomination  ;  and,  in  all  cases,  with  whom.soever 
he  comes  in  contact,  we  find  that  he  never  allows  the  cares  of  business  to  interfere  with  the 
ser«nity  of  his  kinil  and  amiable  disposition,  whether  towards  a  stranger  or  an  acquaintance. 
Amongst  the  large  start"  of  clerks  in  la  6an(pie  Nationale,  there  is  not  a  dis.sentiunt  to  the  fact 
that  he  is  a  worthy  and  much  esteemed  chief,  its  well  as  a  gentleman. 

Ho  is  the  author  of  several  works  on  finance,  and  is  connected  with  the  leading  literary 
societies  in  his  native  city,  in  all  of  which  he  manifests  an  interest.  En  inutmint,  it  luay  Ih) 
remarked  that  he  never  as-sociated  himself  with  any  institution  or  undertaking,  except  with  a 
view  to  going  into  it  tlioroughly,  and  furthering  its  objects. 

He  married,  on  the  10th  June,  1844',  Miss  Kleonore  Rinfret,  dlt  Malouin,  thinl  daughter  of 
Mr.  Remi  Rinfret,  by  which  marriage  there  has  been  issue  ten  children,  seven  of  whom  survive. 
Mr.  Veziiia  is  now  a  widower,  Mrs.  V^eziiia  having  died  on  1st  May,  1880. 


js'YK  c.  MAirnx, 

Vl'PER  liEDFOHlK 

"IVyYE  CALKH  MARTIN,  mayor  of  the  township  of  SUmbridgi;  and  warden  of  the  county 
-^  ^  of  Missisciuoi,  was  born  in  Stanbridge  on  the  23rd  of  August,  1835.  His  father,  Peter  R. 
.Martin,  a  farmer  in  his  day,  was  born  in  the  State  of  New  Vork,  and  was  the  son  of  a  United 
Kiiipire  loyalist  who  moved  from  Northern  Vermont  into  Canada,  soon  after  the  clo.se  of  the 
American  revolution.  The  mother  of  our  subject,  Sarah  Corey,  was  a  native  of  Hancock,  Mass., 
her  grandfather  being  a  soldier  in  the  continental  army. 

Mr.  Martin  received  an  academic  education  at  the  Bedford  academy,  under  the  fii-st  princi- 
pal, .Mr.  Buckharn  ;  farmed  until  eighteen  years  old,  then  learned  the  curriers  trade  at  Grafton, 
Mtuss.,  and  went  into  the  tanning  business  for  himself  at  (Jhester,  in  the  same  state,  remaining 
there  between  twr  .-"d  three  years. 

In  I8ti2  Mr.  Martin  returned  to  Bedford,  built  a  tannery  in  company  with  Ebenezer 
Alcombrack,  and  from  that  ilate  they  have  been  in  business  together  manufacturing  about  $40,- 
000  worth  of  leather  annually.  They  also  own  aljout  400  acres  of  land  adjoining  the  tannery, 
.uid  have  one-fourth  of  it  under  cultivation. 

Mr.  Martin  has  Iteen  i)ostmaster  of  Upper  Bedford  (half  a  mile  from  Bedford  P.  0.)  since 
1874,  and  magistrate  since  about  the  sameilate  ;  wa.s  elected  councillor  and  mayor  of  the  town- 


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Hhip  already  mentioned  in  1873,  and  still  holds  r<iiicc,  and  in  March  1880,  was  elected  warden 
of  the  county.  He  is  one  of  the  most  competent  and  thorough-going  business  men  in  Miss- 
isquoi,  and  takes  gi-cat  pride  in  aiding  to  advance  public  enterprises.  Since  tlie  spring  of  IST-t 
he  has  been  secretary-treasurer  of  the  Bedford  building  society ;  is  a  trustee  of  tli  Bed- 
ford academy,  and,  in  fact,  is  identified  prominently  with  nearly  every  local  intei-e.st,  in- 
cluding the  county  agricultural  .society,  of  which  he  is  a  lil)eral  supporter.  He  is  .secretary  of 
the  Bedford  lodge.  No.  .")9,  of  Free  Masons. 

Mr.  Martin  is  a  member  of  the  (^hurch  of  England,  and  has  served  as  warden  of  St.  Janios' 
church,  Bedford,  at  .sundry  times,  being  a  man  of  sterling  character,  and  generally  and  lii^,'hiy 
respected  for  his  pure  life,  his  neighborly  acts  of  kindness,  and  his  industrious  habits.  He  has 
always  been  and  still  is  a  hard-working  man,  and  his  accumulations  are  the  result  of  energies 
constantly  and  w  isely  applied,  and  a  strict  regard  to  economy. 

In  October,  18.59,  he  was  joined  in  marriage  with  Miss  ('aroline  Clark  Cook,  of  lilandford, 
Mass.,  and  they  have  five  daughtei-s  nnd  three  sons. 


]JOK   LOUIS    \-.   SKJOTTi:, 


Sr.  HYACINTH E. 


T  GUIS  VICTOR  SICOTTE,  one  of  the  puisne  judges  of  the  superior  court  of  Quebec,  is  a 
-*— ■  son  of  Tous.saint  Sicottc,  of  the  parish  of  Stc.  Famille  de  Boucherville,  and  was  born  at 
Boucherville,  on  the  Oth  of  November,  1812.  He  was  educated  at  St.  Hyacinthe  college; 
studied  law  in  Montieal,  at  fii-st  with  Justice  Dominic  Mondelet,  afterwards  with  Justice 
Louis  Hyppolite  Lafontaine,  and,  later  still,  with  Norbert  Dumas ;  was  admitted  to  practice  at 
Montreal  in  1830,  settling  at  St.  Hyacinthe  two  years  prior  to  that  date.  In  those  days  there 
were  no  courts  held  there,  the  law  business  being  done  in  Montreal,  whither  oui'  subject  went 
often,  the  <listance  by  the  travelled  route,  forty  years  ago,  being  forty-five  miles. 

Our  .subject  entered  public  life  in  1852,  representing  the  county  of  St.  Hyacinthe  in  the 
Canadian  parliament,  and  continued  so  to  do  for  eleven  years.  The  opening  part  of  his  politi- 
cal career  was  an  exciting  period  in  the  history  of  the  two  provinces  of  Cpper  and  Lower 
Canada, — the  questions  of  clergy  reserves  and  the  seignorial  tenure  being  still  unsettled  ;  and 
in  August,  18.')3,  he  was  offered  a  .seat  in  the  cabinet  of  the  Hincks-Morin  administration  as 
connni.ssioner  of  crown  lands,  but  he  declined  to  accept  it,  Ix'cau.se  the  government  refused  to 
proceed  immediately  to  .settle  these  two  questions.  In  18.")4,  Mr  Sicotte  was  cluwen  Speaker, 
and  held  that  honourable  j)ost  till  the  dissolution  in  November,  18.'i7.  He  was  Commissioner  of 
Crown  Lands  in  the  Taoh<?-Macdonald  government;   in  18.')S,  became  Commissioner  of  Public 


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woi'ks  in  the  Cartier-Macdonald  administrntion ;  and  retired  from  the  government,  on  the 
Ottawa  quextion,  in  December  of  that  year. 

In  May,  1802,  when  the  Sandfield  Macdonald-Sicotte  government  was  formed,  our  subject 
took  the  portfolio  of  Attorney-General  for  Lower  Canada  ;  hold  that  position  until  May,  18G3 ; 
and  was  made  judge  of  the  superior  court  in  the  following  September.  In  the  year  previous, 
he  was  sent  to  England  on  public  business,  and  while  there  acted  as  commissioner  in  behalf  of 
Canada,  at  the  international  exhibition  held  in  London.  Before  going  on  the  bench,  he  held, 
for  a  long  time,  the  presidency  of  the  board  of  agriculture,  and  was  also  a  member  of  the  coun- 
cil of  public  instruction,  resigning  the  latter  office  when  he  accepted  the  judgeship.  "  Since  his 
appointment  as  judge,"  writes  a  gentleman  who  has  long  known  him,  "  he  has  administered 
ju.stice  with  equal  fairness,  ability  and  dignity." 

Judge  Sicotte  Vjclongs  to  the  Catholic  ('hurch,  and  people  who  have  known  him  the  long- 
est and  most  intimately,  credit  him  with  having  lived  a  blameless  and  eminently  useful  life. 
He  was  an  intimate  friend  and  co-worker  with  Mr.  Ludger  D.  Duvernay,  and,  with  him,  took 
the  first  step  toward  the  formation  of  the  St.  Jean  Baptiste  society  in  Montreal. 

The  wife  of  Judge  Sicotte  was  Miis  Margaret  Amelia  Starnes,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
Starnes,  of  Montreal,  and  sister  of  Hon.  Henry  Starnes, — married  in  1837.  They  have  ten 
children  living,  and  lost  their  youngest  daughter  in  infancy.  Victor  Benjamin  Sicotte,  theii- 
eldest  sou,  is  an  attorney-at-law,  residing  in  St.  Hyacintlie,  and  Eugene  Sicotte,  their  second 
son,  is  a  notary  at  Moutieal. 


LOUIS    ,T.   A.    SIMAPvI),  M.T)., 

(JUEBEV. 

LOUIS  JOSEPH  ALFRKD  SIMAIID,  who  occupies  the  chair  of  ophthalmology  and 
otohjgy  in  the  Laval  university,  and  is  one  of  the  leading  men  in  his  profession  in  the 
city  of  Quebec,  is  descended  from  a  family  which  came  to  Canada  in  the  17tli  century,  and  was 
born  at  St.  Anne  des  Plaines,  county  of  Terrebonne,  on  the  28th  of  March,  1837.  His  parents 
were  Etienne  Simard,  a  farmer,  and  Angelique,  tufe  Oa-scon.  He  was  educated  in  the  classics 
and  mathematics  at  St.  Therese,  county  of  Terrebonne,  finishing  in  18.i5,  and  in  medicine  at 
Laval  university,  receiving  a  licentiate's  certificate,  with  great  distinction,  in  18G0,  and  the 
degree  of  M.D.  five  years  later.  Prior  to  entering  Laval  he  had  studied  for  some  time  with 
Dr.  J.  E.  Frevost,  of  St.  Jerome. 

The  success  which  Dr.  Simard  had  obtained  during  his  course  of  medical  studies,  and  his 
great  proficienc}-  in  them,  attracted  the  attention  of  the  directoi-s  of  Laval  university,  and  led 
them  to  send  him  to  Europe  in  18G0,  to  prepare  himself  for  a  teacher  in  that  institution.  He 
accordingly  passed  one  year  in  Lou  vain,  Belgium,  one  year  in  Oiessen,  Prussia,  and  one  in  Paiis. 


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Rotnniin<r  to  QiioIkjc  in  18C3,  lie  coinineiiciul  teaeliing  general  luitliolugy  ;  hut  lio  soon 
anjuircd  a  gieat  reputation  for  skill  in  treating  diseasivs  of  the  eye  and  ear — so  much  so  that 
in  IHG")  the  directors  of  I^val  university  deemed  it  best  to  create  for  him  a  special  chair  of 
ophthalmology  and  otology,  which  was  the  first  one  of  the  kind  in  Canada,  Hence,  Dr.  Simard 
can  claim,  with  I^avhI,  the  honor  of  having  contributed  very  nnich  to  the  propagation,  dirvdly, 
by  his  lectures,  of  a  knowleilge  of  the  diseases  of  the  eye  and  ear  among  the  medical  profession 
of  Canada,  for  prior  to  that  tim(;  very  little  instruction,  comparatively,  had  been  imparted  in 
the  medical  schools  of  the  Dominion,  in  regard  to  such  diseases;  and  uidirecllj/  by  inducing, 
not  to  say  compelling,  other  universities  to  attach  more  im|K)rt«ncc  than  hiul  been  done  before, 
to  these  particular  branches  of  mt^dical  science.  Dr.  Simard  can  also  claim  the  merit  of  having 
tried,  by  his  examjile  to  encourage  in  Canada,  the  establi.shment  of  a  specialty  which  is  so 
generally  and  thoroughly  appreciated  in  Europe,  and  which  has  proved  itself  so  advantageous 
to  patients,  liy  the  advancement  of  medical  .science. 

Dr.  Simard  was  one  of  the  foundeis  of  the  dispensary  of  Queltec,  which  was  established  in 
1HU4  for  the  treatment  of  the  poor  in  this  city  ami  the  surrounding  parishes,  and  for  the  iK-neHt 
of  students  ;  and  since  that  date  lie  has  had  charge  of  the  treatment  of  diseases  of  the  eyes  and 
ears  in  that  institution.     As  an  optician  kc,  he  has  but  few  peers  in  the  Dominion  of  (Canada. 

Dr.  Simard  was  married  in  18(j.')  to  Kdith,  daughter  of  Thaddie  Michaud,  late  notary  public 
and  rei,Mstrar  of  the  county  of  L'lslet,  and  they  have  eight  children. 


liK\\   ANDRKW    It.   MUNKO, 

MOST REAL 

EEV.  ANDREW  HEBER  MrNIlO,  pastor  of  the  Fii-st  Baptist  church,  Mcmtreal,  dat«s  his 
birth  at  Surrey,  England,  in  November,  lfS27.  His  parents  were  Alexander  Munro,  a 
pianoforte  manufacturer,  born  in  the  isle  of  Skye,  Scotland,  and  Grace  Scott,  a  native  of 
I'erthshire.  He  was  educated  at  a  mathematical  and  classical  school  in  the  south  of  London  ; 
received  a  diploma  from  the  British  and  Foreign  School  Society — the  fii-st  normal  school  in 
(beat  Britain;  was  sent  by  that  society  to  assist  in  establishing  a  normal  and  model  school  at 
St.  John,  N.B.,  and  afterwards  became  a  teacher  in  the  Wesleyan  college  at  Sackvillo,  N.B., 
where  he  changed  his  religious  views,  and  transferretl  his  connection  from  a  Congregational 
to  a  Baptist  church.  He  'then  became  a  teacher  in  the  Baptist  s(>niinary  at  Frederickton, 
where  he  read  theology  and  prepared  himself  for  the  ministry. 

Tn  LS57,  he  was  ordained  at  Digby,  N.S.,  where  he  was  pastor  for  two  years,  removing 
thence  to  Halifax,  where  he  was  pastor  of  the  north  Baptist  church  for  seven  years.      Subse- 


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quently  lie  laltored  a  short  time  at.  Yarmoutli  ami  Liverpool,  Inith   in  tlic  8aino  proviiu'o  (N.S.) 
and  in  both  of  which  places  there  were  extonsivo  revivala  iindrr  his  prcachiiij,'. 

In  18(1!),  Mr  Munro  aect'pttd  a  cull  to  the  Alexander  street  chinch,  Toronto,  where  ho 
labored  nearly  eight  years,  and  was  hij,diiy  prospered,  seeinj^  that  little  lymd  of  disciples  grow 
into  a  strong  body.  While  at  Toionto,  he  had  a  call  to  the  I'ierrepont  stretit  liaptist  eluireh, 
Brooklyn,  N.Y.,  which  call  he  declined,  and  afterwaids  accepted  one  from  the  First  Haptist 
church,  Montreal,  with  which  the  Second  church,  of  that  city,  soon  afterwards  united.  Fnder 
his  ministry,  the  church  is  thoroughly  uiuted,  and  is  having  a  rapiil  growth.  His  sermons  are 
always  fresh,  and  calculated  to  instruct.  He  is  very  sympathetic,  atid,  as  a  pastor,  is  very 
attentive  to  the  flock,  visiting  the  sick,  comforting  the  sorrowing,  and  trying  to  do  good  to 
everybody. 

5Ir  Munro  holds  a  prominent  position  among  llie  Hajitists  of  Canada,  being  secretary 
of  their  home  mis-sion  convention  oast;  president  of  tho  (irande  Lignc  (French)  mission  ; 
trustee  of  the  Woodstock  college  (late  Canadian  In.stilute)  and  of  the  new  Baptist  the(»logical 
college,  Toronto;  and  secretary  of  the  Baptist  I'nion  of  < 'aiimla.  The  liretliiei)  throngliont 
the  Dominion  have  great  confidence  in  his  judgment  and  fidelity  (o  tlic  dinoniination ;  and  he 
has  done  a  great  deal  of  late,  with  his  pen,  in  shaping  the  educational  policy  of  his  brethren 
having  such  interests  at  heart.  I'robiibly  no  Baptist  in  Canada  has  more  intlueiice  in  the 
denomination  than  our  sidiject.  His  counsel  is  sought  in  all  proniiiicnt  niovcineiits  contem- 
plated, and  his  judgment  has  great  weight.  Any  measure  iindertaki'n  lie  is  very  likely  to 
carry  out.     Having  put  his  haiiil  to  ibc  plough,  be   is  not  of  the  class  wlio  look  liack. 

The  wife  of  Mr  Muiuit  is  I'liobe  Ann,  daughtir  of  dobn  MctJibboii.  Ivsi|.,  cmiinfr  of  ^'ork 
county,  N.B.,  their  union  taking  place  in  iN.'ik  They  have  five  children  here  jind  two  in  the 
spirit  world. 


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THE  dork  of  the  Executive  < 'oumil,  Mr.  I' oitiii,  niii\  be  said  to               oi            «l  go      h- 
nuMit   landnuirks  of  the  city  of  l^uelicc.      His  lather,  Francois  I  i whs rclmni  mi 

Quebec,  and  was  noteworthy  for  hi.s  irreproachable,  iindeviating.  and  stiullv    h iible  dealing 

in  all  matters.  He  married  M.  M.  I'oiilin,  and  Felix,  the  suIiJitI  oI'  our  sketili,  wns  the  young- 
est son  issue  of  this  alliance.  Mr.  Fortier  was  born  on  •JNth  March,  I.SJ.'f,  and  was  ediicalid  at 
the  Quebec  seminary,  where  he  pursued  a  full  cla.ssical  course.  Exhiliitiiig  soinr  taste  for  the 
law  as  a  profession,  he  wa.s  placed  under  judge  Power,  with  whom  he  entered  into  partnersliip 
in  1<S3'»,  and  remained  in  private  practice  until  the  year  IS47,  when  Ik;  was  appointed  to  a  post 
in  the  civil  service  of  the  province  of  (Quebec. 


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Ho  was  dork  for  the  ( 'lowii  in  ('Itaiuvry  for  the  {trovince  oll'anaila  from  IfHli  Fol.riiary, 
lH4i'  until  tlio  year  1«.')K,  and  was  a  clerk  in  the  Crown  Lands  hepartniont,  as  sub-chief,  from 
March,  lS+7  to  ()etol)er,  I.S<)7.  Since  1«,>2  lie  had  acted  as  aijont  of  Seignory  of  Lanzeo,  and 
lias  also  heen  siiporintcndcnt  of  the  lieacli  and  water  lots  of  the  Crown  domain.  He  was  cap- 
tain of  the  province  iniliti.i,  and  retired  with  the  rank  of  iniijor.  Mr.  Fortier  has  hocn  marrit  d 
twice,  his  first  wife  lieini,'  Miss  Sarah  .lane  Amelia  I'rcnderi^ast,  a  dau<,diter  of  Mr.  KdwanI 
Prejidorf,'ast,  who  was  a  j,'('Virnment  contractor  in  this  city,  and  of  Irish  descent;  he  remarried 
and  his  prescMl  uif»*  was  Miss  Marie  Caroline  .Amanda  Helleau,  daughter  of  JJr.  Uelleau,  of  St. 
Alicliel.     Tlaie  has  been  no  children  iiy  eilhei  marriage. 


LEON    l'AMI»mLI<:    LE    MAY, 

r  I  1 H  I'i    suliject  of    this  sketch,  a   well  kiiDwn  | t   imd   romance   writei-,  is  descended  from 

Michel  Le  May,  or   Lc   .Mee,    wl anie  to  Canada  from  the  diocese  of  .\nL,'ers,  France, 

more  than  two  centuries  a^'o,  and  in  ItllK!  was  a  farmer  at  Three  Rivers,  and  in  I(i8l  was 
settled  at  Lotliiniere,  where  some  of  the  family  arc  still  residin«(.  He  had  thirteen  children, 
whose  descendants  are  dispersi-d  over  this  Dominion  and  the  United  Statt^s. 

Our  sulijecl  was  horn  at  Lotbiniereon  tlie  .'>th  of  January,  I8.'{7,  he  beiny  a  son  of  bf^on  be 
May,  farmer  and  meichant,  and  boiiise  Au^er,  and  the  fifth  chilil  in  a  family  of  fourteen  chil- 
ilren.  lie  was  cihicated  in  the  arts  at  the  (.4)uelpec  seminavv  ;  studied  law  awhile,  and  then 
discontinued  such  studies  for  two  years,  goiii>;  to  the  Cnit'd  States  in  search  of  a  fortune. 
Returning  in  lM"i!l,  he  was  engaj^ed  a  short  time  as  a  merchant's  ch-rk  at  Sherbrooke,  P.Q. ; 
but,  having'  no  ta.ste  for  mercantile  jmrsuits,  \w  was  invested  with  the  cassock,  and  ;^^•lve  two 
years  to  hard  study  of  theolitfiy  at  Ottawa,  at  the  end  of  which  period  (ISOl),  dy.spepsia  com- 
pelled him  to  leave  the  cloister.  In  18(52  ho  was  emi)loyed  in  the  French  translator's  nflice  of 
the  TiCgisiativi?  Assembly,  (j)uebec. 

Mr.  fiC  May  resinned  bis  legal  studies,  and  was  admitted  to  practise  in  bSti."),  having  liis 
home  at  Lotliiniere.  In  1.S72  he  returned  to  the  city  of  Quebec  to  reside,  and  is  now  chief 
librarian  of  the  Legislative  Assembly;  anil,  a.s  he  is,  and  has  long  been,  a  "  book- worm,"  he  no 
doubt  find.s  hi.s  situation  \  ery  agreeable. 

Mr.  Lo  May  commenced  writing  for  newsjiapers  and  the  periodical  j)ress  when  a  young 
man.  His  writings  early  attracted  the  notice  and  received  the  commendation  of  the  literati  of 
Canada,  the  United  States,  and  Franco  ;  and  in  lH(i.'»  appeared  his  first  work,  a  volume  of  a 
little  more  than  'MW  pages,  entitled,  "  Kn^nin  I'ocliqiict,"  which  was  cordially  received,  and 
gave  the  public  a  foretaste  of  "  better  things  to  come." 


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»  In  1870,  appeared  his  translation  of  Longfellow's  "  Evangeline,"  a  literary  effort  which 
elicited  the  hearty  applause  of  tlie  public,  and  raised  Mr.  Le  May  to  a  high  position  among 
Canadian  poets.  On  receiving  a  copy  of  the  translation,  Mr.  Longfellow  wrote  a  very  cordial 
and  c^ngiatulatory  letter  to  Mr.  Le  May,  on  his  success  in  so  haj)pily  translating  the  poem  ; 
and  for  the  last  ten  yeai^s  they  have  had  freijuent  correspondence  with  each  other.  This  trans- 
lation is  generally  regarded  as  Mr.  Le  May's  mast^^'r-piece,  and  he  can  safely  rest  his  reputation 
on  it.  The  pathetic  story  of  the  exiles  from  Acadia  is  admirably  told  ;  the  diameter  of  the 
work  is  well  rendered,  anil  the  harmony  and  flexibility  of  the  verse  are  very  pleasant. 

Tlie  works  which  he  has  since  published,  mentioning  them  in  the  order  of  their  appear- 
ance, arc : 

DcK.r  J\)rmeii  Couronvt'-K    Qu<^ltec.     1870.     For  which  the  author  received  two  golden  medals. 

(2.-iO  pp.) 
Les  Vcngeanccft,  jiotme.     QudlK?c.     (S^JO  pp.) 
Les  Vengeances,  drame  en  G  actes.     Pamphlet. 

Lc  Peleriv  de  Salute-Anne.     Roman  C'anadien.     2  vols.     Qut^bec.     1877.     (li'O  pp.) 
]'ici>nnoc,  le  Mand'tt.     Ronuin,     "1  vols.    Qu<?bec.     1878.     ((i70  pp.) 
Vne  Gerbe.     Podsies.     Quebec.     1879.     (232  ).p.) 

Mr.  Le  Maj  s  poems,  mechanicall}',  are  the  perfection  of  prosody,  the  rhyme  lieing  "ortho- 
ilo.v,"  and  the  measure  flowing  and  smooth.  The  criticism  of  his  poetry  by  Mr.  Fr(?chette,  a 
In-other  jwet,  seems  to  be  very  just:  "It  has  not  the  booming  of  the  mad  torrent:  it  is  tlie 
purling  of  a  fountain  on  a  mossy  bed  ;  it  has  not  the  roar  of  tht-  lion  :  it  is  the  cooing  of  the 
dove ;  it  has  not  the  bold  swoop  of  the  eagle  :  it  is  the  timitl  undvdations  of  tiie  cvgnet." 

In  18G.S  our  subject  was  joined  in  holy  wedlock  with  Miss  Stiima  Robitaiile,  of  (Juelx-c, 
and  thev  have  eight  cliildren. 


MICHEL    MATH  I  KIT, 

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MICHEL  MATHIEU,  liorn  at  Sorel,  in  the  district  of  Richelieu,  on  the  2()th  December, 
1838,  son  of  Jo.seph  Mathieu,  farmer  and  justice  of  the  peace,  resident  at  Sorel,  and 
of  Edwidge  Vandal.  The  father  of  Michel  Mathicu  was  a  farmer  of  little  means,  ami  was  in- 
duced to  have  him  educated  under  the  Reverend  Messire  Aiigustin  Lemai,  formerlv  cure  of 
the  jmrish  of  Ste.  Victoria  (the  parish  of  Ste.  Victoria  was  founded  by  a  disniendierment  of  the 
old  parish  of  St.  Pierre  de  Sorel),  where  also  live  v  ic  above  mentioned  Joseph  Mathieii  and  liiH 
fauuly.  His  ancestors  come  of  an  ancient  French  family.  He  comjdeted  his  classical  couise  at 
the  coll.;'e  of  St.  Hyacinthe,  which  he  left  in  I.SCO.     Al'ter  leaving  cullege,  he  jiassed  his  matri- 


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culation  and  was  adiiiitted  to  the  .study  for  notarysliip,  which  he  studied  under  John  CJeorge 
(^rebossa,  notary  of  the  town  of  Sorel,  where  he  was  iidmitted  as  a  notary  on  the  20th  of  Janu- 
ary, 1804.  In  1861  he  was  admitted  to  the  study  of  the  profession  of  advocate.  From  the 
20th  of  Januarj',  ISCi,  until  the  5th  of  December,  186.5,  he  practised  the  profession  of  notary. 
He  had,  up  to  that  time,  a  good  practice,  and  he  ceased  to  piactise  tliat  profession  on  the  .'>th 
of  Decemlwr,  1SC5,  in  order  to  engage  in  the  profession  of  advocate.  On  the  11th  of  June, 
he  was  nominated  sheriff  of  the  district  of  Richelieu,  in  the  place  of  Pierre  R(5mi  Chevallier, 
who  liad  resigned  in  his  favor.  He  was  sheriff  until  the  14th  of  August,  1872,  and  then  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  House  of  Commons  of  Canada  for  the  county  of  Richelieu  ;  he  gained 
the  victory  over  his  constant  opponent  in  the  county,  George  Isidore  Bartle.  In  1 87+  he  again 
came  forward  at  the  general  election  for  the  House  of  Conunons  of  Canada,  and  was  defeated 
l)y  the  aforesaid  George  Isidore  Bartle.  In  1875  he  was  elected  by  acclamation  memlwr  of  the 
Legislative  A.ssembly  of  the  Province  of  Quebec  for  the  county  of  Richelieu,  and  on  the  1st  of 
May,  1878,  he  was  again  re-elected  meml)er  for  the  Quebec  Chamber,  for  the  same  county,  by  a 
majority  of  186  over  his  opponent  Pierre  Bergeron,  a  physician  of  St.  Aiiui".  He  conductod  the 
election,  and  it  is  to  him  that  L.  H.  M&ssue  owed  his  succe.ss  in  the  county  of  Richelieu  on  the 
17th  of  Septemlier,  1878.  On  the  22nd  of  June,  18G3,  he  married  Marie  Rose  Delima  Thirza 
St.  Louis,  daughter  of  the  late  Captain  St.  Louis,  of  Sorel ;  she  ilied  on  the  23rd  of  March,  1870. 
On  the  30th  of  October,  1881,  he  married,  as  a  .secoml  wife,  Marie  AuK'lie  Antoinette  Armstrong, 
I  laughter  of  the  Hun.  David  Armstrong,  memlwr  of  the  Legislative  Council  of  the  Province  of 
Quebec,  and  of  Leoeadie  de  Ligny.  He  was  one  of  the  directors  of  the  railway  company  of 
Montreal,  Portland  and  Boston,  also  one  of  the  diiectoi-s  of  the  South-eastern  railway  company. 
He  hiis  published  the  liiiw  Review  since  18(J9  to  the  present  time.  lie  was  elected  mayor  of 
the  town  of  Sorel  in  January,  187.'),  and  in  1881  he  was  a'.jain  elected  mayor ;  he  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  college  of  Sorel.  He  was  the  advocate  of  Josejih  Robilluid  in  the  famous  case 
of  PieiTe  Ma.ss<!,  and  others,  ngain.st  him  for  the  annulling  of  the  election  for  the  county  of 
Berthier,  or'  the  ground  of  undue  influence,  where  the  judgment  was  reversed  by  the  -lodges 
Johnson,  Bourgeois  and  Oliver.  He  has  always  been  a  conservative  in  politics,  and  has  always 
supported  the  government  of  Sir  George  Ktiennel 'artier  and  of  Sir  John  MacDonald,  and  of  the 
( 'onservative  governments  which  have  followed.  He  is  a  Roman  Catholic  in  religion:  he  has 
three  children,  now  living,  by  his  first  mairiage,  and  one  chiM  by  the  second  marriage  On  the 
1  Ith  of  October,  1880,  he  wa.s  made  Queen's  Counsel  for  the  Province  of  (Quebec  liy  the  Domi- 
nion Government  of  Canada. 

That  the  subject  of  our  sketch  is  one  of  the  most  energetic,  capable,  and  useful  niemiiers  uf 
the  connuvinity  of  Sorel  is  Iwyond  question.  As  a  member  of  the  legal  profession  he  is  scarcely 
ecpialled  ami  certainly  not  surpa.ssed  in  ability  by  any  of  the  many  able  gentlemen  who  com- 
pose the  bar  of  Sorel.     As  a  citizen,  he  is  evi^r  reads  to  ai'l  in  forwarding  any  project  fur  the 


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advanceiiiont  or  wclfaiv  of  the  i-ity.  lii  liis  oHice  as  chief  magistrate,  he  lias  given  unequivocal 
proofs  of  his  thorough  ac(|uaiiitance  with  all  the  details  rcrjuisite  to  fill  with  credit  so  important 
an  oHice.  As  a  private  citizen  he  is  esteemed  for  his  aH'ability  and  kindness  to  all  who  require 
his  advice  or  have  business  to  transact  with  him,  without  distinction.  In  a  word,  his  courteous 
manner  have  won  for  him  a  jiopularily  not  inntined  to  Sorel  alone,  but  extending  to  B'jrthier 
and  the  adjacent  parts  of  Richelieu  ( ountv. 

Ml-.  Mathieu  had  tlu'  homir  to  rcccivi'  liis  Kxceliency  the  Oovernor  General  in  the  town  of 
Sonl  on  the  7th  of  .liinc,  .intl  tlie  Marquis  of  !,orne,  and  a  numerous  suite,  honored  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Mathieu  with  a  visit  totheirhou.se,  where  ii  grand  reception  was  held  in  honor  of  the 
distinguished  guest.  Tn  return  HisK\(  cliciuy  was  plea-sed  to  ask  the  youngest  sonofMr.  Mathieu 
to  act  as  his  page  at  a  CJraml  liall  given  in  (.Quebec  on  the  22nd  of  June,  which  part  the  child 
did  well. 


KDMOM)    IJOlilLl.AlJl),    M.U, 

Mo.WUKAL 

ri^^HI'-  Mibject  111' tills  skitch,  wlin  is  cue  of  the  leading  physicians  and  surgeons  of  Montreal, 
-■-  was  burn  ill  this  city,  nii  the  .'Utth  of  Octubi-r,  I.S2."),  his  parents  being  Joseph  and  Rose 
(AiisMiu)  Riiliiilaicl,  both  families  being  amuiig  the  early  setti.rs  here.  Ilis  father  was  a  promi- 
nent man  titty  years  ago  ;  lie  dii'd  in  I.S77,  one  of  the  oldest  otticeis  of  the  city  corporation. 

l>r.  Robillani  nceivcd  a  classical  cilncatic.n  in  the  college.s  at  Montreal  and  L'Assomption, 
and  stiitlicil  medicine  with  l»i.  Wuliicil  Xejson  from  l,s+2  to  l,s4tj,  during  which  time  he  also 
attiiiiled  lectiiies  at  tile  t 'aiiailiaii  medical  school,  Montreal,  of  which  he  was  appointed  deiiion- 
sstiatiir  iif  anatomy,  while  yet  ;i  student. 

He  commenced  practice  in  the  autumn  of  l!s4(!;  the  next  summer  was  appointed  one  of 
the  medical  atteiiilants  in  the  i|iiarantiiie  of  (irosse  Isle,  while  the  ship  fever  was  prevailing ; 
and  in  the  autumn  following  ilNt7  ,  he  went  to  New  York,  and  continued  his  medical  studies 
under  the  celebrated  surgeon,  Itr.  Robert  Nelson. 

In  IS-tS,  j)r.  Robillard  was  appointed  chief  si.  on  of  the  New  York  ami  Erie  railroad, 
then  in  course  ot  construction  ;  not  long  afterwards  went  to  Paris,  where  he  continued  his  medi- 
cal studies,  returning  to  New  York  in  iN.'iO,  to  resume  his  duties  as  surgeon  of  the  N.  Y.  and 
Krie  railrimd.  <  hi  his  return  to  AnnMica  while  on  the  packet  ll'n.  "/oo,  as  we  learn  from  a 
biographical  sketch  by  Rev.  J.  l>oiiglas  liorthwick,  "  Dr.  Robillard,  as  .surgeon  of  the  ship,  es- 
tabli.shed  so  strict  a  sanitary  cordon,  that,  although  the  cholera  was  raging  at  the  time  in  liiver- 
iHiol  when  the  ship  left  that  poll,  not  one  of  tin'  passengers  was  sick  durinir  the  iiis 


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owing  to  his  careful  regard  for  their  health,  Ih>  received  a  coniplimentar}'  address  from  the  p.xs- 
sougers  on  the  arrival  of  the  slii[»at  New  York," 


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In  1853,  on  account  of  sickness  contnvcted  during  surirical  operations  in  the  States,  Dr. 
Rubillard  deemed  it  best  to  return  to  Ciinada.  In  1854  lie  was  appnintt'd  one  of  the  surgeons 
of  the  Grand  Trunk  railway  contractors,  and  held  that  |)osition  during  eight  years,  the  period 
when  the  Victoria  bridge  was  being  built.  His  skilful  operations  in  surgery  at  that  time  had 
honorable  mention  in  the  reports  of  Mr.  Hodgi^s,  the  chief  engineer  uf  the  <}rand  Trunk  railway 
company.  His  post  during  the  period  was  at  Pointe  Claire,  and  wliilc  there  he  luld  for  a  tiniy 
the  office  of  mayor,  and  later,  that  of  wanlen  of  the  county  of  .lacijues  C'urtier. 

In  1859,  Dr.  Ilobillard  was  elected  by  the  members  of  the  college  of  physicians  and  sur- 
geons of  Canada  one  of  the  governors  and  examiners.  From  1808  to  1874  he  was  registrar  of 
the  college.  He  has  a  diploma  from  the  medical  college,  Philadeljihia,  ami  has  also  been  a 
member  of  the  Canadian  medical  association  since  18(i8,  and  its  treasurer  since  1870.  In  187.S, 
the  bishop's  college,  Leimo.wille,  conferreil  upon  him  the  honorary  title  of  Ail  Kunihtn,  a  well- 
merited  honor.  In  187(i  he  went  to  Paris  to  study  the  ntnv  system  of  suigery,  and  to  witness 
the  wonderful  operations  in  gastrotoniie.  While  lliere  he  receiveci  a  diplnrna  tVoui  the  Sorii-te 
CUnuiHi'  <li'  I'uvis,  of  which  he  was  elected  a  ecirresponding  iiiemlifr.  in  .Xpril,  ls77.  <  >ii  his 
retuiii  to  (,'finada  he  wiote  a  paper  on  tin-  new  snigery.  and  Iti'iiiii-d  lict'uie  diU'ercnt  iiuMlieal 
bodies.  Dr.  Holiillanl  is  the  inspector  nf  iiuiatits  in  tlie  I'mx  iiirc  uf  tjiin'liir,  and  niic  uf  the 
a.ssessors  of  Hishnp's  enllege. 

Dr.  Robillard  is  thoroughly  wedded  to  his  professiun.  iiiid  fittciiils  vtiy  clnscly  to  its  dutii'-i 
Vieing  at  the  head  of  a  good  practice.  His  expi'rieui'i-  as  ;i  siir^eciM  has  licm  Inrgc,  and  hi'  exci-ls 
in  that  branch  of  the  healing  art,  for  the  study  of  which  in-  seems  tn  havi-  a  passiuii,  1>>.  Kd- 
ninnd  Robillard  has  had  the  honorary  <legree  nf  in;is(cr  nf  .siirgeiy  cnnlVncd  n|Hiii  him  l>v  the 
medical  faculty  of  Victoria  enllege.  itn  honor  wfll  di'M-iMMl, 

The  first  wife  of  Dr.  Robillard  wa.s  Miss  .\deline  Lnran:,n  r,  n  sisti  rnf  the  llnii.  T.  .1.1  l.nr- 
anger,  late  a  judge  .,f  the  Superior  Court,  and  linn.  \,  u,  Lmangrr,  ,\tton,t\  (itiieral  ni'  the 
province  of  t^uelH-c  They  were  married  in  I8."i4,  and  she  dinl  in  I.s7'!,  I'aviiiv;  nnt^  daughter, 
who  is  the  wife  of  Bantellier  Triidel,  ailvnenle.  Mnntnal  His  |iirsiiit  wife  was  .Miss  Antonie 
Mazuel,  married  in  danuary,  1878,  by  whom  hi'  has  an  intnni  ilaughler. 


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"R.  JOLIt 'tKCR,  the  present  provincial  assistant  secretary,  was  born  in  <^)nebec  city  on 
HOth  .\pril,  18if),  and  received  his  education  at  the  Seniiiiarv  There  he  enmriieneed 
to  study  law  with  Sir  Narcisse  Melleau  in  l8+!.t,  and  in  ISM'  tin-  two  entered  intn  partnership 
which  was  only  dissolved  in  1858,  nn  the  former  eideriiig  intn  pnlitics.     Mr.  .Inlieour  continued 


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to  piwtistj  iVtr  some  yoius  after  and  wivs  made  a  Q.  C.  in  July,  18G7.  On  the  2')tli  July,  1SG7, 
he  was  appointed  to  his  present  po»t.  He  Wiis  formerly  president  of  the  C'aniulinn  Institute  in 
(,>uel»ec.  He  is  a  staunch  supporter  and  rigid  adherent  of  the  Conservative  party,  and  is  a 
U<>nmn  Catliolic.  In  1858  he  married  Miss  Honoririe  Matte,  and  has  luid  issue  eleven  children, 
but  four  boys  only  now  survive.  Mr.  Jolieo'iu'  is  an  otficial  who  is  spoken  of  tus  being  assidious 
in  the  discharge  of  his  duty,  and  Is  generally  esteemed  by  all  who  come  in  contact  with  him 
otticially  or  otherwise. 


KUNKST    IDLKK',     • 

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ONK  of  the  oldest  citizens  of  (a-rinan  birth,  residing  in  Montreal,  is  Krmst  Idler,  a  native 
of  Wiirtembeig,  boin  July  lO,  ITitO.  He  has  l)een  seen  on  the  streets  of  this  city  for 
seventy  years,  and  is  well  known  to  our  ohler  ela.ss  of  jieople.  Up  to  a  recent  date  ho  has  been 
in  business  here,  and  has  always  been  an  in<lustrious,  straightforward,  self-respecting  man,  his 
labors  being  well  rcwardeil.  When  he  came  here  tliree  score  years  and  ten  ago,  there  were  pro- 
bably not  more  than  fifteen  thousand  people  in  Montreal,  and  his  recollections  of  the  appearance 
ol"  i\\}  city  are  very  distinct.  At  that  time  McGill  street  had  only  one  building  on  it,  and  that 
was  occupied  by  a  colored  man,  and  numerous  other  changes,  etjually  as  striking,  and  showing 
the  progi'ess  of  the  city,  could  be  mentioned. 

Mr.  Idler  is  a  son  of  (Jeorge  Adam  Idler,  a  baker  by  trade,  land  owner  and  vineyanl 
keeper,  who  was  for  a  long  time  a  burgomaster  and  magistrate  in  the  village  of  Stiiimpfelbach,  and 
his  maternal  grandfather  Johan  George  Moedinger,  also  a  vine-cultivator,  held  the  same  office  at 
an  earlier  date  ;  the  latter  was  also  a  magistrate,  ami  a  guardian  of  orphans.  The  mother  of 
Ernest  was  Johanna  Moedinger.  He  was  educated  foi'  business  in  the  public  schools  of  the  old 
country  ;  came  by  the  way  of  I'hiladelphia  to  Montreal  in  1811,  reaching  the  former  place  on  the 
2!)th  of  January, ami  the  latter  in  March  of  the  same  year.  Two  older  brotheis,  John  (Jeorge  and 
George  Adam,  had  preceded  him  to  this  city,  and  he  became  a  clerk  for  the  former  in  a  grocery 
store.  A  few  years  later  he  learned  the  butcher's  trade,  and  followed  the  business  of  meat  dealer 
ami  jiacker,  together  with  produce  dealer,  in  connection  with  a  grocery,  for  fifty  years,  his 
jilacc  of  business  being  at  first  on  Dorchester  street,  and  afterwards  on  Sanguinet.  He  retired 
from  the  butcher  and  packing  business  in  187o,  and  from  the  grocery  and  i)roduce  trade  somo 
years  earlier,  being  successful  in  his  operations  generally.  In  the  great  fire  of  18."i2  he  lost 
seven  houses  and  a  large  (juantity  of  provisicms. 

The  year  after  Mr.  bller  reached  Mimtreal,  war  broke  out  with  the  United  States,  and,  al- 
though a  mere  lad,  he  joineil  the  militia  when  seventeen  yeai-s  of  age.  He  also  volunteered  at 
the  time  of  the  rebellion  (1837-38)  and  was  lieutenant  of  volunteei-s;  later  in  life  ]\e  was  cap- 


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tain  r)f  militia,  resigning  some  years  ago  as  major.  Ho  lias  always  been  a  true  friend  of  his 
adopted  country. 

Yeai-s  ago,  Mr.  Idler  wa.s  often  invited  to  accept  office  in  the  nmnieipality  of  the  city,  but 
sedidoiisiy  refu.sed  to  accept.  He  has  been  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  Proto,stant  cemetery.  He 
was  the  first  treasurer  of  the  German  Society  of  Montreal,  founded  in  18.*).'),  and  was  afterwards 
its  president.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Church  of  England  until  the  (iermans  organized  a 
Lutheran  church  in  1857,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  foundei-s,  and  built  a  house  of  woi-ship, 
when  he  transferred  his  religious  connection.  He  was  treasurer  for  some  time  of  the  Lutheran 
church,  and  is  now  an  elder  and  president  of  its  board  of  tru.stees. 

In  1820  Mr.  Idler  was  united  in  wedlock  with  Anna  Maria  Kie.ser,  also  a  native  of  Wiirtem- 
btig,  and  they  have  lost  six  children,  and  have  four  daughtei-s  and  one  son  living.  The  latter, 
William  (Jeorgc  Idler,  is  in  his  fathci's  old  l)usiness,  butchering  and  packing  ;  three  of  the  daugh- 
ters have  been  married,  and  two  of  them  are  widows. 


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FUASEKVU.Li:. 

rrillK  subject  of  our  sketch  is  of  Acadian  origin,  and  is  one  of  the  mo.st  popular  members  in 
-'-  the  Legislative  Assembly  of  New  Brunswick,  he  is  the  son  of  Captain  Regis  Theriaidt, 
a  large  land  and  mill-owner  at  Madnwaska,  and  justice  of  the  peace  in  Acadia;  his  mother  was 
a  Miss  Julie,  daughter  of  Louis  Ilimiuet,  from  Cnp  St.  Ignace,  and  a  descendant  from  one  of  the 
oldest  French  families.  His  father  is  a  gentleman  who  has  always  bcL'ii  held  in  the  highest  re- 
gaid  b}- every  branch  of  the  community  in  his  district,  and  he,  as  well  as  Lieutenant-! ,'olonel 
'J'heriault,  are  de.servedly  popular  thioughout  the  entire  province.  Born  at  St.  Basil,  N.B.,  on 
th<'  14th  of  May,  ]8:?7,the  present  representative  for  Madawaska,  in  the  New  Brunswick  Legis- 
lative Assembly,  was  educated  at  St.  Anuc's  college,  P.  Q.,  and  completed  his  .studies  at  the  well- 
known  grammar  school  at  St.  John,  New  Brunswick.  ( »n  leaving  school  he  entered  upon  his 
lather's  extensive  business  in  bnnbering  at  Madawaska,  which  he  continues  up  to  the  present 

day. 

As  an  instance  of  his  popularity  among  his  constituents,  we  may  mention  that  on  every  oc- 
casion that  his  name  has  been  put  forward  as  their  representative,  he  has  been  unanimously 
ilicteil.  He  is  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  Victoria  reserve  militia,  having  entered  the  service  a.s 
ensign,  some  twenty  years  ago,  and,  in  fact,  organized  the  first  volunteer  company  in  Victoria, 
which  was  ])laced  under  Captain  Baker's  conunand,  from  Madawaska,  and  was  present  at  the 
tirst  camp  luld  in  Nt?w  Brunswi''k,  at  Torrytown  in  St.  Johns,  at  the  time  of  the  Fenian  raids. 
He  was  elected  for  Victoria  in  1 807.  and  represented  it  until  1874,  and  was  instrumental  indivi- 

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ding  that  county,  in  the  latter  mentioned  year,  into  two,  viz.,  Victoria  and  Miulawaska,  upon 
which  he  became  representative  for  the  latter,  by  acclamation,  and  was  also  again  returned 
therefor  in  a  similar  manner  at  the  general  elections  in  1878,  and  we  believe  that  he  has  not 
lost  one  year  since  he  was  first  returned.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Executive  Council 
from  July,  1871  to  February,  1872,  when  he  resigned.  The  colonel  is  one  of  those  gentlemen  who 
will  not  enter  into  any  prospect  or  undertaking,  be  it  ever  so  feasible,  and  however  in  accord  it 
may  be  with  his  desires,  unless  he  can  devote  the  whole  of  that  time  which  he  considers  should 
be  given  to  make  it  a  success,  thus  throwing  his  heart  and  soul  into  all  and  every  enterprisa 
whether  it  be  in  politics,  business,  or  affairs  of  a  private  matter,  municipal  or  otherwise,  and  to 
this  as  well  as  his  sterling  integiity  may,  in  some  great  measure,  be  attributed  his  successful 
career.  He  takes  a  manifest  interest  in  all  matters  connecte<l  with  agricultuml  affiiii-s,  and  or- 
ganized the  first  agricultural  society  in  Victoria ;  he  is  a  member  of  the  provincial  board  of 
agriculture,  and  secretiiry  of  the  Victoria  central  agricultural  society,  and  is  a  delegate  from 
New  Brunswick  to  Riviere  du  Loup  en  hds  as  director  of  the  Temiscouata  agricultural  society. 
He  was  one  of  the  delegates  from  Riviere  du  Loup  en  has  to  the  Quebec  Parliament  to  urge 
upon  that  body  the  advantages  to  be  derived  by  removing  the  court  house  and  jail  from  Kam- 
ouraska  to  Fraserville,  and  it  is  well  known  that  he  worked  incessantly  and  with  a  succe.ssful 
commendability  to  induce  the  government  to  comply  with  the  proposition  which  has  de- 
servedly gained  for  hini  and  the  other  gentlemen  working  with  him  the  manifest  appreciation 
of  all  in  Fraserville.  In  politics  he  is  a  Liberal  Conservative,  and  is  pretty  generally  regarded 
by  the  community  at  large  as  being  a  man  of  the  highest  rectitude  and  integi-ity.  Socially  he  is 
held  in  the  highest  esteem,  and  amongst  his  constituents  he  is  looked  upon  as  being  a  man  of 
sterling  character. 

He  belongs  to  the  Roman  Catholic  church  ;  he  married,  on  the  13th  of  January,  1875,  Eu- 
genie, daughter  of  Edouard  Le  Bel,  Esq.,  of  Kamouraska,  who  died  on  the  3lst  January,  1877, 
aged  28  years ;  he  re-married  on  the  Sl'th  of  January,  1870,  Lucj',  widow  of  OctJivo  Marchaiid, 
by  which  alliances  there  have  been  issue  two  children  by  the  first  marriage,  all  of  whom  survive. 


LUDGEli    DUVERNAY, 

MONTREAL. 

LUDGER  DUV^ERN AY, founder  of  La  Miuei-ve  and  of  the  St.  Jean  Baptiste  a.s.sociation,  is 
the  son  of  a  Frenchman  whose  family  had  long  been  settled  in  the  country.  His  grand- 
father was  a  royal  notary  of  the  jurisdiction  of  VerchJres,  and  his  father,  Joseph  Duvernay,  who 
was  allied  by  his  wife  to  the  distinguLscd  De  Lamorendiere  family,  had  devoted  him.self  to  agri- 
cultural pursuits,     Mr,  Duvernay  was  '  .;n  at  Verchtres  on  the  22ud  day  of  January,  1791). 


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After  liaving  received  whatever  education  could  then  be  acquired  at  the  elen)entary  schools  of 
the  rural  districts,  he  came  to  Montreal  in  June,  1813,  and  was  indentured  as  apprentice  printer 
with  Chas.  B.  Pasteur,  who  was  then  publishing  Le  Spectateur.  B^ouryeai-s  afterwards,  in  June, 
1817,  he  commenced  at  Three  Rivers  the  publishing  of  La  Gazette  deo  Trois  Rivieres,  a  news- 
paper which  lasted  till  1822.  The  year  following  he  published  the  Constltutionel,  which  paper 
lived  two  years. 

On  the  14th  of  February',  1825,  he  was  united  in  the  bonds  of  wedlock  to  Mdlle.  Marie 
Reine  HarnoLs,  of  La  Rivitire  <lu  Loup.  In  1826,  he  started  at  Three  Rivers  a  third  paper, 
called  the  Argw*,  and  in  1827  he  .settled  in  Montreal,  where  he  made  arrangements  with  Mr. 
Morin  to  cstabli.sh  La  Minerve  on  a  permanent  basis.  From  that  time  until  his  death,  the  name 
of  Mr.  Duvornay  was  prominently  connected  with  every  political  contest  in  Cunada. 

La  Minerve  commenced  then  to  wage  war  against  all  abuses  and  wrong-doings,  and  under 
Mr.  Duvernay's  guidance  it  ha-s  and  since  been  foremost,  and  in  tlie  struggle  for  the  dcfenee  of 
what  he  conceived  to  be  right  and  justice,  Mr.  Duvernay  was  frequently  the  victim  of  tho 
patriotic  zeal  with  which  he  defended  the  right  of  the  people.  He  was  first  arrested  in  1828  in 
company  with  Mr.  Jocelyn  ^yaller.  He  wan  then  printing  besides  the  Minerve,  a  paper  called 
the  Caniulian  Spectator,  of  which  Mr.  Waller  was  the  editor.  They  were  both  arrested  under 
ii  charge  of  libel,  on  tiie  deposition  of  one  or  two  individuals.  This  had  the  effect  of  calling 
public  attention  to  him,  and  making  him  very  popular  among  the  people.  Public  meetings 
were  held  and  resolutions  pas.sed  stating  that  the  action  taken  against  those  gentlemen  was 
tyrannical  and  a  violation  of  tho  rights  of  British  subjects,  and  of  the  liberty  of  the  press. 

In  1832,  Mr.  Duvernay  was  again  arrested  by  order  of  tiie  Legislative  (,'ouneil  f<)r  having 
published  in  the  Minerve  an  article  in  which  the  Council  was  represented  as  a  great  nuisance, 
of  which  the  country  ought  to  get  rid.  Mr.  David  Tracey,  editor  of  the  Vindieator,  who  had 
published  an  article  to  the  .same  effect,  was  also  arrested  at  the  same  time,  and  botli  were 
brought  to  the  bar  of  the  Council  and  condemned  by  their  accusers,  viz ,  the  legislative  coun- 
cillors, who  had  passed  resolutions  declaring  the  writings  in  tpiestion  to  be  a  libelous  defama- 
tion of  their  branch  of  the  legislature. 

Messrs.  Duvernay  and  Tracey  remained  in  prison  at  Quebec  during  the  whole  of  the  .session, 
which  was  then  being  held.  This  gave  ri.se  to  a  general  movement  expressive  of  the  utmost 
indignation  both  in  the  pre.ss  and  among  the  public  against  the  action  of  the  Council,  and  of  the 
warmest  sympathy  towards  Messrs.  Duvernay  and  Titicey.  Meetings  and  processions  wcie 
organized  both  in  Quebec  and  Montreal  to  prepare  a  brilliant  demonstration  in  their  favour. 
Furthermore,  each  of  them  received  two  gold  medals,  one  from  the  realdents  of  Quebec  and  the 
other  from  the  citizens  of  Montreal,  as  a  token  of  sympathy  for  the  sufferings  they  had  endured 
for  the  popular  cause.  Mr.  Duvernay,  being  at  the  head  of  an  energetic  press,  was  even  then 
consitlered  as  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  popul''r  party.     The  fact  that  he  had  been  imprisoned 


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with  Dr.  Tiiicey,  far  from  l>oiiij,'  injiirious  to  his  reputation,  ami  from  weakening  his  oner;,'y, 
strongtlieneil  his  coiiraj,'e,  and  made  tlie  name  known  in  foreign  countries  by  giving  to  liis  paper 
a  wider  circulation.  After  having  received  sucli  proof  of  public  esteem  and  approbation,  it  was 
impossible  for  him  to  believe  that  he  was  in  the  wrong,  and  to  regret  the  position  lu!  liad  taken 
concerning  the  Legislative  C'ouncil.  No  wonder  that  he  was  glad  of  having  suffered  for  such  a 
good  cause,  and  of  being  able  to  transmit  to  his  offspring  those  marks  of  honor  destined  to  per- 
petuate his  memory  and  to  encourage  his  descendants  to  imitatt?  his  virtues.  But  the  act  which 
will  no  doubt  more  than  any  other  pei-petuatc  the  memory  of  Mr.  Duvernay  among  his  coun- 
trymen, is  the  foundation  of  the  French  Canadian  Nn*;ional  Society.  It  was  he  who  Hrst  con- 
ceived the  idea,  and  who,  by  his  activity,  succeeded  in  putting  it  into  practice.  It  wa.s  in  the  year 
IHS't  that  St.  John  the  Baptist's  day  was  first  celebrated  as  a  national  holiday. 

Before  that  time  it  was  in  mockery  and  derision  that  the  enemies  f)f  that  race  gave  the 
name  of  Jean  Baptist  to  nil  tlie  French  Canadians,  but  by  causing  it  to  be  adojtted  by  the 
national  association,  he  rendered  that  nickname  respectable.  Ho  spared  neither  time  nor  money 
to  obtain  .so  ;;atriotic  an  end. 

The  choice  of  the  maple  leaf  lus  a  national  emblem  is  also  due  to  Mr.  Duvernay.  This 
emblem  has  been  adopted  everywhere  in  Upper  as  well  as  in  Lower  Canada  by  all  literary  nn^n 
and  by  ieonology. 

In  l^iSO,  Mr.  Duvernay  had  to  .submit  to  another  trial,  and  wasini|)ri.soned  a  third  time  for 
having  dared  to  express  his  opinions  in  tlic  pre.ss.  Everybody  remembers  the  death  of  Mr. 
Collins,  who  died  of  cold  and  starvation  in  tlie  Montreal  jail.  An  inquest  was  ordered,  and  the 
jailer  and  .sheriff"  were  found  guilty  of  gross  carelessness.  During  the  next  term  the  attorney- 
general  submitted  to  the  grand  jury  an  accusation  of  murder  against  the  jailer.  As  there  was 
not  then  any  law  in  existence  concerning  juroi-s,  the  sheriff"  was  free  to  choose  the  grand  jurors 
according  to  his  fancy-  The  jailoi- being  the  subaltern  of  the  .sheriff',  it  was  important  for  this 
last-named  official,  that  no  true  bill  should  be  found  against  the  jailer,  and  it  so  happenc^d  that 
out  of  the  seventy-four  grand  jurors  that  wore  empanneled  sixteen  were  from  the  city  of 
Montreal,  and  friends  to  the  .sheriff".  Sjjeaking  of  the  procedure  followed,  the  Minervenin,i<n\ 
that  the  grand  juiy  wa.s  packed.  Awarrant  was  at  once  issued  for  the  arrest  of  Mi'.  Duvernay 
for  contempt  of  court,  and  he  was  condemned  to  twenty  days'  imprisonment  and  a  fine  of  X20. 
On  this,  as  well  as  on  previous  occasions,  his  accusers  and  judges  were  the  victims  of  their 
own  hatred,  and  public  opinion  strongly  manifested  itself  in  favor  of  Mr.  Duvernay.  This  new 
imj)risonment  wa-s  the  means  of  increasing  the  number  of  those  who  already  .sympathized  with 
him,  and  made  his  name  still  dearer  to  his  countrymen,  who  looked  upon  him  as  a  martyr  to  the 
good  cause. 

In  May,  1887,  Mr.  Duvernay  was  elected  by  acclajnation  representative  of  the  comity  of 
Lachcnaye,  and,  together  with  all  the  most  distinguished  jiatriots  of  that  time,  he  had  to  leave 


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who  were  banished  for  political  rca.sons. 

Ho  and  liis  family  took  refuge  in  the  TTnited  States,  and  tho  publication  of  Ln  Minervc.  was 
suspended  from  the  IGth  of  November,  1837.  Ho  chose  Burlington,  Vt.,  as  his  residence,  but  he 
visited  tho  principal  cities  of  the  Union  to  attend  tho  meetings  which  were  there  hold  to  .sympa- 
thize with  the  ( 'anadians.  He  was  everywhere  received  with  tho  greatest  respect  and  con- 
sideration, especially  at  Philadelphia,  where  Iuk  presence  had  been  advertise<l  by  largo  bills 
inviting  the  inhabitants  of  the  city  and  county  to  hold  meetings  to  hear  him  speak,  and  extend 
a  helping  hand  to  the  Canadian  refugees. 

In  December,  ^H'^H,  Mr.  Duvornay  announced  in  a  prospectus,  that  he  was  about  to  begin 
tho  jmblication  of  a  French  newspaper  near  the  frontier,  in  the  interests  of  (*ana<la,  and  in  the 
spring  of  1831)  the  P<ttriote  C<tnad!en  appeared  at  Burlington.  As  Mr.  Duvornay  was  ftlrea<ly 
well  known  in  the  States,  and  respected  by  all,  this  new  enterprizo  was  greeted  with  enthus- 
iasm by  all  the  press  in  the  American  Union. 

At  last  the  union  of  tho  I'anadas  having  V)een  decicled  upon  by  tl\e  English  government, 
and  tho  principle  of  rcspcmsiblo  government  having  been  accepted  by  the  united  province,  peace 
wa.s  restored,  and  the  political  outlaws  allowed  to  return. 

Mr.  Duvernay  came  bark  to  Jlontreal  in  184'2,  and  in  tlu;  montii  of  September  he  commenced 
anew  the  publication  of  tlie  Mhwn'f  for  tlio  defence  of  liberal  ideas.  Although  lie  approved  of 
the  system  of  representative  government,  lu;  never  ceased  to  protest  against  the  iniquities  of 
the  Union  Act. 

During  all  his  public  career,  Mr.  Duvo'uay  never  separated  himself  from  the  great  nia.ss  of  his 
countrymen.  After  his  return  to  Canada,  he  sustained  with  energy  tho  system  of  government 
now  in  force,  and  oppo.sed  the  ministries  who  did  not  effectually  put  it  into  practice.  At  this 
period  of  Jiis  che<[uered  life,  and  aftei'  so  many  3-ears  of  ceaseless  toil,  Mr.  Duvernay  was  still 
without  any  great  auKJunt  of  fortune,  his  prin*^ing  establishment  having  been  .sold  during  his 
ab.scnce.  Nevertheless,  he  relied  upon  Providence,  and  his  own  private  interest  always  .seemed 
to  him  of  a  .secondary  nature  when  compared  with  public  intercuts.  He  always  joined  heartily 
in  all  useful  and  charitable  schemes;  it  may  also  be  said  of  him  that  he  was  a  true  patriot,  a 
friend  to  nmnkind,  and  a  supporter  of  all  institutions,  whose  aim  was  to  develop  the  intelligence 
of  man,  to  alleviate  human  miseries,  and  to  elevate  the  standing  of  humanity. 

Mr.  Duvernay  died  on  the  28th  of  November,  18.52,  in  the  fifty-fourth  year  of  his  age.  His 
funeral  took  place  on  the  third  of  December,  ami  was  attended  by  several  thousand  people, 
amontr  whom  could  be  seen  membei"s  of  all  creeds  ami  nationalities,  as  well  a.s  men  holding  the 
highest  position  in  society.  The  St.  Jean  Baptiste  A,ssociation,  and  other  national  societies, 
turned  out  in  full  force,  with  their  banners,  regalia  in  njourning,  and  bands  of  music.  Places  of 
business  were  closed ;  the  merchants  in  the  dry  g(K)ds  trade  had  spread  out  crape  and  other 


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inuiiinin^  tlrnpcrius  in  front  of  their  stores,  and  fla^  wore  seen  hoisti'd  at  half-ninst  on  sonic 
of  the  public  ortices.  The  mayor  of  Montreal,  the  judges  of  the  several  courts,  and  most  of  the 
leading  men  of  the  city,  followed  his  remains  to  their  last  abode.  The  St.  Jean  Baptiste  A.s8o- 
ciation  caused  a  splendid  monument  to  be  erected  to  his  memory,  which  monument  was  the  first 
ever  erected  in  the  Catholic  cemetery.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  Mr.  Duvernay  had  five  children, 
still  living,  and  his  two  sons,  L.  N.  and  L.  D.  Duvernay,  became  proprietoi-s  of  the  Mhiervc 
L.  N.  Duvernay  died  in  1879.  L.  D.  Duvernay,  since  May,  1879,  has  published  a  French 
dailj'  called  the  Counter  de  Montreal,  a  paper  wielding  a  large  influence  anumg  the  French 
poiudation,  who  6nd  in  it  an  energetic  champion  of  the  popular  cause,  and  a  staunch  friend  to 
the  descendants  of  the  French  .settlers. 


PIKRRK    GAUVREAr, 

QUEIiKC. 

PIERRE  O.VUV'REAU,  government  architect  for  the  Province  of  Quebec,  and  a  self-made 
man,  and  prominent  mechanic,  is  a  native  of  the  cit)'  of  Quebec,  being  born  on  the  7th 
of  April,  181.*}.  His  father,  Pierre  Oauvreau,  senior,  descended  from  a  family,  now  quite  numer- 
ous in  this  province,  the  progeniter  of  which,  Pierre  Oauvreau,  came  from  the  department  of 
the  Vendde,  Frnnce,  where  ho  was  the  king's  lock.smith,  to  Canada  in  1040,  and  his  mother  was 
Angele  Lapcrri^re,  a  member  of  another  early  French  (\nadian  family. 

Young  Oauvreau  received  a  good  business  education  at  Quebec  college ;  learned  the  joiner's 
tmdc,  then  that  of  a  stone-mason,  and  finally  that  of  an  architect,  which  he  followed  success- 
fully for  several  years. 

In  IH-tS  Mr.  Oauvreau  was  appointed  government  architect  for  the  province,  a  position  for 
which  he  had  thoroughly  (jualified  himself  by  very  close  application  to  his  profession,  coupled 
with  natural  talent  and  skill  in  a  mechanical  direction. 

During  the  last  thirty-two  years  he  has  designed  and  built  no  less  than  thirty  court-houses 
and  jails,  not  to  mention  other  ordinary  public  buildings.  His  last  labor,  his  chef  d'<vm'n',  is 
the  new  government  buildings  in  Quebec,  one  of  the  finest  .sj>ecimens  of  architecture  in 
the  province.  The  three  sides  of  the  buildings  completed,  and  which  make  in  the  aggregate  a 
frontage  of  7'><)  feet,  and  which  are  constructed  of  limestone,  and  four  stories  high  above  the 
basement,  and  including  the  mansjird  roof,  are  made  strictly  after  the  designs  of  Mr.  Oauvreau, 
and  present  a  noble  sample  of  head  work.  The  buildings  are  fire-proof,  and  warmed  by  three 
furnaces,  each  having  eight  fires.  In  his  designs,  Mr.  Oauvreau  has  an  inner  yard  of  120  feet 
square,  which  will  be  completely  surrounded  by  buildings  when  the  new  parliament  buildings 
arc  constructcil. 


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In  1852  a  ]mtcnt  whs  granted  to  Mr.  Gauvreau  for  the  maniifacturo  of  hydraulic  ccntont, 
made  with  block  ston*  or  rock  on  which  the  city  of  Quelx-c  is  built.  This  cement,  by  its  qual- 
ity of  ([uick  Hctting  and  prompt  hardnesH  under  water,  has  Ix^on  used  for  the  last  twonty-oight 
years  in  all  important  public  works  made  in  this  province  and  in  other  pjvrts  of  the  Dominion, 
and  gives  great  satisfaction. 

All  the  government  wharfs  on  the  river  St.  Lawrence,  Ixdow  Quel»ec,  and  the  light-houses 
at  several  important  iK)ints  have  been  built  under  the  direction  of  our  subject. 

Ho  has  been  a  member  of  the  municipal  corporation  of  the  city,  and  president  of  the  water- 
works committee  during  twelve  yeai's,  and  has  been  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  something  like  a 
score  of  years.  He  is  a  warden  of  the  Basilica  church,  being  a  man  of  true  ('hristiau  impulses 
and  a  generous  disposition. 

Mr.  (Jauvreau  was  at  one  period  a  major  of  the  7th  battalion  of  voluntccrniilltia, or  Chas- 
seurs do  C^uebec. 

In  183.)  he  married  Luce  Siniard,  daughter  of  Jacc^ucs  Philippe  Simard,  of  Qucl>ec,  and  of 
eight  children,  the  fruit  of  this  union,  seven,  five  sons  and  two  daughters,  are  yet  living.  Louis 
P.  and  Alfred,  the  eldest  and  youngest  .sons,  are  surveyors ;  El7.eard  is  an  a-ssistant  of  his  father ; 
Kdmund  ti.  is  a  doctor ;  Ulrick  is  a  niill-ownor  and  farmer;  and  Philippe  is  a  lawyer.  One 
daughter  is  married  ;  the  other  is  single. 


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FREDERICK  WILLIAM  HENSHAW,  president  of  the  Montreal  board  of  trade,  and 
consul  for  the  oriental  republic  of  Uruguay,  is  a  native  of  this  city,  dating  his  birth  on 
the  21st  of  July,  1823.  His  fatlier,  John  Leveret  Henshaw,  many  years  a  hardware  merchant, 
was  also  born  here.  His  gramKather,  Joshua  Henshaw,  was  a  loyalist  at  the  time  of  the 
American  revolution,  and  came  to  Montieal  not  long  after  the  close  of  that  war.  His  mother 
was  Ann  Maria  Corey,  of  Providence,  R.  I.  The  faunly  of  Mr  Henshaw  is  of  very  ancient  date, 
and  eai'iy  in  the  sixteenth  century  were  prominent  as  extensive  land-owners  in  Lanca-shire  and 
other  parts  of  England.  The  head  of  the  family.  Sir  Thomas  Henshaw,  received  the  honor 
of  knighthood  from  the  sovereign,  which  he  was  afterwards  deprived  of;  but  the  honour  was 
restored  by  James  I.,  with  a  crest  and  motto — "TuBe,  Not  to  Seem."  The  pedigree  of  the 
family  was  registered  in  the  Heralds'  college  in  1701,  together  with  a  description  of  the  coat- 
of-arms  :  from  which  records  these  extracts  were  taken  in  1840. 

Mr  Henshaw  received  a  good  general  and  comm(;rcial  education  in  a  school  here  taught  by 
Benjamin  and  Alexander  Workman ;    was  for  some  time  in  the  old   potash  an<l  pearlash 


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store  on  Col?ego  stvoet,  now  owned  by  Messrs.  Dyde  and  Major;  in  1S.").S,  commcncod  for  him- 
self as  I.  p>o<hice  conunission  merchant,  a  liiismess  which  lie  is  still  following,  having  also  an 
iigency  foi  a  coal  company. 

Mr  Henshaw  has  long  hcen  an  active  and  prominent  man  in  the  Montreal  board  of  trade, 
being  for  sixteen  consecutive  years  a  member  of  the  council,  then  vice-president,  and  is  now 
president.  He  was  appointed  a  magistiate  in  1807,  by  Sir  George  E.  ( 'aitier.  In  185(i,  he  was 
appointed  vice-consul  for  the  lepnblie  of  I'ruguay,  and,  in  IS70,  full  coiisnl,  acting  for  the 
whole  Dominion  of  Canada.  He  i>  not.  we  believe,  ii  very  active  politician,  but  has  always 
Iteen  identified  with  the  Con.servative  party.  He  .vas  nuble  grand  of  commercial  lodge  of  the 
independent  order  of  Oddfellows  for  some  yeais,  and  afterwards  a  representative  of  the  grand 
lodge,  working  under  a  United  States  charter.  He  has  long  Iieiii  cuimectod  with  and  ([uito 
active  in  the  St.  George's  society,  and  has  been  vice-president  of  the  srine. 

He  holds  his  Cliristian  membership  in  the  Church  of  England;  was  for  years  a  vestryman 
of  St.  (Jeorge's  chuieh  ;  has  been  a  delegate  to  ti.e  syno.l  tor  several  paiishes.  Nobody  who 
knows  him,  we  be'ieve,  doubts  the  suicerity  or  purity  of  his  Christian  life. 

In  IS.'iO,  Mr.  Henshaw  mnrried  Mi.ss  Maria  Louisa  Scott,  native  of  London,  England,  and 
thev  have  lost  on(;  daughter,  and  have  two  sons  and  one  dau'diN  r  livinu.  Frederick  Clarence, 
the  elder  son.  was  educated  at  Helhnuth  college,  London,  Out.,  and  is  in  liusiness  with  his 
father,  and  holds  the  ap|iointinent  of  \ice-consul  for  Uruguay,  the  Argentini'  rejiublic,  Chili 
and  Peru  :  Arthur  Scott,  who  was  educated  at  Bishop's  colh  ge,  Li.'nnoxville,  is  in  the  Bank  of 
Montreal:  and  Mar)- Ethel  is  attending  Mrs.  Watson's  "ButeHouNe"'  school,  Montreal.  Mr. 
Henshaw  is  a  warm  friend  of  education,  and  takes  good  care  that  his  (jwn  riiildren  do  not 
Hutfer  for  the  want  of  it. 


KEXE  .A.  Ii.  iirni:irr, 

MOXTREA  /., 

T^I'M-:  AUGUSTE  RICHARD  HUBERT  was  the  son  of  Louis  Edouard  Hubert,  men- 
-^  *'  tioned  on  preceding  pages,  and  of  Dame  Marie  Ci^eile  Cartier,  aunt  of  the  late  Sir  tieorge 
Etieiuie  Cartier,  Baronet,  and  was  born  on  the  5th  of  June,  I'M  1.  When,  at  twenty  years 
of  age,  he  had  ttnished  with  distinction  his  course  of  study  in  the  collegia  of  St.  Hyaeinthe,  he 
was  admitted,  on  the  Kith  April,  l.s;i(i,  to  the  bar  of  Lower  Canada.  Among  liis  classmates  we 
mention  tlie  Bishop  of  St.  llvacintlie,  Hon.  Judsre  Sicotte, and  David  HulK-rt,  M.l).,  bis  brother. 
lie  studied  in  the  oilicos  of  the  late  Louis  Michel  Viger,  Esi].,  and  in  .hat  of  tli"  well  known  < '. 
S.  Cherriei,  lvsi|.,  the  oldest  advocate  now  li\ing  in  Mi  n! real. 

Choosing  this  city  for  tlie  sphere  of  his  practice  for  the  long  pniovl  of  thirty  years,  he  bad 
ii  large  number  «>f  rich  and  generous  clients,  as  a  rewnrl  foi'  his  as-idnii\   ['.)  his  profession,  his 


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tfilents  and  .sterling  integrity.  "  No  man  doscrved  a  better  position  than  Mr.  Ilulieii.  In  after 
years,  his  iiolile  qualities  were  well  known,  and  his  honest  purpose  appreciated  by  those  in 
power. 

"On  the  nth  of  January,  ISdii.  just  thirt}-  years  after  his  admission  to  praetice,  he  was 
named  prothonotary  of  the  Superior  Court,  and  .still  occupies  tliis  important,  responsible  and 
(litticult  situation,  to  tin,'  entire  satisfaction  of  (he  bench,  the  bar,  ami  the  public." 

When  the  new  bank  was  established  in  ^b)ntre;il,  and  reeeivud  the  name  of  the  patron 
saint  of  Canada,  the  St.  Jean  Baptiste  Bank,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  made  the  provisonal 
president  of  the  enterprise. 

A  side  Mhich  Mr.  Hubeit  made  in  October,  1874,  at  ( 'ilte  St.  Paul,  near  Montreal,  shows  tho 
most  extraordinary  advance  of  ])roperty  that  has  occurred  for  several  years  past.  This  farm  con- 
sists of  !)ti  arpents  in  extent,  and  cost  the  small  sum  of  J^^SOO  in  the  year  bSOd,  and  he  sold  it 
to  a  comi.nny  of  capitalists  for  the  fabulous  i>iice  of  .'*2S0.()(H).  His  rcsidenc<'  is  a  tine  house, 
"  Mount  St.  Hubert,"  No.  441  Sherbrooke  street. 

A  year  ;ifter  iiis  admission  to  the  bar,  he  was  engiigod  in  the  troul)les  of  that  year  (18.S7\ 
and  was  jtrcsont  on  the  14th  of  Decendier,  at  the  battle  of  St.  Kustaehe,  with  the  late  Dr.  Chen- 
ier,  slain  in  the  fight ;  J.  F.  Peltier,  Ks(|.,  advocate,  then  his  co-partner ;  J.  Chevalier  de  L  iri- 
iiiier,  who  was  one  of  the  victims  of  the  troubles  of  \^:]H.  St.  Mustaclie  is  pleasantlv  situat'Ml 
on  the  north  bi'anch  of  the  Ottawa  river,  oi'  the  Hiviere  du  ( 'hCne.  The  malcontents  wei-e, 
strongly  intrenclud  in  the  church,  which  was  set  on  iiic,  as  was  also  the  presbytery  and  a!>()ut 
sixty  ot  the  principal  houses  in  the  village.  Nearly  200  teil  victims  to  tlieir  folly  from  the  Hre 
Jinil  charges  of  the  troi)))s,  or  were  sufi'ocated  in  the  t!;im -^  of  the  buildings  destroyed.  Mr. 
llubei't  was  exposed  to  the  tirr  of  the  ;>2nd  regimi'iit  and  a  l);itialion  of  \'olunteers  on  the  north 
sidi^,  when  he  was  riding  fin  liorsi'I'ack  on  tlie  south  side  of  Petite  i'liviere  du  Chene,  havin^f 
h;i<l  a  bail  pas.s  through  his  hat,  and  he  wo\dd  certainly  ha\e  liijen  killeil,  exposed  as  he  was  to 
(hi  fir.'  of  moie  than  800  guns,  if  the  fire  lunl  been  better  directed.  ( (n  the  Oth  of  Jn?ni- 
at\,  i.S.'liS,  lie  wa.s  tak'Mi  prisoner  with  his  lii-olher.  Fraueois  Xavier  Ifubr.i,  N.  I'.,  of  St.  I>eiii>s, 
at  St.  Antoine,  llixer  Richeiieii,  and  thrown  into  the  Montreal  jail,  when'  werr  then  con- 
fined tlic  lato  sheritf  1/eblanc,  tin'  lite  i»r.  WolfVed  Nelson.  an<i  many  otln  rs  :  he  ivmained  in 
jail  for  somi.'  nioiitl^s,  till  Lord  |)u;liani,  conxeriing  bis  mission  into  one  of  peact*.  on  the  occasion 
of  the  coroiialion  of  Ibr  Most,  (Jraeious  Majesty  Queen  Victoria,  caused  the  jails  i)i  ♦ 'anada.  now 
crowded  witli  political  offenders  to  I).'  emptied  -many  bi-im;  released  on  giving  sertn-itv  for 
fuiuregood  behavior.  Mr.  liuber:  gave  reeognizanceH  of  .^JO(M»n  that  he  u^uld  not  "  trouble 
the  peace  again  f  ir  five  yeais."  '  More  than  forty  years  ha\i>  passed  since  our  subjoctgave  the.se 
lionds;  a  lew  generation  has  arisen  ;  .Mr  llubiMt  has  seen  .diuost  all  his  cild  companions  pass 
awa'. .  but,  svhut  he  and  tho  other  '  Fits  ilr  In,  Lihiu-lr  '  fought  and  bled  for,  that  gtmeration  and 
their  children  ha\o  obtaine<l,  vi/.,,  responsible  govenunent  and   the  ili^cfion  of  its  members  liy 

the  iiei>iih'  tliemselves." 

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"  Very  few  havis  such  an  unblemished  escutcheon  and  ^genealogical  register  as  Mr.  Hubert, 
and  very  few  can  tell,  especially  in  a  new  country,  of  the  position  and  occupation  of  his  groat- 
great-grandfather." 

Mr.  Hubert  married,  on  the  2nth  of  Decemlier,  18.")7,  in  the  pari.sh  of  Pointe  aux  Trembles, 
DUe.  Herniine  Viger,  daughter  of  the  late  Jo.'icph  \'iger,  Esq.,  and  of  Th(^rose  Archambault,  of 
that  place,  and  .she  has  had  eight  children,  three  .sons  and  five  daughter-s,  all  living,  namely  : 
Louis  Joseph  Richard,  Edouard  Rene,  Pierre  Augn.ste,  Marie  Cdcilo  I  lermine,  Marie  Justine 
Eugdnio,  Marie  Josephine  Delphine,  Antoinette  Marie  Louise,  and  Marie  Georgiana  Gabrielle. 

Mr.  Hubert  is  a  man  very  attentive  to  his  business,  very  kind  and  accommodating,  and  is 
heartily  esteemed  by  his  neighbors  and  acquaintances  generally' ;  his  impulses  are  most  noble  and 
generous,  and  the  unfortunate  find  in  him  a  true  friend. 


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LOUIS  KDorAiM)  iiriJEirr, 

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TN  the  year  lOiS,  the  year  in  which  King  Charles  L  of  Knglaiid  was  beiieaded  by  his  rebel- 
-*-  lions  subjects,  there  lived  in  the  eity  of  I'aris,  in  the  parish  of  Sainte  Genevieve  des  Ardents, 
ill  the  archbishopric  of  that  city,  Rene  Hubert, a  mfinof  good  po.sition,  holding  the  high  appoint- 
ment of  apostolic  notary  and  it'iristrar  of  the  otticialite  of  I'aris,  one  of  the  highest  of  all  the  I'aris- 
ian  courts  of  law.  His  wife  was  Anne  Horry,  ;>  ilaugliter  of  Nicholas  Horry,  who  was  also,  at  one 
time,  a]>ostolie  notary  of  tlie  parisli  of  St.  Nicholas  du  Chaidoniiet,  of  Paris.  This  couple  had 
a  son  wild  figur-'il  in  thi'  early  histoiy  of  (Quebec,  of  the  same  name  as  his  fathci-,  Rene  Jfubert. 
and  who  held  the  responsible  position  of  registrar  of  the  I'revoste  of  (Quebec,  reciving  his  com- 
mi.s.sion  directly  from  King  bonis  XIV.  of  France,  and  d.iteil  i»Oth  of  Ajtril,  17<)tK  He  was  jd.so 
the  cleik  of  till'  <  '<>ie<ei!  Superienrof  \)Mebec.from  .\|iril  l.Stli,  I70:?, until  his  death,  lsto<'Septciii- 
bcr,  17-">.  AH  till-  papers,  edicts,  and  ordinances  (tf  that  eouit.  from  the  14th  .lune,  1  '(Ki,  in  ht 
of  NdVfudier,  170."i,  were  signed  by  him.  llis^un  was  Pii'ire  Hubert,  wIki  left  Quebec  to  resi(ic 
ill  Montreal.  He  married  Dame  .Marie  J useph  ( "hart ier  de  IJdnac.  He  was  a  shiobiiiMei  doiu" 
a  large  business.  The  subject  of  this  sketeh,  bonis  Edouard  Hubert,  his, son,  was  born  ii  Mon- 
treal, on  the  Kith  February,  If  GO,  just  seven  years  after  the  cession  of  Canada  to  Piitain. 

After  passing  with  erlut  all  hi.  luies  in  the  colleges  of  Montreal  and  Qiiebi c,  ho  marri.  d 
on  the  2"Jnd  of  November,  iT'.Xi,  Denioihelle  Marie  Ceeile  Cartier,  nnly  daughter  of  Jae(|Uos  Cartier, 
merchnnt,  of  tin  parisli  uf  St,  Antoine,  River  Richi'lieu,  and  auiif  of  the  late  Sir  George  Elienne 
Cartier,  Raronet.  Ho  represente<l  the  county  of  IJii-helieu  in  the  I'arliameiit  of  Lower  CauaJ,,, 
from  the  year  bSOf  to  ixo,^;  and  wlien  the  war  of  1812  14  broke  oiil  lietween  Great  Kritain 
und  tlic  United  Ht*tes,  he  was  named  captain  (|uarteivniaster  of  the  militia  of  St.  Denis 


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Tlie  subject  of  this  skoti-h,  holding  at  thiit  timo  an  appointment  in  the  militia,  with  many 
others,  promptly  responded  to  the  appeal  made  by  the  governor,  and  the  camp  at  Lai)rairie  was 
formed,  among  whose  citizen  soldiery  were  Joseph  C.'artier,  of  St.  Aiitoine,  Colonel  Bourdages, 
of  St.  Denis,  and  J.  J.  CHrouard,  notary,  of  St.  Benoit,  an  old  member  of  the  Piovincial 
Parliament  of  Lower  Canada. 

Mr.  Girouard  has  left  a  valued  treasure  to  tlie  family  in  the  oil  portrait  wliicli  he  drew  in 
the  camp  of  Laprairie,  in  isl:). 

Mr.  Hubert  died  at  St.  Denis,  in  184:^,  at  the  age  of  77  years.  He  left  several  children, 
the  only  surviving  being  Pierre  David  Hubert,  M.D.,  and  Rend  Auguste  Richard  Hubert,  the 
prothonotary  of  the  superior  court  of  the  city  and  district  of  Montreal. 

NoTK. — The  abovu  iiotic>;  is  littlo  moro  than  a  comlunsatidii  of  a  skutch  which  wo  tiiul  in  an  oleg.int  wcii-k 
entitleil,  "Mmitreal,  its  Histury,  with  IJin^raphical  Sketches,''  written  and  puldishoil  l)y  Uev.  I.  Dmmlas  liorth- 
wick.  From  the  same  smirce  we  also  derived  nnich  i)f  the  material  for  the  notice  i>f  Uenu  A.  11.  lluhert,  an- 
other very  worthy  citizen  of  Montreal. 


HON.  cii!:ou(ii-:  ok  ill  sTUAirr,  g.c, 

(.lUEBEC. 

POSSIBLY  no  matter  of  such  interest  as  the  Atahiyn  case  has  ever  been  before  the  Vice- 
Admiralty  Court  of  this  province  since  that  court  Wius  first  established ;  and  it  has 
rested  upon  the  subject  of  our  sketch  to  give  decision  in  that  important  affair.  The  judge  was 
born  at  Toronto,  on  T2th  October,  I.SO?  ;  is  the  son  of  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  (^reo-ge  Okill  Stuart, 
of  Harvard,  and  for  many  years  arclideacon  of  Kingston  and  dean  oi'  Upper  Canada,  by  Lucy, 
dauiditer  of  ( iiiK'ial  Brooks  fo  manv  vears  governor  of  the  Slate  of  Massachusetts.  He  was 
educated  at  KiiiL^^tin  ami  in  tlie  ciiy  of  (Quebec.  At'liT  leaving  school  he  entered  upon  a 
course  of  legal  studies  with  ^L•.  ^aft'Twanl  .Sir)  Jauit.'s  Stuart,  attorney  general,  ami  was  ad- 
mitted to  till.'  bar  in  IS;i(),  ,uid  iiiadr  a  t^.C.  in  lN.-)k  Some  four  years  after  his  being  called  to 
the  bar  be  entered  into  partnership  with  Sic  .lames  Stuart,  which  was  only  dissolvt-d  in  1S3H, 
liv  the  promotion  of  Sir  .laims  to  the  chief  justiceship  of  Lower  t 'anada.  I'ossibly  no  man  in 
the  litv  of  (j|u(;bec  has  ilone  nxire  fur  the  advancement  of  the  city.  In  IM^d,  he  uas  electeil 
mayor  l)y  an  unanimous  vote,  and  so  poindar  was  he  with  all  classes  at  the  time— as,  uideed, 
lie  is  at  tlie  present  day — tliat  lie  was  re-eleeted  for  four  years  subsenuentiy  to  fullil  the  iluties 
of  the  chief  magistrate  of  (.^)uebee,  and  so  much  respected  was  he  by  the  community  at  large, 
that  a  subseriptioii  was  raised  at  the  time  of  hi^  lelimpiishing  the  oflice  of  nuiyor,  to  present 
him  with,  a  very  valuable  silver  testimonial  manufacture.!  in  Knglnnd.  In  LS-')L',  he  was 
elected  to  represent  Quebec  in  the  I'lovincial  Parliament,  and  was  brought  in  by  a  iriumpliant 
majority  over  the  candidates  supporting  the  ailministratioii  leil  ly  Sir  Francis  Hinc<<.s.     At  a 


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sub.so(jUent  election  lie  wan  ilefeatecl ;  hut,  finally,  aiiothfi-  change  of  (Jovcninient  touk  place, 
and  ho  was  re-elected  to  represent  the  city  of  Quebec  in  the  year  18j7.  Prior  to  this,  he  was 
appointed  judge,  pending  the  session  of  judges  of  the  several  courts,  under  the  Seignioral  Act 
(jf  1854.  At  this  time  he  was  a  Q.('.  He  defeated  Judge  Plauiondon  at  the  election  in  1857. 
In  all  matters,  which  affect  the  progress  and  development  of  Quebec  he  hivs  at  all  times  taken 
a  more  than  ordinary  interest,  especially  as  regards  railway  affairs,  and  it  may  be  said  that  the 
Quebec  people  are  mainly  indebted  to  him  for  the  carrying  out  of  the  North  Shore  Railway 
Act.  Moi'e  th.an  twenty-two  years  have  now  elapsed  since  ILv  Stuart  severed  himself  from 
politics;  and,  although  <)i  many  occasions  in  this  interim  he  has  been  invited  at  various  times 
to  take  upon  himseli  the  representiition  of  Quebec  in  Parliament,  he  could  not  be  induced  to 
do  so,  explaining,  as  a  reason,  that  his  profession — to  which  he  is  deviated — precluded  him  from 
taking  upon  himself  I'ailiamentary  duties.  The  admiralty'  reports,  which  were  published  in 
England  in  185<S  and  1875,  emanated  from  Mr.  Stuart's  ptm,  and  so  far  as  maritime  law  in  re- 
gard to  the  trade  and  navigation  of  the  gulf  and  river  of  St.  Lawrence  arc  C(jncern'3d,  they  are 
pronounced  in  Europe,  as  well  as  by  our  cousins  on  the  other  side  of  the  Canadian  border,  as 
an  authority  indisputable,  an<l  ca.ry  with  them  a  simple,  concise,  and  explicit  elucidation  of 
very  <lirticult  (piestions. 

On  all  matters  relating  to  the  high  eouit  of  admiralty.  Judge  Stuart  po.sy';s.ses  a  remai'k- 
able  amount  of  knowledge  and  intelligence,  as  well  as  upon  every  subject  appertaining  to 
affairs  nautical ;  and  to  sut'h  an  extent  has  he  made  tliis  a  special  study,  that  we  believe  we 
are  correct  in  stating  that  he  routines  himself  cxi'lisively  to  admiralty  cases,  having  ceased 
from  practising  in  any  of  the  other  courts.  Judge  Stuart  \\as  appointed  to  his  present  seat  on 
the  bench  of  the  court  of  admiralt}',  on  the  iJTtli  <*etobei,  l.S7;b 

The  judge  is  a  member  of  t lie  ('lunch  of  Kngland.and  married  Mi.ss  Margaret  Black  Stacy, 
niece  of  the  late  Hon.  Henry  Black,  C.B.,  formerly  a  <listinguished  judge  of  tlie  admiralt}'  court, 
(Quebec, at  whose  death  the  s\ibjeet  of  our  sketch  was  a[i])iiiiite(l  to  till  the  otHci'  vacated  thereby. 


WllJJA.M     LI  MS'. 

iroXTHLAL. 

r  I  "iHi]  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  native  of  Devonsiiii'e,  Fng.,  aTid  tlic  eldest  son  of  William 
-■-      and  Hlizabeth  (Heardj,  Lmin,  md  was  born  on  the  Jsth  •<['  July,  17!)().     His  father  was 
for  many  years  an  otticcr  in  the  dockyard  at  Divoiiport.  Tie    Lunns  are  believe-l  t-'  lie  d  'seend- 
nnts  of  iho  Danes,  who  settled  in  the  northern  part  of  England. 

Our  sidijeet  received  a  classical  and  coiiniie  cial  eilueation  at  J)e\iin|i.ii  i,  where  he  cleiked 
in  a  dockyard  luitii   ISllI,  and  then  c.uue  to  Montreal,  bi'ing  sent  out  liy  tint  .\dmiralty  to  take 


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chari,'e  of  iiaviil  stores,  there  being  at  that  time  u  n  ival  establishment  in  com/nand  of  a  post- 
captain,  on  each  lake.  This  state  of  things  continued  until  1834,  when  the  store-houses  were 
closed,  and  the  ofiicers  returned  to  England,  excepting  Mr.  Lunn,  who  had  married,  in  1821,  Mrs. 
Margaret  Hutchinson,  nee  Fi.sher,  widow  of  William  Hutchinson,  and  concluded  to  remain  in 
this  country. 

For  sixty  years  he  has  been  largely  identified  with  the  educational  interests  of  this  city.  In 
1822,  he  was  instrumental  in  establishing  the  first  public  school  in  this  province,  the  first  meet- 
ing being  held  in  his  parlor.  The  teacliers  were  sent  out  by  the  Briti.sh  and  Foreign  School 
Society  of  London.  Sonn'  of  the  boys  wlio  attended  that  school  are  still  living  in  this  city, 
and  occa.sionally,  on  meeting  Mr.  Lunn,  speak  of  those  early  days,  and  of  that  small  beginning 
in  i)ublic  school  in.struction.  Between  two  hundred  and  three  hundred  scholars  were  connected 
with  that  first  sehool,  which  was  "kept"  on  Lagauchetiere  anil  Cotd  streets.  This  school,  having 
been  enhirged  a  few  years  ago,  now  has  between  five  hundred  and  six  hundred  scholars. 

In  IS  Ki  the  Canadian  I'arliament  established  a  general  system  of  public  instruction  in  this 
province  with  separate  Protestant  and  Catholic  school  funds,  a  tax  of  one  fifth  of  one  per  cent, 
being  levied  on  the  value  of  all  real  estate,  excepting  churches,  nunneries,  and  religious  and 
benevolent  institutions. 

For  more  than  thiity  years  Mr.  Lunn  acted  as  .secretary-treasurer  of  the  Protestant  board 
of  school  commi.ssioners,  and  now  holds  the  post  of  honorary  treasurer.  The  people  of  Montreal 
feel  greatly  indebteil  to  him  for  his  assiduous  and  untiring  efibrts  to  advance  tlie  cause  of  edu- 
cation. He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  tln'  high  sei!0(jl  in  184.'5,  and  "  when  the  public  school 
system  of  (.^ucImm:  was  estal>lisiiril  in  18+0,"  writes  a  leading  educator  of  Montreal,  "  Mr.  Lunn 
was  appointed  oin'  of  the  six  gentlemen  who  constituted  the  Protestant  board  of  school  commis- 
sioners of  Montreal,  and  tVum  that  to  this  he  has  servi<l  with  uninterinitting  zeal  and  fidelity. 
His  long  and  useful  lif(5  has  w(jn  for  him  a  large  infiuence  which  he  has  evei'  e.xerted  foi'  good ; 
nev(;r  more  conspicuously  and  etil'ctively,  pcrhajis,  than  in  securing  tlie  co-operation  of  property- 
hoideis  in  the  doul)ling  of  the  city  .school  tax,  in  l><72,  a  measui''  to  which  public  education  in 
the  city  of  Montreal  is  very  largely  indebted." 

Mr.  Lunn  has  been  a  magistrate  since  !."*2t),  and  is  one  of  the  ohiest  ofiicers  of  that  kind  in 
this  city.     He  wtus  alderman  for  seven  conseciitive  years  between  1840  and  1S.'>(). 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church  of  ( 'ai..ada,  and  the  oldest  chui'ch  trustee  in  Mon- 
treal. For  fifty-five  yeais  he  has  been  a  zealous  ( 'Iinstiaii  worker.  He  aided  in  establishing  a 
Bible  society  here,  in  1820,  in  connection  with  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  .society,  and  the 
fii*st  Bibles  were  obtained  in  a  singular  manner.  A  box  of  Bibles  had  l»een  lying  at  Whitehall, 
N.Y.,  since  the  close  of  the  war  with  the  United  States  (1812-'14;,  they  having  lieen  seized, 
with  numerous  other  articles,  by  an  American  cruiser  during  that  war.  Mr.  Lunn  heanl  they 
were  there,  and  through  his  cfibits  they  were  olitained,  the  duty  on  liieni  1  ■  ing  ejmeei  d,  mid 
they  coming  in  free. 


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Tlio  wife  of  Mr.  Limn  died  in  ]S(j2,  since  wliich  tims  lie  has  lived  a  widower.  She  left 
tliree  daughters  and  one  son  by  Mr.  Lunn,  all  yet  livinj,'  but  the  eldest  daughter,  Mary,  who 
iiiariied  Col.  Noble,  R.K.,  and  died  in  England  in  April,  1880.  The  second  daughter,  Julia,  is 
the  wife  of  Judge  Cross,  of  the  Court  of  Queen's  Bench,  whose  sketch  and  portrait  appear  in 
this  voluuie  ;  Kninia  Heber,  the  youngest  ilaughtor,  is  living  at  home,  and  Alexander  Hutchi- 
son Lunn,  the  only  son,  is  a  lawyer  in  Montreal.  The  wife  of  Mr.  Lunn  had  three  children  by 
lier  first  husbaml,  and  one  of  the  step-daughters  married  Dr.  George  W.  Campbell,  an  eminent 
physician  of  Montreal,  and  a  relative  of  tlie  (Jovernor-General  of  Canada. 


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TvEA'.   -lOIl^    F.   STEVE^'S0:N,   LL.Ii.,   D.D., 

MONTREAL. 

JOHN  FREDERICK  STEVENSON,  pastor  ot  Emmanuel  Congregational  church,  Mon- 
treal, belongs  to  a  family  of  clergymen,  his  father.  Rev.  John  Stevenson,  a  M.A.  of 
(llasgow  university,  bavin--  been  a  Haiitist  minister  in  the  city  of  Lomlin,  England,  fiM-  more 
than  thirty  years,  dying  in  Nnveinber,  1S7S;  and  the  memory  of  his  gran<lfather,  Rev.  Thomas 
Stevenson,  a  man  of  remarkable  ]iulpit  ability,  is  still  tenderly  eherlsheil  among  the  older  in- 
habitants of  the  midland  comities,  where  he  preached. 

Our  subject  was  liorn  at  Loughborough,  Leicestershire,  Eng.,  on  the  9th  of  March,  1833, 
his  mother  being  Ann  'J'ayloi',  a  native  of  the  .same  county.  He  was  educated  in  the  arts  at 
Univei-sity  college,  London,  and  in  theoli)g\at  Regent's  Park  college;  was  ordained  to  the  Bap- 
tist ministry  at  Long  Suttu3i,  Linculnsliire,  where  he  preached  for  four  years,  and  then  beeanie 
jiastor  at  Nottingham,  where  he  remained  for  Hve  yea  is.  In  18(i.'}  he  removed  to  Reading, 
Berkshire,  and  there  served  as  pastoi'  of  Trinity  Congregational  church  for  elevi.'ii  rears. 

In  1874  Dr.  SteNeiisou  came  to  Montreal  and  became  the  tirst  pastor  of  Emmanuel  church, 
which,  through  diviiir  aid,  he  li^s  luiilt  up  into  a  strong  aiiil  influential  liody. 

He  receiveil  the  degree  of  baehelor  of  nits  t'runi  tl'e  Cniversity  of  London,  in  18.").'},  that  of 
baelielor  of  laws  in  1N(I(I,  and  that  of  doi  (or  of  divinit}'  from  Queen's  college,  Kingston,  Out., 
ill  I87'.l,  lionors  very  fittingly  bestnwecl. 

Dr.  Steveiisdii  lias  alwavs  taken  nnu'li  interest  in  the  cause  of  education,  and  wliile  in 
Reading,  Eng.,  was  a  member  of  the  sdioul  board,  and  is  now  chairman  of  the  Protestant  board 

Montreal.     Me  is  also  ehairman  of  the  (^'ongregational 


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of  .school  commissioners  for  the  city  or  jlontreai.  Me  is  also  ehairman 
Union  of  Ontario  and  (Quebec  for  1880,  and  has  a  high  staiuling  aliki'  in 
in  the  community. 

Dr.  Stevenson  is  ieetinei  on  tlie  Creek  testament  in  the  ( 'oiigregiitional  cnllege  of  British 
North  America;  and  the  writer  oiiee  beard  liini  remark  that  be  owed  his  love  for  that  language 


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in  a  largo  muftsuro  to  the  late  Dean  Alford  of  Canterlmry,  on  the  death  of  wlioui  \\v.  dolivcivd 
and  i)ul)lished  a  sermon.  A  few  other  sermons  of  his,  we  believe,  liave  been  published  !>}'  other 
parties,  mainly  in  newspapers  and  n\agazini's.  For  years  he  has  been  accustomed  to  wiito 
more  or  less  for  literary  periodicals,  liaving  skill  for  such  writing  as  well  as  taste  for  literary 
work.  He  is  also  known  as  a  lecturer  on  "  Milton,"  "  The  Pilgrim  Fatliers,"  "  American  Poets," 
and  other  literary  and  liistorical  subjects. 

Dr.  Stevenson  married  in  July,  18C3,  Matilda  Boyle  Davis,  daughter  of  the  late  Oeorgo 
Henry  Davis,  LL.D.,  seci'etary  of  the  religious  tract  society  of  England.  They  have  four 
children  living,  ami  have  buried  one  daughter.  Mrs.  Stevenson  is  a  highly  educated  lady, 
.sympathizing  warmly  witli  her  husband  in  all  his  labors,  aiKl  is  an  earnest  Christian  worker. 


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<,tUEnEC. 

ly  T  JUSTICE  A.  B.  IIOUTHIER,  was  born  at  St.  Piaeide,  in  thi' county  of  Tw(,  Moun- 
-^'^-L*  tains,  on  the  8th  of  May,  183!).  His  fatlier,  M.  Charles  llouthier,  was  a  respectabit; 
and  intelligent  farmer,  whose  ancestors  came  from  Saintonge,  France. 

He  piirsued  his  studies  with  great  success  at  the  college  of  St.  Th(/resc  dc  ]>lainville, 
county  of  Terrebonne,  and  was  the  first  student  of  that  college  who  ever  made  a  biu-hclier-es- 
Arts  of  the  Laval  university. 

He  then  studied  law  at  the  same  university,  ami  was  admitted  to  the  bai- in  J)ecember, 
18GI.  The  next  year  he  married  Miss  Marie  Clorindc  Mondelet,  the  only  dauL;httr  of  the  late 
Jean  Olivier  Momlelet,  advocate,  the  lirother  of  the  two  justice--  Mondelt't,  and  niaile  his  resi- 
dence at  Kamouraska.  Theic  he  practised  his  profession  with  success,  and  became  at  the  same 
time  one  of  tlie  prominent  writers  of  two  newspapers,  the  Cunrhr  th'  Vmnnld.  pulilislnd  in 
(Quebec,  and  the  Nouveau  Momlr,  piiblisjied  in  Montreal. 

In  ISfiO,  he  was  a  camlidate  for  the  Commons,  at  the  election  that  was  going  on  in  the 
county  of  Kamouraska,  but  was  di'feated  liy  the  Hon.  * '.  .\.  1'.  Pellftier,  by  a  small  majority. 

In  1<S7*2,  he  was  made  a  Queen's  counsel  \>y  the  fe<lt  nil  government,  and  on  the  1st  Sep- 
tember, 187-'i,  was  appointed  one  of  the  justices  of  the  Superior  Court. 

From  August,  187"),  to  April,  ]87(>,  ho  travelled  through  Eurojjo,  and  when  in  Koine,  his 
Holiness  Pius  IX.  created  him  a  knight  commander  of  St.  nr<;goire-le-f!raiid.  He  .sp<nt  four 
months  in  Paris,  and  was  there  intimately  connected  with  the  leading  writers  of  the  Catholic 
press  and  the  Legitimist  paity.  He  delivered  at  the  tA'rele  dii  Lii\eud>ourg  a  speech  wlui-h  wa^ 
connncJitcd  upon  and  praised  by  rUnircr^  and  Lc  Monde,  of  Paris. 


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He  t(jok  a  conspicuous  part  in  the  fostivitios  of  June,  LSSO,  ami  was  tlic  cliairnian  of  the 
Coyvjrh  CathttJiipiv,  held  at  Laval  university,  and  vicc-prosident  of  i\\G  ConvinWiun  N^niiomifr. 

In  those  assemhlies  he  delivered  speeches  wliich,  it  is  said,  created  a  profotmd  sensation, 
and  after  which  La  Minerve,  a  newspaper  of  Montreal,  proclaimed  him  the  champion  of  the 
Catholic  party  in  Canada.  Those  speeclies  liave  lieen  recently  puhlished,  with  the  most  Hattti- 
in<(  commendation,  I>y  M.  Lucien  r>run,  the  chief  of  the  [je<;itimist  party  of  France  in  the  Hccik' 
Triniestrlelle,  of  Paris. 

M.  Justice  Routhier  is  now  livinj^  in  (Jiifbee,  iiml  in  June  la'-t  he  was  made  a  Docteur-es- 
Lettres  hy  the  Fiaval  university. 

In  1.S71,  he  pulilished  a  volume,  the  ttnt^cjvVs  iln  DIminiilii-,  and  wrote  hefore  and  since,  n 
yreat  number  of  articles  and  pieces  of  poetry  which  aie  scatteivd  in  the  newspapers. 

At  a  tinio  whicli  is  not  distant,  it  is  said,  he  will  publish  two  volumes  of  "  liDinrssinns  iht 
Voiidijc;"  another  volume  of  "  Conferi'twe^  et  D'tucuii rs,"  and  a  little  volume  of  7^w/!t'.s  (poems.) 

M.  Ju.stice  llouthier  is  the  father  of  four ChiMien,  thiee  dau<'hters  and  one  son. 


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LI  K rTKN A  NT-COLO M:L    WILLLAM    IIKNKV    FOULEST, 

qUEllEC. 

LTEUTENANT-COLONEL  WILLIAM  ITKXRY  KORRKST  wasboin  at  LouisoviUe,  in  the 
district  of  Montreal,  on  the  24th  of  March,  LS;!3,  conse(iuently  is  a  Canadian  by  birth 
althousrh  of  Iri.sh  extraction. 

His  father.  Doctor  William  Wilson  Forrest,  a  successful  and  emim.Mit  practitioner,  was  at 
one  time  a  governor  of  the  college  of  physicians  and  surgeons ;  his  mother  was  Clarissa, 
daughter  of  Ca]>tain  J.  (lethings, of  the  Royal  Newfoundland  Regiment;  his  grandfather,  Henry 
Foirest,  dt'scended  from  the  renowned  Sir  Carmile  Forrest,  was  an  Irish  gentleman,  born  and 
educated  in  Dublin,  and  a  cousin  of  tlu^  late  Lord  Rlunktitt.  For  nuiny  years  ho  resided  on 
his  plantation  in  the  West  Indies,  but  on  the  emancipation  of  the  negroes  he  parted  with  hi.s 
estate  and  came  to  Canada,  when  he  settled  in  Montreal. 

He  was  instrumental  in  rendering  good  service  to  the  British  (iovmiment,  in  LS12-'L'}, 
and  as  a  reward,  wa-s  oHered  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Upper  and  anothoi'  in  Lower  Canada,  but 
declined  accepting  these  ;  possibly  he  niaj- have  picferred  that  his  services  should  b(>  purelv 
voluntary.  Subsequently  he  embarked  a  considerable  amount  of  enpital  in  Hudson  Bay  specu- 
lations, but  the  untimely  death  of  his  frieml  Lord  Selkirk,  caused  him  to  withdraw  from  his 
operations  in  the  north-west. 

Lieutenant-colonel  Forrest  removed  to  the  city  of  <^)u('bec  at  the  age  of  twenty,  and  there 
embarked  in  the  huuber  trade,  which  he  carried  on  for  sev(>ral  yeais.     The  firm  of  Foi'i-est  and 


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to  iTanco;  he  in  now  tlic  head  ul  the  hnn  oi  honest  and  ronipany, coal  anil  ^'cncral  merchants 
(jf  ((tuehuc. 

Jn  18.')7,  he  contested  tlie  cotinty  of  Dorctliesti-r,  as  a  candidate  for  a  seat  in  tlir  old  Parlia- 
nii'iit  of  (Janada,  but  was  defeated  at  tlie  pulls  by  Sir  Hector  Langevin,  ('.15.  In  18(51,  ho 
was  gazetted  captain  of  the  Levis  troop  of  volunteer  militia  cavalry;  in  liS(5(J  lie  w&s  appointed 
jiaymaster  (jf  the  17th  battalion  of  infantry,  and  on  the  30th  of  November,  of  the  same  year, 
paymaster  on  the  permanent  stafl'  of  the  militia  for  the  seventh  military  district,  and  he  has  since 
obtained  the  post  of  district  storekeeper.  As  a  military  student  he  received  and  now  holds,  a 
tii-st-class  certificate  from  the  royal  school  of  gminery  in  (.Quebec. 

Colonel  Forrest  is  a  gentleman  who  is  held  in  much  esteem  amongst  his  brother  oHiccrs, 
and  all  who  hatl  the  pleasure  of  meeting  with  him  socially  are  unanimous- in  expressing  their 
opinions  as  to  his  conlial  and  genial  disposition. 

He  married,  in  185;},  Marianne,  daugliter  of  Thoma.s  Tweddell,  liy  whom  he  has  i.ssue  three 
.'ions  and  si.x  daughters,  viz,  Sydney  Leopold,  William  Henry,  Charles  (Jetliings,  Caroline  Alice, 
(Jeitrude,  Kate,  (Jwendoline,  ( 'larissa  Ks.sex  and  Ijouise  liorne. 

The  family  crest  is  a  coronet  and  oak  tree,  and  the  motto,  Y'truid  dam  rlranf. 


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ST.  UYACINTHE. 

aEOlKJE  CASIMIR  DKSSAULLKS,  president  of  the  Bank  of  St.  Hyacinthe  and  of  the 
St.  Hyacinthe  Manufacttning  Company,  and  an  enterprising  citizen,  was  born  in  this  city 
on  tlie  2f)th  of  September,  18:27.  His  father  was  Jean  Dessaulles,  seigneur  of  St.  Hyacinthe, 
one  of  the  foumlers  of  the  place,  a  member  of  the  Lower  Canada  parlianu^nt  for  years,  and  at 
the  time  of  liis  death,  in  LSI}.'),  a  mtnd)er  of  tlie  Legislative  Council  of  this  province. 

The  father  of  Jean  Dessaulles  was  from  Switzerland,  coming  to  Lower  Canada  in  the  latter 
part  of  the  last  century.  The  mother  of  our  suliject  was  Rosalie  Papineau,  sister  of  Hon.  Louis 
J.  Papineau.     She  died  in  18(j7. 

Mr.  Dessaulles  was  educated  at  tlie  college  of  St.  Hyacinthe,  taking  a  complete  classical 
course,  and  studied  law,  but  never  engage!  in  its  practice.  His  time  has  been  largely  employed 
in  looking  after  his  seignorial  estate  and  other  property,  and  in  att<;nding  to  the  several  muni- 
cipal and  other  offices  which  he  has  held,  or  still  holds. 

He  was  councilman  for  twelve  years,  mayor  of  tlie  lity  for  ten  yeais,  making  twenty-two 
consecutive  yeai-s'  service  in  tlie  municipality,  and  then  declined  the  cliief  magistracy  against 
the  wishes  of  the  people ;  was  a  school  commi.ssioner  at  one  period ;  is  a  justice  of  the  peace, 


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and  the  second  president  of  the  Bank  of  St.  Hyacinthc,  taking  that  post  in  1878.  The  Manu- 
facturing Company,  of  which  he  is  president,  is  a  largo  institution,  and  doing  a  variety  of  busi- 
ness— carding  wool,  manufacturing  flannels  and  cloths,  flour  for  custom  market,  &c.  It  is  such 
enterprises  as  this  company  that  have  helped  to  1)uild  up  the  city  of  St.  Hyacintho ;  and  in 
cffotis  made  in  that  direction  no  man  has  done  more  than  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  whoso 
energies  and  business  tact  and  talents  are  thoroughly  devoted  to  the  interests  of  his  native  city. 
He  is  connected  with  the  Catholic  church,  and  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  St.  Jean  Bap- 
tistc  Society.     His  moral  character  stands  well. 

Mr.  Dessaulles  was  first  married  in  1857  to  Miss  Rmilic  Emma  Mondelet,  third  daughter 
of  Hon.  Dominic  Mondelet,  of  Three  Rivers,  she  dying  in  1864,  leaving  one  son  and  two  daugh- 
ters ;  and  the  second  time  in  1869  to  Miss  Frances  Louisa  Leman,  daughter  of  Dr.  Dennis  S. 
Jjenian,  an  English  physician,  and  by  her  he  has  two  daughters  and  two  sons. 


WOODFORD    PIIJvTN(;TO.\,    M.I.,   CK., 

QUEBEC. 

"ly  4"R.  PILKINGTON  i»  deservedly  mentioned  as  one  of  the  eminent  and  proinitient  men  of 
-^-^  Quebec,  a;  1  although  he  has  only  been  a  resident  in  the  Dominion  since  June,  1877,  ho 
has  obtained  for  himself  by  his  indefatigable  zeal  and  skill,  the  good  will  and  esteem  of  the 
public  generally,  from  the  Governor-Genei-al  and  his  royal  consort  down  to  the  employees 
under  him  in  the  important  pjiblic  works  he  has  boon  entrusted  witli  the  construction  of,  such  as 
the  Princes.^  Louise  embankment  and  docks,  as  well  lus  the  Lome  graving  dock,  which  is  now 
in  course  of  completion  in  the  ancient  capital  of  Canada. 

The  subject  of  our  sketch  was  born  at  Tiinidiid,  in  the  West  Indies,  on  the  2!>th  January, 
1830,  and  educated  in  England.  Ho  is  the  son  of  the  late  Captain  George  Pilkington,  an  officer 
of  some  distinction  who  formerly  belonged  to  that  time-honored  and  scientific  corps,  the  Royal 
Engineers.  His  mother  was  Miss  Charlotte  Clara,  daughter  of  Thomas  Jollie,  Esij.,  of  Van- 
bnigh  Fields  Houso,  Blaekheatli,  K\^nt,  Kngland,  a  gentlonian  at  one  time  possessing  a  very 
large  projierty.  His  mother  died  on  the  l+tli  of  Kobruary,  ISSl.  His  father  served  at  Ciuada- 
loupe  and  Martinique,  and  received  the  thanks  of  His  Majesty  King  George  III.,  for  being 
instrumental  in  causing  the  French  fleet  to  bo  diiven  from  St.  Kitts,  which  were  reed  at  the 
head  of  the  garrison.  Ho  was  also  one  of  the  four  ofticoi-s  seioctetl  by  the  French  officers  to  re- 
port on  tli«'  state  of  the  fortress  of  Martinique  after  its  suirendor. 

Captain  Pilkington  was  afterwards  stationed  at  Trinidad,  an<i  it  wa«  during  the  time 
he  was  quartered  there  that  Womlford  P.  was  liorn;  Sir  Ralph  James  Woodford,  K.C.B.,  being 
governor  ftt  the  time  and  a  gieat  friend  of  this  officer,  he  was  by  consent  named  after  him. 


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Captain  Pilkinyton  was  sulwctiuuntiy  engaged  in  S])ain  in  the  first  Hurveys  in  that  country 
of  the  line  of  railway  from  Madrid  to  Badajoz,  in  which  he  was  assisted  by  his  son,  Woolford 
Pilkington.  Finally  he  (the  father)  proceeded  as  chief  engineer  to  the  C'ape  of  Good  Hope, 
where  he  died  in  18o9. 

Mr.  Pilkington,  in  the  early  part  of  his  career  was  a  pupil  of  Professor  Butler  Williams, 
and  afterwartls  of  the  Rev.  Benjamin  Beatson,  of  Corpus  College,  Cambridge,  |)Ossibly  one  of  the 
most  eminent  mathematicians  of  his  day.  The  first  works  the  young  engineer  was  entrusted 
with  was  the  construction  of  the  lighthouses  on  Cape  Reciette  and  Bird  Islands,  and  possibly 
we  cannot  do  better  than  give  some  e.\.tracts  from  a  letter  from  Mr.  W.  Porter,  a  man  of  the 
most  sterling  honor  and  highest  integrity,  which  runs  as  follows: — 

lU  COLLECIK   SgUAKR    EaST,    KEtrAHT, 

WijODKiiRi)  PiLKiNOTON,  Es<|.,  20th  January,  1877. 

M.  Ins.  C.  E., 

&c.,        &c..        &c. 

My  ilear  Mr.  Pilkintiton, 

H8"'K.7  beuii,  during  the  whole  time  you  were  euiployod  in  South  Africa,  a  ineiuuer  of  t)  ^  Executive 
Council  -  i) -^  rVin~  o^'onv  and  of  the  Colonial  Legislature,  I  had,  I  think,  abundant  opportunities  of  knowing 
what  you  ditl,  "td  ""ow  yci  did  it,  and  in  what  estimation  you  were  held  hy  the  Colonial  (.ioTeniuient,  liy  your 
own  department,  a. .J  by  th;«e  aniongst  the  Colonial  public  most  competent  to  judge. 

********** 
Ttie  Lighthouse  on  Cape  .lecielfo  and  the  Lighthouse  on  the  Bird  Islands  have  always  been  regarded  as 
creditable  to  you.  Living  as  I  did  close  to  Cai>e  Town,  whilst  you  filled  the  responsible  station  of  City  Engi- 
neer, I  can  state  that  you  filled  it  with  etticiency.  When  afterwards  you  became,  under  (iovonior  Sir  (leorge 
(irey.  Chief  Engineer  of  British  Katfraria,  before  its  annexation  to  the  Caiie  Colony,  you  had  an  opiH>rtunity  of 
priving  the  versatility  of  your  talents  and  attainments  by  acting  as  Marine  Engineer  in  regard  to  the  Harbor 
Works  at  East  London,  and  by  executing  on  land,  some  works  of  no  inconsiderable  importance.  Your  suImo- 
quent  service  as  Assist. -Colonial  Engineer  and  Commissioner  of  Public  Works,  in  the  Eastern  DiHtricta,  wiut,  ( 
liave  every  reas(m  to  believe,  <|uite  as  useful  to  the  public  and  <|uite  as  creditable  to  yourself,  as  from  your 
antecedents,  was  to  be  anticipated. 

I  do  not  know  that  I  need  say  more.  But  1  think  it  right  to  add  that  you  always  appeareil  to  me  to  be  a 
man  gifted  with  considerably  more  than  ordinary  abilities,  who  had  inherited  a  taste  for  engineering,  and  niaa- 
tered  his  profession  ;  and  who,  moreover,  had  that,  without  which  no  public  servant  is  worth  his  salt,  namely, 
n  Hi-iise  of  duty  and  a  iletermination  to  do  it. 

Believe  me, 

My  dear  Mr,  l'ilkingt«>n, 

Yinirs,  very  faithfully, 
(Signed,)  W.  Portkk,  C.M.fS., 

Barrister-at-I.iaw, 
Late  Her  Majesty's  Atty.  (teneral. 

After  his  employment  at  the  Ca|>e  he  proceeded  to  the  north  of  Spain,  where  he  was 
<!ngage<l  in  constructing  a  lino  of  railway  for  the  Biddasoa  Iron  Co.,  as  well  as  laying  out  all 
their  works  through  the  defiles  of  the  Biddasoa  river,  by  the  side  of  which  the  metals  run  for 
a  distance  of  nine  miles  in  difficult  inclines  from  Yrun  to  Anderlaza.  Having  succes-sfully 
aceomplishcd  these  works,  it  may  Ikj  worthy  to  record  the  high  opinion  a  no  less  distinguished 


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engineer  than  Mr.  Barluw,  the  now  pAst-pronident  of  the  inHtitution  of  civil  engineers  in  London, 
England,  entertained  of  him,  which  will  be  found  in  the  following  letter : 

From  Mr.  W.  U.  Kahlow,  F.  R.  8.,  &c.,  &c.,  Vice-President  of  the  Institution  of  Civil  Engineers, 

2  Oli>  1'alm'B  Yard,  Wrhtminhtbh, 

December  3rd,  1874. 

I  have  known  Mr.  Pilkington  many  jrears,  and  have  had  somewhat  recently  to  examine  into  works  proposed 
to  be  constructed  in  Spain,  which  works  havo  since  been  executed. 

From  my  knowledge  of  Mr.  Pilkington  perscmally,  and  from  the  opportunity  I  have  ha<l  of  examining  his 
engineering  designs,  I  am  enabled  to  state  with  perfect  confidence  that  he  is  fully  ({ualifiud  to  undertake  the 
duties  of  the  office  for  which  he  is  applying. 

He  is  very  careful  in  the  preparation  of  his  drawings  or  other  documents.  He  has  a  very  suggestive  mind, 
is  fertile  in  resources,  and  is  a  gentleman  of  giH>d  education. 

1  may  add  that  in  the  circle  of  my  engineering  acquaintance,  I  do  not  think  I  can  point  out  any  ono  (hav- 
ing regard  to  all  the  circumstances  of  the  case)  who  would  bo  able  to  fulfil  the  duties  of  the  oftiuu  >>etter  than 

Mr.  Pilkington. 

1  am,  sir, 

Yours  faithfully, 

W.  H.  Barlow. 

Since  he  has  been  in  Quebec  it  i.s  acknowledged  upon  al!  sides  without  biaM  that  the  nclec- 
tion  of  Mr.  Pilkington  for  the  important  works  here  on  the  Princess  Louise  embankment  and 
docks,  as  well  as  those  which  lie  i.s  now  engaged  ujran,  viz.,  the  Lome  graving  dock  at  St.  Joseph 
de  Levis,  which  it  is  expected  will  be  completed  in  1S82,  wa-s  a  most  discreet  ont; ;  and  that  the 
high  testimony  always  given  uf  him  in  whatever  part  of  the  world  he  has  been  entrusted  with 
any  important  work,  is  deservedly  and  fully  confirmed  by  the  assiduity,  skill  and  care  he  has 
exhibited  in  the  progress  and  construction  of  the  harbor  works  and  ducks  which  have  been  and 
now  are  being  carried  out  by  him  here. 

That  Messrs.  Kinnipple  and  Morris  were  determined  in  securing  the  best  man  for  the  works 
at  Quebec,  is  not  only  evinced  by  what  we  see  has  lx>en  and  is  )>eing  done,  but  also  in  the  scru- 
pulous care  these  gentlemen  took  in  the  selection  they  made  out  of  some  forty  applicants  for 
the  post,  which  was  publicly  atlvertised  for  through  the  medium  of  the  EngliNh  press  on  Ijehalf 
of  the  Quebec  liarbor  commissioners.  Mr.  Pilkington  is  a  member  of  the  Institution  of  Civil 
Engineers  in  England. 

During  the  time  from  185.5-59  he  was  chief  engineer  in  British  KaH'raria,  he  ma<le  the 
ac<|uaintance  and  was  one  of  the  oHicial  colleagutvs  of  the  late  Sir  George  C'olley,  who  was    j 
recently  killed  at  Majuiia  Hill. 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  statement  and  general  summary  of  services  under  the 
(Sovernment  at  the  Cape  of  CJootl  Hope,  by  Wocxlford  Pilkington,  M.  Ins.  C.  E.,  which  will  suf- 
fice to  show  the  aptitude  and  ability  an  an  engineer  of  the  subject  of  our  sketch. 

Iirf/y.— Employed  as  Resident  Engineer  on  '.he  design  and  construction  of  the  Lighthouse  at  Cape  Reoieffit, 
Algoa  Bay,  erected  within  high  water,  the  tower  being  00  feet  in  height,  and  the  centre  of  the  light  being 
110  feet  above  the  level  of  the  sva,  and  carrying  ii  ruvolving  Catadioptric  light  of  the  first  order.  'huUy. — Em- 
ployed un  the  erection  of  the  Lighthouse  at  the  Bird  Islands,  over  the  Doddington  Reef,  Algoa  Bay,  the 


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height  uf  the  light  appmiitua  being  I'JIt  feet  above  the  level  of  the  tea,  an<l  mounting  a  double  fixed  light. 
Wrdly. — Employed  fur  two  yean  and  a  half  ai  Oivil  Engineer  to  the  City  of  Ca|)e  Town,  where  he  had  charge  of 
the  design  and  construction  of  all  works,  and  was  iirst  to  introduce  a  system  of  covered  sewers,  and  designed 
and  built  the  large  out-fall  sewers  at  the  Central  Wharf,  which  were  afterwards  carried  with  suooeas  through  the 
reclaimed  land  of  the  Harbor  Trustees.  AtMy.  — Employed  by  the  special  appointment  of  Sir  George  Orey,  K.O.B., 
as  Chief  Engineer  of  British  Kaffraria,  and  particularly  to  the  charge  of  the  Harbor  Works  at  Blast  London, 
during  the  ex|ienditure  of  the  Imperial  (Irant  of  £40,000  per  annum,  for  three  years,  during  which  time  he  pre- 
pared the  necessary  detailed  surveys  and  sections  of  the  river  and  harbor  mouth,  and  the  necessary  drawings 
of  the  piers,  training  walls  and  breakwater,  which  in  principle  are  now  being  carrietl  into  execution  under  Hir 
John  C<H>de.  At  the  same  time  he  designed  and  built  the  large  Hospital  for  the  treatment  of  the  Native  Tribes 
in  King  William's  Town,  together  with  other  miscellaneous  works.  5(M,v. —Finally,  from  August,  1869,  to 
January,  1864{,  that  is  for  a  period  of  six  years,  was  employed  under  direct  appointment  on  the  fixed  establish- 
ment as  Assistant  Colonial  Engineer  and  Commissioner  of  Works,  in  the  Eastern  Province,  where  for  a  con- 
siderable time,  he  had  entire  charge  of  all  works  and  for  which  he  received  the  special  thanks  of  the  Chief 
Engineer,  and  extra  remuneration  from  the  Uovemracnt. 

(SlONKI*,)  W00lll\tRI>    PlLKINOTON, 

M.   Ins.  C.  E. 
Attested  by 

W.    PoKTRK,    Ell<|. 

The  Honorable  William  Portck,  C.  M.  (>., 

Barrinter-at-Law, 
Late  Her  Majesty's  Attomey-Oenoral  for  the  Colony  of  the 

Cai>e  of  (iiHid  Hope, 


KKV.   (U>s'()X    IIKNDKHSON,   M.A., 

MONTREAL.  ♦ 

WILLIAM  HENDERSON,  prinrijwl  of  tho  Montreal  Diocesan  Tlu'ological  Collef,'e  and 
canon  of  ("lirist  (church  cathedral,  is  descended  from  an  old  family  which  settled  near 
Londonderry,  Ireland,  liefore  tlie  conquest  of  that  town.  His  father  was  Rev.  Rol>ert  Hender- 
son, a  clerj^yman  of  the  Church  of  England,  holding  various  posts  of  high  resjKjnsibility,  and 
iiniong  tlieni,  the  |)rinci]>alshi|)  of  Foyle  college,  Londonderry,  where  our  subject  was  bom  on 
tho  22nd  of  May,  IS:)-!'.  His  mother  was  Letitia  Johnston,  daughter  of  Kenjamin  Johnston, 
Es(|.,  of  the  Copse,  Wicklow.  He  was  educated  at  Trinity  college,  Dublin,  from  which  he  gra- 
duated in  18.')+,  -vith  cla^siuil  and  ethical  honurs  ;  was  ordained  deacon  in  1S57,  by  the  bishop 
of  Rath  and  Wells,  and  priest  in  18.')8,  by  the  bishop  of  Meath,  Ireland  ;  and  liefoi-e  leaving  the 
old  country  ha«l  apiK)intnients  at  Rrompton  Ralph,  Eng. ;  Monksilver,  Sunturset,  Eng. ;  an<I 
Rallymore,  Westnieath,  Irtdand. 

In  18(i2,  our  subject  came  to  America,  and  had  the  following  appointments  in  the  onier 
mcntione<I :  Pembroke,  Ont. ;  St.  Luke's,  Clevelaml,  Ohio;  St.  John's,  K(>okuk,  Iowa ;  St. 
Paul's  cathc<lral,  Virginia  city,  Nevaila  ;  St.  John's,  Eureka,  same  state  ;  rector  of  Dunham, 
Queltec,  and  examining  cliaplain  to  the  Metropolitan.  As  a  preacher,  he  is  distinguished  by 
the  simplicity,  fulness  and  force  of  his  language  ;   by  Ins  argumentative  and   logical  style;    by 


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tho  di'giiity,  ])ropriety  and  NeriouHncHs  of  his  inaiiner ;  ami  by  Ii'.s  exhibition  of  sound,  robust 
and  evangelical  truth. 

In  1877,  he  was  appointed  canon  of  (Christ's  Chureh  cathedral,  and  principal  of  Montreal 
iliocosan  theological  college,  |>ositions  which  he  is  filling  with  marked  success.  The  college 
was  incorporated  in  1877,  and  has  become  affiliated  with  McOill  university,  two  steps  which 
have  added  greatly  to  its  prosperity.  Principal  Henderson,  under  tlie  bishop  of  the  diocese, 
lias  its  entire  supervision,  and  also  tills  the  chair  of  systematic  theology.  Its  present  flourish- 
ing condition  is,  no  doubt,  a  source  of  especial  pleasure  to  him,  as  well  as  to  all  its  friends. 
Canon  Hendei'son  has  peculiar  fitness  for  his  position  as  professor  of  theology,  he  being  well 
read  and  sound  as  a  theologian,  "apt  to  teach"  and  zealous  in  the  work.  The  excellent  pro- 
gress which  his  pupils  are  making  reflects  great  credit  upon  their  teacher,  and  shows  the 
wisdom  of  the  choice  in  placing  him  at  the  heml  of  the  college. 

Principal  Henderson  has  published  an  exposition  on  the  article  of  the  creed,  "  He 
di'sendeil  into  hell  " ;  an  essay  on  "  Baptismal  regeneration  "  ;  lectures  on  "  Total  abstinence  " ; 
and  lectures  on  the  "Advantages  of  the  study  of  theology." 


.lOSEini    ELIZEAU    POULIOT, 

FRASERVILLE. 

MR.  POULIOT  is  descended  from  an  old  French  family  who  settled  in  this  country  over 
2.*M)  yeai-s  ago  from  Belleme,  in  the  diiicose  of  Mans,  in  France  ;  he  is  the  son  of  Mr. 
Kdward  Pouliot,  a  fanner  at  Rimouski,  who  married  Miss  Marcelline  Rebel,  the  daughter  of  a 
merchant  of  the  highest  repute  in  Rimouski,  and  was  one  of  the  first  merchants  that  became 
cstiiblished  there. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  at  Rimouski  on  the  15th  of  April,  1838,  and  is  now 
tlie  lea<ling  and  oldest  advocate  in  Fraservillc ;  he  was  educate<l  at  the  seminary  of  Quob«>p, 
where  he  tdok  up  a  full  course;  afterwards  he  entered  Laval  and  finally  studied  at  the  law 
schiM)l  at  St  Mary's  college,  Montreal,  from  which  latter  he  graduated  on  the  31st  of  July, 
ISG2,  havin;:  previously,  in  18r)7,  been  granted  the  degree  of  B.L.  at  Laval,  and  wiw  called  to 
the  bar  on  the  -tth  of  August,  1862.  During  the  time  he  was  studying  law  he  was  engaged  in 
the  ofticc  of  Mr.  U.  Talbot,  of  Quebec,  and  in  that  of  Loranger  Bros.,  at  Montreal ;  he  obtained 
first  premiums  in  excellency  in  his  class  at  the  seminary,  for  the  grejvtest  jwirt  of  the  whole 
course,  and  having,  in  his  earlier  years,  exhibited  such  a  strong  predeliction  for  the  study  of 
law,  it  is  hardly  surprising  to  find  him  holding  the  positions  he  has  done  and  now  retains;  he 
was  official  assignee  for  the  district  of  Kamourasi<a  from  18<>9  until   187!).     In  Riviitre  du 


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Loup  en  Uie,  he  held  the  otKce  of  treaaurer  for  the  municipality,  for  nearly  ten  yt^ars,  and  whs 
•elected  mayor  two  years  consecutively  by  acclamation ;  he  was  entrusted  with  the  drawing  up 
of  the  bill  of  incoi-poration  of  Fraserville  during  his  term  of  office  as  treasurer,  and  at  present 
is  president  of  the  school  commissionei-H  of  the  town ;  he  is  also  a  commissioner  apiwint^'d  liy 
the  (Jovernment  to  receive  affidavits  for  the  courtw  of  the  Province  of  New  Brunswick ;  ho 
takes  a  great  interest  in  all  agricultural  pursuits,  and  Ixisides  his  professional  duties  of  avo<-at, 
is  a  large  farmer  in  Fraserville,  and  some  of  the  property  h«'  now  hoUls  in  the  town  at  ont; 
time  belonged  to  General  John  Murray,  who  was  Ciovcrnor-(Seneral  of  Canada  after  the  cession 
of  the  country  to  the  English.     He  is  a  Roman  Catholic. 

He  married  on  the  lat  of  June,  18()9,Julianna,  eldest  daught«M-  of  Andrew  Laughlin  Fraser, 
Esij.,  whose  grandfather,  Major  Malcom  Fraser,  fonnerly  l>«?longed  to  the  78th  Highlanders,  at 
the  time  of  the  siege  of  Qucliec,  and  who  eventually  liecame  seignior  of  a  part  of  Mount  Murray 
and  part  of  the  island  of  Orleans.  Mrs.  Pouliot  w&s  a  connexion  of  the  Iatc>  Dr.  McLaughlin, 
who  for  many  years  was  physician  to  Charles  X.  of  France.  By  this  mnrriagt^  there  has  U-eti 
issue  one  daughter,  who  survives. 


MA'ITJIEW    IIUTdlllNSO.N,    JJ.C.L., 

MONTREAL. 

r  I  1 H K  subject  of  this  notice  is  associate  professor  of  civil  procedure  in  the  Univei-sity  of 
-■-  M('( Sill  College,  and  one  of  the  rising  young  lawyers  of  Montreal.  He  is  a  native  of 
Halifax  county,  Nova  Scotia,  a  son  of  William  S.  and  Martha  (Arcliilmld)  Hutchinson,  ami  was 
liom  on  the  29th  of  Octobi'r,  LS|.2.  His  father,  who  l>clongs  to  the  agricultural  class,  is  a 
gnuulson  of  an  United  Kmpire  Loyalist,  who  moved  from  the  Unit«Kl  States  into  Nova  Scotia 
alK)ut  the  time  of  the  close  of  the  American  revolution. 

When  Matthew  wns  al)out  twelve  yeai-s  old  the  family  moved  into  the  Province  of  Ontario, 
settling  on  a  farm  near  Clinton,  in  the  ('ounty  of  Huron,  where  he  had  some  healthful  expe- 
rience in  aiding  to  cultivate  the  soil.  He  received  his  litt'rary  education  mainly  at  the  London 
grannnar  school  and  McCdll  college,  attending  two  years  at  the  latter  institution,  where  also 
he  obtained  his  legal  education,  receiving  the  degree  of  B.C. L.,  in  March,  1N73,  K'ing  gold 
medalist  in  law.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  January,  1874,  since  which  date  he  has  l)een 
in  practice  in  the  city  of  Montreal,  doing  business  in  both  the  civil  and  crindnal  courts,  but 
piincipally  in  the  former.     He  is  one  of  the  firm  of  McMastt>r.  Hutchinson  and  Knapp. 

Mr.  Hutchinson  is  a  sound,  careful  and  ivliable  lawyer,  and  adds  to  his  fine  talents  and  legal 
ac<|uisitions,  great  enei-gy  and  perseverance.    By  these  qualities  he  has,  during  a  comparatively 


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fthurt  practice,  .secured  the  confiduiicc  and  oHteuin  of  a  lar^  circle  of  clivntH,  and  will,  no  doulit, 
with  advancing  experience,  take  rank  among  tlio  leading  advocatett  of  the  liar  of  Montreal. 

Mr.  HutchinRon  wbm  appointed  a  lecturer  on  civil  procedure  in  McOill  univei-Hity  soon 
after  ho  had  graduated  from  the  Hanie,  and  liccaini'  tiKsociate  profeH.sor  in  that  chair  in  1H7!),  a 
potit  which  hiH  tine  legal  attainments  and  Iiih  diligence  enable  him  to  Kll  with  great  aceeptanc(\ 

Mr.  Hutchinson  in  a  iiicmbcr  of  the  American  ProHhytctrian  church,  and  a  man  of  excellent 
moral  a-s  well  aN  legal  chnnu'ter.  His  prof es.sion  rarely  luut  a  plethora  of  high-tono  ('hri-stian 
gentlemen,  but  the  Montreal  liar  in,  in  thin  respect,  well  n>preseiite<i,  lioth  in  itH  ohler  and 
younger  inembera. 

In  January,  1N74,  he  was  united  in  marriage  witli  Mary  Hoo<l,  tlaughti'r  of  the  lat^'  David 
Ho(mI,  engineer,  of  Montreal,  and  they  have  two  childi^Mi. 


JKAN    JJAiTlSTE    LUIkjer    IK)U.U>,   I.L.JJ., 

THHKE  niVEliS. 

"TV  TR.  HOUfjD,  who  is  one  of  the  most  pniminent  lawyers  in  Thive  Hi  vers,  and  cnjoyH, 
-^*-'-  jKJSsibly,  tlie  lurgcht  practic-^,  wa.s  Ixirn  on  the  :hd  of  Sept.,  \H\\,  at  St.  Angele  <lo 
Laval,  and  is  tlie  son  of  Mr.  Jean  Baptiste  HouKI,  who  for  many  years  was  mayor  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  council  of  the  latter  place.      His  mother  was  Mi.ss  Olive  Tourigny,  of  the  Mime  place. 

He  was  educated  at  the  seminary  of  Nicolet,  and  afterwanls  studied  law  at  Laval  univer- 
sity, during  which  time  he  was  engaged  in  the  office  of  the  eminent  and  well  known  firm  of 
( 'a-sault,  Langhiis  and  Angers,  of  Quebec.  Pa.ssing  his  examination  succes.sfully  in  July,  1H04, 
he,  after  a  brief  |)eriod,  commenced  practice  in  Three  Rivera  in  18(i5,  which  he  has  carried  on 
until  the  present  time.  During  this  time  ho  has  enjoyed  by  far  the  most  principal  practice 
in  this  now  prosiiei-ous  and  rapidly  rising  city.  Amongst  his  many  duties  he  has  pleaded  at 
the  court  of  review,  in  the  Queen's  Bench,  and  the  Supreme  Court  at  Ottawa. 

He  previously  held  office  in  the  city  council,  but  his  multifarious  duties  in  connection 
with  his  pmctice  compelled  him  to  relintpiisli  his  connection  with  munici{>al  mattei-s. 

He  18  the  syndic  «)f  the  Three  Rivers  section  of  the  liar,  and  is  acknowledged  by  hia  con- 
fr^res  as  po8Hes.sing  a  vast  amount  of  ability  in  his  profession.  He  is  a  g<>ntleman  much  re- 
spected by  the  community  at  large,  and  from  all  accounts  is  still  deserving  the  contitlencc  for 
integrity  reposeil  in  him. 

He  married  (m  the  30th  June,  1H6!),  Miss  Sarah,  daugliU-r  of  the  late  Fran»;ois  Xavier  Tur- 
cottc,  who  was  for  many  years  clerk  of  the  jH»ace  for  Three  Rivers,  and  one  of  the  most  able 
advocates  of  his  day.    By  this  alliance  there  has  been  issue  seven  children,  five  of  whom  survive. 


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He  coiitiiliiitoil  U'  Oh!  nliolitiun  of  tlu*  tax  of  ?4.(M>  which  cacli  iidvocatf  was  foniicrly  coni- 
pollrd  to  ]iay  for  tlie  puhlicntion  of  the  Lower  Caimilu  KeportH,  though  lie  wuh  not  entitled  to 
receive  a  copy  thereof. 

Ho  comiMilled  tlie  former  HecretaricM  of  the  Imr  of  Three  UivcrH  to  account  for  nioneyH  re- 
ceived by  them  att  such. 

He  estalilislied  a  law  library  for  the  section  of  tiie  l«r  of  Thnte  Uivers. 

He  was  the  a«lvocattt  of  K.  X.  O.  Methot,  Hypolite  Moutplaisir,  H.  (.1.  Malhiot,  and  D.  N. 
St.  Cyr,  when  their  elections  were  contestetl. 


JIKZKKIAII    L.   IJOUINSON, 

WATKULOO. 

HKZKKFAH  LUKK  ROBINSON,  one  of  the  leading  merchants  in  Waterloo,  is  a  native 
of  the  place,  lieing  lM>rn  on  the  1st  .Tiinuary,  1S27.  He  is  a  son  of  Hexekiah  Robinson, 
merchant  in  his  day,  from  Newfane,  Winham  county,  Vt.,  whose  great-great-grandfather, 
William  Robinson,  is  mentioned  in  the  history  of  four  different  towns  in  Massachusetts.  It  has 
long  Ix'on  a  prominent  family  in  that  commonwealth.  The  mother  of  our  subject  is  Selcucia 
Knowiton,  also  from  Newfane,  Vt.,  in  which  state  her  gi-andfather  held  the  office  of  judge. 
Her  grandfather  was  in  the  Indian  wars,  when  the  states  were  British  colonies,  and  kept  a 
journal  during  his  soMier  life,  that  journal  now  bi>ing  in  the  ]K)s.scssion  oi  the  subject  of  this 
sketch.  Hezekiah  Robinson  came  into  this  section  of  tlu'  province  from  Newfane,  in  1821, 
having  there  been  a  wool  carder  and  cloth  manufacturer  ;  started  a  carding  mill  at  Stukely  ; 
in  Octolier  of  the  same  year  purchased  lan<l  and  located  where  Waterloo  now  stands,  he  giving 
it  its  name,  the  nearest  j>ost  office  beijig  at  Derby,  Vt.,  4!1  miles  oH';  connnenced  the  mercantile 
business  in  1H21) ;  erect«»<l  a  saw  mill  in  1830 ;  a  little  later  owneil  a  gri.st  null  in  company  with 
other  parties,  who  lia<l  for  a  short  time  an  interest  in  his  otlu^r  business  ;  in  1841  built  a  st<mo 
store  and  devoted  his  attention  more  exclu.sively  to  merchandising,  continuing  it  until  his  death 
in  18ol.  His  wife,  who  died  in  187(>,  was  the  mother  of  nine  children,  eight  of  whom  lived  to 
grow  uj>,  two  of  them  Is-ing  ministers  of  the  English  Churoh.  Frederick  Robin.son,  the  second 
son,  is  a  clergyman,  and  settled  at  AbJiotsford,  P.(^. ;  George  Canning  Robinson  is  settlc«l  at 
Aylmer,  P.  Q.,  and  is  rural  dean  for  Kt.  Andrews,  and  Edward  died  after  engaging  in  mcrcantilu 
pursuits.  The  third  .son,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  received  a  common  Engli.sh  education,  and 
was  carefully  trained  by  his  father  for  a  mercantile  life,  which  he  has  steadily  followed,  going 
into  business  for  himself  as  soon  as  he  ha<l  rcache<l  his  majority. 

With  the  exception  of  two  yeai-s  spent  in  trade  at  Hatlcy,  county  of  8tan.stead,  two  yeara 
in  New  York  city,  and  seven  in  Montreal,  Mr.  Robinson  has  always  lived  in  Waterloo.     For 

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many  years  ho  was  in  partnership  with  his  eldest  brother,  Jonathan  Robinson,  not  before  inen- 
tiuned,  and  who  was  for  a  long  time  a  prominent  eiti/on  of  Waterloo,  holding  the  offices  of 
postmaster,  mayor  of  the  township,  and  warden  of  tlie  county,  dying  in  18C6. 

In  186r>,  Mr.  Robinson  was  a  captain  of  volunteers,  and  was  stationed  a  wliilo  at  Niagani, 
it  being  the  time  of  the  St.  Alban's  raid.  He  rose  to  the  rnnk  of  major  of  volunteers  and  re- 
signed in  1870.  In  the  Masonic  order  he  has  l>een  grand  superintendent  of  the  Royal  Arch, 
and  is  now  grand  J, ;  has  also  been  district  deputy  grand  master  under  grand  lodge  of  Canada. 

His  politics  are  Liberal,  and  ho  is  one  of  your  positive  men,  having  strong  convictions  of 
what  is  right  ami  for  the  Injst  interests  of  the  country,  and  always  ready  to  give  a  reason  for 
his  belief.  He  has  usually  been  an  active  worker  for  his  party  during  a  political  canva.ss,  do- 
ing  hard  work  for  his  friends,  and  asking  nothing  for  him.self. 

His  leligious  connection  is  with  the  Church  of  England.  Ho  liolds  the  offices  of  warden 
and  delegate  to  the  Diocesan  Synod  of  Montreal,  and  has  been  delegate  to  the  Dominion  Synod. 
He  has  long  been  an  earnest  advocate  of  temperance,  and  is  president  of  the  Waterloo  branch 
of  the  Dominion  Alliance. 

Mr.  Robinson  was  a  director  of  the  Eastern  Townships  bank  from  its  organization  until 
18(J'J,  when  he  went  to  New  York  city.  He  was  also  at  one  time  a  <lircctor  of  the  Stanstcad, 
Shetford  and  Chambly  Railway,  and  is  now  treasurer  of  that  company.  He  has  a  liberal  share 
of  public  spirit,  and  tnkea  pride  in  witnessing  the  progress  of  important  enterprises,  and  in 
helping  them  forward. 

He  has  been  married  three  times ;  fii-st  1853,  to  Sarah  Elizabeth  R(jl)crtson,  of  Charlestown, 
N.H.,  she  dying  in  1868;  the  second  time  in  1870,  to  Kate  Fiske  Hasknll,  of  Fitchburg,  Mass., 
she  dying  three  yeai-s  later,  and  the  third  time  in  1874,  to  Louise  Robertson,  of  Charlestown, 
N.H.,  cousin  of  his  first  wife,  she  dying  in  187(<.  Of  eight  children,  the  fruit  of  these  .several 
unions,  only  one  child,  Oeoige  Edward,  a  son  by  the  fii-st  wife,  is  living.  He  is  in  partnership 
with  his  father,  and  a  young  man  of  excellent  character  and  fii-st  class  business  qualifications. 


JOSEPH    EDAVAED    METIIOT, 

THREE  mVEHS. 

THE  subject  of  this  memoir  was  born  at  Ste.  Anne  de  la  Pdrade,  on  the  24th  of  May, 
18o5,  and  is  the  son  of  Mr.  Joseph  Telesphore  Methot,  a  well  known  merchant  of  that 
]tlace,  by  Miss  Oline,  daughter  of  Olivier  Mathe,  who  is  also  a  merchant  in  the  same  place,  and 
highly  respected.  Mr  Joseph  Edward  Methot  was  educated  at  the  Three  Rivers  seminary,  and 
was  brought  up  for  the  profession  of  lawyer  or  advbcato,  and  he  ha.s  fully  established  most 
recently  that  he  is  a  member  of  that  learned  profession  of  no  mean  ability  :    as  in  the  question 


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of  Boino  iinpurinncu  to  coiiiiiicrcial  travclloi-H  whicli  Iuih  lately  )>con  contuntoJ  at  Tlireu  IlivorM, 
a«  to  whethtM-  the  corporation  liy-law  can  be  eiiforcoil  in  the  taxation  of  eonnucrcial  travellers, 
ho  so  ably  conduett'd  the  e&sc  against  the  nuniicipul  authorities  that  he  gained  it  for  his  clients 
and  at  the  same  time  got  the  objectionable  biigl)ear  of  a  by-law  to  commercial  men  annulled. 
Mr.  Mcthot  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Mr.  A.  Turcotte,  the  i opular  and  eminent  S|H'akpr  (if 
the  Quel)ec  Legislative  ("ounoil,  and  was  admitted  as  liarrister  after  passing  his  examination 
on  July  12,  \Hl\),  at  Three  Uivei-s.  He  enjoys  a  gooil  and  ilaily  increasing  practice  at  Three 
llivers,  and  is  regarded  there  as  a  gentleman  of  considerable  promise  by  his  profes.sional  con- 
fr^res.  Socially,  he  is  esteemed  by  the  community  at  large,  ami  with  his  business  aptitude 
and  intelligence  and  a  commendable  amount  of  zeal  on  all  questioas  atfecting  his  clients' 
interests,  Im  is,  although  young  in  his  profession,  one  of  thase  men  who  nmst  make  a  mark  in 
the  professional  world.     He  .served  in  the  79th  battalion  from  1M73  to  1878. 

He  lielongs  to  the  Konian  (.'atholic  Church.      January  \i,  1881,   he  married   .Miss   Alida, 
cKlest  daughter  of  Louis  TrcHle  Doniis,  Ks(|.,  of  St.  (iregoire. 


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SEVER!-:    DUMOULIN, 

TIIIiKK  RIVERS. 

AMONG  the  many  distinguished  gentlemen  who  fill  public  positions  connected  with  the 
legal  profession  in  the  city  of  Three  Rivers,  Mr.  Dumniilin  1ms  always  held  a  prominent 
place.  The  fact  of  his  holding  so  many  impi.itant  public  ami  honorary  posts  of  responsibility 
attest  the  fact  that  his  merits  are  acknowledged  by  the  coiinnuMity  generally. 

Severe  Dumoulin,  sheritft'or  the  di.strict  of  Three  llivers,  was  the  son  of  the  late  Pierro 
Benjamin  Dumoulin,  Queen's  Counsel,  batonnier  and  presitlent  of  the  Quarter  Sessions,  and 
Hermine  Rieutord,  daughter  of  the  late  Kran(;ois  Rieutord.  His  father  was  mayor  of  Three 
Rivers  for  some  years  and  represontod  that  constituency  in  parliament  at  different  periods, 

Mr.  Severe  Dumoulin  was  born  in  Tince  Rivers  in  the  year  l.S2!>.  He  received  his  etluca- 
tion  at  Nicolet  college,  in  the  Province  of  Quebec,  and  at  the  Jesuits'  college,  Fordham,  New 
York  state. 

He  was  called  to  the  bar  in  May,  18.")2,  and  was  twice  elected  batonnier,  or  prosiilent,  of  the 
Law  As.sociation  for  the  district  of  Thn-e  Rivei-s.  Since  18.''>7  he  was  retm-ned  three  times  to 
the  city  council,  and  six  times  elected  mayor,  which  latter  office  he  still  holds. 

In  18G8  he  was  elected  by  acclamation  memlwr  for  the  jjocal  House  for  Three  Rivers  and 
at  the  following  session  moved  the  adoption  of  the  answer  to  the  speech  from  the  throne.  In 
1869  he  nisigned  his  seat  as  mcnda'r  to  accept  the  shrievalty  of  the  district  of  Three  Rivci"». 


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Mr.  Dumoulin  id  prcHJilent  of  the  m(;I)OoI  coiniiiirMionerH  and  ])erform.s  tlus  diitiuH  of  Rcconlor 
and  Police  MagiMtratv  for  thu  district  of  Ttiree  HIvvi-h  ;  liar*  been  elected  NcvurnI  tiiiieH  and  is 
now  President  of  the  St.  Jean  BnptLste  Socii-ty  and  tlie  Thn;o  Rivers  biiildin}r  Society.  He  is 
pnwidont  of  the  board  for  the  relief  of  tlie  indijrent  sick,  and  a  nieiu)H>r  of  the  eoinniisHion  for  the 
erection  of  churchcH,  Stc,  kc,  haH  been  for  a  number  of  yean*  and  is  still  one  of  the  directort*  of 
the  Three  Rivers  Oas  (\»niiiany. 

He  wan  manager  of  the  branch  of  the  Bunk  of  Upiter  Canada  from  185(i  to  IMS  in  this 
dty. 

Mr,  Dumoulin  married,  on  the  2<')rd  of  Septemlwr,  18(!2,  Fanny,  daughter  of  Sanuiei 
Macaulcy,  Esq.,  by  whom  ho  ha<l  two  children,  a  s(m,  Benjamin,  now  12  years  of  ii^'e,  and  a 
daughter,  Catharine, aged  !'>  years.     His  wife<lied  the  24th  of  February,  ISTj. 

He  marrie<l  a  second  time,  (m  the  5th  of  July,  1877,  Elizaljcth,  daughter  of  the  late  John 
Broster,  Escj.,  lumber  merchant.  Our  subject  is  a  Conservative  in  }X)iitics  and  a  Roman  (/'atholic 
in  belief.  Sheriff  Dumoulin  is  noted  for  hi.s  strict  attention  to  his  duties  as  sheriffand  is  much 
valued  for  his  extreme  usefulness  in  the  various  offices  which  he  has  K-eii  entruHt«Ml  with,  is 
much  respected  by  his  fellow-citizens,  and  always  ready  to  assist  in  any  matter  which  may 
further  the  interests  of  his  native  city. 


SIMOX    PKTKRS,  .I.P., 

QUEHEV. 

rXlHE  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  in  Youghal,  county  (.'ork,  Ireland,  Sept.  18th,  1815, 
-*-  eldest  son  of  Henry  Peter,  of  "  Kirch  in  I'olendcn  on  the  Rhine"  and  Mary  Barry,  of  the 
t<iwn  of  Cork,  Ireland.  At  the  age  of  four  years  his  parents  came  to  this  country  from  Oib- 
ralfAr  with  the  Ist  battalion,  COth  regiment,  of  which  his  father  was  coloi-sergoaiit.  At  tlie 
age  often  years  he  had  to  leave  school  to  work  for  a  living ;  when  old  enough  to  learn  a  trade 
was  apprenticed  to  a  master  builder  to  lean»  the  trade  of  a  house  joiner.  In  the  spring  of  I83G, 
having  finished  his  apprentiLCship  he  went  to  New  York,  U.S.,  to  improve  himself  in  his  trade 
and  learn  architectural  drawing.  These  lessons  in  drawing  were  ac(juired  at  great  expense  and 
could  only  \ie  taken  at  night,  so  as  not  to  interfere  with  the  laboi-s  of  the  day.  In  the  autumn  of 
1840  returned  to  Quebec  to  take  charge  of  his  mother  and  her  family  who  had  been  left  jienni- 
less  by  the  death  of  his  father  in  1837.  Mr.  Petei's  commenced  business  as  a  builder  and  con- 
tractor in  the  spring  of  1841,  without  money  or  friends,  having  cmly  his  mechanical  skill,  in- 
domitable energy,  pei-sevemnce  and  administrative  capabilities  to  help  him  in  making  his  way. 
For  the  first  few  years  the  struggle  was  such  that  he  had  to  labor  almost  day  and  night.  As 
soon  as  circum.stances  permitted,  and  wishing  to  repair  the  loss  of  his  early  education,  he 


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attended  a  night  scliool  kejjt  hy  a  Mr.  Gcggie.  In  the  winter  of  1844  and  1845  he  undertook 
tf»  complete  the  cabins  imd  state  rooms  of  the  river  steamboat  called  the  Quebec,  built  by  the 
late  John  Munn,  as  the  Quebec  was  at  this  time  wintering  at  Boucherville,  a  few  miles  be- 
low Montreal.  It  necessitated  a  great  deal  of  travelling  by  land  during  the  winter,  the  journey 
occupying  from  throe  to  four  days,  and  the  Huffcring  fiom  cold  and  snow  storms  was  intense. 
This  work,  which  wius  finished  in  the  spring  of  iHt.),  compared  at  that  time  most  favorably 
with  the  floating  i)alaces  of  the  present  day,  and  was  looked  upon  as  an  umlertaking  requiring 
a  great  deal  of  mechanical  skill  and  knowledge.  In  the  summer  of  1845  he  was  a  sufferer  by 
the  great  conflagration  which  devastated  the  whole  of  th(!  suburbs  of  St.  Roch,  and  all  his 
labor  and  earnings  of  four  years  were  swept  away  in  a  few  hours.  Notwithstanding  this 
severe  blow  to  a  young  beginner,  he  immediately  set  to  work  to  restore  his  workshop  and  make 
a  shelter  for  his  family.  He  moved  to  the  suburb  of  St.  John,  whence  a  month  afterwards,  he 
was  again  driven  buck  to  St.  Roch  by  fire,  whore  he  settled  with  his  family.  From  IM't  to 
18'>i  Mr.  Peters  was  conuecteil  with  the  building  of  somo  of  the  tiiiost  edifices  in  Quebec,  not- 
abl}'  the  Woslcyan  church,  St.  Peter's  chapel,  Music  Hall  (when  he  received  the  thanks  of  the 
late  Lord  Elgin,  then  Governor-General  of  Canada)  Miisuuio  Hall,  St.  Andrew's  church,  Morrin 
college,  the  late  James  McKonzio's  residence  on  the  capo,  the  English  chapel  at  Pointe  Levis, 
and  subsccjuently  St.  Saviour's  church.  In  1851  he  undertook,  in  connection  with  his  brother, 
Henry  Peters,  now  of  Halifax,  and  George  Blaiklock,  foituerly  of  Quebec,  to  erect  the  new 
Wellington  barracks  at  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia.  During  the  eight  years  he  was  engagod  in  this 
extensive  work,  under  the  direction  of  Colonels  Savage  and  Sti>thenl,  Royal  Engineers,  Mr. 
Peters  introduced  a  number  of  reforms  in  that  city,  which  remain  as  mementos  of  his  visit, 
notably  the  changijig  of  the  working  hours,  the  first  brickyard  established  in  Nova  Scotia, 
woiking  steam  power  at  the  eastern  passage,  and  the  first  steam  planing  mill  and  factory  on 
Creamer's  wharf.  During  the  coustiuction  of  the  Wellington  barracks,  he  kept  his  l)usines8 
still  going  in  Quebec,  under  the  direction  of  his  brother  Charles  Petei"s  (now  dead),  and  had  the 
first  steam  saw  and  planing  mill  erected  in  l.S.5.>.  In  18.58  and  185!)  he  spent  some  sixteen 
months  in  London,  trying  to  got  an  indomnity  from  the  British  Government  for  additional 
work  flono  to  the  Wellington  Barracks.  In  this  ho  was  ably  assisted  by  the  late  Sir  Samuel 
Cunanl,  the  late  Jmlge  Haliburton  {Sam  Slich),  M.P.,  and  Viscount,  now  Lord,  Bury.  His 
application  for  indemnity  being  refused  by  the  Government  of  that  day,  he  returned  to  Quebec, 
where  lie  was  joined  by  his  faniil}-.  In  1804  ho  undertook  to  build  for  the  Quebec  Harbor 
t.'oiumission,  the  existing  breakwater  at  the  mouth  of  the  St.  Charles  river.  This  work  stands 
unrivalled  in  the  annals  of  history,  having  lieen  sunk  in  fifty-three  feet  of  water  at  low  tide. 
No  such  deep  water  work  was  ever  attempted  previous  to  this  ilate  in  any  part  of  the  world. 
In  the  month  of  August,  18(14,  the  steam  .saw  mill  an<l  factory,  erected  in  1855,  was  burned  to  the 
ground,  enUiiliiig  a  los.s  of  !<(»0,000,  on  which  ilioro  was  only  a  nominal  iasuram-o.     Mr.  Poter.s 


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WHS  made  a  justice  of  the  peace  in  IHOO,  in  which  year  lie  corainenced  the  construction  of  the 
St  Charles  steam  saw  mill  and  factory  on  the  river  St.  Charles,  and  completed  it  in  1S67,  where 
it  now  stands,  the  most  complete  establishment  of  its  kind  in  the  Dominion,  from  which  build- 
ings and  building  material  have  been  sent  to  the  coast  of  Peru,  South  America,  San  Domingo, 
and  elsewhere.  In  1874'  he  had  the  honor  of  building  a  summer  residence  for  the  Earl  of 
Dufferin,  thnn  Governor-General  of  Canada,  at  Tadousac,  mouth  of  the  Saguenay  river.  In 
1877  was  the  successful  competitor  for  the  Quebec  harbor  improvements,  now  known  as  the 
Lo'jise  embankment,  called  after  Her  Royal  Highness  the  Princess  Louise,  wife  of  His  Excellency 
the  Governor-General  of  Canada,  the  Martinis  of  Lome,  the  tablet  stone  of  which  was  lai<l  in 
1880  by  Her  Royal  Highness,  on  which  occasion  the  contractors  presented  her  with  an  engraved 
silver  trowel  and  mallet  In  1878  and  1879  Mr.  Peters  was  president  of  St.  Patrick's  Society  ; 
was  also  appointed  by  the  mayor  and  corporation  of  the  city  of  Quebec  as  valuer  for  certain 
lands  in  Palace  ward,  used  and  occupied  by  the  Q.  M.  0.  k  O.  R,  which  valuation  was  most 
faithfully  accomplished  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  the  civic  authorities,  and  the  public  at  large. 
During  the  40  years  that  Mr.  Peters  has  been  in  business  he  has  paid  away  large  sums  of  money 
for  lalwr;  his  dealings  with  his  men  in  his  employ  have  always  been  fair  and  just,  and  no 
man  ever  left  his  employ  unpaid,  or  was  tletainefl  one  moment  beyond  the  usual  fortnightly 
payments.  I*  might  not  be  out  of  place  to  atld  what  Professor  L.  N.  Fowler,  the  eminent  phren- 
ologist, said  of  Mr.  Peters  in  the  year  18.j8 : 

You  have  prominent  exeontiveness,  wide  awake  energetic  spirit ;  you  are  rather  forcible,  cannot  take  life 
tamely,  or  do  a  small  business  only  ;  you  are  mostly  in  a  hurry,  positive  in  charactor,  independent  in  spirit  an<l 
remarkably  ambitious,  but  not  proud  or  haughty  ;  you  could  scarcely  live  in  retired  life  or  devote  yourself  ex- 
clusively to  i>er8onal  b\isiness  ;  you  desire  ottice,  position,  some  kind  of  business  that  would  retiuire  much  energy 
and  ambition,  the  more  you  Isavo  to  do  with  public  life  the  better  it  would  suit  your  views  ;  you  seldom  fail  to 
accomplish  your  ends,  but  manifest  a  desire  to  pursue  objects  pcrseveringly  ;  are  almost  too  stubborn  and  self- 
willed  when  excited  ;  you  are  like  the  Puke  of  Wellington,  you  can  never  lie  ciMupierod  ;  you  are  ipialitied  to 
take  the  lead,  to  superintend  others,  to  take  charge  of  b\isiness,  and  assume  all  responsibility  ;  the  greater  the 
respect  you  obtain,  the  more  you  are  pleased  ;  you  are  very  hopeful,  san^'iine,  cheerful,  independent,  and  buoy- 
ant in  .spirit  ;  no  ta.sk  is  toi,  arduous  for  you  to  attempt,  and  you  are  disposed  to  accomplish  more  than  most 
)iien  with  the  same  means,  because  you  are  so  enthusiastic  ;  you  are  wanting  in  respect  for  things  and  persona, 
except  yo\u'  Jud>;ment  tells  you  that  they  are  worthy  ;  yon  are  no  man  worshipper  ;  you  lean  on  yourself  ;  you 
seldom  seek  advice,  and  if  you  do,  it  is  for  the  purpose  of  hearing  what  the  opinion  is  ;  you  are  very  demo- 
cratic, and  are  free  from  mere  sectarian  feelings  and  contracted  views,  but  generous  hearted,  liberal  in  feeling 
itiul  take  pleasvire  in  doing  good  ;  you  possess  a  strong  social  nature,  are  quite  fond  of  your  family,  and  attached 
to  children  ;  are  disposed  to  make  friends,  to  be  companionable,  but  your  motto  may  be  said  to  be  "business 
tirst,  then  friends"  ;  y<ui  have  remarkable  mechanical  talent,  and  would  excel  in  making  large  or  small  works  ; 
yovi  would  be  very  successful  in  laying  oirt  work  atid  getting  up  designs  ;  you  would  be  engaged  at  a  mechanical 
business  on  an  extensive  scale,  reijuiring  energy  and  ambition  as  well  as  skill  to  gratify  the  mind  -,  from  a  boy 
you  had  a  propensity  to  construct  and  make  ;  you  would  prefer  to  deal  in  machinery  or  head  work,  and  what 
you  made  would  be  made  substantially  ;  you  have  strong  imagination  and  scope  of  mind ;  you  enjoy  the  sub- 
lime, and  are  very  fonil  of  oratory  ;  it  does  not  tlunuler  too  loud  for  you  f  you  delight  to  hear  the  cannon  roar  ; 
yo.i  have  good  powers  of  imitation  and  can  do  what  you  see  others  do  ;  you  are  fond  of  fnn  ;  your  jokes  are 
sharp  and  full  of  meaning,  at  the  same  time  rather  mirthful  ;  your  thinking,  planning  intellect  predominates 
over  your  jHjrceptive,  yet  you  are  ipiick  to  iMirceive,  and  judge  of  what  you  soc  j  you  can  laeasuru  by  the 


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eye  and  judge  of  proportions  correctly  ;  yoii  remember  places  accurately  and  would  be  fond  of  the  study  of 
astronomy,  and  mathematics  ;  you  are  particularly  "cognised  for  your  power  to  critici/.o,  to  notice  defects  and 
inconsistencies  ;  you  would  be  apt  to  detect  a  flaw  in  machinery  almost  as  soon  as  you  entered  the  shop  ;  you 
want  business  done  like  clock  work,  are  very  punctual  in  engagements,  and  cannot  tolerate  tardiness  on  the 
part  of  others  ;  you  understand  human  nature  well  and  can  select  men  so  that  each  shall  be  in  his  place  ;  you 
could  superintend  500  men  as  well  as  five  ;  you  are  calculated  to  form  your  own  character  and  to  earn  your  own 
fortune,  to  have  your  own  way,  and  what  you  do  will  be  distinguished  again  and  again  by  individual  eUorts ; 
yuu  would  not  succeed  so  well  in  partnership  in  business,  as  if  you  directed  it  yourself,  or  if  you  had  a  partner, 
you  should  be  the  head  man  in  the  concern  ;  you  have  a  correct  ear  for  music  and  are  (juick  to  detect  mistakes 
in  its  performance  ;  you  are  disposed  to  do  better  us  a  contractor  than  a  merchant,  and  at  out-door  rather  than 
in-door  occupation. 

Mr.  Petei-s  i.s  much  esteemed  by  his  fellow  citizens,  ami  socially  no  better  liost  could  Ix) 
wished  for;  and  while  eultivating  tidcnts  to  furtlier  his  .social  iMwition,  lie  has  not  neglected 
tho.se  which  tend  to  make  a  home  happy  and  attractive  to  his  sons  and  dsuighters.  IJeing  a 
singer  far  beyond  the  average,  his  well-cultivated  tenor  voice  has  been  heard  for  yeai's  singing 
tlie  j)raises  of  Ciod  in  the  choir  of  St.  Patrick's  churcli,  as  well  a.s  in  concerts  for  charitable 
and  other  purposes.  No  one  lias  ever  applied  to  him  for  charity  in  vain,  and  his  motto  has 
always  been  "To  live  and  let  live."  Mr.  Peters  was  married  in  18:J8,  in  tlie  city  of  New  York, 
U.S.,  to  Elizabeth  Jane  L'Amourcux,  only  daughter  of  Abraham  and  Sara  L'Amourncu.x,  and 
has  had  fifteen  children,  eight  of  whom  are  now  living,  four  .sons  and  four  daughters. 


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MONTREAL. 

SAMPSON  PAUL  ROBINS,  supeiintendent  of  the  Protestant  schuols  of  Montreal,  is  a  son 
of  llev.  Paul  Robins,  mini.'ter  of  the  Bible  Christian  church,  and  Ann  Vickery,  dating  liis 
birth  at  Feversham,  county  of  Kent,  England,  on  the  2fith  of  January,  1.S3;5.  Tiic  Kobinses 
are  an  oM  Cornwall  family  ;  liis  mother  is  of  Welsh  descent.  He  came  to  ( 'anaila  in  184(i,  his 
parents  .settling  at  Peterboro',  Ont.,  where  he  had  the  good  fortune  to  coiiif  under  the  tutorship 
of  Rev.  R.  0.  Taylor,  rector  of  the  parish  and  head  master  of  the  grammar  .school.  In  his  six- 
teenth year  he  commenced  teaching,  his  first  school  being  in  the  township  of  Duinmer,  countv 
of  Victoria,  he  going  thence  to  the  county  of  Northumberjand,  where  he  taught  three  years. 

In  1851  Mr.  Robins  went  to  Toronto,  Inicanie  a  pupil  in  the  noinial  selioul,  and  liefore  the 
end  of  a  yeai  was  .set  to  teaching  the  classes  of  which  he  had  been  a  member.  After  teaching 
in  the  Toronto  normal  and  model  .schools  three  years  or  more,  he  was  appointed  head  master  of 
the  central  school,  Bmntford,  in  the  same  province. 

After  a  rest  of  one  year  at  Orono,  from  educational  work,  on  the  establisliment  of  the  Nor- 
mal school  at  Montreal,  in  18.')7  Mr.  Robins  removed  to  this  city  to  l>e  one  of  (he  ]»rufos.sors  in 
that  institution,  a  position  which  hu  continued  to  fill  for  thirteen  yeai's.    Meanwhile  he  coji. 


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nected  liimsolf  with  the  arts  department  of  McGill  university,  did  double  work  while  an  under- 
graduate, and  was  gitidnated  B.A.,  in  1863,  and  M.A.,  in  18(iH.  The  degree  of  LL.D.,  he  re- 
ceived from  the  same  institution  in  ISnO.  A  gentleman  who  wat*  instrumental  in  getting  Dr. 
Robins  to  come  to  Montreal,  and  who  is  thoroughly  conversant  with  his  labors  here,  speaks  of 
him  as  follows  : 

"  Dr.  Robins  came  to  Montreal  as  professor  of  mathematics  in  the  McGill  normal  school. 
In  that  capacity  he  served  with  the  greatest  efficiency  for  a  number  of  yeai"s,  when  ho  accepted 
the  position  of  superintendent  of  city  schools  under  the  Protestant  board  of  conimissionei-s,  still 
however,  by  special  recjuest  of  the  corporation  of  the  McGill  university,  which,  with  the  honor- 
able the  superintendent  of  education,  has  the  supervision  of  the  normal  school,  delivering 
certain  courses  of  lectures  therein.  Dr.  Rol)ins  has  now  been  engaged  for  twenty-three  years 
in  educational  duties  of  the  highest  iiiii»ortancc  and  responsibility  in  the  Province  of  Quebec 
and  is  entitled  to  rank  a^  one  of  the  fii-st  educationalists  in  the  Dominion.  The  Protestant 
schools  of  the  city  of  Montreal  owe  a  large  part  of  tlieir  present  usefulness  and  reputation  to 
his  able  and  zealous  exertions." 

Dr.  Robins  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church  of  Canada,  and  has  been  an  office-bearer 
for  nearly  thirty  years.  He  is  a  cla.ss-leader  and  local  preacher,  and  untiring  in  his  religious 
as  in  his  educational  labors. 

He  wa8  fii-st  man-ied  in  iS.ii  to  Mi.ss  Elizabeth  Hore,  of  Camborne,  Ont.,she  dying  in  1807, 
leaving  seven  chiMren,  six  of  them  yet  living;  and  the  second  time  in  1871,  to  Mi.ss  Jano 
Dougall,  of  Montreal,  by  whom  he  has  two  children. 


IIOX.   MAIJCUS    DOIIKRTY, 

SUEHRliOOKE. 

MARC'US  DOHERTV,  one  of  the  judges  of  the  superior  court,  was  boin  near  Dungivon, 
county  of  Derry,  Ireland,  on  March  20th,  LS2(»,  his  paients  being  Thomas  and  Bridget 
(Mc(.'Ioskey)  Doherty.  His  father  was  proprietor  of  a  small  freehold  estate  in  that  place, 
formerly  owned  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Mitchell,  father  <  f  John  Mitchell,  the  distinguished  patriot, 
V  "       •T.s  l)orn  in  the  same  house  with  our  suV)ject. 

*iie  father  of  Judge  Doherty  sent  his  son  to  the  grammar  school  at  Dungiven,  Intending 
him  foi  the  priesthood  ;  but  died  soon  afleiwards,  and  the  widowed  mother  .sent  her  .son  to  the 
United  States  to  a  paternal  uncle,  Rev.  James  Doherty,  of  Johnson,  Vermont,  that  uncle  taking 
charge  of  his  education,  and  sending  him,  wlien  of  suitalile  age,  to  the  college  at  St.  Hyacinthe, 
where  he  was  a  fellow  student  with  Lord  IJisiiops  Fabre,  of  Montreal,  and  Mclntyre,  of  Prince 
Edward  Island.    In  1838  he  entered  the  freshman  cla«s  of  the  univereity  of  Vermont  (Burling- 


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ton)  and  was  gmdiiated  in  course,  1842,  anJ  received  the  degree  of  master  of  arts  three  years 
later. 

On  leaving  college  he  ooinmenced  teaching  the  academy  at  Frost  village,  near  Waterloo, 
county  of  Shefford,  and  while  thus  engaged  studied  law  under  Robert  S.  M,  Bouchette,  Ewi., 
and  was  called  to  the  bar  in  1848.  From  the  work  already  quoted,  we  learn  that  our  subject 
"  practised  his  profession  in  Montreal,  where  he  attained  all  the  honors  that  the  first  bar  of  the 
Dominion  can  offer  to  its  members,  being  successively  chairman  of  the  boanl  of  examiners, 
Hifnd'u;  and  hatonnier  of  the  bar  of  the  District  of  Montreal. 

In  1872  he  was  appointed  Queen's  Counsel,  and  in  September  of  the  next  year  to  his 
present  seat  on  the  tench.  He  is  an  industrious,  paiastaking,  conscientious  man,  and  makes  an 
impartial,  strictly  honest  judge. 


ALFPiET)   :N^.  CirARLANl),  g.(\, 

ST.  JOHN'S. 

ALFRED  NAPOLEON  CHARLAND,  advocate,  was  tern  at  Iberville,  on  the  28th  of  May, 
1842.  He  is  a  son  of  Joseph  Charland,  a  merchant  of  the  same  place,  and  one  of  the 
oldest  settlei-s  of  the  county  of  Iberville,  and  who  married  Elmire  Duquette,  of  Chateauguay, 
sister  of  the  lamented  Joseph  Duquette,  the  young  patriot  who  was  executed  in  1838,  at  the  ago 
of  twenty -two  years,  as  one  of  the  "  sons  of  liberty,"  he  being  a  supporter  and  bosom  friend  of 
the  celebrated  Papineau. 

Our  subject  was  educated  in  St.  Hyacinthe  college,  and  made  his  legal  studios  in  McGill 
university,  Montreal,  whence  he  was  graduated  B.C.L.,  attending  at  the  same  time  the  law 
offic*»  of  Hon.  A.  A.  Dorion,  now  chief  justice  of  the  court  of  appeals.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  Septemlwr,  18G3,  and  settleil  at  St.  John's,  where  he  edited  Le  Franco-Canadien  for  two 
years,  and  commenced  an  extensive  law  practice  in  partnership  with  E.  Z.  Paradis,  Q.C. 

Mr.  Charland  was  made  a  Queen's  counsel  in  1878,  and  was  gazetted  judge  of  sessions  for 
the  district  of  Montreal  by  Lieutenant-Governor  Letellier,  in  the  place  of  Judge  Coui'sol,  a 
pasition,  however  honorable,  which  Mr.  Charland  declined.  He  was  for  several  years  actively 
engaged  in  politics  in  his  district,  and  an  energetic,  enthusiastic,  and  strong  supporter  of  the 
French-Canadian  section  of  the  Liberal  party.  He  was  frequently  mentioned  in  the  Lil^Tal 
newspapers  as  likely  to  Ijecome  a  judge  of  the  superior  court  for  .some  rural  division,  under  the 
Mackenzie  administration — a  position  for  which  he,  no  doubt,  has  excellent  (qualifications. 

Says  a  friend  of  Mr.  Charland  : — "  He  has  particularly  distinguished  himself  a.s  a  criminal 
lawyer,  having,  for  several  years,  occupied  the  position  of  crown  prosecutor  in  this  district ; 
and,  when  not  so  employed,  been  entrusted  with  the  defence  in  all  the  iiiqMjrtant  criminal  ea.ses 
which  camo  up  before  the  assizes  of  the  district  of  Iberville.      He  obtained  great  success  in 


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.several  inunlor  cases.  He  is  considered  as  an  authority,  in  this  district,  on  criminal  matters. 
He  is  acknowledged  to  be  one  of  the  most  eloquent  and  forcible  speakers  in  the  province,  and 
perhaps  the  most  correct  and  elegant  of  our  French  orators.  As  such,  ho  has  taken  an  active 
and  prominent  part  in  all  our  political  contests  throughout  the  province,  and  greatly  contri- 
buted to  the  success  of  the  Li))eral  party  in  many  electoral  strifes." 

'  Mr.  Charland  married,  in  May,  18(55,  Aglae  Ouimet,  sister  of  J.  A.  Ouimet,  lawyer,  and 
one  of  the  professors  in  the  Laviil  univei-sity,  Montreal,  who  died  on  the  5th  of  De(   mber,  187U. 


ITOK  AUGUSTE    REAL   AXGEPtP, 

QUEBEC. 

"1  TON.  A.  R.  ANCiERS,  judge  of  the  superior  court,  was  born  in  Queljec,  in  1838  ;  his  father 
-' — *-  occupied  a  distinguished  position  in  the  Quel)ec  bar;  he  studied  at  Nicolet  college. 
Province  of  Qut-bee,  and  entered  his  father's  oflice  as  a  law  student ;  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  18G0,  and  successfully  practised  his  profession  in  the  law  firm  of  Casnult,  Langlois  and 
Angers  ;  was  madf  a  Q.C.  in  1874. 

In  187  K  he  sncoetuled  the  Hon.  J,  E.  Cauchon  as  local  member  for  the  county  of  Montmor- 
ency. The  san\e  year  the  Hon.  M.  de  Boucherville  was  called  upon  to  form  a  new  cabinet. 
Tlie  b'.iiliant  reputation  of  .Mr.  Angei-s  pointtMl  him  out  as  a  future  minister;  the  Premier  offered 
Viir.  the  portfolio  of  Solicitor-general,  which  he  a<'coptfd  ;  he  took  the  oath  on  the  22n(l  of  Sep- 
tember, 1874' ;  he  therefore  became  minister  before  having  occupied  a  .seat  in  Parliament.  After 
having  acted,  during  one  session,  as  Solicitor-general,  he  was  eho,sen,  in  1875,  as  leader  of 
the  Assembly,  M.  de  Boucliervilio  occupying  a  .sent  in  the  Legislative  ('ouncil,  and  became 
Attorney-general  on  the  iGth  January,  l87(i.  Messrs.  Angers  et  de  Boucherville  worked  har- 
moniously together,  being  both  .scrupulously  honest  and  e(|ually  devoted  to  the  public  interests. 
They  resolved  to  build  the  North  Shore  Railway  which  had  been  talked  of  for  more  than  thirty 
years,  but  which  private  cnterprist'  had  faile<l  to  carry  out.  They  therefore  undertook,  as  a 
provincial  work,  this  important  milway  for  which  considerable  sums  had  lieen  subscribed  by 
divers  municipalities,  more  especially  by  the  cities  of  Queltee  and  Montreal,  each  of  which  had 
voted  a  grant  of  !!)>l,(M)(),()0(l.  During  the  discussion  which  took  place  over  the  measure  trans- 
ferring the  railway  from  the  hands  of  the  company  to  the  Government,  Mr.  Angei-s  displayed 
wonderful  debating  powers  and  great  foresight  in  looking  upon  the  No;th  Shore  Railway  as  a 
link  of  the  Canada  Pacific  Railway.  The  recent  action  of  the  Federal  Parliament  has  fully 
justified  the  views  he  then  took  of  the  questioi\,  for  the  transcontinental  highway,  the  build- 
ing of  which  has  been  entrusted  to  II  powerful  syndicate  of  foreign  and  Canailiun  capitalists, 
will  9oon  be  an  accomplished  fact.    Thanks  to  the  construction  of  the  North  Shore  railway,  thQ 


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two  pnnci|)al  cities  of  the  Pi-ovincc  of  Quebec,  Quebec  and  Montreal,  became  virtually  the 
termini  of  the  gigantic  Canadian  Pacific  and  the  enlrepotx  of  tht;  vast  trade  that  will  eventually 
How  over  this  great  inter-oceanic  milway. 

Mr.  Angers  made  his  mark  es])ecially  as  a  legislator,  the  Electoral  Act  and  the  Controverted 
Elections  Act  being  monuments  that  liear  testimony  to  his  legal  acumen.  The  former  han  been 
universally  admittett  by  the  courts  to  Ik;  sujierior  to  the  Dominion  Act.  The  latter  ranks 
equally  high,  inasmuch  as  the  enqaete  is  made  before  one  judge  alone,  the  case  being  pleaded 
before  three  judges,  whose  decision  is  final,  whereas  by  the  Dominion  law,  a  controverted  elec- 
tion that  can  be  carried  in  appeal  to  the  Supreme  ( 'ourt  docs  not  jw-ssess  the  confidence  of  the 
people  of  Lower  (Canada.     Moreover,  these  appeals  entail  long  delays  and  enormous  costs. 

Another  Act  introiluccd  by  Mr.  Angers,  and  which  is  highly  creditable  to  him,  is  the  Super- 
annuated Fuiid  Law  providing  for  the  widows  and  orplmns  of  civil  servants.  Tliis  law  is  now 
working  with  very  beneficial  results. 

Mr.  Angers  also  introduced  and  carried  through  the  Lower  House,  in  1870,  an  Act,  framed 
by  the  Government,  concerning  education.  This  is  an  exceptionally  important  law,  and  gives 
entire  control  to  both  Catholics  and  Protestants  over  their  respective  educational  mattei-s. 

To  the  efforts  of  Mr.  Angers  is  particularly  due  the  constniction  of  the  new  departmental 
buildings,  which  are  a  guarantee  that  Quebec,  the  heart  of  Lower  Canada,  will  permanently  re- 
main the  capital  of  the  province. 

It  was  during  the  session  of  l877-'7tS  that  Mr.  Angel's,  seeing  that  Montreal  and  the  other 
municipalities  which  had  voted  grants  to  the  North  Shore  Railway  liad  failed  to  meet  their 
just  obligations,  introiluced  a  measure  in  order  to  force  these  municipalities  to  pay  the  amount 
they  owed  the  provincial  treasury.  This  was  a  highly  important  measure,  i.ia.smuch  as  the 
province  would  have  been  obliged  to  pay  the  large  amounts  auliscribed  by  the  municipalities,  if 
they  had  been  allowed  to  evade  their  just  liabilities.  Nevertheless,  this  bill,  and  another  govern- 
ment measure  having  for  its  object  an  increase  of  the  revenue,  created  some  agitation.  The  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor, Mr.  Letellier,  a  strong  Liberal  parti.san,  and  who,  tUiring  twenty  yeai-s,  had 
iMjen  a  bitter  enemy  of  the  Conservative  party,  profited  by  this  agitation  to  dismiss  from  power 
the  De  Boucherville  Government,  giving  for  this  unusual  pi-oceeding  sundry  pretexts,  since 
.shown  to  be  groundless,  among  others  alleging  that  the  Premier  had  not  obtained  the  consent 
of  the  crown  before  introducing  the  two  measures  above  mentioned,  whereas  the  Premier  ha«l 
obtained  from  the  Lieutenant-Governor  a  blank  form  for  the  intro«luction  of  the  government's 
financial  measures. 

On  Mr.  de  Boucherville's  dismissal,  Mr.  Angera  was)  chosen  as  leader  of  the  Conservative 
opposition,  and  caused  the  A.ssembly  to  ailopt  several  votes  of  want  of  confidence  in  the  Joly 
a<Iministration.  Mr,  Joly  appealed  to  the  electorate,  and  at  the  general  election  of  May,  1878, 
Mr.  Angers  wits  defeated  in   tlie  county  of  Montmorency,  by  a  majority  of  twelve.     All  the 


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energies  of  the  Lilteral  party,  ami  the  iiifluoncc  of  thu  city  uf  Quebec,  whose  miliiun  Mr.  Angers 
had  en(]cavorc<l  tu  ubtain  for  the  Province,  were  thrown  in  the  balance  against  him. 

Convinced  that  Mr.  Letellier  had  iicted  in  a  manner  contrary  to  tlie  usages  of  responsible 
government,  and  that  his  conduct  was  a  precedent  that  might  become  dangerous  for  provincial 
autonomy,  Mr,  Angers  determined  to  bring  about  the  dismissal  of  the  Lieutenant-Governor. 
The  general  elections  of  .September,  187M,  having  brought  Sir  John  Macdonald  into  power  at 
Ottawa,  Mr.  Angei*s  took  tlie  lead  of  the  agitati<jn  that  resulted  in  Mr.  Letellier's  dismissal. 

In  1880,  Mr.  Angers  was  elected  member  of  the  House  of  Commons  for  the  county  of 
Montmorency  by  an  overwhelming  majority  ;  he  only  sat  during  one  session,  and  accepted  the 
position  that  he  now  occupies,  to  the  great  regret  of  his  friends  who  had  every  reason  to  believe 
that  a  brilliant  politieid  career  was  still  in  store  for  him.  As  a  parliamentary  debater,  Mr. 
Angers  has  no  superior,  and  few  equals  iu  the  country. 

A  generous  heart,  a  manly,  strai},'htforward  character,  an  unblemished  reputation,  profountl 
legal  learning,  such  are  the  (qualities  that  will  make  of  Mr.  Angers  an  honor  and  an  ornament 
to  the  Canadian  bench. 


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GEOIKiE    E.    FENWrcrC,  M.I)., 

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f^  EORGE  EDUEWORTH  FENWICK,  i)rofes»orof  surgery  in  McGill  university,  Montreal, 


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and  a  man  of  eminent  attainments  in  his  profession,  is  a  native  of  the  city  of  Quebec, 


his  birth  being  dated  Octolmr  H,  1825.  His  parents  were  Joseph  and  Margaret  Elizabeth 
(Greig)  Fenwick,  his  mother  being  also  a  native  of  Quebec — of  Scotch  descent.  His  father, 
who  was  in  the  Ea.st  India  Company's  service,  was  from  Morpeth,  Northumljcrland,  England, 
and  his  grandfather  belonged  to  the  landed  gentry  of  that  county. 

Dr.  Fenwick  was  educated  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Ramsey,  a  clergyman  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land. He  connneneed  the  study  of  medicine  and  surgery  by  entering  the  Marine  and  Emigrant 
hospital  at  Quebec,  in  June,  1841.  His  brother.  Doctor  A.  G.  Fenwick,  at  present  of  London, 
Ontario,  was  at  that  time  house-surgeon  to  that  institution.  Our  subject  acted  under  his 
brother  as  hoiise  apothecary,  and  he  remained  in  that  situation  until  November,  1842,  when 
he  entered  the  medical  department  of  McGill  university.  He  passed  his  examination  in  May, 
184G,  but  not  being  of  age,  did  not  receive  his  diploma  until  January,  1847,  when  a  special 
convocation  of  the  university  was  called  for  the  purpose  of  conferring  upon  him  the  degree  of 
doctor  of  medicine  and  master  in  surgery. 

In  May  of  the  year  last  mentioned.  Dr.  B'enwick  was  appointed  house-surgeon  and  apoth- 
ecary to  the  Montreal  General  Ho.spital,  which  situation  lie  filled  until  December,  1848,  when 
he  commenced   general   practice  in  Montreal.     In   1849,  he  aided,  in  conjunction  with  Dr. 


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Howard,  the  late  CJ.D.  Uilib  (afterward  Sir  0.  D.  CHbl),  M.  D.,  Baronet,  of  London,  Englad),  the 
late  Dr8.  Peltier,  Boyer  and  JoncN,  in  cstabliiihing  the  Montreal  dispenufiry,  and  wau  uno  of  the 
attending  stafl'of  that  institution  until  November,  1864,  when  he  received  the  appointment  of 
attending  surgeon  to  the  Montreal  Cicneral  Hospital,  on  the  death  of  Dr.  Thomas  Walter  Jones. 
In  1807,  he  was  appointed  professor  of  clinical  surgery  in  McUill  university,  holding  that 
position  until  187C,  when,  on  the  resignation  of  Dr.  George  W.  Campbell,  he  was  appointed 
professor  of  surgery,  which  chair  he  still  fills. 

One  of  his  former  students  thus  writes  in  regard  to  him  :  "  As  a  teacher  Dr.  Fenwick  has 
had  a  long  experience  in  the  practical  teaching  of  surgery.  For  many  years  professor  of  clin- 
ical surgery,  his  lectures  were  all  delivered  in  the  general  hospital.  Every  student  whose 
privilege  it  has  been  to  follow  the  wards  during  his  term  of  service,  knows  well  the  keen 
interest  taken  by  his  teacher  in  everything  concerning  the  case  in  hand,  and  the  untiring 
energy  and  scrupulous  care  with  which  every  circumstance  tending  to  the  welfare  of  his  patient 
was  personally  superintended  by  Dr.  Fenwick.  Careful  and  painstaking  himself,  he  firmly 
exacted  from  all  his  assistants — house  officers  and  dressers — a  like  degree  of  attention  and 
carefulness  in  little  things.  Thoroughly  imbued  with  his  subject,  always  intensely  earnest 
over  the  matter  in  hand,  the  Doctor  seldom  failed  to  i)resent  the  facts  of  a  case  to  his  hearers 
in  so  forcible  a  manner  as  to  be  certain  to  cause  it  to  remain  fixed  in  their  memories.  His 
large  experience  in  surgical  practice  derived  from  dispensary,  hospital  and  private  sources, 
afforded  him  ample  stores  from  which  to  draw  suitable  material  for  the  illustration  of  cases 
under  observation.  Like  Lincoln,  he  would  occasionally  be  reminded  of  a  little  story,  and 
would  proceed  with  some  apropoti  surgical  yam,  which  was  always  well  received.  From  the 
firet  his  popularity  with  successive  classes  of  students  has  been  great  and,  on  more  than  one 
occasion,  they  have  testified  to  him  in  the  most  hearty  manner  their  appreciation  of  his  cha- 
racter as  a  teacher  and  a  friend. 

"  Since  his  promotion  to  the  chair  of  surgery,  Dr.  Fenwick 's  lectures  have  been  of  a  more 
didactic  nature,  but  to  them  he  has  brought  the  same  spirit  of  earnest  devotion  to  the  cause  of 
science — the  same  giasp  of  subject  leading  to  the  formation  of  opinions  strongly  held  ;  the  same 
care  for  the  important  minutia- ;  the  same  genial  and  impressive  manner  which  characterized 
his  early  teachings  in  the  wards. 

"As  a  medical  writer,  Dr.  Fenwick  is  probably  as^well  known  as  any  in  this  country.  His 
articles  upon  surgical  subjects  are  all  tei-seand  logicjvl,  and  carry  the  impress  of  a  vigorous  and 
thoughtful  mind.  The  most  important  papei"s  are  those  upon  lithotomy,  of  which  oiK>ration 
he  has  probably  had  a  larger  experience  than  any  other  living  surgeon  in  the  Dominion  ;  on 
excision  of  bronchoeele,  his  bold  operations  commanding  wide-spread  attention;  and  on  excision 
of  the  kuee-joint,  the  results  of  a  considerable  series  having  been  remarkably  succe&sful." 

Dr.  Fenwick  is  a  memlter  of  the  Church  of  England,  and  has  a  high  standing  among  lay- 
men of  that  Christian  body. 


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In  1N.')2,  Iiu  inarrieil  Klixa  (7harl(itk>,  ilaii^^htcr  of  tliu  late  Col.  <1o  Hurtol,  ot  St.  AikIi-uw'h, 
Argenteuil,  by  whom  ho  has  had  hcvoh  children,  thiro  only  Miirvive. 

Dr.  Fenwick  established  with  his  colleague,  Dr.  F.  W.  Campbell,  the  Caniula  Medical 
Journal,  in  the  year  1804,  and  continued  to  edit  that  periodical  until  the  year  1N7!^  wlien  lie 
relinipiished  the  editorial  management  He  alone  holds  the  degree  from  his  Krst  university, 
never  having  sought  medical  honours  from  any  institution  abroad.  Nevertheless,  he  has  Iwen 
considered  worthy  of  them  ;  he  was  elected  honorary  member  of  the  New  Brunswick  me<lical 
society,  also  of  the  medical  society  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  of  the  gynci'cological  society  of  Boston. 
For  many  years  he  represented  the  profession  of  Montreal  as  one  of  the  governoi's  of  the 
College  of  Physicians,  and  Surgeons  of  Lower  Canada.  He  has  served  as  president  of  the 
Medico-Chirurgical  society  of  Montreal,  and  was,  at  the  meeting  of  the  Canada  Medii-al  Assfx-i- 
ation,  held  at  Ottawa  in  September,  1880,  elected  vice-president  of  that  body  for  the  Province 
of  Queliec. 


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HON.   JOSEPH    (J.    ROJJERTSON,   M.P.P., 

.'  SHERBROOKE. 

JOSEPH  GIBB  ROBERTSON,  treasurer  of  the  province  of  Quek^c,  and  one  of  the  best  finan- 
ciers in  the  province,  was  born  at  Stuarttield,  Aberdeenshire,  Scotland,  on  the  1st  of  Jan- 
uary, 1820.  His  father,  Rev.  James,  Rolx'rtson,  was  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church  at  Stuart- 
field  for  thirty  years,  and  subsequently  at  Sherbrooke  for  upwards  of  2.i  years,  where  he  died  in 
September,  1861.  His  mother,  whose  maiden  name  was  Elizabeth  Murray,  died  in  Scotland. 
Our  subject  came  to  Canada  with  his  father  in  1832,  and  finished  his  education  in  Derby, 
Vt.,  and  Sherbrooke ;  was  engaged  in  farming  in  his  younger  years,  and  was  a  merchant 
at  Sherbrooke  u  long  time,  retiring  a  few  years  ago.  For  a  short  period  in  the  early  jmrt  of  his 
connnercial  life,  he  resided  in  Chicago,  111.,  representing  the  house  with  which  he  was  connected. 

Mr.  Robertson  has  always  been  quite  public  spirited,  and  has  been  active  in  furthering  the 
interests  of  his  town  and  district.  He  was  a  director  and  i>resident  of  the  Sherbrooke  Mutual 
Insurance,  etc.,  in  all  a  dozen  of  years  or  more ;  was  secretary-treasurer  of  the  county 
of  Sherbrooke  under  the  old  system  from  lHi7,  when  the  Municipal  Act  was  intnxluced, 
until  18.')5,  when  the  order  of  things  was  changed,  and  he  was  mayor  of  the  town  seventeen  or 
eighteen  years.  He  is  president  of  the  Quebec  Central  Railway,  and  of  the  Shcibrooke  agricul- 
tural .society,  and  is,  in  short,  one  of  the  leading  spirits  in  the  community. 

Mr.  Robertson  was  first  elected  to  the  Provincial  Assembly  for  Sherbrooke  in  1807,  and  has 
held  that  seat  constantly  since  Confedei-ation.  He  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Executive 
Council  on  the  2.5th  (»f  Oetolier,  1800,  in  the  Chativeau  cabinet,  and  has  held  that  office  durinv 


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|iart  of  fuur  aclniinintrationH,  thu  sucon*!  iMMng  Ouimet'.H,  the  thiitl  Do  BoiichervilluH,  an<l  tlio 
fourth,  Chaplcau'H,  beinj^  roappointcd  the  fourth  and  lant  time  on  theSOth  of  October,  IN?!). 

A  writer  in  one  of  the  Canadian  newspapers  thus  speaks  of  our  subject  in  his  present 
orticial  position:  "  The  treasurer  is  a  busy  man,  and  necessarily  so,  for  his  department  is  one 
demanding  great  attention.  He  has  thu  credit  of  organising  it,  for  it  was  in  but  an  embryo  con- 
dition when  he  assumud  theothco.  The  new  machinery  of  administration  hiid  scafcely  got  into 
running  order,  and  there  was  much  to  be  done  in  the  way  of  completing,  improving  androfornt- 
ing  before  ihe  wheels  moved  smoothly  and  noiselessly  in  their  bearings.  •         •         • 

It  is  no  easy  matter  t<»  compass  the  treasurer  on  a  matter  of  business ;  he  is  a  shrewd,  cool- 
headed  8cot<^hman,  who  will  not  lie  readily  led  into  a  trap,  as  many  a  man  who  ha^t  had  his  eye 
u|H)n  the  '  soft  thing,'  supposed  to  b«)  at  the  dis|)osition  of  ministers  of  the  (Vown,  and  has 
attemptetl  to  tinde  upon  conjectured  weakness,  will  rea«lily  and  painfully  recollect," 

In  1S74  Mr.  Roljertson  was  sent  to  England  on  public  biisiness,  the  raising  of  a  !S4,(»0(),0(M) 
loan,  and  was  successful  in  his  mission,  winning  much  applause  for  the  same.  On  his  return 
fi'om  Kngland  to  his  home,  the  citizens  of  8herbrooko  turned  out  to  the  numb«'r  of  2,000,  an<l 
met  him  at  the  de[)ot,  the  pro  mayor,  Mr.  Paton,  presenting  him  with  an  address,  to  which  he 
replied  in  fitting,  yet  very  modest  terms.     He  is  the  most  esteemeil  where  best  known. 

Mr.  Robertson  is  a  Conservative,  and  fully  identified  with  the  leading  measures  of  that 
party,  in  which  his  lofty  integrity  and  straightforward  career  have  given  him  a  high  position 

He  is  a  member  of  the  t'ongregational  chureh,  and  a  man  of  solid  character.  For  many 
yeai-s  he  had  been  active  in  the  temperance  cause,  and  in  1870-71  was  president  of  the  Queliec 
temiKJi-ance  league.  Few  men  anywhere  have  more  at  heart  the  true  interests  of  their  fellows 
than  our  subject. 

In  1870  he  married  Mary,  J.,  oldest  daughter  of  A.  0.  Woodward,  Esq.,  of  Sherbrook'j. 


NAIJCISSK    (JKOKGK    PEJ.LETIKIJ, 

FRASEKVILLE. 

MR.  PELLETIKR  is  the  son  of  the  oKlest  merchant  in  Fra-serviilo,  and  was  bom  at  Riviere 
du  Ijoup,  en  box  on  the  (jth  of  March,  lH.57.  His  father  was  Mr.  George  Pelletier,  of  St. 
Roch  des  Aulnets,  who  married  Miss  Virginia,  daughter  of  Louis  Moreau  a  merchant  of 
considerable  repute  in  Beaumond  and  QucIk'C,  where  he  and  his  family  were  held  in  the 
highest  respect.  The  late  Mr.  Pelletier  wa.s  one  of  the  men  who,  in  the  early  days  of  Rivifere 
du  Loup,  inU'rested  him.self  in  every  poNsibh;  way  to  advance  the  inteivsts  of  the  little  town, 
and  which  now  pnmiises  to  Ik?  one  of  no  mean  order  under  its  new  and  corporate  name  of  Fra.ser- 
ville.    As  one  of  its  earliest  merehants,  Mr.  Pelletier  soon  gained  for  himself  the  confidence  of 


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tho  Hinall  community  ho  had  settlml  an)on^t,an<l  by  hin  Htcrlin^r  intc^Tity  nii<l  upright  cliaiiicivr 
in  all  his  buHincKR  trannactionfl,  doHorvoilly  gained  popularity  daily.  For  mnny  years  \w  waH 
mayor,  prior  to  which  ho  was  prefect  of  the  county ;  Nulwcfiucntly  h»'  l)ocame  justice  of  the  pence, 
and  his  urbane  philanthropic  principles  hel<l  to  him  until  bin  doinisn  iu  1874,  when  iiis  irrcparnblo 
loss  was  mourned  by  tho  whole  of  the  community  of  FraHorville.  He  wan  tho  .son  of  a  hi^'hly 
respectable  farmer  at  St.  Roch. 

Tho  subject  of  our  .sketch  was  educate<l  at  St.  Anns  de  la  Po<'fttieie,  ami  afterwards  at  St. 
Michael's  college,  Toronto,  where  he  took  up  a  full  commercial  course  of  instrution.  On  leaving 
school  he  entered  into  his  father's  business,  which  he  ha.s  since  continued  in,  and  although  only 
a  young  man  of  business,  ranks  .second  to  none  in  the  promising  town  of  Kraserville.  He  is  a  man 
of  energy  and  considerable  practical  aiiility,  consecpiently  is  daily  developing  his  business  trans- 
actions which  will  doubtless  enlarge  proportionately  with  the  development  of  the  town  itself. 
Irrespective  of  his  business  ivs  a  men-hant  at  FraserviUe,  he  hn.s  also  a  hand  ami  steam  saw-mill, 
as  well  as  a  canling  machine,  and  is  ohe  of  the  most  popular  and  enterprising  business  men  in 
the  place,  and  in  which  hi.s  family  arc  all  held  in  tho  highest  re.sj)ect. 


ALPllON^E    ANTOrXE    'PAILLON, 

SOREL. 

ALPHONSE  ANTOINE  TAILLON  wa.s  lM)rn  in  Ottawa  (Bytown),  on  the  17th  of  July. 
1847.  His  parents  were  John  Tnillon  and  Dame  Genevieve  Lionais.  His  father,  who 
died  in  June,  1850,  was  formerly  a  merchant  of  Ottawa,  and  his  mother  still  resides  in  that  city 
with  his  brother  George,  who  is  a  barristei*  practising  in  the  city. 

Mr.  Taillon  was  educated  at  the  college  of  Ottawa,  and  went  to  Montreal  in  April,  180r>, 
and  shortly  after  his  arriving  in  that  city  he  entered  the  service  of  the  Merchants'  Bank  of 
Canada,  and  remained  in  that  Institution  until  June  1871,  when  he  was  sent  to  open  a  branch 
of  that  bank  at  St  Hyacinthe,  and  on  the  27th  of  July  in  the  snnie  year,  ho  was  removed  to  Sorel, 
to  estAblish  another  branch,  of  which  he  M'as  appointed  manager,  which  p<isition  he  tilled  until 
Mareh,  1880,  at  which  time  the  Merchants'  Bank  made  a  proposition  to  him  of  carrying  on  the 
business  of  the  branch  in  his  own  name ;  the  offer  was  accepted,  and  the  branch  was  accord- 
ingly closed  on  the  20th  March,  1880,  Mr.  Taillon  continuing  the  business  as  a  private  banker. 

Mr.  Taillon  has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in  tlie  commercial  welfare  of  the  town  of 
Sorel,  and  has  been  the  promoter  of  several  entei-prises.  He  was  for  a  number  of  years  presi- 
dent of  the  building  .society,  which  he  was  the  means  of  establishing  in  Sorel ;  and  was  also 
mainly  instnimental  in  establishing  the  board  of  tiiule  and  the  wadding  manufactory,  one  of 
th«  largest  establishments  of  the  town.     He  was  for  a  considerable  time  editor  of  the  Sorel 


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the  voluntcHT  corps,  tlio  "  CliasHours  ( 'anatlicim,"  iiml  wu«  in  active  Hcrvico  at  St.  J«)hn',s,  Pifjenn 
Hill,  and  St.  Armnnd. 

In  rclifrioiis  Iwliof  Mr.  Tnillun  w  a  Roman  ('atliulic,  and  Iuh  |N)litical  viows  arc  strongly 
I'onservativo. 

Mr.  Taillon  married  on  tlio  12th  of  Jiiniiary,  IH71,  Mis8  JoHopliino  Verchferes  Boucher  do 
Bouchervillo,  of  Bouchervillc,  P.  Q.,  oldcHt  daiighUtr  of  P.  V  do  Boucherville,  M.  ]).,  of  Bvauhar- 
nois.  His  family  conniHtH  uf  two  dauglitors,  Joscphim.'  and  Emma,  and  two  sons,  Aiphon.su  and 
Bouchervillo. 

Mr.  Taillon's  banking  husinoss  is  prospering,  a  continued  incronso  being  perceptible,  which 
illustrates  tlie  fact  that  in  <l(>ciding  to  manage  the  business  as  a  private  banker,  ho  did  not 
over  estimate  his  ability  to  conduct  it  .Micccssfully.  His  character  as  a  thorough  man  of  busi- 
ness and  of  the  highest  capaeit}'  and  probity  is  undoubted. 


THE  VEISEUAULE  AllCJI DEACON  LEACH,  M.A.,  D.C.L.,  LL.I)., 

MOyTHEAL 

WILLIAM  TURNBULL  LEACH  is  a  native  of  Berwick -on-Tweod,  hmi  2ml  March, 
1S0.1,  being  the  son  of  Robert  and  Elizabeth  (Turnbidl)  Leach.  He  was  oducuU-d 
partly  at  Berwick,  partly  at  Stirling,  Scotland  ;  entered  the  university  of  Edinburgh  in  1823  ; 
graduated  for  M.A.  in  1827,  and  tlie  year  after  commenced  the  divinity  course,  which  then 
extended  over  three  years  in  addition.  During  the  period  of  his  college  life  and  Itefore,  he  wa.s 
indebted  to  the  kindness  and  liberality  of  a  maternal  uncle,  William  Tumbull,  E.sq.,  of  Forth- 
Imnk,  near  Stirling.  He  was  lieen.sed  a  minister  of  the  ('hureh  of  Scotland  by  the  Presbytery 
of  Stirling  in  1831,  and  sotm  afterwards  came  to  Canada  under  the  auspices  of  the  (JIasgow 
Church  Society.  In  1834  was  elected  minister  of  St.  Andrew's  church,  Toronto,  and  during  his 
ministry  there,  had  no  inferior  share  in  the  pnicecdings  that  leil  to  the  founding  of  Queen's 
college,  Kingston.  Some  .seven  yeai-s  afterward,  he  resigned  that  church  in  Toronto,  and 
received  Holy  Orders  fron>  the  Bishop  of  Qnel)ec,  Dr.  Mountain,  and  by  him  was  licensed  to  the 
incumbency  of  St.  George's  church,  Montreal,  then  newly  erected,  which  incumbency  he  held 
for  nearly  twenty  years,  when  he  resigned  it.  For  a  few  years  lie  held  the  rectory  of  Lacliine. 
During  this  period,  ho  was  made  honorary  canon  of  Christ  church  cathedral,  l»y  the  Metro- 
politan Bishop  Fulford,  in  18.)4,  and  his  domestic  chaplain  and  archdeacon  of  the  cathedral 
in  1865. 

On  the  advice  and  request  of  Bisliop  Mountain,  then  one  of  the  members  of  the  "  Royal 
Institution  for  the  Advaucement  of  Learning,"  he  accepted  the  professorship  of  classical  lilera- 

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turo  in  the  university  of  McGill  college,  in  184.'»,  an  appointment  which,  with  that  of  vice- 
principal,  subsequently  received  the  fornwl  sanction  of  the  Crown.  For  several  years  he  held 
the  professorship  of  logic  and  moral  philosopliy,  and  in  course  of  time,  when  the  vaatly-increa^sed 
work  of  the  college  necessitated  proportional  arrangements  in  the  faculty  of  ails,  he  was 
appointed  by  the  govemors  of  the  univei-sity  to  the  professoi-ship  of  English  literature,  resigning 
that  of  logic  an<l  moral  philosophy,  as  previously  he  had  i-esigned  that  of  cl&ssical  literature. 
For  many  yeai-s  he  has  lieen  vice-principal  of  the  university  of  McGill  college  and  dean  of  the 
faculty  of  arts.  -  •  <        •  ,   • 

Professor  Leaih  has  sun'iving,  his  son,  David  S.  Leach,  advocate,  Montreal,  and  Jessie,  wife 
of  Thomas  F  G.  Howell,  London,  England,  by  his  fii-st  wife,  Jessie  Skirving,  daughter  of  David 
Skirving,  Est|.,  East  Lothian,  Scotland,  and  Milda,  by  his  wife,  Louisa,  daughter  of  Francis 
Dominic  Guilt.  His  second  wife  was  Eliza  Easton,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Robert  Kaston,  minist<n' 
of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Montreal.     She  died  in  1808. 

An  old  friend  of  Dr.  Leach  thus  speaks  of  l)ini ; 

Tlie  Rev.  Doctor  is  a  doeplj-  read  clnssical  scholar,  and  was  formerly  professor  of  classics  in  McGill  college. 
But  his  studies  have  not  been  confine<l  to  Latin  and  Cireek  authors  only.  They  have  extended  over  a  very 
broad  field  ;  and  there  are  few  who  can  excel  him  in  wide  range  of  reading  and  aciiuainlance  with  English  literature, 
of  which  subject  he  is  the  present  professor  in  McGill.  As  a  logician  and  metaphysici.-.n,  he  has  exhibited  all 
the  essentials  that  characterise  the  deep  thinker  and  sound  reasoner.  His  occasional  writings  are  all  marked  wi'h 
ability  of  the  very  highest  order,  and  cannot  be  read  without  the  conviction  that  they  are  the  productions  of  a 
superior  intellect,  one,  also,  that  has  been  cultivated  in  the  highest  degree.  As  former  tirst  minister  of  St. 
(ieorge's  church,  Montreal,  he  became  widely  known  as  a  theologian  of  extensive  reading  and  deep  learning,  and 
as  a  liberal-minded,  pious  man,  earned  for  himself  the  un<|ualiried  esteem  of  even  those  who  differed  most  with 
him  in  religious  convictions.  '  Jew  and  Gentile  '  alike.  Dr.  Leach  has  been  a  most  industrious,  and  for  a  long 
])eriod  unrequited,  laborer  in  the  cause  of  education,  literature  and  science,  and  in  the  earliest  and  most  ghMmiy 
days  of  McGill  university  worked  with  a  zealous  devotion  in  its  behalf  above  all  praise. 


IJEV.   UAAliS    LA:N(J,  M.A., 

M<)NTREAL. 

THE  subject  of  this  biographical  notice  is  a  native  of  Lanarkshire,  Scotland,  dating  his 
birth  at  tht-  manse  of  Gla.sford,  on  the  21st  of  July,  183').  He  is  a  son  of  Ro\  Gavin 
Lang,  for  nearly  half  a  century  minister  of  the  parish  of  (Jlasford,  Lanarkshire,  and  has  two 
brothers  in  the  ministry  of  the  church  of  Scotland,  viz.,  Rev.  Dr.  J.  Marshall  Lang,  who  suc- 
ceeded Dr.  Norman  Macleod  in  the  barony  parish  of  Glasgow,  and  Rev.  James  P.  lAng,  minister 
of  the  ea.st  pari.sh,  Stirling,  Scotlaml.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Anna  Rolierton  Marshall, 
datighter  of  John  Marshall,  Estj.,  of  Nielsland,  lianarkshire,  the  head  of  an  old  and  most  -.-espect- 
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Our  subject  received  liis  literary  and  theological  education  at  the  univeraity  of  Glasgow  ; 
was  licensed  to  preacli  in  ISO*,  and,  after  being  assistant  for  some  months  to  the  Rev.  Dr.  J.  R. 
Macduff,  of  Sandyford  {)arish,  Glasgow,  whose  nuir  >us  and  popular  religious  books  are  known 
all  the  world  over,  was  ordained,  in  1865,  minister  or  the  parish  of  Fy  vie,  Aberdeenshire,  where 
he  labored  with  great  acceptance  for  five  years,  and  on  the  death  of  his  father,  in  1809,  was 
translated  to  the  parish  of  Glasford — a  rare  occurrence  for  a  son  to  immediately  succeed  his 
father  in  the  same  and  his  own  native  parish. 

In  1870,  on  the  death  of  the  Rev.  Alexander  Mathieson,  U  J).,  who  had  been  for  more  than 
forty  years  the  minister,  and  much  respected,  Mr.  Lang  was  offered  and  accepted  the  pastorate 
of  St.  Andrew's  church,  Montreal,  and  is  now  in  his  eleventh  year  as  a  minister  in  this  city.  St. 
Andrew's  is  one  of  the  oldest  Protestant  churches  in  Canada,  and  has  always  held  its  connec- 
tion sjici-edly  with  the  church  of  Scotland.  It  is  also  the  wealthiest,  and  probably  the  most  in- 
tluential,  church  in  the  Dominion,  numbering  among  its  members  such  men  as  Sir  Hugh  Allan, 
Dr.  G.  W.  Campl)ell,  Hon.  Judge  t'ross,  Joseph  Hickson,  Esq.,  of  the  Grand  Trunk  railway, 
Robert  Esdaile,  Es*!.,  president  of  the  Board  of  Trailo,  and  many  others  of  like  prominent  iMwi- 
tion.  The  first  Sunday  that  His  Excellency  the  Marquis  of  Lome,  Gov.-General  of  C'anada, 
worshipped  in  Canada,  he  attended  St.  Andrew's  church,  he  being  a  member  of  the  church  of 
Scotland ;  and  the  sermon  which  Mr.  Lang  preached  on  that  occasion  was  published  by  special 
request. 

The  church  building  Wits  erected  many  yeai-s  ago,  and  cost  about  !?1(H),000.  It  would  now 
cost  nmch  more  to  build  such  an  elegant  and  substantial  stone  structure,  it  being  modeled  after 
the  Salisbury  cathedral,  England,  and  having  one  of  the  most  excjuisitely  proportioned  spires  of 
any  church  in  the  Dominion.  From  its  magiiificent  situation,  standing  as  it  does  on  the  slope 
of  the  beautiful  Beaver  Hall  hill,  ami  its  purely  ecclesiastical  style  of  architecture,  it  is  often 
called  the  Scottish  cathedral  of  Montreal,  in  contratlistinction  to  the  churches  known  as  the 
French  and  English  cathedrals. 

St.  Andrew's  has  a  flourishing  mission  church  at  the  east  end  of  the  city,  and  supjwrts  a 
missionary  who  labours  there  all  the  year  round.  Our  subject  has  the  oversight  of  this  inter- 
esting work,  in  addition  to  other  arduousduties.  He  is  also  lujiiorary  secretary,  and  has  Itt^en 
since  its  formation,  of  the  Dominion  evaiigeliciil  alliance — aji  oflice  entiviling  considerable  labor 
and  att«ntion  in  connection  with  the  ditterent  Canadian  branches,  and  the  arrangements  for  the 
yearly  week  of  prayer  services.  Altl.jugh  an  ardent  Scottish  churchman,  Mr.  Lang  is  so  emi- 
nently catholic  as  to  take  part  in  what  concerns  christian  life  and  work  of  all  churches.  He 
wius  acknowledged  by  all  to  be  the  chief  promoter  and  moving  spirit  of  the  Hi'st  and  only  evan- 
gelical alliance  conference  in  Canada,  that  held  in  Montreal,  in  Octoln-r,  1874. 

As  a  preacher  he  is  soleii  'v  earnest  and  practical,  seeking  the  spiritual  good  of  his  hearers 
rather  than  to  da/./lo  them  with  floinishes  of  rhetoric.   His  sermons,  never  long,  are  always  cal- 


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culated  to  elevate  the  mind  and  impress  the  heart,  and  to  make  his  hearers  better  and  happier. 
He  is  also  a  man  of  good  presence  and  tixed  principles,  and  a  firm  believer  in  the  ecclesiastical 
polity  and  doctrines  of  the  church  of  Scotland.  This  was  seen  in  the  firm  stand  which  he  and 
his  church  took  in  relation  to  what  is  called  "  the  union  "  of  the  Presbyterian  churches  of  Can- 
ada in  the  ye.tr  1875.  Believing  as  he  did  that  a  union  of  spirit  mther  than  of  the  ecclesiasti- 
cal letter  was  better,  he  refused  to  join  the  said  union.  Although  a  man  of  the  most  catholic 
and  loving  spirit,  he  was  determined  to  stand  by  the  minority,  believing  them  to  be  in  the 
right,  and  he  has  had  to  do  that  at  some  cost.  But  all  men  honor  him  and  believe  ho  is  actu- 
ated by  the  purest  i.  jtives  and  from  the  most  profound  conviction  that  he  is  right. 

He  is  a  busy  Sunday  school  worker,  and  their  east  end  mission,  with  its  Sunday  school,  is 
one  of  the  best  and  most  successful  in  the  city.  His  manner  and  bearing  are  such  as  we  could 
only  expect  from  one  who  had  been  trained  and  brought  up  in  a  refined  Christian  home. 

On  the  13th  of  June,  1SU5,  Mr.  Lang  married  Frances  Mary  CorlHit,  daughter  of  James 
Corbet,  late  of  the  Hon.  East  India  company's  service,  and  proprietor  of  the  valuable  estate  of 
Bieldside,  Aberdeenshire,  Scotland,  not  far  from  the  royal  castle  of  Balmoi-al,  and  they  have 
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iiVEBEt'. 

tTlHE  subject  of  this  skctch.whoisa  Chevalier  of  tlio  Order  of  St.  Sauveur  de  Monte  Realo, 
-^-  Italy,  was  bom  in  September,  1 827,  and  for  the  jiast  thiily-threc  years  has  been  prac- 
tising his  profession  as  an  engineer,  architect  and  surveyor,  in  the  city  of  Quebec.  Since  1S5G 
he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Exauiiiier.s  of  Land  Surveyors  for  the  province,  and  since 
\H'^'^  its  chairman;  he  is  an  honorary  member  of  tin;  Society  for  the  Generalization  of  Educa- 
tion in  France  ;  and  has  been  the  recipient  of  thirtein  medals  of  honour  and  of  .seventeen  di- 
plomas, ire.,  from  learned  societies  and  public  Ixjdies  in  France,  Belgium,  Italy,  llu.ssia,  Japan,  kc. 
Mr.  BaillairgC-'s  father,  who  died  in  18ti"»,  at  the  age  of  G8,  was  born  in  Quebec,  and  for 
over  thirty  years  was  roatl  surveyor  of  that  city.  His  mother,  Charlotte  Janverin  Horeley, 
who  is  still  living,  was  born  in  the  Isle  of  Wiglit,  England,  and  was  a  daughter  of  Lieutenant 
Horsley,  R.N.  His  giandfather  on  the  paternal  side,  P.  Florent  Baiilairgd,  is  of  French  descent, 
and  was  connected,  nuw  nearly  a  century  ago,  with  the  restoration  of  the  Basilica,  Quebec. 
The  wife  of  the  latter  was  Mile.  Cureux  de  St.  Germain,  also  of  French  descent. 

Our  subject  married,  in  IS+S,  Euph<?mie,  daughter  of  Mr.  John  Duval,  and  step-daughter  of 
the  Hon.  John  Duval,  for  Uiany  years  Chief  Justice  of  Lower  Canada,  by  whom  he  had  eleven 
children,  four  of  whom  (mly  survive.     His  wife  dying  in  February,   187iS,  he,  in  April  of  the 


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following  year,  inarrioJ  Anne,  eldest  daughter  of  Captain  Benjamin  Wilson,  of  the  English  navy, 
by  whom  he  has  one  son. 

Mr.  Baillaiigt!  was  educated  at  the  Seminary  of  Quebec,  but,  finding  the  curriculum  of 
studies  too  lengthy,  he  left  that  institution  some  time  before  the  termination  of  the  full  course 
of  ten  yeai"s,  and  entered  into  a  joint  apprenticeship  as  architect,  engineer  and  surveyor.  Dur- 
ing this  a|>prenticeship  he  devoted  himself  to  mathematical  and  natural  science  studies,  and  re- 
ceived diplomas  for  his  proficiency  in  1848,  at  the  age  of  21.  At  that  period  he  enticed  upon 
his  profession,  and  for  the  last  fourteen  years  has  filled  the  post  of  city  engineer  of  Quebec,  is 
manager  of  its  water  works,  and  since  1875  has  been  engineer,  on  the  part  of  the  city,  in  and 
over  the  Morth  Shoie,  Piles  and  Lake  St.  John  Rjiilways. 

Mr.  Baillairg^  has  held  successive  commissions  in  the  militia,  as  ensign,  lieutenant,  and 
captain  ;  and  in  18G0,  and  for  several  years  thereafter,  was  hydrographic  surveyor  to  the  Que- 
bec Board  of  Harbour  (,'ommissioncrs.  In  18U1,  he  was  elected  vice-president  of  the  Associa- 
tion of  Architects  and  Civil  Engineers  of  Canada.  In  18.J8,  he  was  elected,  and  again  in  18til 
unanimously  re-elected,  to  represent  the  St.  Louis  ward  in  the  City  Council,  Quelxjc.  In  18G3, 
he  was  called  for  two  years  to  Ottawa,  to  act  as  joint  architect  of  the  Parliament  and  Depart- 
mental buildings,  then  in  course  of  erection.  Inteiests  of  considerable  magnitude  were  then  at 
stake  l)etween  the  Covernment  and  the  contractors,  claims  amounting  to  nearly  half  a  million 
of  money  having  to  be  adjusted.  In  connection  with  his  employment  by  the  Goverment,  Mr. 
Baillairg^  found,  that  to  ct)utinue  his  services  he  must  be  a  party  to  some  sacrifice  of  principle, 
which,  rather  than  consent  to,  he  was  indiscreet  enough  to  tell  the  authorities  of  the  time.  This 
excess  of  virtue  was  too  moral  for  the  appointing  power  and  more  than  it  was  disposed  to  brook 
in  an  employee  of  the  Government.  The  difficulty  wa.s,  therefore,  got  over  by  giving  Mr.  Bail- 
lairge  his/e((i7/e  dc  route,  a  compliment  to  his  integrity  of  which  he  has  ever  since  been  justly 
proud.     He  shortly  afterwards  returned  to  Quebec. 

During  his  professional  career,  Mr.  Baillairge  designed  and  erected  numerous  private  resi- 
dences in  and  around  Quebec,  as  well  oa  mai'y  public  buildings,  including  the  Asylum  and  the 
(,'hinch  of  the  Sisters  of  Charity,  the  Laviil  Univei-sity  building,  the  new  gaol,  the  nnisic  hall, 
several  churches,  both  in  the  city  and  in  the  adjoining  parishes,  that  of  Ste.  Marie  Beauce  Iniing 
much  adn>ired  on  account  of  the  V'Ciuity  and  regularity  of  its  interior.  The  "  Monument  des 
Bi-aves  de  17G0"  was  erected  in  1800,  on  the  St.  Foy  roail,  after  a  design  by  him  and  under  his 
superintendence.  The  Goverinnent,  the  judges,  the  clergy  and  others  have  often  avaih-d  tliem- 
selves  of  his  services  in  arbitiation  on  knotty  questions  of  technology,  disputed  boundaries, 
builders'  claims,  surveys  and  reports  on  various  subjects. 

In  1872,  Mr.  Baillairge  suggested,  and  in  1878  desigiu-d  and  carried  out  what  h  now  known 
as  the  Dufferin  Terrace,  Queljec,  a  structure  some  l,o(K)  feet  in  length,  overlooking  the  St. 
LiiwreiKc  from  a  height  of  182  feet,  and  built  along  the  face  of  the  cliH' under  the  Citadel.  This 


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Princess  Louise,  who  pronounced  it  a  splendid  achievement. 

In  1873,  Mr.  Bailhiirgo  designed  and  built  the  a<|ueduct  bridge  over  the  river  St.  Charles, 
the  peeuliarity  about  which  being  that  the  structure  forms  an  arch  as  does  the  n^ueduct  pipe 
it  encloses,  whereby,  in  case  of  the  destruction  of  the  surrounding  wood-work  by  tire,  the  pipe 
being  self-supporting,  the  city  may  not  be  deprived  of  water  while  re-constructing  the  frost- 
protecting  tunnel  enclosure.  ' 
At  the  age  of  seventeen,  the  subject  of  our  sketch  built  a  double-cylindered  steam  carriage 
for  traffic  on  oiilinary  roads. 

From  1848  to  lH(i.')  he  delivered  a  series  of  lectures,  in  the  old  Parliament  buildings  and 
elsewhere,  on  astronomy,  light,  steam  and  the  st«'am  engine,  pneumatics,  acoustics,  geometry,  the 
atmosphere,  antl  other  kindred  subjects,  under  the  patronage  of  the  Caniulian  and  other  Insti- 
tutes ;  and  in  1872,  in  the  rooms  of  the  Literary  and  Historical  Society,  Quebec,  under  the  aus- 
)»ice8  of  that  Institution,  he  delivered  an  exhaustive  lecture  on  geometry,  mensuration,  and  the 
stereometricon  (a  mode  of  cubing  all  solids  by  one  and  the  same  rule,  thus  reducing  the  study 
and  labour  of  a  year  to  that  of  a  day  or  an  Imur),  which  he  had  then  but  recently  invented,  and 
for  which  he  was  made  honomry  member  of  several  learneil  societies,  and  received  the  numerous 
medals  and  diplomas  already  alluded  to. 

The  following  letter  from  the  Ministry  of  Public  Instruction,  Russia,  is  worthy  of  insertion 
as  ex[)lanatory  of  the  advantages  of  the  stereometricon : 

MlMSTEKB    UK    1,'lNSTItl  CTION    PlllLKJIK, 

Saint-Fetorabiirg,  le  '.  ^'^  fevriiT  IH77. 
No.   IrtZl. 

A.   M.     HAII.I.AIKtlK, 

A  rchileetf  <l  Qttihcr, 

MoNsiEi'K, — Lo  cumitu  8uientili<iim  dii  minigtore  du  rinstructioii  Publiqiie,  (de  Riisaiu),  rcconniiissant 
rincuntestablo  utilite  de  vcitro  "  Tableau  8tt'reoim!trii|tK>  '  pour  rviisui^iieiiioiit  du  la  gfoinvtrie  on  gi'inTuI,  de 
niKnie  <|ue  pour  son  application  pratii|ue  il  d'autres  sciencus,  eprouvo  un  jilaiair  tout  particulier  u  joindro  aux 
sutfragei  des  savants  de  I'Kurope  et  de  r.\merii|ue  m  compK'te  approbation,  «n  vous  informant  <|iio  lo  suadit 
tableau,  avec  toutes  itea  applications,  sera  rcconunendt'  aux  <'colt>s  primairus  ut  nioyeuuus,  pour  en  completer  les 
cabinets  et  les  collections  niatlio'niatiipies,  et  inscrit  dans  Ins  catalogues  des  oiivraKcs  approuvca  par  le  ininistiTV 
de  r  Instruction  I*ubli(|uo. 

On  fera,  en  outre,  des  dispositions  pour  fairo  venir  de  rAnieriipie  ii  iSaint-Petersburg  (|ael<|ues  exetn- 
ulaires  de  vos  ouvriiges  et  de  vos  editions,  et  vous  otes  prii'  instainnient,  monsieur,  d'avoir  la  bont<'  d'informer 
lu  comitti'  s'il  n'existe  pas  i|ueli|ue  part  en  Euro()e,  un  depot  de  vos  ouvrages  niathematiipies. 

Agr6ez,  monsieur,  rassurancu  de  ma  haute  consideration. 

Le  chef  du  dfeparteinent  an  niinisti're  de  I'lnstruction  I'ubliipie. 

E.    I>K  nKADKEK. 

And  the  CJueWc  Mircuri/,  of  the  lOth  July,  IH78, has  the  following  in  relation  to  a  .second 

letter  from  the  same  source  : 

It  will  be  remembered  that  in  February,  1877,  Mr.  Baillairg''  received  an  otKcial  letter  from  the  Minister 
uf  Public  Instruction,  of  St.  Petersburg,  Russia,  informing  him  that  his  new  system  of  mensuration  had  Iteeii 
•doplud  in  all  the  primary  and  medium  schools  of  that  vast  empire,     .\fter  a  lapse  of  eighteen  months,  the  sys- 


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torn  liaviiig  be«n  fouixl  to  work  well,  Mr.  KaMlairgi'  haa  recoiveJ  nn  adilitional  toatiiiionial  from  tho  same  source, 
inforiiiing  him  that  the  system  is  to  he  applied  in  all  tho  polytechnic  schools  of  tho  Russian  empire." 

Mr.  Baillairp<<  lias,  since  tliat  time,  tjiven  occasional  lectnres  in  liotli  languages  on  indiLstrial 
art  ami  design,  and  on  other  interesting  and  instructive  to|)ic.s,  and  is  now  engaged  on  a  dic- 
tionary or  «lietionaries  of  tlu>  con,sonances  of  lioth  the  Freneli  and  Knglisli  languages. 

In  l.S()(t,  lie  wrote  his  treatise  on  geometry  and  trigonometry,  plane  and  spherical,  with  mathe- 
matical tables-  a  volume  of  some  900  pages  octavo,  and  has  .since  edited  several  work.s  and 
pamphlets  on  like  suhjeets. 

In  liis  work  on  geometry,  which,  hy  the  way,  is  written  in  the  French  language,  Mr.  Bail- 
lairgt^  has,  hy  a  pr«M!ess  explained  in  the  preface,  reduced  to  fully  half  their  nund>er  the  two 
hundred  and  odd  propositions  of  the  first  six  books  of  Euclid,  v/hile  deducing  and  retaining  all 
the  results  arrived  at  hy  the  great  gconieter. 

Mr.  Baillairg^,  moreover,  shows  the  practical  use  and  adaptation  of  pioldems  and  theorems, 
which  might  otherwise  appear  to  be  of  doubtful  utility,  as  of  the  ratio  between  tho  tan- 
gent, whole  secant  and  part  of  the  .secant  without  the  circle,  in  the  laying  out  of  lailroad  ami 
otlier  curves  running  through  given  points,  and  numenms  other  examples.  His  treatment  of 
spherics  and  of  the  affections  of  tho  sides  and  angles  i.s,  in  many  respects,  novel,  and  more  ea.sy 
of  apprehension  by  the  general  student. 

In  a  note  at  foot  of  page  TM),  Mr.  Baillair(3<?  shows  the  fallacy  of  Thorpe's  pretended  .solu- 
tion of  the  tri.section  of  an  angle,  at  which  the  poor  man  had  lalxiured  for  tliiity-four  years,  and 
takes  the  then  Government  to  task  for  granting  Mr.  Thoqie  a  patent  for  his  discovery. 

In  Februnry,  IST^,  he  visited  Europe,  and  it  was  on  the  l.'ithof  March  of  that  year  that  ho 
received  his  first  laurels  at  the  "  (band  Conservatoire  National  des  Arts  et  Metiers,"  Paris. 

Mr.  Baillairg<5  lately  issued  a  report  on  the  defects  in  the  mode  of  building  in  this  province, 
and  recommended  the  establishinent  of  a  Polytechnic  School  for  the  Province  of  Quebec,  which 
is  now  shortly  about  to  be  opened  in  the  jirovincial  capital  under  (lovernment  patronage.  It  is 
due  to  the  praiseworthy  efforts  of  the  Uev.  Brother  Alphmates,  superior  of  the  order  of  tJhris- 
tian  Brothers,  and  of  which  institution  Mr.  Baillairg<^,  it  is  undei-stood,  is  to  1m'  professor  of 
technology  and  engineering. 

Some  of  Ml.  Bailiairge's  annual  reports  on  civic  affairs  are  very  interesting  and  instructive  ; 
that  of  1878,  on  "  the  niunicipal  situation,"  is  particularly  worthy  of  periLsal.  His  rcjwrt  of 
1.S72  was  more  especially  sought  aft<>r  by  almost  every  city  engineer  in  the  ('ana<las  and  United 
suites,  on  account  of  the  varied  information  it  conveyed.  It  may  also  be  remembered,  as  illu.s- 
trative  of  the  versatilily  of  his  ttdent  and  of  his  humoristic  turn  of  mind,  that  a  comedy,  "  Le 
Diabhv  Devenii  Cuisinier,"  written  by  him  in  the  French  language,  wa-s,  in  187-*l,  played  in 
the  "  Music  Hall,"  and  again  in  the  "Salle  Jac(pies  Cartier,"  Quebec,  by  th  >  Maugard  Com- 

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Nor  will  the  mcinlH;rs  of  "  Lo  Club  des  21,"  coinposctl  as  it  is  of  tlu-  literati,  scicntistH  and 
artists  of  Quebec,  iinder  tl>e  [)resi(l»>ncy  of  tlie  ( 'ount  de  Proinio  lU'iil,  (/onsul-doneral  of  Spain 
for  C'anada,  soon  forget  how,  in  March,  1S79,  Mr.  Haillairg<;,  in  a  paper  read  at  one  of  tlie  sit- 
tings of  the  Chib,  around  a  well-sproad  board,  successively  portrayed  and  hit  off  the  pecu- 
liarities of  each  and  every  member  of  the  club,  and  of  the  count  liimsolf,  while  at  the  same  time 
doinjjf  full  justice  to  the  abilities  of  all.  ^ 

Mr.  Baillairgd  is  a  close  and  industrious  worker,  devoting  some  fourteen  hours  out  of  the 
twenty-four  to  his  professional  callings,  and  again  robbing  the  night  for  the  time  tojmrsiie  his 
literary  and  scientific  pursuits.  , 

In  politics,  if  he  may  be  said  to  have  any,  ho  is  inclined  to  Liberalism,  but  he  is  of  too  in- 
dependent a  character  to  be  tied  to  a  party,  preferring  to  treat  each  tjuestion  on  its  merits,  iri"o- 
spective  of  its  promoters. 

The  sulyect  of  this  sketch  is  brother  to  G.  F.  Baillairgd,  Deputy  Minister  of  Public  Works 
of  the  Dominion,  and  grand  nephew  to  Fran(;()is  Baillairg<?,  an  eminent  painter  and  sculptor 
"  dc  rAcad<?mie  Royale  de  Peinture  et  Sculpture,  France,"  who  carved  some  of  the  statues  in  tlie 
Basilica,  and  whose  studio  in  St.  Louis  Street  (the  cjuaint  old  one  story  building,  now  Dris- 
coll's  livery  stables)  was  at  that  time  .so  often  visited  by  Prince  Kilward,  Duko  of  Kent,  father 
of  Queen  Victoria,  during  his  .sojourn  in  Quebec. 

A  portrait  of  Mr.  Baillairge,  l)ut  which,  however,  does  not  do  him  ju.stice,  accompanied  by 
a  brief  biographical  notice,  appeared  in  L'Opinion  I'libHiiiir,  of  the  2."ith  April,  IS78.  The 
Rivinta  Universaifyoi  Italy,  also  published  his  portrait  and  a  biographical  sketch  of  Mr.  liail- 
largd's  career,  in  February  of  1878. 


WILLIAM   E.  scorr,  M.l)., 

MONTH  KAL. 

WILLIAM  EDWARD  SCOTT,  profcs.sor  of  anatomy  in  MeCill  university,  and  one  of  the 
oldest  medical  practitioners  in  Montreal,  is  a  son  of  John  and  Caroline  (Neate)  Scott, 
and  was  bom  in  London,  England,  on  the  Dth  of  October,  1S22.  He  came  to  Canada,  with  his 
parents,  in  the  autumn  of  1831,  and  has  been  a  resident  of  Montreal  for  nearly  fifty  yeai-s.  He 
received  his  litei-ary  education  in  London  and  this  eity  ;  at  a  suitjiblc  age  enteied  the  medical 
department  of  McGill  univei-sity,  and  was  graduated  and  admitted  to  practice  in  the  spring  of 
1842. 

In  1845  Dr.  Scott  was  appointed  demonstrator  of  anatomy  in  McGill,  and  a  few  years  later 
was  appointed  professor  of  medical  jurisprudence  and  clinical  surgery.     For  a  quarter  (if  a 


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contiiry  lio  lias  tilled  i\w  chair  ofHnatoiiiy  in  tlu>  said  institution,  an<l  is  one  of  tlio  leading  men 
in  his  specialty  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada. 

J)r.  Scott  was  attcndin<r  physician  nt  the  Montreal  gem-ial  hospital  for  twenty-soven  yeai-s, 
and  is  now  consnltinj,'  physician  to  the  same  ;  was  for  twenty-five  years  one  of  the  governors  of 
the  college  of  physicians  and  surgeons  of  Queliec,  and  for  three  years  president  of  the  same ;  w 
a  magistrate,  and  has  held  a  few  (^tlier  civil  otfices,  lieing  nwly  to  lieAr  such  burdens  as  would 
not  materially  contlict  with  his  profes,sional  duties  ;  he  is  the  medical  otlicer  of  the  Orand  Trunk 
railway  ;  a  Royal  Arch  Mason  ;  a  mendter  of  St.  (Jeorge's  Kpiscopal  church,  And  a  gentleman  of 
irreproachaltle  character,  a  valuable  citizen,  and  held  in  high  esteem. 

In  1847  he  married  Klizalietli  Sproston,  da>ighter  of  John  Sproston,  of  Nfontreal,  and  they 
have  had  nine  children,  only  four  of  them,  three  sons  and  one  daughter,  now  living. 


JOHN   i'ori'oiM;,  .\i.r., 

CllIVUKSTKIi. 

"TOMN    PtHiPOUE,  who  represents  the  i iity  of  I'ontiai'  in  the  Dominion  Parliament,  is  a 

^  descendant  of  a  Norman-Frcneh  family,  a  mendter  of  which  came  to  l^wer  Canada  in  tlto 
early  part  of  the  IHth  century,  settling  at  La  I'rairie.  The  name  has  been  anglicised  from 
Poupart.  The  parents  of  Mr.  Poupore  were  Jean  Haptist(!  and  Rose  (Hoyd)  Poupore,  who  were 
living  at  Edwardsburg,  county  of  Cirenville,  Ont.,  when  he  was  born,  April  10,  hS17.  His 
maternal  grandfather  was  a  soldier  in  the  American  Rel)e!lion  (177.') — 17S2),  Iteing  of  Irish 
descent,  while  his  maternal  grandmother  was  French. 

Mr.  Poupore  was  educated  at  Potsdam,  New  York  ;  in  1833  moved  with  his  father's 
family  to  West  Meath,  Ontario,  and  in  IS.IS  to  Cliicliester,  liis  jin'sent  lionu".  There  his  father 
took  up  a  block  uf  land,  of  one  tlumsand  acres,  most  of  which  is  still  in  the  hands  of  the  family, 
and  until  his  death  in  18C2,  was  engage<l  in  farming,  lumbering,  and  manufaetining  custom 
tloui-,  a  business  which  oiu'  subject  still  follows,  being  one  of  the  leading  business  men  in  that 
locality. 

Most  of  thi'  time  foi'  tlu^  last  twenty  yeai^s,  Mr.  Poupore  has  been  in  jtublic  life,  entering 
the  Canadian  Assembly  in  ]8(il,  for  Pontiac,  and  serving  his  constituency  in  that  position 
mitil  the  Confederation  in  1807.  He  was  then  sent  to  the  Provincial  A.s.scmbly,  holding  that 
position  until  1874',  when  lie  resigned  in  favom-  of  Hon.  Levi  11.  Church,  after  having  served 
his  constituents  steadily  and  faithfully  for  thir*"on  years.  His  public  labours  seem  to  have 
l)een  well  appreciated  by  them,  they  giving  exj  .'.ssion  to  their  feelings  in  this  respect  by  pre- 
senting a  testimonial  in  the  form  of  a  valuable  piece  of  plate. 

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Mr.  Pouporo  was  oinigrftnt  agent  at  Quoboc  from  1876  until  tim  sunnner  of  1878,  wIumi  lie 
resigned,  at  the  urgent  recjuest  of  a  eonvention  of  his  political  friends,  held  at  Portage  du  Fort, 
at  which  he  was  nominated  to  represent  that  constitueney  in  the  Hojse  of  Commons.  Ho  was 
elected  by  a  large  majority,  and  has  scned  two  sessions  in  the  -tth  Parliament,  in  the  Conser- 
vative interests.  • 

Mr.  Poupore  joined  the  volunteer  infantry  years  ago,  as  lieutenant,  nnd  now  holds  the  rank 
of  lieut.-colonel  of  Reserve  Militia. 

In  Jul}',  184G,  he  was  joined  in  marriage  with  Marguerite,  eldest  daughter  of  Pierre  Bourd, 
deceased,  long  a  resident  of  Quebec.  They  have  burieil  two  children,  and  have  three  daughters 
and  one  son  living. 


HON.   llOHKli^r    MACJvAY, 

MONTREAL. 

ri  IHK  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  pui.sne  judge  of  the  superior  court  of  Quebec,  and  was  born 
-*"  in  Montreal,  on  the  27th  of  October,  1816,  being  the  second  son  of  Col.  Robert  Maekay 
of  the  Indian  department,  by  a  daughter  of  Hon.  Arthur  Davidson,  once  a  judge  of  the  Court  of 
Queen's  Bench  of  Lower  ( 'anada. 

Judge  Maekay  was  educated  in  Montreal,  here  studied  law,  and  was  called  to  the  bar  of 
Lower  Canada  in  1S39.  He  rose  to  a  high  position  in  his  profession,  and  held  at  one  time  the 
ottice  of  batonnier  of  the  Montreal  bar. 

He  was  appointed  one  of  the  commissioners  to  consolidate  the  public  general  statutes  of 
Lower  Canada  and  Canada  respectively,  on  the  28th  of  March,  1850. 

His  appointment  tu  the  ottice  of  a  judge  of  the  superior  court  is  dated  on  the  27th  of 
August,  18G8,  and  in  November  of  the  same  year  he  was  a])pointed  an  assistiint  judge  of  tho 
Court  of  Queen's  Bench. 


GEDEOX    OUIMET,  Q.C.,  D.C.L., 

QUEBEC. 

G  ED  EON  OUIMET,  superintendent  of  public  instruction  for  the  Province  of  Quebec,  dates 
his  birth  at  Ste.  Ro.se,  county  of  Laval,  on  the  Srd  of  June,  1823.  He  is  the  son  of 
Jean  Ouimet,  ciiltivutcur,  descendant  of  an  old  French  C^anadian  family,  and  Marie  Loui.sc 
Beautron,  dit  Major.  He  receiv(!d  his  literary  education  at  the  colleges  of  St.  Hyacintho  and 
Montreal,  having  in  the  last  named  place  received  most  excellent  drill  under  that  most  noteil 
educator,  the  Abbd  Duchesne :  and  his  legal  with  Mr,  Sicotte,  uow  the  Hon.  Judge  Sicotte, 
being  admitt(;d  to  the  bar  in  1844, 


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Mr.  Ouiinot  practiced  for  five  years  at  Vautlrouil,  and  aftiir  that  period  in  Montreal  wliero 
lie  rose  to  proiiiinciico  in  his  profesnion,  and  was  honored  hy  his  fellow  citizens,  serving  tt  one 
])eriod  as  mayor  of  the  town.  He  was  created  a  Queen's  (Jounsol  in  18(57,  and  was  at  one  time 
batonnicr  of  the  Province  of  Quebec. 

From  1858  tti  18G1,  Mr  Ouimet  represented  the  county  of  Bcauharnois  in  the  Canadian 
House  of  Assemhly.  He  has  In^en  president  of  the  St.  Jean  Baptiste  society  of  Montreal,  and 
of  the  InMltut  Canadien  Frmv^als. 

From  the  Confederation  in  1807,  t4)  1875,  he  represented  the  county  of  Two  Mountains 
in  the  Quebec  Legislature,  and  was  attorney-general  of  the  province  until  February  1873, 
when  he  became  Premier  and  Minister  of  Public  Instruction,  succeeding  Hon.  P.  J.  O. 
Chauveau.  At  that  time,  the  Minister  of  Public  Instruction  must  necessarily  lie  a  member  of 
the  local  parliament ;  but  at  length  it  became  evident  to  wise  statesmen  that  the  two  positions 
were  too  burdensome  for  one  man  to  holil,  if  not  inimical  to  the  best  interest  of  education,  and 
in  1875,  by  an  Act  of  the  Local  Assembly,  the  connection  was  abolished,  and  the  administration 
of  educational  aflaii-s  of  the  province  was  rejilaced  in  the  charge  of  the  superintendent,  as  it 
had  been  prior  to  the  Confederation.  The  judgment  of  the  proper  authorities  ns  well  as  public 
sentiment  i)oiiited  to  Hon.  Gddeon  Ouimet  as  the  person  best  fitted  for  that  highly  responsible 
position,  and  he  was  appointed  on  tiie  first  of  February,  I87(i,  the  interval  of  a  year  ami  a  half 
from  the  time  of  his  leaving  the  head  of  the  educational  department  ami  the  date  just  men- 
tioned, the  ministrj'  being  rilled  by  the  Hon.  C.  B.  De  Boucherville. 

The  Canada  Sehuol  Journal  for  May,  1878,  contained  a  portrait  and  sketch  of  our  subject, 
and  stated  that  "since  Mr.  Ouimet  ha."  had  charge  of  the  educational  interests  of  the  province, 
apart  from  polities,  a  powerful  impulse  has  been  imparted  to  the  educational  machinery,  and 
already  a  very  gratifying  progress  has  been  matle."  Since  Mr.  Ouimet  assumed  the  duties  of 
his  present  office,  the  old  School  Acts  have  been  carefidly  revised,  simplified  and  immensely 
improved  ;  the  work  of  the  department  has  been  reorganized  and  rendered  much  more  efficient; 
and  the  methods  of  official  intercourse  with  school  commissioners,  inspectors,  trustees,  and 
other  functionaries  charged  with  special  duties  in  carrying  into  eHect  the  laws  relating  to 
public  instruction,  has  been  greatly  improved,  this  being  done  largely  by  the  issiiing  of  circu- 
lars, defining  the  functions  and  detailing  the  duties  of  ail  parties  concerned.  At  the  .same  time 
these  circulars  have  had  a  tendency  to  impress  upon  the  persons  interested,  more  elevated 
view's  of  their  responsibilities  and  the  importance  of  their  work.  The  system  of  public  cKhib- 
itioas  of  educational  work,  introduced  in  1877,  has  created  a  spirit  of  emulation  which  is 
proving  highly  beneficial  to  teachere,  scholars,  and  the  managers  of  institutions  of  learning. 

The  journal  from  which  we  have  already  quoted,  further  remarks  that  "  it  is  worthy  of 
mention — a  fact  of  some  significance  in  its  bearings  upon  the  interests  of  a  mixed  population 
like  that  of  the  Province  of  Quebec — that  Mr.  Superintendent  Ouimet  is  regarded  with  much 


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favor  liy  tho  iniiUHtry  of  tlio  province  <^ciierally.  In  all  cases  in  which  ProtiNstant  and  Roman 
Catholic  etlucational  interests  iiifrini,'e  upon  each  other,  or  come  into  collision  he  has  tho 
reputation  of  being  strictly  inii)artial  in  his  decisions  ;  and,  so  far  as  one  can  judge,  from  tho 
fre(iuency  of  his  presence  at  Protestant  institutions  on  public  occasions,  and  from  his  many 
published  addresses,  it  cannot  be  doubted  that  he  is  at  heart  a  real  friend  of  cducatiim,  irre- 
spective of  creed  or  nationality.  .  .  .  His  well  known  urbanity,  legal  eminence,  experience 
in  public  business,  and  impartial  zeal  in  the  cause  of  public  education,  not  only  (pialify  him,  in 
a  mixed  community,  like  that  of  Quebec,  for  the  important  public  post  wliich  he  occupies,  but 
justify  the  hope  of  a  bright  future  for  education  in  tho  Province  of  Quebec." 

The  above  was  written  nearly  three  years  ago,  and  what  was  then  predicted  in  regard  to 
a  "  bright  future"  for  education  in  this  province,  is  beginning  to  be  realized.  The  cause  is 
making  rapid  advancement  through  the  untiring  lal)ors  and  admirable  management  of  tho 
superintendent,  whose  love  for  learning  and  tine  culture  make  him  an  excellent  leader  among 
the  educators  of  the  land. 

Superintendent  Ouimet  is  a  TJ.(.'.L.  of  the  university  of  Bi-shop's  college,  Lennoxville, 
and  the  author  of  the  law  on  district  magistrates,  and  while  in  the  legislature  he  secured 
important  amendments  on  the  (jualification  of  jurors  in  criminal  cases,  and  also  in  the  Code  of 
Procedure.  Hence  it  is  seen  that  in  more  ways  than  one  he  ha.s  left,  and  is  leaving  the  i?npress 
of  his  woll-di.sciplined  and  powerful  mind  in  the  arcliives  of  his  native  province. 

In  1878,  Mr.  Ouimet  was  named  by  the  French  Government  officier  d"in8tructiun  pub- 
Uqtie,  as  a  mark  of  distinction  and  appmbation  of  the  schola.stic  exhibition  of  the  Province  of 
Quebec  during  the  international  exhibition  held  in  Paris. 

In  1850,  our  subject  married  Mi.ss  M.  J.  Pelhint,  daughter  of  the  late  Alexis  Pellant,  and 
B  seven  children,  one  of  whom  is  Dr.  J.  A.  Ouimet, 


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KT.   REV.    BISHOP    FABRE, 

MONTREAL. 

"IjlDWARD  CHARLES  FABRE,  Bishop  of  Montreal,  is  a  native  of  this  city,  dating  his 
'  ^  birth  on  the  28th  of  February,  1827.  Both  parents,  Edward  Raymond  and  Lucy  (Perrault) 
Fabre,  were  also  born  here ;  his  father,  who  died  a  few  years  ago,  was  a  bookseller  in  Montreal 
for  many  years,  and  a  prominent  citizen,  being  mayor  in  1849  and  1850 ;  his  mother  is  yet  living. 
Our  subject  is  the  eldest  member  of  a  family  of  five  children  who  survive  their  father.  A 
younger  brother,  Hon.  Hector  Fabre,  is  senator  for  La  Salle  ;  and  a  sister,  Horten.se,  is  the 
w  idow  of  Hon.  Sir  George  E.  Cartier. 


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BiMhop  Fabro  wax  cducattHl  iit  St.  Tlyacintlu-  colloj^e,  and  in  I.sHy,  near  Paris,  Franco ;  ro- 
cojvecl  thu  tonsun;  at  the  liands  of  Archbinhop  AH're,  of  Paris,  on  the  17th  of  May,  \H\'y,  and  waa 
ordiunod  in  Montreal  by  Bishop  Prince,  on  the  23rd  of  February,  IH")0. 

After  runmining  a  few  months  at  tlie  bisliop's,  our  subject  was  made  curate  of  Sorel ;  in 
1S')2  was  appointed  parish  priest  at  Pointe  Claire;  in  Novemlier,  1854,  returned  to  the  bisliop's 
palace  ;  w&s  made  a  canon  on  the  25th  of  December,  1^4'>5  ;  appointed  Bishop  of  (}ratianopolis 
on  the  1st  of  April,  187.S,  and  was  consecrated  by  Archbishop  Taschereau,  of  Quebec,  on  the  Ist 
of  May  following.  In  187C,  on  the  resignation  of  Bishop  Bourget,  our  subject  became  Bishop 
of  Montreal,  taking  possession  im  the  l!)th  of  .Sei)tember  of  that  year.  The  office  is  one  of 
great  honor;  but  the  Bisliop  of  Montreal  has  unusual  burdens  and  responsibilities  to  bear,  and 
it  is  not  at  all  tinlikely  thai,  he  would  shrink  from  them,  but  for  the  consciousness  thuf  he  is 
in  the  path  of  duty,  antl  has  Iteen  called  of  God  to  do  this  work. 


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THREE  HI  VERS. 

"T -TEN III  GEDEON  MALHIOT,  is  the  son  of  the  late  Numidique  Malhiot.  His  mother's 
-^ — *-  maiden  name  was  Elizabeth  Uou.iseau.  He  was  born  at  St.  Pierre  des  Bacquets,  in  the 
Province  of  Quebec,  on  the  Gth  of  March,  1837.  His  ancestor  Ren^  Malhiot,  came  from 
Chastelvray,  in  the  Diocese  of  Toulouse,  in  the  south  of  France,  in  1G70,  to  Canada,  which  was 
then  a  French  dependency  known  as  New  France  (Nouvelle  France).  The  family  settled  in 
the  Seigrcurie  of  Caudarville,  and  in  172C  they  removed  to  the  Seigneurie  of  Levrard,  or  les 
Beequets,  in  the  district  uf  Three  Ilivei-s.  The  lands  then  settled  on  by  the  family,  have  been 
transmitted  from  father  to  son,  since  that  period,  and  are  still  in  the  possession  of  the  subject 
of  this  sketch. 

Mr.  Malhiot  received  a  classical  education  in  tlie  colleges  of  Nicolet  and  Chambly,  .studied 
law  in  Quebec,  and  was  called  to  the  bar  of  Lower  ( 'anada,  on  the  8th  of  Novendjer,  1868,  and 
has  practised  his  profession  in  the  city  of  Three  Rivers,  where  he  resides  since  that  date. 

He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Quebec  Legislature  for  the  city  of  Three  Rivers,  in  the 
year  1871.  On  the  22nd  of  Sej)tember,  187-1',  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  Executive  Council 
of  the  Province  of  ^Quebec,  in  the  De  Bouclierville  administration  (Conservative),  held  the 
office  of  Commissioner  of  Crown  Lands  in  it,  and  during  which  he  was  leader  of  the  House  of 
Assembly ;  after  liis  appointment  he  was  re-elected  by  acclamation  for  Three  Rivera,  in  the 
October  following.  At  the  general  election  in  187j,  he  was  elected  by  a  large  nu  jority  for 
the  same  constituency. 


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In  1874,  Mr.  Malhiut  wiw  made  Queen's  Counsel  by  the  Provincial  Government,  and  again 
by  the  Dominion  Governnient  in  1880.  He  is  (kttoanler  (president)  of  the  bar  of  the  Lower 
Canada  section  of  the  District  of  Tl»ree  Rivei-s.  During  tlie  Fenian  Raid  of  18GG,  he  was 
captain  of  No.  2  company  in  the  Three  Rivers  V'ohmteers,  and  served  with  his  company  at 
the  front. 

Gn  the  2r)th  of  July,  18(i,j,  he  mamed  Elizabeth  Eugenie,  daughter  of  D.  O.  LaBarre,  Esq., 
notary  public  of  Throe  Rivi-rs.     He  has  one  daughter,  Alice,  aged  13  years. 

Mr.  Malhiot's  politics  are  strictly  (^on.servative. 

In  religious  opinion  he  is  a  Roman  Catholic 

He  is  one  of  the  most  active  and  energetic  membere  of  the  legal  profession  in  this  city, 
his  practice  being  both  lucrative  and  extensive. 


HON.   THOMAS   D'ARC'Y   :NF(iEE, 

MONT  HEAL. 

AS  this  volume  contains  sketches  of  the  recently  decea.sed  as  well  as  of  the  living, 
it  would  be  very  imperfect  without  some  notice  of  the  brilliant  Irish  omtor,  statesman, 
historian  and  poet,  whose  name  stands  at  the  head  of  this  .sketch.  As  his  full  biograjihy  has 
already  been  written  by  that  talented  lady,  Mrs.  Sadlier,  wo  hall  give  only  a  brief  outline  of 
his  diversitiod  career ;  and  in  so  doing  we  .shall  draw  largely  from  a  sketch  of  Mr.  McGeo 
found  in  The  Harp  for  June,  1880,  a  literary  nuigazine  published  in  Montreal.  The  article  is 
signed  "  J.  J.  C,"  and  is,  no  doubt,  fnjm  the  pen  of  another  Irish  orator,  l)rilliaiit  advocate  and 
graceful  writer,  J.  J.  Curran,  Q.C. 

We  learn  that  Mr  McGee  was  born  at  Carlingford,  county  of  Louth,  Ireland,  on  the  13th 
of  April,  1825;  that  he  came  to  America  the  first  time  in  1842  ;  .settled  in  Boston,  Mas.s., 
began  immediately  to  contribute  to  the  columns  of  the  lioston  Pilot ;  and  that,  although  only 
.seventeen  years  of  age,  he  .showed  great  powoi-s  as  a  writer  and  speaker.  His  articles  in  the 
Pilot  attracted  much  attention,  especially  in  Dublin,  Ireland,  and,  in  a  few  years,  liy  invitation, 
he  returned  to  his  native  isle  to  take  the  chief  editorship  of  the  Freemen's  JnuftKil.  Hi.s  next 
sUip  was  to  V»ecome  associatol  with  DuHTy,  Davis,  Mitchell  and  Reiily  in  editing  the  Dublin 
Nation,  the  organ  of  the  Young  Ireland  party,  and  DuHy  regarded  Me<lce  as  a  powerful  addi- 
tion to  that  galaxy  of  audacious  and  brilliant  politiciaits. 

After  the  collapse  of  the  movement  of  1848,  Mr  McGoe  returned  to  America,  and  was 
ronnected  successively  with  the  iV«'?»'  York  Ntii ion,  tho  Avu'rida  Celt  and  the  Neir  luui,  all 
having  a  brief  existence,  owing,  no  doubt,  to  [MMM- iiianagtMniiiit,  Mr.  Mctleo  not  exci^lling  &s  a 
business  man. 


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"A»  a  public  lecturer  on  literary  or  liiBtorical  Biibjeuts,  he  was  probably  unrivalled  in  the  New  World,  and 
it  is  much  to  be  regretted  that  no  complete  edition  vf  hia  great  efforts  has  as  yet  been  offered  to  the  public. 

"  His  career  in  Canada  may  be  briefly  told.  He  sat  for  many  years  as  representative  for  Montreal  West  in 
tho  parliament  of  the  United  Canadas,  and  fur  one  Bession  under  the  Macdonald-Dorion  a<lministration  he  held 
the  oihce  of  President  of  the  Council  ;  and  8ubsei|uently  that  of  Minister  of  Immigration,  Agriculture  and  Sta. 
tistics  in  the  Macdonald-Cartier  cabinet,  in  the  Parliament  of  the  Dominion.  In  our  legislative  halls  the 
eloijuence  of  the  piost  gifted  statesmen  paled  before  that  of  the  great  Irish  representative.  When  it  became  whis- 
pered about  that  McGee  was  to  address  the  house  on  any  important  topic  of  debate,  no  seat  was  vacant  in  the 
chamber,  and  eager  crowds  elbowed  themselves  intt)  the  galleries.  When  he  arose  to  speak,  no  sound  inter- 
rupted his  usually  unostentatious  opening  sentences,  but  as  he  wanned  to  his  subject  cheer  after  cheer  would 
rend  the  air,  his  bitterest  political  foes  bowing  down  with  the  multitude  before  his  commanding  genius.  His 
humor  was  contagious,  his  wit  sparkling,  his  invective  terrible  ;  but  the  spirit  of  {mtriotism  he  seemed  to  infuse 
into  his  every  utterance  was  the  most  effective  of  his  weapons,  and  won  tho  hearts,  after  he  had  convinced  the 
reason,  of  his  hearers. 

".Apart  from  Mctiee's  great  Confederation  speeches,  and  his  lectures  and  poems,  his  principal  works  are  his 
'  History  of  Ireland,'  pronounced  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Tabaret,  president  of  the  Ottawa  university,  as  the  most 
interesting  work  on  that  subject  yet  written ;  '  Gallery  of  Irish  writers  in  the  17th  century  '  ;  *  History  of  the 
Irish  settlers  in  North  America' ;  '  Life  and  Times  of  O'Connell '  ;  and  '  Life  of  Dr.  Magin.' 

"  McGee's  popularity  amongst  his  fellow-countrymen  in  Canada  was  unbounded,  until  the  breaking  out  of 
the  Fenian  movement.  Having  himself  in  the  mournful  diiys  of  '48,  passed  through  the  tiery  ordeal,  he  felt 
compelled  to  warn  his  fellow-countrymen  against  lending  an  attentive  eye  to  those  who  would  seduce  them  from 
their  allegiance.  The  unmeasured  terms  in  which  he  inveighed  against  Fenianisiii  and  its  promoters  aroused 
against  him  e.  feelin;;  which  led  to  hi.s  assassination.  At  the  still  hour  of  midnight  on  the  7th  of  .\pril,  18UH,  ho 
'•iW  at  the  door  of  his  hotel,  his  mighty  brain  shattered  by  the  bullet  of  an  assassin.  The  Dominion  authorities 
V  -ered  a  public  funeral  for  the  murdered  statesman,  and  generously  provided  for  his  widow  and  ori)hans.  The 
bur  of  Lower  Canada,  of  which  he  was  a  member,  met  and  passed  appropriate  resolutioim  of  condolence.  The 
Kev.  M.  J.  O'Farrell  delivered  his  funeral  oration  in  St.  Patrick's  church,  Montreal,  a  uiu.ster-piece  of  Irish  elu- 
<pience,  and  tho  late  Archbishop  Connolly  offered  up  re(|uiem  services  in  the  cathedral  of  II  ilifax. 

"  J*oor  Mctiee  lies  interred  in  the  family  vault  on  the  mountain  side,  in  the  Catholic  Cemetery  of  Cote  des 
Neiges,  on  the  outskirts  of  the  city  whose  inhubitantii  his  silvery  tongue  had  .so  often  charmed.  He  had  his 
faults,  but  the  greatest  of  them  he  had  con<juered  long  before  his  sad  end.  He  was  a  true  Irishman,  a  tine  and 
loyal  citizen  of  Canada,  his  adopted  country  ;  but  above  and  beyond  all,  a  true  son  of  the  Catholic  Church. 
His  admirers  to-day  are  legion  ;  the  enemies  of  his  memory  few.  The  prophetic  words  of  a  gifted  writer,  Mr. 
P.  J.  Mah)ne,  in  the  liixh  Sutituml  Mitijaxine  of  1873,  are  now  ..hnost  verified  :  '  His  works  and  ideas  have  in 
them  the  power  to  propr.gato  tlieiiiselves,  and  when  the  apparent  inconsistence  of  his  course  shall  have  been 
forgotten  and  explained  away,  our  children  will  build  monuments  to  the  prophet  whom  their  fathers  assisted 
to  stone.' " 


THE    COUNT    LOUlf^    CJUSTANE    J)X)i)ET    D'OliSON'iSEIS'f^, 

l^UEHKV. 

THK  subject  of  our  sketch  is  a  lieuteiiaiit-eolonel  on  the  militia  staft"  of  tlio  Dominion  of 
Ciinada,  l)ri},'a(le-mMJor  at  Quehec,  \:c ,  kc.  The  Count  Louis  (Justavo  tl'Odot  il'Or- 
Honnens  was  horn  in  this  eountry  on  the  ITtli  of  April,  18+2,  iinl  is  tho  descendant  of  a  Swiss 
jiatriciiin  family  of  the  canton  of  Kiihourg,  wlto,  accordinj^  to  HIanc  de  Charney,  in  his 
history  of  the  j>atrician  families  of  Kiiliourj,',  "came  towaidH  t)»u  end  of  the  fourteenth  century 
to  settle  iu  that  city,  and  continue  tliere  its  lutstrc."      • 


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The  general  lexicon  of  Switzerland,  by  Leu,  published  at  Zurich  in  1758,  mentions  the 
d'Odet  d'Orsonnens  with  honor.  Later,  in  17^<9,  Jean  Jaccjuos  Ibjltzhalb,  in  his  supplement  to 
tlie  lexicon  or  di'^tionary  of  Leu,  has  also  continued  its  history. 

From  its  arrival  in  Fribourg,  the  family  found  itself  divided  into  two  bi-anchcs;  one,  in 
which  the  noble  house  of  De  Meyer  became  extinct,  died  oft'  towards  iT-tli.  While  the  other 
branch,  the  one  which  now  exists  in  this  our  own  day,  counts  among  its  members  distinguished 
priests,  soldiers  and  statesmen ;  amongst  whom  we  may  mention,  a  lieutenant  d'Avoyer, 
Claude  Joseph  d'Odet  d'Oi'sonnens,  who  was  also  colonel  of  the  whole  country,  and  Swiss  am- 
bas.sador  to  renew  tiie  treaty  of  alliance  between  the  Helvetic  body  and  the  crown  of  Franco, 
on  the  28th  of  May,  1777 ;  a  Jesuit  father  of  the  name  of  Arsene,  who  was  the  confe.ssor  of  the 
Electrice,  Marie  Josephe  de  Baviero,  later  Empress  of  Germany,  and  which  history  mentions  as 
being  "  a  model  of  sweetness  and  the  beloved  of  his  kings";  a  Capuchin  *a.tber,  Loitin,  chaplain 
to  the  Swiss  Guard  of  France ;  a  field-mai"shal  of  France,  Nicolas  Albert  Ignaco  Beiiiardin 
d'Odet  d'Orsonnens,  prefect  of  Domiiierre,  knight  of  the  order  of  St  Louis,  and  colonel  of  the 
Swiss  Guard  who  pas.sed  through  the  revolution  of  17i*B;  a  bishop,  Jean  Baptiste  d'Odet 
d'Orsonnens,  bishop  Count  of  Lausanne,  and  Prince  of  the  Holy  Euipire,  who  died  in  1803  after 
having  passed  through  the  most  critical  events  of  the  revolution,  and  who  merited  the  (juali'i- 
cation  of  "  Optimus  et  vli/Uanfisnimuff  cpii^copiis,"  from  his  holiness  Pope  Pius  VH. ;  at  the 
same  period.  Pierre  Louis  d'Odet,  Seigneur  of  (^i-sonncns,  then  bailiff  of  lloinont,  gav(*  refuge  to 
a  large  numWr  of  French  priests  who  were  flying  from  the  revolution.  Those  whom  he  could 
not  receive  into  hi"!  castle,  he  i)laccd  with  some  of  the  inhaliitants  of  liis  bailiwick.  This  humane 
comluct  attracted  the  attention  of  his  holiness,  Pope  Pius  VII.,  wlio  caused  his  secretiry  of 
state,  ('ardinal  Zelada,  to  thank  the  family,  as  well  as  the  Swiss  inliabitunts,  in  his  name,  for 
their  j^enerous  hospitality. 

Later,  in  184S-l'i»,  Louis  Nicolas  Simon  d'Odet  d'Orsonnens,  knight  of  the  military  order 
of  St.  George  de  la  Reimion,  tl.en  captain  in  the  2nd  Swi.ss  regiment  at  Naples,  took  part  in  the 
Koman  campaign,  foi'  whicli  he  was  decorateil  by  the  pope.  This  was  the  last  member  of  tlio 
family  in  Switzerlaml,  he  having  died  in  his  castle  of  Oi-sonnens  on  the  2nd  April,  187!*. 

The  first  im'niber  of  (his  distinguished  family  who  came  to  this  country,  was  Prothai.> 
d'Odet  d'Orsimncns,  patrician  of  Fribouig,  who  came  to  (Canada  about  the  year  1810,  with  th(> 
famous  Meui-on's  regiment,  as  ca])tain  of  the  grenadier  company  ;  having  then  as  his  lieuti^nant 
Monsieur  de  Monteiiach,  his  cousin,  who  married  here  Miss  Grant,  Baronne  de  Longueuil, 
Captain  Prothais  d'Odet  il'Orsonnens,  after  his  regiment  was  disbanded  in  18-  ,  went  ^o  the 

Red  river  with  a  strong  party mprised  chiefly  of  the  old  soldiers  of  his  r«>giment,  and   took 

Fort  William  for  Lord  Selkirk,  who  was  tlien  governor  of  the  Hudson  Bay  Comi)any.  The  fort 
was  held  by  the  North-West  Company,  which  was  comprised  chieHy  of  Canadians.  This  re- 
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higlily  commended  by  some  and  condemned  by  his  opponents.  Captain  d'Orsonncns  married,  in 
Montreal,  Miss  Sopliie  Rocher,  sister  of  the  Honorable  Madame  Sabrevois  de  Bleary.  For  his 
services,  Lord  Selkirk  gave  him  a  township  in  the  north-west,  on  the  understanding  that  he 
was  to  create  a  Swiss  colony  there.  He  went  to  Swibserland  for  that  purpose,  but  failed  to 
carry  out  his  engagements ;  through  that  and  the  death  of  Lord  Selkirk,  the  family  lost  tliose 
lands.  On  returning  to  Canada,  he  settled  at  St.  Roch  de  I'Achigan,  where  he  built  a  house  in 
the  style  of  the  manors  of  that  time,  and  which  he  named  "  La  Chaumitire  Suisse."  Ho  was 
appointed  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  militia  battalion  of  Lachenaye,  and  died  suddenly  on  the 
ICth  of  March,  1834,  from  heart  disease;  having  served  in  nearly  every  part  of  the  world, — • 
France,  Spain,  Egj'pt  and  India;  and,  during  the  many  engagements  he  served  in,  was 
wounded  no  less  than  seven  times.  He  left  two  sons  and  two  daughtei's  to  mourn  his  loss, 
The  eldest,  Thomas  Edmond  d'Oilet  d'Orsonnens,  was  born  at  St.  Roch  de  I'Acliigan  on  UOth 
October,  181  fS.  A  career  in  the  army  was  marked  out  for  him,  but  after  coming  out  brilliantly 
in  his  studies  at  the  Montreal  college,  he  entered  the  medical  profession  and  practised  in  that 
city.  He  married  Miss  Adeline  Dorval,  of  L'Assomption.  He  is,  at  present,  piisident  of  the 
medical  school  fa«  idty  of  tlie  Victoria  University,  of  Cobourg,  surgeon  and  doctor  of  the  Hotel- 
Dieu,  of  Montreal ;  and  knight  of  the  order  of  St  Gregory  the  Great  He  has  many  children. 
The  eldest,  Louis  Oustave,  upon  whom  the  family  nobility  and  titles  were  recognised  with  the 
title  of  Count,  by  his  holiness  Pius  IX.,  was  born  at  L'Assomption  on  17th  April,  184i2.  He  was 
educated  for  the  army,  and  was  tj  have  joined  the  Swiss  regiment  at  Naples,  in  wliich  his 
cousin  was  captain,  when  the  kingdom  of  Naples  was  overthrown  by  the  revolution.  He 
joined  the  1st  battalion  of  rifles  aa  ensign,  on  the  17th  of  November,  18.'>ft;  in  1800,  he  ex- 
changed into  the  2nd  troop  of  cavahy,  being  gazetted  a  cornet ;  was  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  lieutenant  on  3rd  June,  18(jl,  and  commanded  the  troop  for  nearly  a  year.  He  resigned 
his  command  for  ihe  purpose  of  studying  law;  having  completed  his  studies  l)efore  coming  of 
age,  he  embarked  on  board  the  schooner  La  CaiKidieniu;  us  superniunerary,  under  commander, 
now  the  Hon.,  Pierre  Fortin,  and  proceeded  for  a  cruise  down  the  gulf. 

After  being  called  to  the  bar,  he  re-entered  the  .service  and  joined  the  -tth  battalion  of 
Canadian  Chasseurs,  and  was  gazetted  lieutenant  on  the  loth  of  Hecember,  1855;  he  served  on 
the  frontier  at  Niagara,  in  18G(i,  as  ensign  and  adjutant,  and  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
captain  of  the  4th  Chas-seure  on  the  8th  of  March,  l.*«)7.  His  subsecjuent  promotions  arc 
brigade-major,  3rd  January,  1808,  and  lieutenant-colonel,  19th  February,  186!>. 

In  1871,  he  held  the  temporary  command  of  the  0th  military  district  at  the  divisional 
camj)  of  Laprairie.  Lieutenant-colonel  Count  d'Orsonnens  is  the  only  staff  officer  who  holds 
certificates  from  all  the  schools.  The  following  are  their  <lates,  viz.: — Infantry  school,  1st  class, 
24th  August,  1804;  gunnery,  1st  class,  4th  July,  1808  ;  cavalry,  1st  cla.ss,  27th  March,  18(;i>. 
Towards  tlie  <!«ise  of  the  year  !.S0!>,  be  went  to  Switzerland,  when  upon  the  invitation  of  the 

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during  its  grand  autumn  mand'uvres. 

In  1874,  the  Count  d'Odet  d'Orsonnens,  doubtless  being  inspired  by  the  remembrance  of 
the  manujuvres  of  the  Swiss  army  published  a  pamphlet  on  the  military  organization  of  the 
Canadian  Confederation.  He  also  was  the  fii"st  who,  in  18G7,  suggested  the  idea  to  his  co- 
religionists to  send  military  aid  to  the  papal  see,  and  was  instrumental  in  the  decision  of  the 
movement  which  sent  to  Home  more  than  (iOO  Canadian  Zouaves.  This  expedition,  which 
resembled,  in  more  respects  than  one,  that  of  the  first  Crusades,  has,  it  is  affirmed,  contributed 
more  to  make  Canada  known  to  Europe  than  any  other  thing. 

Like  many  other  old  families,  the  d'Odet  family  retain  many  souvenii-s  and  marks  of  ap- 
preciation from  distinguished  personages,  such  as  autographic  letters  from  kings,  princes  and 
others  ;  amongst  some  of  these  in  their  possession  is  a  letter  dated  8th  March,  1670,  signed  by 
Kumianuel,  due  of  Savoie,  and  king  of  Cyprus. 

The  d'Odet  family  has  been  allied  with  barons  d'Alt,  marquis  de  Mailbard,  de  Reynold 
and  de  Praroman,  the  counts  de  Stc.  Colombe  and  the  princial  family  de  Diesltach,  &c.,  &c. 

The  Count  d'Odet  d'Orsonnens  married  in  1870,  Miss  Marie  Louise  Atl^le  Desbarats,  and 
has  issue  one  son,  Itorn  in  1872,  the  Viscount  George  Joseph  Gustave. 

Akms:  Azure,  a  lion,  or;  rampant,  liolding  a  horn  of  plt-nty,  of  the  same. 

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WATERLOO. 

IV  wo  have  not,  at  the  start,  a  decided  relish  for  a  certain  class  of  studies,  yet  are  impressed 
with  the  conviction  that  we  should  pursue  them,  having  in  view,  for  instance,  one  of  the 
lilieral  professions,  then  we  should  cultivate  a  taste  for  such  studies,  as  one  does  a  love  for 
tomatoes.  It  is  much  better,  however,  if  we  can  do  it,  to  fall  in  love  with  such  studies  at  the 
outset.  In  that  case,  we  shall  l»e  almost  certain  to  succeed  in  the  profession  for  which  we  fit 
ourselves.  A  good  illustration  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  who,  as  far  as  we  can  ascertain, 
was  an  apt  medical  student  to  begin  with,  and  who  still  studies  his  profession  and  practises  it 
from  an  anient  love  of  the  science  ;  hence  it  is  almost  needless  to  state  that  our  subject  is  mak- 
ing a  succe.ss  in  his  profession. 

Ur.  Phelan  was  born  in  the  parish  of  St.  Coiumban,  county  of  Two  Mountains,  P.Q.,  on  the 
10th  of  May,  1840,  his  parents  being  John  and  Mary  Phelan.  His  father  was  a  merchant  from 
Kilkenny,  Ireland,  «  pioneer  in  the  pari.sh  mentioned,  and  a  prominent  man  there  for  a  long 
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in  tho  community,  and  greatly  respected.  His  mother  was  a  sister  of  the  late  Bishop  Phelan, 
of  Kingston,  Ontario.  The  son  received  a  good  classical  education  at  the  seminary  of  Ste.  Th<5- 
r^se,  and  studied  medicine  with  a  keen  relish  at  McGill  university,  Montreal,  from  which  insti- 
tution he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.,  CM.  in  1865.  During  the  vacation  in  the  previous  year 
he  spent  liis  time  very  profitably  in  visiting  hospitals  of  the  United  States,  prinr^ipally  at  Wiush- 
ington,  in  order  to  enlarge  his  knowledge  of  surgery,  in  the  practice  of  which  he  has  since  had 
marked  success. 

Dr.  Phelan  commenced  practice  at  Knowlton,  county  of  Brome,  immediately  after  receiving 
his  license  from  the  board  of  physicians  and  surgeons  of  the  province,  and  in  January,  1870, 
removed  to  Waterloo,  soon  becoming  the  leading  physician  in  the  town.  His  practice  is  very 
large,  and  his  neighlx)rs  ci-edit  him  with  having  great  skill.  He  holds  no  office  of  any  kind,  and 
devotes  his  spare  hours  entirely  to  the  study  of  his  profession,  keejiing  well  read  up  in  its  seve- 
ral branches.  ^ 

His  politics  are  Conservative  ;  his  religion,  Roman  (/'atholic. 

On  the  8th  of  November,  18(i5,  Mi.ss  Eh^dcanne  M.  (Jnimlon,  of  Montreal,  became  the  wife 
of  Dr.  Phelan,  and  they  have  one  child  living,  ami  have  buried  one. 


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WILLIAM    FRASKII, 

FRASEliVlU.E. 

T I  1HE  subject  of  this  biography  is  the  much  esteoiiuid  and  highly  rcspoctod  seigneur  of 
-'-  Fraserville,  and  was  elected  mayor  in  1877,  which  ofHco  lie  lias  retained  up  to  the  present 
time  (1881),  having  each  year  been  elected  therefor  unaiiiniuusly. 

He  was  l)orn  at  Riviere  du  Loup  on  the  2()th  of  September,  i83(>,  and  is  the  son  of  Alex- 
amler  Fraser,  K.sq.  (an  old  north-wester,  and  one  of  the  associatiNs  of  McTavish  and  others),  by 
Pauline  Michaud.  His  grandfather  was  Captain  Malcolm  Fraser,  of  tho  7<Sth  Highlanders,  one 
of  the  most  distinguished  regiments  in  the  British  army,  and  served  under  Wolfe  at  the  siege 
of  Queljec,  for  which  and  other  services  he  had  performed  in  defending  the  crown  of  Kngland, 
ho  was  made  seigneur  of  one-half  of  Murray  Bay,  the  remaining  half  being  awarded  to  ( 'oionel 
Nairne,  who  was  colonel  of  the  regiment  at  the  same  time. 

Tho  old  veU'ran's  sword,  which  he  used  at  the  siege,  is  in  possession  of  the  present  seigneur 
and  mayor  of  Fraserville,  and  is  a  time-honored,  valuable  old  relic,  which  the  worthy  man 
holds  in  the  highest  affection,  as  well  as  many  old  books  and  manuscripts  which  belonged  to 
the  regiment,  all  of  which  ai-o  worth  their  weight  in  preciou.'-  stones  to  him.  The  brave  old 
soldier  exchanged  from  the  78th  Highlanders  into  the  84ith  regiment,  to  which  he  was  gnzettetl 


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jjayiniister,  and  died  in  1815.      It  should  liere  bo  niontionod  that  the  neiynidty  of  Riviorc  dii 
Loup  was  owned  V)y  Mr.  Alexander  Fraser,  the  father  of  the  su})ject  of  our  sketch. 

Mr.  William  Fraser  was  educated  at  the  seniinary  and  high  school,  Quebec,  and,  ahv.r 
leavinj,' these,  havin<f  always  exhibited  a  fondness  for  agricultural  pursuits,  he  conniienced 
farming,  in  which  occupation  he  has  been  engaged  in  up  to  the  prcM-iit  time,  and  it  is  no  idle 
mention  to  stsito  that  his  farm  would  do  credit  to  any  Upper  Canadian  farmer — aye,  and  for 
aught  of  that,  many  an  old  country  one  too.  The  whole  town  of  Frasorvilie  is  built  upon  his 
property,  and  the  family  of  Frasers  have  made  the  place  what  it  is  at  the  present  day.  It  is 
much  to  be  regretted  that  we  have  not  more  men  like  the  present  seigneur  and  mayor,  for  if 
so,  we  do  not  believe  we  should  have  so  many  outcries  that  the  land  is  not  so  good  in  Lower 
Canada  as  it  is  in  other  directions. 

The  mayor  has  twenty-two  miles  front  seigniory  on  the  St.  Ijawrencc  river,  by  nine  miles 
depth.  Socially,  Mr.  William  Fraser  is  deservedly  popular  amongst  all  classes,  irrespective  of 
nationality  or  creed,  in  his  native  town,  and  he  is  highly  esteemed' throughout  the  entire  Pro- 
vince of  Quelx'c,  as  well  as  generally  being  acknowledged  one  of  the  very  few  practical  gentle- 
men farmers  who  tlirow  their  whole  energy  into  the  developing  of  the  resources  of  the  land,  by 
adopting  when  and  where  necessary  auxiliaries  for  the  fertilising  where  it  has  become  deterio- 
rated by  exhaustive  crops. 

He  married  on  the  23ril  of  June,  lfs.")7,  Anais  Wilhelmlne  de  Oa';p(^,  eighth  daughter  of 
P.  de  Ca.sp<$,  seigneur  of  St.  .Inhn,  Port  Joli.  Her  mother  was  Miss  Allison,  and  her  grand- 
father, Captain  Allison.  By  this  alliance  there  have  l)cen  issue  ten  children,  four  of  whom, 
Malcolm,  William,  and  Archibald,  and  Mary  Alice,  only  survive. 


rrillE  j)resent  Engineer  of  the  Government  Railways  for  the  I'rovimc  of  (juibcc  was  born 
-*~  at  Durham,  England,  on  Mic  ITtli  April,  1S22.  His  father,  Cohmel  Alexander  Wlialley 
Light,  wjis  a  descendant  of  an  old  ami  ilistinguished  SomersPtshirc  family,  and  for 
many  years  connnanded  His  Majesty's  25th  Regiment  (the  King's  Own  Borderers).  In  the 
early  part  of  the  century  he  had  served  with  marked  distinction  under  Sir  Ralph  Abercrombie, 
Sir  F^yre  <  'oote,  and  the  Dukes  of  York  and  Wellington.  He  twice  led  "  forhjiii  hopes,"  was  each 
time  seveiely  wounded,  and  received  a  handsome  pension  forg.dbint  services.  He  married  Jane, 
eldest  daughter  of  John  Smart,  E.s(|.,  of  Trewhitt  Hall,  Nortliumbcilan<l,  and  sister  of  the  late 
Admiral  Sir  Robert  Smart,  at  one  time  Connnander-in-Chief  of  the  ( 'liannel  Squadron  and  the 
Mediterranean  Fleet.    Tlie  sidiject  of  this  sketch  came  with  his  faniily  to  Canada  in  1831,  and 


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was  a  pupil  at  the  Iloyal  (Irarnmar  School,  Kingston.  At  an  early  age  he  showeil  consideraMe 
Rptitutle  for  the  study  of  Mathematics  and  Mechanics,  and  having  chosen  his  profession  was 
articled  to  an  English  Civil  Engineer  of  ability.  In  184'2,  Mr.  Light  became  an  Assistant  Engi- 
neer on  the  Board  of  Works  of  Canada,  under  the  late  Hon.  H.  H.  Killaly  and  Samuel  Koefer, 
E.sq.,  C.  E.,  with  whom  he  served  until  184(),  when  he  joined  the  staff  of  the  Great  Western 
Railway,  then  just  in  course  of  construction.  In  1S51,  Mr.  Light  held  his  first  position  as  ('hiof 
Engineer,  being  appointed  in  that  capacity  to  the  St.  Andrews  and  Quebec  (now  known  as  the 
New  Bftmswick  and  Canada)  Hallway,  and  for  ten  years  almost  uninterruptedly  filled  impor- 
tant positions  as  Chief  Engineer  of  Government  Railways  in  the  Provinces  of  New  Brunswick 
and  Nova  Scotin.  Amongst  other  important  works  he  built  what  was  formerly  known  as  the 
"  European  and  North  American  Railway,"  between  St.  John  and  Siiediac,  N.B.,  and  which  is 
now  incorporated  with,  and  forms  a  considerable  portion  of,  the  Intercolonial  Road. 

In  l.Sdl,  Mr.  Light  was  in  England,  and  was  .specially  cho.sen  by  the  Horse  Guards  and 
War  Office  as  being  an  Engineer  of  marked  ability  and  experience,  to  accompany  tlie  Imperial 
troops  to  this  country  during  the  affair  of  tlie  "Trent,"  and,  in  the  event  of  war,  for  other  ser- 
vices in  North  America.  On  liis  i-eturn  to  England  in  18G3,  he  was  elected  member  of  the  Insti- 
tute of  Civil  Engineers,  and  was  shortly  after  a))pointe<l  by  Mr.  James  Brunlecs  to  the  Santos 
and  Sao  Paulo  Railway,  in  Brazil,  a  woik  of  gi-eat  difficulty  and  importance.  On  his  return  to 
England,  Mr.  Light  became  associated  with  Mr.  Brunlees,  Aleadows  Rendell,  and  Berkeley  Bruce, 
eminent  Engli.sh  Engineei-s,  and  a.ssisted  them  in  various  works  of  importance.  In  18G9,  Mr. 
Light  accepted  the  charge  of  a  District  on  the  Intercolonial  Railway,  under  Mr.  Sandford 
Fleming,  C.  E.,  including  the  Mirimichi  Biidgcs,  which  important  works  were  constructed  under 
his  innnediate  supervision,  and  in  1874,  he  was  appointed  Government  Engineer  of  Railways  for 
the  Province  of  Quebec,  which  po.st  he  still  retains.  Mr.  Light  (amongst  others)  has  constructed 
the  Q.  M.  O.  and  0.  Railway  between  Quebec  and  Montrefd,  which  is  an  admirable  and  service- 
able work. 


11U.N.    JIONOJIK    MrJlKMKK*,    M.IM'., 

ST.  HYACINTH E. 

rriHE  member  of  the  Quebec  Assembly  for  St.  Hyacinthe,  is  a  man  of  no  ordinary  parts. 
-*-  As  an  advocate  and  a  legislator,  he  is  a  man  of  mark,  and  calculated,  by  his  magnetic 
power,  to  exert  a  mighty  influence.  He  is  a  native  of  this  province,  born  at  Iberville  on  the 
l.Hh  of  October,  1840.  His  father  was  born  at  St.  Pierre,  county  of  Montmagny,  and  estab- 
lished himself  at  St.  Athana,se  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  first  .settlers. 

Our  subject  received  a  first  cla.ss  literary  education  at  the  Jesuit  college,  Montreal ;  studied 
law  with  Messrs,  Lcflamboisc  and  Papineau,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1865.     While  yet 


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a  law  .student,  Mr.  Mcrcier  whs  engaged  in  juurnali.sm,  and  in  1862,  sustained  the  MaiMjonald- 
Sicotc  adminiHtration,  being  at  that  time  a  moderate  ( 'onscrvativc.  On  being  admitted  tu  the 
luir,  he  dropped  journalism  for  awhile,  giving  his  whole  time  and  energies  tu  his  pr(>fe.sHiun, 
Boon  taking  a  front  rank  among  the  advocates  of  his  distiict. 

During  a  few  months  of  the  year  18(iG,  we  find  him  once  more  in  the  editorial  chair  of  the 
Courier,  yih\c\i  he  had  conducted  while  a  student  at  law;  but  lieing  di.s.satisHed  with  some 
measure  of  the  government,  ho  left  the  Conservntivo  party,  and  for  a  time  seemed  to  be  pivtty 
much  "  out  of  politics." 

In  1871  he  reappeared  in  the  politiail  arena,  and  valiantly  support«Ml  the  candidacy  of  Mr. 
Jjangelier,  a  Liberal,  in  the  county  of  Bagot.  The  next  year  he  consented  to  l)o  a  candidate  for 
the  House  of  (,'omnions  for  Rouville,  and  was  returned. 

At  the  general  election  which  followed  the  downfall  of  the  C!on.servativc  government,  held 
in  January,  1874,  he  thought  it  was  his  duty  to  yield  his  place  to  Mr.  Cheval,  so  as  not  to  di- 
vide the  vote  of  the  Libei-al  party  in  the  face  of  that  redoubtable  adversary,  Mr.  Gigault,  who 
since  1878  represented  Rouville. 

In  1878  Mr.  Mercier  was  the  Liberal  candidate  for  the  House  of  Commons  for  St.  Hyacinthe, 
and  lacked  only  six  votes  of  an  election.  He  was  fii-st  elected  to  the  Legislative  Assembly  to 
represent  St.  Hyacinthe,  as  solicitor-general  in  the  Joly  government,  to  till  a  vacancy  caused 
by  the  death  of  Hon.  P.  Bachand,  on  the  3rd  of  June,  1879  and  held  that  position  imtil  that 
administration  went  out  of  {wwcr  in  that  year. 

It  is  almost  needless  to  say  that  Mr.  Mercier  has  lived  a  very  busy  life,  his  time  having 
been  divided  between  journalism,  the  law,  and  politics.  He  belongs  to  that  cla,ss  of  men  who 
are  always  ready  for  duty — always  fully  ccjuipped  for  a  fight;  and  his  blows  never  fail  to  be 
felt.  His  friends  have  thought  that  at  times  his  political  contests  have  been  too  fierce, 
his  struggles  too  hard  for  his  health ;  but  he  has  great  courage,  much  pluck,  and  never  yields. 
We  should  add  that  he  has  the  name  of  being  a  manly  fighter,  never  taking  any  improper  ad- 
vantages of  his  adversary.     He  has  made  a  success  in  whatever  he  has  undei'taken. 

As  a  politician,  though  a  Liberal,  Mr.  Mercier  does  not  place  party  above  country.  In  the 
autumn  of  1880  a  report  was  in  circulation  that  he  was  in  favor  of  a  coalition,  and  that  he 
would  accept  a  portfolio  in  the  Conservative  Cabinet  of  Quebt'c,  of  which  Mr.  Chapleau  is  Pre- 
mier. To  sot  himself  right  before  the  public  in  this  matter,  he  made  a  speech  at  St.  Hyacinthe, 
which  was  reported  in  La  Patrie,  and  from  which  we  nuike  an  extract,  calling  attention  to  the 
nobleness  of  the  sentiment  in  the  last  few  sentences.     We  give  it  in  his  own  tongue : 

"  Ceux  qui  se  lont  amnsei  &  lancer  dans  le  public  une  pareille  accusation  sur  inon  compte  sont  des  calomnia- 
teura.  Je  ne  trahirai  pas  nies  amis,  et  ceux  nieiue  qui  le  diseut  savent  ((u'lls  nientent ;  jusqu'ici  j'ai  et^  fidble 
au  inandat  que  vous  m'avez  confie  et  j'esit^re,  Dieu  aidant,  votia  lo  remettre  sang  avuir  il  ruugir  de  mcs  actes. 

"  On  a  pary  de  coalition  :  Ton  a  pr6tendu  que  j'y  ^tais  favorable.  Vous  n'ignorez  i>as  et  je  vous  I'ai  dijk 
dit,  que  j'ai  toujours  M,  et  suis  encore  favorable  k  I'union  des  hommes  honnetes  et  iutelligents  des  deux  partis 


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sur  lino  base  honorable  ot  intelUgonto,  savoir  :  I'inttSrut  bi«n  ontei\<lu  de  totite  la  Province  de  Quebec.  Je  n'ai  pas 
i\  roiigir  lie  ce  suntiinent  quo  partagoiit  toiiH  lei  lib^raux  et  Ioh  conBorvntours  honnetos  et  respoctablea  da  payi. 
L'etprit  de  parti  a  fait  asaex  de  nml  an  pays  pour  engager  lea  v^ritablos  patriutes  it  riagir  inergiqiieinent  contre 
la  manie  qui  fait  voir  des  eunemia  li\  oii  il  n'y  a  que  des  adversairea.  Mun  opinion  eat  <|ue  lea  hoinniea  publics 
doivent  travailler  au  bien  du  paya  avant  de  aougor  au  bien  du  parti.  Faiaona  plus  d'att'a<re  i>t  moina  do  poli- 
ti(|ue  ;  iioua  n'en  aerona  pas  plus  nial  et  le  public  en  aera  uiieux." 

Mr.  Mercier  lias  a  high  appreciation  of  the  beautiful  and  the  true,  and  a  partiality  for  the 
ideal,  but,  n.s  a  writer  in  L'Opinion  Publique  well  says,  "  this  does  not  prevent  him  from  seeinj? 
things  as  they  are — from  loving  the  world  notwithstanding  its  imperfections,  and  politics  in 
spite  of  its  annoyances.  To  a  clear  view  of  the  general  aspect  of  a  question,  and  of  its  most 
salient  points,  he  adds  the  faodty  of  keen  analysis  and  of  a  wonderful  expansion  or  concentra- 
tion of  the  mental  vision."  He  is  certainly  a  man  of  much  promise,  on  whom  this  country, 
quite  as  much  as  any  party,  can  build  hopes  of  great  usefulness. 

At  the  request  of  many  of  his  friends  Mr.  Mercier  left  St.  Hyacinthe  in  February,  1881, 
for  Montreal,  where  ho  lives  now  and  practises  Jaw  in  partnei"ship  with  Messrs.  Beau.soleiI  anil 
Martineau,  a  firm  that  proujises  to  liecome  very  important.  ' 


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HON.   LOUIS    A.  JF/ITE,   LL.1)., 

MONTREAL. 

LOUIS  AMABLE  JETTE,  judge  of  the  superior  court,  was  lx)m  at  L'A.ssomption,  P.  Q., 
on  the  1  ")th  of  January,  IH'Mi,  his  parents  being  Amnble  Jettd,  merchant,  whose  ances- 
tors came  to  Canada  from  near  Tours,  Franci',  in  the  sixteenth  or  seventeenth  century,  and 
Caroline  (Jauft'reiui,  whose  grandfather  was  a  planter  in  St.  Domingo  when  that  islami  was 
under  French  rule,  and  left  at  the  time  of  political  trouble.  Our  subject  received  a  ela.ssical 
education  at  L'Assomptiun  college ;  studied  law  at  first  with  Messrs.  Pelletier  and  IWanger, 
afterwards  with  Messrs.  David  and  Ramsey,  and  was  called  to  the  bar  in  February,  1857.  He 
practised  his  jirofession  from  that  date  until  he  was  appointed  to  the  bench,  his  commission 
being  dated  September  2nd,  1878.  While  at  the  bar  Judge  Jett<!  distinguished  him.self  very 
nmch  ;  and  in  the  Guibord  case  he  won  almost  a  world-wide  reputation  for  ability.  In  an  ex- 
tended review  of  that  case  the  Gazette  Judiciaire  of  B»>lgium,  thus  s|wke  of  our  subj.ct  after 
((noting  some  i)assages  from  his  speech  : 

This  apeech,  like  all  the  pleadings  of  Mr.  Jette,  have  a  tone  remarkable  fur  sincerity  aiui  loyalty.  Mr. 
.Iutt6  Appears  to  us,  moreover,  to  be  an  advocate  of  great  merit,  who  must  hold  the  tirst  rank  at  every  bar 
where  he  has  a  great  cause  tf>  plead.  *  ♦  *  Voltaire,  hearing  the  speech  of  Mr.  .Tette',  at  Montreal, 
Would  find  himself  more  comfortable  than  at  Uie  Court  of  Appeals  at  Paris,  or  in  the  Legislative  Assembly  at 
V'ersailles. 

At  one  [period  of  his  life  Judge  Jett^  was  very  much  interested  in  politics,  l)eing  a  pro- 
nounced Lil)eral;  and  at  the  geneml  ehiction,  in  1872,  he  contested  Montreal  East,  and  l>eat  Sir 


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{agov^v  E.  Cartier,  tlio  j^ieut  stntoNiimn  aiul  loailiiij^  Conservative  in  the  province,  Jiavin;;  an 
nnprecedenteil  majority  of  more  than  twelve  hinulreil  votes.  This  ln-illiant  triumph  of  our 
subject  protlucetl  great  entliusi&sm  on  the  part  of  his  poUtical  confreres  "nd  one  of  the  Liberal 
journals,  Lc  Bien  Pnhiic,  thus  s|M)ke  of  him  alH)ut  the  time : 

This  buy  who  mailu  lu  little  nuiae  in  ouUege,  is  to-day  one  of  thennat  distinguished  advocates  in  Mon- 
irual,  and  ono  uf  the  rt'prosuntntives  in  the  House  of  0< millions  of  the  gruat  nivtriipolis.  *  *  »  jvir, 
Jetle  is  a  striking  exnniplo  of  what  can  be  auconiplishud  by  hard  study,  correct  principles  and  gtM>d  conduct. 
He  has  made  his  way  tiiiietly  and  patiently,  without  unnecessary  noise,  and  without  disturbing  the  natural 
course  of  things.     He  has  ripened  slowly  like  good  fruit,  wliicli  is  nut  harvested  before  the  proper  time. 

Judge  Jettd  hius  been  but  a  short  time  comjiaratively  on  tlie  bencli.and  most  of  liis  iiistory 
there,  .shouUI  he  be  .spare<l  many  years,  is  yet  to  be  nuide.  It  is  enough  to  say  tliat  tlie  liigh 
expecUitions  of  liis  friendsar  e  fully  realized  in  the  record  which  ho  has  already  made. 

At  Uie  general  election  in  IH?*  Mr.  Jettd  was  re-elected  by  acelanuition  ;  served  through 
the  session  of  IST^H,  and  in  the  spring  of  that  year  wa.s  ottered  a  seat  in  the  cabinet  by  Mr. 
Mackenzie  ;  but  he  had  made  up  his  mind  to  retire  from  politics. 

In  the  summer  of  1M7<S  he  visited  Kurope,  and  while  in  Paris  rec<'  a  cablegram,  notify- 
ing him  of  his  appointment  to  a  scat  on  the  l)ench  of  the  superior  and  asking  for  his 
immediate  return. 

Judge  Jettd  is  a  coriesponding  member  of  Lu.  Societe  de  LeijiKlation.  ComparSe  de  Parix ; 
also  corresponding  editor  of  the  Rcvne  de  Droit  International  of  Uhent,  Belgium.  Ho  received 
the  lionorary  degree  of  Doetoi  of  Laws  from  Laval  university,  Quebec,  in  1S7>S,  and  is  profes.sor 
of  civil  law  in  the  Montreal  branch  of  the  .same  celelirated  institution. 

In  18G2  Judge  Jettc'  was  joined  in  marriage  with  Miss  IJerthe  I.rfittamme,  daughter  of  the 
late  Toussaint  LaHannne,  merchant,  Montreal,  ami  of  seven  children,  the  fruit  of  this  union,  only 


three  are  living.    J^'^^d  ^ 


HENRY   TlTltNKR    MACTIIN, 

l^UEHEG. 

IS  the  eldest  .son  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Machin,  clergyman  of  the  (T'hureh  of  Kngland,  and  his 
wife,  Emily  Mackintosh  ('hisholm  Eraser. 

Mr.  Machin  was  born  at  Newcastlc-under-Lyme,  Stafford.shire,  England,  and  came  to 
Canada  as  a  child  in  1840.  Educated  in  Upper  Canada  college,  Toronto,  he  entered  business 
life  in  1849,  in  the  ottice  of  the  British  American  Land  (.yompany,  Sherbrooke,  Province 
of  Quebec ;  the  commissioner  of  the  company  at  that  time  being  Sir  Alexander  (Jalt.  Respected 
by  the  whole  connnunity  he  was,  on  leaving  Sherbrooke,  presented  with  an  address  from  the 
inhabitants  signifying  their  appreciation  of  his  estimable  <puilities.     In  187 ■t  he  was  appointed 


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iiispontfjr  of  public  oHic«s  for  thf  Province  of  (^ueliec,  and  a  few  niontlis  aftxM-wurd  was  niadn 
aasiiittint  treaNurcr  of  thu  province,  which  'iH)st  lie  now  holds.  In  his  oflicial  cajwicity  us  well  as 
socially,  Mr.  Miichin  is  a^rcntlcman  held  in  much  cHteeui.  Ue  !»  a  Protestant,  and  a  frvouiason, 
and  han  held  a  roinniission  in  tho  militia. 

He  iiuirritul  in  1.Sfi;i,  Lucy  Anne,  daughter  of  the  lute  Hon.  ICdward  Hale,  of  Shcrbrooke,  a 
niendtcr  of  the  Leyi.slat.ivc  Council  of  the  Province.  " 


JION.    WILLIAM    COLLIS    MEKKDriMI,    D.C.L.,    LL.1), 

i^UEHEC. 

T 1 1HK  subject  of  our  sketch  is  tho  chief  justice  of  the  superior  court  of  the  Prov- 
-*-  ince  of  Quebec.  He  was  iKjrn  in  the  city  of  Dublin,  on  the  2.Srd  of  May,  IS12.  His 
father  the  Hev.  Dr.  Thoma.s  Merclith,  rector  of  Ardtrea  in  the  county  of  Tyrone,  Ire'and,  mar- 
ried Kliza,  daughter  of  the  \'ery  Hev.  Richard  Clra^es,  D.I).,  Dean  of  Ardagli,  Ireland.  His 
father,  maternal  granclfather,  and  great-grandfather  (the  Rov.  Dr.  Drought),  were  all  fellows  of 
Trinity  college,  Du'  'in.  l)r.  M'-redith  was  distinguished  in  the  university  for  hi-<  mathemati- 
cal attainments.  Dr.  Drought  and  Dr.  (Sraves  filled  in  turn  the  chair  of  regius  professor  of  di- 
vinity, in  tho  university;  and  Dean  (Jnives'  theological  works,  especially  his  "  Kssayon  the 
Pentateuch"  are  .still  held  in  high  esteem  by  scholai-s.  Dr.  Meiedith's  wiilow,  having, 
in  IH24,  married  again,  came  out  to  Canada  with  her  husband,  the  Rev.  Kdmond  JJurton, 
and  four  of  her  children  by  her  fii-st  inarriagt;,  the  eldest  biiing  the  subject  of  our  sketch  ;  and 
settled  at  Rawdon,  north  of  Montreal ;  where  the  Rev.  Mr.  Burton  had  a  mission  under  the  so- 
ciety for  tho  propagation  of  the  gospel. 

Young  Meredith,  before  leaving  Ireland,  had  |)as.sfd  soiik'  years  at  Dr.  Behan's  .school  in 
Wexford  ;  aft(!r  his  arrival  in  Canada,  his  education  was  continued  uixler  the  care  of  his  stej»- 
fathcr,  a  graduate  of  Trinity  college,  Dublin.  He  was  greatly  aided  and  encouraged  in  the  stud- 
ies, at  that  period  of  his  life,  by  his  mother,  a  woman  of  much  culture  and  refinement,  and 
possessed  also  of  gi'eat  energj'  and  force  of  chaiactor. 

Mr.  Meredith's  legal  .stu<lies  wisre  commenced  in  the  year  1H31,  in  the  office  of  the  Ifon. 
Mr.  do  Bleury,  and  continued  in  that  of  J.  C  Orant,  Kscj.  Q.( '.,  both  advocates  of  eminence.  Din- 
ing his  studentship  he  earned  a  reputation  for  indefatigable  industry  and  conscientious  attention 
to  his  studies  ;  and  it  is  to  these  iiualitics,  quite  as  nnich  as  to  his  professional  attainments  and 
con.spicuous  legal  ability,  that  he  is  indebted  for  the  deservedly  high  reputation  which  he  ha.s 
always  enjoyed  both  as  an  advocate  and  a  judge. 

The  law  has  Iwen  described  as  a  jealous  mistress,  who  will  not  brook  a  rival.  In  that 
liglit  she  would  appear  to  have  been  regaided    by  Mr.  Meredith,  for  from  the  aay  that  ho 


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coiniiionced  his  legal  .studies  until  the  present  moment,  he  has  never  allowed  anything  to  inter- 
feio  with  or  interrupt  his  strictly  professional  labors.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Dec.  183(>, 
and  obtained  the  silk  in  1844.  In  that  year  he  declined  the  office  of  solicitor-general,  and  8ub.se- 
(juently  that  of  attorney  general ;  and  in  1847  he  for  the  second  time  declined  the  attorney  gen- 
eralship, during  the  Draper  administration.  In  December,  1849,  Mr.  Meredith  was  appointed 
a  judge  in  the  superior  court  by  the  Lafontaine-Baldwin  government ;  abandoning  with  some 
reluctance  the  practice  of  a  profession  to  which  he  was  always  greatly  attached  ;  and  leaving  to 
his  partners,  Straclian  Bethune,  now  a  Q.C.,  and  the  late  Judge  Dunkin,  we  believe  the  largest 
legal  business,  which  had  ever  at  that  time  been  brought  together  by  a  single  professional  firm 
in  the  Province  of  Quebec. 

At  the  earnest  solicitation  of  the  government,  (Sir  George  E.  Cartier  Ijeing  then  attorney 
general)  and  in  compliance  with  the  wishes  of  the  leading  members  of  the  Montreal  bar.  Judge 
Meredith  con-sented  to  be  removed  from  the  Superior  Court  to  the  court  of  Queen's  Bench  ;  that 
being  the  coint  of  appeals  for  the  province.  His  appointment  to  the  Queen's  Bench  was  approved 
of  by  the  unanimous  resolution  of  the  Quebec  bar.  Whilst  a  member  of  the  court  of  appeals 
several  of  his  judgments  were  spoken  of  in  high  terms  by  the  lords  of  the  Privy  Council. 

Judge  Meredith  retained  his  seat  in  the  Queen's  Bench,  until  the  death,  in  18GG,  of  the 
Hon.  lidward  Bowen,  chief  justice  of  the  superior  court ;  when,  Sir  George  Cartier  being  at- 
torney-general, he  was  appinted  to  that  office,  which  he  still  holds,  and  the  duties  of  which  he 
still  discharges  with  his  characteristic  energy  and  ability,  antl  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  the 
profession  and  the  public  ;  notwithstanding  his  lieing,  as  we  believe,  the  oldest  judge  now  on  the 
bench  in  th"  dominion. 

As  far  back  as  1844,  Mr.  Meredith  was  requested  to  accept  the  professorship  of  law  in  the 
univoi-sity  of  McGill  college,  Montreal,  by  the  principal,  chief  justice  Valli(^res;  but  the  pressure 
of  Mr.  Meredith's  professional  duties  made  it  impossible  for  him  to  do  so. 

In  18.'>4  he  received  the  honorary  degree  of  D.C.L.,  from  Lennoxville  university,  and 
eleven  yeai-s  afterwards,  ((Jth  Sept.  18(1,))  upon  the  nominntion  of  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Quebec, 
was  unanimously  elected  chancellor  of  that  university.  But  his  onerous  judicial  duties  made  it 
impossible  for  him  to  assume  the  duties  of  that  office.  Sub.sei|uently,  in  1880,  upon  the  propo- 
sition of  the  Hon.  F.  Langelier,  Q.C.,  he  received  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.D.,  from  Laval  uni- 
vei-sity. 

It  has  been  said  that  throughout  his  whole  career  Mr.  Meredith  never  allowed  any  thing, 
whether  in  the  way  of  Ijusiness  or  pleasure,  to  interfere  with  his  professional  iluties.  This  was 
the  motive  which  in  1844  ami  1847,  impelled  him  to  resist  the  strong  inducements  which  were 
then  held  out  to  him  to  enter  political  life ;  and  this  same  motive  promptetl  him  in  1865  to  de- 
cline, as  we  have  seen,  the  honor  of  being  Chancellor  of  Leimoxville  university. 

But  the  "  troubles  "  of  1837  iw  tlje^'  were  called,  foi'  a  season  somewhat  rudely  interrupted 


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the  peaceful  tenor  of  the  professional  life  of  our  young  advocate,  who  had  been  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  the  preceding  year. 

Shortly  after  the  breaking  out  of  the  rebellion  in  1N37  a  company  of  the  "  Montreal  riHes," 
composed  mainly  of  the  young  professional  men  and  merchants  of  Montreal,  was  formed  un- 
der Captain  Louis  Motfatt,  a  son  of  the  Hon.  George  Moffatt.  Mr.  Meredith  was  made  lieu- 
tenant of  the  company,  and  was  present  with  the  regiment  at  the  affair  of  St.  Eustache. 

The  chief  justice  socially  possesses  troops  of  friends ;  and  is  held  in  tho,  highest  respect  in 
the  city  and  Province  of  Quebec,  by  all  classes  of  the  community ;  being  as  popular  among 
the  French  as  the  English.  He  married  in  1847,  Sophia  Naters,  youngest  daughter  of  the  late 
Dr.  W.  E.  Holmes,  of  Quebec,  and  has  been  blesseil  with  a  numerous  family  of  whom  three 
sons  and  four  daughters  are  living. 

The  Chief  Just'.c'e  has  two  brothers  resident  in  the  Province  of  Ontario.  Mr.  Henry  H. 
Meredith,  of  Rotebank,  Port  Hope,  and  Mr.  Eduumd  A.  Meredith,  LL.D.,  e.K-deputy  minister 
of  the  Interior,  of  Rosedale,  near  Toronto.  Mrs.  W.  H.  Kiltson,  wife  of  the  collector  of  customs 
at  Hamilton  is  his  sister. 


HOXOKE    .lULlEX    JEAN    liAPTlSTE    CIIOUINAHI), 

QUFHKd 

HJ.  J.  B.  CHOUIN  ARl)  is  one  of  the  many  rising  and  promising  lawyers  of  the  Province. 
•  He  was  born  at  Ste.  Foye,  near  Quebec,  on  the  18th  Juno,  18.50,  and  is  a  son  of  the 
weil-known  advocate,  H.  J.  (!houinar<l,  who  married  Celina  Pelletier.  The  parents  were  the 
children  of  wealthy  and  inHuential  persons  in  the  city,  who  had  been  commercially  con- 
nected with  QueWc  from  the  commencement  of  the  present  century.  Mr.  Chouinard's  ancestors 
came  from  France  about  1(180,  and  have  lived  through  these  geiioratious  in  the  counties  of 
Ij'IsIet  and  Kamouraska,  He  is  a  cousin  of  the  Hon.  (".  A.  Pelletier,  senator  and  ex-minister, 
and  a  nephew  of  Father  Pelletier,  8.J.,  who  died  in  New  York  about  twelve  months  since. 

He  received  the  early  part  of  his  education  at  St.  Anne's  College  and  the  Quelx;c  Seminary, 
and  sul»set|uently  graduated  as  LB.  in  1870,  at  Laval  university,  and  LL.B.  for  the  Faculty  of 
Law  from  the  same  institution,  in  July,  1873.  He  was  called  to  the  bar  in  July,  187.S,  and  now 
is  a  partner  of  the  firm  of  (iauthier  and  Chouinard,  He  has  practised  since  1875  in  the  courts 
of  the  Quebec  district ;  was  secretary  for  three  years,  ami  is  a  memlier  of  the  St.  Jean  Baptists 
Society  ;  also  secretary-general  of  the  French  Canadian  National  Convention  of  Quelle,  which 
post  he  has  held  since  June,  1880.  In  this  convention  he  has  taken  a  lively  and  prominent 
interest,  having  l>een  the  author  of  the  manifesto  luldressed  to  all  French  Canadians  on  the 
continent,  and  also  of  the  programme  of  the  deiil)erations  of  the  QucIkjc  convention  of  the  St. 
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the  convention,  under  the  title  of  "  FSte  Nationale  des  Canadiens  Fran9aia  c^Idbrer  a  Qii(?bec 
en  Juin,  1880."  He  is  an  officer  of  L'Institut  Canadien  de  Quebec  for  the  past  seven  years, 
and  is  now  its  president,  and  lias  contributed  several  lectures  which  are  published  in  the  tran- 
sactions of  L'Institut.  He  is  connected  with  most  of  the  literary  and  benevolent  societies  of 
the  city,  and  is  a  Conservative  in  politics,  rigidly  adhering  to  the  dark  blue  in  all  political 
contests  ;  a  member  of  the  Club  Cartier,  and  ha-s  been  a  city  councillor  since  May,  1880,  when 
he  was  unanimously  elected  for  St.  Louis  ward.  As  such  he  is  presently  engaged  in  the  pre- 
paration of  amendments  to  the  city  charter,  being  president  of  the  committee  ap^xtinted  to 
revi.se  the  constitution  of  the  city  of  Quebec.     Mr.  Chouinard  is  unmarried. 


CIIATILES    ALLEN, 

WATERLOO. 

'T'N  the  "  History  of  Shefford,"  a  small  volume  written  by  Cy^'"'*  Thomas,  late  principal  of  the 
-*-  Waterloo  academy,  is  an  interesting  sketch  of  Charles  Allen,  part  of  it  autobiogmphical ; 
and  we  are  indebted  to  that  little  work,  published  in  1877,  for  most  of  the  data  of  this  notice 
of  one  of  the  noblest  pioneers  that  ever  settled  in  Waterloo.  He  reached  here  from  New 
Hampshire,  on  the  31st  of  March,  1825,  being  ten  days  in  making  the  trip  from  Claremont,  and 
coming  from  Montpelier,  \  t.,  most  of  the  way  on  foot,  and  part  of  the  way,  in  Canada,  with 
"  blazed"  trees  for  a  guide.  He  spent  his  last  money,  a  half  crown,  for  a  ride  from  Magog  to 
Frost  village,  two  >niles  from  Waterloo. 

Mr.  Allan  is  a  native  uf  Andover,  Vermont,  being  bom  un  the  18th  of  June,  1799,  and  sub- 
sequently moved  with  his  parents,  Isaac  and  Sarah  (Dakin)  Allen,  to  Chester,  in  the  same 
State,  where  he  resided  until  of  age,  working  at  the  blacksmith's  trade.  He  was  educated  in  a 
district  school  and  Chester  academy  ;  at  twenty-one,  went  to  Troy,  N.Y.,  to  work  at  his  trade, 
and  in  the  year  already  mentioned  came  to  Waterloo,  having  here  an  olil  friend  in  the  person 
of  Daniel  Taylor,  whose  family,  with  five  other  families,  constituted  the  population  of  Waterloo 
at  the  opening  of  the  spring  of  1825. 

Mr.  Allen  worked  at  his  trad<;  three  nwrnths  for  vlr.  Taylor,  and  Hezekiah  Rtjbinson  ;  then 
bought  out  Mr.  Taylor;  formed  a  partnership  with  Mr.  Robinson,  and  two  years  later,  success 
crowning  his  lalwrs,  he  bought  out  his  partner,  a  id  continued  l»usiness  alone.  Being  an  in- 
genious mechanic,  and  having  tools  for  making  f^.ieet  iron  stove  pipe,  etc.,  he  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  other  work  than  simply  blacksmithing,  and  made  himself  very  serviceable  in  this  new 
settlement,  including  the  adjacent  towns. 

In  1829,  he  manied  LtiUiti  Taylor,  sist"  r  of  Daniel  Taylor,  and  by  her  has  five  children. 


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In  1832,  he  lost  his  shop  by  fire  ;  re-built  on  a  much  larger  scale  ;  became  once  more  a 
partner  of  Mr.  Taylor,  and  in  1835  they  built  a  foundry,  and  remained  in  company  until  near 
the  close  of  1837,  vhen  the  rebellion  broke  out,  and  Mr.  Allen  .sold  out  to  Mr.  Taylor,  joined  a 
cavalry  company,  and  marched  bravely  to  the  defence  of  his  adopted  country. 

In  1838,  the  firm  of  Allen  and  Taylor  was  formed ;  the  next  year  they  opened  p  store,  and 
did  a  mercantile  and  manufacturing  business  together  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Taylor  in  1858, 
when  two  of  the  sons  of  Mr.  Taylor  took  their  father's  place  in  the  firm.  One  of  tho.se  sons, 
Walter  A.  Taylor,  retired  in  18G5,  and  the  other,  Edwin  A.  Taylor,  is  still  a  member,  the  firm 
name  being  Allen,  Taylor  and  Co.  George  H.  Allen,  now  mayor  of  Waterloo,  and  sketched 
elsewhere  in  this  volume,  became  a  paitner  in  1861.  The  shops  have  been  enlarged,  and  in- 
creased in  number  from  time  to  time,  until  they  have  ten  buildings,  '-eside  the  store,  and  are 
doing  a  heavy  and  prosperous  business. 

Mr.  Allen  has  held  various  offices,  such  as  school  commissioner,  municipal  councillor,  secre- 
tary-treasurer of  the  agricultural  society,  and  justice  of  the  i)eace ;  but  is  not,  and  never  has 
been,  a  man  to  covet  or  .seek  official  positions.  He  has  lived  a  quiet,  una.ssuming  life,  loving 
labor  for  the  reward  it  has  brought  him — an  abundance  of  this  world's  goods,  health,  and 
"  length  of  days."  Although  eighty-two  yeara  old,  he  has  the  energy  of  most  men  at  sixty. 
For  several  years  he  was  a  director  of  the  Stanstead,  ShoflTord,  and  (Jhambl}'  Railway,  and  re- 
signed the  vice-presidency  of  the  company  only  three  or  four  years  ago. 

His  'Itlest  son,  diaries  P.  Allen,  is  a  thrifty  farmer,  living  in  Sheffbrd,  and  his  youngt.vst 
son,  a  graduate  of  St.  Francis  college,  is  a  clerk  for  the  firm.  Two  daughters  are  married,  an<l 
live  in  Waterloo ;  one  of  them  the  wife  of  Louis  Pagen,  and  the  other,  W.  H.  Smith,  both  of 
Waterloo. 

No  man  in  Waterloo  has  labored  harder  or  longer  to  build  up  the  village,  than  Mr.  Allen  ; 
and,  as  a  self-niail<>  man,  and  a  builder  of  his  own  fortune,  and  unblemished  reputation,  and  a 
zealous  co-worker  for  the  g(Jod  of  the  town  and  county,  he  is  deserving  of,  and  has,  the  warmest 
esteem  of  the  conmuniity.  He  is  a  member  and  deacon  of  the  Universalist  chun-h,  and  a  man 
of  solid  charactei-. 


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EOR(jiK  HIINRY  ALLEN,  mayor  of  Waterloo  ami  warden  of  the  county  of  Shefl'ord,  was 
Ixtrn  in  this  township  on  the  ilst  of  July,  1835.  He  is  a  son  of  Charles  Allen,  origin- 
ally from  Ma.son,  N.H.,  and  came  here  from  Chester,  Vermont,  nearly  sixty  yeai-s  ago,  being  a 
ifiaiuifacturer,  and  still  ongageil  in  making  stoves,  plows,  and  various  kinds  of  iron  and  brass 
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The  mother  of  our  subject,  whose  maiden  name  was  Laura  Taylor,  was  from  Newfane, 
Windham  county,  Vt.  He  was  educated  at  the  academies  in  Frost  village,  Shefford  township, 
and  C?hester,  Vermont ;  farmed  until  about  sixteen  years  old ;  then  became  a  clerk  for  the  firm 
of  Allen  and  Taylor,  holding  that  post  from  1852  to  1861,  when  he  went  into  the  firm,  now 
known  as  that  of  Allen,  Taylor  and  Co.,  who,  in  their  foundry  and  other  shops  and  store,  are 
doing  a  thrifty  business.  They  employ,  in  all  departments,  aliout  twenty  workmen,  and  are 
doing  their  share  to  build  up  the  place.  There  is  no  more  respectable  establishment  in  the 
county  then  that  of  Allen,  Taylor  &  Co. 


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HENRY    MATIITAS   BALCER,  J. P., 

THREE  RIVERS. 

HENRY  M.  BALCER  is  one  of  the  most  eminent  and  popular  manufacturers  in  Three 
Rivers,  of  the  present  day,  and  instances  how  some  men,  notwithstanding  the  manifold 
difficulties  which  surround  their  path,  have  the  power  to  combat  them  and  successfully  defeat 
the  many  obstjides  at  the  outset  of  a  careei'. 

Mr.  Balcer  was  burn  at  Saarlouis,  Prussia,  on  the  Kith  of  September,  1828.  As  early  as 
twelve  yeai-s  of  age  he  left  his  home,  and  went  to  .school  at  Mentx.  On  leaving  school  he  en- 
tered a  wholesale  house  as  junior  clerk,  and  so  nmch  confidence  was  placed  in  him  for  his  integ- 
rity and  business  aptitude,  that  when  only  seventeen  y»iais  of  age  he  was  entrusted  with  some 
important  commercial  transactions,  and  traveled  through  Germany,  Switzerland,  France,  &c. ; 
his  journeying  continued  for  several  years,  which  were  only  put  an  end  to  conseipient  uj)on  the 
revolutionary  troubles  in  184!).  He,  nothing  daunted,  determined  to  go  to  Ltmdon  (Englaml) ; 
and  aft«r  a  brief  stay  at  the  English  capital,  left  for  New  York  on  lioard  a  sailing  ve.s.sel.  After 
having  been  beaten  about  in  the  chops  of  the  ('hannel,  cholera  broke  out  on  board,  and  the  ves- 
sel made  for  the  nearest  port.  Ere  she  arrived  in  Plymouth  lmrl)our,  the  disease  had  made  such 
vn  vages  anKmgst  the  passengers  and  crew  that  she  was  placed  in  ({uarantine.  At  length  the  vessel 
got  a  clean  bill  of  health,  and  once  more  p\it  to  sea,  and  arrived  in  New  York  after  a  tedious  passage 
of  sixty-four  days.  Even  in  New  York  the  cholera  was  .so  bad  on  his  arrival  that  all  business 
was  at  a  standstill  ;  liowevtT  he  eventually  got  a  j)osition  in  a  firm  w)iere  he  remained  only  a 
short  time,  and  then  starteil  for  Charleston,  South  (^^nrolina  ;  here  he  met  with  little  to  encour- 
age him,  consecjuently  he  returned  to  New  York,  and  proceeded  from  thence  to  Canada,  where 
he  etmimenced  business  on  his  own  account,  iti  1851,  when,  it  must  lie  remembered,  that  busi- 
ness communications  with  the  old  country  were  vastly  different  to  what  they  arc  at  the  present 
day.  In  tho,se  d.-iys  goods  shipped  to  Kurope  took  a  considerable  time  in  their  transit,  corres- 
pondence was  delayed,  and  not  unfreiiuently  miscarried,  with  many  other  drawlweks.     (Joo<ls 


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coming  fi-um  France  or  Qemiany  to  Canada  were,  in  many  instances  so  long  delayed  that  it  not 
unfrequently  occurred  that  their  season  for  selling  was  lost.  The  result  was  that  his  small  capi- 
tal soon  became  used  up,  and  he  then  returned  to  the  States,  hut  not  without  a  full  determina- 
tion of  returning  to  Canada,  as  in  this  country  he  felt  convinctnl  that  he  would  succeed.  With 
a  pluck  and  determination  which  might  well  be  emulated  by  all  young  men,  on  arriving  in  New 
York  he  returned  to  the  well-known  firm  of  C.  G.  Ounther  &  Sons  once  more  as  clerk.  Re- 
maining in  this  firm  several  years,  he  started  out  again  for  Canada  with  a  full  detennination  of 
putting  his  old  plan  and  work  into  execution.  Arriving  in  this  country  in  1854,  he  established 
his  present  business  at  Three  Rivers,  and  has  since  been  steadily  progressing  with  it  every  year ; 
he  now  has  most  extensive  business  transactions  with  the  United  States,  England,  France,  Ger- 
many, and  Austria,  all  of  which  places  he  has  several  times  visited  in  connection  with  his  manu- 
factory ;  he  l)egan  manufacturing  on  a  large  scale,  and  now  employs  a  number  of  hands  in  a 
good  lucrative  labtir. 

Like  all  business  men,  he  has,  during  his  last  twenty-seven  years'  career,  had  many  miick- 
sands  and  shoals  to  steer  clear  of.  What  with  periodical  hard  times,  and  panics,  nevertheless 
he  has  passed  through  them  all  safely,  and  at  all  times  has  fulHIIud  his  obligaticms  to  the  very 
fraction,  and  is  now  regarde<l  not  only  in  Three  Rivers,  but  also  thioughout  Cantula,  the  United 
States  and  Europe,  ns  one  t)f  the  leading  manufacturers  of  the  day. 

His  two  eldest  sons  take  an  active  interest  in  his  business,  and  will,  doubtless,  perpetuate 
the  well-earned  name  and  repute  their  father  has  .so  commendably  made. 

In  1859,  he  married  Miss  Hortense,  daughter  of  Mr.  Zephirin  Boudreau,  of  Three  Rivers. 


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QUEhEV. 

THE  Hon.  Mr.  Garneau's  ancestors  came  froni  France  alK)ut  1G3(),  and  were  a  family  held 
in  high  estimation.  The  subject  of  our  sketch  was  lx)rn  on  the  8th  of  May,  1823,  at 
Cap  Santd,  where  he  was  educated.  He  is  vice-pre8i<lent  of  the  Stadacona  l>aiik,  and  was  pre- 
sident of  the  Quebec  .street  railway  al)Out  fifteen  years.  Mr.  (Sarneau  is  a  gentleman  held  in 
n>uch  respect  throughout  the  city  of  Quebec — in  fact,  his  name  in  the  entire  province  is  held 
in  8U(!h  repute  tliat  |K(0ple  are  giving  confidence  to  every  enterprise  his  name  is  associated  with. 
So  popular  was  he,  that  he  was  elected  for  the  important  office  of  mayor  of  Queliec  in  1870, 
and,  as  an  instjvnce  of  his  popularity,  we  may  mention  that,  at  the  expiry  of  his  ttirni  of  office 
as  the  chief  magistrate  in  1872,  he  was  unanimously  re-elected  for  a  further  periotl  of  two 
years.  He  was  one — if  not  the  principal — founder  of  the  Qut'lnjc  and  Gulf  Portw — now  the 
Quebec  steamship  company,  and  has  also  been  presiilent,  vice-president,  and  is  now  a  director 


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of  the  company.  He  was  a  member  of  the  canal  royal  commission  in  1870,  and  wius  appointed 
a  memlnir  of  the  execntive  council  in  September,  1874.  At  this  time,  he  was  appointed  com- 
missioner of  agriculture  and  public  works  in  the  De  Boucherville  administration,  which  post 
he  retained  until  ]87r),  when  he  was,  from  that  time  until  the  2nd  March,  1878,  entrusted  with 
the  im]K)rtant  post  of  commissioner  of  crown  lands.  He  represented  the  county  of  Quebec 
from  1873  until  1878,  being  elected  twice  by  acclamation,  which  again  instances,  if  it  were 
neee8.sary,  his  ]>opulHrity.  And  it  is  not  too  nmch  to  affirm  (regardle.ss  of  creed  or  nationality), 
the  Hon.  I'ierre  Garneau  ranks  among  the  foremost  esteemed  and  respected  men  in  the  city  of 
Queliec.  He  is  the  head  and  only  surviving  partner  of  the  well-known  wholesale  dry  goods 
firm  of  P.  CJarneau  et  Frere,  a  firm  which  is  held  in  the  highest  repute  throughout  the  whole 
dominion,  as  well  as  in  Europe.  < 

In  1857,  he  nianied  Miss  Cecilia  Burroughs,  daughter  of  the  late  Eilward  Hunonghs,  a 
gentleman  who  was  held  in  the  highest  estimation  by  all  Quebecers,  and  was  well  known  a^ 
prothonotary  of  the  city  of  Quebec.  Two  sons  have  V)een  the  issue  of  this  alliance.  Mr, 
Harneau  is  a  Roman  Catholic,  and  a  staunch  adherent  of  the  Macdonald  policy. 


NKTOR    JHDON, 

MONTREAL. 

r  I  IHK  subject  of  this  notice,  a  prominent  cotton  manufacturer,  was  born  at  Riviere  Ouelle, 
-■-  Province  of  Quebec,  on  the  31st  of  August,  1812 ;  left  honif  in  bS.SO,  and  became  a  clerk 
for  Mr.  Chouinard,  of  Queln'c,  wheie  our  Niibjeet  remained  two  years.  In  Ma\',  1832,  l\e  came 
to  Montreal  to  clerk  for  Mr.  Jean  Haj)tiste  Casavant,  merchant,  on  St.  Paul  street,  and  was  sent 
l»y  him  to  St.  (Vsaire,  where  lie  hiid  diarge  of  the  business  of  a  branch  store  for  five  years.  At 
the  end  of  that  time  he  W'came  a  jmrtner  of  William  N.  CiiaHers  of  the  same  place,  and  they 
had  stores  at  St.  Dominique  and  St.  Pie,  doing  a  thrifty  coimtry  trade  in  both  parishes. 

In  1842,  our  subject  returned  to  Montreal,  and  became  a  partner  of  his  cousin,  Fiphraim 
Hudon  in  the  diy  goods  and  grocery  traile,  and  began  to  import  merchandize  from  Englaml, 
Fi-ance  and  Spain.  About  fifteen  yeai-s  aftenvard  this  partnership  was  dissolved  ;  Mr.  Hudoti 
continued  the  business  nlone,  extending  his  imports  into  Belgium,  (lermany,  Italy  and  Sicily,  as 
well  a.s  the  courttries  already  nuntionetl,  and  importing  large  invoices  of  wine  as  well  a« 
groceries.  For  ten  years  he  did  a  heavy  business  at  Havana,  sending  out  all  kinds  of  lumber 
and  sugar  shooks,  and  n'ceiving  sugar  and  nioIa.s.se8  ir.  return. 

In  conversation  nine  or  ten  yeaix  ago  with  Sir  CJeorgc;  E.  Cartier,  that  gentleman  regretted 
that  so  many  people  were  leaving  Canada  for  the  United  States,  when  Mr.  Huilon  replied  that 
the  way  to  keep  them  here  was  to  give  them  work  that  they  might  earn  their  living,  and  he 


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(Mr.  Hudon)  wa«  going  to  make  a  beginning  by  building  some  manufactories.  In  1872-73  lie 
engaged  in  erecting  cotton  mills  at  Hochelaga;  lx;ing  then  in  company  with  other  parties,  under 
the  firm  name  of  the  V.  Hudon  Cotton  Mills  Co.,  of  Hochelaga — a  manufactory  now  well  known 
all  over  the  country.  The  mills  were  large  at  the  .start,  and  have  since  been  nearly  doubled  in 
size,  and  now  have  800  looms,  running  with  two  engines,  each  of  ;')00  horso  power,  and  giving 
employment  to  800  hands.  The  intention  is  to  increase  the  capacity  of  the  mills,  and  at  no 
distant  <lay  they  will  doubtless  require  a  thousand  or  more  persons  to  run  them.  Mr.  Hudon  is 
doing  his  part  towaid  finding  employment  for  native  Canadians  in  their  own  coiintry. 


HON.  THOMAS   J.  J.  LOllAK(;EK,   LL.D., 

MONTREAL 

rpIIOMAS  JEAN  JAC^QUES  LORANCJER,  lately  one  of  the  Judges  of  the  Superior  Court 
-^  of  the  Montreal  tlistriet,  and  .son  of  Joseph  Lorangor,  l)y  Mario  Louise  Ouj^al,  and  brother 
of  Hon.  Louis  O.  Loranger,  Attorney -General  of  the  Province  of  Quebec,  and  of  J.  M.  Loran<^er, 
Q.C.,  was  born  at  Yamachiche,  P.Q.,  on  the  2nd  February,  182.'<.  The  family  came  from  France 
about  200  years  ago.  Judge  Loranger  was  educated  at  Nicolet  college  ;  studied  law  with 
Judge  Polette,  of  Three  Rivei"s,  and  was  admitted  to  practise  at  Montreal  on  the  3rd  of  May, 
1844,  and  created  a  Queen's  Coun.sel  on  the  2t)th  December,  18.54.  For  nine  years  he  was  a 
partner  of  Judge  Drummond,  and  ro.se  to  a  high  position  at  the  bar.  He  was  prominent  among 
his  French  C^anadian  confreres  as  the  leading  coun.sel  in  criminal  cases,  wiiile  in  matters  involv- 
ing questions  of  French  law,  he  was  held  in  the  highest  esteem.  He,  wa.s  noted  for  his  keen 
wit  as  well  as  .sound  learuinji:  and  forcible  lojric. 

Judge  Loranger  recciveil  his  appointment  to  the  bench,  already  mentioned,  on  the  28th  of 
February,  1803,  and  held  that  honorable  position  until  he  resigned  in  May,  1S7!>.  During  the 
perio<l  that  he  was  on  the  bench,  he  was  several  times  appointed  Assistant  Judge  of  the  Court 
of  Appeals.  He  represented  the  Crown  before  the  Seignorial  Court  in  185.").  While  on  the 
Itench  he  was  cool,  clear-headed,  and  impartial,  and  his  decisions  universally  respect^-d. 

During  one  period  of  his  life,  before  he  was  called  upon  to  don  the  ermine,  Judge  I.rf)ranger 
wa.s  quite  a  politician,  and  figured  prominently  in  the  legislative  doings  of  the  united  Canadaa. 
He  l)ecame  a  member  of  Parliament  for  the  county  of  Laprairie  in  1!S.)4,  and  represented  that 
coastituency  for  nine  years  or  till  he  went  on  the  Iwuch.  In  Novemberj  1857,  he  was  ap^Mjinted 
provincial  secretary  in  the  Macdonald-Cartier  Government. 

Judge  Loranger  is  Professor  of  Administrative  Imw  in  Laval  Univei-sity,  Montreal,  from 
which  institution  he  received  the  honorary  title  of  Dmteur  en  Droit.  He  has  acted  on  twi» 
commissions  for  the  codification  of  the  provincial  statutes. 


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He  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  French  Canadian  Institute  ;  is  president  of  the  St. 
Jean  Baptistc  Society,  and  has  been  made  Commandeur  of  the  Order  of  His  Holiness,  Pius  IX., 
and  wears  the  Gnind  Cross  of  that  Order. 

Judge  Loranger  has  been  and  still  is  a  very  hard  worker  with  the  pen,  having  written  a 
great  many  pamphlets,  a  volume  on  Seignorial  Law,  and  being  now  engaged  on  a  voluminous 
work  on  the  Civil  Code  of  Lower  Canada.  Two  volumes  of  this  work  have  been  published,  and 
meet  with  a  good  sale,  and  the  intention  of  the  author,  we  understand,  is  to  issue  a  volume 
every  year  till  it  is  completed.  It  will  no  doubt  be  his  chef  d'ceuvre,  and  give  him  an  abiding 
and  high  reputation  as  a  writer  on  jurisprudence. 

The  Judge  is  also  chief  editor  of  a  new  monthly  publication  called  La  Themis,  and  is  a 
contributor  to  several  law  periodicals.  He  is  a  man  of  great  industry,  and  perhaps  has  taxed 
his  eyes,  if  not  his  constitution,  too  much  ;  for  during  the  spring  and  summer  of  1880,  his  sight 
was  a  good  deal  impaired. 

Judge  Loranger  has  a  second  wife.  The  first  was  Sarah  Ang^lique  Trudeau,  of  Montreal, 
a  niece  of  the  late  Grand  Vicar,  who  was  widely  known  and  gi-eatly  esteemed,  chosen  in  1850. 
She  died  in  1858,  one  daughter  still  surviving  her,  Alexina,  the  wife  of  Henri  Archambault. 
advocate,  in  good  .standing,  of  Montreal.  He  was  married  the  second  time  in  July,  1864,  to 
Z<jlie  Angdlique  Borne,  granddaughter  of  the  late  Philip  Josejth  Aubert  de  Gasp<;,  author  of 
"  Les  Anciens  Canadiens."     By  this  union  they  have  one  son  seven  years  old. 


HEV.    HENRY    WILKES,   D.D.,   LL.D., 

MONTREAL. 

THE  suliject  of  this  biographical  notice,  the  principal  of  the  Congregational  college  of  Brit- 
ish North  America,  and  professor  of  theology  in  the  same,  was  born  in  Binningham, 
Kiigiiind,  on  the  21st  of  June,  1805,  his  parents  being  John  A.  and  Susan  (Phillips)  Wilkes  ;  his 
father  was  a  manufacturer  in  England,  and  a  merchant  in  Canada.  His  grandparents  and 
parents  were  Independents,  and  his  own  mind  seems  to  have  been  early  fixed  on  being  a  min- 
ister of  that  order,  though  for  some  time  there  were  obstacles  in  the  way.  At  fourteen  yeai-s  of 
age  he  had  received  a  fair  English  education,  and  was  called  to  travel  for  a  short  time  on  the 
business  of  his  father. 

When  our  subject  was  fifteen  years  old  the  family  came  to  Canada,  and  .settled  in  Toronto, 
there  young  Henry,  who  was  the  eldest  son,  tried  his  hand  for  a  while  at  manual  labor,  to  a.ssist 
the  family  in  getting  a  good  start  in  the  new  country ;  but  the  task,  though  pleasant  to  a  youth 
full  of  vigor  and  elasticity,  was  not  regarded  as  in  any  sense  a  life  work,  and  we  soon  find  him 
in  a  law  office,  which,  however,  for  sundry  reasons  he  declined  to  continue. 


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In  1822,  he  left  his  home  for  Montreal,  whcro  liis  attention  was  iigain  turned  to  commer- 
cial pursuits,  and  he  spent  five  yeai-s  a.s  a  clerk  in  a  mercantile  house.  At  the  eiul  of  tliat  pe- 
riod he  became  a  partner  of  John  Torrance,  and  in  one  year  his  sliare  of  the  profits  enaMed  him 
to  withdraw  with  funds  sufficient  for  his  education  for  the  ministiy,  to  which  for  some  time  he 
had  determined  to  devote  his  life. 

In  1829,  he  entered  the  university  of  (Jlusgow,  Scotland,  joiiiinj^  the  Theologiail  Academy 
of  the  Independents,  under  the  direction  of  the  Rev.  Ralph  Wardlaw,  l).l).,  and  the  Rev.  (Jre- 
ville  Edwing,  M.A.  ;  and  in  1832  he  was  ordained  in  the  same  city,  and  sent  to  Canada  on  a 
special  mission. 

It  was  his  desire  to  introduce  into  this  country  a  much  needed  supply  of  able  and  faithful 
ministers,  and  that  in  connection  with  the  Independent  or  Congregational  denomination.  He 
returned  to  Scotland  on  the  completion  of  his  special  mi.ssion,  and  having  taken  his  degiee  of 
M.A.  on  the  18th  of  April,  1833,  Imcanie  pastor  of  the  Albany  street  church,  Edinburgh,  his 
thoughts  meanwhile  refusing  to  abandon  the  province  which  he  had  left  Through  his  inHu- 
ence,  during  the  prosecution  of  his  studies,  several  ministers  of  his  "  faith  and  order  "  were  in- 
duced to  come  to  Canada;  among  them  was  Rev.  Richard  Miles,  who  settled  at  first  in  Mon- 
treal, and  gathered  a  congregation  in  a  chapel  which  his  friends  and  suppoiters  erected  in  St. 
Maurice  street.  After  some  years,  Mr.  Miles  preferring  the  country  to  the  city,  accepted  a 
charge  in  a  rural  township,  and  our  subject,  now  in  Edinburgh,  was  invited  to  fill  his  place. 
This  invitation  reached  him  just  as  some  .of  the  leailiiig  members  of  his  denomination  in  Eng- 
land were  preparing  to  establish  a  colonial  missionary  society  in  connection  with  the  "  Congre- 
gational Union  of  England  and  Wales  " ;  and,  as  soon  as  this  organisation  was  completed,  lie 
was  appointed  its  confidential  and  corresponding  agent  in  British  North  America.  Returning 
to  Canada,  in  the  month  of  August,  1830,  having  also  accepted  the  pastorate  of  the  Fii^st  Con- 
gregational church  of  Montreal,  he  entered  upon  his  labors  there  in  October.  The  position  of 
agent  he  has  held  to  the  present  time.  During  seventeen  yeai"s  it  ionued  part  of  his  duty  to 
visit  annually  the  churches  within  the  sphere  of  his  agency.  Since  then  other  arrangements 
rendered  that  unnecessary.  Dr.  Wilkes  also  visited  the  Maritime  Provinces  once  and  again,  at 
the  request  of  the  society  in  England,  and  during  these  forty  years  that  he  has  lalwred  steadily 
in  Canada,  his  offices  of  i)astor  of  the  Montreal  church,  and  correspondent  and  visitor  of  the 
Congregational  Churches  in  the  several  provinces,  have  furnished  him  with  quite  as  much  work, 
it  would  seem,  as  any  one  man  ought  to  do.  Yet  this  is  not  all ;  far  from  it.  Something  like 
twenty-five  or  thirty  years  ago  he  was  accustomed  to  instruct  a  class  of  theological  students  in 
an  institute  then  existing  in  Montreal,  in  a  course  of  intellectual  philosophy  and  logic ;  for  ten 
years  he  was  secretary'  of  the  Montreal  branch  of  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society;  for  a 
longer  fieriod  chairman  of  the  Protestant  school  examiners ;  and  for  several  sessiorts  filled  the 


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diair  of  Homilctic  nnd  Pastoral  theolofjy  in  the  Confjregational  college  of  liritLsh  North  Amer- 
ica, of  which  he  lias  l»een  principal  since  June,  1870. 

Dr.  Wilkes  has  also  clone  a  great  deal  of  literary  lecturing  before  nicchanicH'  institutes, 
mercantile  library  as.sociationa,  college  societies,  i:c.  In  1847  he  delivered  an  address  before  the 
Theological  society  of  Dartmouth  college,  Hunover,  N  H.,  and  in  1850  and  1860,  similar  ad- 
dresses in  the  two  Vermont  colleges,  at  Burlington  and  Mi<ldlebury,  receiving  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Divinity  from  the  former  ;  also,  at  a  later  date,  he  re^'eived  from  the  McGill  univer- 
sity the  degree  of  LL.D. 

Dr.  Wilkes  held  the  full  pastorate  of  the  Fii-st  Congregational  chui-ch  until  1871,  since 
which  time  he  may  In'  regarded  as  pastor  emerUan.  His  original  congregation  in  St.  Muuiiee 
street  .soon  outgrew  their  house  of  wor.ship,  and  "  Zion  church,"  on  Radegonde  street,  was  erec- 
ted.    It  has  since  been  enlarged,  and  has  colonized  once  or  twice. 

Most  of  the  data  for  this  sketch  are  gleaned  from  a  well  written  notice  of  our  subject  in 
Notman's  "  Briti.sh  Americans,"  from  the  pen  of  Fennings  Taylor,  of  Ottawa,  who  does  simple 
justice  to  the  great  working  powers  and  diversified  labtjrs  of  Dr.  Wilkes.  Several  of  his  ad- 
dresses, lectures,  and  sermons  have  been  published  in  pamphlet  form,  and  exhibit  a  high  grade 
of  scholai-ship,  and  the  spirit  of  a  Christian  gentleman. 

A  gentleman  who  heard  him  preach  for  years,  thus  speaks  of  his  style  : — 

As  a  didactic,  logical  preacher  he  bag  few  superiors.  His  style  is  not  flowing,  and  ho  indulges  but  sparingly 
in  illustrations,  but  his  reasoning  is  cogent  and  powerful.  He  is  a  grand  reader,  his  voice  being  full  and  sonor- 
ous and  his  rhetoric  easy  and  natural.  His  discourses  are  always  instructive,  and  lose  nothing  by  perusal  in 
the  printed  form .     His  ministry  has  therefore  become  of  steady  growth. 


HON.  ja:me>s  feriuer,  senator, 

MONTH E A L 

CHIEFEST  of  the  cities  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada  is  the  opulent  and  growing  metrojwlis 
of  Montreal.  Closely  connected  with  the  rise  and  development  of  this  city  arecf  rtain 
names  that  will  live  throiigh  all  the  future — a  Molson,  pioneer  of  the  steamlwat  enterprize  >n 
the  St.  Lawrence ;  a  Torrance,  the  outreaching  mereliant  who  demonstrated  that  from  this 
northern  inland  city  intimate  commercial  relations  could  be  sustained  with  the  antipodes — a 
Redpath,  founder  of  the  great  sugar-refining  movement  which  has  risen  to  such  colossal  propor- 
tions. Among  these  worthy  names  stands  conspicuously  the  name  of  the  Hon.  James  Ferrier, 
who  has  for  sixty  years  taken  an  active  part  in  the  social,  commereial,  and  political  life  of 
Canada,  and  particularly  of  Montreal.  Mr.  Ferrier  was  born,  October  22nd,  1800,  in  Scotland 
the  land  of  heroes  and  great  nien,    He  received  his  education  in  Fifeshire,  and  at  quite  an  early 


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a^o  was  sent  t<)  Perth  where  lie  served  his  apprcnticcsliip  to  commerce.  In  1S21,  lie  left  Scot- 
land for  Canada.  At  that  time  the  colony  wrn  a  lerra  incognita,  and  it  required  a  spirit  of 
daring,  of  self-reliance,  and  adventure  to  launch  out  from  home  and  friemls  and  boldly  face  the 
dirticultiesand  hardships  of  this  new  country.  Our  opening  North-west  is  now  calling  out  young 
men  of  energy,  pluck  and  sagacity,  the  pick  ofthespirited  youths  of  the  world,  hut  sixty  yeara  ago 
the  feeling  in  regard  to  cmigrntion  wiw  very  different  from  what  it  is  now,  so  that  in  young  Ferrier 
we  have  displiiyed  tlie  elements  of  that  astonishing  vigor  and  enU'rpri.se  which  have  marked  his 
entire  career.  As  soon  as  he  had  mastered  the  pecidiarities  of  Canadian  trade,  he  estahlishcd 
him.self  in  business.  A  young  man  of  twenty-two,  and  with  very  moderate  means  ;  but  com- 
bining Scottish  prudence  and  shrewdne.s.s  with  Canadian  push  and  enterprise ;  uniting  probity 
with  promptness,  and  energy  with  wisdom,  such  was  his  astonishing  succ^ess  that  at  the  end  of 
twelve  years  he  was  enabled  to  retire  from  the  activities  of  the  business  in  which  ho  was  engaged, 
having  ama,s.sed  a  competent  fortune.  Hia  interest  and  overimpelling  activity  would  not  allow 
liim  to  detach  himself  altogether  from  business,  and  so  there  connnenced  at  this  time  that  series 
of  official  business  relations  with  which  his  name  has  Iteen  so  continuously  and  honorably  a-sso- 
ciated.  With  the  establishment  of  the  Bank  of  British  North  America,  lie  became  a  director  of 
the  Canadian  Itoard  of  this  great  monetary  institution.  For  six  yeai-s  he  was  pre.sident  of  the 
Montreal  Assurance  company.  When  the  rebellion  broke  out  in  1M37,  he  exhibited  his  loyalty 
and  ingmined  patriotism  by  shouldering  hismusket  to  put  down  anncd  insurrection, and  his  fealty 
to  his  country  and  his  sovereign,  was  afterwards  recognised  in  his  receiving  a  comnu.ssion  as  lieut.- 
colouel  in  the  militia.  In  18+1,  Mr.  Ferrier  was  appoinU'd  one  of  the  members  of  the  muni- 
cipal council,  and  with  his  usual  energy  of  effort  he  began  at  once  to  initiate  measures  for  the 
improvement  of  the  city.  No  suspicion  of  jobbery  or  trickery  ever  attached  itself  to  his  name, 
and  such  wa-s  the  esteem  and  lespcct  in  which  he  was  held  by  all  classes  of  the  community,  that 
in  1844,  when  the  cotincil  l)ecame  elective,  he  was  returned  as  alderman  for  the  east  ward,  a 
section  almost  entirely  French  Canadian.  In  1844,  he  was  raiseil  to  the  distinction  of  the 
mayoralty,  for  in  those  days  the  ottice  was  regarded  as  a  great  dignity,  and  was  an  expression 
of  the  confidence  of  the  inhabitants  in  the  integrity,  and  purity  and  sound  judgment  of  the  man 
whom  they  delighted  to  honor.  In  this  high  official  position  he  displayed  great  ability  in  sup- 
pressing riotous  elements  engendered  by  religious  strifes,  and  by  his  vigorous  action  preserved 
the  fair  reputation  of  the  lity.  It  was  while  he  was  mayor  of  Monti-eal  that  the  disastrous  fire  of 
Quebec  occurred,  and  him.self  a  witness  of  the  mi.sery  and  suffering  of  the  harmless  citizens,  ho 
at  once  waite<l  on  the  then  Governor-General  Lord  Metcalfe,  and  after  consultation  with  tliat 
liberal,  large-hearted  man,  convened  a  public  meeting,  and  so  energetically  and  judiciously 
managed  the  effort,  that  it  became  one  of  the  most  liberal  and  efticient  ivlief  fun<ls  of  nuHlem 
times.  Shortly  after  this,  Mr.  Ferrier  was  called  by  royal  mandamus  to  a  seat  in  the  Legislative 
Council,  and  has  ever  since  taken  a  very  active  part  in  the  legislation  of  the  country.    His  vast 


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experience  of  a  coinniercial  man,  his  thorougli  ac()uaintance  with  the  detailK  of  trade,  banking, 
insurance  and  education,  have  made  hiui  an  invaluable  member  of  tho  Upper  HouHe,  and  have 
given  him  a  commanding  influence.  He  was  among  tho  statesmen,  good  and  true,  that  devoted 
their  ])est  energies  to  secure  tho  union  and  consolidation  of  tho  provinces  ;  and  after  the  con- 
federation, such  was  his  recognised  value  as  one  of  the  factors  in  laying  the  foundations  of 
empire,  that  he  was  among  the  few  selected  to  a  place  lx)th  in  the  Local  and  Legislative 
Council  and  Dominion  Senate. 

In  all  the  leading  enterprises  of  this  commercial  capittil,  Mr.  Forrier  has  sustained  a  posi- 
tion of  immense  influence.  He  projected  the  Montreal  Lachinc  railway,  and  for  a  numl)er  of 
years  was  president  of  the  road. 

He  was  elected  to  be  one  of  the  director  of  the  Grand  Trunk  railway  company  in  the 
critical  period  of  its  history  ;  he  has  been  for  many  years  chairman  of  the  Canadian  lx)ard  of  the 
groat  controlling  railway  of  this  continent.  Appointed  a  member  of  the  board  of  the  Royal  Insti- 
tution for  the  advancement  of  learning,  he  has  much  to  do  with  tho  univei-sity  of  McGill  col- 
lege, so  justly  the  pride  of  all  citizens  of  Montreal.  Embarrassed  with  financial  and  property 
difticulties,  he,  with  one  or  two  others,  went  heartily  at  work  to  husband  the  resources  of  the 
institution  and  dispose  profitably  of  property  which  had  been  an  uniemunerative  burden,  and  l>y 
grappling  with  the  debis  of  the  college,  and  .securing  a  most  efticient  staff  of  professors,  helped 
to  give  it  a  prestige  and  usefulness,  so  that  now  it  has  carried  its  fame  to  the  European  conti- 
nent, and  has  a  status  and  rank  with  old-world  universities.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  council  of 
the  universty  of  Victoria  college,'  Cobourg.  Though  not  favored  himself  with  the  advantages 
of  a  university  training,  yet  he  takes  a  profound  interest  in  education,  and  has  been  cultured  by 
extensive  travel  in  Europe  and  the  East,  by  thorough  couvcmso  with  public  affairs  and  by  the 
elevating  influence  of  high  social  relaf  ions. 

Identified  with  all  philanthropic  movements,  the  subject  of  our  sketch  has  been  for  many 
years  the  president  of  the  Quebec  temperance  and  prohibitory  league,  as  well  as  president  of 
the  Hil>le  society,  a  position  which  he  values  and  cherishes  even  more  than  the  honors  which 
his  country  has  conferred  upon  him.  His  simplicity  of  aim,  abnegation  of  personal  interests, 
sympathy  of  heart,  spirituality  of  niiml,  outrenching  breadth  of  view  and  singular  uprightness 
of  character,  have  lifted  him  to  eminent  recognition  in  the  church  of  his  choice — the  Methodist 
church  of  Canada.  Tho  forces  of  his  life  have  made  themselves  felt  in  manifold  forms  of 
Christian  enterpri.se  and  activity,  especially  in  tlie  Sunday  school.  The  active  superintendent 
of  H,  gr'.at  school,  always  at  his  post,  and  travelling  often  hundreds  of  uiiles  to  be  in  his  own 
school  on  the  Sabbath  ;  over  this  contini  nt  tho  liglit  of  his  .-xample  demonstrates  that  tho 
weight  of  over  f()ur-.score  yeai-s  does  not  incapacitate  for  eflectual  Sunday-school  .service. 

Kull  of  years,  of  honoi-s,  and  of  lal»ors,  his  long  and  varied  career  is  witliout  a  stain  or 
reproach.    l»i  hjm  we  see  a  rare  combination  .of  powers ;  gi-eat  sagacity,  iutegiity  of  motive, 


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energy  of  character,  and  an  umlaunttid  will  power  that  in  spite  of  a  physique  tiiat,  although 
wiry,  and  capable  of  enormous  endurance,  ctmnot  be  considered  robust,  has  carried  him  through 
a  long  life  of  unprecedented  activity. 

He  adds  another  to  the  honored  list  of  self-made  men  who  have  left  their  impress  on  the 
institutions  of  our  young  nationality,  and  whose  memory  a  grateful  country  will  preserve 
through  the  coming  generations. 


PIERRE    J.   O.   CIIAUVEAU,  Q.C,  LL.l)., 

MONTREAL. 

AMONG  the  many  prominent  men  in  the  Province  of  Quebec,  is  Pien-e  Joseph  Olivier 
Chauveau,  who  was  born  in  the  city  of  Quebec,  on  the  30th  of  May,  1820  ;  his  parents 
were  Pien-e  Chauveau,  merchant,  who  died  when  the  son  was  in  childhood,  and  Marie  Louise, 
Roy,  both  being  of  pure  French-Canadian  blood.  In  his  early  youth,  in  addition  to  the 
assiduous  care  exercised  by  his  mother,  he  had  constant  oversight  by  his  kind-hearted  uncle, 
Judge  Hamel ;  he  was  educated  at  the  Quebec  seminary ;  commenced  studying  law  with  his 
uncles,  Haracl  and  Roy ;  finished  with  G.  (Jkill  Stuart,  Q.C. ;  was  called  to  tiie  bar  in  1841  and 
practised  at  the  Quebec  bar  from  that  date  t^)  18.')5,  when  he  was  appointed  superintendent  of 
education. 

He  seems  to  have  early  cultivated  a  love  of  letters,  and  a  lilieral  use  of  the  pen,  Wing  fii-st 
known  as  a  contributor  to  newspapers  in  18.S.S,  when  lie  began  to  write  for  Le  Camidien,  of 
Quelle,  continuing  to  do  so  until  1841.  Al)Out  tiiat  time  he  commenced  corresponding  for  Le, 
Conrler  des  Etats  Vnin,  of  New  York,  his  letters  attracting  much  attention,  and  being  repro- 
duced in  Le  Cauadieii  and  some  other  French  newspapers.  They  treated  on  politics  as  well  as 
miscellaneous  subjects,  and  may  have  Wii  the  means  of  opening  for  him  the  door  to  public  life. 

He  was  fii-st  elected  to  Parliament  for  the  city  of  Quebec  in  1844,  having  a  very  large  ma- 
jority over  his  much  older  ccmipetittn-,  the  Hon.  John  Neilson  ;  and  so  well  did  he  do,  so  popu- 
lar did  he  l)ecome,  that  at  the  expiration  of  his  teiiii  in  1848,  lie  was  re-elected  by  acclamation. 
With  the  exception  of  a  .short  time,  when  he  stood  independent,  he  gave  a  firm  support  to  Mr. 
Ijafontaine,  the  leader  of  the  French-Cana<lians  and  a  steadfast  Reformer.  In  1849,  Dr.  t'haii- 
veau  favored  the  admission  of  the  claims  of  the  Bermuda  exiles,  who  had  lieen  illegally  ban- 
ished ;  and  the  same  year,  he  had  a  committee  ajipointed  to  inquire  into  the  cause  rif  French 
emigration  to  the  United  States;  and  some  of  his  suggestions  made  at  that  time  were  acted 
up<Mi,  and  checked  in  part  the  exodus  from  the  province. 

In  1851,  Dr.  Chauveau  was  appointed  solicitor-gt'neral,  holding  that  office  until  I8.'i.3,  and 
w««  provincial  secretary  from  IS.'i.'i  to  18.").'» ;  having  resigned  in  February  of  thr  latt<.'r  year,  he 
accepted  the  position  of  su^ierintendeut  of  education  for  the  Province  of  Quebec,  serving  in  that 


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capacity  until  1867.  During  that  period  the  Normal  school  system  was  established,  and 
marked  progress  was  made  in  the  cause  of  education,  so  dear  to  the  heart  of  Dr.  (^hauveau. 

In  November,  1866,  Dr.  Chauveau  was  sent  to  Europe  to  visit  the  educational  iastitutions 
and  examine  into  the  several  systems  of  public  instruction ;  he  visited  Ireland,  Scotland,  Eng- 
land, France,  Belgium,  Germany  and  Italy,  and  had  just  returned  to  Montreal,  when,  in  July, 
1807,  he  was,  on  the  failure  of  Hon.  Joseph  Cauchon,  called  upon  to  form  the  first  Quel»ec  Pro- 
vincial Government,  immediately  after  the  establishment  of  Confederation ;  he  formed  the 
administration  as  provincial  secretary,  and  took  the  title  of  minister  of  public  instruction.  The 
educjition  office  was  transferred  to  Quebec,  and  Dr.  Chauveau  wa.s  elected  by  his  old  county  for 
Local  and  Federal  Parliaments ;  he  was  re-elected  for  both  after  the  expiration  of  four  years  in 
the  first,  and  of  five  in  the  latter  case  ;  he  took  a  prominent  part  in  debates  in  the  House  of 
Commons,  especially  on  the  New  Brunswick  school  question  ;  he  was  the  leader  of  the  Legisla- 
tive Assembly  in  Quebec  during  six  consecutive  sessions.  During  that  time  the  whole  Provin- 
cial (fovernment  was  organized,  a  new  educational  law,  carrying  out  the  guarantees,  stipulated 
before  Confederation  in  favor  of  Protestant  schools  was  passed,  and  a  vast  scheme  of  coloniza- 
tion railways  inaugurated. 

In  January,  1873,  Dr.  Chauveau  resigned  the  premiership  to  accept  the  presidency  of  the 
Senate.  Having  been  superseded,  in  1874,  after  the  vt>te  on  the  Pacific  question,  he  resigned  his 
senatoi-ship,  and  contested  the  county  of  Charlcvois,  with  Mr.  Trembley, and  was  defeated;  he 
was  appointed  by  the  Mackenzie  Government  a  member  of  the  Quebec  harbor  conuuissiou,  and 
elected  chairman  ol  that  commission.  Dining  that  time  the  great  harbor  improvements  were 
commenced.  In  September,  1877,  he  accepted  from  M.  de  Bouclierville  tiie  shrievalty  of  Mon- 
treal, and  when  a  branch  of  the  Laval  university  was  founded  in  Montreal,  he  was  appointed 
jiiofessor  of  Roman  law. 

In  1853,  his  novel  entitled  "Charles  Gueriii,  Roman  de  Mieurs  Canadiennes,"  made  its 
appearance,  and  was  favorably  noticed  here  and  in  France ;  he  has  also  written  a  work  on 
public  instruction  in  (^aiiada,  which  obtained  a  gold  medal  diploma  at  the  Paris  universal  expo- 
sition ;  his  latest  work  is  entitled  "  Souveiiii-s  et  L<?gendes,"  a  humorous  poem  of  something  like 
7(K)  lines,  and  is  a  decidedly  entertaining  little  volume. 

Dr.  Chauveau  may  be  called  the  pioneer  French  Canadian  novelist,  his  work  ntentioned 
above  being  the  first  volume  of  the  kind,  we  believe,  published  'in  Canada.  As  a  novelist,  poi't 
and  h'gislatorhe  is  deserving  of  all  the  honors  which  have  been  bestowetl  upon  him  by  institu- 
tions of  learning  and  various  societies. 

He  is  a  FiL.l).  of  Laval  university,  Mc(Jill  university,  and  Bishop's  college;  is  also  doctor 
of  letters  of  Laval  ;  is  a  corresponding  member  of  the  Atheneuin,  New  Orleans,  lia.;  has  btn-n 
prtfsident  oi  the  Qui-ljec  Literary  and  Historical  society,  and  of  the  Montreal  Numismatic  and 
Anti(|uarian  society ;  has  Ituun  lM)th  active  and  honorary  president  of  the  Institut  CanadtMO 


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of  Quebec,  and  is  an  officer  of  public  instruction  of  P^ianec,  a  literary  distinction  tliat  was 
granted  to  him  at  the  last  Paris  exposition.  Dr.  Chauveau  is  also  known  as  an  orator  both  in 
his  own  language  and  in  the  English  language,  which  ho  speaks  nearly  as  well  as  his  native 
tongue  ;  liLs  orations,  particularly  those  at  the  laying  of  the  corner  stone  of  the  St.  Foy  monu- 
ment, at  the  inaugurating  of  the  monument  to  the  historian  of  Canada — Mr.  (Jarneau,  and  at 
second  centennial  celi;brations  which  have  taken  place  at  the  Laval  university  have  been  very 
favorably  noticed  here  and  in  Europe.  "  .  . 

He  is  a  Knight  Commander  of  the  Order  of  Pius  TX.,  and  of  the  Order  of  St.  Gregory  ; 
has  been  president  of  the  St.  Jean  Baptiste  society,  both  of  Quebec  and  Montreal,  and  with  one 
exception  is  the  oldest  Q.C.  in  the  Province  of  Quebec. 

In  1848,  Dr.  Chauveau  married  Miss  Marie  Louise  Flore  Masse,  of  Quebec,  and  she  has  been 
the  mother  of  eight  children,  of  whom  three  only  are  living.  The  okh'st  son  Pierre  Cliauvejiu, 
E.s(i.,  is  settled  in  Carleton,  Baie  des  Chaleurs,  and  his  second  son,  Hon.  Alexander  Chauveau, 
born  in  February,  1847,  has  held  the  offices  of  solicitor-general  and  of  provincial  .secretary 
precisely  at  tiie  same  age  his  father  did ;  he  is  now  judge  of  the  sessions  and  commissioner  of 
police  at  Quebec;  he  represented  the  county  of  llimouski  foi-  some  years  in  the  Quebec  Legis- 
lature. Dr.  (jhauveau's  only  surviving  daughter  is  married  to  Dr.  Arthur  Vailed,  profes.sor  in 
the  Laval  university  in  Quebec. 

])r.  Chauveau  has  three  daughters  buried  in  the  chapel  of  tbc  Uisuline  convent,  Montreal, 
with  a  beautiful  monument  of  white  ('arrara  maible,  by  Mi-.  Marshall  WimmI,  erected  to  their 
memory.  One  of  them,  Henriette,  was  married  in  Octoliei',  1S70,  to  William  Scott  -H  i;donwyn, 
lieutenant  in  the  (iOth  regiment,  and  went  with  her  husbatid  to  Bermuda,  and  died  the  next 
Decembei'.  She  was  a  young  lady  of  nmch  ])romise,  the  author  of  a  poem  called  "  Ma  (.'ham- 
brette,"  which  has  received  much  connneiidation  for  its  poetic  merits,  she  being  only  eighteen 
yeai-s  old  when  it  was  written.  Mrs.  Chauveau  died  in  1H7"),  and  Dr.  Chauveau  is  now  a  very 
lonely  nuin,  none  of  his  living  children  residing  in  Montreal. 


WII.LIAM    I.()(.MvI':U    IMXTOX,   Q.C, 

liELVKItERt:. 

r  I  1lIE  subject  of  this  biogiaphical  notice,  for  years  a  piominent  lawyer  and  politician  of  the 
-^  Province  of  Quebec,  was  born  on  the  Isle  of  Minorca,  on  the  0th  of  April,  IS  1 2.  His 
father  was  tiic  Hon.  William  Bowman  Felton,  British  Consul  at  Leghorn,  Italy,  at  the  tinn!  of 
the  I'eninsular  War,  and  brother  of  (^'aptain  John  Felton,  of  the  British  navy,  during  that  war, 
and  on  whose  cot  Lonl  Nelson  breathed  his  last  breath.  An  account  of  this  biave  and  heroic 
officer  may  be  seen  in  the  "  Prince  of  Wales'  Jotirney  to  (.'anada  in  IMOO."     The  mother  of  our 


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subject  was  Anna  Maria  Vails,  of  Minorca.  At  the  temiination  of  the  war  mcntionod  above, 
the  father  of  our  subject  left  the  naval  service,  came  to  Canada,  and  established  Belvedere, 
a  farm  of  a  thousjiud  acres,  four  miles  from  Sherbrooke,  whore  he  died  in  1837.  He  was 
conuuissioner  of  crown  lands,  and  connected  with  the  government  nearly  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death.  •  ■  .  . 

Our  .subject  studied  law  with  Andrew  Stuart,  Q.C.,  and  Kon.  Henry  Black,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  on  the  21st  of  November,  LSJ]*,  at  Quebec,  where  ho  practised  until  the 
ileath  of  his  fathiT,  when  he  returned  to  i\w  ca.storn  townsliips,  and  rebuilt  the  Belvedere 
mansion  and  ;,'ieatly  improved  the  property. 

Mr.  Felton  conducted  the  crown  l)usiness  of  the  district  of  St,  Francis  from  18511  to  1801, 
with  marked  abilit\'  and  efiicionc}',  and  was  for  many  years  haUunnlcv  of  the  St,  Francis  bar, 
and  at  one  time  president  of  the  council  of  the  l)ar  of  the  province. 

The  Montreal  IhiUy  Gazette  of  November  15,  1877,  printed  tliree  days  after  the  death  of 
Mr.  Ft'lton, at  Belvedere,  said  that  "  his  legal  lore  and  courtesy  to  his  eonfrivns  tended  much  to 
the  elevation  of  the  l>ar."  He  stood  for  yeaix  in  the  front  rank  of  his  fraternity  in  this 
province. 

The  dcceaaod  represented  the  counties  of  Richmond  and  Wolfe  in  the  Legislative  As.seni- 
l)ly  of  Canada,  entering  in  1854,  resigning  at  that  time  the  othce  of  president  of  the  (juaiter 
sessions.  From  the  source  quoted  above,  wo  learn  that  Mr.  Felton  "  took  an  active  part  in  the 
enactment  of  the  Seignorial  Bill  and  the  Municipal  Laws."  The  legislative  work  which  lie  did 
was  very  valuable,  and  he  was,  we  believe,  always  regarded  as  a  wise  counsellor.  His  name 
lias  an  honorable  and  lasting  place  in  the  archives  of  Canada.  At  tlie  time  of  his  death,  the 
superior  court,  then  in  session,  adjourneil  in  respect  to  his  memory,  and  the  bar,  which  ho  had 
lon<'  adorne<l,  passed  resobitions  recognising  his  great  wortli  and  his  noble  eai'eei  as  an  advo- 
cate.    He  left  a  widow  and  one  son,  William  Hughes  Felton,  now  a  lawyer  at  Arthabaska. 

Edward  I'l'llew  Felton,  a  younger  brother  of  our  subject,  is  a  notary  public  and  a  magis- 
trate at  Sheibrooki',  and  n  siiccessfui  business  man.  He  has  recently  purchaseil  the  Belvedere 
estate,  aud  is  preparing  to       X,  it  ii\  prime  onler. 

Died,  ill  ISliirlircolic,  on  ihu  'Jlst  Octuhur,  tlic  uniiiversary  of  'rrafiil);.!.!-.  Captiiiii  .loliii  Foltoii,  Itoyal 
Navy,  in  liin  Slst  yt-ar.  Captain  Ki-lton  was  an  olHoor  cif  tlio  Vifltini  inidor  Nets  ii  wlioii  he  fouglit  and  dioil. 
Til  have  Ix'eii  an  ntlicer  unih'r  tlie  imniDrlal  Nelsoi.,  liis  Hi;jiml  inidsliipniriu  n,t  thj  Hiitth-  of  Trafaljjar,  on  the 
iJlat  OctohiT,  IHOi")  (poaHiliiy  the  last  aurvivor  of  ti..i»  uelebratod  day),  und  the  witn<'MS  of  his  horn's  glurioiis 
death,  on  iliat  same  occa.-.ion,  in  the  cockpit  of  the  Victimi,  ini«ht  he  doenied  record  enough  of  an  ordinary  man, 
hut  silence  woidd  trejil  iinjiislly  other  fuels  in  tlie  good  niati'H  ehaiactir  and  career.  He  was  Ixirn  at  Hacknev, 
near  L<inlon,  on  tlie  Kth  Kcl)niary,  ITf*."),  entered  the  I'.nyal  Navy  in  IHIKi,  «»«  pieKent  at  several  enifayemontu, 
incUidiii|{  that  of  Coiienhagon  in  IHUI,  and  th:it  of  Trafal^mr,  already  spnkon  of ;  wns  liotiored  with  three  medals 
in  an  a|,{e  when  such  honors  were  rare,  ami  \v;ik  promoted  to  .i  liriiteiianey  mi  i  lie  IlOlh  .Vmjnst,  lS(Mi.  For 
■omo  trivial  error  in  those  slriet  days,  wlinh  would  probaMy  lie  oiisidered  von  ,il  now,  ho  was  somewhat  tin- 
f«eUnt{ly,  and  while  yet  yonng,  removed  from  the  service  to  he,  as  hereafter  slu'wii,  restored.  Vet  was  no  re- 
proach heard  froni  him.  In  his  after  Ij'e  in  (Janada  hi  served  the  provineul  ^Mveniment  as  a  !iiR|,'iatrate  of  the 
llislriut  of  Sitnil  Ji'i-iMiciH,  lll'ill^  at  hin    htatli  ope  of   t)i,' oiliest,     Jlp  w|M  agiM  of  tin' crown  lands  in  the  same 


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district  for  thirty-scvuii  yuArs,  to  the  full  sntigfactioii  of  the  ministry,  as  sliewii  by  their  to  stimouial  ;  and  dur- 
ing the  troubluil  tiiuo  of  1837  and  '38  hu,  whosu  feolinys  woru  with  his  Soveroign,  was  seen  staiuling  sentry,  al- 
though exempt,  aa  a  private  militiaman,  in  the  most  severe  season  of  our  inulemcut  climate.  On  the  visit  of  the 
I'rince  of  Wales  to  Sherbrooke  in  1800,  the  opportunity  was  taken  by  His  Royal  Highness  to  render  memorable 
that  visit  by  restoring  the  <jld  and  loyal  sailor  to  his  rank,  an  act  of  grace  worthy  of  him  and  of  his  Royal 
Mother,  as  well  as  a  most  pleasing  tribute  to  the  community,  each  member  of  wiiich  looked  upon  it  aa  a  favor  to 
himself.  He  was  subsequently  advanced  to  the  rank  of  retired  commander.  An  aged  brother,  whom  he  had 
Hot  seen  for  upwards  of  thirty  years  was  happily  attracted  to  the  place,  and  was  present  with  his  bereaved 
widow  to  close  his  eyes;  and  the  deceased  had  more  than  onco  exi>res»ed  the  hope  (knowing  his  days  were  few), 
that  he  might  be  spared  until  the  anniversary  of  the  death  of  his  Admiral  and  patron,  and  he  was  so  spared. 
Kut  there  is  more  than  his  public  life  to  treat  of.  He  was  honored,  respected  and  loved  by  his  family,  his 
friends  and  by  all  who  knew  him-  a  kind,  scrupulous,  conscientious,  honest,  punctual  man,  he  never  had  an 
enemy  and  never  lost  a  friend. — From  the  Sherhruoke  Gaxette,  'Hth  (Mubcr,  180(i. 


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LOUIS    -lOSElMl    CYE^RIEX    FISET, 

QUEBEC. 

T  I  IffiS  well  known  French  Canadian  poet  was  born  in  Quebec  in  182.').  Hi.s  mother  wfts 
-*-  Mis.s  Mary  Power,  of  London,  England;  and  liis  father,  the  Hon.  Louis  Fiset  (who  was 
descended  fnin  one  of  the  oldest  and  best  French  families  in  Canada),  held  several  important 
official  positions,  including,'  that  of  flistriet  judge  of  Gasp<;.  Louis  J.  C.  Fiset  received  his  eiluca- 
tion  at  the  privpte  school  of  Doctor  Wilkie,  and  subse(iuently  at  tlie  Quebec  seminary,  at  wliich 
latter  institution  hu  exhiliited  a  more  than  ordinary  a[)titude  and  ta.sto  for  literature,  wlueh 
evinced  at  this  early  period  that  he  was  likely  to  .shine  a.s  a  literary  man  of  ability  later  on,  an 
expectation  which  has  since  been  fully  justified.  Mr.  Fiset  has  travelled  considerably,  and  is 
well  ac4uainte<l  with  all  the  more  important  cities  of  Europe,  hence  his  natural  talents  have 
had  the  advantage  c)f  development  througli  large  observation  of  the  habits  and  customs  of 
peopli.'.s  of  many  diH'ereut  lands  and  nationalities.  He  studied  law,  and  was  iluly  admitt(;d  as 
an  advocate,  and,  in  1>S(!1,  he  was  appointed  .Joint  Prothonotary  in  his  native  city,  and  still  re- 
tains this  po.sition.  Exhibiting  such  a  taste  for  literature  in  his  youth,  it  is  not  .surprising  to 
find  him  as  a  num,  with  a  strong  tendeney  to  poetry,  pos,se.ssing  eonsidei'able  powei-  in  the  art-s 
which,  with  his  itniate  talent,  added  to  his  years  of  cultivation  has  developed  so  far  that  he  is 
familiarly  known  as  one  of  tlu  poets  of  liower  Canada  ;  he  has  written  some  of  the  most  grace- 
ful and  ex(iuisiLe  poems  and  h'ri  -s.  I'pon  ll'j  occasion  of  the  visit  of  H.  11.  H.  the  J'rince  of 
Wales  to  Canada  in  iMliO,  Mr,  Fisi  t  was  invited  to  compose  the  otle  of  wclcuine  for  Quebec  to 
the  young  prince,  for  which  he  was  complim.  nted,  and  leceived  the  thanks  of  our  good  Queen's 
eldest  son.  Mr.  Fiset  a-ssisted  in  founding  L'lnstitut  Canadien  (Que.),  of  which  he  afterward  bo- 
camo  president,  and  in  four  several  terms  subsecpiently  held,  and  still  holds,  the  otfico  of  the  Hon 
President,  In  1S."50,  while  holding  this  offic,  he  ottered  £30  for  the  best  essay  on  the  subji;et 
"Quels  Hcraicnt  K'ls  moyens  i'l  adopter  pour  ireei   en  ( 'anada  urie   litteraturr  nationale,  rt  <|U(ls 


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avantages  en  rdsultcrait-il  ponr  le  pays  ?  "  Hon.  Senator  Hector  Fabrc,  of  the  Canada  Literary 
Society,  in  writing  regarding  Mr.  Fiset,  says:  "M.  L.  J.  C  Fiset,  imagination  cliarmante  an 
vol  gracieux,  poeto  delicat  nu  vers  <?legant." 

Most  of  his  poems  have  appeared  in  La  Ruche  Lilff'raire  (Montreal)  'Les  SoirtfesC(madieMt9f 
La  Littt^raire  Canadienne,  and  Le  Foyer  Canadien ;  wherea.s  his  prose  eflTiisions  have,  we  be- 
lieve, only  appeared  in  Le  Journal  de  VEduralion  Publique  (Montreal),  and  the  leading  Quebec 
French  journals.  The  following  extract  fnjui  L  Hlstolre  de  la  Lift<''ratare  Canadlenne,  by  Lareau 
of  Montreal,  may  possibly  tend  to  show  the  high  repute  Mr.  Fiset  is  held  in  in  that  citj'.  In 
1807  Mr.  Fiset  obtained  the  silver  medal  in  the  poeticfil  course  at  the  local  University  on  the 
following  subject,  viz.,  "  The  discovery  of  Canada."    The  report  of  the  Jury  reads  thus  : 

[Extract  from  'LHlntoiro  de  la  Lettnxdu.re  Canadlenne,  by  Lareau,  Montreal,  1874] : 

A  great  elevation  of  stylo  and  iileas,  a  hajjpy  variety  of  rhythm  adapted  with  considerable  art  to  the 
different  parts  of  the  snbject,  life  and  brilliancy,  real  lyrical  inspiration  which  sustains  itself  nearly  from  one 
end  of  the  poem  to  the  other.  The  rirst  two  chants  have  merited  a  very  particular  mention  for  the  loftiness  of 
ideas  and  the  sustained  beauty  of  the  versification. 

With  such  deservedly  liigh  cc  inmendation,  and  emanating  from  the  source  it  does,  it  may  well 
be  remarked  that  Quebec  with  honest  pride  gratulates  herself  that  she  jjossesses  such  a  poet  and 
scholar  in  one  of  her  sons,  as  we  find  in  the  subject  of  our  sketch.  Mr.  Fiset  is  well  known  in 
all  iitei'ary  circles,  and  posses.ses  not  only  a  large  circle  of  admiring  friismls  Ikmc  in  the  l^ominion 
but  also  many  in  Europe  and  th''  ITnited  State.s. 


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KELSON    LOA'EKI^,  M.D., 

MONTREAL. 

THE  subject  of  this  biographical  notice  is  the  inventor  of  "  The  Historical  CVntograph." 
He  was  Ijorn  at  (Jreenbush,  Elizjibothtown,  county  of  Leeds,  Ontaiio,  on  the  19th  day 
of  September,  1829,  his  jiarents  being  Josiah  and  Elizabeth  (Shaver)  Loverin.     His  father  came 

to  Canada  from  the  United  States,  near  the  close  of  the  last  century.     His  mother  was  of 
German  descent. 

In  youth,  Loverin  received  an  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  village,  and  in 
the  Brockville  grammar  school,  under  Professor  James  Windiat,  a  very  successful  classical 
teacher.  In  18.")l,  he  matriculated  in  medicine  at  the  University  of  Toronto,  where  he  won 
])rizes,  for  scholarship  in  anatomy  and  physiologj',  and  in  1853  at  McCJill  college,  whence  he 
received  his  degi'ee  of  doctor  of  medicine  in  May,  185.">. 

Dr.  Loverin  resided  in  Chicago,  111.,  and  was  in  steady  and  successful  practice  there  until 
after  the  great  lire  in  October,  1^71,  witlt  the  exception  of  part  of  tln^  summer  ami  autumn  of 


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18G2,  during  which  tinio  ho  was  a  contract  surgeon  in  the  Union  Army.  He  was  at  the  battles 
of  Second  Bull's  Run,  South  Mountain  and  Antictani. 

Being  a  prominent  C^anadian  he  was  appointed  president  of  the  Dominion  Benevolent 
Association  of  Chicago,  which  was  formed  to  aid  the  sufferers. 

In  18.38,  Dr.  Loverin  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Caioline,  daughter  of  Joseph  R.  Bronsdon,  a 
much  esteemed  and  prominent  citizen  of  Montreal.  They  have  one  daughter,  now  pursuing  her 
studies,  and  who,  in  addition  to  several  other  prizes,  received  not  long  ago  one  for  superior 
answers  to  one  hundred  ijuestions  in  Canadian  history.  She  is,  we  believe,  the  first  young  lady 
in  the  Province  that  has  attended  a  course  of  lectures  in  a  medical  college.  ■ 

In  1872,  Dr.  Loverin  returned  to  Montrtal,  which  lias  since  been  his  home.  He  has  not  re- 
sumed the  practice  of  his  profession,  but  has  given  his  time  for  the  last  eight  or  nine  years  to 
liistory  and  writing,  doing  much  to  simplify  the  study  of  this  branch  of  knowle<lge  and  to 
make  it  more  attractive  to  the  student.  His  great  aim  appears  to  be  to  improve  the  system 
of  studying  hi.stor}'.  He  has  sl  arranged  the  Zabian  method  upon  which  principle  is  based 
tlio  practical  utility  of  the  Centograph,  as  to  give  at  one  view  a  complete  map  of  Time  from 
the  creation  as  known,  down  to  the  present  year. 

A  medal  was  awarded  the  ( -entograph  at  the  Centennial  E.Khibition  held  at  Philadelphia, 
in  187(».  Commissionei-s  from  the  Japanese  Department  of  Education,  came  to  Montreal  and 
purchasing  one  left  the  following  tesihriOnial : — 

"  MoNTRKAi.,  September  9th,  1870. 
"  Dr.  Loverin, 

"  Dear  Sir, — Your  Centograph,  which  you  have  shown  us,  precisely,  is  a  most  valuable  thing  on  which  to 
teach  liistorical  facts,  and  by  which  young  pupils  can  remember  easily  what  had  happened  in  the  world.  Now 
we  take  one  set  to  .Jai)an  because  we  think  it  as  just  .stated,  but  wo  do  not  know  whether  that  will  satisfy  our 
purpose  in  Japan.     Wo  shall  write  you  again  from  .lapan  about  the  results  of  the  introduction  of  your  Cento- 

graph. 

"  Yoiirs  respectfully, 

"F.  TANAKA. 

"R.   IDEURA." 

In  reference  to  the  centograph.  Lord  Dufferin  wrote  tlic  following : — 

"GoVEUNMK.NT    HofSE, 

"  Ottawa,  February  7th,  1870. 

"Sir,-  I  am  instructed  by  His  Excellency,  the  Earl  of  Dull'erin,  to  inform  you  that  His  Excellency  was 

much  interested   in  the  explanation  of  your  most  ingenious  invention  for  making  History,   when  studied  by 

/aba's  niethoil,  more  easily  acquired.     His  Excellency  wishes  you  success  in  your  endeavors  to  popularise  the 

study  of  History. 

"  I  am,  sir,  your  obedient  servant, 

"E.  G.  P.  LITTLETON, 

"  Guwrt<iir-lieiii>nd' »  Sacretary. 
"  Dr.  N.  Loverin." 

And  the  following  testimonial  is  from  one  of  the  best  educational  institutions  in  the  Province 
of  QucIhjc  : 


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"  Lo8  S<Burs  de  la  Congregation  de  Notre  Dante  ayant  oxamint$  le  '  Ceutograph '  dii  Dr.  Loveriu, 
estiment  (|uo  ce  tabluaii  est  trt-s  propro  ii  faciliter  aux  Eluves  I'etiide  de  Zaba,  la<iuulle  est  iiitrodiiite  avec  avan- 
tags  dans  leurs  Etablissements. 

"Montreal,  11  Septenibre." 

"  LoveHn's  Historical  Chart  of  Time,"  is  in  press,  and  will  soon  be  ready  for  use.  It  will 
in  one  view  represent  all  the  grand  events  of  history  from  the  creation  to  the  present,  upon  the 
decimal  system  of  chronological  reckoning,  hy  means  of  symbols  that  its  accompanying  key 
will  fully  explain. 


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HON.  JOSEl'TT    PTTTTJJTM»E    rtE:N^E    ATX)LPTTE    CAPtO?^,    P>.C.L., 

QUEBEC. 

T  I  1HE  present  Minister  of  Militia  is  the  eldest  surviving  son  of  the  late  Honorable  Rend 
-*-  Edouard  Caron,  judge  of  the  superior  court  of  Quebec,  and  chairman  of  the  commission 
for  the  codification  of  laws,  and  for  a  time  Lieutenant-Governor  of  that  province,  who  stood 
for  many  years  amongst  the  first  ranks  of  the  Conservative  party.  The  subject  of  our  present 
sketch  was  born  in  the  famed  old  city  of  Canada,  Quebec,  in  the  year  1843.  He  was  educated 
at  the  Quebec  seminary,  subsecjuently  studied  at  Laval  university,  and  finally  graduated  as 
B.C.L.,  at  McCiill  college,  Montreal,  in  180.').  Studying  law  under  Mr.  L.  C.  Baillairgd,  and 
aftiirwards  with  the  Honorable  (now  Sir)  John  Rose,  it  is  not  surprising  to  find  him  in  the 
front  ranks  of  the  men-of-law,  as  also  his  position  as  Mini-ster  of  Militia  would  fully  convey 
that  he  is  foremost  amongst  the  men-of-war.  As  regards  his  legal  ([ualifications,  it  will  sutfico  to 
state  that  he  is  a  member  of  the  well-known  firm  Andrews,  Caron,  Andrews  and  Fitzpatrick. 
He  is  a  direct  descendant  of  Robert  C!aron,  who  came  to  this  country  from  France  with  Samuel  de 
Champlain,  the  first  governor  of  Canada.  Robert  Caron  married  Marie  du  Crevet,  in  Quebec,  in 
1637,  and  lived  there  until  his  death,  which  took  place  in  IGoO.  The  widow  afterwards  nun  - 
ried  Noel  Langlois,  an  ancestor  of  Sir  (!eorge  E.  (Jartier,  and  the  Caron  family  to  this  day  is 
represinted  in  the  districts  around  Quebec  by  many  himdreds  of  their  descendants,  hearing  mt^re 
than  fifty  different  names.  His  father  was  formerly  Lientenant-Covernor  of  the  Province  of 
Quebec,  contributed  possibly  more  than  any  other  man  in  his  time  in  preventing  the  section  of 
the  province  he  held  .so  much  influence  over  from  following  in  the  wnke  of  i\\v,  well  known 
Papineau  movement.  In  fact  when  the  district  of  Montreal  ro.se  in  arms  in  support  of  the  |)iiH- 
ticjd  rights  of  the  country,  Mr.  C'aron,  with  a  praiseworthy  spirit  which  might  well  be  ennila- 
ted  in  more  motlcrn  times,  severed  himself  from  Papineau  at  the  perio<l  the  agitation  commenced, 
as  he  foresaw  that  whatevci'  course  should  be  pui-sued  that  of  rebellion  would  be  unpatriotic 
and  unwi.sc.  The  sequ  proved  the  more  remarkable,  inasmuch  as  when  peace  was  restored 
throughout  the  province,  the  Quebec  group  of  "patriots"  became  the  channel  througli  which 


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the  iinpt'iial  government  iKhuinistered  the  colony.  As  is  now — although  not  then — well 
known,  the  men  who  were  using  all  their  energies  to  incite  the  Montreal  movement  of  1837-SH 
were  only  actuated  in  the  coinse  thoy  pursued  with  a  view  of  attaining  a  larger  commercial  in- 
tcrcoui-se  with  the  United  States.  In  resisting  such  a  procedure  the  Quehec  "  patriots  "  were 
stimulated  merely  by  a  national  spirit  which  must  have  the  highest  commendations  from 
all  well  wishers  and  staunch  and  true  adherents  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  this  fair 
Dominion,  and  further  must  for  idl  future  time  be  handed  down  in  history  as  the  wisdom  of 
nun  who  were  capable  of  drawing  the  line  between  the  caprice  of  the  annexationists  and  the 
enlightenment  of  the  national  or  Conservative  i)arty.  Possibly  in  the  early  part  of  his  career, 
fi^w  young  men  had  a  better  opportunity  of  mixing  in  political  circles  than  the  subject  of  our 
sketch,  as  he  was  compelled  to  come  in  contact  with  men  of  every  phase  of  politics,  from  the 
fact  that  his  father's  house  was  always  th(>  centre  of  attraction  for  all  those  who  had  the  coun- 
try's welfare  at  heart. 

As  with  the  father,  so  with  the  son ;  a  natural  characteristic  of  both  has  been  their  facile 
diplomatic  organization,  combining  with  it  so  much  conciliation  that  the  essi^ntial  invariably 
has  been  establi.shed  and  consolidated  at  the  pro[)er  moment.  With  such  antecedents  it  were 
difficult  to  suppose  that  the  present  able  Minist(U'  of  Militia  could  po.ssibly  be  othei'  than  one 
t)f  the  ablest  lieutenants  that  the  present  premier  has  in  his  cabinet.  lie  was  appointed  Q.  C, 
for  the  province  of  Quebec  in  March  1870,  and  in  May,  1871),  he  was  made  a  <^ueen's  Counsel 
by  the  Federal  government,  and  upon  the  readjustment  of  |)ortfolios  which  took  place  in  No- 
vember of  the  following  year,  he  was  nominated  and  accredited  with  that  of  Minister  of  Militia 
and  Defence. 

In  jwlitics  we  need  hardl}-  state  that  he  is  a  staunuh  supporter  of  the  ( 'on.servative  party, 
and  although  he  unsuccessfully  contested  the  representation  of  the  county  of  Bellechasse,  in 
tlie  i'edcral  election  in  lS7i,  he  was  in  the  following  year  returned  to  the  Commons  for  the 
county  of  Quebec,  which  constituency  ho  has  represented  np  to  the  present  time,  having  been 
returned  at  both  the  general  elections  which  have  taken  place  since  that  time.  So  popular 
was,  and  is,  he  in  his  native  city,  that  at  the  last  general  elei;tion,  on  the  17th  September, 
1878,  he  was  returned  by  a  niajoiity  of  over  six  hundred,  in  contesting  the  seat  against  the 
Hon.  Isidore  Thibaudeau.  Po.ssibly  amongst  the  whole  of  the  followers  of  Sir  John  A.  Mac- 
donakl,  there  is  not  a  more  cleservedly  popular  man,  a.ssuredly  we  can  affirm  without  the  least 
fear  that  there  is  not  one  individual  in  the  whole  of  the  present  premier's  administration  that 
is  more  esteemed  in  and  around  the  city  of  Quebec.  His  bounteous  sympathy  is  too  well 
known,  therefore  we  need  only  give  as  a  remark  en  ihif^uDt  that  his  valuable  time  and  pui-so 
are  ever  at  any  moment  ready  to  benefit  his  fellow  countrymen,  and  not  a  single  instance  can 
be  adilucod  to  show  that  ho  has  not  at  all  times  exerted  his  utmost  energies  on  their  behalf,  as 
well  lis  iinariably  been  actnativl  by  .sound  principles  for  the  benefit  of  the  comnnuiity  at  large. 


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THE  CANADIAN  liWGRAI'UKUI.  DICTION AUY. 


As  we  have  before  mentioned  ho  is  liy  tradition  a  l.'onseivativt'  in  polities  ;  and  yet  has 
evinced  on  more  than  one  occasion  that  he  will  not  be  inHuonced,  he  will  not  "  vote  blindly  with 
any  particular  eli(jue,  but  will  give  a  loyal  support  to  all  measures  which  he  shall  consiiler 
good  and  likely  to  consolidate  Confederation,  to  develop  the  resources  of  the  country,  and  to 
protect  our  institutions." 

It  is  well  known  in  Quebec,  and  throughout  the  Dominion  generally  that  Mr.  Caron  was 
instrumental  in  starting  tlie  volunteer  organisation,  and  it  is  a  subject  of  priiU'  amongst  his  old 
comrades  to  see  him  now  at  the  liead  of  tlie  militia  of  the  country. 

He  was  a  director  of  the  Stadacona  Bank  of  Quebec,  of  the  Antieosti  conjpany,  and  in 
18G7  hold  the  posititm  of  vice-president  of  the  literary  and  hlst<jiical  society  of  Quebec. 

It  may  be  said  that  Mr.  Caron  is  one  of  the  most  iiojiular  men  in  the  House  of  Commons, 
ami  wherever  he  goes,  or  wlierever  he  may  be,  he  posses.ses  that  happy  trait  which  made  Lord 
Dufferin  so  universal  a  favorite  througliout  the  Dominion,  of  accommodating  himself  and  mak- 
ing his  society  agreeable  to  all  around  him,  whether  it  be  the  toiler  of  the  soil  or  the  moie  aiis- 
tocratic  society  which  now  and  again  assemble  within  the  hospitable  walls  of  Ilideau  liall,  and 
establishments  of  a  kindred  nature.  The  conversaziones  which  he  lias  revived  at  Ottawa,  after 
the  manner  uf  the  ever  to  l)e  regretted  late  Sir  George  E.  (Jartior,  are  the  theme  of  conversa- 
tion amongst  the  higher  circles  of  society,  and  would  do  '"Mlit  to  tlie  denizens  of  IJc'lgravia  or 
St.  James'. 

The  following  anecdote  is  taken  from  a  newspajior.  It  is  stated  that  when  Mr.  Caion 
went  before  the  electoi"s  of  the  county  of  Quebec,  in  1873,  one  of  the  leaders  there  re(|uested 
him  to  withdraw  from  the  position  of  a  candidate,  " consideiing  as  he  sa3's,  that  this  county 
only  elect  ministers  of  the  (!rown."  "  Then  answered  Mr.  Caron,  I  am  the  very  man  you  want, 
lor  I  intend  to  be  a  minister  of  the  crown  as  soon  as  possible!" 

On  the  2.")th  June,  186",  he  married  Miss  Alice  Bab}',  only  daughter  of  the  late  Honorable 
Fran(;ois  Baby,  who  for  some  years  represented  the  Stadacona  division  in  the  Legislative 
Council  of  Canada,  by  which  alliance  there  has  been  issue  llond  Adolphe  De  Bluis  and  Alice 
Mathilda,  both  of  whom  survive. 


J()>SE1']1    ADOLI'lJK    DKroy, 

ijJJEDEV. 

THK  present  assistant  to  the  Law  Officcis  of  the  (Jrown,  who  holds  a  latlier  important 
position  at  the  new  Government  building.s,  was  born  at  Montreal  on  the  3 1st  October, 
1830 ;  he  belongs  to  the  Roman  Catholic  leligion  ;  he  was  eihicated  at  the  Montreal  college, 
taking  up  a  full  classical  course.  Sul.)se([uently  he  .studied  law  under  M.M.  LiUoutainc  and 
Berthelot,  aiid  was  admitted  to  the  bar  on  the  4t]i  of  December,  18.54.    For  a  short  time  lie  took 


77/ A'  r.t.X.tniAS   llhmllM'llhM.  I'K  TKtS.iin'. 


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up  a  private  practice,  aiitl  in  October,  I8.')7,  waH  api)uintiMl  ilork  in  the  ottiLT  of  the  Attorney 
(Icnernl.  At  the  time  of  C 'onfetleration  ho  was  appointed  to  liis  i)resent  post  at  Quebec.  The 
jK)Ht  tlie  subject  of  our  sketch  retains  is  one  of  no  ordinary  importance,  and  in  Mr.  Defoy  tlio 
public  secured  possession  of  an  oflicial  of  clear  brain,  with  an  aptitude  ami  aHection  for  his 
profession  which  stand  him  in  j,'ood  stead  wlienever  a  ditticult  or  abstruse  questii-n  ari.scs.  He 
is  thi;  author  and  publisher  of  the  "  Almanac  Judiciaire  de  la  Piovince  d»!  Quebec,"  wliich  con- 
tains various  useful  information  as  to  the  courts,  judiciary,  i*cc. ;  it  is  highly  apjireciated  by  the 
judf^es  and  professional  men.  He  married,  on  the  15th  of  Octolwr,  185(5,  Hernietta  Valade,  a 
daughter  of  F.  X.  Valade,  a  notary  and  inspector  of  schools  at  Longueuil,  who  is  author  of  some 
valualili'  works  referring  to  education.     By  this  alliance  he  has  seven  boys  and  one  girl. 


DAVID  MARSH,  president  of  the  Jeffrey  Hale  hospital, and  pastor  for  thirty-Uve  years  of 
the  Baptist  church,  Quebec,  hails  from  Accrington,  Lancashire,  Kngland,  a  village 
noted  for  being  the  home  of  the  famous  Peel  family,  where  lie  was  born  December  10,  J>S05. 
His  father  was  Jonathan  Marsh,  who  died  in  the  infancy  of  his  .son. 

Our  subject  prepared  for  the  ministry  at  Horton  college,  Bradford,  under  its  first  jiresi- 
dent.  Rev.  Dr.  Steadman,  and  held  three  jiastorates  before  leaving  the  old  country:  (I)  at  Sut- 
ton, Yorkshire,  (2)  A.shton-undei-lyne,  near  Manchester,  and  -W)  Ciieat  Mis.senden,  Buckingham- 
shire, where  he  buried  his  first  wife  and  two  children. 

In  1N35,  by  invitation  of  a  few  Bai)tists  in  Quebec,  lie  came  here  to  preach  to  them  and 
organized  a  church,  which  latter  work  he  did  the  first  year,  with  not  more  than  fifteen  or  six- 
teen members.  In  1.S52,  was  built  the  church  which  they  now  (occupy,  and,  in  1!S77,  a  liousc 
for  Sunday  school  and  other  purposes  was  erected. 

Mr  Marsli  has  been,  from  its  origin,  one  of  the  governois  of  the  Jeffrey  Hale  hospital,  and 
is  now  president  of  the  same  ;  he  is  also  one  of  the  trustees  of  thi-  Jt;tfrey  Hale  Sunday  .school, 
founded  by  the  same  noble  philanthropist,  a  retireil  naval  commander,  iind  where  a  good  wcjrk 
has  been  ]>rogre.ssing  for  forty  years. 

When  Lord  Klgin  was  Governor-General  of  Canada,  he  selected  Mr  Marsh  as  tutor  to  his 
daughter.  Lady  Elma  Bruce,  and  that  position  he  held  while  she  remained  in  the  country. 

During  the  time  that  Quebec  was  a  military  garrison,  Mr  Marsh's  church  was  the  resort  of 

many  clever  and  pious  and  learned  men — otHcei-s  of  high   rank — who  were  not  Baptists,  but 

who  delight<!d  to  sit  under  his  tefl.chings.     A  literary  lady  of  QutdK'C  thus  writes   in   regard    to 

Mr.  Marsh:- 

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.An  liu  liaH  itlwayi  united  n  humility  vory  toiiuhiiig  and  luvely,  with  tlie  loundust  and  most  profound  of 
tunvhingH,  hiH  life  haii  hoen  most  active  and  saintly,  and  the  levcronce  for  him  hiia  been  so  great  that  many 
poople,  in  sick  and  dying  hoiirn,  who  never  belonged  to  his  church,  sent  for  him  tu  minister  to  them  then. 
Had  Mr  Marsh  remained  in  Kngland  lie  would  no  doubt  have  risen  lo  the  fnmt  rank  amongst  distinguished 
men,  as  he  has  <'orres|innded  all  his  life  with  those  wliisu  re|iut»tioMs  are  worlil-wide,  but  liiiviiig  oouie  to  Can- 
ada and  taken  u|i  his  work,  he  would  not  give  it  up,  b\it  faithfully  rluii){  to  his  people.  At  dillureiit  times, 
t'hurclit'S  in  various  pjtrts  of  Canada  gave  him  a  call  with  an  oiler  of  liigher  salary,  but  theio  were  steadily 
refused.     Mr  Marsh  did  not  work  for  money,  but  for  the  welfare  uf  tliuge  whom  he  saw  needed  him. 

Just  before  leaviiij,'  Englaml,  Mr  Marsh  marrietl  a  second  wife,  who  is  still  livinjj,  toj^cther 
with  five  of  her  children.  He  ha,s  also  ii  son  surviving'  the  tirst  wife,  Janies  Hill  Miirali,  a 
clergymaii,  who  lias  charge  of  an  Indian  .school  at  (!henuing.  Province  of  Ontario, 


YE^'ANT   JI.   L.   ST.   CJKRMAIX, 

,S7'.   IIVACINTBH 

VKN.\NT  HORACE  LEMAIRE  ST.  (lERMATN,  one  of  the  oldest  county  registrars  in 
the  jirovince  of  Quebec,  a  notai y  also,  an<l  a  V(  ly  accurate  and  reliable  busineH.s  man, 
dates  his  birth  at  Ui'itcntignj-,  county  of  Eeinster  (now  L'A.ssoniption),  near  Montreal,  on  the 
'J6th  of  May,  182(3.  The  family  of  St.  (iernuiin  came  from  France  at  the  beginning  of  the  iNth 
century,  and  his  grandfather,  Vonant  St.  Clermain,  sr,  was  connected  with  the  "  Nor' west  Fur 
Company  ; "  .spent  forty-two  years  in  the  far  west,  built  the  first  store  on  the  shores  of  Rainy 
Lake,  and  died  at  Repentigny  in  1821.  His  father,  Venant  St.  tii;rinain,  jr.,  born  at  Repentigny 
in  1801,  was  a  farmer,  and  justice  of  the  peace,  and  died  at  Maddington,  on  the  2()th  of  Septem- 
ber, 1863.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Marie  Angelique  Prdvost,  born  at  Terrebonne,  and  is 
still  living,  being  in  her  77th  j'eai'.  She  is  the  mother  of  twenty-four  children,  all  sons  but 
four,  six  of  tliem  being  twins.  Only  si.\  of  them  lived  to  grow  up,  of  whom,  five  are  still 
living. 

Our  subject  was  tlu-  lirst  son  and  third  child  in  this  very  large  family.  He  was  educated 
at  l.i'Assomption  college,  finishing  his  studies  in  ISi*  ;  read  law  in  the  same  place  and  at  St. 
Hjacinthe,  and  prepared  liimself  to  be  a  notary,  being  the  first  year  a  copyist  in  the  oHice  of 
the  registrar  for  the  county  of  Leinster.  He  was  admitted  to  piactise  his  profession  on  the 
1-tth  of  February-,  IS.'iO,  and  connncnced  at  St.  Hyacinthe,  which  has  k-en  his  home  for  thirty- 
five  years. 

During  the  year  ISW,  while  still  pursuing  his  legal  studies,  Mr.  St.  Ciermain  taught  a  jiub- 
lic  school  in  this  city. 

On  the  1st  of  May,  1847,  he  was  appointed  deputy-iegistrar  of  the  county  of  St.  Hyacinthe, 
and  on  the  8th  of  November  of  the  next  year  was  appointed  registrar,  which  latter  office  he  has 
now  held  for  thirty-two  years,  and  has  been  veiy  faithful  at  his  post  of  duty,  being  a  man  who 


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lu'liovos  in  doinj^  nil  tiling's  well  tlmt  arc  wintli  doing  at  all.  His  motto  is  Lnhin'  oriintK  vliuU. 
Tlu'  chair  wliicli  lu'  ofcupii-s  in  liis  orticc  was  useil  by  tlic  Hist  mayor  of  the  city  of  Qiiehoo, 
anil  i>iosi'nt<'(l  to  Mr.  St.  <!t>rniain  by  a  friond. 

Mr.  St.  Germain  i.s  also  n  jii.stice  of  the  peace  ami  a  commi.ssioner  for  ta !<••;;;' atfiilavits. 
Many  years  ago  he  rai.sed  a  company  of  volunteer  riHes,  the  first  company  of  the  kind  in  St, 
Ilyacintlie,  and  had  the  command  initil  18(i.»,  when  he  retired  ;  he  now  holds  the  rank  of  cap- 
tain of  reserve  militia.  He  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  St.  Joan  Baptiste  Society  of  this 
city. 

Mr.  St.  Uermairi  ha.s  been  married  since  the  1+th  of  Kebniary,  184!>,  the  maiden  nnnie  of 
his  wife  being  Elizabeth  Marie  Am|li((e  Tetu.  Siio  is  the  mother  of  .yeven  children,  five  of  tbcmi 
yet  living.  Venant  Fran(;oi.s  Horace  Jules,  the  eldest  son,  is  a  notary,  conmiissionor  and  iniin- 
ance  agent,  at  St.  Hyacinthe ;  Jo.se|ih  Emilt!  Valmore,  is  a  physician  and  surgeon,  residing  at 
St.  Norbert, county  of  Arthabaska;  Jo.seph  Arthur  is  a  macliinist  at  VVan'en,  Ma.ss.;  Joseph  Louis 
Rodolphe  is  a  teller  ia  St.  Hyacinthe,  and  Mary  Louise  Arthemise,  the  only  daughter,  is  living 
at  home. 


HON.  JOITN   JONES    ROSS,  M.l)., 

(QUEBEC. 

rr"lHE  present  .speaker  of  the  legislative  council  is  the  representative  for  ShawinigiUi  and  a 
*-  member  of  the  executive  council  in  the  U  )bitaille-Oliaploau  administration,  hence  it 
need  scarcely  be  stated  that  he  is  a  staunch  (Conservative.  His  grandfather  George  Mclnto.sh 
llo.ss  was  a  West  Indian  niercluint.  He  married  Miss  Marie  Louise  Oouin,  daughter  of  Captain 
Antoino  Gouin.  He  was  educated  at  Quebec  college,  subsequently  studying  melii'lne  under 
Dr.  Henry  Carter,  and  finally  passed  his  examination  at  Montreal.  Professionally — both  as  a  phy- 
sician and  a  surgeon — ha  is  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary  ability  and  skill,  conseipiently  his  re- 
taining the  distinguished  office  of  Governor  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  is  not  sur- 
prising. He  is  senior  medical  officer  of  the  1st  battalion  of  Ciiampiain  niiliti.i;  [)resident  f)f  the 
Cliamplain  agricultural  society,  and  a  member  of  the  Quebec  agricultural  .society,  and  in  the  pur- 
suit of  agriculture  in  all  its  essentials  is  an  ardent  and  warm  supporter.  In  all  of  these  latter 
pursuits  he  takes  the  keenest  interest  and  in  his  leisure  hours  devotes  him.self  assiduously  to  the 
perfecting  thereof.  In  187o  he  wa-s  elected  vice-president  of  the  North  Shoie  railway ;  prior  to 
this  in  February,  1M73  he  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  executive  council  and  speaker  of  the 
Legislative  Assembly,  which  latter  post  he  retiiined  until  the  August  of  IST^,  he  however,  was 
reappointed  to  the  latter  on  27th  January,  1.S7G,  and  held  the  office  of  speaker  until  March, 
187s,  when  the  ministry  was  dismissed  by  the  late  Lieutenant-Governor  the  Hon.  Luc  Lctel- 


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li('r  (lu  St.  Just.  On  tlio  funnation  of  the  < 'liai>lcau  a.iininiHtnitiori  on  ^l.'-t  Octolicr,  l.S7!(,  lio 
was  reap|M)iMte(l  a  tucnibor  of  the  e.xocutive  council,  and  speaker  of  tlic  logislative  council 
which  lie  retains  up  to  the  present.  He  represented  <  "hamplain  in  the  ( 'anadian  assembly  Iroui 
the  yoneral  election  in  ISIil  until  the  union,  when  he  was  returned  to  the  Commons  and  local 
a.s.sembly,  but  resigned  his  seat  in  the  latter  on  his  appointment  to  the  Legislative  Council  in 
Quebec  in  1.S(I7,  and  held  Ids  .eat  for  Chauiplain  in  the  Commons  until  the  geveral  election  in 
liS74,  wliei!  tlw  dual  representation  being  aboli.shed  he  retired.  Among  his  confreres  in  Parlia- 
ment, lie  i>  universally  esteemed  as  well  as  by  all  the  members  of  the  ministry.  He  married 
on  the  Sth  of  August,  1S.")G,  Miss  Marie  Arlina  Lanouette  daughter  of  Colonel  Lanouctte  of 
(./'hamiilain  by  wliich  alliance  there  is  no  issue. 


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HON.   SAMUEL    (*.   .\[ONK, 

MO  NT  RE  A  L. 

jAMUEL  CORNWALLlS  MONK,  .senior  puism;  judge  of  the  court  of  Queen's  Kench  of 
Quebec,  wa,-*  born  in  Halifax,  N.  S.,  on  the  2!»th  of  July,  ISU.  He  i.s  a  LLD.  of  the  Cni- 
versity  of  Laval.  Uis  fatlier,  SamueJ  VVentwortli  Monk,  was  descended  from  a  family  (.'f  I'nited 
JMuiiirv!  Iioyalists,  wlioso  parents  left  Boston,  Mass.,  at  the  outbreak  of  tlie  Revolutionary  war 
'i'lioy  were  related  to  tlie  (loulds,  Wentworths,  Deerings,  '.pthorps,  and  the  Ibui.  I'.dward 
Cornwallis,  at  one  timo  go\eiaur  nf    Nova  Scotia,. 

Judge  Monk's  grcat-graudfatliet  was  attorney  general  nf  Nova  Scutia,  and  his  grandfatiier 
a  Judge  of  that  j)rov'ince.  Due  of  his  grandundes.  Sir  Janr.'s  Monk,  was  cliief  justice  of  the 
enurt  <if  Queen's  Heueli  for  Montreal 

Thf;  subject  of  this  .■sketch  wa.'^  cducal.  :l  in  WiiidsDi',  \ova  Scotia,  and  w.is  subsetpiently 
prepared  fur  entering  J'rlnity  College,  Dublin,  but  it  whs  iJiouglit  advisalile  that  he  .sliould 
eoTumence  the  study  of  the  law  iuinieiii.itely  on  his  arrival  in  t  aiiada  in  ls:H.  This  he  did  and 
wa.s  udiiiittcil  to  the  iiai-  in  bs;l7,  shortly  afterw.irds  making  a  tour  In  Kumpe,  lasting  two 
years.  Some  time  aft-T  his  return.  Judge  Monk  euteied  into  paitnership  with  the  preseni  Sir 
Jnliii  Rose,  Ra't.,  then  in  large  practice  in  Montreal. 

In  I.S54'  our  subject  wa.s  appointed  (,>ueen's  (.'ouusel,  and  for  .-ome  years  repre.senled  th.- 
Attorney-General  of  Lower  Cauad.i,  in  crown  pro,secutions.  In  l^.'))!  he  was  raised  to  the  bejuh, 
and  during  nine  years  sat  us  a  pui,snc  judge  in  the  Supeiior  Court  (,f  Lowei  Canada,  in  IsinShi' 
was  promoted  to  the  Queen's  Hencb,  on  the  retiremeut  of  Mr.  Justice  Aylwiu.  In  a  private 
letter  to  the  editor  of  this  volume,  a  pnnniiient  lawyer  of  Montreal  thus  s|)eaks  of  Ju.lgi-  Monk  : 

"  His  reputation  as  a  judge  stands  very  high.  His  natural  talent.s,  tniiled  to  hrs  vast  Iwiow- 
ledge  and  graceful  elocution,  have  made  Mm  on-'  "f  (h,.   most  iii>.truct  ive  and  agreeable  |iei'>ons 


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to  listen  tu  wliuiievor  Ijc  has  a  judj^iiKJiit  to  delivor  in  the  Court  of  Appeals  or  a  cliargi;  U)  make 
to  a  jury  in  the  criminal  court.  His  knowledge  of  both  the  French  and  English  languages  is  so 
perfect  that  it  would  he  impossible  for  a  stranger  to  tell  by  his  speecli  to  which  nationality  he 
belonged.  The  old  French  law,  which  forms  the  basis  of  the  jurisprudence  in  the  province  of 
(Quebec,  is  so  familiar  to  him  that  when  a  case  is  heard  in  court  of  Queen's  Bench,  before  him 
and  ins  associates,  one  can  easily  find  out  that,  after  reading  the  printed  factum  of  both  parties, 
he  is  generally  read}'  to  give  his  opinion  and  support  it  with  the  most  learned  and  scientific 
.'irguments.  The  capabilities  of  Judge  Monk,  as  shown  in  criminal  matters,  are  always  very 
1  ighly  appreciated.  When  he  represented  the  crown,  liefore  the  criminal  court  as  crown  prose- 
(  utor,  before  going  on  the  bench,  he  met  witli  immense  success,  and  his  reputation  as  a  criminal 
lawyer  became  very  extensive.  Upon  the  bench  he  meets  the  expectation  of  his  great  admirers 
l>y  the  dignity  with  which  he  presides  in  court,  and  the  vast  legal  knowledge  combined  with 
the  high  sense  of  justice  which  he  displays  In  discharging  his  duties." 

Judge  Monk  was  married  in  1844  to  a  daughter  of  the  late  Hon.  P.  D.  DeBartzch,  ni'  iii!'<'r 
of  the  Legislative  Council  of  Lower  Canada,  and  they  have  five  sous,  and  have  buried  jim 
(inly  daughter. 


HON.   JEA^    FPvANCOrS    lOSEPlT    T)t*VAL, 

qUEIiEC. 

■T;J"0N.  jean  F.  J.  DUVAL  is  the  late  chief  Justice  of  the  court  of  Queen's  Hench  of 
-*~-^-  Quebec,  and  is  regarded  by  the  whole  of  the  men  of  law  as — in  his  day — one  of  the 
most  eminent  judges  on  the  Canailian  Bench.  Although  of  liiti'  years  the  learned  judge  has 
been  in  very  feeble  health,  he  retains  all  his  mental  faculties,  considering  his  advanced  ai^o, 
in  a  remarkable  ilegree.  He  was  born  in  the  city  of  Quebec,  on  the  iMth  of  July,  1801  :  ami  is 
a  son  of  tli«' l.ite  Francois  Duval,  Esij ,  of  the  Uoyal  Canadian  re-iment  of  volunteers;  his 
mother  was  a  Miss  .\iin<'  (lermain  Ivlueatid  at  thi'  celebrated  academy  of  Dr.  Wilkie,  in 
Quebec,  Mr  Duviii  >oon  manifested  sign.s  of  more  than  onlinary  talent.  On  his  embarking  in 
life,  he  euttM<Hl  tlie  otliee  of  Mr  Oeorge  Vanfelson- -who  subse(|uently  was  made  a  judge  ;  aftt-r 
leaving  this  office  lie  continued  his  legal  education  under  Chief  Justice  Vallieres,  of  St.  Real, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  l>»r  m  the  22nd  year  of  his  age;  he  was  made  a  Q.C.  in  1848  ;  ap- 
pointed an  assistant  judge  of  the  court  of  King's  Bench  of  Lower  Canada,  in  June,  I83!l  ;  a 
puisne  judge  of  the  superior  couit  of  Lower  ('ana<la,  1st  January,  18.')  2;  a  puisne  judge  ol  »|ie 
court  of  Queen's  Bench,  27tli  .lainiary,  18.") "> ;  and  chief  justicj  of  the  same  court  on  the  otli  of 
March,  18C4;  from  which  he  retired  in  May,  1874.  I'os.silily,  tliere  is  nut  another  jmlge  living 
in  Canada  whose  exj)erienco  has  been  s(j  large  as  tlu'    Hon.  .bui,    Duval's  ;    ami   in  all   Ids 


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decisions,  liowuvoi'  momentous  and  intricate  the  case  hof'ore  liirii  may  liuvc  liuen,  he  has  in- 
vai'iably  heen  accredited  with  wisdom  and  impartiality. 

In  Quebec,  }ie  stamls  as  high  as  any  individual,  socially  ;  and  l>y  his  long  association  with 
liis  many  friends  and  ac(iuaintances  he  has  endeared  himself  to  nil  by  his  gentlemanly,  bene- 
ficent and  courteous  bearing. 

In  1848,  he  married  Adelaide,  fourth  daughter  of  the  late  Mr  Dubuc,  a  well  known  mer- 
chant of  Quebec,  and  relict  of  the  late  Mr  Jo.se]>h  Duval,  of  Three  Rivers. 


fJEORGE    M.   DAWSCm,    [).S.,  A.E.S.M.,    V.V,.^., 

MONTREAL 
^  EOROE  MERCER  DAWSON,  one  of  the  n.ost  promising  .scientific  young  men  in  the 


Gr 


Dominion  of  Canada,  is  a  son  of  Principal  Dawson  of  McCiill  university,  being  born  at 
Pic^ou,  N'.S.,  on  t!ie  1st  of  August,  1841).  He  received  his  early  oihiciition  in  Montreal,  but,  on 
account  of  delicate  health,  did  not  enter  the  universitj'  except  as  a  partial  .jtudent.  In  1800  lie 
entered  the  Royal  School  of  Mines,  London,  and  took  its  full  course  of  study,  extending  over 
tliree  years.  He  passed  in  1872  as  associate  of  the  Royal  School  of  Mines,  taking  the  first  place 
in  his  class,  and  the  Edwiird  Forbes  medal  and  prize  in  pahuontology  and  natural  histoiy.  He 
had  previously  taken  the  Duke  of  Cornwall's  scholarship  in  his  second  year.  On  returning  to 
Canada,  he  was  engaged  for  a  year  in  mining  surveys  in  Nova  Scotia,  and  in  lecturing  in  Morrin 
college,  Quebec.  He  was  then  appointed  geologist  and  botanist  to  the  British  Nortii  American 
boundary  eommi.ssion,  in  which  cap.acity  he  served  for  two  year",  and  prepared  an  elaborate 
report  on  the  geology  and  resources  of  th(>  coui>try  in  the  vicinity  of  the  4l)th  parallel,  which 
was  pulilished  by  the  commission.  In  connection  \.ith  this  work  he  also  jirepaied  a  report  on 
the  lignitt-  tertiary  formaticm,  a  memoir  on  the  .superficial  deposits  of  the  great  int(;rior  plains 
of  America,  which  was  published  in  the  proceedings  of  the  Geological  Society  of  London,  of 
which  he  is  a  fellow,  and  papers  ,.\  the  locust  visitation,  and  on  the  fresh-water  sponges  of 
Canada,  which  were  published  in  the  "Canadian  Natu'alisi  also  a  paper  oi\  the  Huctuations 
of  the  great  American  lake.s,  published  in  "  ><'atiin'."  On  the  completion  of  the  boundary  sur- 
vey, he  received  an  appointnunt  on  the  statt'  of  the  geological  suivey  of  the  Dominion,  and 
is  now  an  assistant  director  on  that  survey.  During  the  last  fi\e  years  he  has  lieen  engaged  on 
the  geological  survey  of  British  Columbia,  and  reginis  adjacent,  examining  in  1875  and  187(1 
the  region  of  the  interioi'  lying  west  of  the  K' "scr  rivci',  in  1877  the  southern  part  of  the 
interior  east  of  the  Eraser,  in  1878  the  Queen  Charlotte  islands  and  north-west  coast.  In  187!' 
he  explored  the  country  from  the  mo\ith  of  the  Skeena  river  across  the  Rocky  inountuins  by  the 
Piu''  river  pass  ami  (hcnci-  to  Edmonton.     Ollicial  rejioits  mi  these  regions  have  been  published 


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in  the  volumes  of  the  geoloj^ical  ami  Canadian  Pacific  railway  .surveys.  The  latest  of  these  is 
one  on  the  Queen  Charlotte  islands,  and  contains  not  only  a  description  of  the  geology  of  tho 
islands,  but  also  a  highly  interesting  account  of  their  inhabitants,  the  Haida  Indians. 

Mr.  Dawson  has  laid  a  good  foundation, on  which  he  is  building  with  great  can;  and  assi- 
duity. Ife  had,  from  the  start,  the  best  of  instructors,  both  in  this  country  and  Kiigland.  While 
attending  the  School  of  Mines,  he  devoted  especial  attention  to  geology  and  pala'i)nti>logy,  un- 
der the  able  tuition  of  Rainsa}',  Huxley  and  Ktheridge,  and  to  chemistry  anf'  -netallurgy  in  the 
laboratories  of  Frankland  and  Percy.  In  coimection  with  his  work  on  the  boundary  commis- 
sion he  has  given  much  time  and  study  to  the  .special  geology  and  fossils  of  the  principal  North 
American  formations. 

In  1H8((  Mr.  Dawson  visited  Europe.  He  was  present  at  the  meeting  (^f  the  British  asso- 
ciation at  Swan.sea,  and  read  a'>  able  paper  on  thi-  geology  of  British  Columbia. 


IIOX.   ^\^TC)1XE    A.    DOKIOX, 

MOSTUEAL. 

ANTOINK  AIMK  DORION,  chief  justice,  is  a  son  of  IMerre  Antoine  Dorion,  a  member 
of  the  house  of  Assembly  for  Lower  Canada,  for  the  county  of  Champlain,  prioi-  to  the 
troubles  of  is;}.')  ami  IH37,  and  Genevieve  Bureau,  and  was  born  in  the  parish  of  Ste.  Anno  de 
la  Pera  le,  district  of  Three  Rivers,  in  1824.  His  grandfather  P.  Bureau,  sat  in  the  house  for 
the  county  of  .St.  Maurice,  and  his  uncle,  Hon.  Jac(pjes  O.  Bureau,  is  a  senator  for  De  Loiimer 
division.     Mr.  Dorion  was  called  to  the  bar  of  Lower  Canada  in  1842,  and  has  been  elected 


three  times  biitun)ilf 


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the  district  of  Montreal. 


He  entered  public  life  in  ls.'(4,  when  he  was  eiecti'd  to  Parliament  for  Montreal,  and  he 
continued  to  sit  as  one  of  the  members  foi'  that  city  until  18(11,  when  he  was  defeated.  Dur- 
ing till'  jieriod  iiere  meutinued,  the  (piestion  of  a  iiermaneut  capital  of  the  Canadas  came  up, 
ami  our  subject  opposed  the  Queen's  designation  of  Ottawa  as  that  place,  and  he  figured  some- 
what prominently  in  the  debates.  In  the  lUown-Dorion  government  which  succeeded  tht> 
Macdonald-Cartier,  in  August,  18.')8,  the  cliief  justice  became  attorney-general  ea.st. 

In  the  parliament  which  met  in  tb.e  sjiring  of  18()2,  Mr.  Dorion,  though  not  thi-n  a  member 
of  the  Assembly,  accepted  the  olHce  of  provincial  secretary  in  the  new  Satdlii'ld  Macdonald- 
Sicotte  administration,  and  in  June  following  was  elected  to  represent  Hochclaga.  lie  U\\  llu 
cabinet  in  October  of  the  .same  year.  The  next  year  there  was  a  change  in  the  aibinet,  an.! 
Mr.  Dorio".  lelurneil,  taking  the  place  of  Mr.  Sicotte, and  the  ministry  was  kn(jwn  as  the  Hand- 
field  .Macdoiiald- Dorion  admilli^tlatioM.  The  moderate  lilj'^ralism  of  Mr.  Sicotte  being  replaced 
Ijy  llie  nuuf  lalMul  lil"iali -in  >'\'  our  ■^ubji-ct,  who  lifcauu'  attorney  gciinal  for  Lower  Canada. 


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Some  very  exciting  matters  came  \ip  for  discussion  in  the  sessions  of  liS(i3- 18(54  :  a  coali- 
tion of  parties  was  attempted  once  or  twice  and  failed,  but  finally  such  coalition  was  formed, 
and  Mr.  Dorion  was  not  in  the  new  ministry.  He  soon  retired  from  politics,  practised  his  pro- 
fession in  Montreal.  He  is  now  chief  justice,  and  there  his  great  powers  are  seen  to  the  best 
advantage. 


STEPirKN    S.    FOSTEPt,  M.D., 

KNOWLTON. 

IN  the  "  History  of  the  Kastern  Townships  "  of  the  Provinct;  of  QucImc,  wc  read  thu^  ^jiomi- 
nent  among  the  men  who  setthvl  at  "  Frost  village,"  in  the  township  of  Shefford,  county 
of  ShetFord,  "was  Dr.  Stephen  Sewell  Booster,  lioni  at  Oakham,  Mass.,  November  22nd,  1791." 
On  the  7th  of  February,  181.S,  he  married  Sally  Belknap,  -if  Duminer«t<in,  Vt.,  and  two  years 
later  commenced  the  practice  of  medicine  at  -Newfane,  Windham  count}',  same  state,  and  there 
remained  until  1822,  when  he  came  to  Canada  with  his  wife  and  four  children,  all  he  then  had; 
he  .spent  one  year  at  Frost  village  ;  thou  located  in  VVat<>rloo,  the  county  town  of  SheH'ord,  and 
a  little  later  returned  to  Frost  village,  and  settled  on  the  farm,  says  the  historian  already 
cpioted,  "  occupied  until  recently  by  his  second  son,  Hon.  Asa  Belknap  Foster. 

After  coming  to  Canada,  Dr,  Foster  attended  medical  lectures  at  Quebec,  and  t<i  his  license 
from  the  Vermont  Medical  Society,  added  one  from  Quebec.  When  McOill  college  was  opened 
he  attended  lectures  there,  and  on  the  formation  of  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  ho 
was  elected  one  of  its  governors,  holding  that  (jtlice  until  poor  health  compelled  him  t<i  resign 
(18(iG).  When  the  Karl  of  Dalhotisie  was  m  Canada,  our  subject  was  appointed  surgeon  to 
Col.  Jones'  battalion. 

While  a  resident  of  the  county  of  Sheti'ord,  Dr,  Foster  served  for  some  time  as  jtistiee  of 
the  j>eace,  and  commissioner  for  the  trial  of  small  eau.sts,  when  there  was  no  other  court  in  the 
easl.rn  townships.     From  1841  to  1848  he  was  a  member  of  the  Provincial  I'arliament. 

When  Dr.  Foster  commenc(  ticc  in  this  province,  as  we  learn  from  the  work  already 

mentioned,  "  his  practice  extende  u  Vamaska  mountain  to  Missi.scpioi  bay ;  and  it  was  no 

uncommon  thing  for  him  to  be  ealleo   to  attend  patients  in  Stanstead,  or  even  in  Derby  and 

Coventry,  N't.     At  such  times  he  went  by  bridle  paths  through  the  forest  to  the  outlet  of  lake 

Memphremagog  (six  miles  intervening  between  dwellings  on  the  way),  and  thence  up  the  lake 
in  a  log  canoe.    On  one  occasion  he  was  guided  by  marked  trees,  sometimes  seeing  wolves  cross 

the  path  l)efort,'  him  and  oftei   hear  theni  howl  in  the  wools  on  either  hand.     In  the  practice 

of  his  {irofe-sion  nndt-r  siicli  eireiiin^tances.  he  was  ofti^n  brought  in  ci^Mtait  with  scenes  which 

excited  his    vaiiiiest  sympalliie--  ,  and  he  had  fri'ijuent  occiusion  fur  the  isercise  of  a  benevolent 


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and  kindly  foiling,  which  won  the  lu'arts  of  the  people  among  whom  he  lived  and  practised  so 
long,  estalilishing  a  claim  upon  their  lasting  esteem  and  giatitmle. 

In  the  autunui  of  1S.")7,  Dr.  F'ostcr  removed  to  Knowiton,  in  order  to  retire  from  his  practice 
whicli  he  had  followed  for  forty  years,  and  to  be  near  his  eldest  son,  ('apt.  Hiram  Sewell  Fostei, 
one  of  thi^  picjneers  at  Knowiton,  and  until  his  deatli  in  ISJS  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the 
plati>;  here,  on  the  7th  of  Felirnary,  I  SO,'},  he  and  his  wife  ei'leluated  tlieii- golden  wedding  at 
the  house  of  tlieir  son,  Judg  Foster,  ten  of  their  eleven  children  anil  twenty  grandchildren 
lii'ing  present,  together  with  a  number  of  prominent  citizens  of  the  place  and  vicinity,  including 
Hon.  ( 'hri.stopher  Dunkin,  hite  judge  of  the  superior  court  of  (^(ueliec,  the  Rev.  Roliert  Lind- 
say, of  the  St  Paul's  Episcopal  church,  and  Dr.  Earlier,  all  tln-ee  of  whom  made  Krief  addresses, 
which  were  happily  responded  to  hy  Judge  Foster.  Many  valuable  presents  of  gold  and  silver 
were  made  on  the  occtvsion,  and  all  hearts  were  happy. 

Dr.  Foster  dieil  on  the  2!>th  of  Decendier,  l8(i<S ;  his  widow,  a  hale  old  lady,  now  in  Iier 
H(jrh  'ear,  lives  with  her  son,  Tlionias  ?Mwin  Fost<r,  a  contractor,  and  (Die  of  the  energetic 
citizens  of  Knowiton. 

At  the  time  uf  the  demise  of  Dr.  Foster,  a  sermon  was  preached  at  St.  Paul's  ehurch, 
Knowiton,  by  the  Rev.  Robert  Lind.say,  and  in  that  discourse,  foumled  on  the  text,  "  Luke,  the 
iieloved  I'liysician,"  he  -et  forth  in  a  very  clear  light,  the  niiiny  excellent  ti'aits  in  the  character 
ot  the  decea.sed-  his  uprightness,  his  lidelity  to  his  conscience,  his  untiring  efforts  to  aid  the 
sick,  his  faithfulness  in  all  his  relati<ins  to  the  public,  and  his  social  \  irtues.  The  newspapers, 
at  the  time  of  his  death,  spoke  uf  liim  in  most  eulogistic  terms,  c.illing  him  "  one  of  the  best 
men  the  ?]ast.ern  Townshi)vs  ever  knew."  , 


Ri(;i!'i'-!n:\'.  willi am   r,i:.\M;T'r   ijond,  ll.i)., 

MoSTliEAl,. 

1")  ISHOl'  H' >N1 '  is  a  natixc  of  Truro,  county  of  ( 'ornwall,  Kn-.,  and  was  boin  in  bM  ">.  He 
-■^  reeeiv.d  his  literary  education  in  London.  England;  came  to  ( 'anada  in  ISII'S;  studied 
for  liolv  ordeis  and  was  onlaiufd  dea<'on  in  1n4ii.  at  (^)uebec,  and  priest  in  iSl-Lat  .Njontreal, 
by  the  Uiglit  Rev.  <>.  .L  .Monntaii:,  lieing,  at  the  same  time,  apjiointed  i  lavcllin'^- iiii.ssioruii'y, 
witlt  hi-  residence  at  Ijachine. 

In  l.S+,S  our  s\ibject  was  appointed  to  the  parish  of  St.  <  ieorge's,  Montreal,  the  rectorship 
of  which  111'  retained  foi-  thirty  years,  and  wbieli,  by  the  ImIji  of  Divine  providence,  he  built  up 
from  a  comparatively  feelile  to  a  \ery  strong;  and  intluential  -iiurch,  during  the  latter  part  of 
that  long  period  he  was  archdeacon  of  Hochelaga  and  dean  of  Montreal. 

On  the  Kitli  of  October,  1S78,  he  was  elected  to  tlie  .see  of  Montieal,  made  Viicant  by  the 


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resignati(jn  of  Rev.  J)r.  Oxendon ;  was  conseciated  in  Ht.  George's  church,  Montreal,  on  the  25th 
of  January,  ]S7!>,  l>y  the  bishops  of  Fredoricton,  Nova  Scotia,  Quebec,  Ontario,  Niagara  and 
Algonia,  and  the  next  day  wa«  installed  in  tlie  Episcopal  tlnone  in  the  cathedral  church,  same 
city.  ]n  the  "  Clerical  Ouide,"  to  which  we  aie  indebted  for  several  data  in  this  sketch,  it  is 
stated  that  the  Mrst  episcopal  act  of  the  new  bishop  was  in  ailniiiiistering  the  rite  of  ctmtirina- 
tion  in  his  own  old  parish  church  (St.  ( leorge's),  on  tlie  day  after  his  consecration. 

Bishop  Bond  is  an  il.A.,  of  Bi.shop's  college,  Lennoxville,  and  LL.D.,  of  McOili  university. 
He  is  a  warm  frieml  of  education  and  has  done  much  for  its  advancement  in  this  province.  It 
was  largely  through  his  influence  that  the  pioneer  teachers  for  training  schools  were  brought 
out  to  Montreal,  and  he  was  the  right-hand  man  of  Bishop  Fulfonl  in  getting  a  normal  school 
opened  in  this  city. 


-Il'DGK    FO^^l^EH, 


KNOWLTON. 


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SAMUEL  WIJ.LARD  FOSTER,  son  of  Dr.  S.  S.  Foster,  whose  sketch  appears  on  preceding 
j)ages,  was  born  at  "  Frost  village,"  township  of  Shetlbrd,  on  the  22nd  of  April,  1827.  He 
was  fitted  for  college  by  Hon.  Marcus  Doiherty,  now  a  judge  of  the  superior  court  for  tlie  dis- 
trict of  St.  Francis^  and  at  the  academy  in  Conconl,  Mass.,  and  finished  his  education  at  the 
university  of  Vermont ;  studied  law  with  tiie  lato  Hon.  Hazard  Bailey  Terrill,  MP.,  of  Stan- 
stead,  and  Hon.  Louis  Vict<ir  Sicotte,  now  judge  of  the  su|)erior  couit  for  the  district  of  St. 
Hyacinthe,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  on  the  (itli  c  February,  1S54;  he  practiseil  in  the 
courts  of  the  district  of  St.  Francis  and  at  the  city  of  Montreal  until  the  decentralization  of 
the  courts  and  since  then  chiefly  in  the  several  courts  of  the  district  of  Bedford,  making  his 
home  at  Knowlton. 

He  was  jiuige  of  the  .sessions  and  district  magistrate  for  .seven  or  eiglit  years,  ending  in 
1880.  Prior  to  acting  as  judge  he  was  serving  as  joint  sheritfwith  the  late  Peter  Cowan,  for 
the  district  of  Bedford,  resigning  that  ottice  to  go  on  the  bench.  On  the  death  of  Mr.  Cowan, 
early  in  the  year  188f>,  Mr,  Foster  was  re-aiipointed  .sheritf,  and  is  now  serving  in  that 
capacity. 

Judge  Foster,  as  he  is  familiaily  called  by  his  neighbors,  is  one  of  the  most  enter{)rising 
and  thorough  going  business  men  in  this  district,  and  has  done  a  great  deal  to  push  forward 
publi<'  improvements  calculated  to  benefit  the  country.  He  was  one  of  the  projectors  of  the 
Sheribrd  and  Chambly  BaiUay,  liaving  liimself  furnished  the  means  to  pay  for  its  charter  and 
was  active  in  obtaining  means  for  its  cointruction  ;  and  he  was  also  one  of  the  projectors  of  the 
South-eastern  Railway,  spent  much  time  apd  money  in  getting  it  built,  and  has  been  one  of  the 


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flirectors  of  the  ccMiipany  fruni  the  date  of  its  organization.     It  is  now  doing  an  incalcuiablo 

amount  of  good  in  devfloi)ing  tliis  section  of  the  province,     in  another  part  he  is  now  engaged 

in  a  similar  enterprise,  tlic  completion  of  the  Montreal  and  Champlain  Junction  Railway,  a  road 

eighty-three  miles  long,  and  which  is  opening  the  Montreal  market  to  another  fine  section  of 

the  province  ;  he  is  one  of  the  directors  and  foremost  promoters  of  this  important  entei^prise, 

and  turned  the  first  sod  when  it  was  started,  and  he  drove  the  ftrat  spike  when  the  first  rail 

was  laid. 

While  the  South-eastern  Railway  was  being  built,  the  St.  John's  Ni'n's  thus  spoke  of  the 
enterprise  : — 

Mr.  S.  W.  FiPstiT,  till!  managing  iliroctor  lias  shown  tho  most  indefatigabl"!  zeal  in  puahing  this  enterprise 
through.  Tiiat  the  nwl  is  now  a  certainty  is  mainly  due  to  hia  exertions  in  overcoming  (littlciiltics  that  stood 
in  the  way.  He  is  entitled  to  the  thanks  jf  tho  people  residing;  in  the  townships,  whose  interests  will  be  ad- 
vanced by  this  line. 

When  this  enterprise  was  completed,  and  the  last  rails  were  to  be  fastened  down  between 
(^anaila  and  the  United  States  there  was  a  general  meeting  and  jubilee  at  Richford,  on  the  line 
of  the  two  countries.  Lucius  Robinson,  president  of  the  Missisquoi  and  Clyde  River  Railway, 
and  Hon.  James  O'Halloran,  vice-president  of  tho  South-eastern  Railway,  and  other  railway 
magnates  were  present.  The  spikes  on  the  Canada  side  were  driven  by  A.  II.  Brown  and  J.  II. 
Hamilton,  Richford,  and  VV.  G.  Elkins,  of  Troy,  a  director  on  tlie  Missisquoi  and  Clyde  Riv(>r 
Railway,  and  on  the  American  side  by  Hon.  James  O'Halloran,  Judgo  Foster,  Nathaniel  Peters 
and  H.  S.  Foster,  four  of  the  directors  of  the  Southeastern  road.  After  the  ceremony  of  driving 
the  spikes  was  ended.  Judge  Foster,  as  we  learn  from  the  newspajiers  of  that  day,  ofiered  the 
following  sentiment,  which  was  received  with  deafening  cheers  : — 

May  the  layiii'^  of  these  imu  rails  add  another  link  to  the  chain  of  perpetual  peace  between  England,  her 
colonies,  and  the  I'liited  Status  of  America  ,  develop  more  the  resources,  increase  largely  tho  trade  relations, 
and  the  commercial  intercourse  of  the  two  countries,  and  strengthen  the  friendship  of  the  two  nations. 

It  is  such  UK^n  as  Judge  Foster,  who  an;  leading  olf  in  important  und  "takings  like  these 
here  mentioned,  that  ai'e  iiifusiuL;  fresh  lift;  and  eoinage  iiitu  tlie  hearts  of  the  people,  and 
causing  many  important  public  works  to  be  projected  and  completed.  Such  engineers  in  great 
human  undertakings,  can  not  be  too  numerous  in  any  country,  nor  too  highly  prized. 

From  early  manhood  Judge  Foster  has  been  a  very  active  politician,  one  of  the  leading 
spirits  of  the  Consei'vative  parly  in  this  district,  and  in  I87^i  was  a  candidate  to  represent  the 
county  of  Broine  in  the  House  of  Ci)miii  )ns,  ami  was  defeated  by  a  small  majority,  in  a  very 
strong  Liberal  district. 

Mr.  Foster  is  a  Congregationalist,  but  worshi[)s  at  St.  Paul's,  Episcopal  church,  there  being 
no  ( 'onirregationilist  church  in  town;  he  is  a  liberal  contributor  towards  the  building  of 
eliurches,  irrespective  of  denominational  na-ne,  the  support  of  gospel  preaclung,  and  religious 
and  benevolent  enterprises  generally. 


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Hu  was  iiiani('(l  at,  Wimlsor,  Vermont,  on  the  29th  of  Se])tcnil>tM-,  XH'tl,  to  Miss  Ellen 
Shi'phonl  (Jrecno,  dinigliter  of  Dr.  Ci('or<;je  Barrett  (Jreeno  and  Mrs.  Mary  Hatcli  tJroene,  of 
that  |>hiee,  ami  tliey  have  three  ehildren,  two  sons  ami  one  dau^'hter.  (Jeorj^e  (Iroene  is  a 
graduate  of  MeCiill  university  and  practising  ndvoeate,  and  Sanniel  Uaxtei',  a  law  student  in 
McGill  university,  and  the  diuighter,  Ellen  CJertrude,  is  also  pursuing  her  .studies. 


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MONT  UK  A  L. 


TO  no  country  in  the  old  world  is  this  new  laml  nK)re  indelited  for  contributions  to  its  niiiter- 
ial  and  national  advancement  than  to  Ireland.  The  ehildren  and  grandchildren  of  that 
jiortion  of  the  British  Empire  have  forced  their  way  to  the  front  rank  in  the  professions,  eoni- 
merce,  agriculture  and  every  avenue  of  life  in  proiK)rtion  to  their  nund)er;  hut  in  no  sphere  do 
they  appear  to  greater  advantage  than  a.s  members  of  the  bar,  where  their  biilliant  .and  versa- 
tile talents  and  more  particularly  their  orator}',  tli(>  s[iecial  iidieritajice  of  the  race,  enable  them 
to  shine  with  enviabh;  prominence.  Mijiitreal  owes  iior  debt,  as  other  places  do,  to  her  Irish 
contingent,  and  amongst  her  ablest  lawyers  is  to  be  found  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  John 
Joseph  Curran,  who,  while  yet  in  early  manhood,  has  reached  a  prominent  place  not  only  in  the 
profession  of  his  choice,  but  in  the  fields  of  iiolities  and  literature  also. 

Mr.  Curran  is  a  native  of  this  city,  and  dates  his  birth  from  the  22nd  February,  iM+i.  His 
father,  t'harles  Curran,  with  his  grandfather  and  uncle,  thrifty  and  skilled  mechanics  from  the 
county  Down,  Ireland,  came  to  Canada  in  the  early  ])art  of  this  century.  His  motliei-,  Sarah 
Keimedy,  a  woman  of  rare  intellectual  power,  is  a  native  of  county  Wexford.  Young  t'urran's 
early  education  was  confided  to  Mr.  Robert  Begley,  an  Irisli  gentleman  of  distingtiished  attain- 
ments, who  taught  select  classe.*^'  in  Montreal  for  many  years.  He  afterwards  .spent  three  years 
at  St  Mary's  college,  under  the  direction  of  \\\k  Jesuit  Fathers,  but  was  principally  educated 
at  St.  Josej)h's  college  (Ottawa  fidversity),  where  he,  with  Monsiegncur  Duhamel,  the  present 
Bishop  of  Ottawa,  and  several  otheis  who  have  since  gained  prominence  in  the  I  )ominion,  gradu- 
ated in  Arts  in  the  yeai'  IS.jO. 

Having  chosen  law  as  the  profession  of  his  future  career,  Mr.  Curran  entered  the  office  of 
the  Hon.  T.  J.  J.  Loranger,  subsequently  Judge  of  tiie  Supreme  Court  of  Lower  Canada,  who 
became  and  still  is  a  warm  frieml  <jf  his  former  pupil.  Thi;  last  two  years  of  his  clerk.shij)  wun^ 
spent  in  the  office  of  the  late  Andrew  Roheitson,  Q.C/'.  In  18U2  he  graduated  in  law  at  the 
MeOill  University  as  H.C.h,  and  in  March  of  the  following  year,  having  attained  his  majoritv. 


called  to  the  bar.      He  at  once  entered  into  a  lucrative  practice,  devoting  himself  to  all  tl 


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wlierc  111!  lias  no  HUporior  in  the  city.  Hu  has  tiijfured  in  many  of  the  nxwt  iniiKnUmt  criminiil 
tiials  that  Imve  taken  phvcc  within  tho  past  seventoen  years  in  this  Province.  Wiieu  tiio 
Statute  wa,s  pas.se(l,  ivnown  as  tlie  "  Controverted  Kk'ction  Act,"  Mr.  <  'iirian  was  retained  in  the 
celebrated  Muntroa!  Centre  cases,  as  well  ivs  in  many  others.  In  tlii'  first  trial,  which  lasted 
thirteen  <lay.s,  he  was  selected  to  address  tlu  Court  on  hehalf  of  the  petitioners,  and  occupied 
the  whole  day  with  his  speech,  at  the  conclusion  of  which  the  Hon.  Mr.  Abbott,  counsel  in  the 
case,  publicly  stated  that  "  it  was  the  ablest  review  of  evidence  he  had  ever  listened  to  in  a 
Court  of  Justice."  Mr.  Curran  has  acted  for  several  terms  as  Crown  prosecutor  for  the  District 
of  Heauharnois,  and  for  eight  months  under  the  l>e  lk)uchersille  (lovernnient  occupied  the 
posituin  of  English  secretary  of  the  commission  for  codifying  the  Statutes  of  the  Province  of 
Quebec,  until  Mr.  Joly's  advent  to  power,  when  the  commission  Wius  abolished. 

At  the  general  election  in  1.S74,  he  was  the  Conservativt;  candidate  for  the  county  of 
Shert'ord  for  the  House  of  Commons,  against  the  Hon.  I;.  S.  Huutington,  then  Postmaster-Gen- 
eral, ai'il  was  defeated,  that  constituency  being  too  strongly  Liberal. 

Literature,  an  well  as  law  and  politics,  occupies  a  good  deal  of  Mr.  Curran's  attention.  As 
a  polished  linguist  he  wields  a  forcible  and  facile  pen  in  the  Frtnich  as  well  as  in  the  English 
language.  He  is  a  contributor  to  a  number  of  magazines  and  periodicals,  and  for  several  months 
was  chief  editor  of  the  Montreal  Tnw  Witness.  Mr.  Curran's  gonial  manners  have  made  him 
a  great  favorite  even  amongst  hi.s  political  opponents,  and  he  is  looked  u[)on  as  the  coming  rep- 
resentative Irish  Canadian  in  the  Province. 

In  18G.),  he  married  Mary  Elizabeth  Brennan,  youngest  daughter  of  the  late  Patrick  Hren- 
nan,  one  of  the  early  settlers  in  Montreal,  a  beautiful  and  accomplished  lady,  who  has  borne 
him  ten  children,  eight  of  whom  are  living. 

Since  the  above  was  written,  the  de,'reo  of  LL.D.  has  been  cunforriHl  on  Mr.  Cnn'aii  l)y  tl;o  Manhattan 
college,  of  New  York,  at  tlie  convocation  of  tho  28th  of  Juno,  1881,  utulor  tho  pivsiiloncy  of  Cardinal 
McUloskey. 


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T  EWIS  FRANCIS  MORISON,  advocate  and  mayor  of  St.  Hyacinthe,  dates  his  biith  in 
*  ^  this  town  on  the  30th  ot  January,  lSi2.  His  father,  Donald  George  Morison,  was  born 
at  Sorel,  P.  Q.,  and  was  many  years  a  notary ;  and  his  grandfather,  Allan  Mori.son,  was  born 
on  Lewis  island,  one  of  the  Hebrides,  county  of  Stornoway,  Scotland,  and  came  to  Canada  about 
1770,  settling  ia  the  district  of  Montival.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Mis.s  Marie  A.  Rosalie 
Papineau,  daughter  of  Hon.  1).  B.  Papineau,  and  niece  of  Hon.  Louis  Joseph  Papineau.  He 
was  educated  at  the  excellent  college  of  St.  Hyacinthe;  read  law  with  Hon.  M.  Laframboise  and 


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Hon.  Auguste  C.  Papineau,  both  now  on  the  bench  of  the  Superior  Court  of  the  provinc",  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  on  the  2nd  of  February,  1863 ;  has  been  in  practice  here  since  that 
date.  He  does  business  in  all  the  courts,  civil  and  criminal,  and  has  a  remunerative  practice. 
He  is  of  the  firm  of  Fontaine  and  Morison,  whose  character  for  promptness  and  probity  is  excel- 
lent, they  having  the  fullest  confidence  of  the  community. 

Mr.  Morison  served  two  years  as  councilman  in  the  municipality  of  the  city  of  St.  Hya- 
cinthe,  and  in  January,  1880,  was  elected  without  opposition  mayor,  which  position  he  is  occu- 
pying at  the  time  of  the  preparation  of  this  volume.  Being  a  native  of  the  place,  and  growing 
up  with  it,  he  natuvally  takes  pride  in  witnessing  its  progress  ;  and  as  its  chief  magistrate,  he 
takes  great  pleasure  in  aiding  to  advance  its  interests  of  every  kind. 

In  politics  Mr.  Morison  is  a  Liberal,  but  does  not  let  anything  of  that  kind  interfere  with 
his  professional  labors  and  studies.  He  is  a  close  student,  and  growing  in  reputation  as  a 
lawyer. 


FREDERICK   F.  HALL, 

SWEETSBVRO. 

FREDKRICK  F.  HALL,  prothonotary  ol  the  superior  court,  and  clerk  of  the  circuit 
court,  of  the  crown  and  of  the  peace,  is  a  son  of  Nahum  and  Sarah  (Thompson)  Hall, 
and  was  born  in  the  city  of  Montreal,  on  the  18th  of  March,  1822.  His  father  held  the 
appointment  of  inspector  of  flour  for  many  years  in  that  city,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
city  council  Tl^e  Halls  were  originally  English,  coming  through  New  England  to 
Canada.  Nahum  Hall  was  born  in  New  Hampshire ;  his  wife,  in  Massachusetts.  Our  subject 
received  a  very  thorough  education,  preparing  for  college  under  the  Rev.  Mr.  Runasay  and 
Robert  Howden,  of  Montreal,  and  being  graduated  at  the  university  of  Vermont  (Burlington), 
in  1841.  He  studied  law  with  Hon.  William  C  Meredith,  now  chief  justice  of  Quebec ;  and,  <»n 
being  admitted  to  the  bar,  practised  a  while  in  Montreal,  and  then  removed  to  St.  Johns,  where 
he  practised  for  seven  or  eight  years.  During  the  period  that  he  was  at  the  seat  of  justice  of 
St.  Johns  county,  Mr  Hall  was  associate  editor  of  the  St,  Jchns  Newn,  a  Oon:iervative  pa|)er, 
still  published  in  that  place.  In  his  younger  years,  he  also  wrote  more  or  less  for  other  papei-s, 
chiefly  as  law  reporter  for  the  Montreal  Herald. 

In  1858,  Mr.  Hall  removed  to  Swijetsburg,  *)eing  a|)pointed  prothonotary,  as  already 
stated,  and  clerk  of  the  other  courts  enumerated  above.  He  is  attentive  to  business,  usually 
found  at  his  post  at  the  proper  hoitis,  and  is  courteous  and  obliging.  He  is  regarded  as  an  ex- 
cellent neighbour  as'  well  as  a  prompt  ofllcial. 

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politics ;  and  his  pen,  except  in  a  business  way,  has,  we  believe,  been  almost,  though  not  en- 
tirely, idle. 

Mr.  Hall  was  the  founder  and  sccretary-treasui-cr  ut'  the  first  Eastern  Towushipe  Turf  Club 
in  the  district,  when  sonic  of  the  Itest  hurdle  riders  in  this  |»art  of  the  country  used  to  meet  in 
the  beautiful  club  grounds  at  Frclighsburg.  That  club  is  no  more  ;  and  one  recently  formed  at 
Sweetsburg  bids  fair  to  rival  the  glories  of  the  old  one. 

In  18(J8,  Miss  Helena  B.  McCaffrey,  twelth  daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  Williani  McCaffrey,  of 
New  York,  and  an  M.A.  and  M.D.  of  Trinity  college,  Dublin,  became  the  wife  of  Mr  Hall,  and 
they  have  one  daughter.  Dr.  McCaffrey  was  a  very  prominent  physician  in  New  York  city 
for  years,  and  was  a  man  of  generous  and  very  benevolent  impulses,  being  greatly  esteemed  for 
these  qualities,  as  well  as  admired  for  his  talents.  Through  a  mistake,  he  was  killed  by  a  mob 
in  New  York,  in  1834. 


U0:N.    ULKIC    JOSEPH    TKSSiEH,  LL.JX, 

QUEBEC. 

r  J^HIS  loarned  and  much  esteemed  ju<lge  was  boni  in  the  city  of  tJueU'c,  on  the  4th  of  May, 
-*-  1817,and  is  descended  from  one  of  the  old  French  families  whosettled  in  Canada  in  the 
oarly  i>art  of  the  last  century.  We  b<>lieve  they  orij^nally  came  from  the  Rochelle,  in  the  south 
of  France.  The  Hon.  Ulric  is  a  son  of  the  late  Michael  Tessier,  Es<j.,  and  of  Dame  Marie  Anno 
Perrault.  Educated  at  the  seminary  in  his  native  city,  the  subject  of  our  present  sketch  was 
afterwards  placed  under  the  tuition  of  Hector  S.  Hu<it,  Es*}.,  for  the  purpose  of  studying  law, 
in  which  profession  he  exhibited  more  than  usual  ability  in  early  life,  and  promi.se  of  becoming 
at  a  future  period  a  complete  master  of  his  profession.  Within  22  years  of  his  birth  he  was 
called  to  the  bar  of  Lower  Canada  (viz.  in  183!)).  After  being  admitted  he  practised  in  Quebec 
until  1851,  during  which  time  he  ep.n^ed  for  himself  a  commendable  i-epute  as  an  astute  legal 
H«lviser.  In  I8.ii  he  was  elected  representative  of  Portneuf.  In  [Kjlitics  he  had  not  attached 
hiniHi'lf  to  any  party,  but  is  independent.  Owing  t<»  his  parliamentary  duties,  which  recpiired  of 
him  a  moi"e  than  ordinary  attention,  he  did  not  take  a  very  active  part  in  hi.s  profession  from 
the  time  he  was  returned  to  parliament,  and  the  result  wa.sthat  he  retired  from  the  well-known 
firm  of  Hamel  and  Tessier,  with  which  his  name  had  so  long  been  associated,  in  the  year  1870. 
Irrespective  of  his  parliamentary  duties,  he  had  always  taken  an  active  part  in  all  munieiftal 
matters,  and  for  some  years  prior  to  his  entering  the  politieal  arena,  sat  in  the  city  counr:il,  and 
HO  popular  was  he  among  his  fellow  citizens,  that  in  1851  he  was  elected  mayor,  an  office  he 
held  with  commendable  ability  and  .judgment.  In  1857,  he,  with  Dr.  Morrin,  was  intrusted 
with  the  mission  to  England  to  advance  the  desires  of  the  people  to  make  Quebec  the  seat  of 


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government.     Prior  to  this,  in  1852,  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Institut  Canadien,  Quebec, 
an  office  he  filled  with  considerable  satisfaction.     In  18!G  he  was  appointed  professor  of  law 
procedure  of  Laval  university,  from  which  institution  he  had  the  honor  of  LL.  D.  confem  d  ujjon 
him.     He  was  not  only  the  first  president  of  La  Banque  Nationale,  but  was  also  the  founder  of 
that  inntiiution.     He  rcprcNvntcd  Portneuf  in  the  (^anadian  Assembly  from  1851  until  the 
general  election  in  1854,  and  although  he  then  retired  from  political  life  for  a  few  years,  lu>,  in 
1 8.')8,  whon  the  Legislative  Council  became  an  elected  body,  once  more  contested  for  a  seat  for  the 
Oulf  division,  and  was  returned  by  a  majority  of  nearly  3,500,  a  no  insignificant  one,  when  it  is 
considered  that  tenitorally  it  is  the  largest  electoral  district  in  the  Province  of  Quebec.     He  re- 
tained this  representation  until  Confederation.     He  v;as  re-elected  unanimously  by  the  same 
constituency  in  1802,  when  he  was  given  a  seat  in  the  Sandfiuld  Macdonald  Cabinet.    In  1800  he 
was  called  to  the  Senate  by  royal  pi'oclamation.     During  his  parliamentary  career  he  held  the 
important  office  of  minister  of  i>ubiic  works  from  the  24th  of  May,  1802,  to  the  27th  of  May, 
1803,  and  was  Speaker  of  the  legislative  Council  from  the  14ih  of  August,  1803,  until  the  Con- 
federation, when  on  the  completion  of  his  period  of  ottice,  so  especially  delighted  were  all  the 
mcmbi>k's  of  the  house,  with  his  courteous  and  unbiassed  demeanor  during  the  time  he  had  held 
the  chair,  that  he  was  entertained  at  a  banquet  given  in  his  honor,  at  which  all  parties  in  politics 
were   represented.     He  was  appointed  a  puisne  judge  of  the  superior  court  on  the  llth  of 
February,  1873,  in  succession  to  Mr.  Justice  Tachereau,  and  was  promoted  un  the  8tii  Octolx-r, 
1875,  to  the  judgeship  of  the  Queen's  Bench.     In  his  professional  capacity  there  are  few  men  his 
sujH'rior,  and,  in  any  very  abstruse  point  of  law,  his  opinion  is  considered  parnniount.     Amongst 
the  many  suits  in  which  the  learned  judge  has  been  engaged,  one  notabl}*^  is  worthy  of  record, 
which  was  an  action  brouglit  against  the  City  Bank  and  the  Bank  of  Montreal,  for  the  recovery 
of  a  very  large  sum  of  money,  and  frought  with  much  legal  difficulty.     It  was  carried  to  the 
appeal  court,  and  while  the  suit  was  pending,  it  wa.<<,  we  believe,  through  the  legal  skill  and 
diplomacy  of  the  subject  of  our  sketch,  that  an  arrangement  was  an-ived  at  outside  the  courts,  an 
anuugenieut  which,  after  long  continous  legal  contest,  singularly  enough,  met  with  the  appi-oval 
of  the  contestants  imlividuttlly  and  combincdiy.     The  learned  judge  is  atlmitted  thi-oughout  the 
l)rofe8Hi<m  to  be  one  of  the  most  eminent  men  on  the  Canadian  l»encli.     In  privatv  life  he  is  a 
gentleman  highly  esteemed,  and  is  held  in  universal  resjK'ct  l>y  all  classes  of  his  native  city, 
and  by  all  who  know  him  throughout  the  I'l-ovince  of  Quebec,  as  well  as  in  Ottawa  and  Ontario. 
He  married,  in  1847,  Mi.ss  .Marguerite  Adela  Kelly  Draiwau,  grand-daughter  of  Joseph  Dra- 
peau.  Seigneur  of  Rimouski  and  Orleans,  and  daughter  of  the  late  Augustus  Kelly,  E««|.,  and  Dame 
Adelaide  DraiH-au.     Mr  Tessier  is  the  dean  of  the  faculty  of  law  at  fiavnl  university.     Being 
possessed  of  a  very  large  extent  of  real  estate  and  conHiderable  wealth,  he  has  devoted  a  good 
portion  of  his  time  in  the  improvement  of  agriculture  and  horticulture  in  the  county  of  Rimouski, 
where  his  c«»untry  residence.  Manor  St.  Qcrmain,  is  situated  in  the  midst  of  moat  channing 


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Hcenery  and  fertile  ooiintry.  In  the  neighborhuotl  of  KiinouHki,  atljoinin^  his  manor-house,  lio 
haM  several  large  farms.  It  1$!  here  where,  with  his  family,  he  generally  spends  the  lung  summer 
vacation  in  the  central  part  of  the  old  seiiniories  belonging  to  his  wife.  He  was  several  years  a 
member  of  the  provincial  board  of  agriculture  before  Confederation.  He  has  travelled  for 
nearly  the  most  jMirt  over  Europe,  and  thereby  considerably  added  to  his  alrtwly  fertile  know- 
ledge of  everything  appertaining  to  Canada.  Independent  of  his  profession  as  an  agricidturist, 
he  is  a  gentleman  well  versed  in  the  arts,  literature,  and  laws  of  the  old  country  an  well  as  that 
of  the  European  continent.  It  may  be  mentioned  that  during  the  tenure  of  his  oHice  in  IHa.t, 
as  mayor,  Uavazzi  paid  a  visit  to  Quebec,  and  it  w;is  mainly  due  to  the  tact  and  instrumentality 
of  Mr.  Tessier  that  a  riot  was  prevented  similar  to  the  disgraceful  and  fatal  one  which  took 
place  in  Montreal,  consequent  upon  this  same  Italian  advancing  his  ideas  of  theology  which  was 
opposed  to  orthodox  Roman  Catholicism. 

Three  of  Mr.  Tessier's  sons,  Ulric,  Jules  and  Auguste,  are  memUtrs  of  the  h)gal  pw)fession, 
the  former  two  residing  in  Quebec,  and  the  latter  at  Rimoiiski,  where  he  is,  although  very  young, 
warden  of  the  county  of  Rimouski.  One  of  h'u  daughters  is  married  to  the  Hon.  A.  (.'hauveau, 
judge  of  the  quarter  sessions  In  Quebec. 


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PRINCIPAL    WfLLlAM    II.   IlICKS, 

MONTREAL. 

"TTTILLIAM  HENRY  HK'KH,  principal  and  ordinary  professor  of  English  language  and 
*  *  literature  in  the  McGill  normal  school,  and  the  pioneer  trainer  of  teachei-s  in  this  pro- 
vince, is  a  native  of  Portsmouth,  Hampshire,  England,  his  birth  being  dated  Novemlter  7tli, 
ISKi.  His  parents  were  William  and  Ann  Hicks.  His  father,  whose  relatives  reside  on 
the  iNlcnd  of  Guernsey,  acted  as  interpreter  during  the  war  with  Fram-e  in  connection  with 
the  French  prisoners,  and  filled  other  government  positions.  <  >ur  subject  wjw  trained  in  the 
National  Society's  training  school  London  ;  taught  for  fourteen  yeai-s  in  the  old  country,  princi- 
])allv  in  hondon,  and  in  1^(').S  came  to  (\inada  under  the  auspices  of  the  ('olonial  Church  and 
School  Society,  at  the  es|H'rial  Molieitation  of  the  Rev.  .Mr.  (now  Kishop)  B<md  of  Montreal,  to 
establish  a  training-school  in  this  city.  At  that  time,  only  twenty-eight  years  »igo,  there  was 
no  such  a  school  in  existence  in  the  Province  of  Quebec.  The  pitmeer  instructor  in  this  class  of 
srh(M>ls,  we  .so<m  Knd  Mr.  Hicks  at  work,  training  youth  for  teachers,  his  school  lieing  oiM>ned 
under  the  direction  of  Bishop  Fulfonl  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Bond,  then  incumbent  of  St.  (Jcorg'>'M 
church. 

Not  long  afterwards,  the  provincial  govei-nnient  Utgim  to  give  its  attention  to  the  subject 

of  nonnal  schools,  and  when  the  McGill  .school  was  rea<ly  t^)  open  it  was  deemed  advisable  to 

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invite  Mr.  HicWh  to  transfer  his  school  to  the  new  institution.  This  was  duni>,  and  our  subject 
was  placed  in  the  chair  of  English  literature,  J.  W.  Dawson,  LL.I).,  being  made  the  princi|tal. 
AVKJut  ten  years  ago  Principal  Dawson,  Itunlened  with  other  laboi-s,  resigned  his  )K>st  in  the 
normal  school,  and  Mr.  Hicks  t,«>ok  his  place,  which  h<>  is  tilling  with  general  acceptance. 

No  IcHK  than  forty-two  years  has  Principal  Hicks  been  ti'achiiig,  and  the  impre.Hs  of  his 
cultivated  mind  has  been  stampt^d  upon  thousands  of  {K'rauns.  now  found  in  many  lands.  One 
of  his  earliest  friends  in  Montreal,  in  a  letter  to  the  writer  of  this  sketch,  thus  speaks  of  him  : — 

"  I  consider  th»t  Principal  Hicks  is  the  father  of  the  normal  and  model  school  system  in  Montreal.  I  was 
told  by  the  government,  when  Mr.  Hicks  came  to  Canada,  that  he  might  try  a  normal  school,  but  that  it  would 
fail.     He  tried  and  we  see  the  result." 

Besides  his  work  here  in  Montreal,  Principal  Hicks  has  done  more  or  less  lecturing  on  edu- 
cation in  different  parts  of  tlie  province,  and  has  done  a  good  deal  to  stir  up  the  minds  of  the 
people  in  this  imftortant  subjtHst.  He  is  honorary  inspector  of  the  model  schof>ls  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Colonial  (^'hurcli  and  School  .Society.  He  is  a  churchman,  and  has  always  Ijeen 
rea«ly  to  promote  the  interests  of  the  church,  consistently  with  his  duty  in  the  cause  of  educa- 
tion, and  they  have  never  been  found  to  clash. 

In  IN43  our  subject  was  joined  in  marriage  with  Miss  Isal>ella  Barrow,  uf  London,*  England, 
and  they  have  buried  four  children  and  have  seven  living.  The  eldest  son,  Fiuncis,  is  profes.Hor 
of  English  history  and  literature  in  Mdtill  normal  school ;  two  other  sons,  William  and  .lohn, 
ai-e  connected  with  the  l!hicngo  press;  C^lara  is  t(>a(;hing  in  the  Colonial  (?linrcl>  and  School 
Society,  and  the  others  ai'c  pursuing  their  studies  at  home. 


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HON.  GEOliGK    U.    BAKKli,    M.A.,  (^.(  ., 

SWEETUHVRG. 

/^  EOROE  BERNARD  BAKER,  memlwr  of  the  Domini.m  Parliauifnt  f^u  Missisrjuoi,  is 
^^  the  thiitl  son  of  William  Baker,  who  represented  the  county  <'f  Missis(juoi  in  the 
Lower  Canada  Assembly,  from  1834  until  the  suspension  of  the  constitution  of  the  province  in 
1837  ;  and  nephew  of  Col.  Stevens  l^ki-r,  who  represented  the  same  countv,  in  the  same  legis- 
lative body  from  1830  to  1834  ;  and  was  l>orn  in  Dunham,  same  county,  on  the  2Hth  of  .lanuary. 
1834.     The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Harriet  Clapp,  a  native  of  the  state  of  Vermont. 

Mr.  Baker,  was  educated  at  the  university  of  Bishf)p's  college,  P.t/,  ?H'ing  graduated  in 
1855,  and  some  years  afterwards,  and  until  a  year  or  two  ago,  was  a  trustee  of  that  institution  ; 
studied  law  at  Sweetsburg,  with  James  O'Halloraa,  Q.C.,  and  was  called  to  the  bar  in  18C0,  and 
created  a  Q.C.,  in  1876. 

Mr.  Baker,  represented   Missisijuoi,  in  the  House  of  C!ommons,  fram  .lune  1870,  until  the 


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)^neral  election  in  1H74,  being  elected  t(t  the  Pruvincial  Aiuiembly  by  acclamatiun  in  1875,  and 
on  being  appointed  a  member  of  the  Ejcecutive  Council  and  Solicitor  General  on  the  27th  of 
January,  187G,  went  before  his  const  ituentn,  and  waa  again  returned  by  acclamation,  serving 
in  that  legiitlative  iMNly  in  the  position  just  mentioned,  until  the  8th  of  March,  1878,  when  the 
De  Boucherx-ille  Government  was  dismissed  by  Lieut.  Gov.  Letellier,  for  which  abuse  of  power,  the 
Lieut.  Governor  was  himself  subsequently  dismissed.  Mr.  Baker,  introduced  the  Consolidated 
License  Act,  in  the  Hession  of  the  Assembly  held  in  1877-78.  In  September,  1878,  he  was 
again  rotunietl  to  the  IIouhc  of  (Commons,  of  which  he  is  still  a  member.  His  |>olitics  are  Con* 
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SIR    FRANCIS    IIINCKS,  K.C.M.G.,   C.B.,     . 

MONTREAL. 

TilRANCIS  HINCKS  in  descendetl  from  an  old  Chester  (England)  family,  his  grandfather 
-^  going  to  Ireland  and  iH'ing  connected  with  the  Customs,  settlirtg  in  Dublin,  17G4.  His 
father  was  Rev.  T,  D.  Hincks,  LL.D.,  many  ycnrH  head  master  and  profes^sor  of  oriental  languages 
in  the  Royal  Belfast  Aea<)timieal  Institution,  dying  in  1856,  leaving  fivie  sons.  Our  subject,  the 
youngest  of  them,  was  bom  in  the  city  of  Cork,  on  the  14th  December,  1807,  and  was  educated 
at  the  Fermoy  school  and  Royal  Belfast  institution.  After  spending  five  years  in  a  commercial 
house  in  Belfast,  he  visited  the  Wott  Indies  in  a  ship  belonging  to  the  firm  with  which  he  was 
connected,  six  years  later  visiting  also  British  Guiana.  In  1830  he  went  to  the  city  of  Quebec, 
iind  shortly  afterwards  came  to  Montreal,  and  then  returned  to  Ireland.  In  1832  he  came  back 
to  Canada,  and  settled  at  York  (Toronto),  then  a  town  of  about  6,U0()  inhabitants;  and  three 
yetiVH  later  he  was  «mtrusted  with  the  management  of  a  new  liank. 

.At  the  close  of  the  rebellion  of  18.')7-38,  Mr.  Hincks,  who  had  interested  himself  very  much 
in  politics,  becann;  the  editor  of  the  Toronto  Examiner,  and  strongly  advocated  resfMnsible 
government,  then  one  of  the  great  questions  of  the  day.  Before  the  end  of  a  year,  by  invita- 
tion, he  stooil  lis  the  Liberal  candidate  for  the  county  of  Oxford,  and  was  elected.  In  1841,  on 
the  union  of  the  two  Canadss,  he  removed  to  Montreal,  and  established  the  Pilot,  which  he  ably 
conducted  for  four  years,  still  representing  Oxfonl  until  IS^-t,  when  he  lost  Win  election,  re- 
maining out  of  parliament  until  1847.  On  being  again  elected,  Mr.  Hincks  re.sumed  his  former 
oflice  of  ins|)ector-general  or  finance  minister. 

People  well  i-ead  in  Canadian  history  are  familiar  with  the  labors  of  Mr.  Hincks  in  con- 
nection with  |>olitieal  matters — -his  successful  effort  to  form  a  government  by  the  reipiest  of 
Lord  Elgin;  Ins  visit  to  Washington,  D.C.,  with  that  Governor-General  in  18.54,  to  negotiat*; 
a  reciprocity  treaty  with  the  United  States  ;  his  connection  with  Sir  AlUn  Maonab,  the  Iea4ler 
of  the  Conservative  o|)|>osition,  in  joining  the  Libeial-Conservative  party  ;  his  appointment  of 


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Oovernor-in-Cliief  of  Bartiadm^s  ami  the  Windward  Islands  in  1855,  a  pout  wliicli  lio  held  fur 
six  yeaiTJ,  when  (1K61)  ho  was  promotc^l  to  the  office  of  Ooveraor  of  British  Oiiiana ;  and  his 
l^at  lalior  hh  Finance  Minister  under  Sir  John  A.  Macdonald  from  1809  to  1 872.  All  thesf 
acts  are  faniUinr  to  the  general  reader,  and  we  will  not  go  into  details.  Mr.  Hincks  retiroti 
from  i>olilic.H  in  1873,  representing  at  that  time  Vancouver  in  Britixh  Columbia.  On  leaving 
the  CSovenunent  he  acceptetl  the  office  of  president  of  the  Montreal  City  Itank,  which  was  sul>- 
sequently  amalgamated  with  the  Royal  (>anadian  l>ank,  and  known  aM  the  Cimsolidated  Bank 
of  Canada.     When  it  closed  up  in  1879  he  retired  from  business. 

Few  men  who  have  lived  in  Montreal  have  enjoyed  more  popularity  than  our  subject.  On 
taking  up  his  residence  here,  nearly  forty  years  ago,  all  classes  seeme«I  to  like  him.  So  much 
was  he  esteemed  by  the  Catholics,  that  in  1845  he  was  elected  president  of  St.  Patrick's  Society, 
which  ofKce  he  held  for  two  or  three  terms.  In  those  days  so  friendly  was  the  feeling  among 
piHtple  cherishing  different  religious  faiths,  that  Orangemen  attended  dinners  given  by  that 
society. 

Mr.  Hincks  was  created  a  C.B.  and  K.C.M.O.  while  holding  the  office  of  Governor  of  the 
West  India  Islands  mentioned,  and  obtaine<l  the  grant  of  a  colonial  governor's  pension  on  re- 
tiring fi"om  the  ImiK'rial  service. 

Sir  Francis  was  first  married  in  1832  to  Martha  Anne,  daughter  of  AlexHiidt-r  Stuart,  FIsq., 
fif  Ligoniel,  n"ar  Belfast,  she  dying  at  Montreal,  May,  1874,  and  the  second  time  in  June,  1875, 
to  Emily  Louisa,  widow  of  the  Hon.  Justice  S>dlivan. 


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.70SEPH   L.  LAFONTAII^E,  M.P.P., 

ROXTON  FALLS. 

JOSEPH  LESIEGE  LAFONTAINE,  member  of  the  Provincial  Assembly,  and  a  prominent 
business  man  in  the  northern  part  of  the  county  of  SheH'ord,  is  a  son  of  Abraham  and 
Marie  Tlu'r^se  (Robillard)  Lafontaine,  and  was  born  at  St.  Antoine  de  Lavaltric,  county  of 
Berthier,  P.Q.,  on  the  19th  of  March,  1829.  The  family  came  from  France  to  Cana<la  in  the 
seventeenth  century.  He  was  educated  at  the  college  of  L'A.ssomption,  in  the  district  of  Mon- 
treal, and  in  his  younger  years  gained  some  knowledge  of  farming,  which  was  his  father's  occu- 
pation. He  studied  law  at  Montreal,  with  the  view  of  preparing  for  the  notarial  profession,  to 
which  he  was  admitteil  on  the  IGth  of  October,  1856. 

The  last  year  that  he  was  in  Montreal,  he  edite<l  L'AvevIr  showing  good  abilities  with  the 

Mr.  Lafontaine  took  up  his  residence  at  St.  Ours,  county  of  Richelieu,  in  the  latter  part  of 
lS5(i,  and  there  practised  his  profession  until  April,  1803,  when  he  removed  to  Roxton  Falls, 
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Mr.  Lafuiitainc  is  also  engngod  in  agricultural  purHuitH,  having  a  largv,  well  inipiwcd  fann 
at  liiii  liume,  and  tracts  of  land  in  diiforont  [HirtH  of  the  county  of  Bagot. 

He  18  a  comniisHioncr  for  taking  attidavits  for  the  Superior  Court  in  the  district  of  K<hI- 
ford,  and  is  mayor  of  the  village,  making  an  efficient  executive  officer  of  the  muniei])ality  of 
Roxton  Fnlls. 

He  is  a  Liberal  in  politics,  and  was  first  sent  to  Parliament  by  his  party  to  represent  the 
county  of  SheflTord,  at  the  last  general  election,  which  took  place  in  May,  1H78.  He  is  n  man 
of  a  gooil  deal  of  social  as  well  as  political  influence,  and  in  this,  his  first  term  in  a  legislntive 
body,  is  representing  his  constituents  with  credit  to  them,  and  hence  also  to  himstdf 

A  friend  of  our  subject  thus  speaks  of  him  : — "  He  is  a  good  notary,  well  up  in  his  profes- 
sion ;  a  careful  business  man  who  has  made  money  by  hatching  the  chickens  at  tlie  right  time. 
Ah  a  public  man  ho  is  one  of  the  solid  clas.s — nut  brilliant,  but  one  whose  counsels  are  gooil  and 
safe — a  fair  speaker  without  being  eloquent,  making  his  points  clear,  without  any  effort  at  rhe- 
torical attractions,  he  goes  straight  to  the  mark." 

Mr.  Lafontaine  was  married  on  the  21st  of  February,  1N71,  to  Miss  C'ulina  Eli/a  Mongenu, 
of  Longueuil,  daughter  of  Th^ophilc  Mongeau,  gentleman,  of  Vercheres. 


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nOK.   ARTHUR   TURCO'H^E,   Q.(\, 

THREE  RIVERS. 

1 1 1HE  present  speaker  of  the  Legislative  Assembly  of  Quebec  is  a  .son  of  the  late  Honor, 
-*-  able  Joseph  Edouard  Turcotte,  of  Three  Rivers,  who  represented  that  city  for  several 
years  in  the  old  Legislative  Assembly  of  Canada,  of  which  \xy\y  he  was  also  speaker  some  yeai-s 
before  Confederation.  He  married,  15th  of  November,  1842,  Marie  Katherine  Flore  Huteau, 
daughter  of  the  late  Fnin^ois  Butoau,  Esq.,  who  was,  at  one  time,  a  leading  mei'chant  of  Que- 
Ir'c.     By  this  marriage  there  was  issue  four  sons  and  six  daughters. 

The  second  son.  the  subject  of  our  present  sket<!h,  was  lK)rn  in  Mcmtroal,  on  the  10th  of 
January,  1845.  The  early  portion  of  his  education  he  received  at  the  Jesuits'  college,  Montreal, 
and,  after  leaving  this  establi.shment,  proceeded  to  England  to  complete  his  studies  at  the  Je- 
suits' college,  at  Stoneyhurst,  Lancashire.  Returning  to  Canada  in  the  autumn  of  1803,  he  com- 
menced .studying  law  at  Laval  university,  Quebec,  and  afterwards  at  McOill  university,  Mon- 
treal ;  finally  l)eing  admitted  into  the  office  of  the  Mcssi-s.  Ijaflamme,  where  he  acquired  a  piutv 
tieal  knowledge  of  his  profession. 

In  June,  1867,  he  waa  called  to  the  Montreal  bar,  and  has  ever  since  obtained  for  himself  a 
well  deserved  popularity  amongst  the  members  of  his  profession,  as  well  as  with  his  confvitvn 
in  Parliament  holding  the  same  political  (Lilwral  Conservative)  views  as  hiniseif.    In  July,  1873, 


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he  WH8  elected  to  the  city  council  of  Three  Rivera,  where  he  is  held  in  the  liigheHt  esteoiii ;  he 
WEH  Mhortly  afterwanlH  elected  alderman,  and  a  few  months  subttequently,  mayor  of  the  city.  In 
municipal  affiiirR  he  was  instrumental  in  carrying  out  Heveral  local  improvements,  such  as  the 
water  w«>rkH,  the  8t.  Maurice  hridgeH,  the  introiluction  of  the  ballot  Hystem  in  municipal  elec- 

As  speaker  of  the  Legislative  AssemMy,  during  the  sessions  from  1878  to  1881,  when 
party  conflict  ran  high,  by  his  impartial  and  learnetl  decisions,  and  his  familiarity  with  consti- 
tutional law  and  parliamentary  practice,  he  deser>'edly  obtained  the  confidence  and  respect  of 
lN>th  sides  of  the  House.  While  zealously  performing  the  onerous  and  responsible  duties  of 
H|)uaker  in  times  of  excepticmal  political  excitement,  he  has  been  always  mimlful  of  the  interests 
of  his  constituents.  He  was  instrumental  in  obtaining  the  construction  of  a  loop-line  branch 
of  railway  connecting  the  main  line  of  Q.  M.  O.  k  O.  K.  with  the  city  wharves  at  Three  Rivers, 
thus  increasing  the  shipping  facilities  of  the  |x>rt,  and  initiating  a  new  era  of  prosperity  for 
that  progressive  little  city. 

Mr.  Turcottc  has  always  been  a  warm  advocate  and  supporter  of  all  measures  tending  to 
improve  the  condition  of  the  working  classes,  and  his  popularity  with  the  working  men  is  well 
merited.  A  measure  introduced  by  him  into  parliament,  to  exempt  from  seizure  one  half  of  the 
laltorer's  wages,  has  at  length  become  law,  after  having  been  strongly  opposed  by  the  Legisla- 
tive (Jouncil. 

On  the  4th  of  June,  1878,  he  was  elected  speaker  of  the  Legislative  A.ssembly,  of  Qtiebec, 
in  succ('s.sion  to  the  Hon.  Louis  Beau bicn, which  office  he  still  retains;  and  in  1870  he  was  made 
a  Queen's  Counsel. 

On  the  IGth  of  January,  1873,  he  married  Miss  Marie  Eleanore  Isabella  Macdonald,  the  only 
daughter  of  the  late  Angus  Macdonald,  Esq.,  of  Bccancour,  by  which  alliance  there  has  l)een 
issue  five  children. 


JOHN    AI.PHEUS    JAR \' IS, 

FRASERVILLE. 

MR.  JARVIS  is  one  of  most  prominent  merchants  in  Fraserville,  was  l>om  at  Riviere  du 
Loup,  en  ha»,  on  the  28th  of  January,  184.5,  and  is  the  only  son  of  the  late  Thomas 
Jarvis,  who  was  ju8ti<'e  of  the  peace  and  councillor  for  many  years — a  gentleman  highly  esteemed 
in  Rivi&re  du  Loup,  en  6tw,  and  Elizabeth  McMillan.  The  latter,  although  bom  in  New  York, 
was  of  Scotch  descent,  while  his  father  wtvs  bom  in  Ireland. 

The  subject  of  our  sketch  was  educated  at  St.  Ann's  college,  and  in  Quel)ec,  taking  up  a 
commercial  course  at  Ijoth  ;  his  father  being  a  successful  merchant,  and  Mr.  John  Jarvis  being 
the  only  son,  it  was  natural  that  the  father  desired  that  the  name  he  had  by  his  untiring  energy, 


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assiduity  hikI  integrity  uarned  fur  biittineHH,  sliould  Ut  kept  alive  by  hit  huii,  heni'«>  wv  Hnd  the 
latter  huKlinj;  tlio  prominent  poHition  he  (1(h<s  in  \\'m  native  town,  for  whicli  he  w  iiiso  justice  uf 
the  peace,  a  |tOHt  he  han  held  hIucu  187!',  and  that  of  city  couMcillor  m\w  IK74.  Mr.  JarviN  is 
one  of  the  churchwardons  of  the  Kpiscoiwlian  rhuivh  of  Kiuserville,  an  oHice  which  his  father 
als«)  held  forovi-r  twenty  years.  In  |H)litics  he  is  a  staunch  LilNTuI,  and  at  all  times  and  on  all 
occ^isions,  sup|K)rted  his  |)arty  with  conniiendable  xeal. 

He  married  on  the  14th  of  February,  1870,  Miss  Catherine  Jan*:  Elizabeth,  only  dauji^hter  of 
the  late  John  Emerson,  Km}.,  merchant  of  Edmundston,  New  Brunswick,  previouslya  shi|Kiwner 
in  England.  Mrs.  Jarvis'  mother  was  Miss  Jane,  daughter  of  Win.  Hodgson,  of  Riviere  du  Loup, 
from  Durham,  England.  By  the  marriage  there  has  been  seven  children,  three  of  which  only 
survive. 


UOX.    MA'ITIIEW    IJ.  COCniiAT^R, 

COMI'TON. 

MATTHEW  HENRY  COCHRANE,  who  i-epresents  Wellington  in  the  Dominion  S.nate, 
and  stands  at  the  head  of  the  cattle-breeders  of  t^uelwc,  is  a  native  of  this  Piiivince, 
being  bom  at  Compton,  on  the  Iltli  November,  1824.  His  father,  James  Cochrane,  was  from 
the  North  of  livland,  and  for  many  years  was  a  niei'cliaiit-farmer  and  cattle-breeder  in  this  Pro- 
vince, Matthew  lived  on  the  fann  until  eighteen  years  old,  when  he  went  to  Boston,  MaKs., 
and  engaged  in  the  shoe  business,  returning  to  Canada  in  1854,  and  engaging  in  the  same  busi- 
ju'ss  in  Montreal.  At  first  he  was  in  company  with  Samuel  0.  Smith,  the  firm  Isiing  Smith  A: 
Cochi-ane.  Mr.  Smith  died  in  18C8.  In  1873,  Charles  ('assils,  a  native  of  Dumbartonshire, 
Scotland,  became  a  partner  of  Mr.  Cochrane  in  the  business.  The  firm  of  Cochrane,  Ca.ssils  A: 
Co.,  employs  alx)ut  300  men  and  women,  and  does  business  to  the  extent  of  from  $4.50,0<H)  to 
S.iOO.OOO  a  year. 

In  I8t)4  Mr.  C<K'hrant'  purchased  a  large  farm  at  Compton,  adjoining  the  one  on  which  he 
was  brought  up,  and  connneneed  farming  and  cattld-mising.  His  place,  known  as  "  Hillhurst," 
now  contains  al»out  lUOO  aires,  largely  rolling  land,  and  almost  in  one  lilock,  '..-ith  bnM)ks  and 
springs,  furnishing  an  abundance  of  good  water.  A  <leep  gravelly  loam  is  the  jtrevai'ing  soil, 
admirably  adapted  to  the  growth  of  spring  wlieat,  turnips,  gra.ss,  oats,  barley, etc.,  the  first  three 
being  the  leading  crops.     Corn  is  also  raised. 

When  Mr.  Cochrane  commenced  his  improvements  at  Compton,  bnt  little  had  been  done 
in  the  way  of  progress  among  the  slcn-k  farmere  of  this  Province,  an<l  his  enterfiri.se  in  this 
direction  marks  an  epoch  in  this  part  of  Canada.  As  a  pioneer  in  this  line,  Mr.  Cochrane  began 
with  a  determination  to  have  the  best  specimens  of  Short  Horns  that  money  could  pui-chase 
from  the  best  f«ttle-bree<lers  of  the  0I<1  World.     His  first  notable  purcha.se  was  in  1867,  when 


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)ie  iiiiporUnl  tho  famous  oow  RoHedale,  which  had  had  no  peer  in  the  principal  \m7M  rin^fN  of 
(tn>at  Kritain.  At  the  sanio  time  lie  also  imported  a  choice  cargo  of  Cotawold,  Southdown, 
lit'iccMtur,  an<l  Lincoln  Hhcep,  Suffolk  honten,  and  Berkshire  pi^.  RoMedale  wa<)  a  dauglitiT  of 
IfootliH  Valaw'o  nn»l  Ilosy,  by  Master  Belleville,  and  was  bred  by  Latly  Pigot.  At  thf  time  here 
mentioned,  our  subject  had  no  Booth  bull,  and  he  had  Rosedale  crossed  with  tiie  Kleventh  Duke 
of  Thorndale,  a  Duchess  bull  which  lind  just  been  purehased  for  !?3,(KH),  Her  first  calf,  after 
coming  into  Mr.  C'ochrano's  hands,  a  lieifer,  was  sold,  when  a  year  old,  to  an  Illinois  stock- 
breeder, for  :?8,.'>0<),  an<l  re-sold  by  tho  latter,  three  months  later,  to  Col.  King,  of  Minnesota,  foi- 
!?.'>,.500.  The  next  year  Mr.  ( 'ochrane  paid  1(MM>  guineas  for  Duchess  J)7th  by  the  3rd  Duke  of 
Wbaifdale,  of  the  noted  Wetherly  herd — the  first  heifer  of  her  family  which  hud  been  brought 
from  England  since  the  great  American  purchase  of  ISSH.  The  j)rice  which  ho  paid  for  her  is 
said  to  be  the  highest  at  that  time  ever  paid  for  a  female  Short  Horn.  At  the  same  time, 
among  other  cattle,  Mr.  ('oehrano  also  Utught  for  2.)()  guineas  a  pure  liooth  animal  of  striking 
Iteauty,  she  being  by  Baron  l^>oth,  "  a  prize  winner  and  sire  of  pri/.e  winners." 

In  INGI)  Mr.  ('oehranc  im|)orted,  among  other  live  stock,  a  yearling  bull  and  five  more 
heifci-s,  all  Short  Horns,  in  one  shipment,  an<l  a  little  later,  another  choice  lot,  including  British 
Maid,  with  four  crosses  of  Booth's  biootl.  Rose  of  June,  from  a  choice  trilie,  and  a  few  heifers  of 
high  cla-ss  stock.  To  outdo  himself  and  every  other  cattle-breeder  in  America,  in  hS70  Mr. 
Cochrane  bi-ought  into  Canada  no  less  than  forty  head  of  Short  Horns,  the  aggregate  cost  of 
them,  including  a  hunting  mare,  and  a  lot  of  Cotswold  sheep  and  Berkshire  pigs,  amounting  to 
alM)ut  l*«i(),0()0.  Among  the  cattle  were  two  heifei-s,  b<»tl  in  calf  to  the  VVetherby  white  bull,  at 
a  cost  of  2oOO  guineas,  and  at  Warluby  he  Iwught  Lady  Urateful  for  laOD  guine&s.  He  also 
purchased  Lady  Booth,  some  WiM  Eyes  heifers,  and  several  prize  animals.  The  extent  of  his 
investments  in  1S70  had  a  great  infiuence  on  the  English  Short  Horn  market ;  the  agricultural 
paper  already  (juoted  thus  speaks  of  it : — 

It  was  nut  until  the  memorable  vinit  of  the  Canadian  capitalist,  that  the  rival  Stars  of  Wutherby  nn«l  War- 
laby  attained  their  xenith.  Mr.  Cochrane,  in  fact,  inaugurated  the  golden  era  of  Itooth  and  H.ites.  The  Uin  of 
Wetherby  and  the  Crisis  of  Warlaby  were  raised,  through  the  zeal  of  a  Canadian,  to  a  parallel  of  nichi-s  in  the 
temple  of  fortune.  The  offerings  of  their  votaries  redoubled,  and  the  Hhort-Horn  world  fell  down  and  worshipped 
the  golden  calvi « which  Cochrane,  the  king  of  importers,  set  up,  Messrs.  Walcott  and  Campbell  had,  it  is  true, 
before  this  time  gallantly  led  up  to  these  extreme  prices  by  tho  purchase  of  some  irans-Atlaiitic  members  of  tho 
Duchess  family  at  1,000  gs.  each,  and  by  giving  a  similar  price  for  one  of  their  Iii>oth  purchases  at  Warlaby,  but 
Ihis  had  not  materially  enhiiiiued  the  value  of  these  fashionable  stocks  in  EngUnd,  possibly  because  Jonathan  is 
usually  accredited  with  a  preference  to  pay  dear  for  his  whistle.  Now,  however,  their  current  prices  l)egan  to 
range  from  one  to  two  thcmsand  guineas,  and  the  sale  of  a  bull  or  heifer  at  1,500  guineas  is  at  present  i|uoted  as 
coolly  as  those  at  500  guineas  were  before.  Mr.  Cochrane  was  one  of  the  Krst  to  reap  the  benefit  of  the  rise  ia 
Duchess  blood  he  had  himself  promoted  ;  for  in  1871,  when  the  reputation  of  his  herd  had  long  been  spread  by 
many  a  worthy  representative  of  it,  over  Canada  and  the  neighboring  Republic,  fnmi  Kentucky  to  California, 
he  found  himself  in  a  [tosition  to  export  to  England  at  highly  remunerative  prices  the  offspring  of  his  most  recent 
purchases  from  the  old  country.  Colonel  KingMxite  and  Lord  Dunmore  were  his  flrst  customers,  the  former  for 
the  Duke  of  Hillhurst,  a  red  year  old  from  Duchess  97  and  by  14th  Duke  of  Thorndale— the  latter  for  11th  Lady 
of  Oxford,  a  three-year  old  heifrr  of  the  Oxfonl  tribe,  the  sum  paid  for  the  Duke  Issing  ROO  guineas  (almost 


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obt«iiie«I  fur  one  of  this  family. 

Ill  IH72  Mr.  Cochrane  a«ldeil  to  his  st«)ck  dI'  Short-Hon  some  very  choice  s|M)ciiiiens 
largely  of  tlie  Booth  ty)ie  and  character ;  ami  witli  his  eyes  always  open,  he  is  on  tlie  al«M't  to 
improve  and  beautify  his  stock,  which  has  long  tieen  unmatched  in  the  Province  of  Queb«'c. 

When  Mr.  Cochrane  commenced  sttK'k- raising  at  Compton,  there  was  scarcely  a  stt)ck- 
funaer  in  the  Province  woilhy  of  the  name.  As  a  leader  in  the  inaivh  of  iinpnivenient  in  this 
direction,  he  commenced  his  carwr,  determined  to  have  tlie  liest  specimuns  of  the  Short-Horn 
lirceil  that  money  would  purchase,  and  he  made  his  selections  accordingly.  His  first  truly 
noteworthy  purchase  was  made  in  18U7,  when  he  im|>Qrtcd  the  famous  cow,  Rostnlale,  together 
with  very  choice  (^otswold,  Leicester,  Southdown  and  Lincoln  sheep,  and  Suffolk  hoi-M4>s  and 
Berkshire  pigs.  "  This  Queen  of  Cows,"  as  a  writer  in  The  CitlUvutm-  and  Count ry  Gfntlttituiii 
(Albany,  N.Y.),  of  l)efeml»er  12th,  1872,  called  her,  cost  Mr.  ('oclirane  235  guineas.  Befoii> 
leaving  England,  .she  had  taken  considerably  more  than  twice  that  iiuinlier  of  guineas  in  priz(^s. 
Her  first  calf  in  this  country  was  a  heifer,  the  fruit  of  a  cross  with  a  Duchess  bull  filth  Duke 
of  Thonulale). 

Mr.  Cochrane  was  called  to  the  Senate  on  the  )7th  of  <>ctol»er,  1872,  his  (lolities  being 
l.'on8ervati\  e.  He  is  a  member  of  the  (council  of  Agriculture  of  Queliec ;  a  Dii-ector  of  the 
Canada  Meat  and  Proiluce  Company,  of  the  Canada  Agricultiii-al  Insurance  Company,  and  of 
the  Waterloo  and  Magog  Railway  Company  ;  and  he  is  Pi-esident  of  the  Tolley  Manufacturing 
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ry^Hhl  jMU'tner  and  representative  in  t^ueU'c,  of  the  well-known  Allan  Line  Ocean  Steam- 
ship  Co.,  is  the  subject  of  our  present  sketch.  Mr,  Rao  was  born  at  St.  Andrew's, 
county  of  Argoiiteuil,  P.Q.,  on  the  2nd  of  May.  1829,  ami  educated  at  Montival  for  the  profes- 
s'um  of  civil  engineer.  After  leaving  school  he  gave  up  that  intention  and  entered  the  office  of 
Messix  Kdmoiistone,  Allan  and  Co.  (which  has  developed  into  the  firm  of  Hugh  and  Andrew 
Allan  of  the  present  day),  and  letainetl  a  jKisition  in  that  firm  for  eight  yeni-s.  He  thou  eiii- 
l»irke»l  in  business  for  himself  successfully,  anil  in  1861,  shortly  after  the  "Allans" — whuM«-, 
name  is  a  household  wonl  in  Canada  and  the  mother  country — became  interested  in  steam 
shipping,  he  was  invited  to  join  them  and  accordingly  acceptetl  a  partnei-ship  in  the  firm,  which 
jKXsition  he  n^tains  up  to  the  pix'sent  day. 

Descended  from  families,  both  on  his  father's  and  mother's  side,  of  some  eminence  aci'UHK 
the  Atlantic,  he  retains  a  certain  amount  of  affection  for  most  things  appertaining  to  the  United 

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Kingilo'.d,  wliilc  Ins  aiilor  and  devoUMlness  to  the  intcivstN,  pfosjierity  and  woU  heiuj;  of  liis 
native  t'ountry,  have  his  wannest  considerations  and  supjuni.  His  father.  Dr.  Archiliald  Rao, 
M.D.,  was  horn  in  Ayr,  Ayixhiiv,  Seotland,  ami  his  mother  was  a  Miss  Marjjaret  K.  Wray,  a 
native  of  Ireland,  and  dangliter  of  Major  Wray,  of  Wray  Mount,  Kinjj's  County. 

It  may  not  be  uninteresting  to  mention  that  the  hmther  of  the  siihject  of  tliis  si<et<-h  is 
Mr.  Jackson  Rae,  a  well  known  resident  of  Montreal,  who  was  the  ori^rinal  niann<;t>r  of  the 
Merehants'  Hank  of  Canada,  which  position  he  oet-upied  for  some  years.  Mr.  William  Rae  is 
one  of  the  QucImh-  Harhour  Connni.ssioners,  having  In-en  electt>d  by  tlie  shipping  intere.sts  as  one 
of  their  two  representatives  in  that  body.  He  marriiMl  Miss  llachel  llac  Smith,  daught<<r  of 
Mr.  John  Smith,  of  Athelstamford,  Scotland,  who  became  a  resident  of  Montreal  in  the  early 
part  of  the  present  century,  by  whieh  alliance  there  is  issue  one  daughtiM-,  Miss  Margaret  Eliza- 
beth, who  survives. 


FREDERICK    A.   CUTTEIl,  .M.D., 

SUTTON. 

ONK  of  the  iH'st  known  men  in  the  county  of  Brome  is  Frederick  Augustus  Cutter,  a 
medical  practitioner  here  for  fifty  years.  He  dates  his  birth  at  New  I^wwich,  If  ilisboro' 
county,  N.H.,  being  a  son  of  Moody  and  Henrietta  (Fisher)  Cutter,  both  of  New  Kugland  origin. 
His  father  was  a  lawyer,  and  when  the  son  was  five  years  old,  the  family  removed  to  Stod«lard, 
Chesshire  county,  in  the  same  state,  where  Moody  ('utter  practised  his  profession  until  his 
death  at  forty-five  years  of  age. 

Dr.  Cutter  was  eilncatcd  in  district  schools,  and  in  the  medical  department  of  Dartiuouth 
college,  Hanover,  N.H.,  receiving  Ins  diploma  in  l.SiJ>,  and  settling  in  Sutton  in  DecemU'r  of 
that  year,  nuvking  a  little  more  than  half  a  century  since  he  opened  an  othce  heiv.  In  the 
earlier  years  of  his  practice,  his  ritles  extended  over  a  considerable  portion  of  what  is  now  the 
county  of  Brome.  and  into  two  townships  in  the  county  of  Mi-saiacpioi.  I'p  lo  a  tew  years  ago, 
his  practice  was  large  and  irnnmerative  ;  latterly  he  has  aimed  to  curtAil  it,  and  now  he  rarely 
goes  into  the  country,  unless  sent  for  with  a  caniage.  ( 'onsidering  his  age  and  the  hardships 
he  ha-s  endured,  he  is  a  well  preserved  man,  with  a  perfectly  erect  form,  and  considerable 
endurance.     ProWbly  no  man  in  the  neighltorhcwd  is  more  liighly  respected. 

Dr.  Cutter  has  been  a  conuuissioner  of  the  Commissioners'  ('oin't  for  thirty-five  yen  is ;  a 
justice  of  the  peace  |HMhaps  half  as  long;  was  at  one  periiKl  a  town  councillor;  waw  for  .seven 
years  secretary  of  the  school  corporation  of  the  township  of  Sutton,  and  was  appointed  a 
coroner,  ami  to  take  dojioHitions  in  the  Superior  Court,  but  never  i|ualifi<H|  for  the  former  ofiicc 
ami  lias  d(me  no  business  in  the  lattt>r. 


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l>i-.  Cuttur  hi  a  ineiubtii-  uf  tho  Evanj^^lical  Advent  Chui-ch,  at  Suttun,  and  ijervud  furycHrs 
as  its  clerk.     His  inoi-al  character  stands  far  above  reproach. 

He  has  Wen  nmn-it'd  twice;  the  tirst  time  in  1830,  to  Miss  H.  P.  Buttorfiehl,  of  Sto<l- 
dard,  N.H.,  who  dieii  in  1840,  after  having  given  birth  to  four  chihlren.  Only  one  of  them, 
Reuben  M.  Cutter,  who  is  employed  in  the  Sutton  Railway  office,  is  now  living.  His  second 
marriage  was  in  184'2,  to  Miss  Mary  A.  Jackman,  of  Sutton,  who  has  been  the  mother  t>f  four 
sons  and  four  daughters,  three  of  eacii  still  living.  Frederic  Augustus  Cutter,  Jr.,  is  a  physician 
and  surgeon,  a  graduate  of  McGill  College,  Montreal,  and  of  the  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical 
College,  N.Y.,  and  a  leading  man  in  his  profrssionat  Sutton.  Their  son,  Henry,  is  in  California, 
and  Cieorge  is  at  home.  The  three  daughters  have  all  l>een  married,  and  one  of  them,  Eve- 
line, is  the  widow  of  Whiting  R.  Ball,  and  living  at  Boulton,  P.Q.  The  other  two,  Mrs.  William 
O'Regan  and  Mrs.  Oeorge  Wootl,  reside  in  Sutton. 

When  Hr.  Cutter  settled  in  his  present  home,  there  were  not  more  than  three  or  four  miles 
of  made  road  in  the  township,  and  no  bridg*  across  the  river  in  the  village  of  Sutton,  except  in 
sleighing  time.  He  rode  on  hoi-se-ltack  until  al>out  twenty  years  ago,  and  in  fording  streams 
and  finding  his  way  through  the  woods,  often  had  not  only  hard  but  perilous  ritles.  He  cannot 
"  shoulder  his  crutch  and  tell  how  fields  were  won,"  but  he  can  explain  how  swollen  streams 
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A  MONO  the  prominent  mamitacturing  companies  in  the  Province  of  Quebec,  is  that  of  A. 
-^  -^  W.  Ogilvie  and  Co.,  which  originally  eonsistetl  of  three  iirothers,  Alexander  Walker, 
John  and  William  Watson  Ogilvie  They  are  sons  of  Alexander  Ogilvie,  who  Iwlonged  to  an 
ohl  Stirlingshire  family,  Scotland,  the  members  of  which  for  several  generations  have  Iweu 
I'.rosperous  farmers.  Alexander  Ogilvie  came  to  Canada  in  IHOl,  when  ships  made  one  tri|t  a 
year  to  Montreal,  and  Irjre  he  settled  on  the  island,  and  eonuuenced  farming,  his  land  being  at 
Point  St.  Charles,  where  the  Graiul  Trunk  Railway  and  its  works  are  now  situaU'd.  Ht-re  he 
married  Helen  Watson,  who  wa.-.  al.so  fri»m  Stirlingshire,  Scotland  ;  reared  a  family  of  five 
daughters  and  throe  sons,  all  yet  living,  and  died  in  18.')8.     His  wife  died  in  18<i2. 

Alexander  W.  Ogilvie,  the  eldest  of  the  three  sons,  represented  for  ye-vrs  Montreal  Centre 
in  the  Local  Assembly,  and  is  now  President  of  the  Turnpike  Trust  Co.,  and  a  director  of  two 
or  three  insurance  companies,  In'ing  a  public  spiritt^d,  enterprising  man. 

The  other  two  brothers  have  managed  to  keep  out  of  civil  and  politi»il  offices,  and  have 
stuck  very  close  to  their  busineas,  being  among  the  foremost  men  of  the  IVovinee  in  their  line 
of  op^'i-ations. 


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The  finn  of  A.  W.  Ogilvie  and  Co.,  flour  manufacturers,  was  organized  in  ISo.!,  and  al- 
though the  senior  member  retire<l  several  years  ago,  the  firm's  name  has  never  been  chnngetl,  al- 
though John  and  William  Watson  Ogilvie  are  the  sole  parties  concerned  in  tin-  business,  whieli 
has  expanded  until  it  has  spreail  over  an  immense  teiTitory,  and  has  become  simply  enormous. 
The  company  has  two  flouring  mills  in  Montreal,  one  in  Goderich,  and  one  in  Seaforth,  Ontario, 
together  with  salt  works  at  each  of  the  Ontario  towns.  At  the  Montreal  mills  7.iO  V>arrel8  of 
flour  and  500  barrels  of  meal  are  manufactured  daily ;  at  Goderich,  700  bairels  of  flouv,  and  at 
Seaforth,  250  l>arrels;  and  twenty  tons  of  salt  are  ma<le  daily  at  each  of  these  two  towns. 

Ogilvie  and  Co.,  are  pioneer  wheat  buyers  of  this  country,  and  their  operations  in  this  line 
stretch  over  a  vast  area,  far  beyond  the  Provinces  of  Quebec  and  Ontario,  'i'hey  purchase 
great  quantities  of  wheat  in  Chicago,  Milwaukee  and  Duluth,  and  were  the  first  and  are  the 
chief  buyers  in  Manitoba,  where  the  l»e.st  wheat  on  this  continent  is  grown,  and  where  they 
have  wheat  stations  at  all  points  where  this  cereal  is  raised. 

In  that  "  prairie  province"  they  are  also  going  largely  into  farming,  they  owning  2'),00(» 
acres  of  excellent  wheat  land,  which  they  are  breaking  and  preparing  for  the  seed.  No  nien  in 
this  city  are  more  enterprising  than  the  two  Ijrothers  in  this  firm,  and  more  probably  are  doing 
more  to  develop  the  agricultumi  rcsoui-ces  of  the  Dominion,  and  especially  of  the  young  pro- 
vince mentioned.  'I'hey  are  almost  as  well  known  in  Manitoba  a.s  in  Montreal,  and  wherever 
they  have  business  transactions,  whether  in  Canada  or  the  United  States,  the}-  Itear  a  high 
reputation  for  promptness  and  honorable  dealing. 


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Sm    NAROTSSE    BELLEAU,  TC.C.M.G.,  Q.C., 

i^VEBEC. 

BORN  on  the  20th  October,  180.S,  at  Quebec,  where  he  was  educated,  we  find  in  Sir  Narcisse 
an  astute  man-of-law,  and  although  a  septuagenarian,  posses-ses  an  activity  lK)th  of  mind 
and  lK)dy  with  juvenescence  truly  remarkable.  At  the  time  of  H.  R.  H.  the  Prince  of  Wales' 
visit  to  Canada,  in  IHOO,  he  was  Mayor  of  the  City  of  Quebec,  and  on  this  auspicious  occasion 
had  the  honor  of  Knighthood  conferred  upon  him  at  Parliament  Hou.se.  Knt43ring  the  Canadian 
Ltigislative  Council  in  1852,  he  was  nominated  Speaker  in  1N57,  and  ret<iine<l  that  oflice  until 
1M62,  when  he  was  appointed  Minist'M-  t)f  Agriculture  ui»der  the  Cartier-Macdonald  Adminis- 
tration. In  llS(i5  he  was  persuaded  to  undeiiake  the  responsible  duties  of  Premier  and  Receiver- 
General,  and  liehl  these  important  ofliecs  until  appointed  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  Province 
of  «>ueliec,  in  1867.  In  all  the  more  celebrated  trials  in  c<mtested  elections  he  took  a  very 
prominent  part,  and  his  voice  was  no  insignificant  one  in  all  and  every  more  than  jx'eiiliarlv 
delicate  ipieHtions  which  so  fivrpiently  arose  during  the  time  he  was  S|M*aker  of  the  Upper 


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House  Iwforc  Confederation.  As  a  legal  adviser  in  civil  eases,  he  had  few  confriTCJs  at  the  tini<! 
of  his  practising  in  Quebec  that  were  recognised  as  his  et^ual,  still  less  his  superior.  He  p«»s- 
scsses  a  numerous  circle  of  friends  in  and  outside  of  politics,  and  is  a  gentleman  highly  resjH'Cted 
in  his  native  city.  His  Excellency  Senor  Don  Boniface  de  Bias,  Ministre  des  Affaires  Etrangeres 
]tar  ordre  et  au  nom  de  sa  Majesty  le  Roi  d'Espagne,  pour  services  rendues  ^t'occasion  de  I'in- 
vasion  pmjet^en  de  ( 'uba  par  les  Filibustiers,  conferred  upon  him  the  dignity  of  Commander 
ami  Grand  Officer  of  the  Royal  Order  of  Isabella  la  Catolica  in  1872,  and  on  the  annivei'sary  of 
the  birthday  of  Her  Majesty  Queen  Victoria,  24th  May,  1879,  he  had  a  still  higher  honor,  and 
possibly  one  he  prizes  more,  bestowed  upon  him,  by  the  Order  of  Knight  Commander  of  the 
Order  of  St.  Michael  and  St.  George.  This  latter  honor  was  conferred  upon  him  by  the  hands 
of  the  present  Governor-C^.eneral  the  Mar<|uis  of  liorne,  in  the  presence  of  Her  Royal  Highness 
the  Princess  Louise. 

As  Speaker  of  the  Legislative  Council,  a  member  of  the  Administration — for  which  he 
displayed  more  than  ordinary  ability  and  perseverance  to  obtain  the  consent  of  Her  Majestj'  to 
establish  that  august  as.sembly ;  filling  offices  of  the  highest  distinction  in  the  Dominion ;  a 
public  benefactor ;  a  humane,  sympathetic.  Christian  gentleman  ;  such  is  the  subject  of  our 
brief  sketch. 

He  married,  on  the  loth  September,  1835,  Mary,  daughter  of  the  late  L.  Gauvrean,  Esq., 
formerly  a  member  of  the  Legislative  Assembly  of  Lower  Canada.  There  is  no  issue  by  the 
marriage. 


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EDWARD    T.   BKOOKS,   M.A.,   Q.C.,  M.P., 

SHBRBROOKE. 

"IjlDWARD  TOWLE  BROOKS,  late  Battonier  of  the  St.  Francis  Bar.  and  member  of  Par- 
-*-'^  liament  for  Sherbrooke,  was  born  at  Lennox villc,  county  of  Sherbrooke,  July  6th,  1830, 
his  father  l)euig  Samuel  Brooks,  Esq.,  memlter  of  the  Canadian  Assembly  for  Sherbrooke  for 
many  years,  the  last  term  being  from  18+4  until  his  death  in  1849,  a  native  of  Mius,sachu.setts, 
and  a  relative  of  the  Brooks  family  with  which  the  Adamses  of  that  State  are  connected.  His 
mother  was  Elizabeth  Towle.  Our  subject  was  educated  at  Dartmouth  College,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1850;  studied  law  with  Judge  J.  S.  Sanborn,  of  Sherbrooke,  and  Andrew 
Rolwrtson,  Q.C.,  Montreal ;  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  of  Lower  Canada  in  1854,  created  a  Queen's 
('ounsel  in  1875,  and  elected  Battonier  of  St.  Francis  Bar  the  same  year.  He  has  always  had 
an  honorable  stand  at  the  bar  of  his  district,  and  has  done  a  highly  remunerative  and  straight- 
forward business.     In  ability  he  stands  in  the  front  rank  of  his  part  of  the  Province. 

Mr.  Brooks  is  Vice-President  of  the  International  and  Waterloo,  and  Magog  Railways,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Sherbrooke  Rifle  Association,  the  Fish  and  Game  Protection  Society,  and  the  Plow- 


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iiiaiiM  Aissociatiun  ;  Solicitor  fur  the  Eastern  TowtiMliips'  Bank,  the  heu(I()UHrtet-H  ut'  which  are  ut 
Sherbrooke,  and  Trustee  of  Bishop's  College,  Lennoxville.  He  is  a  nwn  of  a  goo<l  deal  of 
jmblic  spirit,  anJ  is  very  highly  prized  as  a  citizen. 

Mr.  Brooks  was  first  elected  to  Parliament  for  his  present  .seat  by  acclar.iation  in  1872,  and 
was  re-elected  in  the  same  manner  in  1874,  and  again  at  the  last  general  election  in  September, 
1878.  He  was  the  author  of  the  amendment  to  the  law  of  libel,  {Massed  in  1874,  and  seconded 
Sir  John  A.  Macdonald's  motion,  condemning  the  act  of  Lieutenant-{fOvernor  Lettellier,  of  the 
Province  of  Q»el>ec.  He  m  a  Conservative,  and  a  steaillast  and  earnest  supporter  of  the  jtolioy 
of  that  party,  believing  the  best  interests  of  the  country  are  promoted  by  protecting  home 
industries  and  encouraging  internal  improvements.  These  'vere  his  views,  we  believe,  long 
l)efore  they  were  embodied  in  the  .so-called  "  National  Policy,"  and  were  made  a  distinc*.  party 
issue. 

Mr.  Brooks  manned  in  185G,  Sarah  Loui.se,  daughter  of  Eleaziir  Clarke,  Estj.,  Revenue 
Inspector  and  High  Constable,  Sherbrooke,  and  they  have  three  chililren. 


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JOSEPH  A.  MOUSSEAU,  Q.C.,  M.P,, 

MONTREAL. 
OSEPH  ALFRED  MOUSSEAU,  Advocate,  and  MemU-r  of  Parliament  for  Bagot,  l.elongs 


to  a  |irominent  QueN'c  family,  his  grandfather,  Alexis  Mou,sstau,  having  sat  for  yeai-s  as 
nieml>er  for  Warwick  in  tiie  Provincial  Assembly.  He  is  a  son  of  Louis  Mou.sseau  and  Sophie 
Duteau  de  Grandpr^,  and  was  born  at  Berthier,  P.  Q.,  on  the  IGth  of  July,  1838.  He  received 
his  education  at  the  Academy  of  that  town ;  studied  law  witli  Hon.  Louis  A.  Oliver,  Hon. 
Tliomas  K.  Ramsay,  Hon.  Louis  T.  Drummond,  and  Hon.  Louis  Belangor;  was  called  to  the 
Bar  in  18(i0,  and  created  a  Queen's  Counsel  in  1873.  During  the  twenty  years  he  has  been  in 
practice  in  Montreal,  he  has  had  marked  success,  and  his  firm  is  noted  for  its  extensive  and 
lucrative  business,  which  embraces  the  several  branches  of  legal  practice,  civil,  criminal,  com- 
mercial, ice.  For  many  years  he  has  been  at  the  head  of  the  well-known  firm  of  Mousscau, 
(.'hapleau  and  Archambault,  and,  since  the  retirement  of  M,  Chapleau,  of  that  of  Wous-seau  ami 
Archambault — the  latter  a  young  lawyer  of  considerable  ability.  Soon  after  comnn'ncing  the 
jtnvctice  of  his  profes.sion,  M.  Mousseau  began  to  write  for  the  newspaper  and  periodical  press, 
mainly,  we  believe,  on  political  topics;  and,  in  18G2,  he  aided  in  founding  Le  Colonisnteur,  of 
which  he  was  one  of  the  most  frequent  contributors.  Eight  years  later  (1870)  he  assisted  in 
establishing  Z'O/ttniCH  Pnhlique.  In  18(iO,  M.  Mou,sseau  wrote  a  brochure  entitled  "  Cardinal 
pf  DiKjurt,  Vu't'nneH  de  1837-38,"  and  in  1807  he  published  a  pamphlet  on  "Confederation," 
an  able  defence  of  that  Act  against  the  attacks  of  its  op{H)tients.    The  pamphlet  ha«l  an  ini- 


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meiiiM>  c-iivulatiun,  and  showed  to  good  advantA^c  the  lof^ical  acumen  of  its  writei-,  M.  Mou>«scaii 
contiinieH  to  write,  more  or  less,  for  the  pre^s,  and  never  fails  to  have  the  attention  of  thought- 
ful rca«lei's.  Tlie  suhjeet  of  our  skett'li  was  first  elected  t«)  Parliament  for  his  present  seat  in 
ISTi,  and  was  re-eleeted  in  1N78.  He  has  made  several  speeches  in  the  House,  showing  great 
cai-e  in  their  preparation  and  marked  ahility  in  their  delivery.  His  "  maiden  8|»eech, "  we  l)e- 
lieve,  was  nia»le  in  187o,  on  the  Manitoba  troubles,  M.  Mousseau  taking  firm  ground  in  favour 
of  a  full  and  complete  amnesty,  covering  all  ofl'ences  committed  in  the  North-West  prior  to  the 
establishment,  in  that  Province,  of  Constitutional  Government.  The  Anincsty  speech  took 
live  houi-s  in  its  delivery,  and  throughout  had  the  close  attention  of  the  House.  In  187<), 
1877  and  1S78,  he  made  elalwmte  speeches  on  the  .subject  of  Protection,  being  a  strong  advo 
cate  of  that  political  doctrine,  to  which  he  has  given  a  gi-eat  deal  of  study.  It  was  M.  Mousseau 
who,  in  1870,  moved  the  expulsion  of  Lieutenant-Governor  Letellier  from  ottice,  making  on 
that  occasion  a  speech  of  five  or  six  hours  duration,  which  met  with  great  success,  not  only  in  tht; 
House,  but  in  the  country.  It  is  hardly  necessary  to  add  that  M.  Mousseau  is  a  ( 'onservative, 
and  one  of  the  foremost  men  of  his  party  in  the  House  of  Commons.  His  great  ambition 
seems  to  be,  in  his  own  language,  "  to  hiive  British  North  Americft  erected  into  a  gmnd 
Empire,  under  the  auspices,  and  with  the  institutions,  of  the  Mother  Country."  The  wife  of 
M.  Mousseau  is  Marie  Louise  Herselie,  oldest  daughter  of  Leopold  Des  Hosiers,  Esq.,  of  Berthier, 
by  Marie  Louise  I>onarie  Bondy,  their  marriage  occurring  on  the  20th  August,  1802.  They 
have  liad  eleven  children,  of  whom  only  five  now  .survive. 


DAVJ])    MAIR, 

COH'ANSIILLE. 

DAVIU  MAIR,  mayor  of  the  village  of  Cowansville,  and  a  native  of  Ayr,  Scotland,  was 
liom  on  the  24th  of  February,  1816,  his  parents  being  William  and  Agnes  (Knox)  Mair. 
The  family  belong  to  a  long  race  of  agriculturists,  noted  for  their  industry,  being  usually  well- 
to- d«)  in  the  worKl.  David  was  educated  at  a  school  taught  by  John  Young,  who  subsequently 
came  to  Canada  and  became  the  Hon.  John  Young,  dying  only  a  few  years  ago:  served  his  time 
in  a  wholesale  dry -goods  store  in  Glasgow  ;  came  to  ( 'anada  in  1842,  in  company  with  meml)ers 
of  the  Glasgow  house  with  which  he  was  connected,  and  who  .settled  in  Montreal,  where  he  was 
a  salesman  for  several  years  in  the  wholesale  house  of  Cumming  i*^-  (Salbraith. 

Several  years  afterwanls,  Mr.  Mair  went  into  the  wholesale  grm-ery  tiude  in  company  with 
William  Carter,  continuing  it  until  1804,  when  he  retired  from  business.  While  in  Montreal,  he 
was  connectetl  prominently  with  different  national  societies,  lieing  at  one  timt'  president  of  the 
Caledonia  Society,  and  at  another  of  tlu'  St.  Andrew's  S(K'itty  of  that  ei(y. 


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Iiiiineiliatvly  after  retiring  from  business  in  1804,  Mr.  Mair  removed  to  t'owan^tvillc,  mar- 
rying that  year  Mrs.  Mary  Cowan,  nfe  Aitken,  widow  of  Andrew  Cowan,  from  whose  family 
the  village  was  named.  Here  he  does  little  more  than  look  after  his  pro(H>rty  and  attend  to 
municipal  matters,  he  having  l)eon  mayor  the  last  two  or  three  years.  Not  unlikely  the  |>eo|)le 
may  wait  for  death  to  remove  him  from  that  ottioe,  he  being  *[uite  popular,  and  having  an  abun- 
dance of  leisure. 

He  is  a  stockholder  in  the  South -Eastern  Railway  ;  has  twenty  acres  of  land  in  the  village, 
at  one  end  of  which  his  house,  with  its  tasty  surroundings,  stands,  and  fifty  acres  a  little  far- 
ther off.     His  home  has  its  Aix;a«lian  lieautics,  and  he  seems  to  enjoy  it  fully  and  siitisfactoril,^ . 

He  is  a  memlier  of  St.  Andrew's  church,  Montreal,  and  attends  the  (Congregational  church 
at  Cowansville,  as  there  is  no  Presbyterian  organization  there. 

At  one  time  Mr.  Mair  was  secretary  of  the  C'anadian  branch  of  the  Royal  Caledonian  Curl- 
ing Club  of  Scotland,  and  in  his  prime  u.sed  to  visit  Quel»ec,  Ottawa,  Toronto  and  other  Cana- 
dian cities,  Jind  play  this  his  favorite  game.     For  years  he  was  one  of  tlie  l)est  curlers  in  Canada. 


1J0^^  Loris  j.  PAiMXEAr, 

MONTREAL 

THE  life  of  Louis  Joseph  Papineau  has  been  published,  and  reati  by  thousands  of  pfopU' ; 
hence  a  long  sketch  of  him  in  a  work  like  this  would  bo  superfluous.  Yet  so  prominent  a 
tigure  was  he  at  one  time  in  the  political  arena,  so  largely  is  his  name  interwoven  in  i-ecent  ('ana- 
diari  history,  that  to  omit  the  mention  of  him  entirely,  would  be  inexcusable.  For  he  was 
something  more  than  an  "  agitator, "  as  some  writers  of  ( 'anadian  biographical  history  have  called 
him  ;  he  was  a  true  patriot,  and  strove  for  what  he  regarded  as  the  best  interests  of  this  province. 

The  Papinenii  family  came  from  the  South  of  France.  The  father  of  Louis  Joseph  was 
one  of  the  early  notaries  in  Montreal,  being  l>orn  in  this  city  in  IT'iO,  and  dyiii^'  in  IH-tl.  Resi- 
dents of  Montreal  forty-five  or  fifty  years  ago,  can  recall  his  venerable  form  iis  he  walked  the.se 
streets  ;  he  was  at  one  peiiod  a  member  of  the  Legislative  A8send)ly  of  Lower  <  'anadii,  and  a 
man  held  in  very  high  esteem. 

He  was  born  in  Montreal  in  Uctolx-r,  1780;  was  educated  at  the  Cjuebec  .semiiuiiy  ;  studied 
law  in  Montreal,  and  wjus  cjilled  to  the  bar  in  1810.  While  a  law  student  he  became  deeply  inter- 
ested in  jKjlitics,  and  was  elected  to  the  Legislative  Assembly  for  Kent,  now  Chambly,  the  year 
before  he  was  admitted  to  the  practice  of  his  profession.  Two  yeai-s  later  he  was  elected  to 
ivpresent  the  west  ward  of  Montreal,  and  that  constituency  kept  him  in  Parliament  foi-  twenty 
years,  during  which  time  he  was  Speaker.  At  one  period  he  was  an  executive  councillor  un- 
der appointment  of  Lord  Dalhousje, 


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Fntin  I8ir»  to  183(5,  Mr.  Papiiu-tiu  was  tlic  gr»'at  leader  in  ail«'c)c'atinj,' i-leitive  instil  iitioii.s, 
ilurin}r  wliich  tiiue  )us  political  leaninj^s  towards  repiiMieaiiiHiii  wore  (|uite  cuiispiouous.  In 
1837  the  Imperial  Parliament  undertook  to  seize  money  which  the  Lower  I'anada  AssemMy 
refused  tt)  vote  to  pay  the  expenses  of  (Jovcriiiiient,  and  this  was  one  of  the  immediate  canses 
of  the  rcl)ellioii.  The  prominent  part  which  Mr.  i'.ipineau  took  in  that  serious  "unpleasjintness" 
is  familiar  to  every  person  of  infellij,'ence,  incindinjj  the  children  ir.  our  Canadian  schools,  and 
need  not  Ih'  detaile<l  in  this  work. 

Mr.  Papineau  tied  to  the  United  States,  and  in  1839  went  to  Paris,  where  he  s|H'nt  eij^lit 
quiet  years.  On  his  return  to  t'anada  he  eventually  found  his  way  into  Parliament  once  more 
—  this  tiuK'  into  the  (Canadian  Assembly,  tlu>uj,'h  he  never  favored  the  \niion  of  the  two  Canada.s. 
There,  as  usual,  he  led  the  op})osition,  retiring  from  |iulilic  life  in  l.s.)-!.,  and  making;  his  home 
at  La  Petite  Nation  Seigniory,  on  the  Ottawa  river;  lie  died  on  the  iNSrd  of  Septemher,  1871. 
He  has  one  daughter  and  one  son  living, — one  of  his  daughtei-s,  who  died  in  18t>9,  was  the  wife 
of  Napoleon  Bnurassa,  the  eminent  artist,  whose  sketch  and  portiait  aj)poar  in  this  volume. 


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.l()SI<:riJ     MAKMKTTK, 

QIEHKC. 

JOSKPH  MAUMKTTE,  a  popular  voun;,'  French- Canadian  noveli.st,  and  brilliant  miscel- 
laneous writer,  was  born  at  St.  Thomas,  count}'  of  Moutmagny,  on  tiie  2.')th  of  ()cti)lK'f, 
^*^i4  He  is  a  son  of  Joseph  Marinette,  si-nior,  M.I).,  and  Kliza  Taclie,  dauj^hter  of  late  Sir  K. 
P.  Tacli<5,  both  parents  l)elongiiig  to  families  which  came  over  from  France,  the  one  in  the  17tli, 
the  other  in  the  INth  century.  His  father  is  yet  living,  l>eing  one  of  the  oldest  medical  practi- 
tionei-s  in  the  i>nivinee,  now  residin^^  at  St.  Thouuvs,  and  having  Ikh-u  for  many  years  one  of 
the  governoi-s  of  the  college  of  physicians  ami  surgeons  of  the  Province  of  (.Quebec.  The  mother 
of  oin-  subject  died  at  St.  Thomas  in  18(i3. 

Mr.  Marmette  was  educated  at  the  Si'mlii'tirc  <!<■  Qui'lur,  which  he  entered  in  IS.">7,  and 
left  in  1804.  In  the  latter  year,  lie  commenced  the  study  of  law  at  Laval  university,  remain- 
ing there  thr»!e  years,  when  (18(i7)  he  aceeptt'd  a  situation  in  tin-  treasury  department  of  (he 
province,  and  still  holds  it. 

Mr.  Marmette  has  had,  from  youth,  a  taste  for  literary  pui-snits,  and  has  devoted  his  leisure 
time,  with  great  assiduity,  to  writing,  mainly  historical  novels,  and  sketches  of  various  kinds. 
His  fii-st  venture  at  authoi"ship  was  made  wln^n  a  student,  the  work  Iwiiig  a  short  novt^l,  pub- 
lished in  the  Rcrtif  Cin\a<iuniif  in  lN(!.')-(i(l,  called  "Charles  and  Kva."  This  i.s  an  episcxh!  of 
the  war  that  raged  k'tween  tlie  inhaliitants  of  New   Kn>(land  and  of  Canada  in  the  17th  cen- 

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tury,  ami  dt'scriliCN  tiie  stoiniing,  by  a  party  of  French-CanailiaiiH,  of  Sc'licnccUnly,  a  fortifloil 
village  of  New  Ymk,  in  IfiOO. 

In  187(1,  Mr.  Marrnuttc  pnJiiishcd  Fr<i>ni>iK  <lc  Hlvnr'dlf,  a  Tanadian  tiistorical  iDniance  of 
the  17th  century,  a  work  which  e.'^talilisheil  hi«  rupntntiun  as  nn  author,  and  liiou<,dit  out  the 
highest  encouiiuuiK  of  the  proaH.  The  subject  of  this  novel  is  the  siege  of  t^uelnjc  by  Admiral 
Phipps,  in  1690;  and  the  noble  and  victorious  defence  of  the  plaee  by  Ct-unt  d»'  Fronteniic, 
then  governor-general  of  New  France.  Full  of  curious  and  piquant  details  m  the  life  of  early 
settlers  of  the  French  colony,  this  work  is  interesting  in  plot  and  historical  reminiscences,  and 
its  author  received  great  praises  of  the  press  at  the  time  of  its  publication. 

In  1871,  he  published  in  L'Opinion  Publique,  a  historical  novel  founded  on  events  of 
1759-'C0,  and  entitled  L'Jnti  ndant  Biyot.  The  raise  en  ncene  of  this  book  is  the  vivi<l  narra- 
tion of  the  infamy  of  the  French  Intendant  Bigot,  who,  with  his  worthy  friends,  ruined  the 
country,  and  were  the  cause  of  its  loss  for  France.  This  romance  is  of  a  thrilling  interest,  and 
one  of  the  best  composed  by  Mr.  Marmette. 

In  1873  appeared  Le  Chn'alier  de  Mornac,  having  reference  to  events  of  1G6.5,  which  work 
appeared  originally  in  L'Oinnimi  Pi(bll(pu',  and,  like  the  ]>revious  serial,  was  afterwards  pub- 
lished in  book  form.  It  is  the  history  of  tlie  adventurous  life  of  the  first  pioneers  of  Fraiu-e  in 
North  America,  their  wandering  through  the  immense  forests  of  Canada,  tluir  encounter  with 
the  wild  Iroquois,  desperate  fights  with  them,  capture  and  torture  by  the  fenniious  fiK's,  and,  at 
la.st,  l)old  escape.  The  hero,  the  Chevalier  de  Mornac,  is  the  type  of  those  gallant,  gay,  and 
witty  French  noblemen,  w^ho  were  always  ready  to  shed  their  blood  for  their  king  and  for  their 
fair  lady. 

In  1875  appeared,  in  the  Revue  C'unadienne,  his  La  Fiaiw/e  da  Rebelle,  a  romantic  and 
thrilling  story,  founded  on  Canadian  history  of  the  year  1775,  the  invasion  of  C*anada  by  the 
Americans,  and  of  the  siege  of  Quebec  by  Montgomery  and  Arnold,  ending  by  the  defeat  of  the 
rebels,  near  Three  Rivers.  The  last  episode,  which  tiikes  place  in  the  woods  near  Three  Riveis, 
is  most  touching,  and  the  best,  perhaps,  the  author  ever  wrote. 

Mr.  Mannette  has  also  published  three  volumes,  two  of  which  are  composed  of  historical 
episodes  taken  from  the  novels  above  mentioned,  and  which  are  given  as  prize  Inwks  every 
year  by  the  education  department.  The' third  of  the  series  is  tjuite  historical,  Iwiug  the  life  of 
the  members  of  a  most  illustrious  French-t^anadian  family,  the  Le  Moyne,  d'Iberville,  de  Hien- 
ville,  de  Maricourt,  de  Ste.  Hdlcne,  etc.,  etc.  As  to  those  last  works,  we  quote  an  article  which 
has  been  published  on  Mr.  Marmette's  works  in  the  Toi-onto  Mail  of  the  11th  December  last 
(1880):— 

Lt»  Maccliabcet  de  ta  NoHveUe  France  is  dedicated  by  Mr.  Marmette  to  his  father,  a  well-educated  and  nuble- 
hearted  physician,  residing  at  St.  Thomas,  Quebec.  This  is  a  purely  historical  study  of  an  important  period  in 
the  aniinU  of  this  onuutry,  and  relates  the  history  of  the  Canadian  family  Le  Moyne,  from  1041  to  17611. 
Charli;^  Le  Moyii<,  for  st-vui'ul  cnoiiriters  with  the  ludiiuis,  and  their  defeat,  and  for  siicuessful  {loaci!  nogotia- 


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tiiins,  received  from  the  Crown  the  firf  de  Ltnu/ueuil,  opposite  Montreal,  beiideN  Urge  money  grnntii.  TIih 
Hudson  Hay  ex|>e<litioa  of  d'llxtrville  and  de  Serigny  was  crowned  with  success,  rvapintj  high  honours  for  thu 
daring  brothers  ;  while  du  Maricourt  proved  victorious  in  many  skirmishes  with  the  Ir(M|Uois  in  and  around 
Montreal.  Again,  de  Maricourt  and  d'Iberville's  campaigns  in  Newfoundland  were  a  series  of  brilliant  achieve- 
ments, land  d'llterville  carried  terror  to  the  English  in  the  farotf  settlements  of  Hudson  Itay.  The  latter  wns 
also  one  of  the  disooverni's  of  the  mouths  of  the  Mississippi,  and  made  valuable  rnsearches  in  that  then  unknown 
region.  I>e  Strignv  had  the  honour  of  driving  the  Spanish  from  Florida,  whilst  de  Hienville  founded  New 
UrleauH.  The  above  are  a  few  of  the  ini|>ortant  services  rendered  by  this  valiant  family,  not  only  to  France, 
but  to  tlii'  world.  On  the  ocean,  and  in  the  pathless  forest,  these  bra%-u  men  were  e<pinlly  at  home,  achieved 
success,  and  crowned  themselves  with  glory,  some  of  them  dying  in  the  hour  of  victory  and  the  heyday  of  life, 
whilst  others  readied  a  ri]>e  old  age,  laden  with  honors  and  renown.  The  author  had  good  scope  for  description 
in  the  voyages  of  his  heroes  from  the  glacial  borders  of  Hudson  Kay  to  the  sunny  shores  of  the  (iulf  of  Mexico, 
and  he  made  c:i|>ital  use  of  his  opimrtunities.  This  family  wiis  deserving  of  having  their  deeds  recorded  in  the 
world's  history,  and  Mr.  Marniette's  able  sketch  will  materially  assist  in  spreading  their  fame. 

Mr.  Marmette's  works  maintain  their  interest  throughout.  He  recalls  the  distant  past  by  a  vivid  imagina- 
tion, upjH'aring  aH  an  actor  himself  in  the  stormy  scenes,  by  the  force  of  his  sympathy  ami  word-painting.  One 
enjoys  in  his  writings,  not  only  the  pleasures  of  romance,  but  the  valuable  informatitm  of  history.  The  old 
Canadians  revive  under  his  pen,  and  ap|)ear  to  us  in  their  quaint,  htmiely  costumes,  their  simple,  social,  and 
gallant  characters,  and  interesting  habits  and  customs.  His  stories,  in  their  subjects,  style,  and  spirit,  breathe 
the  odor  of  chivalry,  while  the  reader  can  fancy  himself  within  the  sound  of  martial  music,  and  the  clash  of 
hostile  anus.  The  knowledge  and  literary  ability  displayed  in  his  pages  deserve  high  encomium.  The  adven- 
tures of  the  old  covreiirs  iles  hois  arc  vividly  told,  the  descriptions  of  Canadian  scenery  by  tlood  and  field,  of 
dangers  heroically  faced,  of  hi-art-rending  scenes  evincing  lively  powers  of  fancy  and  delineation,  forcibly  prov- 
ing that  tlie  writer  has  made  his  native  land,  its  history  and  characteristics,  his  favorite  study. 

Mr.  Marinetto  liius  aiao  had  piinteJ,  in  magazines  and  new.spapcrs,  .several  articles  on  his- 
tory, art,  aiitl  especially  music,  most  of  which  have  attracted  considerable  attention.  He  is 
writing;  now  a  novel  on  contemporary  manners,  called  et  travers  la  vie. 

]n  l.S(!S,  otir  siiUject  married  Josepliine,  daughter  of  the  late  celebrated  Canadian  historian, 
Francois  Xavier  (!arneau,  of  Quebec,  and  tliey  liavo  had  four  children,  only  one  of  them  now 
liviniX. 


HON.  .lOTITs    II.    POPE,    M.P., 

cooKsnuiK. 

JOHN  HENRV  POPE,  nuMiber  of  the  House  of  Commons  ft)rCompton,  Province  of  Quebec, 
and  minister  of  agriculture,  was  born  in  Eastern  Townships,  in  that  province,  in  l.S'2+, 
his  parents  being  John  and  Sophia  (Lalieroe")  Pope.  He  was  e(bicated  in  the  higli  .school  at 
(-'ompton;  engaged  in  agrietdtural  ptn-suits  in  early  life,  and  still  combines  such  pursuits  with 
other  business,  having  lieen  very  successfid  tlierein. 

For  many  ytsars  Mr.  I'ope  has  been  one  of  tlie  leading  men  in  his  part  of  the  province. 
He  had  connnand  of  the  Cookshire  volunteers  for  a  long  period,  retiring  with  the  rank  of  major 
in  1862;  is  a  director  of  the  Ea.stcrn  Townshi|)s  bank,  a  trustee  of  the  St.  Francis  college, 
at  Richmond,  and  is  president  of  the  International  railway  and  of  the  Compton  colonization 
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Mr.  Pope  was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  the  (.Canadian  Assembly,  for  his  prt-ncnt  seat, 
in  18.')4 ;  was  »>Wtod  in  18.')7,  and  sat  until  the  Confederation,  ten  years  later  ;  was  elected  to 
the  House  of  Connnons  l>y  Hcclanuitinn  at  the  ||{oneral  election  in  18<57,  nml  is  still  kept  there, 
representing  liis  old  constituency- 
He  was  sworn  of  tlie  Privy  ( 'ouncil  on  the  25th  of  Octol>er,  1871,  and  was  minister  of  agri- 
culture from  that  date  until  the  5th  of  >iovember,  1873,  when  the  whole  oibinot  resigned,  the 
occasion  being  the  Pacific  railway  r|ucsti(m.  On  the  (Amservatives  coming  into  |X)w«'r  tmce 
n«ore  in  the  nutunui  of  1S78,  Mr.  Pope  was  nguin  offered  the  iH>rtfolio  of  agric\ilture,  and  the 
responsible  duties  of  that  ottice  he  is  now  discharging. 


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HON.   TIMOTHY    L.  TERR  ILL, 

UTANSTBAD. 

TIMOTHY  LEE  TEKRILL,  several  years  member  of  the  Provincial  Parliament  for  the 
county  of  Stan.stead,  ami  at  one  time  Provincial  Secretary,  is  a  native  of  Sheibrooke, 
and  was  born  March  12,  ]8!.'>,  being  the  second  son  of  Joseph  H.  Terrill.  The  latter  settled  in 
Sherbrooke  in  1800,  when  there  was  only  one  house  there,  and  was  for  many  yeai-»  commis- 
sioner for  trying  small  ca.ses.  The  mother  of  our  subject  wa.s  Betsy  Bailey.  He  studied  law 
with  his  oldest  brother,  H.  Bailey  Terrill,  at  one  time  a  member  of  the  Local  Parliament  foi- 
Stanstea<l,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1840.  He  was  a  sound  lawyer  and  an  able  pleatler, 
and  stood  high  in  his  profeasion,  being  created  a  Queen's  Coun.sel  in  1854. 

When  the  rebellion  broke  out  in  1837,  he  joined  the  volunteer  cavalry  forces,  with  three 
brothers,  and  became  a  lieutenant;  and  sliowed  the  genuine  stuff  of  wliich  soldiers  are  made, 
but  he  chose  to  be  a  lawyer. 

Mr.  Terrill  settled  in  Stansteail  Plain  in  1844,  and  in  1852  was  elected  without  opposition 
to  the  Provincial  Legislature,  taking  the  place  of  his  brother,  who  died  of  cholera  at  QueU'e, 
was  re-elected  three  times — 18.')4,  185G  and  1858 — in  the  .same  manner  being  very  jwpular  in 
the  ctmnty.  In  May,  IH.itj,  he  received  the  appointuients  of  registrar  of  the  Provincial  and 
member  of  the  Executive  ( 'Ouncil,  and  provincial  .secretary,  which  office  he  resigned  in  18.')7. 
He  was  offered  higher  jKjsitions  in  the  Cabinet,  but  modestly  declined  them.  In  his  case  tlu' 
"  offices  sought  the  man,  not  the  man  the  offices."  He  retired  from  public  life  on  account  of  fail- 
ing health,  in  1801,  and  died,  August  2(>,  187W,  The  Montreal  Gazette  and  Stanstead  Jonrntil 
altout  that  time  thus  spoke  of  him  : — 

The  game  energy  which  had  iiiiule  biin  a  chani<jiun  axeman,  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  accompanied  him  as  an 
instnictor  uf  uther  youths  from  tliat  age  until  he  entered  upon  the  study  of  law,  in  the  ottice  of  his  brother.  Att 
a  councillor  at  law  he  was  sound  :  us  a  pleader,  few  in  the  province  e(|Ualled  him  ;  and  as  a  man  of  business  his 
excellence  was  established  by  his  atlainuiont  of  wealth  at  an  age  when  most  persons  have  their  foot  upon  only 


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the  fint  rrtiind  of  the  ludder.  The  over-work  and  nnxiety,  oont«N)iieiit  upon  undertaking  public  dulia*  without 
relief  fn>m  the  ni»na);eineiit  of  his  private  atrAira,  which  became  troubieaoiue  with  hit  growing  affluence,  uiid«*r- 
Miiiied  his  health,  and  reiulted  in  repeited  itrokei  uf  paralyiii,  at  interval!  of  Mveral  jreara,  lo  necessitating 
his  retirement  from  public  aHairs,  upon  which  ixxjasion  he  betook  himself  to  agriculture,  and  for  years  had  thp  repu- 
tation of  being  second  t<j  hut  one  agriculturist  in  the  omttern  township*,  and  to  him,  perhaps,  only  in  a  s|MM;ialty. 
Within  a  few  years  past  his  remarkable  linancial  ability  has  been  turne«l  to  public  use  by  his  being  an  active 
director  and  vice-president  of  the  Eastern  Townships  Bank,  of  whote  annual  meetings  he  has  ocoaaioually  lioen 
chairman.     He  has  also  assisted  in  the  direction  of  one  or  more  railway  companies. 

The  loss  of  his  sound  advice  in  all  matters  where  wisdom  and  ex|>erience  avail,  will  lony  Ih)  fell  in  the 
county  of  his  adoption.  Mr.  Terrill  died  of  pr.ralysis,  which  is  hereditary  in  the  family,  having  lieen  the  last 
sickness  also  of  his  father  and  grandfather. 

Mr.  Terrill  wa.s  much  interested  in  the  cause  of  education,  ami  although  himself  a  memher 
of  the  Church  of  Euylaml,  he  took  pleasure  in  aidinir  to  build  up  the  Stiuistead  NV'csleyan 
College,  a  Methodist  institution,  of  which  he  was  president  of  the  hoanl  of  directors  for  some 
years.  It  was  his  deliglit  to  aid  in  any  capacity  to  establish  institutions,  and  to  push  forsvard 
enterpri.ses  calculated  to  benefit  the  community. 

At  the  time  of  the  death  of  Mr.  Terrill,  the  trustees  of  the  Montreal  Wesleyan  College,  the 
direetoi"s  of  the  Eastern  Tow  hips  bank,  and  the  Massawippi  Valley  railway,  passed  resolutions 
of  respect  to  his  memory,  and  condolence,  and  sent  copies  of  them  t)  his  deeply-stricken  widow. 
It)  these  resolutions  the  "  munitieent  generosity,"  "energetic  exertions,"  "public  spirit,"  and 
other  good  fpiaiitie.s  of  the  ileceased,  are  set  forth  in  their  true  lig!>t.  At  a  meeting  of  the  Kar 
of  St.  Francis  district,  resolutions  were  passed  expressing  sorrow  at  the  loss  of  one  "  whose  intel 
leetual  supiM'iority  and  legal  acumen  and  experience,  had  matle  him  one  of  its  most  shining 
ornaments." 

In  I80O,  Mr.  Terrill  married  Harriet,  daughter  of  Col.  Wright  Chamberlain,  of  Stansteail, 
anil  she  has  had  three  soas,  two  of  them  yet  living.  William  Lee  is  married  an^l  i.s  farniing 
and  residing  in  the  village,  near  his  mother's  house,  and  Oeorge  Frederick,  aged  twelv.^  y'lrs, 
is  ptirsuing  his  studies. 


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GEORGE    ALPIIONSE    KANE, 

MURRA Y  BAY. 

MR.  KANE  is  one  of  the  eminent  lawyers  in  Murray  Bay  ;  and  socially,  as  well  as  pro- 
fessionally, enjoys  a  reputation  of  the  highest  character  for  sterling  worth  and 
integrity,  combined  with  an  ability  in  all  abstruse  and  difficult  questions  in  his  profession.  He 
is  the  brother  of  Mr  Joseph  Kane,  the  well  known  notary  of  Murray  Bay,  whose  sketch  will  W. 
found  on  another  page.  Descended  from  an  illustrious  and  gallant  old  veteran,  whose  life  was 
sacrificed  at  the  call  of  his  sovereign,  and  who  closed  his  career  on  this  earth  with  the  honor 
and  glory  of  a  brave  soldier's  death  and  resting  place  defending  his  count"y's  Hag,  Mr.  Ceorge 
Kane  was  lH)rn  at  St.  Paul's  Bay,  on  the  11th  of  April,  1S43,  and  is  the  .son  of  the  late  Mr. 


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John  Kane  and  Louisa  Cinion.  He  was  educated  at  Baydes  Ha  Ha  ;  afterwards  at  the  Quebec 
seminary,  where  lie  |)ursued  a  full  classical  course ;  and  finally  terminated  his  studies  at  Laval 
university,  where  he  graduated  as  B.A.  on  the  28th  of  October,  1868.  During  the  time  he  was 
studying  at  Laval,  he  was  engaged  in  the  offices  of  Messrs.  Lelievre  and  Caron,  and  afterwards 
in  that  of  Mr.  Jac(]ues  Malouin.  On  leaving  Laval,  he  commenced  practice  at  Chicoutimi, 
where  he  pursued  his  procession  until  he  removed  to  Murray  Bay  in  June,  1876.  He  has  an 
establishment  at  Chicoutimi,  and  is  owner  of  property  in  Lac  St.  Jean 

He  belongs  to  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  ;  and  js  a  staunch  adherent  of  the  Conservative 
party.  • 

He  married  on  20th  October,  1870,  Miss  Emma,  youngest  daughter  of  Dr.  Louis  Phillipo 
Ferdinand  Vincent,  M.D.,  one  of  the  most  eminent  and  able  medical  practitioners,  as  well  as 
being  a  very  {xipulai-  man,  in  Murray  Bay. 


JJEU'r.-(t)L.  HON.   LOUIS    F.  R.  MASSON,   M.P., 

TERREBONHF.. 

T  OUTS  FRANCOIS  RODERIQUE  MASSON,  member  of  the  House  of  Commons  for  Ter- 
-*~^  n-bonne,  and  President  of  the  Privy  Council,  is  a  descendant  of  a  very  old  French- 
Canadian  family  which  settled  at  St.  Eustaclie,  and  spread  thence  over  the  Province  of  Quebec. 
He  is  tlie  fourth  son  of  Hon.  Joseph  Masson,  dectui.sed,  who,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  was  a 
memlier  of  the  Legislative  Council  of  (.^anada,  and  brother  of  Edouard  Ma.s.son,  at  one  time  member 
of  the  same  body;  and  was  horn  at  Terrebonne  on  the  7th  of  November,  18^3.  His  mother's 
name,  before  her  marriage,  was  M.  0.  Sophie  Raymond,  of  Laprairie. 

He  was  e(lucate<l  at  the  Jesuit  College,  (Jcorgetown,  Woreester,  Mass.,  and  at  St.  Hyncinthe, 
I'.  Q.,  completing  his  cla.ssical  studies  at  the  latter  college.  During  this  periotl  he  spent  two 
years  in  travelling  through  various  countries  of  Europe  and  the  Holy  Land,  in  company  with 
that  elegant  scholar  and  Christian  gentleman,  Rev.  M.  Desaulicrs,  of  St.  Hyacinthc  College —a 
twenty-four  months'  tour,  which  was  productive  of  rich  Iwnefits  to  him  lioth  physically  and 
mcnta'ly. 

Mr.  Masson  studieil  law  with  Sir  (leorge  E.  Cartier,  of  Montreal,  where  he  resided  three  yeai-s, 
anil  was  called  to  the  bar  in  Nt)vember,  18M),  l)ut  never  pnietisc'  He  has  held  a  commission 
in  the  volunteer  force  of  Canada  since  Octolwr,  1862  ;  was  appointed  brigade -major,  8th  military 
district,  Lower  Canada,  August  21,  18().S;  served  on  the  frontier  during  the  first  Fenian  raid  in 
March,  lH(i<i  ;  and  was  in  active  .servi(;<  during  the  .second  raid  in  that  year,  and  was  promoted 
to  liis  present  rank,  that  of  lieutenant-colonel  in  1867,  ('oi.  Mas.son  has  held  various  ottices  in 
the  nnniicipality  of  his  native  town,  and  was  mayor  of  Terrebonne  in  1874. 


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He  wjw  fiint  electe«l  to  parliament  I'or  Terr»'lH)nno  iu  18(17,  and  haw  reproftcntotl  that  constit- 
uency constantly  since  the  Dominion  of  Canada  was  formed,  Ixiinj,'  rt^electcd  in  1872,  1874,  and 
1878,  every  time  by  acclamation.  Probably  no  man  in  the  I'rovince  of  (Quebec  is  more 
})opular  with  his  constituents  than  he  is.  In  politics  ho  is  a  (\>nservative,  ami  hius,  from  his 
start  in  public  life,  .stood  h^  i  in  the  esteem  of  his  party,  bi'ingoflTor  d  a  seat  in  the  Macdonald 
Cabinet  in  1873  ;  but  he  declined  that  honor,  because  he  favore<l  amnesty  for  political  oHences 
in  Manitoba,  and  a  settlement  of  the  New  Brunswick  School  «piestion,  exciting  matters  at  that 
time  unadjusted.  He  is  "  in  favor  of  a  Reciprocity  Treaty  with  the  United  States  on  fair  and 
eqjitable  terms  ;  of  a  moderately  protective  tariff,  and  of  the  construction  of  the  Pacitic  railway 
wholly  on  Canadian  soil,  as  soon  as  the  finances  and  circumstances  of  the  country  will  permit." 

In  October,  1878,  when  Mr.  Mackenzie's  Cabinet  resigned.  M.  Masson.  then  tiivvelling  again 
through  Europe,  was  called  to  form  part  of  the  new  administration,  and  he  iumiediately  sailed 
for  Canada.  On  his  arrival  (l!)th  ()ct<)ber\  he  was  sworn  in  a  momlwrof  Her  Majesty's  Privy 
(Council,  and  Minister  of  Militia  ami  Defence.  Through  his  efforts  and  energy,  numerous 
improvements  and  useful  changes  were  made  in  the  Canadian  militia  organization  -especially 
the  establishment  of  a  drill  as-sociation  in  educational  institutions,  the  supply  of  military  clothes 
froui  Canadian  manufacture,  the  mnnufiu;turing  in  Canada  of  gun[K)wder,  cartridges,  heavy  guns, 
etc.  His  administration  of  the  department  rendered  him  as  popular  among  military  men  as  he 
was  already  among  his  constituents.  The  precarious  state  of  his  healtii,  however,  compelled 
liim  to  di.sctmtinue  the  arduous  laltor  which  he  luid  undertaken,  and  ont!ic  iC'h  .binuarv,  1880. 
he  resigned  his  position  as  minister  of  Militia  and  Defence,  to  occupy  the  seat  of  President  of 
the  Privy  (council.  • 

In  18.')(),  Col.  Ma.sson  married  Louisa  Riu'hel,  eldest  daughter  of  Lieut. -Col.  Alexander 
Mackenzie,  and  granddaughter  of  Hon.  Hoderick  Mackenzie,  once  a  memlM-r  of  the  Legislativ*' 
Council  of  Canada,  and  a  partner  in  the  North-west  fur  company  ;  by  which  niairiage  he  has 
live  children,  two  daughters  and  three  .sons. 


HON.    KDVU'M)   .LAMKS    KLY.NN,    LLD., 

HON.  KPMCND  J.\MKS  FLYNN  is  a  man  of  more  than  average  promise.  Possi'ssing 
gn  at  mentJil  ipialities,  combined  with  the  power  to  act  with  remarkable  clearsighted- 
ness, Mr.  Flynn  hits  already,  in  the  jMilitical  arena,  exemplified  that  he  has  not  only  the  courage 
to  face  danger,  but  manfully  to  give  expression  to  his  honest  convictions.  liorn  at  Perci',  in 
the  shiit'town  of  (iasp<^,  on  the  Kith  of  Novemb«*r,  1847,  he  was  sent  at  an  early  age  to  the 
tji,  licc  .seminary,  when' he  soon  exhibited  signs  of  superior  talent.     This,  together  with  clo.se 


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application  to  study,  soon  brought  him  into  notice.  In  the  early  portion  of  his  career,  he  held 
a  succession  of  local  offices  in  Gasp^,  and  in  1873,  having  graduated  with  distinction  at  Laval 
univeifjity,  he  was  called  in  the  same  year  to  the  bar,  and  in  the  following  year,  so  apt  a 
scholar  had  he  become,  the  high  honor  of  professor  and  lecturer  of  Roman  law  to  Laval,  was 
lonterred  upon  him  by  the  luminaries  of  that  distinguished  institution.  A  distinction  which 
assuredly  would  not  have  been  bestowed  upon  so  young  a  man,  had  he  not  been  a  profoun<l 
and  rrudite  seholHr.  Although  none  of  his  lectures  (as  professor)  have  at  present  been  pub- 
lished, there  is,  we  believe,  no  doubt  of  their  ability  and  weight.  Confirmatory  of  this,  is  the 
fact  that  he  had  the  honor  of  LL.D.  conferred  upon  him  by  the  authorities  of  Laval  in  May, 
1M78 — a  very  great  distinction,  considering  the  short  time  that  had  elapsed  since  he  was  called 
to  the  bai',  and  one  that  plainly  shows  that  he  possesses  the  highest  attainments  as  a  scholar 
and  exponent.  Independent  of  his  icitturing  at  I^aval,  he  has  lieen  practising  his  profession 
since  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 

In  politics,  he  is  a  Liberal-C<m.sei-vative,  and  was  returned  by  ucclamati(jn  foi  hi.s  present 
seat  at  the  general  election  of  1878,  as  an  independent  .supporter  of  the  Joly  Government, 
although  twice  defeated  before,  by  very  small  majorities,  by  the  Hon.  Dr.  Fortin.  On  all  occa- 
sions, from  the  time  of  his  maiden  speech,  which  was  so  much  applauded  by  the  pre.ss  through- 
out the  countrj-,  he  has  taken  the  most  active  part  in  every  debate  in  the  local  legislature,  and 
rigidly  adiiered  t«  convictions,  while,  at  the  same  time,  he  fully  recognises  the  necessity  of 
party  under  the  Briti.sh  Constitution.  We  may  quote  here  the  following  t-xtract  from  the 
Montreal  Gazette,  in  regard  to  Mr.  Flynn's  maiden  speech,  in  which  Mr.  Thomas  White — no 
mean  authority — says  : — "  I  have  seen  a  great  many  men  make  their  lUhat  in  Parliament,  but 
seldom  any  one  who  has,  on  the  whole,  ac(|uitted  him.self  with  more  cvwXit."—M(nxti'PAtl  Giuette, 
Hth  June,  1H78.  Possibly  no  man  on  this  continent  is  better  able  to  judge  of  such  a  matter 
than  the  writer  of  this  paragraph. 

From  all  sides,  creeds,  and  parties  in  politics,  it  was  confessed  that  Mr.  Flynn's  was  the 
most  remarkably  definite  and  clear  exposition  that  had  been  put  before  the  public  in  ie>'aid  ic 
the  liCU'llier  affair.  Without  recapitulating  the  facts  of  the  Letelllor  dismissal,  or  commenting 
upon  the  stormy  debate  which  ensued  regarding  the  refusal  of  supplies  by  the  Legislative 
rouiR'il  in  the  provinci.il  session  of  1879,  we  may  l)e  permitted  here  briefly  to  remark  that  Mr. 
Flynii  was  fully  equal  to  the  occasion,  and  able  to  deal  with  l)oth  sides  of  the  question  with 
very  marked  ability  and  distinctness,  astoni.shing  even  liis  most  intimate  associates.  In  de- 
veloping the  mining  resources  of  this  province — and,  in  fact,  the  whole  dominion — it  were  diffi- 
cult to  find,  at  the  present  moment,  any  other  pei-son  to  deal  with  the  question  of  mines  with 
more  competency.  His  industry  and  painstaking  to  make  himself  ma.sti-r  of  any  subject  or 
un<lertaking  entrusted  to  him,  unit«'d  with  his  p4iwer  of  grasping  and  mastering  any  and  every 
subject  he  takes  up,  decidedly  qualify  him  foi'  the  important,  onerous,  and  responsible  pnst 
whieh  he  n<iw  holds,  vi/, :-  tliat  of  commissioner  of  crown  lands.     Happily,  under  the  adminis- 


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tration  of  the  present  chief  commissioner,  the  (Jepartraent  is  now  one  of  the  most  perfect  in  its 
internal  and  general  organization.  Mr.  Flynn  takes  a  very  lively  interest  in  the  colonisation 
of  this  province,  making  it  a  subject  of  much  meditation  and  study. 

By  tho.se  who  know  him  intimately,  Mr.  Flynn  is  .said  to  be  one  of  those  men  who  stand 
or  fall  by  honest  personal  convictions,  regai'dless  of  party,  whatever  the  subject  may  1h',  and 
these  he  only  arrives  at  after  mature  consideration  of  the  question  before  him.  Tn  son»e  men 
this  might  be  ascribed  as  dogged  obstinacy,  but  in  the  subject  of  our  present  .sketch  we  are 
assured  by  those  who  know  him  most  intimately  that  his  disposition  and  character  is  diametric- 
ally opposite  to  this.  " 

It  may  be  said,  to  sum  up  all,  that,  in  Mr.  Flynn,  Canada  pos-r'-'sses  a  sage  .scholar,  a  judicious 
administrato?  of  public  affairs,  a  conscientious  and  discreet  politician,  and  a  patriot  whose  only 
desire  is  the  promotion  of  his  country's  welfare.  Outside  his  public  life.  Mr.  Flynn  is  pos-ses.sed 
of  friends  whose  name  is  legion. 

He  married  on  the  1 1th  May,  1875,  Mathilde  Augustin  Cot(?,  daughter  of  Augustin  (^ot^, 
editor  of  L<'  Jonrnnl  de  Quebec,  and  niece  of  Hon,  Joseph  f'auchon,  lieutenant-governor  of 
Manitoba,  by  whom  he  has  issue  five  children,  of  which  three  survive. 


■  MICHAEL    P.   I1YATN[,   M.P., 

MONTREAL. 

"Ti  ypICHAEL  PATRICK  RYAN,  member  of  the  Hou.se  of  Commons  for  Montreal  Centre, 
-^'^-*-  and  for  years  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of  this  city,  was  the  third  son  of  William 
and  Mary  Ryan,  and  was  born  on  the  29th  of  September,  182.J,  at  Pallis,  Donoliill,  county 
of  Tipperary,  Ireland.  He  icceived  a  graniinar  school  education,  and  in  1840,  came  to  this 
(lountry  with  the  family,  who  .settled  on  a  farm  near  Chambly.  Mr.  Ryan  kept  the  Franklin 
House,  Montreal,  from  184!)  to  18.").'),  and  the  next  year  went  into  the  provision  business,  being 
for  years,  we  uiulerstand,  the  most  e.vtensivc  dealer  in  biitter,  cheese,  and  other  farm  produc'  in 
Montreal.  His  transactions  in  some  years  amounteil  to  !?1,()()0,00().  At  length,  having  with 
t'iDUsands  of  other  prominent  business  men,  met  with  severe  lo.sses,  in  1S7'),  Mr.  R3an  retired, 
and  since  then  has  done  little  more  than  look  after  his  own  matters  and  attend  to  oHicial  business 
as  license  commissioner. 

He  was  elected  as  alderman  in  18.')2,  and  in  that  capacity  .sat  for  three  years  in  thj  Corpo- 
ration of  Montreal ;  was  at  one  period  a  member  of  the  Council  of  the  Montreal  Board  of  Trade  ; 
wius  elected  three  times  to  the  presid»>ncy  of  the  Commercial  Kxchange  A.ssociation,  and  years  ago 
wa.s  connected  with  the  militia,  and  held  the  rank  of  captiin      He  was  at  one  time  a  director  of 

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the  Montreal,  Ottawa  and  Occidental  Railway,  and  in  many  ways  has  shown  a  commendable 
spirit  of  enterprise,  and  aided  in  pushing  forward  public  improvements. 

Mr.  Ryan  was  first  elected  to  Parliatiient  by  acclamation  for  Montreal  West,  in  April,  18(58, 
on  the  death,  at  the  hand  of  an  a.ssa.ssin,  of  Hon.  Thomas  D'Arcy  McGee,  and  was  re-elected  for 
the  .same  division,  in  the  .same  manner,  1872.  At  the  genera!  election  in  1874,  he  contested 
Montreal  Centre, and,  as  we  learn  from  the  "  PaiJiamentary  Companion,"  "  defeated  his  opponent, 
Bernard  Devlin,  by  383  votes;  was  unseated  and  contested  the  .seat  again  with  the  .same  oppo- 
nent, and  was  defeated  by  seventy-three  votes,  and  in  187^,  was  again  elected  for  Montreal 
Centre,  over  Mr.  Devlin,  by  a  majority  of  802  votes."  . 

Mr.  Ryan  is  a  man  of  strong  i)olitieal  convictions,  and  ha-s  been  a  steadfast  Liberal  Con.ser- 
vative  from  the  time  that  Messi-s.  Baldwin  and  Lafontaine  were  great  political  leaders.  He 
strongly  advocates  the  jirinciples  of  protection,  because  lie  Vjelieves  that  the  incbistries  of  the 
country  are  in  that  way  the  most  thoroughly  fostered. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Ryan  was  Margaret  Breiuian,  eldest  daughter  of  Patrick  Brennan,  ileceased, 
many  years  a  merchant  in  Montreal.  They  were  married  in  1850,  and  havi-  had  one  child,  a  son, 
whom  they  lost  when  quite  young. 


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HKNRY  HOPPER  MILES,  SecreUiry  of  the  Department  of  Public  lastruction  for  the 
Province  of  Quebec,  representing  the  Piotestant  element  of  the  population,  and  a  writer 
of  text-liooks  for  public  schools,  is  well  known  throughout  the  Dominion  for  his  invaluable 
lalM)rs  in  connection  with  tlie  cause  of  education.  He  was  born  in  London,  Kngland,  on  the  18th 
October,  1818,  his  father  being  Lieutenant  Richard  Miles,  of  the  Royal  Navy,  who  died  at  Deal, 
Kent,  in  1822.  The  family  belonged  originally  to  the  west  of  England,  and  a  branch  went 
over  to  Kent,  in  which  county  it  is  now  not  uncommon  to  meet  with  persons  of  the  name  of 
the  subject  of  our  sketch.  His  mother  was  Mary  Hojiper,  which  name  was  originally  Hooper, 
une  of  her  ancestors  (the  Protestant  Bishop  Hooper)  having  been  bm-nt  at  the  stake,  after  which 
the  numerous  iunnediate  descendants  of  the  martyr,  finding  their  family  name  obnoxious  to 
many  of  their  neighboi-s  and  fellow-citizens,  changed  it  to  Ho|)|)er,  and  went  away  to  settle  in 
other  counties. 

Oiu'  subject  was  educated  in  part  at  the  grammar  school  of  Exeter,  Devonshire,  and  finished 
in  Etiinburgh  and  Aberdeen,  including  medical  studies  ;  tnit  finding  the  profession  distastefid, 
he  never  took  up  the  practice  of  it. 

In  184.'),  by  invitation,  he  came  to  Lennoxville  to  fill  the  chair  of  mathematics  and  natunil 
philosophy  in  tlie  university  of   Bishoji's  college,  and  also  the  oHice  of  vice-priiu'lpal  of  tli.it 


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inNtitiition,  a  jHwt  which  he  held  for  twenty-one  yeui*s.  During  this  period  he  took  great 
interest  in  educational  matters  generally  in  the  province,  and  did  no  inconsiderable  amount  of 
literary  work  outside  his  special  lal)ors  at  Lennoxville. 

In  18(52,  he  was  sent  to  England,  in  company  with  Sir  William  Logan,  to  represent  the 
eastern  townships  of  Quebec  in  the  international  exhibition,  held  in  London.  In  IH,")S  he  took 
part,  by  invitation,  in  a  course  of  public  lectures  given  by  various  lecturers  in  the  Mechanics' 
Hall,  Montreal,  when  he  delivered  two  on  the  subject  of  the  ventilation  of  dwelling-houses  and 
schools,  which  were  published  in  pamphlet  form  and  circulated  gratuitously  at  the  ex])ense  of 
mendiers  of  the  Merchants'  Exchange. 

In  18G(J  he  resigned  his  offices  in  Bishop's  college,  the  t;orporation  of  which,  in  consideration 
of  his  lengthened  and  valued  services,  generously  continued  to  him  the  payment  of  his  custom- 
ary salary  for  the  space  of  a  whole  year  subsequent  to  his  retirement. 

When  the  Confederation  of  the  provinces  was  completed,  he  was  offered,  and  atcepted,  the 
oftice  already  menticmei],  and  removed  to  the  city  «)f  Quelieo. 

Dr.  Miles,  in  tl.e  year  \'6{j'A,  had  the  degree  of  LL.  D.  conferred  on  Ihui  by  tin-  university  of 
Aberdeen,  and  the  same  by  the  university  of  McLiiil  college,  Montreal,  in  l80(i.  He  is  also  a 
D.C.L.  of  Bisliop's  c()llege  (1S(>G).  In  1877  he  was  elected  president  of  the  Provincial  As.soci- 
tion  of  Protestant  Teachers,  and  in  the  same  year,  when  the  (Seographieal  Society  of  Quelne 
was  foundeil,  through  the  efforts  of  Hon.  P.  Fortin,  M.  P.,  aided  by  our  subject,  and  otlier  warm 
friends  of  such  enterprises,  lie  was  chosen  one  of  its  vice-|)residents.  Dr.  .Miles  is  now  (for  the 
year  1880)  presiilent  of  the  latter  .society.  In  other  lines  of  literary  !al)or  his  hand  has  often 
n\a<le  its  mark.  He  has  written  a  good  ileal  for  educational  ami  literary  magazines,  and  has 
done  important  work  in  preparing  text-books  for  u.se  in  the  public  schools  of  the  Dominion. 
He  is  the  author  of  a  "  Child's  History  of  (Janada,"  the  "  School  History  of  Canada,"  and  of  a 
larger  work  entitled  "  Canada  Under  the  French  Regime,"  some  of  these  works  having  jxis.sed 
through  two  or  three  editions.  His  work  on  the  French  Regime  in  ( 'ainwla,  is,  it  is  undei-stood, 
to  have  a  seijuel  entitled  "Canaila  under  British  Rule,  I7<!()-18(17. "  Among  his  minor  produc- 
tions, mention  may  also  be  made  of  "  Canada  East  at  the  International  Exhibition, "  and  "  The 
Eastern  Townships  of  Chnada,"  both  jiublished  in  London  in  I8fl2,  as  well  as  of  several  historical 
articles  jtrinted  in  the  volunu's  of  "Transactions  of  the  Quebec  Liti^rar.y  and  Historical  Sm-ietv. ' 
A  s<iinewhat  remarkable  article  upon  a  controverted  (juestion  relating  to  the  eaiiier  days  of  the 
great  Admiral  Nelson — entitled  "  Nelson  at  Quebec  " — was  written  by  him  for  the  Tonmtn 
('ittKiiliiiii  Moiitlil;/,  and  appeared  in  the  number  for  March,  1870.  Dr.  Miles  is  likewise  the 
reputed  author  of  an  important  document,  styleil  a  "  Memorandum,"  treating  in  miiuite  detail, 
of  tlie  case  of  the  High  Schools  of  <juel>ec,  Montieal,  and  Kingston,  as  the  successors  of  the 
Itoyal  Gramnuir  Schools,  established  by  the  imperial  bounty  in  those  cities,  in  the  early  part  of 
this  century  ;  and  it  is  generally  believed  that  the  arguments  advanced  in  this  "  Memorandum  " 
exercised  much  influence  u|i(m  the  loenl  government  of  the  day  in  securing  the  continued  i»ay- 


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upon  the  institutions  named. 

])r.  Miles  is  a  momlier  of  the  ("hurch  of  England,  as  might  be  inferreil  from  his  connection 
with  Bishop's  college,  and  he  has  served  as  warden,  and,  we  lielieve,  in  other  oHices  connected 
with  the  church,  and  with  societies  which  it  has  established. 

In  1847,  he  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Wilson,  daughter  of  William  Wilson,  Es(|.,  Bachelor  of 
Medicine,  of  the  University  of  Cambridge,  and  M.  D.  of  the  Edinburgh  ( 'oUege  of  Physicians, 
who  practised  many  years  at  Ripon,  Yorkshire,  prior  to  his  coining  out  to  Canada  U)  settle  near 
Sherbrooke,  in  the  eastern  townships,  having  discontinued  the  practice  of  the  profession,  and 
where  he  <lied  in  the  year  1851. 

Dr.  Miles  has  four  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters.  The  two  forni'er,  John  C.  and 
Henry  Miles,  are  associated  in  business  under  the  designation  of  Miles  Bros.,  in  Boston,  Mass. ; 
Anna  Miles,  the  elder  daughter,  is  the  wife  of  an  advocate  of  Montreal,  an<l  the  younger,  Eliza- 
beth, resides  at  Quebec  with  her  parents. 


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aIHE  suVtject  of  this  sketch  is  a  member  of  one  of  the  oldest  families  in  the  Province  of 
Quebec,  his  great-grandfather,  Aaion  Hart,  having  come  from  England  to  Canada  in  the 
year  l^GO,  accompanying  a  detachment  of  British  troops  under  the  coiiunand  of  (-Jeneral  Haldi- 
niand.  Aaron  Hart  settled  with  his  family  in  Three  Rivers,  and  was  employed  as  a  commissary 
to  sujiply  the  troops  with  i»rovisions,  forage,  etc. 

Lewis  Alexander  Hart  is  the  youngest  son  of  the  late  Alexander  Thonias  Hart,  who  was 
one  of  the  most  highly  esteemed  citizens  of  Three  Rivers,  and  seignior  of  the  Hef  Courval,  in 
the  counties  of  Yamaska  and  Nicolet.  He  was  born  at  Three  Rivers  on  the  lUth  of  .July,  1847, 
and  received  his  early  education  at  Mr.  Lawlor's  scliool,  in  his  native  city,  until  his  twelfth 
year,  when  he  was  removed  to  the  Montreal  collegiate  .school,  of  which  Charles  Nichols,  licen- 
tiate of  the  royal  college  of  preceptors,  is  still  the  principal.  Here  lie  remained  for  three  years, 
during  the  last  of  which  he  was  head  monitor  of  the  school ;  and  took  the  captain's  ]iiize  at  the 
midsummer  examination  of  I8(i2.  In  September  <jf  that  year,  he  matiiculated  in  the  facultv 
of  arts  in  McGill  college,  at  the  early  age  of  tifteen  years;  an<l  in  his  Hist  .session  took  the 
prize  for  an  English  essay,  and  obtained  certificates  for  Hist-class  standing  in  Hebrew  and  in 
English  literature.  In  May,  18GG,  he  was  graduated  B.A.,and  received  the  degree  of  M.A.  in 
186s).  After  completing  his  course  in  arts,  Mr.  Hart  began  the  study  of  the  notarial  profession 
in  the  otijce  of  the  late  Th<^od.   Doiu-ft,  notary,  at   Montreal,  and  subse(juentiy  entered  tin- 


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faculty  of  law  iu  McGill  college,  gra<luatiug  B.C.L.  in  the  spring  of  18(jJ),  when  he  stood  rirst  of 
his  class  in  Roman  law,  in  the  special  examinations  for  the  gold  medal.  Shortly  before  the 
completion  of  his  22nd  year,  he  was  tulniitted  to  the  practice  of  the  notarial  profession,  which 
he  has  since  followed. 

On  the  26th  of  June,  1880,  Mr.  Hart  was  appointed  by  the  royal  institution  governors  of 
McGill  college,  lecturer  ujxjn  the  theory  and  practice  of  notarial  deeds  and  proceedings,  ami  a 
member  of  the  faculty  of  law  in  the  univeraity.  The  course  of  instruction  on  which  he  lectures 
is  an  entirely  new  one ;  and  he  enjoys  the  distinction  of  being  the  only  notary  ever  appointed 
a  professor  in  the  McGill  law  faculty. 

Mr.  Hart's  university  coui-se  reflected  much  credit  upon  himself  and  his  Alma  Mater.  He 
received  the  degiee  of  M.A.  in  course,  and  his  thesis  on  that  occasion,  "  On  SuUstitutions, "  was 
of  a  very  high  degree  of  merit  and  ability.  Mr.  Hart  did  not  cease  to  be  a  student,  in  the 
highest  acceptation  of  the  term,  after  he  had  received  his  aciwlemic  honours  ;  but,  in  adopting 
the  notarial  profession  as  his  future  occupation,  pui-sued  his  study  of  general  literature,  and 
more  especially  devoted  himself  to  the  acquisition  of  that  wide  range  of  legal  subjects  which 
should  be  properly,  though  they  are  but  seldom,  mastered  for  notarial  practice.  This  know- 
ledge, joined  to  a  zealous  and  conscientious  discharge  of  his  duties  as  professional  man  and 
citizen,  has  obtained  for  Mr.  Hart  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  a  very  large  nundier  of  friends. 

Professor  Hart  was  married  on  the  23rd  of  October,  1878,  to  Fanny  Elizabeth,  seccuil 
daughter  of  Henry  Bcijaniin,  of  Montreal. 


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riON.   JEAN    T.  TASCllEKEAU,   LL.D., 

(QUEBEC. 

"THAN  THOM.XS  TASCHKREAT,  lute  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Dominion  of 
*-^  ('anada.  is  a  .son  of  the  late  Jean  Thomas  Taschereau,  senior,  who.  in  liis  lifetliiu',  was  one 
of  the  I'uisne  .Fudges  of  thf  Court  of  Queen's  Bench  of  Flower  Canada,  by  Marie  Panet,  daugh- 
ter of  Hon.  Jean  Panet,  tiist  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Assembly  for  the  province  of  C^m;liec,  an 
office  which  he  held  for  twenty  consecutive  yeais  ;  and  was  born  in  the  city  of  Quebec,  on  the 
12th  of  Decemlier,  1M14.  He  was  educated  at  the  Quebec  seminary,  where  he  greatly  distin- 
guished himself  in  ditl'erent  branches,  tiiking  prizes  in  mathematics,  latin,  etc.  He  studied  law 
in  his  native  city  with  Messrs.  Stuart  and  Black  ;  was  called  to  the  l)ar  of  Lower  t.^anada  in  I.S.'Jti, 
and  subseijueiitly  followed  several  law  courses  in  Paris,  France. 

Our  subject  practised  his  profession  with  great  success  for  more  than  twenty  yeai-s,  and 
rose  to  eminence  at  the  bar  of  the  province.  He  was  created  a  Q.C.  in  18(30,  and  receive<l  the 
title  of  LLU.  from  Laval  university,  in  185.'>.    On  the  3rd  of  SeptemU^r  of  this  last  mentioned 


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year  he  was  appointed  an  assistant  judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Lower  Canada,  to  replace  a 
judge  of  the  Sujierior  Court  at  Quebec  during  the  sittings  of  the  special  court  appointed  under 
the  Act  for  the  abolition  of  feudal  rights  and  duties  in  Lower  Canada;  on  the  Xnd  of  'November, 
1858,  was  appointed  an  assistant  judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Lower  (Janada  to  act  during 
the  absence  of  Hon.  J.  A.  Taschereau  ;  on  the  8th  of  June,  l8G0,  was  appointed  an  assistant 
judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Lower  Canada,  to  replace  the  Hon.  Justice  Morin,  who  was 
appointed  on  the  conniiission  for  codifying  the  laws  of  Lower  Canada  ;  on  the  11th  of  August, 
I860,  was  appointed  a  puisne  judge  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Lower  Canada,  as  successor  to 
Hon.  A.  N.  Morin,  deceased  ;  on  the  11th  of  February,  1873,  was  appointed  a  puisne  judge  of 
the  Court  of  Queen's  Bench,  Lower  Canada,  and  on  the  8th  of  October,  1875,  was  appointed  a 
puisne  judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Dominion.  The  latter  office  he  resigned,  on  account 
of  ill  health,  on  the  19th  of  October,  1878,  after  being  on  the  bench  for  nineteen  yeai-s. 

Judge  Taschereau  was  first  married  in  1840,  to  Loui.se  Adele,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Auuible 
Dionne,  M.L.C.,  who  died  in  18<il,and  the  second  time  in  1802  to  Marie  Josephine^  daughter  of 
Lieut.-(iovernor  Caron.  He  is  the  father  <>f  twelve  children,  ten  of  whom  are  still  living.  One 
of  his  sons  is  the  Hon.  Henry  Thomas  Taschereau,  B.C.L.,  late  member  of  Parliament  for  Mont- 
magny,  and  now  one  of  the  puisne  judges  of  the  Superior  Court  of  the  province  of  Quebec, 
appointed  in  1878. 


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WILLIAM    Or^LER    .M.I)., 

MONTREAL. 

r  MHE  subject  of  this  notice  is  profes.sor  of  institutes  of  medicine,  in  the  university  of  McGill 
-'-  college,  and  cme  of  the  most  thoroughly  educated  medical  men  of  the  younger  generation 
in  the  Province  fo  Quebec.  He  is  youngest  son  of  Rev.  Featherston  L.  Osier,  M.A.  (Cantabi, 
rector  of  Dundas,  Ontario,  and  was  horn  at  Bond  Head,  in  that  Province,  on  the  12tli  .luly. 
184!t.  His  father  is  from  Cornwall,  Kngland  ;  his  mother  whose  maiden  name  was  Ellen  Frere 
Pickton,  was  born  in  London,  England.  He  received  his  literary  education  at  Tiinity  college 
school,  Weston  (now  Port  Hope) ;  studied  under  Dr.  Bovel  three  3'ears,  at  Toronto  school  of 
medicine:  then  at  McGill  college,  Montrenl,  where  he  was  gra<luated  in  1872;  proceeded  to 
liondon,  England,  and  studied  physiology,  at  University  college,  under  Dr.  Burdon  Sandeixon 
and  Mr.  E.  .\,  Shaefer ;  and  sub.secjuently  studied  at  the  Berlin  pathological  institute,  under  Di. 
Virchow  ;  and  genei"al  medicine,  in  Vienna. 

With  his  stori*  of  knowleilge  greatly  enlarged  by  these  extra  studies.  Dr.  Osier  returned  to 
Canada  in  July,  1874,  and  was  appointed  to  the  lectureship  of  institutes  in  McGill  university, 
and  the  following  year  to  the  full  professorship  of  the  same,  a  position  which  he  still  holds.  He 
J!-,  we  Udieve,  one  of  the  yotingest  men  who  ever  held  a  professorship  in  that  institution,  an<l, 


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perhaps,  it  is  enough  to  say  of  him,  in  reference  to  this  chair,  that  in  tilling  it,  he  is  meeting  the 
highest  expectations  of  those  who  appointed  him,  and  of  his  many  warm  friends. 

Few  medical  men  of  his  age  have  furnished  so  many  publications  for  the  press  as  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch.  He  is  the  author  of  the  tirst  pathological  report  of  the  Montreal  general 
hospital  (1878),  a  volume  of  one  liundred  pages;  editor  of  the  first  volume  of  the  general  re- 
port of  that  institution  (1880),  three  hundred  and  sixty-nine  pages;  and  has  contributed  nunier- 
ous  papeiN  on  Pathology  and  Clinical  Medicine  to  various  periodicals  in  Great  Britain,  the  Unik-d 
States,  and  Canada.  He  has  communicated  most  liljerally  to  the  Journal  of  A  notomif  (tint 
Plnjuioloffi/,  London;  and  the  Canada  Medical  and  Swgical  Jounuil,  and  occasionally  to  the 
Boston  Med'ual  Journal,  the  New  York  Medical  Record,  and  the  Centralblatt  f.  d.  Med. 
Wi«Kenschaff''V,  of  Berlin.  His  contrilHitutions  in  Comparative  Pathology  and  Helminotliology 
appear  in  the  Veterinarian  (Ixindonj.  In  1873,  he  had  the  honour  of  communicating  a  pajn-r 
to  the  Royal  Society  of  London,  whicli  was  published  in  the  Transactions  of  that  Society. 

Dr.  Osier  is  one  of  the  physicians  to  the  Montreal  general  ho.spital,  and  a  member  of  the 
Royal  College  of  Physicians,  London,  and  fellow  of  the  Royal  Microscopical  society. 

Dr.  Osier  is  a  man  whose  greatest  gift,  probably,  is  an  intensity  of  purpo.se  and  a  capability 
of  influencing  others  to  assist  in  providing  objects  of  common  interest.  He  is  one  of  those  whose 
zeal  in  a  good  cause  is  contagious,  an(J  he  thus  often  accomplishes  much  more  than  couUl  the 
same  man  without  the  human  magnetism  we  allude  to.  From  his  earliest  years  at  the  study  of 
medicine,  he  devoted  him.self,  with  ail  his  energies,  to  the  medical  branches  ;  for  surgery  he  Iiad 
Jio  taste.  He  soon  actiuired  a  liking  for  micro.scopy,  and  was  not  long  in  Incoming  an  adept  in 
this  art.  This  leil  naturally  to  physiology — his  first  love — to  which  he  has  remained  constantly 
true.  When  he  was  still  in  Europe  pursuing  his  .studies,  the  chair  of  physiology  in  the  uni- 
versity of  McGill  college  became  vacant  by  the  lamented  death  of  Prof.  B'raser.  His  Alma 
Mater,  recognizing  in  him  one  |)os.sesscd  of  the  necessary  talent  and  ability  for  the  important 
post,  offered  it  to  Dr.  Osier.  The  manner  in  which  he  has  filled  it,  shows  how  wisely  the  selec- 
tion was  made.  His  teachings  are  accurate,  clear,  and  exhaustive ;  his  lectures  well-selected 
covering  the  ground,  but  containing  nothing  leilumlaut.  No  better  proof  can  be  given  of  his 
success  in  this  respect  than  the  great  ])opularity  he  enjoys  with  the  large  clas.ses  of  students 
who  yearly  follow  his  course. 

Dr.  Osier's  work  has  not  been  confined  to  the  study  of  the  normal  human  frame.  He  ha.s 
lor  some  yeai"s  been  pathologist  to  the  Montreal  geneial  hospital,  wliere  he  has  had  largi?  oppor- 
tunities fully  availed  of,  for  studying  the  changes  presented  by  disease.  By  a  most  careful  sys- 
tem of  autopsy  records,  with  suV)se(iuent  histological  reports,  he  lias  dcjne  a  great  deal  to  advance 
the  interests  of  the  profession  in  (.'anada,  by  encouraging  investigations  in  this  direction.  His 
puVilished  reports  from  this  source  are  amongst  the  best  of  his  contributions  to  scientific  medi- 
cine. The  elucidation  of  the  nature  of  disea.ses  by  study,  and  by  original  research,  has  Irh'ii,  and  is, 


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to  him  an  oltject  of  parainonnt  importance.  No  opportunity  for  helping  in  this  direction  does  he 
ever  let  pass  him.  For  this  purpose  he  has  made  many  observations  concerning  the  diseases  of  the 
lower  animals,  amongst  which  we  might  mention  his  papers  upon  hog-cholera, upon  hfenicglobina- 
ria,and  upon  vermicuous  bronchitis  in  dogs.  To  furnish  further  facilities  for  original  investigations, 
tlio  Faculty,  in  1S7J>,  fitted  up  and  fumi.sheda  large  physiological  lalx)ratory,  overwliich  Dr.  Osier 
presided,  and  where  he  has  ali-eady  conducted  many  interesting  experiments  connecte«l  with  the 
develf>pnient  of  the  living  germs  of  anthrax  or  splenic  fever  of  cattle. 

Dr.  Osier  is  one  of  the  very  few  medical  men  in  Canada  who  have  devoted  themselves  to 
purely  scientific  pursuits — connected,  of  course,  with  teaching.  Man)'  of  his  observations  and 
eommimieations  to  tlie  literature  of  science  are  well  known  amongst  scientific  men.  It  is  just 
such  men  that  this  country  needs,  and  when  found,  she  will  have  good  reason  to  be  proud  of 
them. 

It  need  hardly  be  sjiid  that  Dr.  Osier  is  one  of  the  active  membere  of  all  our  medical  societies. 
At  the  local  society  he  is  a  constant  contributor,  and  at  the  Dominion  A.s.sociation  he  is  always 
present,  bringing  with  him  some  demonstration  or  conununication  which  is  sure  to  he  received 
and  found  of  value  to  all. 


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ALFRED   JACKSON,  M.D., 

(QUEBEC. 

ONE  of  the  older  class  of  medical  men  in  the  city  of  Quebec,  is  Alfred  Jackson,  professor  of 
midwifery  and  disea.ses  of  women  and  children  in  Laval  University.  He  is  well  known 
for  the  thoroughness  of  his  attainments  in  medical  science,  and  especially  in  the  particular 
branches  to  which  his  attention  is  most  necessarily  directed ;  and  in  surgery,  his  standing  for 
more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century,  has  been  in  the  front  rank  in  this  part  of  the  province. 

Dr.  Jackson  was  born  in  1811,  at  St.  Andrews,  near  Montreal,  his  father  being  Artemus 
.lackson,  from  Ballston,  New  York,  and  for  many  years  a  lundter  merchant  in  the  city  of  Quebec, 
dying  alnjut  IH47.  The  family  were  Loyalists  at  the  time  of  the  war  of  the  American  colonies 
with  the  mother  country.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Louisa  Harrison,  who  was  also  from 
the  United  States.  • 

He  was  educated  in  the  city  of  Three  Rivers,  province  of  Quebec,  and  in  medicine  at  the 
University  of  Edinburgh,  being  licensed  by  the  Royal  College  of  Surgeons  of  that  city  in  18.S2- 
33,  and  returning  to  Canada  the  next  year.  He  wa.s  one  of  the  originators  of  the  Medical 
School  in  Quebec,  established  several  years  before  Laval  University,  in  which  latter  institution 
he  took  his  present  chair,  when  the  medical  department  was  first  opened.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  coun(;il  of  that  university,  and  has  been  so  since  it  was  originat*'d.  He  was  electe<J  member 
of  the  Literary  and  Historical  StK'iety  of  Quel)ec  in  1S37. 


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ProfosHor  Jackson  was  for  twonty-two  years  visitinj;  physician  to  the  Marine  Kniij,'rant 
Hospital,  Quel lec,  an<l  now  holds  a  similar  connection  with  the  Hotel  Dieii  HospiUil  ;  he  is  also 
Uoverniiient  visitinj,'  jthj'sician  to  tl\c  Bcanport  Lunatic  Asylum. 

Tile  doctor  was  assistant  sur<,reon  to  the  volunteer  foices  in  1N.'17-JJH,  U'ing  in  active  duty 
nearly  twoyeai-s.  Duiing  that  exciting  political  period,  a  great  many  ♦rcK)ps  were  stationed  at 
Quelnx'.  In  ]S.'>4,  he  was  named  by  the  Government  joint  commissioner  to  encjuirc  into  the  causes 
leading  to  tlie  introduction  of  cholera  into  Canada  during  tJiat  year,  and  drew  up  a  long  and 
elaliorate  rcjH)rt.  .  ;- 

The  professor  was  foi-  twenty-one  years  one  of  the  governors  of  the  college  of  physicians 
and  surgeons  of  this  province,  throughout  which  he  is  well  known  to  the  medical  fraternity. 
In  every  respect  his  c'hamcter  stands  high,  and  he  has  a  great  many  warm  friends.  He  is  wise 
and  his  medical  bietliren  think  very  nnich  of  his  judgment  as  well  a.s  skill. 

Our  sidtject  was  fii-st  married  in  18,'U,  to  Miss  Mary  Williams,  of  IJtica,  New  York.  She 
dying  inQuelHn',iu  lS4iS;  the  second  time  in  IS-H),  to  Miss  Sophia  P.  Lee,  of  Quebec,  she  dying 
in  \H')~  ;  and  to  his  present  wife,  who  was  Miss  Margaret  K.  Le  Hloml,  in  IH.'S.  He  lias  eight 
children  livini'. 


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IIE^'IJY   A.   HOWE,  M.A.,  LL.1)., 

MONTliEAL  - 

HENRY  ASPINWALL  HOWE,  Rector  of  the  Montreal  high  school  and  emeritus  pro- 
fus.sor  of  mathematics  and  natural  philo,sf)phy  in  Mctiill  universit}',  was  born  near 
(luilford,  Surrey,  Eng.,  on  the  8th  of  Jidy,  181.3.  His  father  Henr}-  Howe,  in  his  younger  yi-ars 
a  (tlerk  in  the  war  office,  was  afterwards  in  the  army.  This  branch  of  the  Howies  is  an  old 
I^ncashire  family,  whose  name  was  formerly  Aspinwall.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Mary 
Wicking.  He  was  educated  at  Elizabeth  college,  (Uicrnsey,  and  Trinity  college,  Dublin,  Hni>h- 
ing  his  stu<lies  at  the  former  institution  in  18.1S;  commenced  teaching  as  assi.stant  master  in 
the  grammar  school  at  Bangor,  North  Wales,  antl  was  subse(iuently  private  tutor  in  the  family 
of  Lord  Francis  Egerton,  afterwards  Earl  of  Ellesmerc. 

In  1848  our  subject  came  to  Montreal,  to  assume  the  position  of  heail  master  uf  the  high 
school,  a  position  which  he  has  held  st«'adily  for  thirty-two  years.  .Many  of  his  foniier  pupils 
are  n(jw  iniong  the  leading  business  and  professional  men  of  Montreal,  some  of  them  being  in 
high  and  honorable  positions.  He  has  an  acute  mind  and  great  vei"satility  of  talents,  and  can  do 
a  great  many  things  well — some  remarkably  well.  He  is  very  courteous  to  teachers  and 
pupils,  and  a  first  class  disciplinarian,  yet  retaining  the  good  will  of  all  under  his  care.  He  is 
also  an  excellent  writer. 


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For  a  few  years  Professor  Howe  occupied  also  the  chair  of  inatheniatics  and  iintiiral  phil- 
osdphy  ill  the  uiiivei-sity  of  McCJill  eolUfjjfe,  and  is  now  eiiieiitns  professor  of  tlic  same  loanches 
uf  study,  (iiid  is  also  a  fellow  of  tlie  colle;?*'.  He  is  lil<ewise  a  iiiatiiciilHtinii  examiner  to  tlie 
niedieai  fatuity  of  that  institution,  and  one  of  the  board  of  four  examiners  for  the  preliminary 
examination  for  the  collej^e  of  jdiysicians  and  Hur>,'eoiis  of  the  Province  of  (Quebec.  He  is  an 
M.A.,  and  LL.I).  of  Mcdill  ('(.llcye. 

Dr.  Howe  is  a  nieniV'r  of  tlie  St.  John  the  Evangelist  chunh,  and  a  vestryman  of  the 
same.  His  moral  influence  over  the  many  young  people  who  eonie  in  contact  with  him  in 
.school  and  elsewhere  is  excellent. 

In  1H47  he  marrieil  Miss  Loui.sa  Fanshawe,  daughter  of  Rev.  .hdin  Faiishawe,  viear  of 
Chardstock,  liy  whom  he  liu.s  liad  six  children,  only  three  of  thein,  one  son,  and  two  daughters, 
now  living,  the  elder  of  whom,  Louisa  Blanche  Fannie,  is  the  wife  of  the  Hon.  Henry  Ayliiier, 
second  son  of  Lord  Aylmer,  anil  the  other  two  children,  Amelia  and  Harry,  are  at  home. 


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liAYMONl)    F.   l^REFONTAFNE,  M.IM\, 

MONTREAL 

I-)AYMOND  FOTTRNIER  DIT  PREFONTAINK.  Advocate  in  Montreal,  mayor  of  Hoche- 
-  **  laga,  and  member  of  the  Quebec  As.sembly  for  Chambly,  though  a  young  man,  well 
deserves,  from  the  municipal  and  legislative  positions  which  he  holds,  an  honorable  mention  in 
a  work  like  this.  We  tind  him  in  public  life  at  the  age  of  twenty-four  yeara,  the  youngest 
member  of  the  local  Parliament,  yet  among  the  young  men  of  recognised  ability  and  deciiled 
merits.  Though  thus  early  pushed  forward  l)efore  the  public  \>y  his  sanguine  and  hopeful 
friends,  he  has  )>een  prudent  and  straightforward  in  his  course,  and  has  fully  met  their 
expectations. 

Mr.  Prefontaine  is  the  son  of  Toussaint  and  I'rsule  Lamarrc  Prcfontainc,  honest  and 
industrious  members  of  the  agricultural  class,  and  was  born  at  Longueuil,  coimty  of  Chambly, 
cm  the  1.5th  of  September,  1850.  The  Prefontaines  are  a  very  old  family  in  that  county;  the 
Jjiimarres  were  early  settltns  in  the  di.strict  of  Quebec,  spreading  thence  into  Chambly  and 
adjoining  counties. 

Our  subject  received  his  prepai'atory  education  by  privite  tuition  ;  completed  it  in  St. 
Marie's  Jesuit  college,  Montreal ;  studied  law  with  Chief-Justice  Dorion,  and  the  late  John  A. 
Perkins,  finishing  at  McCill  university  ;  was  called  to  the  bar  of  Montreal  in  1873,  and  since 
that  date  has  been  in  practice  in  thi.y  city.  He  was  in  partnership  one  year  with  Mr.  Perkins, 
Q.C. ;  subsequently  with  Wilfried  Prevoat,  Q.C,  and  is  now  at  the  head  of  the  firm  of  Prefon- 
tain  anil  Major.     They  arc  in  criminal  as  well  as  civil  jiractico,  but  make  a  specialty  of  the 


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latter.  Few  men  of  hi.s  a>,'e,  in  this  iiait  (if  the  province,  have  so  good  a  practice  us  Mr.  I'rn- 
fontaine  has.     It  has  grown  >ip  very  rapidly,  deservedly  so,  for  he  is  very  faithful  to  his  client.s. 

Me  was  first  elected  to  parliament  for  his  present  seat  in  1(S7'),  a  few  months  heforo  ho 
was  twenty-Hve  years  old.  Jn  IHTH  he  was  lieaten  hy  four  votes;  contested  tlie  election,  iin- 
.seated  his  opponent,  ran  again,  and  was  elected  hy  a  majority  of  si.\ty-two  votes.  For  the  last 
two  years,  Mr.  I'refontaine  lias  heen  mayor  « if  Iloelielaga,  being  elected  a  second  time  hy  a 
unanimous  vote.  He  makes  a  very  puhlic-spirited  ehief  magistrate,  iK'ing  thoroughly  devotetl 
lo  the  interests  of  the  corporation. 

.Mr.  Prefontaine  was  married,  on  the  20th  of  June  lM7(i,  to  Hermantinu  llollaiul,  daughter 
(»f  Jean  Baptistc  Rolland,  Ks(|.,  bookseller  and  publisher,  Montreal,  and  they  have  one  son. 


FllAiN'CJS    CASSIDY,   (^>.<  .. 

MONTJiKA  L 

r  I  lIIK  subject  of  this  biographical  notice  was  born  in  the  village  of  St.  Jacipies  de  L'Achigan, 
-*-      Quebec,  in   January,   1.S27.      His   parents    were   Francis   Ca.ssidy,   senior,  and    Mary 
Mel'harlane,  both  from  the  north  of  Ireland  ;  the  Cassidys  for  several  generations  being  a  clas- 
of  agriculturists  in  the  county  of  Cavan,  where  the  father  of  our  subject  was  born, 

Mr.  Cassidy  was  educated  at  the  college  a(  fi'Assomption,  where  he  was  noted  for  his 
studiousness  and  good  .standing  in  his  class,  he  having  a  genuine  thirst  for  knowledge.  He 
studied  law  with  Messrs.  Moroau  and  Leblanc;  was  called  to  the  bar  in  1848,  when  just  of  age, 
and  was  created  a  Queen's  Counsel  in  I8(i!}.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  he  was  the  partner  of 
the  late  Sheritt"  of  Montreal  district,  the  firm  being  Ijeblanc  and  Cassidy. 

A  very  high  compliment  was  paid  to  him  when  <[uite  young.  Sir  Louis  H.  Lafontaine, 
recognising  in  him  a  young  man  of  good  character,  and  no  ordinary  al)ilities,  ottered  him  the 
situation  of  l^eputy-llceeiver-General,  at  a  salary  of  nearly  ."^^lOOO  a  year,  but  the  moilesty  of 
.Mr.  Cassidy  compelled  him,  being  ,so  young,  to  decline  the  offer. 

The  high  esteem  in  which  Mr.  Cassidy  was  held  as  a  lawyer  nuiy  be  inferred  from  the  fact 
that  in  l8(i.S,  the  year  that  lu;  was  made  Q,.V.,  \w  was  elected  batonnier  of  the  Montn-al  bar. 
.\  very  intimate  friend  of  Mr.  Cassidy,  now  on  the  bench  of  the  Montreal  district,  thus  .speaks 
of  him  :  "  That  whicli  distinguished  Mr.  Cassidy  above  all  was  his  great  pei"spicuity,  and  his 
inexhaustible  fund  of  resources,  ivs  shown  in  most  ditticult  positions,  he  concealing,  under 
appearances  of  honhonimic,  his  ailroitness  in  <lebate,  and  often  worsting  his  opixinenfc  v.ith 
wimderfui  skill.  Irish  by  birth,  anil  witty  like  the  race  in  general,  he  had  an  eloquent  flow  of 
language,  which  was  exceedingly  agreeable  when  pleading  a  cause,  he  keeping  the  cotnt  in 
good  humor  by  his  sparkling  wit." 


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In  1871,  Mr.  C'assidy  was  elected  by  acclamation  to  represent  Monti'cal  West  in  the  Pro- 
vincial Legislature  of  Quebec;  in  February,  1872,  was  elected  in  the  same  manner  to  the 
mayoralty  of  the  city  of  Montreal,  and  died  while  holding  both  offices,  June  14,  1872.  Ho 
wa.s  ottered  the  position  of  Solicitor-(}eneral  in  the  Macdonald-Doricin  Government,  but  de- 
clined it.  At  one  period  he  was  president  of  St.  Patrick's  Society,  and  was  for  yeai-s  one  of 
the  leading  citizens  of  Montreal,  and  especially  prominent  in  his  own  nationality. 

The  author  of  "  Montreal,  its  Histoiy,  with  Biographical  Sketches,"  thus  speaks  of  Mr. 
(^assidy :  "  He  was  a  man  of  genial  disposition,  quiet  and  unobtrusive  in  his  manners,  generous 
and  scoial,  and  his  many  good  ijualities  won  him  a  host  of  friemls.  lie  was  highly  esteemed 
by  his  confreres  at  the  bar,  and  he  arrived  at  the  high  i)osition  which  he  held,  by  hard  work, 
and  flose  ai»plication  to  his  i>rofession.  He  was  unmarried.  His  funeral  was  one  of  the  largest 
and  most  imposing  that  ever  appeared  in  Montreal,  and  on  the  day  of  his  int'.'rinent,  business 
was  generally  suspended,  and  many  Hags  were  at  half-mast,  and  a  most  profound  regret  was 
displayed  at  the  death  of  a  good  citizen  liy  all  clas.scs  of  the  community." 

Both  parents  of  our  subject  died  years  ago,  and  the  only  representative  of  the  family  in 
this  city,  or  indeed  in  this  country,  is  his  younger  brother,  John  L.  C'assidy,  who  was  also  l)orn 
in  the  village  of  St.  Jactpies  de  L'Achigan,  was  educsUcd  at  IJaudon,  learned  the  mercantile 
business  when  a  young  man,  and  for  twenty  years  or  more  has  bei-ii  one  oi  the  promi-ent 
wholesale  n»erchants  in  this  city,  liis  line  being  glass  and  china  wnre.  He  is  a  director  of  .le 
Jacques  Cailier  bank,  and  a  public-spirited  man,  with  the  best  business  and  social  ipialities  of 
his  lamented  brother. 


im.  JOHN    E.   .lOJlNSTO^'E, 

son  EL. 

-rOllN  KDWARl)  JOHNSTONE,  M.l).,  was  \mn  in  Dublin,  Ireland,  on  the  12th  of  March, 
^  1820.  He  is  the  fourth  son  of  George  Johnstone,  Ksij.,  surgeon  of  the  88th  Regiment  of 
Foot,  and  of  Mary  Anne,  eldest  daughter  of  I 'hristopher  Carter,  Es(\.,  medical  sui)erintendent 
of  the  Military  Invalid  Asylum  at  Sorel. 

His  father's  family  are  natives  of  the  county  of  Berwick,  Scotland,  and  belong  to  a  branch 
of  that  family  who  held  the  now-dormant  honors  of  the  Manjuisate  of  Annandale,  the  armorial 
Ijcarings  being  the  same.  His  father  was  an  ottieer  wlio  had  seen  a  great  deal  of  service  in  all 
<|uarters  of  the  world  ;  he  was  through  all  the  Peninsular  campaign  up  to  1812,  when  he  came 
nut  to  ( 'anada  and  then  married,  and  up  to  the  date  of  his  decease,  had  always  remained  attached 
to  his  first  C()r|)s,  "  the  ( 'onnaught  Rangei-s." 

His  mother's  father  was  one  of  the  many  "  U.K."  loyalists,  who  laiiie  to  Canada  at  the  out- 
break of  the  American  llevolution,  sacriticing  all  he  possessed  in  his  loyalty  to  the  CJiusc  of  the 


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of  Maicli, 
Tegiiuent  of 
L'liiiteiKk'nt 

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crown  "He  came  to  reside  at  Sorel,  on  being  appointed  to  the  medical  charge  of  the  establish- 
ment, founded  for  the  benefit  of  retired  soluiei-s  and  their  families.  This  post  lie  held  up  to  the 
time  of  his  deatli  when  it  devolved  on  his  son  Dr.  E.  W.  Carter,  at  whose  decease,  in  I8.1+,  it 
was  given  to  the  subject  of  the  present  memoir,  wlio,  after  a  considerable  period  of  service  on 
the  establishment,  saw  the  last  of  the  "  invalids  "  pair  away  a  few  years  ago. 

Dr.  Johnstone  received  his  primary  education  at  different  elementary  .schools,  and  at  tlie 
grammar  school,  under  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  Black,  up  to  the  time  of  commencing  his  medical  edu- 
cation. His  life  at  this  period  was  little  divei-sifiefl,  his  aims  and  occupations  being  those  of 
most  boys,  except  that  he  was,  during  his  leisure  time,  more  disposed  to  bmuse  hiuiself  by  reading 
than  with  outdoor  pursuits. 

On  leaving  school,  an  offer  from  his  ciiusin,  the  late  Dr.  Christopher  Carter,  of  Three  Rivers, 
to  bring  him  up  to  the  medical  profession,  induced  him  to  commence  the  study  of  it  with  him, 
and  subsequently  with  Dr.  Gilmour,  of  the  same  place,  afterwards  taking  the  usual  courses  of 
lectures,  while  living  with  the  late  Dr.  \V.  Sutherland. 

Almost  immediately  after  being  received  in  May,  1847,  he  went  down  to  the  Quarantine 
station  at  "  Grosse  Isle,"  below  Quebec,  with  several  other  young  medical  men,  who  had  volun- 
teered for  the  duty  down  there,  the  ordinary  complement  of  medical  students  on  the  island  being 
((uite  inade(iuate  to  the  iunnense  amount  of  sickness  which  invaded  the  country  that  summer. 
Being  the  year  after  the  great  famine  in  Ireland,  thousands  of  emigrants  came  out  to  the  con- 
tinent, and  many  fell  sick  on  the  voyiige  with  the  same  disease  (typhoid  fever),  which  was  then 
making  such  ravages  in  their  own  countrj*.  As  the  .season  advanced,  the  number  of  ships  aniving 
increased, and  jw  all,  with  few  exceptions,  weie  infected,  the  station  became  crowded  with  fevor- 
stricken  patients.  For  some  time  there  was  on  an  average  alwut  3,()(H)  patients  in  hospital,  and 
the  mortality  went  up  to  alxjut  sixty  per  diem.  What  rendered  this  awful  amount  of  disease  and 
misery  more  distressing,  wa«  the  fact  that  many  of  those  atflioted  were  unavoidably  neglected. 
This  appalling  invasion  of  di.sease  had  been  unexpected,  and  consecpiently  was  unprovided  for, 
atid  it  was  a  long  time  before  anything  like  order  and  regularity  in  the  care  of  the  sick  could  Ix' 
established. 

About  a  month  after  couniieneing  duty,  Dr.  Johnstone  wius  attacked  l>y  the  fever  and  taken 
home,  where  he  remained  for  about  si.v  weeks,  when  he  went  down  again  to  the  station,  and 
served,  until  towards  the  close  of  the  .season  he  had  a  relapse  of  the  disease  am)  was  oliliged  to 
leave. 

.Vfter  recovering  from  the  effects  of  the  divad  'ship-fever,"  which  it  tinik  nearly  a  year  to 
do,  he  settled  in  Sorel  to  practise,  and  has  continued  there  ever  since.  lie  was  at  once  engaged 
ill  an  extensive  business,  in  eonsetjuence  of  there  being  at  that  time  very  few  medical  men  in  the 
locality.  , 

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Ricliulieu  militia.     The  times  were  uneventful  and  conse(iuentiy  no  demand  fur  hi.s  stivices  in 
that  capacity  occurred. 

On  the  establishment  of  the  ruml  judicial  tlistricts,  according  to  Sir  George  C'artier's  decen- 
tralization measure,  he  wa,s  appointed  physician  to  the  jail  of  Sorel,  an  oflSce  he  hivs  held  up  to 
the  present  date. 

In  1H57,  he  was  elected  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees  for  the  dissentient  school  of  the 
town  of  Sorel,  and  again  in  1880,  was  appointed  to  the  same  office  which  he  still  holds. 

Was  brought  up  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church.     In  politics  is  a  Libeml  Conservative. 

Married  to  Amelia  Jane  Coward,  widow  of  the  late  Dr.  Christopher  Carter,  at  an  early  ago 
— has  four  children—  two  sons  and  two  daughter. 

Dr.  Johnstone  is  a  thorough  devotee  to  his  profession,  being  more  anxious  for  the  recovery 
of  his  patients  than  for  the  prospect  of  remuneration.  He  Js  a  universal  favorite  of  the  whole 
community  of  Sorel,  and  in  fact  the  county  of  Richelieu,  his  practice  not  being  confined  to  the 
town.  His  skill  is  undoubted,  and  his  benevolence  unquestioned,  his  chief  object  being  to  do  good 
to  his  fellow  men. 


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ANDREW    PATON, 

SHERBROOKE. 

A  NDREVV  PATON,  managing  director  of  the  Paton  manufacturing  company,  Slurbrooke, 
-^-^  dates  his  birth  on  the  1st  of  April,  1833,  near  Stirling,  Scotland,  his  parents  being  James 
and  JIary  (Harvey)  Paton,  his  father  dying  before  the  son  was  born.  He  received  a  fair  Eng- 
lish education  ;  at  an  early  age  became  an  apprentice  to  J.  and  D.  Paton,  woollen  manufac 
tuiers,  of  Tillicoultry,  Clackmannanshire,  Scotland,  for  which  firm  he  worked  after  finishing 
his  apprenticeship.  In  18.').5,  Mr.  Paton  came  to  this  country,  engaged  in  bu.«iness  with  another 
man  in  the  manufacture  of  cloth  at  Cialt,  Ontario,  and  six  years  later  went  to  Waterloo,  in  tho 
same  province,  and  continued  the  ,same  business  in  the  firm  of  Paton  and  Bricker. 

In  18(iG,  Mr.  Paton  came  to  Sherbrooke,  and  took  charge  of  what  shortly  aftcrwarils  be- 
came the  Paton  manufacturing  company,  he  siipervising  the  erection  of  all  the  buililings  mtw 
owned  by  that  company,  one  half  Wing  put  up  that  year,  the  rest  in  1872.  The  main  building, 
next  to  the  office,  is  212  feet  long,  and  four  stories  alxjve  tlie  basement;  the  other  large  build- 
ing is  21(1  feet  long,  and  five  stories  high.  Besides  these  two  buildings,  which  are  used  for 
carding,  spinning,  weaving,  ami  Hni.shing,  are  the  die  rooms,  I.jO  feet  long,  dressing  room,  KM) 
feet  long  and  three  stories  high,  including  basenient,  a  warehovise,  .sjinie  height  aiu'  over  100 
feet  long,  and  a  number  of  other  buildings,  including  Ixiiler-house,  nuichine  and  carpenter's 
shops,  office,  et<-.,  all  of  solid  brick.  It  is  the  largest  fiictory  of  the  kin<l  in  the  Dominion  of 
Canada,  In-ing  a  gO-set  mill,  an«!  the  ground  plan  of  the  several  buildings,  their  construction 


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and  internal  arrangement,  and  the  whole  management  of  the  mammoth  institution,  are  highly 
creilitablc  to  the  mechanical  talents  and  business  capacities  of  Mr.  Paton.  Tlie  amount  of 
business  done  by  this  company,  in  dollars  and  other  mattei-s,  will  be  found  in  a  sketch  of  its 
president,  Mr.  Heneker,  on  another  page. 

The  conriany  gives  employment  to  about  5.50  men,  women,  and  children,  and  i>ay9  out  to 
these  o|)eratives  more  than  $100,000  annually.  Such  mills  adfl  largely  to  the  pt)i)ulati<)n  of  a 
town  or  city,  and  greatly  benefit  the  surrounding  country  as  well  as  the  place  in  which  they 
are  located.  In  the  article  of  wood  alone,  more  than  3,000  cords  are  used  yearly,  simply  for 
heating  the  mill,  dyeing  and  scouring,  giving  the  farmers  in  this  vicinity  a  ready  and  good 
market  for  this  article  of  forest  jtroduct.  The  leading  fabrics  manufactured  in  tliis  mill  are 
tweeds,  cassimeres,  over-coatings,  and  shoe-cloth — in  all,  about  700,000  yards. 

It  is  needless  to  say  that,  to  act  as  managing  director  of  such  a  concern,  and  to  do  it  well, 
requires  a  clear  head  as  well  as  an  active  body  and  an  almost  ubiquitous  presence  ;  yet  Mr. 
Paton  is  cool,  calculating,  foreseeing,  and  methodical,  r,nd  never,  seemingly,  in  a  hurry.  He 
thoroughly  learned  the  business  of  cloth-making  in  tl.e  fii-st  place,  undertands  it  "  to  ix'rfec- 
tion,"  and  everything  in  this  mill  moves  like  clock-work. 

Mr.  Paton  has  done  some  good  work  in  the  city  council,  of  which  he  has  l)een  a  meml)er 
for  the  last  six  or  seven  years,  acting  as  chairman  of  the  fire  committee,  and  is  a  trustee  of  the 
Congregational  church,  in  which  he  has  a  memljcnship.  He  is  a  man  of  solid  Christian  char- 
acter, and  one  of  those  citizens  whom  Sherbrooke  could  ill  spare. 

In  18.59,  he  was  joined  in  marriage  with  Miss  Isabella  Moir,  then  just  from  Scotland,  and 
they  have  six  children. 


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FLAVIAX    G.   BOUTELLTEE,  M.P.P,, 

MONTREAL. 

"TTILAVIAN  GUILLAUMK  BOUTKLLIER,  advocate,  and  member  of  the  Quebec  Assembly 
-*-  for  the  county  of  Rouville,  was  born  at  St.  Cdsaire,  in  that  county,  on  the  2nd  of  March, 
184.5.  His  granilfiitluT  came  to  this  province  from  the  I.sle  of  (luernsey,  Eng.,  in  177+,  and  set- 
tled at  Quebec.  His  father  was  Lieut-Col.  Flavian  Boutellier,  many  years  a  merchant  at  St, 
Ct'sairc,  and  who  died  in  1801.  The  mother  of  F.  0.  boutellier  was  Henrictte  Rlumhart,  whoso 
ancestoi-s  were  from  Germany.  She  died  in  June,  1840.  Flavian  Boutillier  was  fur  a  long  time 
a  prominent  business  luan,  somewhat  of  a  politician,  very  highly  esteemed,  and  oftt^n  solicited  to 
be  a  candidate  for  parliament,  but  declined  a  nomination  on  account  of  his  large  busiiu'ss  and 
poor  health. 

Mr.  F.  (i.  Boutellier  was  educated  in  the  arts  at  the  college  of  St  ilyacinthe,  and  St  Mario 
de  Moinioir,  I'.Q. ;  studied  law  at  Laval  Hniversity  the  Montreal  branch  of  Viettria  I'niversity, 


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Colx)urg,  Ontario,  and  with  Hon.  A.  A.  Dorion,  now  chiof  justice  of  Quebec,  and  was  called  to 
the  bar  of  Montreal  in  July,  1871.  He  is  of  the  firm  of  Roy  &  Boutellier,  who  do  an  extensive 
business  in  civil  ami  commercial  law,  which  are  their  specialties. 

Mr.  Boutellier  is  a  director  of  the  St.  Lawrence,  Lowijr  Laurentian  and  Saguenay  Railway, 
and  takes  much  interest  in  promoting  any  enteqirise  calculated  to  develop  the  resources  of  the 
province.     He  is  president  of  Le  Cluh  National  de  Montreal. 

In  June,  1.S7!),  there  hieing  a  vacancy  in  the  representation  for  Rouville,  Mr.  Boutellier  was 
solicited  by  his  Liberal  friends  to  contest  the  election.  It  is  his  native  county ;  there  his  father 
died,  and  the  son  had  the  settling  of  the  estate ;  there  he  owns  property,  and  has  a  host  of  friends, 
and  the  result  of  the  contest  was  that  he  was  returned  by  a  large  majority.  While  Mr.  Joly 
was  in  power,  Mr.  Boutellier  gave  his  administration  a  steady  and  earnest  supjwrt.  He  is  still 
unmanied. 


TELESPIIOHE    EUZEIiE    KOKMAISD, 

THREE  RIVERK 

"|i  T"R.  NORMAND,  although  educated  for  the  legal  profession,  is  now  contractor,  and  stands 
-^  -^  as  one  of  the  most  prominent  of  that  class  in  the  Province  of  Quebec.  He  was  the  con- 
tractor for  the  bridge  over  the  St.  Maurice,  which  is  considered  one  of  the  most  skilful  pieces  of 
workmanship — so  far  as  wooden  bridges  are  concerned — in  the  province ;  we  might  .say  through- 
out the  whole  of  the  Dominion.  The  bridge  itself  is  of  most  extraordinary  construction,  being 
divided  into  two  pieces,  one  of  which  is  1,400  feet,  and  the  other  piece  700  feet  in  length ;  the 
whole  fabric  is  composed  of  the  best  material  obtainable,  and  is  a.s  an  appreciable  piece  of  work- 
manship as  can  be  found  in  Canada. 

The  splendid  water  works  which  the  city  of  ITiree  Rivers  possesses — inferior  to  none  in 
the  Dominion — was  built  by  him,  and  the  citizens  are  mainly  indebted  to  Mr.  Normand  for  the 
active  and  energetic  measures  he  adopted  for  providing  this  very  essential  element.  Not  only 
is  he  entitled  to  the  commendations  for  obtaining  this,  but  also,  what  was  still  more  needful,  for 
olitaining  the  money  which  he  got  suljscribed  in  Quebec  and  England,  wherewith  to  build 
them. 

He  was  bom  on  the  18th  August,  18.S3,  at  Quebec,  and  is  the  son  of  the  late  Mr.  Kdward 
Normand,  the  well  known  and  renowned  contractor  of  that  city,  who  built  the  Montmorency, 
Chaudiere,  and  other  bridges  in  the  province  ;  he  being  the  leading  contractor  of  his  time,  all 
the  works  of  larger  magnitude  were  generally  entrusted  to  him  ;  for  instance,  that  for  the  St. 
Maurice  bridge  in  1832,  and  again  in  1841,  were  his  work,  as  well  as  the  greater  part  of  the 
wharves  in  Quelx'C.     His  mother  was  Miss  Louisa  Martin,  of  Quebec. 

He  was  educat«-d  at  Nicolet  college,  where  he  stooil  high  in  his  class,  exhibiting  consider- 


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able  promise  as  a  stmleiit,  and  after  leaving  Nicolet  went  to  Three  Rivei-s  in  18ol,  where  he  lias 
resided  since. 

His  first  step  in  life  was  as  notary  clerk  under  Mr.  V.  Giiillet,  where  he  w^as  engaged  from 
ISo.S  to  18.')8;  concurrently  with  this,  he  was  engaged  in  the  office  of  the  St.  Maurice  puhlic 
works. 

He  conunenceil  the  practice  of  notary  at  Three  Rivers,  in  IS.jS,  but  tUscontinued  it  in  1H7I, 
for  the  purpose  of  following  his  father's  business. 

From  1801  to  1865  he  was  city  councillor  and  school  board  commissioner  at  Three  Rivers, 
and  was  captain  of  the  city  volunteers  from  18(J3  to  180-5.  In  1871  he  contested  the  .seat,  in 
the  (Conservative  interest,  for  Champlain,  and  whs  defeated  by  Senator  Trudel  by  forty-eight 
votes.  ■  . 

He  was  electeil  mayor  in  1873,  <lefeating  Mr.  Bureau  in  the  contest,  afUM'  which  he  was 
elected  l)y  acclamation  each  year  until  1870,  when  he  resigned  ;  during  the  time  he  was  mayor 
he  was  the  means  of  consolidating  the  city  debt,  an<l  carried  out  r)ther  important  matters. 

He  is  a  gentleman  who  is  held  in  the  highest  regard  by  all  the  community  in  Three  Rivers, 
as  well  as  in  Quebec,  where  he  is  well  known ;  he  is  deserveilly  popular  amongst  all  classes, 
and  known  to  be  a  gentleman  of  the  most  hospitable  and  philanthropic  character. 

He  niiuriod,  in  Octolnji-,  18.")G,  Alphousine,  daughter  of  Mr.  Joseph  (Jiroux,  one  of  the 
wealthiest  and  most  prominent  merchants  in  TInee  Rivers,  who  died  in  18.")0,  universally 
lamented.     By  the  marriage  there  has  been  Iwrn  nine  children,  Hve  of  wIkmu  survive. 


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ALKXA^'DEIl    RODERICK    MrDONALD, 

RiriEKB  DU  LOU}'.  \     ' 

~\  T  11.  M(  DoN.Md),  who  is  of  Scotch  descent  on  his  father's  and  French  on  his  mothers 
_LT  L.  ^i,|,.  \^  (^]„,  popular  assistant  supermtondent  of  the  Intercolonial  Railway  at  Riviere 
du  FiOup  '  *i  '»(v, and  was  born  at  Montreal,  uii  the  !>th  of  August  184().  His  father  was  the 
well  known  merchant  and  railway  contractor,  Mr.  James  Ronald  McDonald,  who  was  lK)ni  in 
l>ancaster,  (llengarry.  Out.  The  subject  of  tlii'.  sketch  was  educated  at  St.  Hyacinthe,  where 
ho  took  up  a  full  classical  course.  On  leaving  school  he  enteied  into  a  commercial  house  an<l 
from  there  into  the  service  of  the  (irand  Trunk  Railway  ;  after  this  he  enteroil  into  business  as 
merchant  at  Kamouraska,  where  he  obtaine<l  for  hims(\lf  so  commendable  a  popularity  that  he 
was  elected  mayor  unanimously  on  two  separate  occasions  within  a  short  time  after  he  had 
taken  up  his  residence  in  that  town.  After  some  six  years  in  Kamouraska  where  he  earned 
for  himself  the  highest  esteem  and  good  will  amongst  all  cla.s.ses  and  all  sections  of  the  commu- 
nity, he  was  appointed  a.s»istant  superintendent  of  the  Intercolonial  Railway  at  Riviere  du  Loup 


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en  ban  where  he  at  present  residcH,  ami  has  carried  with  liim  ami  retains  the  well  incrite<i  ap- 
preciation and  regard,  not  oidy  of  the  employees  nnder  his  orders  iis  well  as  ot"  his  superiors, 
hut  of  the  eoinniunity  genenilly. 

Ml'.  Alexander  McDonald  is  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Chuieh. 

He  married  on  the  14th  September,  18(it),  Misjs  Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Antoine  Klondeau, 
an  eminent  merchant  of  St.  Paschal,  who  died  in  January,  I.S74.  By  this  marriage  there  was 
issue  six  children,  four  of  whom  survive.  He  remarried  on  the  16th  of  May  1881,  Miss  Mary 
L.  Langevin,  sister  of  Sir  Hector  Langevin,  K.C.M.CJ.,  anil  bishop  Langevin  of  Kimouski. 
Socially  Mr.  McDonald  is  a  gentleman,  and  amongst  the  very  many  individuals  he  comes  in 
contact  with  in  his  business  relations  in  connection  with  tiie  imi)ortant  post  he  holds  he  is 
alike  regarded. 


ROBEirr    \\   IIOWAED,  M.D.,  L.R.C.S.E., 

MONTREAL 

ROBKRT  PALMER  HOWARD,  professor  of  medicine  in  Mcdill  college,  ami  president  of 
the  Canada  medical  association,  is  a  native  of  Montreal,  his  birth  being  dated  January 
12, 1823.  His  parents,  RoUnt  and  Margaret  (Kent)  Howard,  were  from  Ireland,  and  his  fathei- 
was  a  merchant  in  Montreal,  in  which  city  the  son  was  educateil.  He  studie<l  medicine  here 
and  in  Kurope ;  was  graduated  from  McGill  college,  in  1848,  and  became  a  licentiate  of  tlie 
Royal  College  of  Svngeons,  Edinburgh,  in  184i),  in  which  year  lie  commenced  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  Montreal.  For  a  quarter  of  a  century,  Dr.  Howard  has  been  among  the  leading 
physicians  and  surgeons  in  this  city.  Indeed,  he  has  aenuiied  a  it;putatioii,  enjoyed  probably 
by  no  other  meilical  man  of  the  province.  This  ha.s  been  won  l>y  steady,  persevering  work, 
anil  a  whole-soule»l  devotion  to  his  profession,  rarely  witnessed.  By  his  medical  brethren,  his 
opinion  is  widely  sought  after,  and  his  skill  in  tliagnosis  tliily  appreciated.  That  the  public 
have  amply  testified  to  their  confidence  in  him  is  evident  by  his  practice,  which  is  regarded  as 
the  most  extensive  and  .select  in  Montreal. 

Dr.  Howard  commenced  teai'liing  medicine  .soon  after  he  began  its  practice,  and  for  fifteen 
or  (uxteen  yeaj's  has  occupied  the  chair  already  mentioned  in  McCiill  n  liege.  lie  was  mainly 
instrumental  in  organizing  the  system  of  becl-side  instruction,  which  has  dune  so  inueli  to  en- 
hance the  reputation  of  that  institution  as  a  centre  of  medical  instruction.  His  style  is  clear, 
impressive,  and  attractive,  while  his  extensive  reading  ami  rich  store  of  ex|)i'rience  give  a 
special  value  to  his  course  of  K^ctures,  Hut.  as  a  teacher,  l)r.  Howard  is  a  living  conimentary 
in  the  trite  .saying,  "  Examj>le  is  Itetter  than  juecept ;"  and  this  part  of  his  instruction,  though 
silent  and  unnoticed,  has,  we  venture  to  think,  been,  in  .some  respects,  the  most  iin|i4irtant.  The 
i;nthusii^sin  in  his  profession,  which  years  seem   rather  to  increase   than  diminisli ;  t|ie  strict 


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attent.oii  lo  the  duty  of  the  hour,  ami  the  example  of  a  Christian  {^enticman,  have  Imen  invalu- 
able les-sons  unconsciously  taught  to,  unconsciously,  perhaps,  received  l»y,  many  humlreds  of 
young  men  ilurinj^  the  jiast  tliirty  yeaix 

We  have  mentioned  the  fact  that  Dr.  Howard  is  piesident  of  the  Canada  medical  associa- 
tion. He  is  also  president  of  the  collejje  of  physicians  and  surgeons  of  QueK-c,  of  wliich  he  has 
heen  a  governor  for  twenty  years  or  more  ;  is  also  president  of  the  niedico-chirnrgical  society 
of  Montreal,  no  medical  man  in  the  community  having  a  higher  standing. 

During  the  many  years  that  Dr.  Howard  has  been  a  teacher,  as  well  as  a  practitioner,  of 
mcilicine,  his  pen,  as  we  might  naturally  infer,  has  not  been  idle.  He  has,  in  fact,  written  a 
good  deal,  almost  exclusively  for  Canadian .  periodicals,  and  on  purely  medical  subjects.  He 
owes  his  great  succes.s  and  his  liigh  standing  in  his  profession  to  the  fact  that  he  has  shunned 
political  office,  and  everything  tending  to  distract  his  attention  from  his  practice,  and  has  made 
medicine  his  life  and  chief  study.  A  former  student  of  Dr.  Howard  writes  to  us  as  follows,  in 
regard  to  his  labors  with  tlie  pen  : — 

"  Dr.  Howard's  medical  writings  are  scattered  througli  the  medical  Journals  of  the  country. 
Among  the  most  important,  are  those  relating  to  consumption,  and  he  has  lately  had  the  satis- 
facti(m  of  seeing  medical  opinion  gradually  veer  around  to  the  views  which  he  lia.s  consistently 
supported  for  many  years.  On  other  affections  of  the  lungs  and  of  the  heart,  his  papers  have 
also  been  numerous;  indeed,  di.scases  of  the  chest,  if  one  can  gather  from  liis  writings,  may  Ix" 
said  to  be  his  favorite  study.  In  l)s7ti,  he  contributed  an  important  es.say  to  the  International 
Medical  Congress  at  Philadelphia  on  Pernicious  Amvinia,  the  most  elaborate  paper  on  the  sub- 
ject in  English." 

Dr.  Howard  was  first  married  in  18.'j.')  to  Miss  Frances  Cliipman,  daughter  of  Juilge  Chip- 
man,  of  Halifax,  she  dying  in  1870,  leaving  one  son  ;  and  the  second  time  in  1872,  to  Miss 
Emily  Severs,  of  London,  Eng.,  by  whom  he  has  three  children.  The  family  are  members  of 
the  Clinrch  of  Kngland. 


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.lOIlN    McDOUGALL, 

MONTREAL. 

ONE  of  the  self-made  and  eminently  prosperous  business  men  of  Montreal  is  .Tolm  McDou- 
gall,  proprietor  of  the  Caledonia  foundry.  He  is  a  native  of  Uerwick.shire,  Scotland, 
bring  born  in  182G.  In  1.S32  he  came  to  Lower  (.'anada  with  his  parents,  received  an  ordinary 
Engli.sh  education;  learned  the  foundry  business  in  Montreal,  and  in  18.54  started  the  Caledonia 
foundry,  con.'Mencing  in  small  shojis  and  with  but  few  men.  He  Ix'gan  on  part  of  the  ground 
now  occupied,  the  whole  to-day  covering  three  or  four  acre.i.  Sliops  have  Ittien  enlarged  and 
added,  now  ami  then,  as  his  means  and  the  demands  of  the  trade  increased,  until  lie  usually 


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employs  3<)0  skilled  workmen.  His  foimchy,  machine  shop,  Ixjiler  shop,  and  car  wheel  works, 
are  all  on  a  iilxiral  scale.  He  makes  his  own  iron,  used  in  the  manufacture  of  car  wheels,  he 
having  two  Mast  furnaces,  one  capable  of  making  five  tons  of  pig  iron  in  twenty-four  hours, 
and  another  ten  tons  in  the  same  sjiace  of  time.  Mr.  McDougall  does  a  gieat  deal  of  woik  for 
the  several  railroads  running  into  Montreal,  and  through  other  parts  of  Canada.  He  makes  all 
kinds  of  machinery,  much  of  it  very  heavy  work — large  steam  engines  and  boilers,  saw  and 
grist  mills,  sugar  machinery,  etc.,  etc.,  which  he  sends  into  all  paits  of  the  Dominion,  from  Mon- 
treal to  the  western  borders  of  Manitoba.  He  puts  on  the  market  none  but  first-class  work, 
has  a  large  class  of  long-standing  customei-s,  and  a  good  reputation  for  expedition  in  turning  out 
work,  and  for  fairness  ami  honesty  in  his  business  transactions.  He  is  a  meml>er  of  St.  An- 
drew's Presl)yterian  church,  and  beat's  the  name  of  a  generous  and  straightforward  gentleman. 
Mr.  McDougall  has  a  wife  and  five  children.  To  the  latter  he  is  giving  a  much  l)etter  educa- 
tion than  he  himself  received,  his  op[)ortunities  in  that  direction  being  a  good  deal  restricted 
when  he  was  of  school  age.  He  is,  himself  in  fact,  self-educated,  quite  skilful  a.s  a  mechanic, 
and  quite  successful  as  a  business  manager.  His  accumidations  are  of  his  own  hands'  earning, 
and  he  was  placed  in  comfortable  circumstances  long  ago.  Industry  usually,  like  virtue, 
always  is  its  own  n-ward. 


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JOSKI'Tl    AUGUSTUS    LAIJADIK, 

MONTREAL. 

MOST  of  this  sketch  is  translated  from  a  volume  published  in  Montreal  four  or  five  years 
ago,  and  entitled,  "  Montreal:  its  History,  with  Biographical  Sketches." 

Mr.  liabadie  was  born  in  Montreal,  on  the  5th  of  June,  l80a,  his  parents  l)eing  Joseph  La- 
badie  and  Marie  Fiancoise  Desautels.  At  the  age  of  seven  years  he  entered  the  Montreal  col- 
lege, under  the  Ilev.  Mr.  Roque,  directoi- ;  remaine<l  there  two  years,  and  then  passed  five  years 
ill  the  college  of  St.  Thomas,  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Louis  (Jenereiit  Labadie,  his  uncle, 
instructor,  and  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Kimlier,  prie.st  and  cur^  of  Vercheres. 

In  1819,  when  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years,  he  returned  to  Montreal.  His  ]>arents,  desir- 
ing to  prepare  him  for  commercial  life,  engaged  him  in  the  (paality  of  clerk  with  Mr.  Austin, 
< 'uvillier,  merchant.  He  remained  at  that  post  two  months;  then,  not  having  any  taste  for 
commercial  pursuits,  he  made  known  to  his  parents  his  desire  to  study  the  notarial  profession, 
and  they,  yielding  tu  bis  reipicst,  obtained  for  him  a  place  as  clerk  in  the  office  of  Mr.  Jean 
Marie  Cadieu.x,  a  distinguished  notary,  having  numerous  clients.  He  there  finished  his  clerk- 
ship which  occupied  a  period  of  seven  years.  His  application,  diligence  and  success  iluring  that 
time  having  .secure<l  him  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  Mr.  Cadieux,  he  proposed  to  give  him, 
iK^'ore  he  had  n.-ached  his  majority,  the  civre  antl  management  of  his  office.     He  accepted  the 


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offer  of  his  patron,  aiul  .served  him  with  the  strictest  integrity  until  the  23r(I  ()f  June,  IS2G,  tht; 
(late  of  his  adniissiun  to  notarial  practice.  He  underwent  a  hriiliant  cxauiination,  which  won 
the  f^reatest  praise  on  the  part  of  the  honorable  judfjjes  and  of  the  examiners  then  present.  Ho 
took  the  oath  at  Quel>ec,  on  the  8rd  Jidy,  1X2(5. 

Mr.  Lalmdie  practised  one  year  at  liaprairie,  in  company  with  the  late  Mr.  Pieire  Lanelot, 
notary,  then,  at  the  urgent  request  of  a  great  number  of  persons  who  had  known  him  well 
while  he  was  with  his  patron,  he  returned  to  Montreal,  in  1.S27.  Here  he  establisheil  his  otficf 
in  a  small  hou.se  which  was  situated  near  where  the  Banque  du  Peujjle  now  stands,  and  he  re- 
maincd  there  a  year,  when  he  established  himself  in  the  identical  place  where  he  now  has  his 
office,  corner  of  St.  James  and  St.  Land)ert  .streets.  He  is  the  senior  notary  in  the  city  of 
Montreal. 

Mr.  Labadie  was  at  one  time  president  of  the  old  board  of  notaries  of  Montreal,  nnd  was 
also  mend)er  of  the  fii-st  provincial  board  of  notaries.  In  politics  he  has  always  belonged  to 
the  Liberal  party.  In  1888  he  was  a  jiolitical  prisoner,  being  arrested  in  Novend>er  of  that 
year,  at  the  same  time  with  Hon.  Sir  L.  H.  Lafontaine,  Hon.  D.  B.  Viger,  and  a  large  numlter 
of  other  citizens.  He  remained  in  pri.son  thirty-five  days.  Several  times  he  was  otl'ered  the 
candidacy  to  represent  the  county  of  Montreal  in  Parliament,  all  [larties  being  rcaily  to  sup- 
port him,  bvit  he  always  refused. 

Besides  the  post  of  notary  he  fills  lliose  of  magistrate  and  commi.ssioner,  and  has  also  filled 
that  of  lieut. -colonel  of  militia.  All  his  application  has  been  and  still  is  to  his  profession,  and 
his  talents,  stssiduity,  punctuality  and  integrity  have  merited  and  secun-d  him  the  ( onfidcnce 
of  the  puldic  and  a  large  and  respecUible  number  of  clients,  who  continue  to  patronize  him,  as 
well  as  his  son,  .).  K.  O.  Ijaliadie,  and  J.  A.  (>.  Ijiibatlie,  and  A.  Fiabadie,  grandsons,  practising 
notaries  together  in  Montreal.  His  son,  mentioned  alnjve,  has  been  a  niendjer  of  the  provincial 
board  of  notaries  an<l  war<len  of  the  French  catholic  church,  Notre  Dame  street,  and  is  a  very 
worthy  citizen.  The  whole  fanuly,  father,  sons  ami  grandsons,  are  among  the  most  trustworthy 
and  respectable  business  men  of  Montreal. 


CHARLES    (iLACKMEVER, 

JilONTIiEAL. 

T  I IHK  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  has  l»een  connected  with  the  municipality  of  Montreal  for 
-*-  more  than  thirty  years,  is  a  native  of  this  city,  and  was  born  on  the  22nd  of  June,  1820. 
He  is  of  remote  tJerman  extraction,  and  belongs  to  a  family  noted  for  its  longevity,  his  futher, 
Frederick  Olackmeyer,  dying  in  187.')  »ged  8+  years,  and  a  brother  of  the  same  is  yet  living  in 
the  niy  of  Quelwc;,  being  in  his  87th  year,  and  proliably  the  ohlest  notary  in  the  province.   The 


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granilfaUicT  of  our  suljjt!ct  came  to  Canada  as  ban(i-iiia.ster  in  tJio  British  army,  and  settled  in 
the  city  of  Qnchec,  where  he  was  profeasor  of  music  for  a  lonj^  time,  dyiny;  at  an  advanced  aj(e. 
His  mother,  hefore  lier  marriage,  was  Sophie  Roy  Portelance,a  French-Canadian  wlio  died  about 
18.')+. 

Mr.  Glackmeyer  was  educated  at  Montreal  college,  taking  a  full  course  ;  studied  law  here 
with  Messrs.  Peltier  and  Bourret ;  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  of  Montreal  in  1840,  and  after 
practising  one  year,  entered  the  coi"poration  of  the  city  as  assistant  city  clerk.  That  position 
he  held  until  18.59,  when  he  became  city  clerk,  and  still  holds  that  office.  He  is  one  of  those 
officials  who  are  rarely  absent  from  their  post,  and  in  whose  faithfulness  the  city  has  the  ut- 
most confidence.     • 

Mr.  Glackmeyer  is  a  membei-  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  and  people  who  know  him 
best  speak  most  highly  of  his  moral  and  religious  character,  and  the  purity  of  his  life.  Few 
men  in  the  city  are  more  highly  esteemed. 

Mr.  Glackmeyer  was  married  on  the  30th  of  May,  1848,  to  Miss  M.  R.  Josephine  Duvernay, 
of  Montreal,  eldest  daughter  of  Ludger  Duvernay,  founder  of  The  Mtnerve  newspaper,  and  of 
tiie  St.  Jean  Bajttiste  .society,  Montreal ;  and  of  ten  children,  the  result  of  this  union,  only  four 
are  living. 


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JOTTN    LE    MESUEIEli, 

QUEBEC.  • 

AMONGST  the  few  who  come  to  a  comparatively  iaige  city  from  a  remote  country  .spot, 
with  the  proverbial  half-crown  only  in  their  pockets,  and  po.ssessing  nothing  more  than 
a  clear  head,  a  stout  heart,  and  a  pei-fect  determination  to  overcome  all  the  many  difficulties  on 
life's  highway  to  "  get  on  "  in  the  world,  we  claim  for  the  subject  of  our  sketch  this  deservedl}' 
commendable  step.  Mr.  Le  Mesurier's  biography  is  no  allegorical  yarn,  but  a  plain,  simple,  un- 
varnished account  of  his  various  stejis  upward  from  the  lowest  rung  of  the  laddei-.  Certainly 
he  has — and  what  bu.sine.ss  man  has  not  ? — met  with  overwhelming  disastei-s  financially  and 
otherwise,  in  the  course  of  his  career,  which  would  have  crushed  many  a  less  steadfast  and  de- 
termined man.  However,  he  may  be  said  to  have  now  pas,sed  triumphantly  over  all,  and, 
having  done  so,  is  reajjing  and  enjoying  the  well  earned  reward  of  his  labors  in  the  city  of  his 
adoption.  Possibly,  in  Quebec  city,  there  is  no  man  stands  higher  "  rated  "  amongst  the  bank- 
ing commiuiity,  with  whom  he  has  always  done  business,  than  John  Le  Mesurier.  Born  at 
Gaspd,  on  the  28th  of  January,  1826,  the  son  of  one  of  our  old  followers  of  Nelson,  we  find  him 
in  the  beginning  of  his  career  following  the  fishery  business  in  liis  father's  establishment  at 
Gasp^.  His  father,  Charles  Le  Mesurier,  came  from  the  island  of  Jersey,  and  his  mother,  a 
Miss  Mary  Thompson,  from  County  Londonderry,  Irelan<l.    The  former  served  under  the  gallant 


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Nelson  for  nine  years,  and  was  present  on  Itoard  H.  M.  ship  Vicioni,  with  the  j^riintl  old 
naval  commander,  when  he  fell  at  Trafalgar.  With  such  »n  antecedent,  it  is  not  surprisinj; 
that  his  son,  John,  should  be  proud.  It  is  .said  that,  weftiin<,'  the  bravo  old  blue  jacket,  lie 
Mesurier  arrived  in  (,^uel)ec,  in  1821.  Here  he  mot  with  only  one  other  who  hiul  servetl  under 
the  pennant  with  England's  bravest  and  time-honored  naval  conuiiander. 

At  iJaspd,  Mr.  John  Le  Mesurier  was  educateil,  and   in   November,   1847,  he  sailed   from 

Gasp^,  on   board  the  .schooner  ^  ii/e/y/w,  for  Quebec,  but  was  wrecked  while  coming  up  the 

St.  Lawrence.     Returning  again  to  Oiispe,  nothing  daunted,  he  embarked  a  second  time,  on 

board  the  Mor/j,  belonging  to  a   Mr.  Smith  ;   and,  a  second  time,  wjus  wrecked   in  the   Mani- 

couagan  shoals.     He,  with  the  others  of  the  .shipwrecked  crew,  after  endining  grcjit  hardships 

and  privations,  walked  over  the  snow  and  ice  to  Sault  an  Cauchon.     With  two  others,  he 

determined  tf)  remain  there,  the  i-emainder  of  the  crew  jiroceeding  to  Quebec.      The  former, 

during  that  wintei',  workt'd  on  one  of  Mr.  Price's  establishments;   and  Mr.  Le  M»!surier,  in   the 

following  spring,  crossed  to  the  .south  shore,  and  made  his  way  on   foot  to  Quebec,   whence 

he  returned  to  (la.spe,  to  follow  the  fishery  business.     Kventually,  he  sailed  again  in  a  .schooner 

for  Quebec, — a  voyage  which  took  twenty-one  days  to  accomplish.      Ouce  more  arriving  in 

Quebec,  he  was  engaged  by  Mr.  Withail,  now  vice-president  of  the  Quebec  Bank,  at  a  very 

small  salary.     In  the  second  year,  a  tritting  increase  was  made  to  his   wages.       Finally,  Mr. 

Withail  sold  his  business  to  young  Le  Mesurier,  which  proved  successful.      Ibjwever,  being  of 

Jill  over-zealous  temperament,  he  embarked  in  an  oakum  manufactory, — possibly,  with  a  desire 

to  aid  his  brother, — which  did  not  |irovc  such  a  favorable  investment  as  could  be  desired.     Hut 

to  instjince  that  this  did  not  render  him  unpopular  among  his  brother  iiurchaiits,  wv  may  lueii- 

tiim  tiiat  he  was  elected  to  the  city  council  in  lS.3!t,  and  was  sul>se(|uently,  in   18(i7,  eiccteil 

mayor  of  the  city  of  Quebec  ;   having  for  his  opponent,  the  Hon.  Joseph   (.'auchoii,  the  then 

iiiaj-or,  and,  at  present,  governor  of  Manitoba  :  and,  in  the  following  yerr,  as  a  further  instance 

of  his  increasing  favor  with  the  citizens  of  Quebec,  he  was  re-elected  by  acclamation.     During 

the  tii-st  year  of  his  mayoralty,  he  delivered  the  address  of  welcome  to  H.  H.  H.  Prince  Arthur, 

now  the  Duke  of  Connaught,  and  Imd   the  honor  of  dining    with  His   Royal   Highness,  ut  a 

dinner  given  by  Sir  Narcisse  Belleau,  K.C.M.G.,  at  the   Stadacona  club.      While  he  retained 

office  as  chief  magistrate  of  Quebec,  a  riot  broke  out  amongst  the  laliorers,  and  had  it  not  Iwen 

for  his  timely  interposition  and  cool  demeanor,   notwithstanding  that  the  troops  were  under 

arms,  might  have  resulted  in  lo.ss  of  life  and  bloodshe<l.      He  was  ordered  to  read  the  Riot  Act, 

but  this  he  positively  refused  to  do,  and,  with  a  courage  and  daring  which  many  might  envy, 

went  into  the  midst  of  the  rioteiN,  and  by  diplomatic  suasion   inducecl  them  to  disperse,  and 

thus,  after  a  few  days,  once  more  ri'stored  the  usual  tiancpiillity  to  the  citizens. 

In  1870,  he  opened  a  brewery  and  tannery,  but  tin<ling  both  speculations  far  from  satis- 
factory, he  gave  them  up  ;  and,  in  1873,  went  into  the  tobacco  manufacturing  business,  taking 
in  his  .sons  William  and  Henry  as  partners,  which  Hnu  continues  U)  e.sist  until  this  day,  and, 


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ill  fact,  IN  tli*>  only  une  of  it^  class  in  Quebec,  and  onct  of  the  lai^est  iiianiifactoiies  in  t)io 
province. 

For  a  considerable  portion  of  his  life,  he  took  a  lively  interest  in  jiolitics,  iisinj,'  all  his 
iiiHiienee  in  l)elialf  of  the  Liberal  cause;   \  A\v^  weighed  the  advant»i<^es  which  he  consid- 

ered must  accrue  to  the  country  from  Pi  otion,  is  now  a  staunch  a<llu!ient,  follower  and 
siip|xirter  of  the  National  Policy.  At  nearly  all  public  meetings  he  luw  been  prominent,  and  in 
many  instnnces  his  addresses  have  been  listened  to  attentively  by  the  French-Canadian  portion 
of  the  community  ;  at  times  when  they  closed  their  ears  against  othei-s.  He  is  a  large  owner 
of  real  estate,  and  possesses  some  valuable  property  in  Quebec. 

As  ill  the  ease  of  most  men,  there  are  those  who  will  cavil  with  .some  of  his  principles, 
hut,  as  a  rule,  he  is  a  ninn  generally  held  in  good  cstimatiun  by  his  fellow  citizens  of  each 
Miitionality. 

He  married  Miss  Mary  Sylvain,  of  Quebec,  by  whom  he  has  had  issue  Hve  children — of 
whom  two  .sons  and  two  daughters  arc  now  living. 


C11ARU:8   E.  LEMIEUX,  M.D., 

{QUEBEC. 

CHARLES  EUSEBE  LB'MIEUX,  professor  of  anatomy  and  external  clinics  at  Lavai  uni- 
versity, and  long  a  successful  practitioner  in  the  city  of  Quebec,  was  Itorn  in  this  city,  on 
the  2lst  of  Septeml)er,  1824,  his  father  being  Charles  Leinieux,  a  leather  manufacturer.  The 
Itrogenitors  of  the  family  came  to  Lower  Canada  in  the  17th  century,  and  are  mostly  a  cla,s8  of 
well-to-do  farmers.  The  mother  of  Dr.  Lemieux  was  Julie  Gagnon,  descendant  of  another  old 
French  Canadian  family.  She  was  a  sister  of  Rev.  Prosper  Gagnon,  a  catholic  priest  who  died 
at  a  great  age,  lie  belonged  to  a  race  noted  for  their  longevity — as  indeed  is  also  the  Lemieux 


lacc. 


Our  subject  was  educated  in  the  arts  at  the  Quebec  seminary,  and  in  his  profession  at  the 
medical  school  in  this  city,  prior  to  the  establishment  of  Laval  university,  receiving  the  degree 
of  M.D.  in  bS-tS.  Dr.  Ijcmieux  immediately  entered  the  marine  and  emigrant  hosj)ital,  Quebec, 
a-s  house-surgeon,  holding  that  po.st  for  ten  yeai"s,  and  at  the  end  of  which  pcriofl  he  commenced 
general  practice  in  this  city,  Imvingbeen  through  all  these  years  a  visiting  surgeon  to  the  Hotel- 
Dicu  and  Marine  hosi)itals.  In  IS.IC  he  was  appointed  profes.sor  of  descriptive  and  to|)ogiaphic 
anatomy  and  external  clinics  in  Laval  univei-sity,  and  for  twenty-four  years  has  fine<l  that 
chair  with  credit  to  himself  and  to  the  institution.  His  career,  both  as  a  lecturer  and  medical 
practitioner,  has  l)een  marked  with  decided  success.  He  has  made  the  science  of  medicine  and 
surgery  his  special  study  for  nearly  forty  years,  giving  politics  and  all  "  side  issues,"  the  go-by  ; 


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and  tliJN  is  no  doiiht  the  secret  of  his  hij^h  standing  amount  tlie  medical  fraternity.  His  early 
niedieal  traiiiin^r  in  tlie  marine  hospital,  was  under  that  celebrated  snr<^eon,  Dr.  James  l>oii}{las, 
anti  it  gave  him  a  good  start  in  his  professional  career.  lie  is  thoroughly  educated,  and  a  suli- 
stantial  lecturer,  and  his  sturlents  arc  successful  in  their  practices.  'I'lic  stjinding  of  Dr. 
Leniieux-,  socially  and  int«'llectually,  as  well  as  professional  1}',  is  excellent. 

The  wife  of  Professor  Leniieux  was  Miss  Balsamie  Panulis,  daughter  of  Krani;ois  .\avier 
I'aradis,  lun»l>ei'  merchant  of  Quebec,  tlieir  marriage  Kiing  dated  12th  January,  18').'{.  They 
have  lost  two  children,  and  have  two,  a  son  antI  a  daughter,  living.  The  former,  I'harles 
Kusebe,  is  studying  medicine  at  Laval  university,  and  the  latter,  Marie  Balsamic  is  in  the 
JesuH-Marie  convent  at  Sillery. 


KLZEAR    (;KKIN, 

THHEK  HI  VERS. 


ri^HK  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  at  the  old  French  parish  of  Vamachiehe,  on  the  1+th 
-■-  of  N'ovend)er,  LSt.S,  being  the  sixteenth  child  of  Antoine  (.Jeiin  dit  Lajuie.  His  eldest 
brother  Ant«)ine  tierin  Lajoie,  is  well  known  as  tlic  author  of  the  popular  novel  "Jean  Rivard," 
and  a.s  having  published  in  his  youth  works  of  poetry.  Among  his  poetn  is  a  historical  t!ai»i- 
ilian  drama  "  I^e  Jeune  Latt)ur,"  which  has  been  often  iv[<re.sented  in  the  Province  of  Quebec. 
Some  of  his  iKietry  has  been  adapted  to  music  and  to-day  known  to  every  French  C'anailian  as 
a  legendary  song.  Such  is  "  I'n  f 'aiiadien  Krnint,"  a  .song  made  at  school,  in  1840,  when  the 
victims  of  the  political  troubles  of  18.S7-'•■^^<,  were  wandering  in  foreign  c(juntries.  Antoine 
<i<;rin  Lajoie,  who  is  now  living  at  Ottawa  on  his  pension  as  e.\-French  librarian  to  the  Parlia- 
ment of  Cana<la,  is  giving  the  last  touches  to  important  works  on  the  [)olitical  history  of  Can- 
ada since  the  Union  of  18U.  No  one  is  better  fitted  for  the  task,  as  no  one  is  better  posU'd 
on  the  facts  of  that  period  and  no  one  is  more  free  from  pai  ty  prejudices. 

The  subject  of  our  sketch  is  rather  a  young  man  who  entered  journalism  at  the  age  of 
twenty -one,  after  a  tii-st  trip  to  Paris  and  I..ondon.  In  18(i.")  he  was  connected  with  Cauchon's 
Jtiariiid  <lc  Qneher,  and  afterwards  became  chief  editor  of  Lr  Catidila,  just  established  in 
Ottawa,  by  Duvtnnay,  of  the  Minerir.  In  tiie  sunnner  of  18f>t),  Mr.  (l^rin  was,  for  a  few 
months,  on  tlie  staH'  of  the  Miiicrce,  and  in  September  left  for  London,  Englaiwl,  to  follow  the. 
progre.ss  of  the  Confederation  scheme,  before  the  Canadian  conference,  and  before  the  British 
Parliament.  His  correspondence  to  the  Muierre  on  the  English  parliamentary  system,  of  which 
he  was  an  ardent  supimrter,  attracted  the  attention  of  tho  press.  After  the  voting  of  the  British 
North  America  Act  by  parliament,  Mr.  Gcrin  went  to   Paris  for  the  Paris  universal  exhibition 

of  18(>7 ;  got  connected  with  membei-s  of  the  fourth  estate,  and  finally  on  the  staff  of  the  Jour- 

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iml  lie  Piirix,  which  was  tlion  iimU^r  fclic  <iirection  of  two  ceh>))rat«M|  political  writers,  J. , I.  WtMss 
and  Edouard  Ht'rv<?. 

In  1871,  Mr.  Ci<$iin  was  elected  to  the  C^uebec  IjCgisIative  Assenibly  liy  Ids  native  county, 
St.  Maurice,  and  at  the  {ijeiieral  election  <>♦'  l.S?."),  refused  to  Iw  a  candidate,  his  ambition 
l)einjf  apparently  concentrated  on  his  professional  duties  as  an  advocate,  having;  been  called  to 
the  bar  in  187.S.  ' 

For  the  la-st  three  or  four  years,  Mr.  Gerin  has  often  been  solicited  to  return  to  politics, 
but  without  avail. 


j:l)\vai{I)  {'Ajrpi:H,  q.(\,  jj.c.l..  i.l.I)., 

MONTHEM.. 

"Tj^DNVARD  TARTKlt,  a  prominent  lawyer,  and  one  of  tin-  oldest  Queen's  Counsels  at  the 
*  ^  Montreal  bar,  was  born  at  Three  Rivers,  I'.Q.,  on  the  Isl  of  March,  1822,  his  parents 
In-intj  CJeorge  and  Mary  (Short)  Carter.  His  fnther  was  a  physician  of  Kngli.-sli  descent,  and 
his  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Quirke  Short,  the  fii-st  rector  of  Three  Rivers.  In  his  boy- 
hooil,  our  subject  was  a  pupil  of  tlie  Rev.  S.  S.  Wood,  for  several  years  rector  of  the  church 
at  Three  Rivers,  and  sid)seiinently  took  a  three  yeiir.s'  course  of  study  at  Nicolet  college, 
where,  iimong  his  liteiary  attaiinuents,  he  ac(|uired  a  thoro\igh  mastery  «)f  the  French 
language.  From  a  .sketch  of  Mr  Carter,  publi.shed  in  the  Cniind'mn  Jllustratcti  Neics  in  Miiy, 
l,s72.  we  learn  that: 

111  tlic  yi'iir  18;i8,  111'  ri'iiiovuil  to  Muiitroiil  to  ontur  a  iiivrcantilu  ostiiltliBhiiiuiit.  mul  in  tlio  oourgo  of  two 
yuiirs  bvciiiiiK  thu  iiiiinagcr  of  tho  uhiuf  dopitrliiient.  Hix  iiii'IiiiatioiiH  ditl  not,  liowuvur,  lua<l  him  to  ac-i|uiri!  a 
tHsto  for  murountilu  imrsiiitM,  whioh  he  abaiidonud  for  the  study  of  law.  hi  IS40,  he  uiilerud  thu  ottiue  of 
MeSBrs.  .\ylwiii  and  iShort,  tlieii  practising  in  the  city  of  t,)iiel)ec,  hoth  of  whom  were  favorably  known  an  able 
lawyeiii,  and,  Biibbo<|ueiitly  as  two  of  our  most  diBtin^^uishcd  judges.  At  the  expiration  of  two  years,  the  sub 
ject  of  our  sketcli  removed  to  the  oIKce  of  tlie  tlon.  F.  \V.  Priinrose,  C^.C,  with  whom  lie  continued  his  studies 
for  one  year.  Me  then  removed  from  Quebec  to  .Montreal,  «.s  alt'ordiii){  a  wider  Held  for  practice,  and  there 
entered  the  ottice  of  the  Hon.  mow  .Sir)  John  Rose,  where  he  remained  for  a  period  of  two  years,  and  waH 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  February,  1845. 

Mr.  Carter  at  once  entered  iiiion  liis  professional  career  in  the  city  of  Miuitreal,  and  soon  aci|uired  an 
extensive  practice,  more  especially  in  criminal  law,  niiinicipal  corporation  matters  and  prerogative  writs.  He 
also  aopiiiTd  an  extensive  practice  in  civil  cases.  .Vt  the  time  he  commenced  his  career,  the  practice  in 
iijiiiiniri  proceedings  was  but  little  known  or  understood,  and  he  introduced  the  practice  of  reuioviii<;  convic- 
tions, judgments  and  orders  by  ivrtinniri  with  such  success  that  he  aci|uired  a  very  high  reputation  at  the  bitr. 
'IMu'  research  u>'ide  by  him  and  the  experience  which  lu^  had  acipiired  in  this  branch  of  the  law  led  hiiu  to  com- 
ply with  a  general  winli  expressed  by  members  of  the  profession  that  he  should  publish  a  work  on  that  subject. 
.Accordingly,  in  lH5t),  he  published  'A  treatise  on  summary  voiivictions  and  orders  by  .lustices  of  the  I'eaue,' 
dedicated  to  his  former  patron,  the  Hon.  Thoniks  Cushiug  ,\ylwiii,  jnd;je  of  the  court  of  (Queen's  Bench.  This 
work  is  recognised  as  authority,  and  is  cited  by  the  bar  and  bench.  As  a  criminal  lawyer,  Mr  Carter  had  no 
superior  ;  but  of  late  years  he  has  devoted  his  attention  almost  exclusively  to  civil  practice.  In  the  year  IHti'J, 
he  was  made  a  Cjueeu's  Cimnsel,  and,  in  couseiiueiice  of  ill-health,  shortly  afterwards  accepted  the  ottices  of 
clerk  of  thu  crown  ami  clerk  of  the  |>uacu,  which  were  ulforud  to  Uiui  by  the  govoninient.      While  huldiug  this 


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position,  the  perfornianco  of  Ihh  diitiuB  was  so  g-.tisfuotory  to  thu  pii)>lic  and  the  govunuuent,  that,  on  resigning 
this  appointment  two  ycurs  after,  to  retuni  to  practice,  he  received  an  oIKuial  letter  recognising,  in  the  most 
flattering  terms,  thu  ahle  manner  in  which  ho  had  discharged  hin  duties. 

In  18U2  or  IS(>:<,  ho  was  appointed  assistant  professor  of  constitutional  and  criminal  law  in  Mc(>ill  univer- 
sity, being  associated  with  the  Hon.  Justice  liadgley.  Me  now  occupies  that  chair  alone.  Mctiill  university 
has  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  H.C.L.  ;  and  Itishops'  college,  Lennoxville,  the  degree  of  LL.D. ,  ho  being 
ono  of  the  governors  of  that  institution,  having  been  elected  to  the  position  some  years  since  by  the  provincial 
synod  of  the  Anglican  church.  Since  the  new  organization  of  the  Church  of  England  in  Canada,  Mr  (^artor  has 
iK'on  a  delegate  elected  to  represent  the  parish  of  Sorel  in  the  diocesan  synod,  and  hiis  invariably  been  elected 
by  the  members  of  that  body  as  one  of  the  delegates  to  the  provincial  synod.  In  both  capacities,  he  hnn  taken 
an  active  part  in  the  debates  before  both  hoiises. 

In  18((7,  Mr  t"ai-ter  was  elected  by  acclamation  to  represent  Montreal  Centre  in  the  legislature  of  (^iielK'c 
He  was  chosen  chairman  of  the  committee  on  private  bills,  and  was  most  assiduous  in  the  discharge  of  his 
tluties.  It  is  to  his  exertions  that  in  the  second  sesHion  of  that  legislature  he  obtained  a  measure  from  the 
government  relating  to  education,  in  which  the  Protestant  minority  were  deeidy  interested. 

At  the  general  election  in  1871,  he  was  opposed  by  an  old  politician  and  meuilmr  of  the  house  of 
commons,  the  Hon.  L.  II.  ifolton,  and,  after  a  close  contest,  was  beaten  by  a  majority  of  only  seven  votes. 
I'pon  the  elevation  of  the  lion.  C.  Dnnkin,  member  representing  the  county  of  Hrome  in  the  House  of  Com- 
mons, to  the  bench.  Mr.  Carter  w<i.s  elected  by  acclamation  to  represent  that  counfy,  and  subse<piently  was  re- 
elected by  a  large  majority.     In  the  Local  Legislature  and  Cinumons,  he  displayed  uncommon  abilitioH. 

At  tlu'  opening  of  |)arlian'.oiit  in  1872,  Mr  Cartt'i-  was  di'sjoiiated  to  .sccoiul  tlio  address 
(Vnni  the  tlironi',  wliioli  lio  did  in  a  liij,'lily  croditablo  nmnnor.     liis  politics  are  ( "on.se rvativc 

Since  li'aN'ing  parliament  in  l.s7;J,  when  it  was  di.ssol\e<l  and  the  caliinet  re,si)j;ned,  Mr. 
(\irter  ha.s  devoted  liimself  very  as-'iiliiousi}^  to  his  profession,  and  is  doino  a  very  hir;;e  busi- 
ness in  e.onnnercial,  eriniinal  and  crown  h»w,  hi'iiio  .,eniov  nii'nilier  of  tiit^  tirnt  of  Carter,  Cliureh 
and  ( 'liaplean. 

He  is  eliiiieh  advocate  for  the  diocese  of  Montreal.  Mis  niend)oiship  of  the  Anglican 
.synod,  which  coiiinienced  with  its  foundation,  he  resigned  two  or  three  yearn  ago. 

In  l.S.")0,  Mr  Carter  was  joined  in  marriage  with  Mary  .lane  Kerr,  daughter  of  the  late 
.lames  lliustings  Kiir,  Ksq.,  of  (^mliec,  and  she  is  the  mother  of  six  childron,  ail  living  hut  the 
lirst-horn  .son.  who  died  in  childhood. 


EDWAIM)    sciirLTZK, 

MOSriiKAI.. 

AMONd  the  more  prominent  class  of  (Icrnuui  citi/eiis  of  Montreal,  is  Edward  Sehultze, 
Austro-Hinigarian  consul,  who  hails  frmn  Luhcck,  whore  he  was  l»oi-n  on  the  2+th  of 
Deeemlier.  l.S:I4',  his  parents  luMiig  John  Christian  and  Kluoiiora  (HudloH")  Schidt/e.  His  fath(>r 
was  a  ftniier.  He  had  good  school  privileges  until  nineteen  years  of  age,  and  made  exiillcnt 
iisi'  of  them,  tlmroughiy  litting  himself  for  commercial  husiuess.  At  twenty  years  of  age  he 
sailed  for  Amerii'a.  and  for  three  years  he  was  engaged  in  the  fur  business  in  the  city  of  New 
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In  IS^O,  Mr.  Schultze  caught  the  gold  fever,  sailed  for  California,  via  Panama,  atid  wa.<» 
absent  ten  yeare,  having  exct-fdingly  good  succes.s,  retiuriing  in  18.59  and  settling  in  Montreal. 
Here  he  re.sunicd  the  fur  lousiness,  which  ho  is  still  contimiing.  liatterly  he  1ms  also  luid  tin 
interest  in  |)hosi)hate  mining  in  this  province,  meeting  with  fair  success. 

During  the  last  twelve  or  thirteen  years  Mr.  Schultze  has  hehl  the  oftice  of  Austro-Hun- 
garian  consul,  and  fluring  the  sliipping  .season  is  tjuitc  busy  in  his  othcial  duties,  which  he  is 
very  punctilious  in  performing. 

He  is  11  man  of  a  solid  ( 'hristian  chaineter,  and  has  been  a  deacon  of  St.  John's  Ltitheran 
"hurch,  and  is  a  true  friend  to  the  poor  and  unfortunate.     He  is  a  third  degree  Mason. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Schultze  was  Elizabeth  Bari)ara  Reinhardt,  a  native  of  Montreal.  They 
were  married  in  1800,  and  have  had  nine  children,  losing  three  of  them.  The  ^x  living,  who 
are  of  suitable  age,  are  receiving  a  good  education. 


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AYLMKft. 

A  LKXANDER  BOUROEAU,  mayor  of  Aylnier,  and  for  thirty-five  yeai-s  a  citizen  of  this 
-^  -^  town,  is  a  .son  of  Alexaiwler  and  Madeleine  (Paradis)  Bourgeau,  dating  his  birth  at  Laval- 
trie,  province  of  Quebec,  on  the  1  Sth  of  August,  1<S2!(.  He  lost  his  mother  when  three  years  old, 
and  his  father  when  eleven  ;  in  his  youth  he  received  a  good  conunercial  education  ;  afterwards 
spent  some  time  in  the  ortice  of  a  notaiy  in  his  native  place;  and  in  IS'*')  .settled  in  Aylmer, 
where  he  has  been  and  continues  still  in  a  great  variety  of  business.  At  an  early  day  here  he 
was  in  a  shoe  store  ;  dealt  in  groceries  for  a  time  ;  for  many  years  htm  been  in  the  lumber  trade, 
and  now  manages  a  tannery,  as  well  a><  saw-mills,  and  other  manufactories.  He  is  conne<'ted 
with  a  tirm  in  <  )ttawa  engagetl  in  making  furnitme,  sa.sh, dooi-s  and  blinds  ;  is  j)rincipal  oversci'r 
and  sn(ierintenileiit  of  the  Upper  Ottawa  Boat  Company  ;  nml  indeed,  it  seems  difficult  to  name 
a  local  enterprise  in  which  he  does  not  Iuim'  t\  hand. 

Mr.  Hoingeau  has  always  been  an  iiKliistriows  man,  inclined  to  push  Imsiness.  and  his  labors 
and  ventures lia\e  been  well  rcwarde  1.  Besides  his  mills,  store,  liomestead  and  other  property 
in  Aylmer,  he  has  eonsideralile  real  estate  ami  other  property  in  the  counties  of  Ottawa  and 
I'ontiac,  (Jiuebec,  ami  the  eity  of  >ttawa,  Ontario  In  short,  he  has  found  industry,  as  well  a,s 
virtue,  its  own  reward,  and  is  pli  .-ed  in  very  comfortable  circumstances. 

While  having  an  eye  to  hi  own  business,  Mr.  liiangean  has  not  been  unmindful  of  ilie  public 
interests,  ami  has  borne  his  si  are  of  official  burdens.  He  was  secretary  of  the  board  of  school 
commissioners  for  a  long  pe'iixl,  ami  for  some  time  chaitnian  of  that  board  ;  was  mayor  of  the 
town  in  1<S7l'.  warden  of  t.ie  county  the  same  year,  and,  at  the  time  of  writing  (IHHOj,  is  again 


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mayor.  He  is  also  a  meml>er  of  the  countyboard  for  examining  school-teachei"s,  and  was  an 
odicial  assignee  foi-  the  two  counties  just  mentioned,  from  18G9  until  that  law  was  repealed  in 
1880.  Prohably  no  other  man  in  Ayliner  has  rendered  so  nuich  valuable  service  to  tin-  public. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Lil)eral  Conservative  ;  in  religion  a  Roman  Catholic. 

In  May,  1847,  Mr.  Bonrgea\i  was  Joined  in  wedlock  with  Miss  Sophie  Noel,  of  the  comity  of 
N'ercheres,  and  they  have  four  soils  and  five  daughteis,  having  never  lost  a  chilil. 


THREE  mVEHS. 

/"^  EORCE  BAPTIST,  whose  name  as  a  lumber  merchant  has  been,  and  still  is,  remenibeicil 
^— ^  throughout  the  iKiminion  of  Canada,  was  one  of  the  most  remarkable  instances  of  what 
perseverance  can  accomplish  which  o\ir  record  of  "  self-made  men  "  furnishes.  Landing  in 
'Quebec  without  capital,  an  entire  stranger  to  the  country  and  its  peculiarities  in  the  manage- 
ment of  business,  having  only  his  native  industry  and  shrewdness  and  untiring  eflorts,  aiiled 
by  a  thorough  practical  knowledge  of  the  mechanical  part  of  his  business  acquired  in  bis  native 
land,  he  founded  a  lund>er  business  in  the  Province  of  Quebec,  on  the  St.  .Maurice  rivi  r.  which 
rivalled,  and  still  rivals,  tliat  of  any  other  section  of  Ciinada. 

.Mr.  Baptist  was  a  native  of  Scotland,  lining  born  in  the  town  of  Coidstrcfun,  Hi-rwickshire, 
on  the  7tli  of  January,  1S(»S. 

Being  a  millwright  and  practical  machinist,  he  was  entrusted  with  tlu'  management  of  the 
Ktchemin  .saw  mills,  owned  by  Sir  John  Caldwell,  the  largest  lumber  merchant,  at  that  time, 
in  Canada.  After  some  yeara,  he  lease<l  the  Point  Levi  saw  mills  from  the  government,  which 
he  continued  to  miinage  until  his  final  removal  to  the  town  of  Tlni't.'  Rivers  in  IsKi,  then 
having  a  population  of  between  .'),0()()  and  G,(K)0  inhabitants.  On  his  arrival  at  Three  Uiveis, 
be  Iwught  the  "  Cache  mill  "  situated  on  the  St.  Maurice  river.  Being  dissatisfied  with  the 
amount  of  business  the  mill  was  capable  of  doing,  be  went  on  a  pi'ospecting  tour  up  the  St. 
Mauricts  and,  finding  an  eligible  location  for  a  more  extensive  business,  connnenceil  Imilding 
the  Orey  mills.  After  their  completion  the  ni'\t  year,  the  mills  were  pui,  in  operation  ;  their 
capacity  being  12,(M)(>,(K)()  feet  of  lumber.  Aliout  four  years  after,  he  Imilt  a  second  mill 
adjoining  the  tirst,  enabling  him  to  cut  <louble  the  ipiantitv  producecl  liy  the  first  mill.  The 
last  one  built,  however,  was  destroyed  by  a  freshet  in  1S7.'<.  Finding  the  remaining  mill  in- 
sufficient to  supply  the  demands  of  bis  steadily  increasing  business,  he  built  the  steam  saw- 
mills on  Bajitist  Island,  which  are  capable  of  cutting  !.'>,()( >(»,()()<)  feet  of  lumber. 

In  ccm.sequence  of  the  large  amount  of  business  tiansacti'd  in  connet^tion  with  the  mills 
established  by  Mr.  Baptist  necessitating  the  employment  of  a  large  stalf  of  men  ami   material, 


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the  present  location  of  the  Grey  mills, — still  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Baptist's  sons, — which  was 
unce  a  barren  wilderness,  has  l>een  traTisformed  by  his  enterprise  and  industry  into  a  well 
}>opulated  district  of  villages  and  well  cultivated  farms. 

From  the  time  of  Mr.  Baptist's  fii-st  settlement  on  tlie  St.  Maurice  his  busine-ss  progi"es.sed 
until  his  lumbering  operations  extended  to  every  part  of  Cantula.  His  death  occurred  on  the 
11th  of  May,  1875. 

Mr.  Baptist  was  married  in  1834,  at  Point  Levi,  to  Isabella  (^ockburn,  also  a  native  of 
Scotland,  and  born  in  the  town  of  Coldstream,  Berwickshire.  Mrs.  Baptist,  who  was  a  great 
assistance  to  her  husband  in  his  efforts  to  achieve  success,  is  still  living  in  the  midst  of  her 
children  and  promises  to  reach  a  ripe  old  age,  being  in  her  74th  year. 

Mr.  Baptist  was  a  Liberal  (Conservative;  took  an  active  part  in  local  politics,  and  contt^sted 
the  senatorial  division  of  Shawenigan,  in  opposition  to  Dr.  Malhiot.  In  religious  belief  he 
was  a  Presbyterian.  He  was  much  valued  by  his  feln/w  townsmen  of  Three  Rivers  as  an 
enterprising,  reliable  and  strictlj'  upright  member  of  the  community. 

His  family  consisted  of  two  .sons  and  five  daughters.  The  sons  still  continue  to  cany  on 
the  business  of  their  father.  The  daughters  all  married  prominent  liusiness  men  in  Montreal 
and  Three  Rivers.  . 

Tiie  business  carried  on  by  the  late  (Soorge  Bajitist  and  his  sons  is  now  continued  by  his 
yotmger  son,  John,  and  his  son-in-law,  James  Dean,  under  the  title  of  (Jeorge  Baptist,  Son  and 
C!o.  Mr.  AIexan<ler  Bapti.st,  having  .sold  out  his  interest  in  the  firm  before  his  father's  death,  is 
an  extensive  dealer  in  lumber  on  his  own  account,  in  the  town  of  Three  Rivers. 

The  property  left  by  Mr.  (leorge  Baptist  to  his  heirs  amounted  to  half  a  million  of  (loliars. 


.lOHEPir    L.   8T.   (JERMAIN,   M.l)., 

ST.  BYACINTHE. 

JOSKPH  HKNRY  LEMAIRE  ST.  (JKRMAIN  wius  l>orn  at  Repentigny,  Province  of  Que- 
bec, on  the  l.")tli  of  July,  IHJJS.  He  is  a  younger  brother  of  V.  H.  L.  St.  Germain,  whose 
sketch  can  l)e  foiuul  in  this  volume,  together  with  the  parentage  of  both.  In  184.>  the  father 
of  our  subject  removed  to  St.  Hyacinthe,  and  here  the  son  was  educated  in  the  arts  at  the 
f  imous  college  of  this  city,  and  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Magloire  Turcot,  for  years  a  promi- 
nent physician  hero.  He  attended  lectures  at  Montreal  in  the  medical  department  of  Victoria 
university  (Col)ourg,  Out.),  and  received  the  degree  of  doctor  of  medicine  on  the  13th  of  May, 
I8:)0. 

Dr.  St.  Germain  conunenced  practice  at  Stanfold,  ea.stern  townships,  where  he  s()ent  thir- 
teen years,  his  rides  extending  over  most  of  the  county  of  Arthaltaska  and  into  parts  of  Magenta. 


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His  practice  was  highly  remunerative  as  well  as  extensive.  While  there,  he  served  for  nine 
years  as  school  commissioner  for  the  township,  also  as  town  secretary  (iuring  all  the  thirteen 
years. 

In  l.S(i!>,  Dr.  St.  (Jermain  returned  to  St.  Hyacinthc,  ami  has  Iwen  in  successful  practice 
here  from  that  date.  In  1S72  he  opened  a  drug  stt)ro,  and  had  the  misfortune  of  being  burnt  out 
in  1870,  with  the  rest  of  the  merchants,  between  ¥.\0  and  500  buildings  being  destroyed  in  the 
\cry  heart  of  the  city. 

Since  returning  to  this  city  the  doctor  has  ma<le  himself  useful  as  a  citizen  as  well  as  a 
physician  and  surgeon,  by  fulfilling  the  duties  of  different  othces.  He  is  a  meml>crof  the  Iward 
of  examiners  for  the  Catholic  schools  of  the  district  of  St.  Hyacinthe,  and  surgeon-major  of  the 
S4th  battalion  of  volunteer  militia.  He  is  considered  a  Hrst-cla-ss  surgeon  as  well  as  physician, 
and  has  always  had  a  libeial  practice.  Like  his  brother,  he  has  a  business  motto  :  Jc  I'ai imnis^ 
ft  Diea  le  i/itSrit. 

Dr.  St.  CJermain  was  fii-st  married  in  ItSti.S,  to  Miss  Marguerite  Anne  Morison,  sister  of 
Major  Morison  of  St.  Hyacinthe,  she  (lying  in  187'),  leaving  seven  children,  five  of  thein  still 
living;  and  the  second  time  in  1879,  to  Mi-s.  Marie  Anne  Prince,  widow  of  Dr.  Urgele  M.  I'ois- 
son,  coroner  of  Arthabaskaville. 


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KIGHT    KEV.  ANTOINI-:    HACINK, 

SHEUniiOOKE. 

M(!R.  ANTOINK  RACINE,  Bishop  of  Sherbrooke,  was  born  at  St.  Ambrose,  1'.  (,».,  ..n 
the  2Gth  of  January,  1822,  lu'  being  a  son  of  Michel  Ilacine,  an  honest  and  imlustrious 
wheelwright,  whose  liouse  was  on  the  shore  of  the  St.  Charles  falls,  near  the  village  of  Huron 
of  Lorette.  The  progenitor  of  the  family  in  this  j)rovince,  Etienne  Racine,  one  of  the  first  set- 
tlei-s  at  Cote  tie  Beaupre, married  .Marguerite  Martin,  daughter  of  Abraham  .Miutiii.oii  the  22iid 
of  Mav,  U'38;  and  from  him  the  plains  of  Abraham  took  their  name.  This  .Martin  was  the 
original  proprietor  of  the  land  on  which  sUmds  the  ehureh  of  St.  .le.iu  Biiptiste,  <j)nebec,  in 
which  the  subject  of  this  sketch  ottiiiated  for  twenty -one  years. 

The  mother  of  Mr.  Racine  was  Marie  Louise  Pepin,  who  lived  to  sec,  in  In  r  bfautifui  old 
age.  one  of  her  sons  a  bi.shop  and  another  vicar-general,  now  bi.shop  of  Chieoutiini.  Sin;  lived 
for  many  years  with  our  subject,  and  .shared  largely  in  that  filial  love  which  she  most  richly 
merited,  she  dying  in  February,  1877.  On  her  mother's  side  she  was  a  niece  of  the  late  An- 
toine  Bddard,  long  time  curC^  of  (JhaileslMiurg,  and  well  known  formerly  as  Father  Bedard  ;  he 
was  a  relative  of  two  judges  of  that  name.  As  the  writer  of  a  sketch  of  our  subject,  the  editor 
of  "  Progress  "  once  said,  "  the  noble  blooti  of  the  B<!dard  family,  whose  transcendunt  talents 
and  heroic  virtues  have  given  to  the  clergy  seveiivl  of  its  most  distinguished  memliei-s,  to  th« 


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country  imicli  of  its  f,'lory,  anil  to  the  pavisii  of  ( 'liailesbDUijjf  its  most  lieaiitifiil  iiKxlels  of  vir- 
tiu',  Hows  in  tlio  veins  of  Mr.  Racine,  enabiiny  u.s  to  understand  wliy  we  lind  in  him  tiiat  lofty 
intelligence,  that  reotitiule  of  judgni.'iit,  that  firmness  of  character  and  those  solid  mental  and 
moral  ((iialities  generally  which  have  distinguished  his  ancestors." 

In  January,  IS.S.*},  our  suliject  commenced  his  Latin  studies  with  his  great-uncle,  Father 
Hddard,  wlio  had  the  happy  faculty  of  infusing  into  the  hearts  of  his  pujiils  liis  own  enthusias- 
tic love  of  study,  and  undci'  whose  discipline  young  llacine  uuidc  very  rapitl  progress.  At  the 
end  of  eighteen  months  (l>S.S4.j,  he  entered  the  seminary  at  (Quebec,  ami  (hiring  his  course  of 
.studies  secured  the  warmest  esteem  of  his  instructors,  and  parHcularly  of  Professor  Holmes,  who 
took  great  pleasure  in  developing  the  brilliant  oratorical  powers  of  his  pupil.  The  latter  had 
such  a  love  of  study,  such  a  willingness  to  apply  himself  to  ment»il  work,  and  made  such  rapid 
advanct^  as  to  constantly  hold  a  position  at  or  mar  the  head  of  his  class. 

In  1N41  he  became  teachei'  in  the  seminary  where  he  had  been  a  student,  and  jierformed 
its  duties  with  that  tact,  tident  and  regularity  which  characteiize*!  his  conduct  in  everything, 
having  foi-  mnfrereH  in  tlie  .seminary  Messrs.  Ta.scheieaii,  Horan,  Langevin,  Sweeny,  of  New 
Brunswick,  and  Mclntyre,  of  Prince  Kdward  Island. 

Ordained  priest  at  (Quebec  on  the  12th  of  September,  l.s4+,  he  was  appointed  vicai  to  Malbaie, 
and  the  rebegan  to  shine  his  good  (pialities  as  priest,  and  his  talents  as  a  pulpit  oratoi\  In  1S41) 
he  was  appointed  the  first  cur<?  of  Stanfold ;  and  bt-'ing  young,  healthy  and  full  of  courage,  and 
ba\  ing  to  serve  three  missions,  he  could  give  free  course  to  liis  active  nature  and  burning  zeal. 
There  he  did  a  great  work,  building  a  parsonage,  remodelling  and  greatly  improving  the  dila]>i- 
dated  chapel,  putting  in  a  belfry — the  first  seen  in  tiie  place  and  setting  everything  in  order, 
and  even  aiding  Hon.  Louis  Richaid  in  getting  a  railroad  to  Stanfold.  But  the  three  missions 
did  not  occupy  his  full  time.  He  visited  the  eastern  districts,  where  much  misery  prevailed, 
and  nuidc  manly  efforts  to  ameliorate  the  condition  of  the  poor  colonists  in  that  .section  of  the 
I'liivince.  It  was  tinder  his  inspiration  and  direction  that  twelve  missionaries  published  I,i; 
( 'iiiiiidlcit  Kin'njruiit,  whii'h  called  attention  to  the  }nessiiig  need  of  help  for  the  settlers  at  /)^(^^•- 
FniiiiK  and  that  vicinity-. 

In  IH,')1  our  -ui>ject  left  Stanfold  arid  went  to  St.  doseph  de  la  Beauce,  which  parish  he 
served  nearly  two  yeai-s,  when  he  was  appointed  to  the  church  of  St.  Jean  lia])tiste.  (^uela-c, 
wlu-re  he  ofiiciated  for  twenty-one  years,  enjoying  meantime  the  fullest  confidence  and  highest 
esteem  of  the  people. 

In  October,  1.S74,  hi'  was  cousi'crated  in  the  church  of  St.  .lean  Baptiste,  the  first  bi.shop  of 
i-^lierbrookc,  the  sermon  on  the  occasion  being  preached  by  Ms  lordship  L.  K.  Lafieche,  bishop 
of  Three  Rivers,  an  innuense  throng  filling  the  house  of  worship.  Among  tfie  cleriail  digni- 
taries present  were  his  giace  Archbishop  Taschereau,  of  t^uebee,  their  lordships  Bishops  Persico, 
IJaH^che,  Laroipie,  Langevin,  K.d>re,  ami  Mgi-.  Duhamol,  bishop  elect  of  Ottawa,  Ont.  Before 
his  departure  from  (^iietiec.  the  stu(ients  of  the  seminary  inx'sented  the  iiew  bishop  with  a  mag- 


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niKcunt  address ;  and  many  otlier  marks  of  gi'cat  respect  were  shown  liim  l»y  the  citizens  of 
that  old  and  famous  city. 

He  was  accompanied  to  Sherbrooke  by  several  bishops  and  a  hundred  priests ;  and  here  he 
had  a  cordial  and  truly  brilliant  welcome,  the  pupils  in  the  scliools  turning  out  with  flags,  and 
several  religious  societies  of  Sherbrooke  and  neighlK)ring  towns  marching  in  a  body  with  ban- 
ners, music,  etc. ;  and  addresses  were  presented  to  him  by  the  clergy,  the  citizens  of  the  city, 
the  a.ssociation  of  St.  Jean  Baptiste,  the  St.  Patrick's  .society,  and  othei"s,  to  all  of  which  he  made 
very  happy  responses.  The  bi.shop  began  his  labors  here  under  very  favorable  auspices,  ?•:•! 
has  continued  them  with  eminently  praiseworthy  success,  he  l>eing  untiring  and  indefatigable  in 
Ilia  service  to  the  Master.  He  built  the  .seminary  of  St.  Charles  Borrom<5e,  of  Sherbrooke,  and 
the  hospital  of  Sherbrooke,  both  in  1H75,  and  has  established  several  churches  in  his  dioce.se  — 
the  district  of  St.  Francis — being  indefatigable  in  iiis  luboi"s,  and  having  the  hearty  co-operation 
of  the  Catholic  people  in  his  diocese. 


EARNSIIAW   BRADLEY, 

THREE  lilVEHs. 

"TT^ARNSHAW  BRADLEY  is  a  descendant  of  an  old  family  in  Kngland,  and  traces  an 
-^ — *  uninterrupted  pedigree  down  from  14(i()  on  his  mother's  side,  -who  wjis  a  Mis.s 
Sarah  Morehouse,  of  Stoneybank,  in  Holmpeth,  Yorks'iire,  England.  Tht;  jiroperty  of  this 
branch  of  the  family  is  new  in  possessioji  of  Mr  Henry  Morehouse,  the  well  known  antiquarian 
and  author  of  "The  Aiititiuarifs  of  Ifn'  Wri^f  I{i<l'inij  of  yovL-<liiir."  Mr.  iMiriisliaw  Hrtidley's 
father  was  Mr.  Thoma-s  Bradley,  a  country  gentleman  iesi<ling  at  Richmond,  Vorkshire.  The 
former  was  educat*'d  for  the  army,  and  commenced  his  studies  in  his  native  town,  vi/.,  Kieli- 
mond,  Yorkshire,  wheie  ho  was  Iwrn  on  the  8tli  of  August,  1.S42,  and  finally,  at  the  royal 
military  academy  at  Woolwich.  Having  pa.ssed  the  examinations  for  the  ami}',  he  was 
gazetted  to  the  royal  artillery  as  iieuteniint,  on  the  1st  of  July,  ISdl,  ()a  joining  the  service 
he  was  appointed  to  No.  4  liattery,  10th  briga<le,  R.A.,  then  (piarteii'd  at  Portsmouth,  and 
remained  in  this  brigade,  serving  afterwards  at  tlie  school  of  gunnery,  Shoeburyue.ss,  Wool- 
wich, and  in  Canada,  until  he  resigned  his  commission  in  \W7.  The  battery  Mr  Hiadley  was 
serving  in  was  orilered  out  to  Canada  at  the  time  of  the  "Trent."  aH'air,  and  having  disi-iii- 
barked  at  Halifa.v,  N.S.,  they  were  ordered  to  St.  John,  Now  lirunswick,  whence  they  were 
moved,  in  the  depth  of  winter,  to  Riviere  du  Loup,  ru  Imik,  Montreal,  and  ultimately  stationed 
at  Kingston,  Out.,  where  it  was  (|uartere<l  for  some  three  3'ears.  At  the  expiration  of  this 
time,  it  was  removed  to  Queltec,  and,  after  two  years'  .service  there,  Mr  Bradley  was  granted 
leave  of  absence  to  visit  Kngland.     During  his  luivijf',  tlic  Fenian  raid  of  IHG(i  ttM)k  place,  and 


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lie  was  ordered  to  rejoin  his  batterj',  which  he  did  and  served  with  it  until  the  following 
year,  when  ho  left  the  service  and  enteied  into  commercial  pursuits  at  Three  Rivers,  where  he 
has  resided  up  to  the  jtresent  moment.  He  now  has  extensive  hemlock  bark  works  at  St. 
Leonards,  which,  it  may  be  saiil,  are  one  of,  if  not  the  best  in  the  Dominion.  In  addition  to 
this,  he  has  lately  interested  himself  in  some  paper  mill  works  at  Three  Rivers,  an  undertaking 
which  promises  to  be  of  no  inconsiderable  value  and  magnitude. 

In  Three  Rivers,  Mr  Bradley  is  a  gentleman  who  is  held  in  the  highest  esteem,  and, 
socially,  is  universally  respected. 

-  '      He  lielongs  to  the  (Protestant)  Episcopalian  Church ;  l»ut  in  regard  to  politics  he  takes  no 
active  part. 

He  mariied,  on  the  2Gth  of  March,  1S71,  Miss  Theresa,  only  child  of  Mr  Peter  Sharpies,  of 
Montreal,  but  of  English  descent,  by  which  alliance  there  is  issue  one  lioy  and  one  girl. 


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MONTREAL. 

COME  SERAPHIM  CHERRIER,  for  nearly  sixty  years  a  member  of  the  legal  fi-aternity, 
and  one  of  the  most  respected  memlx>i"s  of  the  Montreal  Bar,  was  liorn  in  the  parish  of 
Repentigny,  altout  twenty  miles  from  Montreal,  on  the  22nd  of  July,  1798,  his  father  I»eing 
Jost'ph  Marie  Cherrier.  Losing  his  mother  when  he  was  only  three  years  old,  he  was  brought 
up  in  the  family  of  his  uncle,  Denis  Viger,  residing  in  Montreal,  and  father  of  the  late  Hon 
Denis  Benjantin  Viger,  one  of  the  most  illustrious  citizens  of  Lower  Canada. 

He  was  educatiMl  in  the  classics  at  the  Montreal  college,  when  the  celebrated  teacher,  Mr. 
Roque,  one  of  the  members  of  the  House  of  St.  Sulspice,  wa.s  principal,  aided  by  a  very  able 
corps  of  associates ;  subse(|uetitly  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Mr.  Viger,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  on  the  22nd  of  July,  1822,  before  most  of  the  present  memltei's  were  Ijorn.  He  Iwcame 
at  first  a  partner  of  Louis  Michel  Vigor,  and  was  in  active  practice  nearly  forty  years,  rising  to 
eminence  in  the  i)rofession,  and  in  1804,  on  the  death  of  Hon.  Hypolitc  Lafontaine  was  invited 
to  take  a  .seat  on  the  Queen's  Bench  of  Lower  Canada,  but  declined.  He  seems  to  have  l)een 
Contented  with  a  highly  honorable  position  at  the  bar,  retiring  from  active  practice  in  1801. 

From  1832  to  1834',  Mr.  C^hcri-ier  had  for  law  partner,  Mr.  Aristige  Laberge,  a  talented 
young  advocate;  from  183.5  to  1841,  Mr.  Charles  Mondelet,  another  talented  lawyer,  and  from 
1.S41  to  18C0,  Hon.  A.  A.  Dori(m  and  Hon.  Wilfred  Dorion. 

Among  the  earlier  trials  in  which  he  took  a  prominent  part,  and  distinguished  himself,  was 
that  which  took  place  in  1827,  when  Dr.  Wolfred  Nelson,  the  Liberal  candidate  for  Parliament 
for  Sorol  sued  several  of  the  electors  for  perjury,  Mr.  Chcsrrier,  aided  by  Mr.  (Irant,  ami  actinw 


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for  the  tU'fonce,  won  the  case,  three  of  the  accused  being  ac(|uitte<l,  ami  the  suit  i»fj;ft''"**^  t^o 
others  V^'ing  abandoned.  Tlie  next  year,  Mr.  Waller  of  the  Canadian  Sjwctator,  and  other  pub- 
lishers and  prominent  men  of  Montreal,  were  tried  in  Court  for  seditious  libels  against  the  ad- 
ministration of  Lord  Dalhdusie;  and  the  t|Uestion  of  the  illegality  of  the  composition  of  the 
jury  assigned  for  the  trial  of  Mr.  Waller,  was  argued  with  great  skill  and  ability  before  tlie 
King's  Bench,  by  Mr.  < 'liorriei'  and  otliers.  But  perhaps  in  no  eause  did  he  more  highly  dis- 
tinguish himself  at  the  bar,  than  in  that  of  the  Scignorial  (juestion,  which  came  off  in  \H5'), 
and  in  which  our  subject,  conjointly  with  Messrs.  ]>unkin  and  Mackay,  both  since  mised  to  the 
bench,  represented  the  interests  of  the  Seigneurs,  and  ac({uitted  himself  with  marked  ability. 
That  famous  Seignorial  Court,  as  is  generally  known,  was  ecmstituted  with  a  view  to  determine 
what  were  the  rights  of  the  Seigneui-s,  in  order  to  enable  the  commissioners  appointed  Ui  that 
end  to  ti.K  the  amount  of  indemnity  which  was  due  them.  . 

Once  in  his  life  Mr.  ( !herrier  was  pia'suatled  to  accept  a  political  (jttice.  At  the  general 
election  in  1834,  the  ninety-two  resolutions  came  to  be  voted  on  in  the  Chamlmr  of  the  Assembly, 
the  people,  prov()ked  hy  the  Governor,  and  the  violence  of  the  bureaucracy,  were  determined 
more  than  ever  to  follow  the  lead  of  their  chief  in  the  line  of  constitutional  resistance,  Jind  to 
that  end  brougl't  out  Mr.  Cherrier  as  a  candidate  for  the  county  of  Montreal,  and  elected  him 
to  the  Parliament  of  Lower  Canada. 

Among  other  honoi-s  conferred  upon  him  years  ago,  were  those  of  hatouuicr  of  the  liar  of 
Montreal,  Doctor  of  Law  by  the  Univei'sity  of  St.  John,  near  Fordham,  New  York,  and  Chev- 
alier of  the  Order  of  St.  Gregory  the  Gieat,  an  honor  conferred  upon  him  by  Pius  IX.,  soon  alter 
Mr.  (^Iherrier  had  made  his  great  speech  in  the  Notre  Dame  church,  on  the  temporal  power  of 
the  Pope. 

In  IH72,  at  a  Itamiuet  given  to  Mr.  Cherrier  for  the  celdiration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary 
of  his  admission  to  the  Bar  of  Montnial,  our  subject  had  presented  to  him  an  address  liy  his 
fellow  citizens,  in  acknowledgement  of  ins  eminent  services  in  various  ways,  and  of  the  high 
esteem  in  which  he  was  held  ;  and  on  that  occasion  the  juilges  of  the  .several  courts,  the  lead- 
ing membei's  of  the  Montreal  Bar,  and  many  prominent  non-prof»!ssional  citizens  were  present, 
and  in  response  to  the  atldress,  he  made  a  neat  little  speech,  elegant  in  language  and  chaiucter- 
istically  modest  in  tone. 

In  1877,  Laval  imivei-sity  of  Quebec,  having  established  a  branch  at  Montreal,  Mr.  Cherriei' 
was  appointed  dean  of  the  Faculty  of  Law,  and  profe.s.sor  of  International  Law.  In  this 
capacity  he  has,  at  the  univei'sity  meetings  which  have  tjiken  place  at  Monti-eal,  delivered 
several  discoui-ses. 

In  18:13,  Mr.  Cherrier  manusd  the  wiilow  <  'onrsol,  the  mother  of  Judge  « "ouixol,  ami  by  her 
he  had  two  daughters. 

Part  of  the  data  in  this  notice  of  Mr.  Cherrier,  we  find  in  a  sketch  of  him  in  a  Montreal 
book,  published  in  1875,  the  writer  of  which  sketch  adds  in  regard  to  Mr.  Cherrier,  that  his  life 


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presents  llie  spectacle  of  a  rich  nattire  perfected  l)y  religious  Hcntimcnt,  illimiine<i  by  the  light 
of  faith.  "  It  is  the  charm  ot'his  life  that  he  lut-s  iilways  walked  in  the  ways  of  rectitude  and 
truth,  practising  the  several  virtues,  and  completely  Kiling,  seemingly,  all  his  duties  towards 
( iod  and  toward  society." 

Hon.  Denis  B.  Viger  ilied  on  the  l.Sth  of  Feliruary,  IcSOl,  and  having  no  cliildren,  left  his 
property  to  Mr.  C'herrier,  whom  he  constituted  liis  sole  legat«'e  ;  and  it  was  at  that  time  that 
he  retired  from  active  professional  practice.  He  is  spending  the  sun-.setting  hours  of  his  emi- 
nently useful  life  in  acts  of  benevolence  and  kindness,  and  showing  himself  prominently  as  an 
homme  <k  lien. 


IIOK   CIlAllLEiS   GILL, 

SOREL. 

CHARLES  GILL,  one  of  the  puisne  juilges  of  the  supeiior  court  of  the  Province  of  Quebec, 
was  born  at  St.  Francis,  county  of  Yamaska.  on  the  12th  of  March,  LS44.  His  father 
was  Ignace  Gill,  Es(|.,  a  i)rominent  business  man,  who  was  twice  elected  to  represent  the  county 
of  Yamaska,  in  the  Legislative  Assembly,  under  the  union,  from  18.54  to  LSGl.  His  mother's 
name  wa.s  Elizabeth  McDougall. 

The  head  of  the  Gill  family  (whose  members  and  connections  are  now  very  numerous  in 
the  parishes  of  St.  Francis  and  Pierreville),  was  Samuel  Gill,  the  son  of  a  New  England  settler, 
who  wiis  taken  prisoner  by  the  Abenaki  Indians,  in  one  of  their  frocpient  raids  on  the  New  Eng- 
land States,  from  1700  to  1710,  and  brought  to  their  village  in  St.  Francis  ;  young  (Jill  being 
then,  according  to  tradition,  tifteen  years  of  age,  was  ado))ted  by  the  tribe,  as  was  also  a  young 
girl,  named  James,  the  daughter  of  a  Church  of  England  minister,  also  made  prisoner  at  the 
same  time,  aged  twelve.  These  young  people  were  taken  care  of  by  the  Jesuit  Father,  then 
in  cliarge  of  the  mission  of  those  Indians,  educated  by  him  in  the  Roman,  Catholic  faith,  and 
married  by  the  curd  in  spite  of  the  decision  of  the  cliiefs  in  council  assend>lpd  who  had  determined 
that  the  white  adoi)ted  pris(mers  should  marry  some  of  the  tribe,  so  that  their  blood  might  be 
mixed  with  that  of  the  natives.  In  17'')6,  a  Mrs.  Johnston,  who  was  taken  prisoner  in  New  Kik'- 
land  by  Indians  of  the  same  tribe,  and  brought  to  St.  Francis,  writes  in  the  nairativi;  of  the  cap- 
tivity that  she  was  sold  as  a  slave  to  a  man  named  Gill,  who  lived  in  the  Indian  village,  b>it  in 
a  style  far  above  the  majoiity  of  the  tribe,  keeping  a  store  of  goods,  and  who  often  told  her  that 
lie  was  of  pure  English  blood  ;  it  was  one  of  the  .sons  of  Samuel  Gill  and  Miss  James. 

Some  of  the  members  t)f  the  Gill  family  in  early  days  married  Indians,  and  even  now  theie 
are  members  of  the  tribe  bearing  that  name,  but  most  of  them  are  allied  to  French  Canadians, 
and  their  descendants  are  now  chieHy  amongst  F'rench  Canadian  faimers. 

Judge  (lill  received  his  e<lucation  at  the  Nicolet  college,  Itetween  l.S.")(!  and  liS(i4.  On  leav- 
ing college,  he  entered  Laval  univei-sity,  at  Quebec,  as  a  law  .student,  studying  at  tlie^same  time 


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in  tlu«  litw  ortice  of  Mr.  TosKior,  now  Mr.  Justice  Tosxier,  of  the  eouit  of  a])|M>»l,  till  .Inly,  IH»i7, 
whi'H  ho  took  the  (h'^'iee  of  baehelor,  and  was  called  to  the  bar  on  the  !)tli  of  OctolKT,  IN(i7. 
Iiiiiiieiliately  after  he  came  to  reside  in  Sorel  to  jiraetiw  law,  enterinij;  into  partnei-ship  with  Mr. 
James  Armstrony  (now  chief  jusiiee  of  St.  Kueia  and  Tobago  Islands,  in  the  West  Indies),  re- 
maining with  him  until  his  appointment,  in  the  fall  of  1871,  inheriting  the  clienfelle  of  the  ottiee, 
und  retaining  and  even  increasing  it  as  long  a-s  he  remained  in  practice. 

Tn  January,  1H7(),  Judge  Gill  was  mairie<I  to  Miss  Dolphinc  Seneeal,  eldest  daughter  of  I-. 
A.  Seneeal,  Esq.,  now  general  superintendent  of  the  North  Shore  R»iilway,  and  then  re)>resent- 
ing  in  the  House  of  Commons  the  counties  of  Drumiiiond  and  Arthabasea,  and  in  the  hocnl 
Asembly,  the  county  of  Yamaska. 

At  the  general  electionii,  which  took  place  in  the  summer  of  1.S7 1,  for  the  Quebec  local 
house,  Mr.  Seneeal  made  way  for  hini,  and  it  was  through  his  influence,  and  in  remembrance  of 
the  good  name  which  the  judge's  father  had  left  in  the  county  of  Yamiwka,  that  he  was  elected 
for  that  county  to  represent  it  in  the  Local  Hou.se.  He  continued  to  be  a  member  of  that  Hou.se 
till  .lanuary,  1.S74,  when  he  resigneil  his  sent,  and  wa.s  elected  by  acclamation  for  the  same 
county  foi'  the  House  of  Commons,  to  which  House  he  was  re-elected  at  the  genera!  elections  of 
September,  1N7S.  His  scut  became  vacant  on  his  accepting  the  judg.ship  he  now  holds,  on  the 
2()th  of  May,  1879,  l)cing  then  only  thirty-five  years  old,  and  after  eleven  years  and  seven 
months  of  legal  practice. 

In  his  political  opinions  he  is  a  strong  supporter  of  the  Con.sorvative  party,  whose  principles 
he  imbibed  from  his  father,  who  was  a  staunch  Conservative  of  the  good  old  time.  In  religious 
conviction,  the  judge  is  a  Roman  (^athrdic,  being  e  lucated  in  that  faith. 

Although  Judge  Gill  is  one  of  the  youngest  judges,  if  not  the  youngest,  on  the  bench  in  the 
Province  of  Quebec,  his  pei-sonal  appearance  and  familiarity  with  the  ar«luous  duties  of  his  hi<di 
ortice,  would  lead  to  the  belief  that  he  was  of  a  more  m  ituro  age.  Ho  is  justly  popul  ir  with  the 
bar,  and  also  highly  esteemed  by  the  comimmity  of  Sorel,  and  the  county  of  Richelieu. 


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i:i)MUNJ)    HARVARD, 

MONTREAL. 

"TT^DMl'Nl)  HARNARD,  (me  of  the  most  studious,  painstaking  and  sue.  •  isful  lawvers  in 
-'— ^     Montreal,  is  a  son  of  Edison  Barnard,  many  years  prothonotary  of  Three  Rivers,  P.  Q., 
and  was  born  there  on   the  2-Srd  of  July,  1.S:}1.     His  father  is  also  a  native  f>f  this  Province. 
The  family  \va.s  originally  from  Yorkshire,  England,  .settled  at  an  early  ilay  in  the  history  i^f 
the  colonies,  at  Deerfield,  Ma.ss.,  and  inunigrated  thence  into  Canada. 

Mr.  Barnard  was  educated  in  the  colleges  of  St.  Hyacinthe,  Nieolet  and  Montreal, and  took 
his  degrees  of    B.A,  and  M.A.  at  St.  John's  College,   Fordliam,  N,  Y. ;  studied  law' with   Jndi/e 


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Polette  in  Three  Rivers,  and  with  Sir  John  Rose,  and  the  present  Mr.  Justice  Monk,  of  the 
(Vmrt  of  Appeals,  and  was  a<lniitted  to  the  bai-  on  the  23rd  of  OctoW^r,  1853.  His  special 
hranches  of  business  are  real  estate  and  French  law,  municipal  law,  and  law  of  banks  and  cor- 
porations, his  tran.sactions  Inung  extensive  in  these  several  deiiartments.  He  often  visits  Eng- 
land to  ntten<l  to  Canadian  cases  before  the  judicial  coinniittee  of  the  Privy  Council.  A  fellow 
ujcniber  of  the  Montreal  bar  gives  Mr.  Barnard  credit  for  having  a  very  keen  perception  of  the 
old  French  law  — second  io  that  of  no  other  lawyer  in  the  Province — for  being  an  indefatigable 
worker  in  preparing  his  cases,  and  for  Injing  a  fluent  and  strong  advocate,  equally  good  in  the 
French  and  English  languages. 

In  1858  Mr.  Barnard  was  married  to  Miss  Ellen  King  Austin,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  C  L. 
Austin,  recorder  of  the  city  of  Albany,  N.  Y.,  and  they  have  ten  children. 


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SOREL. 

"A  yTR.  DANIEL  McCARTHY  was  born  in  the  city  of  Cork,  Ireland,  in  1818.  John  at 
-^'-*-  Quel¥3c,  Canatla,  in  IHuO.  Their  parents,  John  McCai-thy  and  Elizabeth  Henrn,  came 
to  Canada  in  1818,  induced  by  the  fact  that  a  cousin  of  their  mother,  Sir  Robert  Hall,  was  in 
command  of  the  na\'al  forces  on  the  upper  lakes,  and  had  promised  a  position  in  the  dockyard 
at  Kingston  to  their  father.  The  death  of  Sir  Rol>ert  Hall,  shortly  after  the  arrival  of  the 
family  in  the  country,  decided  its  stay  in  Quebec,  where  Daniel  and  John  went  to  school  until 
1832,  when  Daniel  left  it  to  learn  the  ship-building  business.  John  did  the  .same  in  1835. 
Here  they  worked  diligentl}' :  Daniel,  especially,  applying  himself  to  acquire  a  knowledge  of 
draughting  ami  modelling.  In  183!l,  Dnniel  was  engag»;d  to  conduct  the  ship-yard  at  Sorel, 
Iwlonging  to  the  Hon.  John  Molson  ami  Captain  Vaughan  ;  and  in  184  !■,  his  brother  joined 
him.  During  the  time  he  had  charge  of  the  yard,  a  largo  amount  of  work  was  done;  many 
seagoing  vessels  and  river  craft  of  all  kinds  were  built.  Shortly  after  184+,  the  two  brothers 
))egan  ship-building  and  general  business  on  their  own  account,  and  soon  found  themselves  at 
the  head  of  a  large  establishment.  During  the  time  they  carried  (ju  business  a  very  largo 
amount  of  work  was  done  by  tliem.  In  1845-(i,  they  built  two  large  oeean  ves.sels,  nearly  one 
liun<lred  inland  craft  and  several  steamers  ;  among  them,  the  Qufhif  (put  up  in  their  yard), 
the  Thi'ii'  Hir<'r»,  Tirrt'honni\  Chumhbj  and  Caninhi.  of  the  Hichelieu  Co.;  ami  the 
Ihhkct  and  Mi'tiov  for  Sir  Hugh  Allan.  When  in  l>usiness,  nearly  all  the  work  of  con- 
stnjet-'  and  repair  reipiired  by  the  harlnti  connni.ssion  of  Montreal  was  done  by  them. 
As  the  harbor  fleet  comprises  a  number  of  dredgt^s,  steamers  and  other  vessels,  this,  of  it.self, 
constituted  an  ext«insive  business.  The  greatt'r  jMirt  of  the  repairs  and  alterations  re<juired  by 
the  Hichelieu  Navigation  Co,  were  doiu;  by  them. 


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The  steam  sawmill  on  their  premises  being,  at  that  time,  the  only  one  in  this  part  of  tlie 
locality,  they  had  a  monopoly  of  all  such  work  in  the  vicinity,  and  conferred  a  great  Itenetit  on 
all  the  country  around  by  the  facilities  it  afforded  to  i^ei-soiis  building  or  executing  woodwork 
of  any  kind.  Their  business  was  of  inestimable  benefit  to  the  locality  by  giving  employment 
to  a  great  number  of  the  inhabitants.  During  pressure  of  work,  they  employed  about  250  men 
a  day,  but  their  average  number  was  from  100  to  l.')0.  These  were  principally  from  the  town 
and  immediate  neighbourhood  of  Sorcl  ;  it  will  therefore  be  seen  what  a  source  of  prosperity 
their  business  has  been  to  the  place  they  have  selected  as  their  home. 

In  18.>(!,  they  took  as  a  partner  in  their  business  their  younger  brother,  Thomas,  who  con- 
tinued in  it  up  to  18C7,  when  he  came  forward  a,s  a  candidate  to  represent  the  county  of  Rich- 
elieu in  the  House  of  Commons,  at  the  general  elections  which  took  place  inuneiliately  after 
Confederation,  and  was  elected  by  a  large  majority  over  Mr  Perrault  (liberal),  who  opposed 
liim.  He  was  consequently  the  first  member  for  this  county  under  the  new  regime,  and  his 
family  received  the  commemorative  medal  stnick  on  the  occasion,  some  time  after  his  death, 
which  was  hastened,  no  doubt,  by  the  harassing  fatigues  of  a  hotly  contested  election.  Tlu' 
county  of  Richelieu  had  for  some  time  been  held  by  the  liberals  (or  rouges),  Ijut  his  e.veraons 
redeemed  it  from  them  for  the  Conservative  party. 

In  1M71,  Messrs.  1).  vt  J.  McCarthy  gave  up  the  ship-building  and  other  busines.s  and 
retired  into  private  life.  Their  time,  at  iwesent,  is  chiefly  occupied  in  looking  after  their 
private  aHairs,  and  attending  to  the  education  of  the  children  of  their  laU-  brother  Thomas. 

In  religion,  the  Messrs.  McCarthy  are  Roman  Catholics.  In  politics,  on  any  occa.sion  when 
they  have  taken  a  part  in  them,  it  has  been  on  the  Conservative  side. 


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HON.   THOMAS    M.G1JEE\'V, 

(fVKHEC. 

TN  Quebec  city,  especially  in  the  west  division,  there  is  probably  not  a  more  highly  esteemed 
-*-  nian  than  the  Hon.  Mr.  M(<  Jreevy,  and  one  more  miiversally  esteemed  and  respectetl  in 
the  whole  Dominion  it  were  difiicult  to  fin<l.  He  was  born  in  t^ueboc,  on  the  iiTth  -Inly,  1.S27, 
and  is  of  Irish  descent. 

He  was  appointetl  for  the  Stadacona  division  in  the  Legislative  Council  of  the  l'ro\  inei-  of 
Queliec,  in  1S07,  and  sat  as  its  representative  until  the  general  elections  in  l.sT^,  when  he  re- 
signed consequent  ujmn  the  abolition  of  dual  representation  ;  he  was  fii-st  returned  to  represi-nl 
Quebec  West  in  the  House  of  Commons  at  the  general  elections  in  1.S(I7,  by  acelamiition  ;  he 
was  again  returned  for  the  .same  seat,  after  a  contost,  in  1.S72,  and  again  in  |S7I' ;  ami  if  it  wcrt; 
necessary  to  evince  more  fully  his  popidarity  amongst  his  constituents,  we  havt-  it  in  tin-  faet 


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tl>at  lie  was  ii;turiiccl  ayaiii  by  acclamatiun  for  the  saiiic  seat  in  the  ("oininotis,  at  the  f,'eiit'ral 
elections  in  187iS.  As  a  Liberal  Conservative  he  has  steadfastly  during  the  whole  of  his  politi- 
cal career,  adhered  to  his  colors. 

The  Hon.  Mr.  McGreevy  is  one  of  the  laiyest  contractoi-s  in  this  part  of  the  province,  and 
had  the  building  of  the  North  Shore  Railway  from  Quebec  to  Montreal ;  his  work  for  the  <fov- 
ernment  railway  carries  with  it  sutticient  evidence  that  all  he  undertake.s  to  do  is  done  well.  In 
this  line  of  road  it  is  patent  to  the  most  casual  observer  that  every  infinitesimal  particle  of  the 
material  and  labor  employed  was  of  the  best. 

As  a  city  father,  he  was  none  the  less  popular  than  in  fact  all  and  every  enterprise  he  con- 
nects his  well-known  name  with,  and  in  this  council,  in  which  he  .sat  from  18.58  to  180-1',  his  coun- 
sel and  recommendations  were  unanimously  agreed  upon  as  sage  and  .sound.  And  in  city  coun- 
cils, where  there  are  always  .so  many  divergences  of  opinion,  in  none  po.ssibly  less  so  than  that  of 
Quebec,  this  fact  speaks  for  itself. 

He  is  president  of  the  St.  Lawrence  Steam  Navigation  Co.;  a  member  of  the  Quebec  Har- 
bor Commission  ;  a  director  of  the  Union  Bank  of  Lower  Canada  since  its  estal'lishment  ;  was 
appointed  by  the  board  in  England  a  director  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada  Land  and  Coloniza- 
tion Co.  (limited),  and  is  vice-president  of  the  reorganized  locomotive  works,  Kingston  ;  was 
formerly  one  of  the  directoi-s  of  the  North  Shore  Railway  Co.  :  and  also  frtmi  18li4  to  1878,  a 
commissioner  of  the  Quebec  Turnpike  Trust. 

He  married,  in  1807,  Miss  WooLsey,  only  daughter  of  the  late  J.  B.  Woolsey,  Es(i.,  by 
whii  h  there  is  issue  a  daughter  and  three  .sons. 


HON.   HENRI    F.   KAINN'ILLE,  LL.H., 

MONTREAL. 

HENRI  FELIX  RATNVILLE,  one  of  the  puisne  judges  of  the  superior  con  I  for  the 
district  of  Mimtreal,  tlates  his  birth  at  Ste.  Marie  <le  Monnoir,  county  of  liouville,  P.Q., 
(m  the  10th  of  Deceudjer  IKM),  his  father  being  Joseph  Feli.v  Rainville.  Our  subject  is  the 
ninth  generation  from  the  progenitors  of  the  Rainville  family  in  this  province,  and  the  pro- 
perty first  ceiled  to  the  family,  at  Heau|>ort,  near  Quebec,  is  still  in  the  hands  of  the  family. 
The  mother  of  Judge  Rainville  was  Marie  LouLse  Daigneau,  descendimt  of  another  very  ol<l 
French  ( 'anadian  family. 

He  receiv(!d  his  classical  education  at  the  St  Hyacinthe  college ;  and  his  legal,  at  Lival 
university,  lieing  a  student  of  Juilge  Tessier,  of  Quebec  ;  studying  his  profession  from  18.)!)  to 
1802,  in  July  of  which  latter  year  he  was  called  to  the  Imr.  He  practised  in  Montreal  until  he 
was  appointed  to  the  bench  on  the  Jhd  of  February,  I87<i,  to  fill  a  vacancy  causeil  iiy  thi'  death 


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of  Hon.  J.  U.  Bi'iiniliy.  From  liis  oiitraiicc  at  tin-  l>i»r,  wiitos  a  friend  of  liis,  "  Iio  took  liis 
|)lace  amonff  tlie  best  advocates,  and  lie  was  often  consulted  l>y  liis  younj,'er  confreres,  who  had 
fjreat  confidenee  in  his  le^nil  attainments.  The  vi<,'or  with  which  ho  had  jiursued  his  studies 
at  Laval,  he  continued  when  he  was  admitted  to  his  profession.  Those  studies,  allied  to  a 
legal  mind,  a  clear  and  correct  judgment,  and  a  happy  memory,  greatly  aid  in  making  liim  a 
distinguished  judge.  He  has  a  keen  perception,  and  unravels,  without  effort,  ca.ses  the  most 
entangled  and  ijuestions  the  mu-^t  subtle." 

He  is  a  LL.H.  of  Laval  university,  and  professor  of  real  estate  law  in  iNfcClill  university. 

We  bclitve  .hidge  Rainville  has  never  held  a  political  ottice.  While  at  the  bar,  he  has 
attended  very  clo.sely  to  the  study  and  ju'actice  of  his  profession,  and  his  present  elevated 
position  is  due,  in  part,  to  his  steadiness  and  splendid  attainments,  a.s  well  a.s  to  his  talents. 

In  1MG7,  Judge  llainville  was  joineil  in  marriage  with  Hi-lJino  Herminie,  daughter  of  tlu> 
late  Charles  Drolet,  of  Montreal,  and  she  ditcl  in  1.S72,  leaving  one  son,  (iustave,  now  in  his 
13th  year. 


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TTON.   LUTIIEP.    HAMILTON    IIOLTON, 

MONTIiKA  L 

^TN(!K  the  Tonfederation  of  the  Canadian  Provinces,  the  death  of  no  member  of  Parliament,. 
'^  with  thesingle  exception,  pi-rbaps,  of  that  of  Hon.  T.  D'.Vrey  .McCire,  has  produced  sueli  a 
wide-spread  :Mid  profound  sensation  as  that  of  Hun.  Lut'.e-  Hamilton  Holton,  on  the  I4th  of 
.March,  INSD.  lie  had  dined  tin  Saturday  evening  witli  the  Minister  of  Customs,  Hon.  .Mac- 
kenzie liowell  ;  went  U>  liif  liotei  about  midnight,  in  perfect  health  and  in  his  usually  buoxant 
spirits  ;  was  taki'U  ill  almnst  immediately  ;  had  a  physician  suuunoned,  aiiil  before  Ins  arrival 
was  a  dead  man.  lb'  who  was  cut  down  thus  suddenly  was,  with  one  e.\c"j)tion  -that  of  Sir 
.lohn  A.  Maedonai.l,  the  Premie  i-  the  oh  lest  nu'mber  of  the  Ihiuse  of  Commons  ;  w.is  rcg.irded 
as  the  Nestor  of  that  body,  and  bad  tlie  contiilenee  and  esteem  ol'all  jiartii's;  hence  the  sorrow 
at  their  great  loss  was  \eiv  deep.  Tlie  w  riter  of  this  sketch  was.  at  the  time  of  Mr.  Ilollon's 
demise,  a  temporary  sojouiiier  in  (tllawa,  and  has  larely  seen  a  whole  city  so  profoiuidU'  and 
so  solemnly  impressed  by  the  (jeiitli  of  any  one  person,  fir  .Mr.  Holton  was  thoroughly  known 
there,  anil  gen.  rally  and  warndy  esteeineil. 

He  who  so  suddenly  sacateil  bis  seat  in  P.iiliainent  was  )i  son  of  K/ra  and  .Vnna  Phillips) 
Hanulton,  bulb  of  New  iMigland  stock,  and  was  born  at  South  Leeds,  Ontario,  in  .lanuarv, 
lsl7,  and  removed  to  Montreal  in  ls2(!.  His  school  drill  was  somewhat  limitecj,  most  of  his 
education  being  obtained  in  private,  be  being  his  own  tutor, and  very  c.vacting  at  that.  Indeed, 
he  was  a  stiiilent  all  his  life,  history  ami  political  science  being  among  his  favorite  studies.  He 
was  admitted  as  bi„'li  authority  in  c.iiislitutiona!   law  and   in  parliamentary  rules  and  practici'. 


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He  was  vory  familiar  witli  tlie  constitutional  and  political  history  of  tlie  United  States,  as  well 
as  that  of  (iruat  Britain,  and  on  more  than  one  occasion  surprised  prominent  citizins  of  the 
American  llepulilic  hy  his  thoroujfh  knowledj;"  of  their  great  stutesnien  an<l  of  the  political 
])arties  of  that  country  from  Washington  down  lO  Hayes. 

In  early  manhood,  Mr.  Holton  entered  coniT.iercial  life,  and  was  for  a  long  time  a  member 
of  the  film  of  Hooker  and  Holton,  merchants  and  forwarders.  He  was,  also,  at  one  time  en- 
gaged in  railroad  huilding,  heing  of  the  firm  of  (Izowski  A:  Co.,  who  built  a  section  of  the 
(Irand  Trunk  Railway,  running  westward  from  Toronto  to  CJuelph,  which  proved  to  be  a  very 
profitable  venture. 

Berore  and  after  entering  public  life,  Mr.  Holton  held  many  honorable  positions.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  corporation  of  Montreal ;  president  repeatedly  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  also  of 
the  Montreal  City  and  Savings  Bank  ;  harbor  commissioner;  vici  -president  of  a  Free  Trade 
Association,  and  a  <lirectf;r  of  the  Cit^'  Bank. 

Mr.  Holton  sat  for  Montreal  in  the  Canadian  Assembly  from  1S.")4  to  1857,  entering  on  his 
jmlitical  career  just  ten  yeais  after  Sir  John  A.  Macdonald.  In  the  latter  year  just  mentioned, 
Mr.  Holton  was  defeated.  IIo  was  a  (lovernment  director  of  the  (band  Trunk  Railway  from 
l«.-)2  to  is:.?. 

Mr.  Holton  was  a  member  of  the  E.xecutive  Council  of  Canada  from  the  ind  to  the  Cth  of 
August,  18.">S,  in  the  Brown-Dorion  admini.stration,  and  from  May,  18('3,  to  March,  1804,  in  the 
SiindficM  Macdonald-Dorion  administration,  and  held  the  ottice  of  Commissioner  of  Public 
Works  of  Canada  on  the  former  occasion,  and  that  of  Minister  of  Finance  on  the  '.alter. 

Mr.  Holton  wis  mcmlier  for  Victoria  Division  in  the  Legislative  Council  of  Cauaila,  from 
September,  ls(i2,  to  May,  l8(i;{,  when  he  resigned  on  being  appointed  Minister  of  Finance,  ami 
w;is  ret\irned  For  Chaleauguay,  which  he  represented  steadily  in  that  body  until  the  Confedera- 
ti(ni  in  18(!7,  and  in  the  House  of  <  'ommons  from  that  date  until  his  death.  He  also  represented 
.Montreal  Centre  in  the  Local  .\ssendily,  leading  the  Knglish  o})position  from  1871  to  January, 
lt'th,ls74',  when  be  retired  fiom  that  body  in  order  to  givehis  undivided  time  tothe  House  of  Com- 
mons. H;  has  always  been  classed  as  an  "advanced  Lilteral,"  and,  except  on  the  question  of 
('onfiidera  ii,  which  tcnipoifiriiy  divided  that  party,  he  has  been  in  accord  with  it.  He  was 
"|i|)osed  t,o  Confederation,  but  when  accomj)lisheil,  he  gave  his  services  in  assisting  to  consoli- 
date the  Dominion  an<l  to  >ecure  the  whole  countiy  the  fullest  benefits  to  be  obtained  from  the 
free  and  harmonious  workm;'  of  the  new  constitution. 

The  Montreal  fln-nld  thus  spoke  of  Ins  position  in  Parliament,  and  his  character  for  in- 
tegrity, the  morning  after  his  death  : 

llu  wit8  iiiit  u  frt'ipurit  n|>uak(r,  uiul  wlicii  Ik-  iidilreHHcil  tho  Huiiau  what  \w  BAid  woa  more  reinarknlile  for 
itii  tursenuRS  iitul  relevaiicu  than  for  ilH  len),;tli.  Hut  ht:  |>oHHt!Meii  some  (iimlitic^s  whivh  nro  much  ritrm  than 
Ih  tlt'8iral)K'  aiiionj,'  inr  IcgishUorn.  Hi>  wiib  iii(li']M'iiilt'iit  in  circun)HtiiiUH'H  imtl  mon;  iiiili'iii'iiilent  in  ilmriK'ter. 
Hu  ^rotilalilt'  triiiiH.K'tion  in  wliiili  llii>  lioujie  was  oakud  to  inturvtine,  livon  to  thtt  uxlent  of  Krantinx  u charter  uf 


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incnrporation,  fuuiid  )iig  name  uoimucted  with  it.  After  he  became  a  member  of  I'lirliament,  liis  intimate  per- 
■<mal  frienclg,  whu  knew  how  careful  he  was  tu  have  n>>  comiiderable  interest  in  joint  stock  eomjianieii,  which 
were  likely  to  come  to  Parliament  as  petitioners,  even  for  change  in  their  corporate  power,  were  sometimes  dis- 
|K>sed  to  believe  that  he  puahed  this  principle  to  an  extreme.  He  added  to  hin  high  character  a  very  accurate 
knowledge  of  all  the  f  irms  and  rules  of  Parliament,  and,  probably,  in  this  particular,  was  superior  to  any  man 
in  the  Commons.  From  these  circumstances  he  derived  a  very  considerable  personal  iiiHuence  far  in  excess  of 
anything  that  could  be  gathered  from  his  share  in  the  clebates. 

The  Toronto  (jlohe  thus  .spoke  of  .some  of  Mr.  Ilolton's  work  in  Pailiamont :  ' 

In  all  the  early  contests  of  the  Liberal  party  of  Upper  Canada  for  the  overthrow  of  family  compactisui,  state 
cliurchism,  clergy  reserves,  sectarian  education,  and  other  systems  of  injustice,  Mr.  Holton,  although  ii  resi<lent 
of  Lower  Canada,  thoroughly  Hympathi/.ed  ;  and  with  their  deiiiands  for  practical  reforms  throughout  the  w'mle 
administration  of  public  affairs,  the  abolition  of  mono|iolies,  and  the  entire  eipiaiity  of  all  the  people  in  the  eye 
of  the  law,  he  was  in  hearty  accord.  His  [lersonal  views  on  these  ipiestions  sometimes  rendered  his  position  as 
a  leading  member  of  the  Liberal  party  of  Lower  Canada  a  delicate  and  difficult  one  ;  but  his  perfect  apprecia- 
tion of  the  situation,  his  frank  avowal  of  his  personal  views  on  all  occasions,  and  the  manifest  sincerity  of  his 
convictions  not  only  carried  him  thro\igh  but  commanded  the  resiiect  of  his  Lower  Canada  as.iociatcs  and  aided 
the  cause  of  Reform  in  I'pper  Canada. 

A  .sad  scene  occurred  in  the  House  of  Commons,  on  Monday  afternoon  followinjj;  thi!  deatli 
of  Mr.  llolton.  Sir  John  A.  Macdonald  moved  tlie  iidjourument  of  the  House,  and  in  doin;,'  so 
made  the  foUowinj,'  speecli — an  t-luquent  tribute  to  tlie  memory  of  Mr.  llolton  ; 

It  was  with  heart-felt  regret  and  sorrow  amounting  to  a  shmk,  that  I  heard  yesterday  that  an  old  and  re- 
siiected  member  of  1'arliaiuent,  member  for  Cliateauguay,  had  passed  away.  It  seemed  but  a  few  hours  since 
we  hiid  seen  him  full  of  life  and  vigor,  in  the  maturity  of  judgment,  in  apparently  excellent  health,  carrying  out 
from  day  to  day  the  useful  career  which  he  had  promised  to  himself  when  he  entered  Parliament,  and  which  he 
faithfull"  ptirsued  to  the  end.  I  feel,  sir,  that  the  moti(]n  which  I  make  is  a  h\imble  tustiiuony  on  my  part  of 
the  regret  which  1  feel  for  his  dejiarture,  and  it  comes  with  peculiar  htness  from  niyaelf.  \V"  had  never  been 
politically  of  the  .same  party  ;  we  had  always  been  drawn  up  in  parliamentary  conflict  iji  opposition  ti;  one  an- 
other, but  during  all  that  long  period  I  am  happy  to  say  tliat  we  enjoyed  uninterruptedly  a  warm  pt>;-8onal 
friendship.  I  knew  and  valued  his  good  iiualities,and  perhaps  he  in  some  degree  returned  to  me  the  feeling  of  artec- 
tionate  regard  which  I  always  entertained  for  him.  It  was  arranged  across  the  Wmt  of  tlie  House  that  weshoiild 
put  an  end  to  the  practice  of  adjourniiig  on  the  death  of  any  member  of  this  body  except  in  very  exceptional 
cases,  but  I  think,  sir,  that  this  is  an  exceptional  caijo.  It  is  not  the  onliiiary  one  of  a  member  of  this  Hoiinu 
di8api>earing  in  the  course  of  nature  :  it  is  not  the  case  of  our  knowing  that  a  place  which  hiui  been  occupied  by 
one  of  us  is  to  be  occupied  by  another,  but  it  seems  to  me  personally  a.s  if  we  had  seen  him  fall,  as  if  we  had  seen 
him  die  in  that  chair  opposite  me  which  is  now  vacant.  I  feel  that  the  shock  is  so  groat,  and  1  am  ipiite  siin; 
all  who  knew  him  have  the  same  feelings,  that  we  could  not  for  the  life  of  us  enter  profitably  into  any  discussion 
or  enter  into  any  parliamentjiry  liusiness  with  this  recent  calamity  presning  on  our  attention,  our  memory  and 
our  atl'ection. 

I  knew  that  gentleman  as  a  business  man  before  he  eiit^Ted  Parliament  :  I  had  most  iiitimate  business 
relations  with  him,  and  1  can  vouch,  as  all  the  world  can  vouch,  for  tlie  unswerving  honesty  and  uprightness  of 
purpose  which  characterized  hip.  actions  and  his  conduct  in  every  relation  of  life,  private,  social,  cimimurclal  and 
political.  He  .<eld  a  uiii(|ii.'  lositioii  in  the  Parliament  of  Canadi.  Though  a  strong  party  man,  ami  somctimeH, 
from  my  [loint  of  view,  too  strongly  actuated  by  partiiiin  motives,  still  from  the  uprightness  of  his  mind,  the 
soundness  of  his  judgment,  and  the  warmth  of  his  devotion  to  the  country,  he  held  himself  aloof  from  the  more 
bitter  struggles  of  his  party,  and  we  on  this  side  of  the  House  always  looked  with  contidence  to  him  in  any  mat- 
terin  which  the  honor,  the  dignity  or  the  prosperity  of  this  Dominion,  or  of  this  Province  before  it  was  connected 
with  the  Dominion,  were  concerned.  If  I  may  lie  i>ermitted  to  say  so,  he  held  a  position  in  this  Hiinse  in  which 
his  disinterested  usefulness  to  the  couniry  was  more  distinguished  than  at  any  other  ptiriod  of  his  life.  He  had 
survived  much  of  the  bitterness  of  party  eontlict,  and  thought  oidy  of  the  go(jd  cif  his  country,  and  he  proved 


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himself,  aiid  justly  prided  hiiiisolf  on  beiii^'  a  ^reit'  parliaiiiuiitary  authority.  His  utility  to  tlio  House  and  to 
every  member  of  the  House,  and  his  usefulness  tc»  the  country  in  that  regard  were  aliumt,  if  not  i|uite,  un- 
ocjualled  in  either  branch  of  the  legislature. 

I  speak,  of  course,  nut  in  a  party  sense  when  I  say  that  his  mind  was  cxcemlin;,'ly  omservativu,  and  that 
in  all  legislation,  and  especially  legislation  aflecting  vested  interests  or  private  rights,  he  was  always  found  pro- 
tecting those  interests  and  those  rights,  and  resisting  any  attempt  to  override  theiu  liy  n'volutionary  or  hasty 
action.  He  always  leaned  towards  the  side  of  protecting  the  rigiits  of  property,  and  wc  all  know  how  well  he 
fought  the  battles  of  parliamentary  and  constitutional  freedom.  [  know  his  party,  but  I  say,  from  the  siiiccrily 
of  my  heart,  that  I  think  the  loss  to  the  whole  country  is  as  great  as  the  loss  to  his  own  p  irticiilar  friends.  I!ut, 
sir,  if  he  be  a  loss  to  this  House,  how  serious  must  be  the  ciiiisidurai,iu:is  which  [ire.ss  up  m  my  own  jnind.  I 
have  known  him  so  long,  knowing  him  from  youth  ui)wards,  and  seeing  liiru  one  of  the  list<if  the  old  party  I 
used  to  meet  years  and  years  ago,  I  feel,  to  use  the  words  of  Hiirkc  with  regard  to  his  soti,  '  What  sluidows  we 
are,  and  what  shadows  wf  pursue.'  I  feel,  sir,  that  no  member  would  have  the  heart  to  rise  today  to  enter 
upon  any  discussion  of  importance,  and  that  all  who  see  that  empty  chair  and  think  of  that  kindly  countenancu 
will  feel  with  me  that  we  ought  to  show  our  hist  respect  to  his  memory  by  adjourning. 

lion.  Alexander  Mackenzie,  late  Piviiner,  hy  who^se  side  Mf.  Hoitoii  liiul  sat  for  years  in 
the  Hou.se,  rose  to  second  the  motion  for  adjournnieiit,  and,  after  sayini;  a  few  words,  was  ,so 
overcome  liy  yrief  that  lie  liroi<e  <lown  and  sat  down,  many  members  of  tiio  Iloiise  being  also 
bathed  in  tears.  Feeling  tributes  to  the  worth  of  the  deceasoil  were  also  paid  by  Me.ssrs. 
Laurier,  Wright,  Langevin,  Coursol,  Gaiilt,  Bechard  and  Mous.seau,  of  the  Province  of  Quebec, 
and  Messrs.  Plumb,  Tasse  and  McDougall,  of  Ontario.  We  here  present  the  remarks  of  ilr. 
Phunb,  in  a  slightly  condeiLsed  form  : 

1  feel  that  everv  member  of  this  House  has  sustained  a  groat  los.s,  a  cilamity  which  issulHcient  excuie  for 
one  to  join  in  he  expressions  of  mourning  and  eulogium  upon  him  wlio  has  dei>arted.  It  seems  to  mo  but  a  few 
hours  ago  since  t!ic  giMitl<'iii,iii  to  whose  de.ith  we  .are  now  referiiu'.;  was  in  possession  of  his  full  vigor  and  at- 
tending to  his  uH^iicMtuiy  diitioa,  In  whi<li  he  displ.iyid  a  strict  iioss  and  an  evi'iitidii.il  liili'lit\  wliicli  .ire  an 
exnmplu  to  evoi ^  aunC'LT  ;  ''  i.'<  '  il  '  tVw  h  lurs  a\'i'  rtinci-  I  sat  with  Mm  upori  the  oomni'tiiv  f  '"lukiiig  .iml 
commerce,  where  ho  brought,  as  he  always  did,  the  resources  ot  a  weil-traiiieu  mi..,!  ;<,n.l  a  ,,'idi,  n,  \  ..., .  ivas 
eiitfiiently  consc-rMitive.  When  he  parted  with  his  friends,  on  Saturday  night,  no  one  knew  that  th"  impending 
,»hadow  WHS  upon  him,  and  that  in  an  hour  or  two  he  would  go  over  to  that  great  majority  to  which  we  are  all, 
sooner  or  later,  to  be  joined.  1  have  lost  in  him  a  kind  and  generciu.s  friend,  one  with  whom  1  have  enjoyed 
most  intimate  social  relations  ever  since  I  have  occupied  a  seat  in  Parliament,  one  from  whom  !  have  received 
kindly  advice,  great  information  and  instruction,  and  in  wh  ne  s  i.'iety  I  always  found  enjoyiu.Mit.  Me  ha  1,  on 
accruintof  his  extensive  reading,  a  wi<le  knowledge  of  litera*nre,  particularly  of  tliat  periud  wlucli  is  most  inter- 
esting to  us  who  are  forming  our  constitution  -I  mean  the  period  during  which  took  place  the  strugnle  for  par- 
liamentary government  dm'ing  the  reign  of  Charles  I.,  cidminatiiig  in  tlic  great  events  which  brouglil  about, 
eventually,  i)arlianu'ntary  liberty.  In  that  respect  he  had  a  sp 'cial  knowledge,  in  that  he  had,  by  tlic  great 
ability  with  which  he  grasped  public  subjects,  been  able  to  form  opinions  which  were  always  valuable,  anil  which 
will  constantly  be  cpioted  in  this  house  aiul  elsewhere.  He  had  also  a  knowledge  of  parliamentary  |practice,  history 
and  precedent,  and  he  li.'ul  a  mind  which,  by  means  of  IiIh  retentive  mem  iry,  was  cai>al)le  (jf  subordinatin" 
principles  to  circumstances,  and  forming  through  his  clear,  impartial  judgment  an  eminently  just  conclusion.  I 
met  him  late  in  his  parliauu-ntary  life,  an<l  whatever  may  have  liei^n  his  previous  habits,  In^  had  sunk  very  much 
the  controversial  feeling  in  the  judicial  feeling.  What  he  did  here  was  eminently  in  that  diri^ction.  We  on 
this  side  of  the  House  feel  what  we  have  lost  in  hiili  one  who  can  scarcely  be  replaced,  frmii  the  large,  broail 
and  accomplished  manner  in  which  he  has  dealt  with  the  sui)ject.s  constantly  coining  up.  We  know  that  in  cer- 
tain lines  of  legislation  there  was  not  a  man  to  whom  we  could  more  s.afely  apiieal,  and  we  feel  that  in  every 
way  Canada  has  snstaini'd  a  loss  which  is  irreparable.  To  his  friends  on  the  opposite  side  of  this  House,  I  m.ay 
say  this  is  a  time  when  we  all  can  meet  together  in  a  common  sympathy.  We  fully  appreciatt  the  feeling  with 
which  they  m\i»t  have  taken  tiieir  seats  to-day,  and  have  seen  that  vacant  chair.     To  the  country,  we  may  say, 


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from  tliia  pliicu  wiiore  wu  knew  him  best  mid  could  best  appreciate  him,  a  loss  has  fallen  that  ia  almost  inuilcii- 
lablo.  Itut  there  is  a  deeper  atlecli<m  still,  and  (me  which  I  will  not  venture  to  tonch  upon,  for  I  will  not  |>a.ss 
the  sacred  threshold  where  private  griefs  are  hidden  from  the  public  eye,  but  I  may  say  this,  that  no  man 
within  my  knowledge  so  wore  '  the  white  flower  of  a  blameless  life,'  and  perhaps  there  is  scarcely  any  man 
aimmg  us  who  mi<{ht  be  suddenly  called  tu  make  up  the  great  record,  who  will  liiid  so  few  pages  he  would  have 
to  blot  out  as  L.  II.  Molton. 

Mr,  ilohoii  was  ImriiMl  at  Montreal,  ami  the  funeral  was  attemled  hy  a  large  ileleyation 
from  Parliament,  and  humlred.s  of  people  from  near  ami  ri-mote  parts  of  Quebec  ami  Ontario. 

Mr.  Holton  married  Mi.ss  Kiiza  B^orbes,  l»y  whom  he  had  six  children,  oidy  two  of  tliem  now 
living:  Mary  Eliza,  the  wife  of  Byron  M.  Hritton,  Q. C,  Kingston,  Ontario,  and  Edward 
Holton,  advocate,  who  was  elected  to  his  father's  seat  in  the  House  of  (,'omnions  the  month 
aftei'  that  seat  was  vacated. 


HARRISON    STEPHENS, 

MONTREA  L. 

THE  subject  of  this  notice,  one  of  the  most  succe.s.sful  business  men  in  Montwal  ,is  a  native 
of  the  state  of  Vermont,  being  born  in  the  town  of  Jamaica, on  the  7th  of  October,  INOI. 
His  parents,  Samuel  and  Bculah  (Howard)  Stephens,  were  also  born  in  that  state.  His  father 
was  a  leather  manufacturer.  He  was  eilucated  in  a  <listrict  school  and  at  Miildiebury  academy  ; 
worked  in  a  tannery  in  the  town  of  Hubbardton  Vt.,  about  three  years;  carried  on  the  busi- 
ness awhile  for  himself  at  Swanton,  same  state,  ami  about  IS2o  came  to  iiU'.  r  Canada  ;  loca- 
ted at  Missis(|'.iui  bay;  and  carried  on  the  tamiery  business  there  two  ye.irs  and  then  built  'i 
tannery  at  Bedford,  in  the  same  province.  At  the  end  of  three  years  he  sold  out  to  Stephen 
Eield,  a  prominent  leather  manufacturer,  and  settled  in  the  city  of  Montreal.  That  was  about 
1830, 

Here  Mr.  Stephens  started  in  business  by  keeping  a  hotel;  two  year-  later  went  into 
the  mercantile  trade,  imiwrting  rice,  tobacco,  i^cc,  chieHy  American  goods,  still  later  going  into 
the  general  wholesale  grocery  and  provis'  m  business,  at  this  ])eriod  in  company  with  H  vn 
Juim  V  mng,  the  tirm  being  Stephen.s,  Young  and  Vo.  They  had  a  heavy  and  eminently  suc- 
cessful trade,  and  in  184.')  Mr,  Stephens  retired  from  the  Hrm  and  from  business,  having  a  com- 
lieti'iiey.  Since  that  date  he  has  lived  on  his  income,  which  is  ample  for  himself  anil  iandly. 
His  propel ty,  besides  his  elegant  home  in  a  three-acre  lot  in  Dorchester  street, consists  in  stores 
on  St,  James,  Notre  Dame  and  St.  Paul  streets,  the  Ottawa  hotel,  one  of  the  leading  puldic 
houses  in  Montreal,  and  money  in  the  bank. 

He  i>ays  the  largest  tax  of  any  property-holder  in  the  city  of  Montreal,  about  the  same  in 
fact,  as  the  (Jrand  Trunk  Railway  company.  All  he  ha«  is  uf  his  own  earning,  by  hard  work, 
prudent  investments,  aud  straightforward  dealings. 


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Mr.  StophciiH  was  a  direotor  of  the  Montreal  Bank  for  nineteen  years,  but  wc  cannot  learn 
tliat  lie  has  ever  \w\y\  any  civil  or  political  oflices,  he  evidently  having  a  distaste  for  such 
things.  For  at  least  thirty-five  yeara  he  seems  to  have  lived  a  very  quiet,  unobtrusive  life, 
rarely  getting  much  e.xcited  over  current  events.  A.s  one  exception,  however,  we  ought,  per- 
haps, to  note  the  period  of  the  civil  war  in  the  United  States,  when  he  became  thorouglily 
aroused  to  a  sense  of  the  perils  of  liis  native  country.  When  President  Lincolti  made  a  call  for 
7'>,()00  volunteers  to  put  down  the  rebelii(m,  Mr.  Stephens  wrote  to  Hon.  Simeon  ('ameron.  Sec- 
retary of  War,  oflering  to  raise  a  regiment  of  1,()00  men,  ann  and  equip  them  ready  for  service 
(at  an  expense  of  alK)ut  $.S(),()0())  and  suggested  the  name  of  Col.  K.  II.  Ermatinger,  a  very 
brave  British  tjfticer,  then  at  tlie  head  of  the  militia  of  Quebec,  as  colonel  (jf  the  regiment. 
TJie  Secretary  of  War  wrote  to  Mr.  Stephens,  declining  the  generous  otter  in  the  most  cordial 
and  tl»e  most  grateful  terms. 

In  1824  Mr.  Stephens  was  joined  in  weillock  with  Miss  Sarah  Jackson  of  V'erniont,  who 
is  the  mother  of  five  children,  three  of  them  .sons,  and  all  married,  and  living,  together 
with  herself,  who  is  a  hale  oKl  ladj-.  The  oldest  and  youngest  .sons,  Romeo  and  Sheldon,  are 
farmers,  and  CSeorge  is  a  retired  lawyer.  The  last  is  now  giving  liis  entire  time  to  his  father's 
business,  relieving  the  old  gentleman  wholly  of  care,  and  managing  matters  to  the  perfection 
and  .ssvtisfaction  of  both  j)arents. 

Our  subject  is  a  member  of  the  Unitarian  church,  and  a  man  of  excellent  moral  chaiactcr. 
Since  1S4)  he  has  u.sed  neither  tobacco  nor  intoxicating  li<juors,  and  through  all  liis  years,  now 
rounding  up  their  four  .score,  he  has  been  a  man  of  exemplary  habits.  His  life  is  a  good  study 
for  young  men. 


DR   CIIAKLKS    TIMOTHY    DUBE,   M.J)., 

RIVIERE  DU  LOVr,  EN  HAS. 

DR.  DUBE  is  the  eminent  physician  at  Riviere  du  Loup,  who  was  born  at  Riviere  Ouello 
on  the  16th  of  NovemlKjr,  1820,  and  is  the  .son  of  Francois  IhiW',  by  Marie  Louise, 
daughter  of  Jer(?mie  Hudon,  Iwth  old  residents  in  the  birth-place  of  the  doctor,  whose  ancestors 
came  out  to  this  country  at  the  time  of  the  old  French  Dominion. 

Dr.  Dubd  received  the  early  part  of  his  education  at  St.  Ann's  college,  where  he  became  a 
sclioolfellow  of  the  late  much  esteemed  Lieutenant-Governor  Letellier  de  St.  Just,  which  early 
associations  ripened  into  a  friendship  lasting  iintil  the  death  of  the  distinguisheil  politician. 
His  classical  studies  were  concluded  ai  St.  Hyacinthe  college,  after  wliieh  he  commenced  the 
study  of  medicine  in  the  office  of  the  eminent  and  well-known  Doctor  James  Douglas,  of 
QuelKje.     Having  at  an  early  age  always  exhibite<l  a  more  than  orilinary  ta-ste  for  surgi-ry,  the 


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a|itituil(t  wliich  he  <liHplayc'd  while  under  ho  eminent  a  pmctitioner's  tutonige  remlcrcd  him  a 
tittinj^  Huhject  for  the  well  eametl  and  de^tervedly  meritorious  reward  of  M.I),  in  OetolnM',  1S54. 

In  1S42  he  commenced  pmotice  at  Trois  Pistoles,  and  remained  in  that  town  carry inj,'  on  his 
humane  |)r()fession  until  18()0,  beloved  and  esteemed  by  all  whom  he  came  in  contact  with, 
attributes  which  have  followed  him  to  his  present  abode  at  lliviere  du  Loup  cti  Imix,  where 
he  not  only  fulfils  his  medical  duties  but  also  has  the  responsible  charge  of  the  <  Vown  Lands 
and  Timber  Ajifency  through  the  district  of  Kiimounuska.  The  doctor  is  generally  acknowledged 
to  be  one  of  the  most  popular  medical  men  in  Riviere  du  Loup  en  biin,  as  well  as  being  the 
principal  physician  there.  He  has  travelled  considerably  on  government  duty,  and  is  a  gentle- 
man universally  respected  l>y  the  jirofession  ami  socially  throughout  the  whole  of  the  Province 
of  (Quebec. 

He  marrieil,  on  tlic  1st  of  February,  1847,  Marie  Kuphemie,  youngest  daughter  of  the  late 
Francois  Pouliot,  of  llimouski,  who  is  the  sister  of  the  lat^i  Father  Paschal  Pouliot  of  Kamour- 
aska,  and  Jean  Baptiste  Pouliot,  the  present  eminent  notary  of  RiviOre  du  Loup,  by  which  mar- 
riage there  has  Ijeen  issue  sixteen  children,  eight  of  whom  survive. 


inERPvE    VmCENT   A^ALFN,  M.F\, 

(QUEBEC. 

1 1  1HE  subject  of  this  notice  is  one  of  the  largest  shipownei-s  and  principal  ship  builder  in 
-^  Canada;  was  lM)rn  at  Quebec,  on  the  1st  June,  1827,  where  he  was  educated.  His  father, 
Tens.saint  Valin,  was  a  builder  of  .some  repute.  His  mother  was  a  Miss  Maria  Treuddy  ;  both 
bis  parents  citizens  of  Quebec.  Mr.  Pierre  Valin,  on  leaving  .school,  followed  his  father's  trade, 
but,  in  1854,  he  eventually  began  business  for  himself,  as  a  shipbuilder.  In  1872,  he  filled 
oftice  in  the  city  council,  which  he  retained  for  two  years  ;  and,  in  187;^,  he  was  elected  to  fill 
the  vacancy  in  the  House  of  Asseud>ly  •)f  Quebec,  in  the  (Jonservative  interests.  In  1878,  he 
contested,  and  was  elected,  for  the  rei)resentation  of  the  county  of  Montmorency,  where  he 
holds  consideral)le  property,  and  has  obtained  for  him.self  a  commendable  poi)ularity  in  advanc- 
ing the  interests  of  the  residents  and  otheix  there.  Mr.  Valin  has  built  wharves,  etc.,  at  Mont- 
morency, which  are  considered  a  great  boon  to  the  inhabitants,  and,  in  fact,  any  and  every 
thing  that  he  can  do  to  advance  the  interests  of  the  people,  where  his  constituency  is,  is  done 
by  him.  As  we  before  said,  he  contested,  and  was  elected,  for  the  representation  of  the  county 
of  Montmorency,  in  the  Federal  Parliament,  in  1878,  but  he  had  to  resign  his  seat  for  one  year. 
In  the  present  year,  lie  was  re-elected  for  the  same  division  of  county  of  Montmorency,  and  re- 
tains for  himself  a  well  merited  popularity  amongst  all  classes  of  society.  He  was  elected 
chairman  of  the  harbor  Itoard  in  1878,  an  office  which  he  still  holds,  and  is  much  respected  by 


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cacli  and  ovory  incmticr  of  that  conmiiHsion.  Ho  w  a  man  who  is  tleHorvedly  popular  ainonffst 
the  laboring  classes  in  Qncboc,  where  his  solo  aim  and  object  appears  to  lie,  as  far  as  he  praeti- 
tally  can,  to  advance  their  interests.  With  this  view  he  has  gone  in  extensively  for  sliip- 
liiiilding,  so  as  to  afford  work  to  the  laboring  classes,  and,  duiing  the  time  ho  has  been  in 
business,  has  built  over  100  ships  in  Quebec  alone.  He  is  an  advocate  for  the  furthering  and 
developing  of  a)!  agricultural  pursuits  in  the  province  of  Quebec,  and  is  one  of  the  most 
popular  men  in  that  city  amongst  all  he  comes  in  contact  with,  and  probably  with  none  niore 
than  with  the  laboring  classes.  His  vessels  are  known  in  every  part  of  the  world,  and  he  is  a 
gentleman,  whose  high  standing  in  the  shipping  and  commercinl  world  stands  second  to  none 
in  Canada. 

He  married  Miss  Marie  Angeliquc  Talbot,  who  is  a  descendant  of  the  Campbells,  of  (Jlas- 
gow,  Scotland,  by  which  alliance  there  is  no  issue. 


JAMES    A.  SEWELL,  A.M.,  M.D., 
QVEimc. 

TAMKS  ARTHUR  SEWKLL,  professor  of  the  theory  and  practice  of  medicine  in  Laval  uni- 
^  versity,  and  for  forty-seven  years  a  prominent  physician  in  the  city  of  Quebec,  was  born 
here  on  the  .*>lst  of  August,  ISIO.  He  is  a  son  of  the  Hon.  Jonathan  Sewoll  of  this  province, 
who  was  on  the  bench  of  Lower  Canada  for  thirty  or  forty  years,  and  rose  to  gieat  eminence, 
becoming  chief  justice  of  the  province, and  dying  full  of  honors  as  well  as  years,  in  IS.SJt.  This 
great  jurist  was  born  in  New  England,  and  his  father  and  the  family  were  adherents  to  the 
British  crown  during  the  struggle  for  the  independence  of  the  colonies. 

The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Henrietta  Smith,  daughter  of  Chief-Justice  Smith  of  New 
York,  the  last  chief-justice  appointed  there  by  George  III.  By  a  curious  coincidence  the  grand 
father  of  our  subject's  children  by  his  first  marriage  (Mr.  Vanchuliend)  was  the  la.st  J)utch  gov- 
ernor of  New  York. 

Dr.  Sewell  was  educated  in  private  .schools  in  his  native  city  ;  studieil  medicine  in  the 
imiversity  of  Edinburgh,  from  which  lie  received  the  degree  of  M.D.,  and  where  lie  bt^came 
meml>er  of  the  Royal  College  of  Surgeons,  finishing  his  studies  in  l.S3'3.  In  that  year  In;  com- 
menced piactising  in  Quebec,  and  in  a  few  years  rose  to  prominence  in  the  profession,  and  was 
appointed  to  the  chair  already  mentioned  in  Laval  university,  in  1S.3.'}.  For  the  last  sixteen  or 
eighteen  years  he  has  been  dean  of  the  medicjvl  faculty.  He  was  at  one  time  visiting  physician 
to  the  Marine  and  Emigrant  hospital,  and  has  been  for  more  than  twenty  years  chairman  of  the 
l)oard  of  trustees  for  that  institution ;  has  also  been  for  forty-three  years  visiting  physician  to 
the  Hotel  Dion  hospital,  in  which  institution  he  commenced  his  professional  studies  in  182H. 


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The  iloctor  wiv8  sur^'conof  the  volunteer  artillery,  under  the  Mutiny  Act,  at  tlio  time  of  the  Re- 
bellion (18.'J7-38,)  and  was  for  some  yearn  a  nu'nil)er  of  the  city  council,  servinj^  in  fact,  in  a 
great  many  positions  in  which  he  could  make  himself  useful  to  his  fellow  citizens.  Persons 
best  knowing  him,  give  him  credit  for  great  skill  as  a  practitioner,  and  regard  him  as  a  leading 
man  for  many  years  in  his  piofession. 

l)r.  Sewell  has  written  more  or  less  for  medical  periodicals,  Kuropi;an  as  well  as  Canadian, 
and  some  of  his  writings  have  attracted  a  great  deal  of  attention.  One  of  his  later  papers  is  on 
the  medicinal  properties  of  tea,  appearing  in  the  Dahlia  Mndical  Journal,  ami  is  still  eliciting 
considerable  discussion  and  strong  approval.  The  great  object  of  the  doctor  in  this  paper  is  to 
show  the  wonderful  oHects  of  tea  as  an  .'intiiloto  to  opium,  alcoholism,  and  also  its  curative  ef- 
fects in  the  coma  of  fevers — wriemic  convulsions,  shocks  from  lailway  accidents,  \:c. 

The  doctor  belongs  to  the  Church  of  England,  and  has  been  for  a  long  time  a  member  of 
the  select  vestry  of  the  cathedral  of  his  native  city.  He  is  a  man  of  very  kindly  and  generous 
disi>osition,  and  delights  in  relieving  the  sufferings  of  tiie  i)oor  as  well  as  the  rich. 

Dr.  iSewell  was  first  married  in  1833,  to  Miss  Maria  Cornelia  Macrae,  of  the  Isle  of  Skye, 
Scotland,  she  <lying  of  cholera  in  IS'tO,  leaving  eight  children  all  of  whom  are  living;  ami  the 
second  time  in  November,  18.32,  to  Miss  Jant;  Beswick  of  Sc'arboro',  Kng.,  by  whom  he  has  had 
four  children,  three  of  thcni  yet  living. 

One  of  his  sons,  James  Arthur  Sewell,  M.D.,  of  Edinburgh,  is  u  practising  |ihysician  in 
London,  Eng.,  and  was  in  the  medical  department  of  the  army  in  India  during  the  mutiny 
there,  and  where  he  ilid  a  good  deal  of  service;  another,  Colin  Charles  Sewell,  als(j  an  M.D.,  of 
Edinbiugh,  is  i)ractising  in  company  with  his  father,  and  is  one  of  the  leading  pliysicians  of  the 
younger  class  in  this  city.  The  other  sons  are  lumber  and  general  merchants,  and  active  and  thriv- 
ing business  men. 


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IlEV.   L.   L.   IHJPllE, 

SOliEL. 

TIIE  llev.  L.  L.  Dupr<j,  eure  of  St.  Peter's  church,  Sorel,  was  iiorn  in  Sorel,  in  1841,  and 
educated  at  the  seminary  of  St.  Hyacinthe.  Ife  was  ordained  a  priest  in  18(i8,  and  placed 
as  vicar  in  the  Roman  Catholic  cathedral.  In  1873,  he  was  called  as  vicar  in  his  native  town, 
and  was  appointed  curd  of  Sorel,  in  187^3.  Sorel,  being  the  most  considerable  place  in  the 
Uoman  CJatholic  diocese  of  St.  Hyacinthe,  requires  the  inn-emitting  exertions  and  oversight  of 
the  pastor,  the  duties  of  which  arc  zealously  performed  by  the  present  incumbent. 

The  Rev.  gentleman  has  assisted  in  promoting  the  material  welfare  of  his  native  town,  in 
secidar  as  well  as  spiritual  matters.  In  1880,  by  his  exertions  amongst  his  parishioners,  sub- 
scriptions were  mised  to  an  amount  surticient  to  build  a  large  addition  to  the  general  hospital 

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of  llichelicu  county,  rendering  that  institution  nuicli  more  conitbrtaltlo  for  tlu'  patients,  and 
more  guitahle  to  tlio  re(iuirenienti<  of  the  town.  H<^  was  also  mainly  instrumental  in  procuring 
the  new  college  building,  which  is  the  finest  structure  of  the  kind  in  the  province. 

Since  his  incumbency,  he  has  had  the  former  parish  of  St.  Peter's  divided  into  three  dis- 
tinct parishes — St.  Ptster's,  St.  Anne,  and  St.  Joseph.  The  parish  of  St.  Anne  is  tjuite  a  j)opu- 
lous  one,  and  by  the  active  exertions  of  Curd  Duprd,  a  connnodious  stone  churcli  was  built  in 
that  pari.sh,  on  one  of  the  finest  sites  on  the  St.  Fiawrence. 

The  curd  possesses  very  superior  administrative  abilities,  which  are  fully  developed  by  the 
manner  in  which  he  performs  liis  onerous  ecclesiastical  duties.  He  has  a  remarkable  memory, 
is  a  fluent  speaker,  and,  as  a  sacred  orator,  is  unsurpas.sed.  He  is  an  ardent  admirer  of  art, 
which  he  patronizes  liberally,  and  is  possessed  of  a  considerable  collection  of  valuable  and  rare 
books,  engravings,  etc.,  proving  a  liteiary  and  cultivated  taste.  He  is  much  esteemed  by  liis 
parishioners,  and  tlie  connimnity  of  Sorel. 


UOJS.   JOHN    SEWELL    SANJiOllN,  A.:M.,   Q.C,   LL.U, 

MONTREAL. 

IN  the  autumn  of  183!)  the  writer  of  this  sketch  was  eiigagetl  by  a  member  of  the  Sanl>f)rn 
family  to  write  a  brief  account  of  its  pedigiee,  and  of  its  early  hi.story  in  this  country.  At 
that  time,  by  visiting  different  families  of  that  name  in  the  town  of  Sanbornton,  New  Hamp- 
.shire,  he  ascertained  that  throe  brothei-s  came  over  from  England  in  the  17th  century,  and  that 
two  of  them  .settled  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  conmionwealth  just  mentioned,  and  the  other 
returned  to  the  old  country.  From  the  two  brothers  who  remained  have  sj)rung  most  of  the 
Sanborns,  so  numerous  in  most  of  the  New  England  Stites,  and  scattered  over  the  westein,  with 
one  here  and  there  in  Canada.  In  New  England,  especially,  they  are  liberally  represented  in 
the  field,  at  the  bar,  on  the  k'nch,  in  all  the  liberal  professions,  among  the  cla.ssic  teachers,  ami 
in  the  legislative  halls  of  different  stjite.s,  as  well  as  among  the  merchants,  manufacturers,  and 
agriculturists. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  Itelonged  to  a  literary  family  ;  his  eldest  brother,  ri()fe.s.sor  Dver 
n.  Sanborn,  A.M.,  was  a  popular  teacher  in  New  Hampsliirc  for  more  than  forty  years,  and  the 
author  of  one  or  two  text-books  used  in  the  high  .schools  and  academies  of  New  England. 
Another  brother.  Professor  Edwin  D.  Sanborn,  LL.D.,  has  been  cngageu  nearly  as  lontr  a.s 
a  tesvcher  in  the  univei-sity  of  St.  Loui.s,  Mo.,  and  at  Dartmouth  college,  Hanover,  N.H. — a  man 
of  great  scholastic  attainments,  an  eloijuent  speaker  and  popular  lecturer. 

Judge  Sanborn  was  born  in  Gilmanton,  N.H.,  on  the  1st  of  January,  1,S1!>.  After  the  death 
of  his  father  our  subject  prepared  for  college  and  entered  Dartmouth,  from  which  he  was  <Ma- 


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diiatud  A.H.  in  IH42  luul  ruc«'ivtMl  the  degrco  of  A.M.  tlireo  yeai-s  later.  Tlie  Hniiu'  de^'rco  was 
fonfi'iTud  uiwn  liiin  by  Bislu)|is  colloyc,  Lennoxvilli",  P.Q.,  in  1X55.  From  tlie  latti'r  iiiHtitntioii 
ht;  also  received  in  1873,  the  honorary  dej,'rec  of  D.C.L.,  and  a  ycsar  hitor  the  honorary  (h'i,'roe  of 
LLD.  from  Dartmoutli  C(»llege,  honors  highly  merited.  '  •' 

On  li-aving  college,  Mr.  Sanborn  camo  directly  to  Canada,  and  became  piincipal  of  the 
Sherbrookc  academy,  a  position  which  he  hold  for  three  years,  during  which  period  ho  com- 
menced the  study  of  law  with  Mr.  Justice  Short,  finishing  his  legal  studies  with  Messrs.  A.  and 
\V.  Robertson,  of  Montreal.  He  was  ailmitted  to  practise  in  Jat  uary,  lHi7,  and  the  R'lchimmd 
(Quebec)  Gunrilinn  of  March  18th,  1875,  thus  .spoke  of  Ms  (juii.'itie.s  us  a  la'vyer,  and  his  career 
as  a  ])olitician  : — 

As  an  adviicftio  during  a  period  of  twenty-five  years,  at  Sherbmoke,  .linigo  Himborn  occupied  an  enviable 
position.  Hu  was  regardod  as  an  ablo  niiiii.  His  connsul  and  MorviciH  woro  <  in;^'lit.  nn  one  sido  or  the  other  in 
ahnost  all  the  important  caso^  in  the  district,  aH  well  as  the  cases  wliich  were  i.'arriod  from  this  district  to  the 
Conrt  of  Appeals.  lie  was  also  a  siiucessfiil  pleader  in  the  conrts  of  criminal  jurisdiction,  where  his  services 
were  eagerly  sought  in  defence  of  persons  charged  with  crimes.  He  was  in  1858  associated  in  partnership  with 
his  lirother-in  law,  E.  T.  Brooks,  the  present  representative  in  the  Dominion  Parliament  for  the  town  of  iSher- 
brooke,  and  this  partnership  continued  until  his  appcnntment  ai  judge  for  this  district  in  1873. 

In  18.W  he  was  elected  to  represent  the  eounty  of  Shorhrooke,  which  had  become  vacant  by  the  resigna- 
tion of  Sir  A.  T.  Oalt,  who  reiireaonted  the  county  after  the  death  of  the  late  member,  Samuel  Hrooks, 
Es<|iiire,  in  184tl,  for  one  year.  .Iiidge  Sanborn  was  re-elected  to  represent  the  same  county  in  1801!  ;  and  again 
in  I8."»4,  after  the  division  of  the  county,  ho  wan  elected  to  represent  that  portion  of  it,  now  the  county  of  Oonip- 
ton,  and  was  in  [larliament  till  18,"(7.  He  did  not  again  oiler  himself  for  re-election,  and  was  succeeded  by  the 
Hon.  John  Henry  Pope  in  the  representation  of  tiie  county  of  Compton. 

In  18C3,  upon  the  death  of  the  late  Hon.  HoUis  Sniilh,  .fudge  Hunborn  was  elected  by  acclamation  to  repre- 
sent the  division  of  Wellington  in  the  Legislative  Council  for  the  remainder  of  the  electoral  term.  At  the 
expiration  of  this  term  he  was  again  electetl  by  acclamation  to  the  same  oHice  for  the  next  eight  years.  While 
this  term  was  passing,  the  Act  of  Confederation  was  i)assed,  and  he  was  called  by  Her  Majesty  to  the  Senate  of 
the  Dominion  [I8<i7|  as  one  of  the  original  mend>ers  of  that  body,  and  he  continued  in  this  position  until  lS7.'t, 
when  he  was  appointed  to  the  bench. 

IK  ♦  #  #  #  # 

As  a  politician  .Tiulge  Sanborn  was  always  a  thorough  liberal,  but  never  a  radical.  He  has  a  mind  lh:it 
reveres  constitutional  principles  and  safeguards,  and  his  motto  was /c.i'oiii  i'»^' in  the  matter  of  reform.  He, 
however,  desired  the  extension  of  popular  franchises  so  far  as  the  people  woro  made  Ht  by  education  and 
circumstances  to  exercise  them.  He  was  a  cordial  hater  of  all  sorts  of  political  favoritism,  m<moply,  and  family 
compactism.  A  fair  lield  and  no  favor  was  his  sentiment  in  all  public  matters.  He  attained  a  prominent  jioBi- 
tioii  in  the  Commons  as  a  speaker  and  as  a  practical  man,  his  judgment  always  had  great  weight  even  with 
political  opponents.  During  his  lirst  two  years  of  public  life,  he  was  not  a  decided  partisan.  At  his  second 
election  he  pledged  himself  to  give  a  general  support  to  the  Hinuks  (iovernment.  Shortly  after  the  meeting  of 
parliament,  however,  that  government  was  forced  to  resign,  and  the  coalition  government  succeeded,  comprised 
of  leading  tories,  and  reformers  of  the  Lafontaine,  Baldwin  and  Hincks  type.  This  he  regarded  as  an  imnmntl 
political  alliance,  .and  revolting  to  the  morals  of  the  people,  as  well  as  calculated  to  destroy  confidence  in  the 
sincerity  of  public  men,  and  hero  ho  took  his  dejiarture  and  remained  in  sympathy  and  action  with  the  Opposi- 
tion all  the  rest  of  his  political  life,  except  during  the  twenty-four  hours  government  of  the  Brown-Dorion  and 
during  the  comparatively  short  reylmi:  of  the  Sandfield  McDonald-Dorion  Government.  Ho  received  a  commis- 
sion of  (Queen's  Council  in  18(i3,  and  was  otFered  the  place  of  Solicitor-General  in  the  Sandtield  McDonald 
Government,  which  he  declined,  preferring  to  retain  his  position  as  a  private  niemlwr,  and  tho  prosecution  of 
the  duties  of  his  profession  to  tho  hazardous  oHice  of  a  cabinet  minister,  which  he  could  not  hold  even  for  a  time 
without  great  disparagement  to  his  practice. 


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Ho  took  an  active  part  in  the  bill  which  rcBiiltcd  in  the  "  Mnnicipal  and  Ruad  Act  of  1855  '  and  the  sub- 
8ec|nent  aiJoiidmentH,  and  advucated  the  amendment  of  onr  Patent  Laws,  to  give  all  inventors  the  facility  to 
secure  exclusive  control  of  their  inventions,  on  condition,  in  the  case  of  foreijjners,  of  establishing  niannfactures 
of  their  works  here  within  a  certain  jieriod.  This  principle,  which  he  enileavo\ired  more  than  twenty  years 
ago  to  get  Banctioiiod  Ity  our  law,  only  prevailed  ii.  a  moditied  form  some  five  years  since.  He  was  the  author 
of  several  acts  amending  the  public  laws  which  are  now  a  part  of  the  law  of  the  land.  While  a  member  of  the 
Senate  he  occ\i|>ied  a  high  place.  Ho  was  acknowledged  as  the  leading  mind  on  thu  opposition  side,  and  his 
opinions  were  iuvaiiably  listened  to  with  great  deference  on  both  sides.  He  was  for  several  years  president  of 
tlie  Private  Hillb  C'ninniittee,  and  he  was  looked  upon  as  a  leading  authority  on  (jiiostions  of  constitutional  iaw. 
He  was  familiar  with  those  rules  and  checks  and  fundamental  jjrinciples  by  which  parliamentary  legislation 
should  be  governed.     When  he  left  the  Senate  his  loss  was  regretted  by  all. 

Hi.s  appointment  to  the  oHiee  of  Jii.lo;e  of  tlie  Snjx'i-ior  Court,  on  the  demise  of  Judge  Short, 
was  made  Ijy  his  poHticai  opponent,  .Sir  Jolm  A.  Macdonald,  wlio  was  not  slow  to  recognize  ids 
merits  and  peeuliar  fitness  for  tli.it  Idgli  olfico.  When  he  had  discharged  its  <luties  for  little 
more  than  a  year,  the  Lilierals  iieitig  in  ]>ower,  and  a  vacanc;}'  occiuring  t>n  the  Queen's  Beneh, 
lie  was  transferred  to  that  court.  Tiiree  years  later,  July  17th,  1877,  the  death  of  our  suhjeet 
caused  anothei  vacancy  on  the  hench,  and  one  greatly  to  be  iaiiicntv  d,  fo\'  he  was  tilling  his 
exalted  position  with  honor  to  the  ermine.  He  was  lun-ied  in  Mount  Royal  cemetery,  ami  the 
pall-licarers  were  Jmiges  Monk,  Hadgley,  Doheity,  Johnson,  Rainville  and  Berthelot,  aT\d 
Mes.sis.  j'fiton  and  Morey,  of  Sherbroohe.  At  a  subse(pient  meeting  of  the  bar  of  the  Montreal 
di.xtrict,  resoiutions  were  ])as.sed  expressing  deep  sorrow  :it  the  death  of  Judge  Sanborn,  and 
their  high  appreciati(>n  (d"  his  aliility,  integrity  and  learning,  and  the  faithful  manrier  in  which 
ho  hful  discharged  his  duties.  At  the  funeral  service,  held  in  the  American  Presbyterian 
Church,  Montreal,  t\\v.  oflieiating  cleigyniavi,  Jlev.  J.  C.  Ba.\ter,  thus  spoke  of  tlie  religious 
character  of  the  deeea.-ed,  who  held  at  one  period  the  ottice  of  ilcacen  uf  the  Slierbrooke  Con- 
gregational ( 'hiuch :  - 

Judge  Sanborn  wafs  growingly  esteemed  cw  a  lawyer  for  his  eiiergutic  and  elev.ued  sense — for  his  uncom- 
promising aud  mispotlc'l  cousc'^  tiotisnes^,  and  for  such  sterling  maintenance  of  e(|niiy  towards  man  as  shtnild 
ever  be  tiic  outcoine  of  reverc^ni  devotion  to  wliat  lie  cIcohumI  con.sistcnt  with  the  will  of  (tod.  So  he  mai'nitiiil 
his  ollice.  Nor,  having  such  repute  in  public  was  ho  b'ss  real  in  more  private  ndationships.  In  the  homo  and 
the  chm-ch,  in  the  circle  of  Mocial  communion  and  the  spKcre  of  virtuoim  well-doing — he  h.id  a  good  report  of  all 
who  knew  liiio,  and  only  they  could  ajiiireciiiti!  his  worth,  ifeticent  in  teiiiper.iment,  unostentatious  in  dciuM- 
nor  as  lie  was,  m.my  might  niisun(UiMtaM<l  or  underrate  him  ;  but  to  those  >vho  were  his  intimates,  he  was 
endeared,  and  nmv  when  he  is  yone,  llicy  value  his  character  as  that  of  a  t'hristian  friend,  who  strove  halutuaily 
to  make  religion  the  main-spring  of  an  earnest,  useful  life.  That  life-course  on  earth  has  been -in  our  mode  ef 
reckoning  -  suddenly  cut  s'lort.  We  would  Jiave  iiad  it  otherwise.  We  might  have  desired  that  st.me  last  woii!s 
to  familiar  ears  had  been  spoken,  nr  that  some  farevvi'll  greetings  lia<l  beei  allowoil  to  attached  kindred.  \et 
the  Divine  ordei  villed  it  not  »(•  ;  iv>r  amid.',!  sorrow  do  we  comptain.  Death  was  no  surprise  to  him.  The 
summons  fo?inil  iiiiu  leady.  And  we  have  hope  that,  called  before  the  highest  tribunal,  he  has  received  the 
recoiiipeiise  of  reward  from  the  one   Lawgiver    -the  tireat  .Fudge     whu  is  the  l{cdeoi,ier  of  the  world. 

Judge  Sanborn  belonged  to  llie  best  ly(  i  of  New  Kngland  eharacter,  and  early  ospmsed 
any  good  catisi ,  lookitig  to  moral  reform,  aitd  the  mental  and  .social  improvement  of  his  feliow- 
men.  In  youth  bo  beeamo  a  "  ieetotaller,"  stuck  to  lii.s  ])ledge  all  his  life,  and  was  at  one  time 
president  of  the  TiiiijK  lauic  i.ud  I'rohibitoiy  League  of  tins  Province. 


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For  many  yeai's  he  acted  as  a  trustee  of  the  SherJ>ro(>ke  aeadeiny,  also  as  a  school  coininis- 
sioner  for  the  town,  and  never  ceased  to  interest  himself  in  educational  matters  ;  one  of  his  last 
visits  to  Sherhrooke  lieing  to  attend  the  annual  exhihition  of  the  academy,  on  which  occasion 
he  addressed  the  pupils  with  a  warm  and  sympathizing  heart,  and  distri'juted  the  |irizes.  His 
death  left  a  hlank  at  Slierbrooke  as  well  as  at  Montreal,  and  in  the  former  city,  his  first  resi- 
dence in  Canada — his  memory  is  very  tenderly  cherished.  The  Sherhrooke  (iatett<'  well  said 
f/f  liim  : — 

As  a  private  citizen,  (i  lawyer,  lei^'ialntor,  and  jtulge,  his  example  is  worthy  of  iniitatinn,  anil  the  world 
will  be  all  the  better  the  more  closely  his  example  in  private  and  public  life  is  followed. 

Judge  Sanborn  was  twice  married;  fir.st,  in  llSiT,  to  Eleanor  Hall  Brooks,  daughter  of 
Samuel  lirooks,  Esij.,  of  Shei-l>rooke^a  lady  of  great  e.\cellence  of  character,  who  died  in  IS.^.'{, 
leaving  three  children  ;  and  the  .second  time,  in  l!S.')(),  to  N.  Judson  Hazeltine,  of  Bradford, 
Mass.,  a  woman  of  many  noMe  ([iialities,  who  died  in  December,  1.H74,  leaving  (me  child.  The 
three  children  by  the  first  wife  are  still  living.  Elizabeth  Maria,  is  the  wife  of  Thomas  J.  Tuck, 
diuggist,  of  Sherbrooke  ;  Ellen  Brooks,  i.-,  the  wife  of  Henry  I).  Lawrence,  I'niled  States  Consul, 
Slierbrooke;  Samuel  Brooks  is  an  advocate  practicing  in  Sherbrooke,  lieing  associated  with  the 
former  partner  and  brother-in-law  of  his  father,  E.  T.  Brooks,  Esq.  The  child  ip\  the  secoMci 
wife,  Mary  Abigail,  is  unmarried,  and  resides  at  Sherbrooke  with  lur  bintlici. 


-lOlIN    CiOLtill, 

liEDFORU. 

rriHE  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  holds  three  or  foui-  otHccs  in  the  district  of  Bedford,  and 
*-  who  has  long  been  one  of  the  hading  men  in  the  township  of  Stanbridgo,  is  a  native  of 
till'  town  and  county  of  Cavari,  Ireland,  dating  his  liirth  in  April,  l.Slf).  His  parents,  lleniy 
iiud  <  "atheiine  (Brady j  Cough,  at e  natives  of  the  same  county,  lie  spent  his  lime  in  .si'hool 
until  1!S35,  when  he  accompanied  his  mi'ther  to  the  city  of  New  N'ork,  his  fiitlier  having  pre- 
ceded them  to  Anu'rica.  There  he  was  bourn!  an  apprentice  to  the  harness-makers  trade,  but 
on  account  of  his  health,  iiad  to  abandon  it  before  it  was  fidly  learned. 

Ill  1837,  he  (ame  to  Bedford,  opened  a  hanuiss-shop,  an<l  carried  on  the  business  mitil  his 
sons  took  it  off  his  hand'^  ;  he  was  'iiinreted  with  the  voliudeei  militia  for  many  years,  In-ing 
a  non-commissioned  olHcer  nnd  n-igning  about  ls>"i  to  take  a  elerkshii)  in  the  commissionei-s' 
conrt  which  situation  he  lield  for  several  years, 

Mr.  Cougli  was  elected  mayor  of  the  townshiji  of  Stanbri<lge  in  1808,  jmd  held  that  office 
four  years,  pushing  forward  \arious  public  improvements  during  his  adnnnistration.     \n  l,s70 

was   a|i]>ointed    one  ..f    lb  r    Majesty  •  justices   of  the   jieiier   an    olliei'  whieh  he  ^tiil  b  lids       In 


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1H7(!,  lie  was  apiiointtMl  a  cominissioiicr  of  i\w  siipciior  romt,  and  tluii  a  (•••iiinuHsioiici- 
Detl'iimiH  Poti'Htatem,  and  in  1H7S  was  appointetl  dork  of  tin-  circnit  court  for  tlio  I'onnty  of 
Missi.s(|uoi,  and  also  of  the  district  magistrate  s  court. 

He  makes  a  prompt  and  eHicient  officer  in  those  several  positions,  and  is  a  man  of  a  good 
deal  of  j)u))lic  spirit,  liciiig  at  one  time  a  director  of  tiie  Montreal  and  N'ermont  Junction  Kail- 
way  ;  ho  takes  an  interest  in  all  kinds  of  public  onUMpri.sos  of  a  laudable  character,  and  likely 
in  any  way  to  benelit  the  people. 

Ho  is  a  member  of  the  Homan  (.'utholic  (Hunch,  and  as  far  as  we  can  learn,  has  IImmI  an 
unblemished, as  well  as  a  very  industrious  and  U8cf\il  life.  At  the  time  that  the  Catholic  tliinch 
at  Bedford  was  being  built,  ho  was  chairman  of  the  boarj  of  trustees  who  had  charge  of  the  en- 
terprise. 

In  IS41,  Mr.  Cioiigli  was  joined  in  wedlock  with  Mi.ss  Cathorine  Smith,  of  Bedford,  and 
they  have  seven  children,  thi'ee  sons  and  tour  diuighters. 


-lAMKS    M'SllANK,    M.IM'., 

MOXrh'HAI,. 

NK  of  the  most  energetic,  thoiough-going  business  men  in  the  city  of  Monlreai,  is  James 
.\li  Sliau'',  alderman  and  magistrate,  and  the  mendier  of  the  Quel)ec  Asseiidily  for  Mon- 
treal VVost.  He  is  a  nativ(!  of  this  city,  and  dates  his  birth  in  IHJH,  his  parents  being  .lames 
ami  y,\U'u  ((^uinn)  McShaiie,  who  came  from  the  county  of  Armagh,  Ireland,  and  the  father  has 
lived  in  Montreal  marly  fd"tv  years.   James  MeShane,  .senior,  carried  on  business  here  foi'  m(in>' 


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U'ing  a  cattle  dealer,  packer  and  exporter  of  meat.s  to  Knglan<l  ami  the  I'nitcd  St.itt 


retiring  from  active  life  almost  twelve  yeai-s  ii>jo, and  is  now  living  at  his  ea.se,  being  in  his  M)th 


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'I'ht   suliject  of  this  biographical  notice  was  educ;iti-il  in  Montreal,  in  pa't,  liy  the  late  1  "an 

iel  Maliony,  a  teacher  whose  mcmniy  he  reveres,  tii\ishing  his  studies  at  St.  Sul|iiee  college 
He  iM'gan  liusiness  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  takin"  cattle  from  the  country  int»i  Montreal  ;  after- 
uards  carried  on  an  extensive  business  in  St.  Ann  s  market,  as  a  wholesale  butcher,  packi  i  and 
•  Jo\ernment  contractor,  retiring  from  that  business  with  a  competency,  in  lMi!l  ;  the  mvi  two 
\tars  he  operated  heavily  in  bank  and  railway  stocks  in  Montreal  and  New  \oi,.  ;  lie  is  now  a 
wholesale  merchant  and  cattle  exjinrter,  othee  No.  !•  St.  I'eter  .street. 

Ml  McSham-  was  one  of  the  first  men  in  Canada  to  cxjHirt  cattle  liom  Moidreal  to  Kng- 
laiid.  a  l)UHiness  which  liaM  now  grown  into  enormous  proportions,  and  he  is  one  of  th'?  leading 
tratHeker.x  of  the  kind  of  the  country,  lie  ojK'rat^s  heavily  in  <'liii'ago  a.s  well  as  Montreal,  in 
|)ork  and  cattle  ;  be  luis  at  times,  ten  l<>  tifteeti  sleanieis  oh  tlu  .Vtlantii  loaded  with  cattle  for 
all  parti  uf  I'.ngland. 


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Mr.  McSlmnc  was  appuiiitcil  a  justice  of  tlio  puace  liy  Hon.  Thoina.s  D'Aicy  MotJeo.iii  ISfilj; 
hius  been  an  aUlernian  of  tlie  city  for  the  last  fointeen  years,  licing  chairnian  for  a  U)ng  time  of 
tlie  committee  on  city  liall,  and  four  yeai"s  on  tliat  of  markets. 

In  IST-t  he  was  nominated  by  tlie  Liberal  party  as  their  candiiiatc  in  Montreal  West  for 
the  Ijocal  Assembly,  and  was  dcft^atcd,  there  beinj,'  two  LiUsrals  in  the  Held,  thus  <lividing  tlio 
vote  of  the  party,  and  enablin;,'  the  Conservative  eajidiilate  to  sneee(>d.  At  the  last  election  for 
the  same  lej^islative  body,  in  the  same  division  of  the  city,  Mr.  MeShane  was  a{j;ain  a  candidate, 
and  was  elected  by  a  very  larj^e  majority.  He  has  ^.jreat  faith  in  the  principles  of  his  party,  of 
which  he  has  always  been  a  firm  adherent ;  stands  by  his  |iolitical  friends,  never  forgettinjj  one 
who  has  tridy  rendered  liim  servictr,  wiehU  a  strong  inflnenee  with  all  classes,  and  is  highly 
respected  for  his  liberal  and  unpnjudiccd  views.  He  does  all  he  can  to  encomagc  immigration, 
and  t(j  improve  the  eundition  of  the  working  classes.  lie  ha.s  been  vice-president  of  St.  I*at- 
rick's  society,  and  honorary  president  and  mend)er  of  the  Shamrock  lacro.s.se  chil). 

Mr.  McShane  has  been  married  twice,  the  first  time  in  I.S(i;i,  to  Klizabeth  .lane  l>anangh, 
of  Montreal ;  she  dying  on  the  2(!th  of  dune,  18(i7,  and  the  second  time  at  Plattslung,  N.V.,  in 
.lanuary,  bSdS,  to  Josephine  Katheline  Meron.  He  had  one  child  by  tiic  first  wife,  and  has  liad 
ioui-  by  the  second,  only  three  of  the  latter  children  now  living. 


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HON.    WILLIA.M    W.    LYNCH,  M.IM*., 

WIMdAM  WAIHIK.N  LYN'CH,  member  of  the  Local  rarliament  for  the  comity  of  Urome, 
and  Solieitor-Cieneral  of  the  Province  of  (,hiebec,  d:ites  Ids  birth  at  Bedford,  !'.(»!,  on  the 
.'Utth  of  September,  1N+.").  His  father  is  Thomas  Lynch,  a  farmer  from  the  comity  of  ( 'avaii.  Ire- 
land, and  resides  in  tlie  township  of  Mrome.  The  name,  of  his  mother  before  her  iiianiagc  was 
(.'harlot  ti'  William.s,  .she  being  a  native  of  this  province;  her  father  was  fi-om  Vermont. 

Our  subject  was  educated  at  .Stanbiidge  academy,  and  Met  Sill  university,  Montnal,  at 
which  latter  institution  be  took  the  Kliziibeth  T<irrance  gold  meilal  for  proticiency  in  itoinan 
law,  and  was  graduaU'd  ii.t '  L.,  in  LSdH. 

He  was  culled  to  the  bai  in  .lune  of  the  same  year,  ami  practised  at  Kiiowllun  and  Sweets- 
burg,  still  having  an  otiice  at  the  two  places  in  company  with  other  lawyers. 

Ill  the  year  |S7(),  while  eii;;aged  in  practice  at  Sweetsburg,  Mi  Lynch  also  edited  the 
< 'nwan^ville  O/wjvvc,  Iml  mkui  found  that  journalism  claimed  too  iiiu<'li  of  his  time  from  his 
professional  and  political  duties  which  were  i;uite  exacting 

He  is  a  inemlMr  ol"  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and  was  at  one  lime  deputy  district  grand  mastiT 
of  the  district  of  Itedbe  i  in  the  ;^iand  lodge  of  (,liiebec. 


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Mr.  Lynch  wjis  first  returned  to  Parliament  for  liis  present  seat  by  acclamation,  at  the  geii- 
eral  election  in  lfS71,  and  was  re-elected  in  the  same  manner  in  1875  and  1878,  and  again  re- 
turned at  the  last  general  election  held  in  187!),  his  politics  being  Conservative ;  he  was  ap- 
pointed solicitor-general  on  the  JUst  of  October,  l871>,  and  is  one  of  the  youngest  members  of 
the  Cabinet,  and  steadily  rising  in  public  favor. 

Mr.  Lynch  is  a  gentleman  of  fine  literary  attainments,  and  has  for  yeai-s  taken  a  deep  in- 
terest in  eilucational  ma'.ters,  nolding,  at  one  time,  tiie  presidency  of  the  provincial  association 
of  the  Protestant  teachei-s. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Lynch  is  Ellen  Florence,  eldest  daughter  of  J.  C.  Pettes,  Esij.,  of  Knowl- 
ton,tlieir  nianinge  taking  place  on  the  25th  of  May,  1874.  They  have  two  children.  He  is  a 
nuMulter  of  the  Chuich  of  England,  and  for  the  la.st  ten  years  has  been  a  delegate  to  the  ilio- 
cesan  synod  ;  he  has  been  also  a  delegate  to  the  i)rovincial  synod,  and  is  a  man  of  sterling  char- 
acter, 


•IE AN    J)()C1LE    BROC.SSEAU, 

(,iuei:ev. 

A  S  p'  jular  and  socially  respected  Mayor  as  everQuel>ec  possessed,  is  Mr.  MrousMwui.  IJorii 
-^-*-  in  this  famed  old  city  of  Canada,  on  the  28th  of  Kebruaiy,  182'),  he  was  at  an  early 
age  s<ht  to  the  seminary  of  Quebec,  where  he  piii-sued  his  stmlies  with  an  assiduity  which  gained 
for  liiin  the  appreciation  of  his  tutors.  He  is  the  sun  of  Jean  Baptiste,  of  Pointe  aux  Trembles, 
County  Portneuf,  and  of  Nathalie  Dor^,  of  St.  Augustine,  in  the  same  county.  In  the  early  itortioii 
of  his  career  he  was  well  known  in  Quebec  as  unc  of  the  jiiore  prominent  librarians,  and  propri- 
etor of  a  large  printing  establishment.  Ifowever,  while  be  wus  on  a  trip  to  Europe— wiierc  he  !ias 
visiti'cl  on  several  occrusions  the  priwcipal  large  cities  of  Franec,  England,  Scotland  and  Ireland — 
it  was  suggested  by  M.  Jean  Charles  Tachi-,  th"  present  Deputy  Minister  of  Agriculture,  who 
was  also  on  a  visit  to  the  gay  capital  of  Franc-"-,  as  Commissioner  at  the  E.\j)()sition,  timt  he 
(Mr.  Brousseau)  and  his  brother  should  start  the  L'otiri)!' dii  Cawcln,  whieh  was  aeeorilingly 
cairied  out  nnd  ostimlished  the  following  yeai-.  In  Mr.  Brousseau,  we  have  one  of  those  mm 
who  lio  not  go  ovci-  and  pass  by  scenes  nbroa«i  without  taking  can-ful  note  of  the  manner  and 
customs  of  the  people,  as  well  as  having  a  caioful  cyi-  to  the  internal  eetmomy  of  the  coimtries 
which  they  visit,  a  matter  whieh  per.sotiilies  the  man  a;,  being  possessed  of  good  lu'umen,  irre- 
spective of  the  valuable  adilition  they  luake  to  their  w.irldly  lore,  lie  was  one  of  those  gentlemen 
who  ha<l  the  honour  of  att».'»'..|ing  tie-  bn'i  given  by  tlie  I'r^^fet  de  la  Seine,  on  tlie  occasion  of  tho 
visit  of  Hei  Miijesty  Queen  Victori  ■  ind  His  Royal  Highness  Prince  Aliiert  to  the  late  Emperor 
Na|M)leon.  Again,  he  wus  with  Madame  Brousseau  in  Paris,  in  iMi't,  on  the  oceiision  when  the 
jiow  ilceeased  Kmperor  liad  just  n-turiied  from  Algeria.    P.*tli  memorable  occasions  in  the  epoch 


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of  our  own  times.  At  the  Dublin  Exliibition  whicli  tliey  visited  that  year  in  l<*St)."),  as  well  at 
the  Paris  Exhibition,  his  firm  was  awarded  prize  medals  for  bookbinding  and  printing.  In 
politics  he  is  a  staunch  supporter  of  the  Macdonalii  Government,  and  was  returned  to  Parlia- 
ment in  the  Conservative  interest  for  the  Constitueney  of  the  County  of  Portneuf,  from  liSGl  to 
\^1'1 ;  conse([uently,  was  a  member  of  Pailiament  at  the  time  (jf  Confederation.  He  has  ligidly, 
unriinchingly  held  to  his  party  in  every  contest  in  Parliament  ujxm  all  measures  the  ("ousei- 
vative  leader  has  at  various  times  introduced.  He  takes  a  prominent  position  and  manifests 
an  unusually  zealous  interest  in  most  of  the  local  building  ,3.,cieties  in  his  native  city,  and  is  a 
president  ami  direetoi'  of  two  of  these  institutions,  as  well  as  a  director  of  the  (Quebec  (Notre 
Dame)  Savings  Hank. 

In  upholding  the  dignity  of  Mayor,  he  does  nut  fall  slmrt  of  socially  maintaining  his  {losi- 
tion  with  the  citizens  generally,  by  his  urliane  courteous  and  genial  manners,  and  is  hehl  in 
the  highest  est..i;m  l>y  all  he  comes  in  contact  with  in  his  olticial  capacity,  as  well  as  retaining 
for  liiniself  a  more  than  ordinary  nund)er  of  friends  in  his  more  innnediate  circle.  In  brief,  he 
is  nnieh  respected  by  all  classes  and  sections  of  society  in  the  (Jity  of  Quebec. 

On  the  arrival  of  His  Royal  Highness  Prince  liCopnld  and  Him'  Hoy.d  Highness  the  Princt'.ss 
Louise,  in  1880,  he,  with  the  Lieutenant-Covernor,  welcomed  and  received  the  former  on  his  visit, 
and  the  latter  on  her  return  toCanaila,  being  introduced  to  both  their  Royal  Highnesses  by  the 
Ciovernor-Oeneial  the  Marquis  of  Lome. 

In  conclusion,  it  is  generally  admitted  on  all  sitles  that  a  more  popular  Mayor  has  never 
represented  (^►uebec,  and,  in  many  instances,  few  have  exemplified  and  manifested  such  an  assi- 
duity in  the  performance  of  the  city's  chief  magistrate  duties  as  Mr.  Hrousseau. 

He  is  a  Roman  Catholic.  Mr.  Brou.sseau  married  in  June.  LS.'iS,  Miss  Martha  ^hiiy  Dowms, 
who,  although  born  in  t^uebec,  is  of  Irish  parentage,  hei  father,  William  Downes,  Es(|.,  having 
held  the  position  of  High  Constable  of  the  City  of  tjuebec  for  many  years,  up  to  his  death,  prior 
to  whicn  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile  business.  There  have  been  three  children,  the  issue  of 
their  marriage,  one  of  whom,  a  boy,  survives. 


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THREE  lilVEHS. 

DR.  HADEAUX  is  the  oMest,  as  well  as  one  of  the  most  prominent,  practitioneis  in  Three 
Rivers.  He  is  nn  <lical  officer  of  the  hospital  and  jail,  and  for  many  ycins  was  surgeon 
of  the  Ste.  Maurice  battHlion.  He  was  received  as  doctor  on  i)as.sing  his  e.vamination  on  the 
5th  of  January,  1H.15,  and  was  made  M.I),  in  ls.")(),  ii.ingat  that  time  (me  of  the  goviruors  of 
the  medical  board  for  the  Trovince  of  (Quebec. 

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The  worthy  and  highly-esteemed  old  gentleman  wa^i  born  on  the  23rd  of  May,  1812,  at 
Three  Rivers,  and  is  the  son  of  the  late  Joseph  Badeaux,  a  well-known  notary  in  that  city,  by 
Miss  Genevieve  Berthelot  d'Artigny,  daughter  of  the  lat«  Berthelot  d'Artigny,  Esq.,  an  eminent 
lawyer  of  Quebec.  He  was  educated  at  Nicolet  college,  and,  on  leaving  this  institution, 
commenced  his  medical  studies  in  the  offices  of  Drs.  Hunter  and  Carter,  of  Three  Rivers,  and 
finally  completed  them  under  Dr.  Hall,  of  Quebt^c.  He  ha.s  held  nearly  every  office  connteted 
with  the  municipal  affaii-s  in  his  native  city.  Among  them,  that  of  town  councillor,  justice  of 
the  peace,  connni.ssioner  for  erection  of  churches  and  parislies,  commissionei-  for  the  administra- 
tion of  oaths,  etc.,  etc. 

He  is  a  staunch  Conservative,  and  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  diurch. 

The  doctor,  from  his  many  years  residence  in  Three  Rivers,  is  highly  esteemed  socially, 
and,  in  his  profession,  is  acknowledged  as  an  able  ami  zealous  practitioner. 

He  married  on  the  3rd  of  November,  183G,  Miss  Berthelot,  daught^'r  of  S.  G.  Berthelot, 
Esq.,  for  many  years  assistant-.secretary  of  the  Quebec  bank,  by  which  alliance  there  has  been 
issue  nine  children,  six  of  whom  survive. 


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.ST.  JOHN'S. 

ONE  of  the  oldest  and  most  respected  medical  practitioners  now  living  in  the  county  of  St. 
John's  is  Robert  Hyndman  Wight,  a  resident  of  St.  .lolin's  for  forty -three  years.  He 
came  originally  from  Belfast,  north  of  Ireland,  where  he  first  saw  this  world's  light  on  the  17th 
of  November,  1813.  His  father,  Robert  Wight,  was  a  Scotchman,  and  practised  law  for  many 
yeai's  in  the  city  of  Edinburgh.  His  mother  was  Eliza  Kyd,  of  Irish  pedigree,  and  a  sister  of 
Col.  Kyd,  who  was  in  the  British  si'rvice  in  India. 

Our  subject  was  reared  in  Edinburgh,  and  educated  in  the  arts  and  medicine  at  the  college 
in  that  city,  being  there  bound  as  apprentice  to  Dr.  Archibahl  Inglis  for  five  yeai-s,  and  receiv- 
injr  a  irniduatinij  ce* '  IHcate  when  twentv  vears  and  three  months  old. 

In  1834,  Dr.  t  came  to  Canada  as  surgeon  of  a  ship  ;  piactised  about  three  years  at 

Laprairie,  and  in  l^.»  'ttled  at  St,  John's,  just  before  the  rebellion  broke  out.  Two  physicians, 
Messrs,  Walmsley  an<l  Robinson,  had  just  died,  and  the  third  being  a  "  patriot,"  had  hastily  left 
the  country,  and  L)r,  Wight  had  the  whoh'  field  to  liimself.  At  an  early  day  his  rides  extended 
over  a  radius  of  fifteen  to  twenty  miles,  and  sometimes  he  had  to  go  thirty  and  even  forty 
miles,  at  a  time,  tiwi.  wdien  railroads  were  unseen  in  those  parts,  and  the  travelled  roa<Is  were 
very  poor  apologies  for  such.  He  rode  day  and  night,  and  caught  his  slet!p  as  some  binls  are 
said  to  do,  "  on  the  wing." 


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Tho  Doctor  has  great  endurance,  or  lie  would  liave  been  broken  down  completely  years 
ago.  Recently  he  has  done  little  practice  outside  the  town,  though  many  families,  living  farther 
off,  and  whose  physician  he  became  forty  years  ago,  would  be  still  glad  to  employ  him.  His 
professional  income  placed  him  in  comfortable  circumstances  in  middle  life,  and  the  amount  of 
business  wliicli  he  now  (hjes,  simply  affords  him  the  exercise  which  he  in.'uds  for  his  health. 

Outside  his  profession,  as  well  as  in  it.  Dr.  Wight  has  been  a  very  useful  man,  having 
filled,  with  great  satisfaction  to  the  public,  several  ei\il  ofiices,  sui;h  as  those  of  scIkjoI  cominis- 
sionor,  Co.incillor,  mayor  of  the  town  and  'pn'fd  of  the  cnuntiy.  Some  years  ago  he  opened  a 
drug  store,  which  is  now  kept  by  two  of  his  sons.  He  has  i-ei^rted  a  few  cases  for  the  Medi- 
cal Periodical  of  Canada,  but  has  lived  too  busy  a  life  otherwise,  to  find  nuieh  time  to  use  the 
Jten. 

Dr.  Wight  has  a  second  wife,  being  firet  married  in  ISJ}."),  to  Miss  Mary  Ann  Leonard,  of 
Laprairie,  where  she  died  in  1840,  leaving  three  chihlren  wlio  have  since  followed  her  to  another 
World.  He  was  married  to  his  present  wife,  who  was  Mi>s  Cynthia  Janes  Pierce  of  St.  John's, 
in  1841,  and  by  her  has  had  ten  children,  losing  four  of  them. 

Physically  our  subject  is  a  little  below  the  ordinary  size,  bcinL,'  not  more  than  ti\e  feet  six 
incbes  tsvll  and  not  weighing  more  tlian  135  pounds.  His  lung  and  hard  rides  at.  an  eaily  day, 
and  his  very  industrious  life  for  a  long  period,  began  to  "  tell  ujmn  him."  He  has  not  the  elas- 
ticity of  Uxly  which  he  once  had — far  from  it — but  his  spirits  seem  t(j  have  lost  none  of  their 
buoyancy.  He  is  pleasant  in  his  address,  wears  a  smiling  face,  and  has  a  ehetrful  disposition; 
hence  is  always  in  good  trim  for  entering  a  sick-room.  In  many  cases,  no  doulit,  his  bonhomie 
has  done  as  mueli  good  as  his  prescriptions,  acting  as  a  coidial  to  tlie  sick,  as  it  does  to  the 
well,  a  cheerful  and  hopeful  countenance  being  a  good  passport  to  the  ])hysician,  and  biinging 
with  it  consolation  to  the  sick  and  atHicteil. 


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SlIERliROOKK. 

CHAll'-KS  I'ETER  llKri),  rcdor  of  St.  Peter's  clmrcli,  Slierbrookc,  for  more  tliaii  a  (piar- 
ler  of  a  century,  is  a  son  of  Rev.  James  Ueid,  nearly  fifty  years  rector  of  Trinity  cliurcli. 
Freligbsburg,  county  of  Missisi[iiv>i,  and  Isaliella  McDiarmid,  from  tlie  county  of  ( llenuiirry, 
Ontario,  and  was  born  at  Cornwall,  Ontario,  on  the  14th  of  .August,  ISI 1.  lb'  was  edneated  at 
('handily,  P. t^,  by  Rev.  Mr.  iiraithwaite ;  ordained  by  P.isliop  Stewail  in  l.s:'.">:  liad  bis  first 
charge  at  Uawdun  ;  w.is  curnte  a  few  years  at  St.  Jojm's,  uiukr  the  Kl\  .  .Mr.  r>aidwin  ;  rector, 
fourteen  years,  at  (.'omptun  ;  and  has  been  r..clui'  of  St.  l'eler'~  since  l,s.")4.  lie  is  also  ruial 
dean  for  the  district  of  St.  Francis,  and  lias  lived  an  indiisti'ious  and  very  useful,  yet  inioli- 
trusive  ami  ipiiei  life.     He  has  taken  consideral'le  interest  in  educational  matters,  and  was,    at 


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one  perioil,  a  meiubur  of  the  board  of  school  coininissioncrs,  and  is  a  trustee  of  IJisliop's  college, 
Lennoxvillo,  wliich  institution,  some  years  ago,  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  D.C.L.  The 
Doctor  has  done  much  good  solid  Christian  work  at  Sherbrooke  and  the  other  places  where  he 
has  been  stationed.  He  is  very  afliible  and  pleasant,  and  calculated  to  make  friends.  His 
]ireaching  is  highly  practical,  and  liis  sermons  are  full  of  C!hrist  rather  that  tlie  Church. 

He  was  the  first  master  of  the  Prince  of  Wales  lodge  of  Free  Masons,  Sherbrooke,  and  the 
first  chaplain  of  the  grand  lodge  of  Quebec,  on  its  formation.  At  the  time  of  writing  he  is 
chaplain  of  Victoria  lodge, 

Dr.  Ileid  marrieil,  in  1840,  Miss  Julia  Gray,  of  St.  John's,  daughter  of  John  Gray,  of  Her 
Majesty's  Customs;  and  of  five  children  springing  from  this  union,  only  one  daughter,  Annie, 
is  living,  she  residing  with  her  parents. 


CHARLES    O.   PEERAULT, 

MONTREAL. 

C'^HARLES  OVIDE  PERHAULT,  Vice-Consid  of  Fiance,  at  Montreal,  is  descended  from 
an  old  French  family  that  came  over  from  Normandy  in  1725,  tlie  first  settler  locating 
at  Hoclielaga.  The  father  of  our  subject,  Louis  Perrault,  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  Rebel- 
]i<m  of  l8;)7-'38,  being  the  daily  companion  of  the  great  patriot,  Papinoau,  and  publisher  of  tlie 
Vindlcdfor,  the  French-C-iinadian  organ.  A  price  being  put  upon  his  head,  he  fled  to  the 
United  States,  and  remained  in  e.xile  in  Burlington,  Vermont,  for  eighteen  months.  His 
brothei',  Chiules  Ovide  Pen-ault,  from  wIkiui  our  subject  was  named,  died  on  the  field  of  battle 
at  St.  Charles,  County  of  Rielielieu,  in  lor  7.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Local  Legislature  at 
the  early  age  of  twenty -four  years,  and  was  a  very  gifted  lawyer. 

Mr.  I'errault  was  l)orn  in  Montreal,  on  the  18th  of  Fi;bruary,  1842,  his  motlier  being  Mt\r- 
guerite  Ro}',  dauglitcr  of  (Charles  Fleury  Ro}',  once  a  merchai.'  in  Montreal.  He  is  a  cousin  of 
his  Lonl,-,liii)  Edwaid  Fabre,  Bishop  of  Montreal,  and  of  his  brother,  Senator  Hector  Fabre,  and 
also  of  Sir  George  E.  Carticr,  deceased. 

Mr.  Pernudt  took  a  full  classical  course  of  studies  at  St.  Mary's  college,  Montreal ;  studied 
law  witli  Sir  A.  A.  liorion  ;  was  a(lmitt(.'d  to  the  bar  in  1802,  and  jiractised  two  yeai's.  Fi'om 
1871  to  1874,  lie  was  one  of  the  editors  of  Le  Pays,  a  strong  Reform  paper;  and  his  contem- 
poraries in  the  cluiii'  ciliturial  in  diH'erent  parts  of  the  Dominion  gave  him  credit  for  being 
pugnaiiiius  and  jiliicky,  making  a  good  fight  for  the  political  jirinciples  .so  near  to  his  heart. 

He  has  filled  several  [xisitions  of  trust  connected  witii  the  Liberal  party  of  the  Province  of 
Quebec,  and  was  entrusted  on  several  occiisions  with  delicate  missions,  requiring  tact  as  well 
as  knowledge  of  men  and  things  generally,  obstacles  vanishing  in  contact  \i,it\\  an  undaiuited 
energy.     He  is  one  of  the  founders  ot  the  Montreal  Abattoir  Covrpany,    He  is  also  one  of  the 


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(lircctoi-H  of  tho  Houlh.  Slmrr  and  Ttivncl  Comjinvi/,  wliich  is  to  cross  the  St.  Lawronct*  livir 
lii'low  tlio  Victoria  Uri(l|,'o,  and  tlit-  Manii;,'in;,'  Director  in  Caiwulji,  of  tlio  Sacif'tt'  Fravniinc  iles 
P}toxph(i(c8  da  Canada,  a  company  with  a  million  ami  a  lialf  francs,  liaviri^  its  principal  (itlii'o 
in  Bonleaiix, 

From  1874  to  1877  Mr.  I'ennult  was  tlm  cHlcicnt,  .Montreal  maiiai,'er  of  tho  Sladrrona  !»- 
Hurance  (Jo.,  and  hold  tliat  position  when,  on  the  'JOth  of  May,  187.>,  he  received  the  appoint- 
ment of  Vicc-Con.sid  of  France,  an  oHico  tlu;  duties  of  which  he  is  performing  with  vigilance 
and  promptness,  and  to  tho  entire  .«atisfactii)n  (jf  the  country.  There  was  especial  fitness  in 
his  l)eing  appointed  to  that  post.  He  is  not  only  a  tirHt-cla.s,s  business  man,  Imt  lie  was  at  one 
time  a  sojourner  in  France,  and  Ik  came  familiar  witli  the  laws,  the  manners  and  the  customs  of 
that  country,  and  of  tlie  administrative  duties  of  such  an  ofHce  ;  and  then  his  legal  knowledge, 
liis  perfect  understanding  of  affairs,  his  e.xcjuisite  delicacy,  and  his  genth.'manly  bearing  towards 
all  parties,  all  combined  enabled  him  to  render  most  ellieient  service  to  all  cla.sses,  and  especially 
to  the  French  people  of  Montreal  and  its  vicinity.  On  his  receiving  the;  appointment  of  vice- 
consul,  Mr.  Perrault  had  showered  upon  him  the  warmest  congrat\dations  of  the  l'aiia<lian  press 
fraternity,  of  which  he  was  then  a  member,  and  they  predicted  for  him  the  most  brilliant  suc- 
cess, which,  it  is  untlerstood,  he  is  achieving. 

While  holding  the  ottice  and  performing  the  labors  of  vice-consul,  Mr.  Perrault  has  made 
liimself  eminently — we  might  say  pre-eminently  useful  in  other  spheres — in  some  cases  in  self- 
imposed  tasks  of  no  small  dimensions,  notably  his  work  in  connection  with  the  Montreal  French 
Benevolent  Society,  which  was  organized  to  assist  poor  immigrants  who  arrived  h(;ie  fioin 
France,  and  could  find  no  work,  ]n  the  winter  of  lS7.")-'7(i  there  were  three  hundred  of  this 
class  of  people  in  the  city,  and  through  his  exertions  as  leader,  and  the  help  of  a  few  other 
kind-hearted  and  benevolent  citizens,  they  were  fed  and  rlotheil  and  ke|)t  warm.  So  promin- 
ent were  hi.s  efibrts  in  behalf  of  these  destitute  people — sent  over  through  an  emigi'ant  agency, 
when  there  was  no  inniiediate  woik  for  them  to  do — that  he  received  the  especial  thanks  of 
the  French-sj)eaking  populntion  in  an  address  pres'.-nted  to  him  through  a  delegation  on  New 
Year's  daj',  1JS77.  In  that  address  a  well-merited  compliment  is  paid  to  the  zeal  and  charity  of 
Mr.  Perrault,  in  re^'-ard  to  his  compatriots  who  were  without  labor  and  without  resources  dur- 
ing the  [)receding  winter.  "  'i'ln;  nn'inbeis  of  this  .socicsty,"  said  liie  spokesman  of  the  delegates, 
"  and  all  th*;  French  residents  of  this  great  city,  have  witnessed  your  nc^ble  conduct ;  and  ijuite 
recently  the  French  an<l  Knglish  press  of  this  I'rovince  tailed  not  to  recount  all  jour  steps,  all 
your  efforts  with  the  highest  authorities  of  this  country,  in  order  to  obtain  the  repatriation  oi 
sevei-al  humlred  French  iiiimigrants  whom  most  unfortunate  circumstances  had  throwu  ujion 
the  shores  of  Canada  at  a  time  wIm'U  finances,  connnerce  and  labcr  wi're  paralyzed. 

"Here  the  Fiench  Montreal  Aid  Societj-  will  sa\'  to  you  without  hesitation,  that  the 
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To  the  address,  from  which  the  above  is  a  brief  extract,  Mr.  Perrault  made  a  modest  and 
neat  reply,  saying  among  many  beautiful  expressions  of  sentiment :  "  Those  of  your  compatriots 
who  will  soon  return  to  the  old  mother-country,  will  be  able  to  say  to  those  who  shall  speak  to 
them  of  this  former  colony,  that  if  the  winters  are  cold,  the  hearts  remain  warm,  and  that  if 
they  have  had  much  misery  they  have  not  had  less  sympathy  and  less  consolation." 

The  whole  respoase  of  Mr.  Perrault  to  the  address  of  tlie  delegates,  does  ample  credit  to  his 
head  and  his  heart. 

In  1877  Mr.  Perrault  was  appointed  an  official  assignee  for  the  District  of  Montreal.  He 
was  offered,  but  declined  to  accept  to  forui  part  of  the  commission  appointed  to  the  Paris  Ex- 
position of  1877. 

In  18G3,  when  in  Paris,  Mr.  Pemiult  had  the  honour  of  being  received  in  an'  audience  ex- 
traordinare  at  the  Palace  of  the  Tuileries,  by  the  Count  de  Neuwerkerke,  then  Minister  of 
Fine  Arts  and  was  also  bearer  of  letters  as  special  delegate  of  I'lnstitat  Canadien  to  H.  I  H. 
Prince  Napoleon,  Thiers,  Guizot  and  several  of  the  most  prominent  statesmen  of  Fi-anee. 

Mr.  Perrault  married,  on  the  28th  of  February,  18G9,  Emma  Matilda,  daughter  of  Joseph 
TifHn,  Elsq.,  a  prominent,  wealthy  and  retired  merchant  of  Montreal.  She  was  an  accomplished 
lady,  dying  on  the  13th  of  June,  1880  leaving  one  child,  a  son. 


WILLIAM   PRICE, 

QVEliEC. 

MR.  WILLIAM  PRICE,  the  founder  of  the  well-known  firm  of  Price  Bros.,  was  Itom  on 
17th  of  September,  1789,  at  Honisey,  near  London,  England,  and  was  the  third  son  of 
Richard  and  Mary  Price,  of  Elstree,  Herts.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Glamorgan.sIiire,  South 
Wales,  and  his  mother,  Mary  Price,  n^e  Evans,  was  born  on  the  banks  of  the  Tivy,  Cardigan- 
shire, South  Wales.  The  subject  of  our  sketch  landed  at  Quebec  on  his  pa.s.sage  from  England, 
on  the  10th  of  May,  1810.  From  the  time  of  his  landing  in  C^anada  until  his  death  in  the 
78th  year  of  his  age,  at  Wolfesfield,  Quebec,  on  the  14th  of  March,  18G7,  he  also  occupietl 
a  prominent  place  amongst  the  merchants  of  Canada,  cs|)ei-ially  those  of  Qucl)ec.  His  distin- 
guished ap|)varance  was  indicative  of  the  nobility  of  his  character,  and  not  one  who  has  l)een 
known  to  confute  that  as  a  man  of  business,  a  citizen,  or  in  his  immediate  social  circle,  he  was 
an  untisual  favorite.  It  may  not  be  amiss  to  quote  some  pas.sages  maiie  at  the  time  of  his 
decease,  from  the  Daily  Times,  of  Quebec.  It  says: — "Another  old  and  highly  respected 
citizen  of  Quebec,  who  has  passed  more  than  half  a  century  in  our  midst,  and  whose  navne  is 
associated,  more,  perhaps,  than  any  other  in  Canada,  with  the  progress  and  material  prosperity 
of  the  country,  has  gone  to  the  home  fi-oni  whence  no  traveller  returns.     Mr.  Price  die«l 


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yesterday  at  his  residence,  WolfesHeld,  Grand  AU^  road,  in  the  78th  year  of  his  age.  He  sinks 
into  hid  grave  full  of  honors,  after  a  life  of  usefulness,  leaving  behind  him  a  record  that  must 
ever  make  his  memory  cherisheil.  With  that  quick  intelligence  which  he  displayed  throughout 
life,  h(^  soon  became  engaged  in  commercial  pursuits,  and  from  the  Krst  took  a  position 
as  one  of  the  leading  merchants  of  the  city.  Following  in  the  foot'stoim  of  the  late  Sir 
John  Carswell,  his  enterprising  mind  was  soon  attractfOd  to  the  vast  mines  of  wealth  which  lay 
hidden  in  our  forests.  At  first  he  erected  mills  for  [sawing  logs,  on  the  Point  Levi  side  of  the 
liver,  where  he  gave  employment  to  a  large  number  of  the  inhabitants  ;  but  his  enterprise  did 
not  stop  here,  for  the  whole  country  was  explored,  and  upon  every  stream  between  Quebec  and 
Rimouski,  where  the  prospects  warranted  it,  he  erected  a  siiw  mill.  Hundi-eds  flocked  into  it, 
where  they  soon  made  comfortable  homes  for  themselves.  XTillages  sprang  up,  mills  were  erected  > 
churches  were  built,  and  the  country  which,  but  a  few  years  before  was  a  barren  waste,  soon  began 
to  give  evidence  of  civilization  under  his  fostering  care."  It  goes  on  to  say,  "  The  man  has 
done  so  much  goo''  vith  the  means  placed  at  his  dispo.»l.  In  private  life  he  was  the  tri  type 
of  the  English  gen.  it.>ni<>. ;  •  '  tlie  c!d  school,  generous,  warm-hearted,  honorable,  and  upright. 
,  .  ,  .  .  Mr.  Price  lea  rfs  beiimd  him  but  few  contemjwmries  who  .set  out  on  the  voyage  of 
life  with  him.  He  is  almost  the  las^  of  a  race  of  old  English  settlere,  whose  departure  we  nmy 
deplore,  but  whom  we  cannot  i-eplace."  With  such  a  panegyric  as  the  foregoing,  we  could 
scarce  a<l«l  more,  except  we  may  be  permitted  to  state  that  his  name  now  is  held  in  the  highest 
veneration  in  Queltec,  and  es|K>cially  by  the  habitant  population,  as  well  as  all  others,  regardless 
of  creed,  in  the  vicinity  of  Saguenay. 


GEORGE    ROSS,  M.I)., 

MONTREAL. 

rilHE  subject  of  this  sketch,  proft!s.sor  of  clinical  medicine  in  the  univoi-sity  of  MclJill  cullege, 
-'-  is  a  son  of  the  late  Arthur  Ross,  seignior  of  Beaurivage,  in  the  Province  of  Qucliec,  and 
wa-s  l»orn  in  Montreal,  on  the  11th  of  March,  184.').  His  father  was  also  Inirn  in  this  city  ;  his 
grandfather,  David  Ross,  was  one  of  the  early  King's  counsels  in  Canada.  Our  subject  was 
cducatal  in  Montreal,  and  was  unusually  successful  in  winning  prizes,  being  the  Hrst  Davidmm 
gold  medalist  in  the  high  school,  the  (.'hapman  gold  medaiist  in  the  classics  in  McQill  collegf>, 
I8(i2,  and  the  Holmes  gold  medalist  at  the  time  of  his  graduation  from  the  mnlical  d«-partment 
in  1806,  the  last  prize  being  for  general  proficiency  in  all  the  branches  of  the  medical  curri- 
culum. 

In  the  autumn  of  the  last  year  mentione<l.  Dr.  Ross  was  appointeil  assistant  house-surgeon 
to  the  Montreal  general  hospital,  and  house-surgeon  in  1869,  holding  the  latter  post  until  1872, 


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when  he  went  inU)  general  practice  in  the  city.  The  Hanie  yeax  he  wax  elected  an  attending; 
physician  of  that  institution,  and  received  from  the  govemorH  of  flcQill  university  the  appoint- 
ment of  profe^  sor  of  clinical  nie«licine.  Shortly  after  undertaking  these  duties  he  resigned  all 
share  in  the  surgical  {lortion  of  the  hospital,  devoting  himself  entirely  to  the  chai-ge  of  -ases  of 
medical  disease.  The  classes  in  attendance  are  very  large,  and  as  a  bed-side  ti>acher  Dr.  Ross 
has  been  markedly  successful,  having  done  credit  to  his  university  and  given  satisfaction  to  the 
students  of  seveial  successive  years.  He  is  one  of  the  governors  of  the  hospital,  and  the  secre- 
tary of  its  medical  board. 

Since  August  1879,  Dr.  Ross  has  been  one  of  the  editors  uf  the  Canada  Mcdiad  and  Sur- 
ijual  Journal  to  which  he  was  a  fre(|ucnt  contributor  prior  to  taking  the  editorial  chair. 

He  WHS  vice-president  of  the  Montreal  Medico-chirui-gical  so<'iety  in  1878,  and  probably  no 
young  medical  practitioner  in  the  city  has  a  better  standing  in  the  fraternity. 


WILLIAM    EVAN    J»I11CE, 

(QUEBEC. 

WILIJ  AM  E.  PRICK  was  bora  at  Wolfesfield,  Quebec,  on  the  17th  of  November,  1827 ; 
was  the  son  of  the  late  William  Price,  Esq.,  who  married  Miss  Jane,  thinl  daughter  of 
the  late  Charles  G.  Stewart,  Esq.,  comptroller  of  the  Imperial  Customs  at  Quebec.  William 
Evan  was  a  brother  of  the  Hon.  D.  E.  Price,  .senatfjr,  and  was  educated  at  Dr.  Lundy's  classical 
school,  Quebec,  and  afterwards  at  Kingston.  The  family  is  of  Welsh  descent,  and  the  grand- 
father, Richaiil  Price,  although  coming  from  Elstree,  in  Hertfonlshire,  was  previously  from  Gla- 
morganshire, South  Wales.  The  name  of  Price  is  so  well  known  throughout  the  Dominion,  and, 
in  fact,  over  the  entire  continent,  as  well  as  amongst  all  in  Europe  connected  with  the  lumber 
interests,  that  it  would  be  superfluous  to  add  one  word  regarding  the  high  esteem  and  res{)ect 
in  which  the  Hrm  has  always  Iteen  held.  The  surviving  partners  have  a  legion  of  friends  who 
entertain  the  highest  regard  for  the  well-known  old  tirm  of  Price  Bros,  and  t.'o.,  in  which  the 
subject  of  our  sketch  was  the  much-esteemed  partner.  Mr.  Price  was  a  Protestant  and  a  liberal 
conservative,  and  a  staunch  suppoiter  of  the  present  administration.  He  was  returnnl  by  accla- 
mation to  repi-esent  Chicoutimi  and  Saginaw,  during  his  absence  in  England,  at  the  general 
ele«^tions  in  187H,  He  previously  sat  for  Chicoutimi  in  the  House  of  Commons,  from  the  general 
election  in  1872  until  the  dissolution  in  1874,  when  he  retired.  Mr.  Price  was  unmarried.  It  may 
Ite  within  our  province  hen>  to  remark  that  there  possibly  is  not  a  Hrm  in  the  whole  Dominion 
which  is  held  in  more  affectionate  regard  for  their  unstinted  generosity  and  lilierality  to  the 
habitants  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Saguenay  and  elsewhere,  than  the  Krm  of  Price  Bros,  and  Co.  As  a 
proof  of  the  devotional  asteem  Mr.  William  Evan  Price,  Quebec,  was  held  in,  we  neeil  only  men- 


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tion  they  arc  now  about  erecting  a  very  large  monument  at  Chicoutimi  at  a  cost  of  over  92,000 
to  liis  memory.  This  monument  has  been  subscribed  for  by  the  habitants  of  Saguenay  and 
Chicoutimi  alone.  His  untimely  death,  on  the  12th  of  June,  1879,  at  a  comparatively  ripe  age, 
caused  a  Hhock  to  the  whole  community  in  and  around  Quebec.  To  show  the  veneration  in 
which  the  deceased  gentleman  was  held,  we  quote  the  following  from  a  local  paper : — 

"  The  House  adjourned  early  for  Mr.  William  Price's  funeral.  This  was  a  large  one,  for  it 
would  he.  hard  to  find  a  man  who  had  an  unkind  word  for  the  late  meml)er  for  Chicoutimi.  He 
has,  in  great  measure,  died  from  doing  his  duty.  He  was  as  sensitive  as  he  was  honorable,  and 
determined  to  do  what  he  considered  his  duty  under  exceptionally  trying  circumstances"  .  . 
In  conclusion  it  adds:—"  He  was  the  quietest  man  in  the  House,  the  most  inoilensive,  but  many 
a  one  could  have  Injen  better  .spared." 


REV.   HENRY   ROE,  D.I)., 

LENNOXVILLE. 

HENRY  ROE,  profes.sor  of  divinity  in  the  university  of  Bishop's  college,  is  a  native  of  the 
Province  of  Quebec,  his  Viirth  lieing  dated  at  Henry  ville,  P.  Q.,  on  the  22nd  February, 
1829.  His  father  was  John  Hill  Hoe.  an  M.D.  of  Trinity  college,  Dublin,  and  a  member  of  one 
of  the  oldest  county  families  in  King's  County,  and  his  mother  Jane  Ardagh,  of  an  equally  well 
known  county  family  in  Tipperary,  Ireland.  Hi.s  early  teachers  were  William  McKinan,  and 
Arcluleacon  Scott,  Ixtth  of  Montreal.  He  entered  McGill  college  in  1843,  as  Longueuil  scholar, 
migrated  to  Bishop's  college,  Lennoxville,  on  its  being  established  in  1845,  where  he  graduated 
as  soon  as  the  college  was  empowered  to  confer  degrees,  but  did  not  proceed  to  M.A.,  till  18(j7. 
He  was  Mackie  prizeman  at  his  graduation.  He  was  ordained  deacon  on  the  4th  July,  1852, 
and  priest  on  the  2'Jth  Se|iti'iiiber,  185:J,  by  Bi.shop  (J.  J.  Mountain,  of  Queb«,'c. 

The  first  appointiuont  of  our  subject  was  missionary  to  New  Ireland,  P.  Q.,  whence  he 
went  in  January  1855,  to  assume  the  incumbency  of  St.  Matthew's  church,  city  of  Quebec, 
next  to  the  cathedral,  the  most  important  piirish  in  the  diocese.  While  there  he  was  appointed 
in  1803,  examining  chaplain  to  the  lord  bishop.  He  remained  in  that  city  until  180)8,  when  he 
resigned  his  im|)ortant  charge  to  throw  himself  into  the  missionary  work  of  the  church  in  the 
eastern  townships  of  Lower  Canada ;  and  accepted  the  mission  of  Richmond  and  Melbourne, 
which  under  his  hands  soon  grew  int«i  a  i-ectory ;  here  he  remained  for  five  years. 

Dr.  Rot!  received  the  ap|M)intment  of  professor  of  divinity  and  pastoral  theology  in  Bish- 
op's college  and  ilean  of  the  collegt?  in  September,  1873,  and  he  is  now  dean  of  the  Faculty  of 
Divinity.     He  was  graduated  B.D.,  and  D.D.,  by  accumulation  in  1879. 

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Dr.  Roe  in  wull  and  Tavorably  kimwn  throiighixit  tho  two  dioouiea  of  Quebec  and  Montreal,  and  in  hit 
own  diocese,  among  thoio  who  know  liini  heat,  ho  ia  very  greatly  ruR|ieoted.  liefore  he  iNjcitniu  known  aa  u 
teacher  of  theology  he  had  uitabli'ilied  a  high  re|iutation  both  aa  an  able  and  diligent  imriih  priest  in  charge  «if  n 
cure  of  Bonis  in  the  city  of  QiioIh'c,  and  iia  an  earnest  and  aiicccssfnl  missionary  clergyman  in  the  conntry  parts. 
His  large  experience  in  tho  practical  work  of  the  church  in  C'r.nada  haa  often  proved  very  useful  in  the  Synods, 
both  of  the  diocoae  and  of  the  whole  ecclesiastical  province.  In  l<<ith  bodies  he  is  always  heard  with  attention 
and  his  opinion  bos  considerable  weight.  Aa  a  divine  he  ia  one  of  the  beat  men  to  Im)  found  in  thia  country. 
His  reading  is  very  extcnsivo,  and,  aa  ho  has  a  very  retentive  memory,  ho  is  thoroughly  well  acquainted  not 
only  with  tho  history  of  theology  in  the  past,  hut  all  the  great  queations  which  stir  men's  minds  at  tho  proaent 
day.  His  extensive  knowledge  and  strong  grasp  of  what  be  believe*  to  be  truth  may  sonietiuies  make  him  ap- 
pear, and  |ierha|>s  may  really  render  him,  a  little  dogmatic  in  expression.  Rut,  he  will  !«  found  notwithstand- 
ing, eminently  fair  and  considerate  towards  those  who  differ  from  him.  In  churchmanship  he  belongs  most 
pro|>erly  to  the  class  of  nxHlerate  high  churehiiiaii,  shrinking  equally  fn>m  the  vagaries  of  modern  Uitiialism, 
and  from  what  liu  regards  as  the  crudities  of  Hocalled  evangelicalism.  Dr.  Roe  has  very  fair  abilities  as  a 
preacher,  and  as  a  lecturer  he  is  held  in  very  high  esteem  by  both  professors  and  students  in  Bishop's  college. 

Dr.  Ruv  i.s  tlio  author  of  .soviriil  paiiipliluts,  lHK)k,  &:c.,  nioHt  of  them  pulili.shcil  wliilo  ho 
wa.s  engaged  in  pamchial  work.  Among  thorn  wc  may  mention:  "Farewell  Sermons,"  18.55; 
"  Letter  to  the  congiogation  of  St.  Matthow'.s  ( 'hurch,"  185)S  ;  Pamphlet  «»n  Defence  of  the  right 
of  Bishops  to  a  Vote  in  Kpi.scopal  Synmls  "  IS.'>!I;  an<l  a  volume  of  "  fiecttiroN  (m  Purgatory, 
Transnhstantiation  and  the  Mas.s,"  in  answer  U)  Kev.  Dr.  Cahill,  lN(i2,  of  whieli  work  two  edi- 
tions were  called  for,  and  a  pa|K'r  on  the  "  llea«iing  of  the  ( 'lergy,"  lfS04',  ami  other  workw.  Dr. 
HiM^  has  lieen  for  twenty  years  the  Canadian  eorreH|M>ndent  of  the  "  fjondon  Ouardian,"  and  he 
is  among  the  leading  writers  of  his  class  in  the  Province  of  Quebec. 

Dr.  Hoe  was  one  of  five  clergyman  nominatiid  Bishop  of  Algoina,  in  1873,  hy  the  house 
of  hishons  of  the  Canada  ehmx'h,  when  the  pr«'sent  bi.shop,  Rev.  Dr.  Fauipiier  was  selected. 

t>r.  K«ie  married  in  18.3.'),  Eliza  Julia,  daughter  of  deputy  commissaiy  general  Smith,  itnd 
they  have  two  children  living,  and  have  lo.st  an  e(|ual  number. 


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TIfliKK  RIVBKS. 

POSSIBLY  the  subject  of  our  sketch  is  one  of  the  most  popular  and  able  judges  on  tho 
( 'anadian  Bi>neh  ;  in  contirination  of  this,  and  as  an  instance  of  the  .sage  judgmeti  the  was 
known  to  jK)s,sess  by  those  in  authority,  wo  find  him  during  his  long  an<l  meritorioUM  ciireer 
from  which  he  has  <mly  retired  last  SepU-mlier,  1  ><8(>,  associatiid  amongst  many  other  im|M)rt4int 
decisions  he  has  adjudicated  upon,  ap|iointed  on  the  2Sth  March,  l8.*i(),  one  of  the  memln'rs  of 
the  commission  for  the  Consolidation  of  the  Public  (Jencral  SUitutes  of  Lower  Canada  and 
('anada  respectiv«;ly  ;  in  the  July  followin<^  he  .served  as  a  commiasioner  on  thecnipiiry  into  the 
falling  of  the  Mcmlniorency  Suspension  bridge,  ami  later  in  187')  he  was  nominativl  one  of  the 
royal  commission<>rs  apjHtiiited  (o  intpiiiv  into  the  chargt^s  preferred  against  the  members  of 


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the  Duniiniuii  govei-ninent   in  connetrtion  with  the  granting  of  a  cliai'ter  to  the  then  |ii'o|>uhoi1 
Canada  PairiKc  llailway. 

Ho  was  lM)rn  at  Puinte  aiix  Trenililes,  Qnu..  on  tlie  2'>tli  of  August,  1N()7,  luul  e<hieate<l  at 
that  phice  and  Quebec  (a  sliurt  time  privately,  and  at  the  seminary  in  that  ancient  city).  Il« 
is  a  son  of  Mr.  Antoine  Polotto,  who  for  many  years  was  a  well-known  resident  at  I'oint  aux 
Trembles,  and  his  mother  was  Miss  Murie  Joseph,  daughter  of  Mr.  Bertrand  who  also  resided  in 
that  town. 

Heing  edueiited  for  the  liar,  we  find  him  in  the  early  iwirt  of  his  career  studying  law  with 
tlie  no  less  distinguished  man  than  Mr.  llilaire  (lirard,  at  Cjiieliec,  and  finally  with  M.  Joseph 
Lageaiix,  also  of  tliat  city. 

Successfully  lu-complishingall  the  more  difticnlt  and  abstruse  i|uestions,  lie  was  called  to  tho 
bar  of  Lower  Canada  on  the  11th  of  S«!ptemb«'r,  !fS2S,  ami  created  a  Q.  ( ".  on  tlie  istli  of  Decum- 
ber,  iN-'il'.  Judge  Polette  was  appointed  on  tlie  24th  of  November,  IS.S4,  a  commissioner  for 
the  erection  of  the  l)ridge  on  the  river  St.  .Maurice.  He  has  also  becMi  a  eoinmissioncr  on 
the  Ixtai'il  of  education  as  well  its  a  conimissioiier  for  (he  erection  of  ^  "rishes  and  con- 
solidation of  Koiiian  Catholic  churches,  which  he  had  resigne<|  at  one  time  coiise<iuent  upon  his 
difierences  with  the  govt'rnment,  but  was  induced  to  re-accept  the  latter  appointment,  and  only 
gave  it  up  on  his  being  calliMl  to  tho  liencli.  He  was  appointed  a  commissioner  for  the  inspec- 
tion and  .sujiervision  of  the  insane  and  foundling  institutes  at  the  time  when  the  Legislature  did 
not  look  so  welt  after  these  unhappy  ones  as  in  our  time. 

He  was  appointed  to  the  bench  im  the  21st  of  April,  ISOO,  from  which  time  until  SeptenilM!!*, 
ISiSO,  a  period  e-xtending over  twenty  years,  he  manifested  all  the  urbane  ijualities  of  an  upright, 
honest,  straightforward  and  zealous  judg<'.  As  a  puisne  judge  of  the  superior  court  of  Queb«'c, 
his  decision  in  all  difticult  cases  was  regarded  by  his  learned  confreres  as  incontrovertible,  and  it 
may  here  be  iiientionerl  that  he  is  held  in  tin;  highest  esteem  by  the  whole  of  his  professional 
brethren,  socially,  in  Three  Rivers,  where  he  hits  resided  for  many  years,  In-  is  held  in  the  highest 
respect  and  regard  by  the  community,  irres|K'ctive  of  creed  or  class,  and  so  popular  is  he  with 
the  nia-ss,  that  he  was  returned  to  the  Canadian  Asseiiilily  in  I.S+.S,aiid  represented  Three  Kivers 
in  that  august  bo<ly  uninJciruptedly  for  nearly  ten  years  ;  prior  to  which,  in  I^s42,  he  wai» 
appointed  warden  of  the  district. 

The  learned  judge  is  a  true  type  of  our  remaining  fine  old  Canadian  gentlemen,  and  his 
characteristics  in  this  respect,  combined  with  his  wide  known  pliilanthro|iy,  render  him  ussen- 
tially  deservedly  {Mipnlar  and  esteemed  throughout  tho  whole  Province  of  Que'iec,  and,  in 
fact  it  may  Ihj  said  the  entire  Dominion,  especially  in  (Hljvwa. 

During  the  time  the  jiulge  sat  in  parliament  as  representative  of  Three  Rivers,  ho  obtained 
the  sanction  of  the  government  for  the  survey  of  tho  tiinU'r  limits  in  the  terriUiry  of  the  river 
St.  Maurice,  with  a  view  of  developing  ami  licgininga  large  liimlier  business  in  this  district,  and 
to  this  may  in  some  verygi-oat  measure  lie  ascrilied  the  advancement  and  pros|)erity  of  Thi-eo 


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Rivers  bh  it  is  men  lo-day,  compared  with  what  it  waH  then,  and  which  \\an  from  the  time  wc 
refer  to  up  till  the  present  l>een  steadily  progressing. 

The  government  sent  surveyors  t)ver  the  district,  and  the  report  being  favorable,  they  voted 
XIO.JMK)  for  the  tlevelopment  of  the  suggestion  maiie  by  Judge  Polette,  hence  it  may  rt'asonably 
be  inferred  that  through  his  instrumentality  and  inHuence  the  city  owes  much  to  the  venerable 
judge  for  the  interest  he  took  in  the  matter,  and  whieh  caused  to  lie  exix-iided  a  no  less  sum 
than  X30,0(H)  in  the  district,  iiiasmucli  as  the  original  vote  of  X1(>,(HK)  was  supplemente<l  tlirougli 
his  interposition,  by  an  additional  grant  of  X!20,000  for  completing  what  he  so  advantageously 
had  begun. 

He  marriett,  Hi-st,  Miss  Henrietta,  .second  daughter  r»f  the  late  Jean  Kaptiste  I)ul>ue,  a  well- 
known  merchant  of  QueV>cc,  Batiscan,  and  St.  (Jenevieve ;  secondly,  Mary  Anne  (Nancy),  .si.ster  of 
the  late  chief  justice  Duval ;  and  thirdly,  Mi.ss  Aurelia  Sophia,  daughter  of  the  late  Hon.  Justice 
W.  K.  M.€ord. 

His  honor  lias  issue  three  children  by  the  last  marriage,  the  eldest  of  which  has  Injen  admit- 
ted to  the  l)ar  at  Montreal  recently,  and  none  by  the  fiixt  two. 

He  belongs  to  the  Roman  Catholic  Church,  and  is  in  polities  a  follower  of  the  ( 'onservativo 
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JEAN   E.  LANDRY,  M.D., 

QUEBEC. 

AMONG  the  physicians  and  surgeons  of  the  city  of  Quek'c,  that  have  made  a  great  success 
in  their  profes.sion,  is  Dr.  Jean  Eticnnc  Landry,  Professor  of  Surgery  in  Laval  l^niver- 
sity.  He  was  born  at  Carleton,  in  this  province,  on  the  25th  of  December,  18L'>,  being  a  son  of 
Selta-stian  Landry,  a  native  of  the  same  place.  His  great-grandfather  was  one  of  the  e.xiles  from 
Acadia,  who  were  driven  out  in  1755.  His  mother  was  Emdrence  Painchaud,  whose  family 
came  from  France  in  the  18th  century.  He  was  educated  at  St.  Anne's  college,  an  institution 
founded  by  a  maternal  uncle,  Charles  Fran(;ois  Painehaud,  and  subsequently  studied  medicine 
in  the  Marine  and  Emigrant  Hospitjvl  in  Quelwc,  spending  at  first  four  years  there,  and  was 
licensed  on  the  10th  of  July,  1840.  After  practi.sing  four  yeai-s  at  Pointe  Levi,  he  returned  to 
Queljee,  and  sjient  thi-ec  more  yeara  at  the  Marine  Hospitjil  as  house-surgeon,  at  the  end  of 
which  time  he  commenced  general  practice  in  the  city,  continuing  it  until  18(i4,  when  lie  retired. 

At  the  date  just  mentioned,  Dr.  Landry  took  charge  of  the  Queltec  Lunatic  Asylum,  of 
which  he  hiwl  become  proprietor,  and  of  which  he  still  has  the  caiv. 

In  the  autumn  of  1854  our  subject  waa  appointed  to  the  chair  of  surgery  in  Laval  Uni- 
veraity,  and  was  sent  to  Europe  to  visit  medical  schools  and  to  purchase  a  library,  surgical 
instruments  antl  nmseum  for  the  university,  returning  the  next  spring,  and  entering  upon  the 
IftboiTj  of  his  profes-sorship,  which  he  has  continued  steadily  for  a  little  more  than  a  quarter  of 


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a  century.  Mis  ivputAtioii  a-s  a  Hurgcun  extends  over  a  large  part  of  t)ie  Province,  and  wherever 
known,  he  is  popular.  He  in  a  corresponding  member  of  the  Anthropolt>gical  Society  of  Paris, 
and  honorary  niemlxT  of  the  Emulation  Society  of  Louvain. 

The  lloctor  is  sinxiM>n  to  the  Hotel  Dieu  Hospital,  the  Urs<iline  an<l  (loo<l  Shephcnl's  con- 
vents, and  is  occasionally  called  in  consultation  to  the  Sisters  of  Charity  and  other  institutions, 
when  there  arc  difficult  cases  in  surgery.  He  was  visiting  physician  and  surgeon  for  a  long 
time  at  the  Marine  Hospital,  resigning  in  the  autumn  of  1H80. 

He  has  long  been  and  still  is  the  medical  attendant  of  the  Jesuits'  establish nient,  and  was  at 
one  periinl  attucheil  to  the  24th  and  11th  regiments  of  troo|ts  as  acting  sui-geon. 

Tht>  Doctor  is  building  a  carding  mill,  a  cloth  factory  and  saw  mill  at  Carleton,  his  native 
|>lace,  and  is  thus  aiding  to  advance  the  interests  of  that  ]tart  of  this  province. 

Dr.  Lamlry  is  a  Roman  Catholic,  but  we  cannot  hsam  that  he  has  ever  held  any  office  in 
connection  with  the  Church,  his  duties,  in  fact,  as  a  physician  and  surgeon,  exempting  him,  we 
believe,  from  such  labors.     He  is  a  man  of  gtxxl  impulses  and  kind  to  the  unfortunate. 

He  was  married,  on  the  31st  of  August,  18tl,  to  Miss  Caroline  Lelievro,  daughter  of  Ben- 
jamin Lclievre,  notary,  of  the  city  of  Quelwc,  and  she  was  the  mother  of  eleven  children,  only 
three  of  them  now  living.  She  died  in  Octoljer,  l«70.  Ernest,  the  elder  of  two  surviving  sons, 
is  unmarried  and  lives  at  home;  Auguste  Charles  PhilipiM?,  the  other  ,son,  is  a  menil)er  of  the 
House  of  Commons  for  Montniagny,  and  Cecile,  the  only  surviving  daughter,  is  the  wife  of  Dr. 
Larue,  a  practising  physician  at  Foiutc  au.\  Trembles,  P.Q. 


JAMES   MACrilERSON   LE    MOmE, 

QUEBEC. 

THE  subject  of  this  notice,  a  well-known  Canadian  author  and  Dominion  inspector  of  in- 
land revenue,  at  Queltec,  was  lK)rn  in  the  city  of  Quebec,  on  the  25th  of  January,  1825  ; 
he  combines,  by  his  ])irth,  the  two  chief  races  in  the  Province  of  Quelwc,  and  is  a  son  of 
the  late  Benjamin  Le  Moine,  Vjh\.,  a  merchant  of  note  in  his  day ;  his  ancestor  in  this  country, 
Jean  Le  Moync.  a  native  of  Pistre,  near  Rouen,  Normandy,  came  to  Canada  in  10(50,  and 
became  the  proprietor  of  throe  .seigneuries  near  Three  Rivers,  Ste.  Marie,  (iatineau  and  Ijh 
Noi-aye  ;  he  was  a  near  relative  of  Charles  Le  Moyne,  of  Rouen,  the  father  of  the  celebrated 
Baron  De  Jjongueuil*  By  his  mother's  side  our  subject  is  connected  with  the  old  United  Empire 

*  NoTR.— One  of  tho  i)a|>era  in  the  fourth  and  Uat  seribs  of  "  Maple  Leaves,''  (1873),  ia  on  Uarun  ile  Lon- 
gueuil,  ■otnetiroe*  styled  the  "  Machabeua  of  Montreal."  In  a  note  to  that  sketch  we  have  a  short  account  of  the 
family  of  Longueuil,  who  was  the  eldest  of  eleven  sons  of  Charles  Le  Moyne,  who  by  the  way,  was  in  the  war 
with  the  Iroquois,  and  contributed  very  materially  to  the  paci6cation  of  the  country  and  defence  of  the  frontier. 
This  eldest  son,  Sieur  Charles  Le  Moyne,  Baron  of  Longueuil,  waa  lieutenant  of  the  city  and  government  of  Mon- 
'  Utixl.  and  w»a  kiUe4  in  »  severe  action  at  Saratoga,  New  York. 


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Lo^aliHtM,  liiii  iimtvrnal  grand fatluT,  Dnniui  Mac|iht>i-8un,  for  whom  Mr.  Lu  Moiiic  wa«  niiined, 
coining  to  tliiH  country  from  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  alK)ut  17H3. 

Mr.  Lv  Moinc  waH  tMhicatcd  at  tlie  Qtieboc  seminary,  going  tlirongh.  a  elaNsical  eour^e  of 
htndies,  with  nuich  credit,  under  .soverni  eminent  i»rofe.s8or.s,  who  rose  to  the  highest  iionoi-s  in 
the  ciunrh  :  ProfenHor  Tii-scliereau,  the  present  archbishop;  Professor  [jangevin  Haunie  Ilonin, 
who  also  Hultscquently  Inseame  liislioiis.  Ho  ha<l  the  advantage  of  hnving  <m  his  professor  of 
rhetoric,  the  learned  Abhd  Bauchy,  of  the  "college  Stiinislas,"  Paris.  In  184.'>,  Mr.  Le  Moino 
wa.s  indentured  Jut  law  student  to  J.  N.  Bos.s<5,  HIsq.,  barrister.  Inter  to  Hon.  Justice  Bossd,  and 
practised  his  profession  for  several  years  as  a  partner  of  VV.  H.  Ken*,  Kscj.,  tiie  piesiden*  of  the 
Montreal  bar,  but  eviilently  hati  more  taste  for  literature  than  the  law.  For  nearly  twenty 
years  he  has  wielded  a  busy  as  well  as  graceful  and  vigorous  pen,  as  a  list  of  his  works,  j)ul>- 
lished  both  in  English  and  French,  and  a  glance  at  their  style,  will  indicate.  We  subjoin  a  list, 
with  the  date  of  their  publication  : — 

"  Loyuiulnry  Lore  of  thu  Ijower  St.  Ijiwruiico"  (1  vol.  in  32iiio),  ISfi'i  ,  "  .Mn|ile  I  eaves"  (4  Series)  (1  vol. 
each),  IWKJ-V:!  ;  "  The  Tourist's  Note  Hook  "  (1  vol.),  1p>  Cosmopolite,  lM7«t  ;  "  Tlie  Sword  of  Urigudier-iieriefiil 
Montgomery"  (A  Memoir)  (I  vol.),  1870;  "Jottings  from  OanitdiiUi  History"  (Stewart's  (^iinrtn-lij),  1871  ; 
"Trifles  fnmi  my  Portfolio"  {New  Dotniuiou  MimtlUii),  1872;  "  (Quebec,  I'ast  and  Present"  187(i  ;  "Tim 
Tourist's  Note  Hook  "  (second  edition),  187U  ,  "  C'hrniiclusof  the  St.  Lawrence"  (1  vol.  in  8vo),  1878  ;  "  Old  and 
MiKU-rn  Quebec  "  (contributed  to  MorniiKj  Chrnitiili',  Hrochure  on  (Queen's  Hirtliday),  1880  ;  "  Notice  on  Siiencor 
W.Mid  "  188«) ;  "  L'Ornithologie  du  Canada  "  (2  vols,  in  8vo>,  18<»()  ;  "  Les  Pecherics  dii  Caniula  "  (1  v.>l.  in  8vo), 
1803;  "  Memoire  do  Montcalm,  Vengeo"  (1  vol.  in  32mo),  18(»5  ;  "  L' Album  Cuiadien,"  187U  ;  "  L'Albuni  du 
Touriste,"  1873;  "Notes  Histori<|ues  sur  les  rues  do  Quebec,"  1870;  "Tableau  Synoptique  des  Uiseaux  du 
Canada,  A  Tusagti  des  ecules,"  1877. 

His  fii-st  work,  on  the  "  Ornithology  of  Quebec,"  was  highly  commended  by  scientific  men 
in  the  United  States,  as  well  as  in  Canada,  and  liis  later  publications  generally  have  had  tlio 
cordial  ondonsement  of  the  press  in  a  very  wide  range.  In  a  volume  like  this,  which  will  con- 
tain sketches  of  nearly  three  hundicd  citizens  of  this  province — including  a  few  very  promi- 
nent men  recently  deceased,  we  cannot  stop  to  part.'vularise  the  merits  of  each  work,  a  few 
words  of  refeience  to  .several  of  them  must  suffice.  The  "  Fislieries  of  CJanadii,"  like  the  work 
on  Ornithology,  is  very  u.sefulof  its  kind,  and  served  an  adiuirablo  purpose  by  leading  to  further 
and  finally  practical  investigations  of  the  subject ;  the  "  Legendary  Lore  of  the  St.  Luvience  " 
is  decidedly  attractive  reading  in  that  department  of  literature;  "  M.vple  Leaves,"  which 
apfwared  in  four  series,  one  volume  each,  in  1802,  '03,  '04  and  '73,  are  ma<le  up  largely  of  t!.s.say8 
on  a  great  variety  of  subjects,  printed  at  sundry  times  in  various  newspajHM-s  and  |)eriodieal.s, 
and  embratie  a  gieat  amoimt  of  valuable  matter ;  of  a  similar  character  are  "  Trifles  from  the 
Author's  Portfolio,"  "Jottings  of  Canadian  History,"  the  "  Memoii-s  of  Montcalm,"  the  "  Sword 
of  tJen.  Montgomery,"  etc.,  etc. 

"  Quebec,  Past  and  Present,"  is  a  graphic  picture  of  this  quaint  old  city  a.s  it  appeared  200 
and  230  yeai-s  ago,  and  as  it  looks  to-day.     It  is  really  a  complete  liistory  of  Quebec  from  1008 


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to  187fi,  ami  also  vnliracoH  a  laix*'  |iart  of  thv  r.nnals  of  C'ana<Ia,  including'  imicli   litt-iary  as 
well  aH  civil  and  )M>liti('al  history. 

A  wrili'i'  in  tin-  CmKuiian  IlUmtititeil  XetVM,  xpcaks  as  folluWH  of"  Qik'Ik'c  I'ast  and  I'li's- 
pnt,"  and  of  tlu"  "  (^Inonifles  of  the  St.  Ijiwivnce :  " 

All  the  visitors  in  the  ancient  capital  who  have  read  Mr.  I^e  Moine's  dulightfiil  voliiiue  "  Quebec,  I'ast  and 
Present,"  niiiHt  have  satisfied  ihcniselvea  that  there  were  in  the  city  many  memorials  and  tiling"  of  fame  of 
which  they  wonid  have  known  nothing  without  his  friendly  gnidancn.  If  the  stmnxor,  or  I  shonid  say  rather, 
pilgrim,  to  Mtadaco'in  owes  a  debt  of  gratitude  to  Mr.  L>e  Moine,  the  lover  of  the  romantic  shores  of  the  St. 
l^iwronco  from  the  island  of  Orleans  to  the  island  of  Anticosti,  is  so  much  the  more  indebted  to  him  for  his 
"  Chronicles  of  the  St.  L,twrence."  Personally,  having  iHten  in  the  habit  for  many  years  past,  whenever  oppor- 
tunities presented  themselves,  of  making  a  trip  either  by  steamer,  sailing  vessel  or  pih)t  Uiat  to  the  lower  Si. 
Lawreni'e,  uiid  being  now  tolerably  familiar  with  its  shores  and  the  piuturesipie  villages  whiuh  fringe  its  hill- 
sides, I  most  cordially  thank  Mr.  \as  Moine  for  his  "  Chronicles,"  and  must  confess  that  I  have  not,  for  a  loni; 
time,  read  a  book  with  so  much  interest  and  pleasure.  I  am  not  going  to  write  a  criticism  on  the  Ixiok,  neither 
to  dwell  on  the  skill  and  abilities  of  one,  whose  reputati<m  as  an  antiquary,  archienlogist  and  a  scholar  is  as  well 
known  in  the  Province  of  Queliec  as  the  niaiile  trees  are  in  the  autumn  for  their  twautiful  and  luxuriant  foliage, 
wluMi  clothed  in  a  "  proud  prosperity  of  leaves."  But  I  am  going  to  rec<mimend  diligent  reittling  of  the  '•  Chron- 
icles "  tu  all  who  have  ever  travelled  by  water  from  (jueltec  to  the  .Atlantic,  and  more  particularly  so  to  thoMu 
who  have  never  seen  the  thousand  natural  beauties  ami  the  magnilicent  Liturunlian  mountains,  which  every- 
where present  themselves  to  the  eye,  and  so  strongly  ap|>eal  to  the  imagination  and  the  feelings  during  the  trip 
down  the  river. 

Perha]>s  no  excursion  on  this  continent  can  be  made  where  there  is  B\iuh  c.  variety  in  the  phases  of  the 
scenery  as  that  existing  between  Qucl>ec  an<l  the  "Gulf  Ports."  Again,  for  convenience,  expeditious  and  safe 
transit,  the  gnlf  steamers  Sfrivf  and  Mirumic^i,  and  the  river  steamers  Sinjiieiuiij,  Uniim  anil  St.  //iiirrfMi'iallord 
everything  that  can  be  desired.  Hut  the  mere  trip  to  and  fro,  Iteyond  a  numientary  gratilication  to  the  eye, 
and  imi)arting  a  healthful  glow  to  the  cheek,  and  invigorating  the  body  is  not  seeing  the  St.  Lawrence  in  the  way 
to  appreciate  the  spirit  of  Mr.  Lo  Moines  "  Chronicles."  The  rapid  ^lassing  in  a  steamboat  the  island  of  Orleans, 
Isle  aux  Coudres,  Murray  Hay,  the  Pilgrims,  Riviere  du  Luup,  Tadousac,  Hie,  Kimouski,  Metis,  ca|ie  ('hatte, 
cape  Hosier,  Gaspi,  Perce  and  other  places  en  nmtr  to  Pictou,  will  not  enable  the  tourist  to  form  even  a  remote 
idea  of  the  romantic  inlantl  scenery  "  where  scarce  a  woodman  finds  a  road,  and  scarce  the  fisher  plies  an  oar," 
but  where  every  mile  is  rather  "  magnificently  rude  ''  or  sublime  in  its  grandeur. 

The  Literary  and  Histoncal  Society  of  Quebec  has  on  repeated  occasions  tendered  him 
])reHidential  honors,  whilst  his  minute  hi.storical  lore  anent  "ancient  capital,"  lias  l»rou<,dit  him 
in  contact  with  the  highest  in  the  land,  in  their  antiquarian  rambles  round  the  streets,  fortifi- 
cations and  l>att!o  Holds  of  tlic  'luaint  old  fortress. 

Mr.  Le  Moine  has  given  much  time  and  careful  attentiim  to  collecting  and  bringing  out 
rare  and  valuable!  manuscripts  relating  to  the  early  history  of  Canada,  a  lalx)r  for  which  his 
qualities  of  patience,  perseverance  and  tivste  for  anti<iuarian  research,  admirably  Ht  him.  He 
writes  with  etjual  ease  and  Hucncy  in  the  French  ami  English  languages,  and  like  a  true  and 
whole-.sotded  Canadian,  his  jMitriotio  zeal,  hi.s  antiquarian  enthusiasm,  and  his  love  for  the 
lieautiful  and  the  grand  in  Canadian  scenery,  stand  out  very  prominently  in  his  writings. 
Everything  connected  with  his  native  country  has  a  powerful  fascination  for  his  eye  and  pen  ; 
and  the  larger  part  of  his  printed  works  will  live  mucli  longer  than  their  author;  his  name  iw 
a  conscientious  narrator  of  events,  is  receiving  recognition  far  beyond  the  land  of  his  birth,  a.s 


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evinced  }>y  tlio  diplomas  received  from  learned  societies  abroad: — President,  Literary  and 
Historical  Society,  Quebec;  Dele'giw'  Regional  de  V Institution  Kthnographique  de  Paris;  Memhre 
lie  la  Soci^te  AmMcaine  de  France ;  honorary  memlier  of  the  Historical  Society,  of  St.  John, 
N.B.;  corresponding  raenil)er  of  the  Soci^tt^ Historique,  of  Montreal;  of  the  Instilut  Canadian, 
of  Ottawa;  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society;  of  the  New  England  Hixtoric-GenealcHji' 
cal  Society,  Boston  ;  of  the  State  Hibtorical  Society,  of  Wisconsin,  etc. 


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CHARLES    EARI^EST    LEVEY, 

QUEBEC. 

POSSIBLY  there  are  few  other  men  in  this  section  of  Canada  i^ssessed  with  a  more  ardent 
desire  for  the  bi"eeding  and  keeping  of  thoroughbred  hoi-ses  and  cattle  tlian  the  present 
subject  of  our  sketch.  Educated  for  the  most  part  in  one  of  the  great  hunting  counties  in  Eng- 
land, he  naturally  became  fond  of  all  field  sports,  more  especially  as  his  father,  Charles  E. 
Levey,  also  e.xhibited  similar  tastes  throughout  his  career.  Mr.  Levey  was  born  at  Lee  Park, 
BlacViheath,  Kent,  England,  on  the  11th  of  June,  iHoi,  and  was  educated  at  Chiltenham  colle^^e 
with  a  view  to  entering  Her  Majesty's  service.  After  leaving  this  institution  he  clo.sed  his 
studies  in  Switzerland.  He  is  the  son  of  the  late  Charles  E.  Levey  (whose  biography  will  lie 
foun<l  on  another  page),  and  who,  although  of  English  origin,  was  in  his  day  one  of  the  must 
iuHuential  and  wealthy  citizens  of  Quebec.  While  on  his  mother's  side  he  is  a  descendant  of 
the  late  Admiral  Boxer,  who  died  at  Balaclava.  She  (his  mother),  being  Jemima,  eldest 
datighter  of  that  officer,  bom  in  Dover,  England. 

The  present  subject  of  our  sketch  has  traveled  over  the  greater  portion  of  Eurojie,  includ- 
ing the  Mediterranean,  and  the  greater  part  of  (he  continent  in  which  his  adopted  country  is 
situate.  Coming  to  this  country  in  his  infancy  he  was,  as  sotm  as  he  had  attained  a  sufficiently 
ripe  age,  sent  to  Europe  to  W  educated,  and  this  U>ing  concluded,  we  find  him,  in  the  latter 
part  of  1874,  gazetted  to  the  oth  Middlesex,  or  Royal  Elthorne  light  infantry  of  militia,  and 
during  his  period  of  service  with  this  regiment  he  wa.s  attached  to  the  78th  Highiandt^rs,  in  the 
South  Camp  at  Aldershot ;  he  remained  in  this  corps  until  he  obtained  his  company  in  l!i7H, 
•when  he  returned  to  Canada  with  the  intention  of  following  the  bent  of  his  own  inclination 
and  graduating  as  a  gentleman  farmer. 

Returning  again  to  the  old  country,  he  Itccamc  enamored  of  a  Miss  Catherine  Cox,  a  most 
estimable  young  lady,  a  daughter  of  Ambrose  Cox,  Es(i.,  deputy-lieutentant  and  justice  of  the 
|)eace  of  Clara,  King's  County,  Irelaml,  a  gentleman  who  retained  for  himself  and  family  the 
good  will  of  the  sun'oimding  county  both  of  rich  and  p<H>r,  for  his  many  hospitable,  l)enevolent, 
sympathising  and  charitable  (jualitieH.     Miss  (!ox's  mother  was  eldest  daughter  of  the  latt?  Mr. 


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St.  John, 
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Jenenlogi- 


lore  ardent 
the  present 
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Charles  E. 
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"the  late  Mr. 


Wolseley,  a  gentleman  equally  beloved,  and  charitable,  of  Lakefield  Park,  Sandymount,  h-eland. 
It  need  hardly  be  stated  that  the  result  of  this  was  the  marriage  of  the  subject  of  our  sketch 
with  this  much  beloved  young  lady,  the  happy  event  taking  place  on  the  Slst  of  May,  1870,  at  St. 
George's,  Hanover  square,  London,  England.    In  the  autumn  of  this  year  the  newly  married  couple 
came  to  Canada,  having  previou.sly  made  a  tour  on  the  Continent  (Europe),  and  Mr.  Levey  pur- 
cha.sed  Kirk  Ella.  Mrs.  Levey  shortly  after  returned  to  England,  and  during  her  visit  there  a  son 
and  heir,  Charles  Ernest  William,  was  born  at  Warwick  scjuare,  Belgravia,  London,  Eng.,  on  the 
12th  March,  IS8().     Once  more,  in  1880,  Mr.  I^evey  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  e-scort  his  wife  and 
infant  home  to  Canada,  and  on  his  arrival  commenced  agricultural  pui-suits  at  Kirk  Ella  as  a 
gentleman  farmer,  which  he  is  now  engaged  in  daily  developing,  his  large  establishment  on  the 
banks  of  the  St.  Lawrence,  in  a  style  that  any  landed  proprietor  or  gentleman  breeder  of 
thorouglilired  horses  and  cattle  whether  in  EnglamI,  Scotland,  Ireland  or  Wales  might  well  be 
proud  of  emulating,  and  .so  far  as  we  can  judge,  he  will,  in   the  course  of  a  few  years,  be 
po8.ses,sed  of  the  model  farm  of  Queltec.     In  his  orderly,  well-kept  stables,  which  are  what  any 
nolilomnn  or  gentleman   in  England  might  justly  '•€  proud  of,  he  has  some  splendid  animals 
with  pedigrees  from  winners  of  the  blue  ribbon  on  the  English  turf.     The  horned  cattle  are 
none  the  less  remarkable  for  their  pedigrees,  and  some  of  those  now  in  his  possession  have  taken 
prizes  at  agricultunil  shows  on  more  occasions  than  one.     The  whole  establishn»ent  is  one  that 
any  man  with  a  liking  for  cattle  or  thoroughbred  horses  might  well  be  proud  of. 

We  Itelieve  that  Mr.  Levey  is  one  of  the  oldest  members  of  the  Quebec  Tandem  Club,  and 
his  "  turns  out  "  rank  amongst  the  foremost  of  their  kind  in  style,  equipment  and  comfort. 

Although  he,  like  his  late  father,  declines  to  record  a  vote,  or  enter  into  ]ioIitics,  he  is  a 
staunch  Conservative,  and  is  much  respected  in  Quebec;  he  is  a  member  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land, and  it  may  l)e  said  of  him  "  like  father,  like  son,"  as  he  is  known  to  po.s,se,ss  all  the  chari- 
table and  urbane  rhiiracteristics  of  hi.s  late  lamented  father. 


.IK AN     liA!'TiSTK    POLTLIOT, 

HIVIKRK  l>U  LVUi',  KN  HAS. 

THIS  gentleman  socially,  professionally,  and  generally,  is  one  of  the  prominent  notaries  of 
Riviere  du  Loup  en  hax.  Horn  at  St.  Louis  de  Kamouraska,  P.  Q.,  on  the  12th  of  May, 
I8lt),  where  he  was  educated,  he  very  early  exhibited  an  aptitude  for  the  legal  profession, 
which  his  parents  purposed  he  shoultl  follow  ;  however,  after  studying  for  this  for  .some  time 
he  deemed  not  to  present  himself  for  admission  to  the  bar,  but  for  that  of  notary  public,  and 
after  studying  for  this  in  the  t)tfice  of  the  late  Hon.  Mr.  Tach^,  of  Kamouraska,  he  was  admitted 

in  1840,  con-sequently  is  one  of  the  oldest  notaries  in  the  district. 

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At  tlie  genei-al  «>lection.s  in  IS.')4  and  IS.j",  he  unsuccessfully  contested  for  Teniiscouata  in 
the  Canadian  Assembly,  but  ii'|nesentfd  that  constituency  in  the  ranadiiin  Assembly  from  the 
•jeneral  elections  in  ISiiS,  when  he  was  returned  by  acclamation,  until  the  (.'onfederation.aj^ainst 
which  he  was  stron<,dy  opposed,  and  conNeipiently  retired  ;  he  is  a  staunch  supimrter  of  the 
Liberal  cause  and  was  one  of  the  party  "  wlio,  in  1843,  lielped  to  secure  the  return  ot  the  late 
Hon.  HoW-rt  Baldv  in  for  Himouski.at  which  time  Teniiscouata  formed  part  of  that  county;"  he 
was  mayor  for  the  town  of  Fraserville  (Riviere  du  Ijoup,  I'h  hnn),  and  warden  of  the  county  for 
some  yeiirs. 

It  may  \\c  said  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch  that  he  was  one  of  the  Hi-st  witli  Sir  John 
Young,  to  urge  on  the  (jovcinnu-nt  of  Canada  the  necessity  for  constructing  the  Intercolonial 
Railway ;  lie  was  also,  for  some  years,  a  member  of  the  provincial  board  of  the  chamber  of 
notaries.  He  has  always  taken  a  very  active  interest  in  all  matters  relating  to  the  town  of 
Riviere  di»  Li.up,  mi  has.  He  is  one  fif  the  largest  landowners  in  tlie  district,  and  was  one 
amongst  the  nuinVier  wlio  mainly  were  tlie  means  of  removing  the  old  church  to  the  splenditl 
edifice  which  now  stands  in  its  present  central  position  in  the  town.  In  fact,  in  any  and  eveiy- 
thing  connected  with  the  town  he  has  always,  and  at  all  times  ttiken  a  lively  part,  throwing 
his  whole  heart  and  .soul  into  the  work  ft>r  the  benefit  nf  his  fellow  townsmen. 

Mr.  Poulint  was  a  son  of  Kran<;ois  I'ouliot,  of  Kamoura-ska,  by  Miss  Julia  Damien. 

Mr.  Pouliot  married  Miss  Sophronie,  daughter  of  Lieutenant-colonel  Blais,  of  St.  Pierre  du 
Sud,  P.(^.,  by  which  alliance  there  has  been  issue  thirteen  children,  five  boys  and  three  girls 
surviving. 


.I08EPII    STANISLAS    PERRAULT,   LLH., 

MUHIiAY  HAY. 

TOSICPH  S.  PERRAULT,  was  born  at  L'Assomption,  near  Montreal,  on  the  13th  of  .May, 
liS4t»,  and  is  the  son  of  K.dward  Perrault,  Ks(|.,  a  well  known  nurclmnt  of  Montreal  and 
of  Kni'.i'  Mathurin  (/('/  (ierbourg,  a  d.scendant  of  a  very  old  French  family,  who  came  to 
C'anaila,  .some  two  centuries  ago. 

Ho  was  educated  at  the  college  at  L'Assomption,  and  afterwards  studied  law,  at  La\iil 
nniveiiiity,  where  he  e.xhibited  consideralile  talent,  giaduated  as  LL.R,  in  1870,  and  was 
called  to  the  bar  in  July,  of  the  same  year.  Puring  his  ccnirse  of  study  at  Laval,  he  pnuti.sed 
for  his  profession  in  the  office  of  Jae(|ues  Malouin,  Q.C,  of  (^iieliec.  Having  siiccessfully 
pa.s8ed  his  examinations,  he  connne?iced  practice  in  1870,  in  Quebec,  for  a  few  nmnths  and 
•  eventiuilly  removed  to  Murray  Bay,  where  he  has  practised  since,  and  enjoys  most  cle.ser\edly 
theesU-em  of  that  eitnimunity  generally.  Socially  he  is  a  gentleman  who  is  helil  in  the  highest 
regard  iMith  by  hi.>«   professMinal  brethren,  and  thi'onghout    the  whole  of  (he  province;   and  by 


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Kiata  ill 
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,  ajjainst 
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the  late 
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(UJity  foi' 

Sir  John 
iroolonirtl 
laniber  of 
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i  splemlitl 
mJeveiy- 
throwin^' 

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10  cnnu'  to 


V,  lit  Laval 
),  jinil  was 
lit'  pnutisfil 
Hiiocosi^fuliy 
iiiiiMths  and 
t  ilcst-nt'tlly 
1  thf  hi;,''itHt 
pu'<- .  an<l  by 


hi.s  oonfl•^l•t's  and  many  oniinont  nien-of-law,  In-  is  »ked  upon  as  posscssinj,'  a  more  tliaii 
onlinary  ability  an  a  lawyer.  He  liaM  l>eeu  crown  prosecutor  for  the  district  of  Saguenay,  an 
office  which  he  filled  with  eoinniendable  zeal,  exhibiting  an  aptitude  and  knowledge  which 
was  appreciated  by  his  inuned.iate  superiors.  At  the  last  general  elections  he  conk'sted,  in  the 
Con.servative  interest,  with  the  late  Mr.  Alexis  Trendilay,  for  the  representation  of  the  county 
of  Charlevoix,  but  was  defeaterl  by  that  gentleman.  However,  on  his  opponent's  death  in  I87!>, 
he  tigain  became  a  candidate  for  the  .seat,  having  this  time  for  his  opponent  Mr.  Xavier  ('imon. 
whom  he  defeated.  This  election  howev«'r  was  contesteil,  ami  althcugh  his  return  was  con- 
aidered  legitimate  by  the  court  here,  it  was  on  tlie  11th  of  February  last  decided  against  him, 
by  the  Supreme  Court.  Notwithstanding  this  it  is  as.serted  liy  many  that  his  Ijeing  un.seateil 
should  nt>t  be  attributed  to  any  act  of  his  (Mr.  Perrault),  and  the  decision  of  the  Supreme 
Court  in  the  question  has  causetl  an  innnense  amount  of  chagrin,  not  only  amongst  liis  warm 
an<l  earnest  supporters,  but  also  among  many  others,  as  he  is  regarded  as  an  earnest,  sincere  and 
indefatigable  representative  of  the  jM'ople. 

He  married  on  the  JlOth  of  Oct.,  I87M,  Miss  Maria  Louisa,  daughter  of  Benoni  Hrault,  Escj., 
a  highly  res[)ected  merchant  of  L'As.somj)tion. 


LOUJS    :M.   COU'rLEK, 

A  YLMEH. 

LOUIS  MAURI LLK  COUTLEK,  sheritl'of  the  county  of  Ottawa,  (^ieb,r,  is  it  native  of 
the  county  of  Soulanges,  anil  was  born  at  The  C»Mlai-s,  on  the  lOth  of  Septemlx'r,  181 1  ; 
hence,  if  alive  at  tlu^  time  this  volume  comes  out  of  the  press,  he  will  have  rounded  up  his  three 
score  years  and  ten.  He  is  a  son  of  lieutenant-eoluuel  Louis  Pierre  CuntlA',  whose  grandfather 
came  to  Canada  as  a  Fix'nch  .soldier,  by  Maiie  Rose,  tu-e  Watier.  His  mother  U-iiig  also  a 
native  of  The  Cedars.  Hoth  parents  have  la-erj  dea<l  for  many  years.  His  great-grandfather 
ilied  and  was  bulled  at  Lavaltiie. 

After  receiving  his  primary  instrmtioii,  our  subject  was  sent  tu  the  college  at  Nicolet, 
wheru  he  took  a  full  course ;  then  learned  the  mereantile  Imsiiiess  in  Montreal,  and  followed  it 
at  Carrillon.i^uebec,  ami  Pemluoke,  OnUirio,  until  I8.»(),  settling  in  the  townshi|i  of  Hull,  near 
Aylmer,  in  Septeml)er  of  that  year. 

Here  Mr.  ( 'outh'-e  started  a  saw-mill,  and  for  some  yeiu"s  was  engaged  in  manufacturing  lum- 
ber, ln'ing  appointed,  meanwhile,  sheritT  in  IS.'n',  and  still  holds  that  olliee.  He  is  a  painstaking, 
faiuhful  county  official,  rarely  out  of  his  ottiee  from  10  o'elwk  a.  m.  till  '>  p.  m.  lie  is  a  little 
uryler  the  average  height,  of  etmipact  Imild.  evidently  put  together  to  last,  and  is  not  unlikely 
to.lx)  one  of  the  otKciates  at  the  obsetjuies  of  this  century. 


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Mr.  Coutl^e  has  lived  in  the  Ottawa  valley  since  1833,  when  he  commenced  business  at  Car- 
rillon  ;  and,  during  these  forty-eight  years,  he  has  seen  great  changes  in  this  part  of  the 
country.  He  has  a  vivid  recollection  of  this  valley  as  it  appeared  when  he  firet  came  into  it, 
then  almost  a  "  waste,  howling  wildeiness ; "  antl  he  has  great  reason  to  rejoice  in  the  progress 
which  the  country  has  made. 

In  politics  we  believe  he  claims  to  have  always  had  leanings  to  the  LiVjeral  side,  und  votes 
with  the  party  known  as  Liberal  f^onservative.  He  was  quite  active  in  his  younger  days  ;  but 
age  has  in  a  measure  modified  his  ardor. 

Mr.  Coutl^e  was  married  in  the  city  of  Ottawa  in  1850,  to  Miss  Mary  Jant-  Clegg,  and  they 
have  three  sons  and  three  daughtcis,  and  have  had  no  death  in  the  family. 


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FAUCHER   DE    SAINT-MAURICE, 

QVEBEC. 

FAUCHER  DE  SAT  NT-MAURICE  (Narcisse-Henri-Edouard)  was  born  at  Quebec  on  the 
18th  of  April,  18+4,  and  is  the  son  of  Fauchor  de  Saint-Maurice  (Narcisse-Oon.'tantin) 
advocate  and  seigneur  of  Beaumont,  Vincennes  and  Mont-a-pcine,  and  of  Ciithtsrine  Hcnriette 
Mei-cier,  both  belonging  to  old  French  families  (see  biography  and  sketch  of  his  father  in  an- 
other page). 

He  was  educated  at  the  Quebec  seminary  and  studied  law  with  the  Honorable  Judges 
Tessier  and  Henri  Taschereau. 

He  went  to  Mexico  at  the  lieginning  of  1864,  and  was  admitted  to  jtass  a  military  exam- 
ination liefore  Generals  de  Lascoui's,  I'Hdrillier  and  de  Castagny  ;  was  commissioned  as  captain 
in  the  4th  Mexican  sharpshooters;  was  detached  on  the  27th  November,  1864,  to  the  2n(l 
battalion  of  light  infantry  of  Africa,  with  the  rank  of  captain ;  was  a  few  days  afterwards 
made  Aide-de-camp  to  fJeneral-of-division  Viscount  Courtois  Rousse  d'Hurltal ;  was  present  at 
the  siege  of  On^aca;  was  wounded  the  oth  of  February,  1865,  on  the  top  of  the  left  fijot  by  a 
pieceof  shellat  the"'  ' ''ipgof  Aguilera,  whilst  carrying  despatches;  was,  on  that  occasicm.mw  a 
Cordre  dti  jon^  b  ,  ,ial  Bazaine.  After  the  taking  of  Oazaca,  he  made  the  campaign  of  the 
interior ;  was  present  at  the  siege  of  Saltello  ;  was  woiuided  in  the  right  leg  by  a  bullet  at  the 
lighting  of  Angostura,  1  Ith  June,  1865;  had  his  hoi-se  killed  under  him  ;  whs  made  a  prisoner  of 
war  by  General  Negrete,  and  exchanged  two  days  afterwards.  He  returned  on  parole  to  Canada 
in  1866  ;  resigned  his  captaincy  the  same  year,  and,  upon  the  creation  of  Confederation,  was  ap- 
pointed clerk  o*"  private  bills  of  the  Legislative  Council  of  Quebec.  He  has  been  in  eleven  battles, 
and  thirty-two  engagements  ;  has  made  two  sieges ;  was  created  knight  of  the  imperial 
military  order  of  Uuadalou))e  by  the  Emperor  of  Mexico ;  has  received  also  the  medal  of  the 


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Mexican  campaign  from  Napuloon  III, and  the  military  medal  for  valor  and  inU^^^ity  given  hj' 
Maximilian. 

He  is  clerk  of  petitions  and  private  bills  of  the  Legislative  Council.  He  ha-s  been  during 
many  years  librarian  and  nember  of  the  council  of  the  Litemry  and  Historical  Society  of 
Quelle;  is  member  of  La  ttoeiete  des  gem  de  lettvea  de  France,iiTvl  its  representative  in  Canada. 

He  is  a  founder  of  Le  vmiit  fonder  Frnnco-Canndini,  and  contributed  to  a  great  number  of 
newspapera  in  France,  the  States  ami  Canaila.  He  has  travelle<l  in  the  States,  in  the  Antilles, 
Martinicjue,  Mexico,  France,  England,  Italy,  Switzerland,  Corsica,  Labnidor,  Newfoundland,  St. 
Pierre  and  Miquelon.  He  is  a  Roman  Catholic,  and  a  Conservative.  He  married,  in  IStJS, 
Mademoiselle  Josephine  Berthc.  X  d'Artigny,  daughter  of  Dr.  Amable  Berthelot  d'Artigny, 
and  niece  of  Sir  Louis  Hippolyte  La  Fontaine,  baronet.  The  Berthelot  family  descend  from 
M.  Berthelot  d'Artigny,  comte  de  Saint  Laurent,  who  was  Commisaaire  ilea  [Hjiulres  et  md- 
petren  de  France.  By  his  wife,  M.  Faucher  de  Saint-Maurice  is  seigneur  of  the  tief  d'Artigny, 
situated  in  the  city  of  Quebec.     He  has  written  : 

( 'tiHis  lie  taeitijiie 1   volume 

.  Etwle  Hiir  rorganiMttitm  wUitaliv  dm  drux  ( 'uiuiii<iK 1        " 

A   la  Bnnuinte — Contes  et  r^cits — Les  bhsstires  de  la  rie — Une  histoiru  tie 

tons  les  jours I       " 

Vi:  Qiiibee  il  Mexico — Suiivenira  de  voyage,  de  gamisoi),  de  combat  et  de 

bivouac— Art  Guerre  an  Mexiqiie 2       " 

Chone*  et  autre* — Conferences,  Etudes 1       " 

A  la  Veillie—»nvi»ne  accept^  par  Thonorable  Ministre  do  I'lnHtruction 
PubIi<|Ue,  pour  etre  donne  en   prix   dans  les  ecoles  de  la  Province  du 

Quebec. 1       " 

Dtit.e  aiw  an  Mexiqite — ouvrage  accepte  par  Thonorable  Ministre  de  I'ln- 
struction  publi(|Ue,  puur  etre  donne  en  prix  dans  les  ecoles  de  la  Pro- 
vince de  Quebec I       "  , 

L'ahM   Larerdiire—{Avec  portrait). 1       " 

De  Trihiird  il  Hahard — Souvenirs  de  Irois  croisieros I       " 

l'riiii)enadr.H  da)Ui  le  Odife  SainI  Laurent — Le»  [»le.i 1        " 

I'nimeiMileit  daim  le  (rulfe  Saint -Laurent,  Igen  I'rorinveK  Mitriliinen 1       " 

Relation  de  ce  ipiis'  est  passti  lors  des  fouilles  faites  par  ordre  du  gouv- 

ernement  de  Quebec,  au  college  des  Jesuites t       " 


THOMAS   G.   KODDICK,    M.I)., 

MoyTKKAL 

THOMAS  (lEORCJK  R<  HJDICK,  professor  of  clinical  surgery  in  the  university  of  McGill 
college,  is  a  native  of  Newfoundland,  dating  his  birth  at  Harliour  fJracf,  .SIst  of  Julv, 
lS4fi.  His  father,  John  Irving  Rwldick,  a  cousin  of  Rev.  Ed  ward.  Irving,  the  celebrated  pulpit 
orator,  was  from  Dumfriesshire,  Scotland,  and  his  mother,  Emma  Jane  Martin,  was  lx)rn  in  New- 


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foundland,  his  father  being  from  the  went  of  England.  Jolin  Irving  Roddick  was  a  well  e<ln- 
cated  man,  many  yearn  principal  of  the  government  grammar  whool  at  Havre  (irace,  and  laid 
the  foundation  of  his  son's  education,  who  finished  his  training  under  Rev.  Dr.  Forrcstor,  of 
Tniro,  N.  S. 

In  1804  our  subject  came  to  Montreal,  connected  himself  with  the  medical  faculty  of 
Mc(iill  college,  and  was  gi-aduated  in  l!S(i8,  taking  the  Holmes  gold  medal.  Immediately  on 
receiving  his  diploma  he  entered  the  Montreal  general  hospital,  a.s  assistant  house-surgeon,  re- 
taining ♦hat  past  and  that  of  surgeon  for  six  years.  Since  1874  he  has  Imen  in  general  practice, 
with  surgery  as  a  specialty.  During  that  year  he  w&s  demonstrator  of  anatomy  in  McGill  col- 
lege, and  the  next  year  was  appointed  to  the  chair  of  clinical  surgery  in  the  same  institution. 
From  the  tinie  he  left  the  post  of  resident  sui"geon  to  the  general  ho.spital,  he  has  been  one  (jf  its 
attending  surgeons.  Among  the  younger  cla.ss  of  medical  men  in  this  city,  ovi  so  good  a  foun- 
dation of  scholarship  as  Dr.  Roddick  has  laid,  and  working  as  he  does  with  great  studiuusness 
and  care,  he  will  l>e  likely  to  rear  a  structure  which  will  honor  the  profession.  His  friends 
anticipate  for  him  a  splendid  career,  and  will  not  be  likttly  to  be  disap|)ointed. 

He  was  at  one  time  assistant  surgeon  to  the  Grand  Trunk  artillery  under  Dr.  Scott,  aud  for 
two  yeai-s  commanderi  a  company  of  students,  No.  5,  attached  to  the  Prince  of  Wales  rirtes. 

The  wife  of  Di-,  Roddick  was  Miss  Mariaii  McKinnon,  of  Porte  Claire,  their  marriage  bearing 
date  of  August  %  1880. 


JEAN    liAlTISTE    ARTIIUll   C11AMJ3EKLAND, 

RiriEUE  DU  LOUP,  EN  HAS. 

rf'lHE  subject  of  our  sketch  is  the  son  of  Jean  Baptiste  Ch.amWrland,  one  of  the  oldest 
-■-  inhabitants  of  Riviere  du  Loup,  en  has,  and  who  was  one  of  the  veterans  of  the  early 
part  of  the  present  century.  The  venerable  old  gentleman  at  one  time  had  the  impoitant  duty 
tievolving  upon  him  of  conducting  some  regiments  from  Quebec  to  the  Chambly  river,  in  1812, 
and  is  regarded  in  Riviere  du  Loup,  en  has,  as  one  of  the  deservedly  respected  mon  of  that 
place  at  the  present  time.  With  his  father  (and  Jean  Baptiste,  Arthur's  grandfathei),  he  assisted 
in  building  the  old  C'huteau  St.  Louis  on  the  site  which  the  normal  school  now  stands  on 
Dufferin  Terrace,  Quebec.  The  nutther  of  Mr.  Jean  Baptiste  Arthur  was  a  Mi.ss  Mary  Ann 
Drolet,  who  was  a  native  of  Qtielx'C,  as  waw  also  her  husljand. 

Mr.  ('hamlierland  was  born  in  Queliec  on  the  7th  July,  1817,  and  his  parents  shortly  after 
removing  to  Riviere  du  Loup,  en  has,  he  was  educated  there.  On  leaving  srhool  he  stu<lied  for 
two  years  with  Mr.  Felix  Chaniberlaml,  his  uncle,  a  notary  at  lie  Verte,  and  afterwards  with 
Mr.  Glackmeycr,  notary,  in  Quebec.  Concluding  these  studies,  he  was  admitte<l  as  notary 
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has  practised  ever  since  in  Fmserville,  where  he  is  held  in  the  highest  esteem  hy  all  classes  and 
sections  of  society,  irrespective  of  ntitionality  or  creed. 

He  married  on  the  24th  of  July,  1843,  Miss  Angeline  Amyot,  only  child  of  Joseph  Aniyot, 
E.sq.,  notary,  and  .£;randdaughter  of  the  late  Colonel  Alexander  Fraser,  seigneur  of  Riviere  du 
Loup,  and  son  of  Malcolm  Fi-aser,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England  with  one  of  the 
Scotch  regiments.  By  this  marriage  there  was  issue  three  sons,  two  of  whon>  survived ;  this 
lady  died  in  ISol.  Mr.  Chainberland  remarried  in  June,  1850,  Miss  Jane,  daughter  of  the  late 
John  Hodgson,  engineer,  of  Montreal,  previously  from  England,  l»y  which  alliunce  there  has 
been  issue  five  children,  all  of  whom  survive. 


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N.   (J.   FAUCllEK    \m    SAINT    MAURICE, 

QUEBEC. 

IjERHAPS  no  reflection  is  calculated  to  impress  the  mind  of  a  man  who  has  arrived  at  the 
-*-  prime  of  manhood  in  a  greater  degree  than  that  which  takes  its  origin  alM)ve  the  grave 
of  an  aged  citizen,  recently  pa.ssed  away.  Standing  there  the  thinker  remembers  that  in  Uod's 
own  time  will  the  moment  also  arrive  that  .shall  snatch  him  from  amongst  his  fellow  men — 
when  he  shall  give  to  mother  earth  the  worn-out  casket  of  his  soul,  while  this  latter  is  with- 
drawn to  mingle  in  scenes  of  unknown  worlds— to  float  afar  through  the  mighty  aljys.seM  of 
space,  to  be  borne  across  the  stupendous  barriers  that  lie  between  'J'ime  irhick  wax,  and  Eter- 
nity which  ix. 

A  handful  of  dust  is  disturbed — a  bone  is  up-turned — an  eyeless  skull  is  cast  to  eartli's 
surface,  and  then  we  see  that  generations  have  been  and  are  gone — that  the  fate  of  death  is  the 
destiny  of  all — that  the  real  life  is  that  which  begins  when  the  grave  eaclo.ses  from  view  the 
spirit's  habitation. 

On  the  22nd  of  January  1880,  in  Quebec,  the  rock-crowned  mistress  of  the  St.  Ijiiwrence, 
an  old  and  respected  gentleman  so  passed  away  and  his  passage  gave  birth  to  the  above  re- 
flections. 

Was  he  great,  as  worldly  gieatness  is  understood  i' 

Nol 

Was  he  rich,  as  the  things  of  earth  are  regarded  ? 

Not 

Why  then  mark  his  passage  in  a  special  way  ? 

Because  living,  he  was  a  good  citizen,  and  in  his  life  preserved  the  continuity  of  virtue 
which  had  Vieen  transmitted  by  his  fathers,  and  which,  as  a  priceless  legacy,  he  bestowed  upon 
his  children. 


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Narcissu  CotiMtantin  Faucher  de  Saint  Maurice  was  born  on  the  24th  of  May,  1817  at 
Saint  Michel  de  Bellechasse.  His  father  was  Major  Charles  Faucher  de  St.  Maurice,  and  hit 
mother  was  named  Marie  Genevieve  Casanet.  To  Canadians  those  names  are  suggestive  of 
merit,  for  each  of  the  families  in  question  has  given  to  the  church  noble  sons,  t;)  the  magistracy, 
to  science  and  to  arms,  worthy  and  distinguished  ornaments,  amongst  whom  may  be  especially 
named  the  late  Reverend  W.  (Jasanct,  grand  vicar  of  the  Archdiocese  of  Quebec,  and  founder'of 
the  university  of  Laval.  The  family  of  Faucher  is  ancient  and  honorable  amongst  the  families 
of  French-Canadian  origin.  Originally  from  Limousin,  it  can  trace  its  line  back  to  the  Iron 
times  of  the  13th  century,  and  .several  representatives  of  the  name  yet  live  in  the  district  of 
Aunis  and  Saint  Oiige  in  France.  The  founder  of  the  Canadian  branch,  Lenoard,  came  to  New 
France  on  the  lath  of  October,  16G9.  He  settled  at  Sainte  Jeanne  de  Neuville,  in  the  barony 
of  Portneuf,  and  since  that  date  his  descendants  have  cultivated  the  soil,  spreading  their  forces 
even  to  Acadia,  where  they  yet  live  and  prosper. 

The  nineteenth  of  his  family,  young  Narcisse,  at  the  age  of  seven  years,  accompanied  his 
eldest  brother,  L'Abb<?  Edouaixl  Faucher  de  Saint  Maurice,  on  his  voyage  to  Restigouche,  to 
which  place  the  intrepid  priest  had  been  named  as  missionar}'.  The  days  .spent  in  shooting 
river  coni"ses  in  a  canoe,  long  nights  passed  on  the  shore  beneath  the  starry  firmament,  inter- 
minable travels  through  the  umbrageous  forests,  those  "  grand  old  woods  "  of  Canada,  so  sung 
Ity  Sangster,  all  combined  to  inspire  a  gentleness  of  spirit,  a  tenderness  of  manner,  and  a 
poetry  of  soul,  which  gave  the  subject  of  our  sketch  an  endearing  melancholy,  a  sweetness 
of  conversation,  highly  prized  bj-  those  within  his  circle.  During  the  course  of  those  travels 
young  Faucher  learned  the  language  of  the  Abenaquis,  and  his  interesting  reminiscences  of 
that  time  have  been  partially  preserved  by  his  son,  the  author  of  a  work  entitled  "  De  Tubord 
a  Babord."  One  of  those  remembrances  is  strikingly  told  by  the  writer,  and  is  of  great  histori- 
cal value,  a.s  well  as  of  family  pride,  for  it  connects  the  name  of  Faucher  with  the  brave  effort 
made  to  save  the  lives  of  the  white  colonists  of  Bale  des  Chaleurs  by  PSre  Edouard,  before 
mentioned,  the  result  of  which  restored  peace  amongst  the  Micmac  Indians  and  laid  the  foun- 
dation of  a  just  treatment  of  our  dusky  brethren  by  the  Parliament  of  Lower  Canada  in  1824. 

The  young  Faucher,  after  returning  from  Baie  des  C'haleura,  entered  the  seminary  of  Que- 
l)ec,  having  for  his  class  companions  such  gifted  youths  as  Taschereau,  now  our  lieloved  Arch- 
bishop, Langevin,  now  Bishop  of  Rimouski,  the  deceased  Luc  Letellier  <le  St.  Just,  (Uiauveaii, 
author,  ex-premier,  David  Ross,  fonnerly  attorney-general,  and  amongst  a  host  of  others,  the 
immortal  priests,  Belanger  and  Darveau. 

In  1837  Mr.  Faucher  was  admitted  to  the  study  of  law,  and  in  1842  he  received  his  dip- 
loma as  advocate,  upon  which  he  began  his  professional  life  with  the  present  Judge  Tessier, 
professor  of  Laval.  For  many  yeara  he  pursued  an  honorable  and  lucrative  career  at  the  bai-, 
but  a  lively  imagination  induced  him  to  abandon  the  profes.sion  for  the  moi-e  active  life  of 
speculation  in  timber  and  minerals. 


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A  w«'altliy  Ht'ij,'nour  under  the  olil  feudal  system,  huldin;;  the  Hefs  of  Vitry,  Mi»nt-a-|)i'ino 
and  Vinci'iiiies,  lie  wan  at  different  tiuie-s  a{)iK)inted  mayor  of  Beaumont,  and  warden  of  the 
county  of  Belleehass*'.  In  I.S')1,  yielding  to  the  .solicitations  of  his  friends,  he  sou<;ht  the  siif- 
fraj^es  (»f  the  electors  of  Belleehasse,  for  a  seat  in  the  Legislative  Assembly.  He  was  heatr-n 
however, hy  a  small  majority,  by  Mr.  Chabot,  who  su'oseijuently  Vj»^came  Minister  of  J'ublic 
Works  ;  but  Mi'.  Faucher's  address  to  the  electors  showed  that  he  po.sse.s.sed  true  statesmanlike 
ijualiHcations,  advocating  as  he  did  a  project  of  law  to  unite  Halifax  and  Quebec  by  rail,  as  also 
a  more  lively  interest  than  than  taken  in  agricultural  progress.  To-day  u  minisU'r  of  agricul- 
ture sits  in  the  council  of  the  nation  and  of  this  province,  and  it  is  to  the  honor  of  the  decea-seil 
|>atriot  that  he  was  the  Hrst  man  to  reconnnend  such  an  im}>ortnnt  reform. 

In  18.52,  tickle  fortune  who  had  hitherto  smiled  upon  Mr.  Faucher,  began  to  frown 
upon  her  whilon)  favorite.  A  succession  of  misfortuut  .s,  such  a«  the  burning  of  the  manorial 
house  of  Beaumont,  the  rising  of  the  river  watei^^  which  in  one  night  carried  off  three  mills, 
and  the  failure  of  Imsiness  men  in  whom  he  ha<l  reposed  eontidenee,  tmdermincd  the  basis  of 
his  success,  and  in  consefpience,  lie  was  obliged  lo  accept  a  (losition  in  the  ))ublic  service.  On 
the  .">tli  of  (  ktober,  IH")?,  the  magistracy  of  (Quebec  elected  him  high  constable  of  Quebec, 
which  charge  he  tilled  until  forced  by  sickiu-ss  to  retire;  and, as  we  have  licfore  stated,  on  the 
22nd  January,  liSS(»,  he  resigned  his  .soul  into  the  hands  of  (Sod. 

Tlic  decea-sed  gentleman  was  married  in  I84'4,  to  Mademoiselle  ('.  H.  Mercit-r,  daughter  of 
the  late  Dr.  Mercier,  meudter  of  the  Royal  College  of  Surgeons,  London.  From  this  union 
eleven  children  were  lx)rn,  of  whom  but  four  sons  remain. 

In  the  Basilica  of  Quebec,  tw(j  days  after  death  his  obsecjuius  were  chanted,  and  from  that 
ancient  shrine  of  French-t'anailian  piety,  his  mortal  remains  were  removed  to  the  cemetery  of 
Belmont.  There  amongst  thousands  of  those  whose  fathers,  like  imt^j  his,  adventured  from  old 
France,  and  by  )i.itriotism,  devotion,  industry  and  faith  j>lanted  the  crt>ss  and  civilization  upon 
our  shores,  he  sleeps  the  sleep  which  knows  no  waking;  there  ho  awaits  the  angel's  call  to  the 
gran»l,  the  iinal  resurrection. 


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MONTREAL. 

LOUIS  IIONORK  FRKCIIKTTK,  the  poet,  is  descends  1  from  one  of  the  oldest  families  in 
the  Province  of  Quel>cc,  the  progenitor  of  the  family  in  this  countr}'  lieing  from  the 
island  of  Rhd,  France,  ami  an  otticer  under  the  goverrnnent  of  Lower  Canada.  His  immeiliate 
ascendants  were  agriculturists.  Louis  Frdehette,  the  father  of  the  jKjet,  was  a  wharf  and  bridge 
builder,  and  a  contractor  of  public  works,  and  who  is  still  living  at  Hochelaga.  His  mother 
wa-s  Marguerite  Martineau  dc  lOnni^rc,  whose  father  was  a  captain  in  the  war  of  1812-14. 

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He  was  born  at  Levis,  on  thelGth  of  NovetnhH-r,  183!>;  wa.seilucate<l  at  the  Qiieltcc  semi- 
nary and  Nicolet  college,  and  wliilc  jmrsniiig  Iiis  studies  often  gave  way  to  tlie  inspirations 
of  the  muse,  composing  songs  and  poems  which  he  used  to  publish  in  the  peiiiMJieals,  and  con- 
densed in  1M62  in  a  small  volume  entitled  Men  Lo'mirx.  Nearly  all  the  contents  of  the 
volume  were  composed  while  in  college.  The  little  unpretentious  work  was  cordially  welcomed 
in  France  as  well  as  Canada,  the  press  on  either  side  of  the  Atlantic  commending  it  for  its 
exhibitions  of  |)oetic  genius.  Victor  Hugo,  Lamartine,  and  other  French  poets  of  high  reputa- 
tion, commendetl  the  work,  although  the  author  himself  seems  not  to  think  much  of  it. 

Mr.  Fr^'chette  studied  law  at  Laval  univei-sity,  Quebec,  and  was  called  to  the  Imr  on  the 
5th  of  September,  18G4.  He  left  the  next  year  for  the  United  States,  and  lived  for  six  years 
in  Chicago,  becoming  naturalized,  and  l)eing  much  of  the  time  very  actively  engaged  in  politics, 
editing  for  three  or  four  years  a  repulilicnn  newspaper  called  L'  Amerique.  During  two 
yeara  of  the  period  spent  in  C'licago,  he  acted  as  corresponding  secretary  to  the  Illinois  Central 
raiload  company,  attending  to  its  foreign  correspondence.  While  a  resident  of  Chicago,  Mr. 
Fr^hette  published  another  volume  of  poems,  called  La  Voir  d'un  Kx'tU',  a  [>olitical  work 
full  of  witty  and  keen  satirical  thrusts  at  the  Conservatives  of  Canada,  and  prwlucing  quite 
a  sensation.  He  also  composed  a  poem  of  considerable  length  calleil  J/OtUiira,  and  several 
theatrical  works  and  novels,  which  were  destroyed  in  the  great  tire  of  1871. 

The  same  year  Mr.  Frechette  returntJ  to  Canada,  and  took  up  his  residence  at  <^uel»ec,  to 
liecome  the  Liberal  candidate  in  the  county  of  Levis  for  the  Iwal  parliament,  ag>iinst  Dr. 
Blanchet,  now  Speaker  of  the  House  of  (Commons,  and  was  defeated.  He  ran  again  ten 
months  afterwards  for  the  Dominicm  parliament,  and  wa.s  again  defeateil,  this  time  by  oidy 
eleven  votes  Nothing  daunted,  "  Itating  not  a  jot  of  heart  or  hope,"  in  .January,  1874,  on  the 
downfall  of  Sir  John  A.  Macdonald's  cabinet,  Mr.  Frechette  contested  for  the  third  time  his 
native  county,  and  was  successful,  serving  his  constituents  for  five  years.  In  1878,  he  was 
a  candidate  for  re-election,  but  in  that  exciting  and  memorable  canvass,  the  policy  of  a  pro- 
tective tariff  l>ecanie  a  prominent  and  popular  issue,  and  Mr.  Frdchette,  who  is  a  free  trader  or 
revenue  tariff  man  and  many  others  of  the  ablest  men  of  his  jmrty,  weie  defeaUul.  While  in 
parliament  he  principally  advocated  the  winter  navigation  .scheme  proposed  by  his  friend  of 
Levis,  E.  W.  Sewell,  the  builder  of  the  Novthem  Lhfht,  the  gallant  little  steamer  which, during, 
three  severe  winters  fought  her  way  auiong  the  iceliergs  and  hummocks  of  the  Northund)erland 
straits.  His  speeches  on  that  important  (|uestion  attracted  considerable  attenticm,  and  often 
raised  lively  debates  on  the  part  of  those  who  considered,  as  the  dream  of  a  utopist,  this  plan 
tor  making  of  Quebec  a  winter  harltour. 

On  retiring  to  private  life,  Mr.  Frechett<'  turned  his  attention  to  literary  work,  which  is 
the  most  congenial  to  his  taste,  and  in  1878  brought  out  a  third  volume  of  poems  with  the  odd 
title  P^k  Mile,  which  wa.s  hailed  with  gi-eat  enthusiasm  by  the  press  generally,  and  which  met 


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with  splendid  success,  eH|)eeially  in  France,  where  it  put  him  in  connection  with  all  the  groat 
writers  of  the  day. 

So  pleased  were  the  hiivuvh  of  France  with  his  |H)ems,  that  they  advised  him  to  send  a 
volume  to  the  Kr«'neh  academy,  and  contend  for  the  Prix  Monthvon.  He  did  so,  and  won. 
lie  sent  two  volumes  in  one,  called  Lett  Fleiirx  Roreulen  and  Lex  Omnax  de  NfUje,  the  latter 
In-'ing  a  volume  of  sonnets.  It  was  a  grand  triumph,  placing  our  subject  at  the  hea<l  of  C'ana- 
dian  F'reiich  j^H)ets,  and  giving  him  the  reputation,  wide  as  the  world  of  letters,  of  lieing  a 
man  of  true  poetic  instincts  and  ]K)wers. 

In  prose,  Mr.  Fr<?chette  has  published  Lettren  a  HuHiIe  (1872),  and,  we  lielieve,  one  or  two 
other  works,  the  titles  of  which  we  do  not  recall.  We  lielieve  he  diM's  not  set  a  very  high 
value  on  them.  His  great  talents  are  seen  to  the  best  advantage  in  vei-se.  He  early  addressed 
himself  with  great  assiduity  to  the  perfecting  of  himself  in  the  rythmical  art,  and  to  the  mechan- 
ical beauty  of  his  verst>  adds  the  far  higher  graces  of  genuine  poetry — the  warmth,  the  enthu- 
siasm, the  unction,  the  grand  Mights  of  true  inspiration.  The  reader  finds  hiiu.self  almost 
unconsciously  under  the  spell  of  the  minstrel,  whose  imagination,  in  its  atHuence  remind  one 
of  Poe  or  the  In-st  living  French  {)oets,  carries  the  reader  completely  away  on  the  wings  of 
rapture. 

In  1S7(J,  he  married  Miss  Emma  Beaudry,  daughter  of  the  late  J.  B.  Beaudry,  merchant 
antl  banker,  and  niece  of  Hon.  J.  L.  Beaudry,  of  the  Legislative  Council,  and  late  mnyor  of 
Montreal,  and  they  have  two  children,  a  son  and  a  daughter. 


IJEUT.-COL.  .IOSEl»H    P.  CARKEAU, 

.ST.  JOHN'S. 

JOSKPH  PIKRRK  CAllllKAir,  mayor  of  the  town  of  St.  John's,  was  born  at  Ste.  Marie  de 
Monnoir,  P.Q.,  im  the  2i>th  of  April,  1838,  his  father  being  Joseph  Carreau,  a  farmer,  al.so 
born  at  Ste.  Marie.  The  progenitor  of  the  family  in  this  province  came  from  Bordeaux,  France, 
about  1G;")4,  more  than  a  hundred  years  before  the  fall  of  Qnelx'C  ;  and  .some  of  the  great  uncU-s 
of  our  subject  lost  their  lives  at  the  siege  of  that  city.  His  grandfather,  Pierre  Carreau,  was  a 
member  of  parliament  prior  to  the  union  of  the  Canadas,  forty  years  ago,  and,  in  his 
prime,  was  a  prominent  man  in  the  |)rovince.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Yphigeiup 
Ch<j<iuet,  whose  fiither  was  in  the  .second  war  with  the  United  States,  and  was  in  the  liattle  of 
Chateauguay,  under  Col.  de  Salaberry. 

Mr.  Carreau  was  educated  at  the  Montreal  .seminary,  where  he  took  a  full  coui"se  in  the 
arts  ;  studied  law  at  St.  John's,  under  Judge  Labarge,  and  in  Montreal,  under  Strachan 
Bethune,  Q.C.,  and  Chief  Justice  Dorion;  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in   I8G2.      Since  that 


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<late,  lie  has  lit-eii  in  ^^eneral  practice  at  St.  John's,  tioing  a  prosperous  liusiness  in  the  severni 
courts,  anil  havinj,'  a  fiiir  stamlin;,'  in  hiw  profcs,sion.     Ho  is  (|uite  active  ami  public-spirited. 

in  his  younj;;er  years,  Mr.  < 'arreau  had  ipiitea  ta.ste  for  military  matters;  joined  tlie  volun- 
teer force  in  I.S«i(>,  and  rose  step  hy  step,  until  he  retired,  in  lN7i',  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant- 
colonel,  21st  hattalion.  He  now  hohls  the  same  nink  in  the  reserve  militia  of  the  county  of 
St.  .Fohn's.  He  was  in  active  .service  for  two  months,  durin>;  the  Fenian  raid  of  1S(>(),  stationed 
at  Figeon  Hill ;  and  in  1N7<)  he  was  stationetl  at  Dunham  Klats.  He  made  a  Hue  military 
otticer. 

Col.  ('arreau  was  a  councillor  in  the  municipality  of  St.  John's  for  two  yeai"s,  and  is  now 
serving  his  second  term  as  mayor,  Iteing  (juite  active  and  ettieient,  and  ha-ing  a  vigilant  eye  to 
the  interests  of  the  town.     Impiovements  are  progressing  under  his  administration. 

Col.  Ciirreau  was  first  mar.ied  in  186S  to  Miss  Heioise  Dostalier,  of  Berthier,  .she  dying  in 
1X71,  leaving  one  child  ;  and  the  2nd  time,  in  1874,  to  Miss  Charlotte  Leprohon,  daughter  of 
SheritI'  Leproln>n,  of  .loliette,  having  hy  her  two  children. 


OWEN    MUIM»I1Y. 

<,KJKHKC. 

DESCKNDED  from  one  of  the  oldest  and  l>est  families  in  the  county  of  Wexford,  Ireland, 
the  suliject  of  our  present  sketch  was  born  at  Stonehani,  in  the  province  of  (Quebec,  on 
the  9th  of  December,  1H2').  He  was  educated  under  Mr.  Robert  H.  Scot,  of  Kdinburgh,  a 
gentleman  of  high  ctdture  and  refined  education,  with  a  repuUition  as  a  tutor  far  above  the 
ordinary.  The  Murphys  of  Hallainoulart,  in  Wexford,  have  been  known  for  generations  a.s 
one  of  the  most  popular  families  in  that  district,  and  we  believe  we  are  correct  in  affirming 
that  Mr.  Owen  Murphy's  father  was  the  only  member  of  this  highly  esteemed  family  who  has 
settled  in  this  country,  which  he  did  in  the  early  part  of  the  present  centuiy.  Many  in  Que- 
bec, at  the  present  moment,  remember  well  the  generous  and  liberal  .spirit  which  at  all  times 
actuated  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  present  sketch;  and  it  is  a  matter  of  frequent  remark, 
even  now,  that  he  pos.sessed  some  of  the  highest  attributes  of  which  human  nature  is  capable : 
this,  combineil  with  his  peculiarly  high  attainments  and  cultivated  mind,  rendered  him  a  highly 
popular  citizen,  whose  loss  it  were  difficult  to  replace.  As  we  have  before  remarked,  the  family 
was  one  of  the  most  popular  in  the  district  of  Ireland  in  which  they  resided.  None  the  less 
eminent  were  his  three  brothers,  all  of  whom  attained  for  themselves  very  high  ecclesiastical 
honors  and  dignity.     One  was,  for  many  years,  bishop  of  Ferns,  in  Ireland. 

He  of  whom  we  now  write  commenced  the  earlier  portion  of  his  training  in  the  commer- 
cial worltl,  and  was  a-wociated  with  two  of  the  then  most  im|Mirtant  and   largest  firms  in  the 


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lumber,  ship-owning,  produce  and  nulling  trades,  viz.,  those  of  Russ,  Shuter  &  Co.,  and  H.  J. 
Noad  &  Co.  Mr.  Owi-n  Murphy  exhibited  an  aptituile  and  zeal  worthy  of  emulation,  in  all  his 
business  endeavors,  wliieli  at  all  times  obtained  for  him  the  eommendations  and  approval  of  his 
employers.  This,  combined  with  his  in<lomitable  perseverance,  which  he  attributed 
to  his  early  training  and  integrit}',  obtained  for  him  the  position  he  now  holds,  and  the 
honorable,  onerous,  responsible  and  distinguished  positions  he  has  hehl  in  our  midst.  For 
instance,  it  will  be  remembered  by  the  people  of  Quebec  that  for  several  yeare  he  was  a 
member  of  the  council  for  St.  Peter's  ward,  nn  office  which  obtained  for  him  so  nmch 
confidence  amongst  his  fellow  citizens  that  we  find  him  in  May,  iHl^,  electetl  to  tlie 
highest  honf)r  and  dignity  in  the  city,  viz.,  that  of  its  chief  magistrate  and  mayor.  At  the 
expiry  of  his  term  of  office,  such  generiil  esteem  and  favor  had  he  obtained  for  himself  that 
we  hear  of  him  l>eing  again  unanimously  elected  for  a  further  term  of  two  years  as  mayor; 
and  the  undeviating  zeal,  assiduity,  integrity,  and  honest,  .straight-forward,  manly  conduct 
which  have  actuated  him  in  all  his  doings  in  connection  with  his  municipal  office,  doubtless  is 
the  rca-son  of  his  well  deserved  popularity,  Iwth  socially  and  commercially,  at  the  present  time. 
Jt  is  not  too  much  to  state  that  all  who  came  in  contact  with  him  acknowledge  his  claim  to 
the  confidence  that  is  reposed  in  him,  and  give  him  credit  for  the  ability  and  judgment  he  has 
at  all  time  displayeil  so  discreetly  and  ably,  and  whereby  he  has  earned  foi-  him.self  .so  much 
c(.mmendation  in  all  his  business  and  social  transuction.s.  Apropos  of  the  time  he  retained  the 
office  of  Mayor,  it  may  not  be  amiss  to  (piote  a  brief  passage  from  the  Wexfoid  Inilepcivlrnt  of 
Augu.st,  \H7o,  which  was  j>ublished  in  that  journal  on  the  occasion  of  his  paying  a  visit  t»» 
England,  anil,  as  a  matter  of  course,  to  the  native  place  of  his  ancestors.     It  runs  &s  follows  :  — 

TiiK  Mavoii  ok  yi'KUKc  AT  Wkxkdkk.  -Tills  Ti'spected  fiinctintiary,  accuinpanieil  by  tlie  MnyoraBS  of 
Quebec,  arrived  here  on  Saturday  last  from  Dublin.  His  wurahi|i  is  staying  at  the  West  (Jate  hotel  ;  and  is  a 
ni'iihew  of  tlie  late  Right  Rev.  Doctor  Murphy,  the  estimable  and  lamented  bishop  of  the  diocese,  the  truly 
apostolio  divine,  the  scholar,  and,  in  every  sen.ic,  the  well-bred  Irish  ;^eMtleman.  He  is  also  a  nephew  of  the 
ri-deaitif  pastor  of  Castlecomer,  in  the  diocese  of  Ossary,  the  late  very  Reverend  Lawrence  Murphy,  and  of  the 
ate  Rev.  Michael  Murphy,  for  many  years  the  rtvdous  collalHirateur  of  Father  C'orrin  in  the  pastoral  charge  of 
Vexford.  Although  liorn  on  :i  foreign  soil,  Mr.  Murphy  ardently  loves  the  land  of  his  ancestry— not  with  wild 
anil  nubdirected  enthusiiism,  but  like  his  estiin  ible  uncle",  with  judgment,  discretion  and  sir.CKiity  ;  and  in 
saying  that  he  has  inherited  many  of  their  disiinguished  charact>!ristics,  we  pay  him  the  highest  compliment 
In  our  power  to  bestow.  At  the  great  international  bampiet  given  by  the  cor|Miration  of  London  (England) 
lately  to  the  municipal  chiefs  of  the  whole  civili/.ed  world,  the  mayor  of  Quebec  was  chosen  to  return  thanks, 
not  only  fur  the  Dominion  of  Canada  Ixit  for  the  municipalities  of  the  United  States  and  the  other  rising 
nations  of  the  western  world. 

("ommenting  upon  tlie  esteem  in  winch  Mr.  Murphy  is  held  abroad,  the  (Jluebec  Chrun'ule 
remarks,  under  an  editorial  entiU<'d   "  Complimentary  to  Queljec  "  : — 

The  Wfffonl  Iiideprndenl,  in  its  issue  of  the  5th  inst. ,  publishes  •  lengthy  account  of  the  festive  proceed* 
iitgB  attending  the  inauguration  of  the  new  city  *  corporatiim '  for  the  current  ye«r.  It  sppesri  that  siiiung 
the  distinguished  guests  present  on  this  marked  occaiioii  was  the  out-going  mayor,  Mr.  (ireene,  who  has 
already  tilled  this  re8(Hmsib!e  |M«ilioii  over  the  city  of  Wekford  uiore  than  half-a-doseii  times  ;  and  who  is  slsu 


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the  chairman  uf  the  Wexford  tire  brigade.  In  response  to  (he  vote  of  thanks  proposed  tu  him  as  retiring 
first  magistrate  of  so  important  and  historical  a  city,  Mr.  Greene  made  a  lengthy  anu  felicitous  speech,  in  the 
course  of  which  he  used  the  following  exoeedingly  complimentary  expressions  to  Quebei'  and  its  chief  civic 
representative,  which  we  {Chrmiicle)  are  proud  to  reprodiice  : — 

'  Two  great  events  occurred  during  the  past  year  in  the  cities  of  London  and  Dublin.  The  farmer  was  a 
banquet  given  by  the  lord  mayor  (of  London,  England),  unetjualled  in  splendor  and  magnilicence,  to  .vhich 
were  invited  the  mayors,  not  only  uf  the  British  isles,  but  of  every  municipality  on  the  continent,  and  in  tl<e 
great  rising  empire  of  the  west— the  United  States  of  America  and  the  Dominion  of  Canada.  The  latter  was 
represented  by  the  mayor  of  Quebec,  a  Wexford  n' .  n — (hear,  hear,  and  cheers) — and  nephew  of  the  late  Right 
Rev.  Dr.  Murphy,  the  lamented  bishop  of  this  diocese— (cheers).  He  was  selected  to  return  thanks  for  his  city 
and  the  cities  and  towns  of  the  United  States,  and  never  did  I,'  said  the  mayor  of  Wexford,  '  take  a  greater 
pride  in  my  native  country  than  when  I  heard  him  deliver  himself  with  an  ability,  judgment,  tact  and  elo- 
quence that  would  do  credit  to  any  man — (cheers). ' 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  the  Chronicles  of  LehiHter,  and  is  worthy  of  record  in 
these  pages,  regarding  Mr.  Murphy's  ancestors  : — 

The  O'Murphys,  the  O'Murchoes,  0'Muq>hy8  or  Murphy  are  descended  from  Henry  Feliug,  chieftain  of 
the  Murroes,  now  called  Macamores,  in  the  Barony  of  Ballaghkeen,  in  the  county  of  Wexford.  They  were  in 
]H>8seH8i<>n  of  it  before  the  English  invasion.  This  Feling  was  son  of  Cuuia-Kinsellagh,  king  of  Leinster  in  the 
tifth  century.  The  head  of  this  family  in  lti34  lived  in  Tubberlimmach.  He  was  Connell  O'Murchoe,  gentle- 
man, the  eldest  son  of  Donnell  More,  '  The  O'Murchoe,'  son  of  Art,  son  of  Tiege.  This  Connell  died  in  1034, 
Mild  was  buried  in  Castle  Ellis.*  He  left  live  sims  :  Tiege  was  the  eldest ;  he  remained  in  Wexford  ;  also  .lames, 
who  possessed  an  estate  in  Killincoolly,  taken  from  him  by  Cromwell.  Art  went  to  county  Louth  in  \M\  ;  his, 
descendiiiiti)  remained  in  the  north.     Another,  named  Louglilin,  lived  at  Ballyoiighiia. 

Mr.  Owen  Murphy  is  a  magistrate  for  the  city  and  district  of  Quebec.  Independent  of  the 
many  municipal  offices  Mr.  Murphy  has  filled  in  the  city  of  Quebec,  he  is  a  director  of  the 
Quebec  ("ciitral  Railroad  ;  he  lias  also  been  president  of  the  St.  Patrick  society ;  president  of 
the  St.  Patrick  literary  institute  ;  for  four  years  he  was  president  of  the  Quebec  turf  club,  and 
was  one  of  the  connnittee  of  management  of  St.  Patrick's  churcli,  prior  to  the  change  lieing 
made  in  the  temporal  administration  of  that  establisliment.  In  1880,  he  was  elected  president 
of  the  Quebec  board  of  trade  for  one  year,  and  at  the  e.\pirati<'n  of  that  period  was  unani- 
'iitiusly  re-elected — without  a  dissentient  voice — to  fulfil  the  honorable  office  for  a.  further  term, 
which  he  now  holds  and  will  retain  until  April,  1882. 

It  would  lie  superfluous  to  add  further  panegyric  upon  this  highly  esteemed  citizf*.  .h 
Quel>ec  than  that  already  mentioned  in  which  he  is  held,  both  by  his  friends  here  and  those 
ill  the  home  of  his  ancestors  ;  however,  it  would  be  doing  the  subject  of  our  sketch  but  stinte<l 
justice  if  we  omitted  to  mention  that  lie  is  one  of  tiie  few  who  carry  with  him  tlie  friendship 
of  all  classes  of  .society  in  his  native  city. 

Mr.  Murphy  is  a  Roman  Catholic;  and  has  always  taken  an  independent  course  in  politics. 
Although  Mr.  Murphy  is  an  independent  in  politics  it  mu.st  not  lie  inferred  that  he  does  not 
support,  and  fully  carry  out,  in  his  political  doctrine  that  Protection  is  absolutely  necessary 
for  the  welfare  of  this  country. 


*  NuTE.— That  is  the  burial  place  of  Mr.  Murphy's  family  in  the  county  of  Wexford. 


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The  present  impif^vements  in  Quebec,  whidi  were  made  during  the  time  Lord  Dufferin 
retained  the  Govoi  nor-Ceneralship,  it  would  be  obviously  unfair  not  to  mention  were  proposed 
by  his  lordihfp  and  Mr.  Murphy,  during  the  time  the  latter  was  mayor ;  and,  although  they 
were  only  completed  after  he  had  left  the  chair  of  chief  magistrate  of  Quebec,  it  is  well  known 
that  tlie  citizens  of  the  ancient  city  ef  Canada  are  indebted  to  the  interests  and  influences  of 
Ijord  Dufferin  and  Mr.  Owen  Murphy  in  having  them  carried  out,  and  thus  Ijecoming  an  fait 
accompli.  The  result  is  that  we  see  to-day  improvements  in  Quebec  which  would  do  any 
Eurojiean  city  credit,  and  these  have  been  effected  simply  from  the  combined  efforts  and  j)er- 
suasive  arguments  of  Lord  Dufferin  and  his  fellow-countryman,  Mr.  Owen  Murphy. 


LJEU^r.-(;oL.  Ho:^.  henky  starnes, 

_      .  '  MONTREAL 

HENRY  STARNES,  memlier  of  the  Legislative  Council  for  Salabeny,  is  a  i;rands(tn  of 
Nathan  Starnes,  a  united  empire  loyalist,  who  left  the  state  of  Now  York,  and  settled 
in  Canada,  at  the  close  of  the  war  with  the  mother  country,  the  family  U'iiig  of  Scotch  descent. 
Some  members  of  this  family,  now  living  in  the  New  England  and  other  states.  sj)ell  the  name 
Stearns,  whieh  was  probably  the  original  name. 

Mr.  Stanies  is  a  son  of  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  (Meville)  Starnes,  and  was  l)orn  at  Kings- 
ton, Ontario,  October  13,  18l(i.  He  was  educated  at  the  academy  of  Rev.  Henry  Esson,  and  at 
Montreal  college;  learned  the  mercantile  business  of  James  Leslie;  became  his  partner  in  184!t, 
and  the  firm  of  Leslie,  Starnes  and  Co ,  wholesale  merchants,  continued  until  lS.i!>,  doing  an 
extensive  ami  successful  business.  Mr.  Starnes  left  the  mercantile  trade  to  join  in  organizing 
the  Montreal  branch  of  the  Ontario  bank,  of  which  he  had  the  charge  for  about  ten  year's.  He 
is  now  president  t»f  the  Montreal  branch  of  the  Ixtndon  and  Liverpool  and  (ilolie  Insurance 
Company,  and  has  l)een,and  still  is,  identified  with  a  great  many  local  enterprises  and  interests. 
He  was  president  of  the  Metropolitan  bank  from  its  establishment  until  November,  1S7.') ;  has 
lieeii  a  director  of  Lit  Bauifiir  ihi  I'l'itpli  ;  vice-president  of  the  Montreal  Iniard  of  trade,  the 
St.  Jean  Hapti»te  Sin'iety,  and  the  Montreal  warehousing  company  ;  a  director  of  the  Richelieu 
steamboat  company,  the  Canada  engine  and  machinery  company,  and  the  international  traiis- 
iiortation  company  ;  he  was  at  one  time  warden  of  trinity  house. 

Mr.  Starnes  was  mayor  of  Montreal  in  lM5(i-'.>7,  and  again  in  |H(j()-'(i7,  and  has  always 
taken  deep  interest  in  municipal  matters,  U'ing  full  of  public  spirit,  and  taking  much  pride  in 
the  growth  of  the  city,  in  which  growth  he  has  rendered  no  inconsiderable  aid. 

He  was  for  many  years  connecteil  with  the  militia,  and  now  holds  the  mnk  of  lieut.-colonel 
of  lat  Montreal  centre  reserve, 


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Mr.  Starnt's  sat  for  (. 'hiiteauguay  in  the  Canadian  assembly  from  io,")7  to  lS(i3,  wlien  he 
retired  ;  contested  Montreal  without  success  in  1857 ;  deciinetl  a  seat  in  the  t^ueliec  caVtinet  in 
1807,  and  was  apiwiiited  to  the  Legislative  Council  in  the  same  year. 

In  August,  1841,  Mr.  Starnes  was  joined  in  wedlock  with  Miss  Kleanor  Stuart,  oll^ueliec. 
They  have  lost  one  child,  and  have  four  daughters  and  two  .sons  living,  all  married  but  one 
daughter,  who  is  a  nun.  Another  daughter  is  the  wife  of  Hon.  J.  R.  1).  Tolleneehe,  of  t!heshire, 
England,  and  two  are  tlie  wives  of  members  of  the  (iOth  regiment.  The  eltler  son,  James  Leslie 
Starnes,  is  in  business  in  Montreal,  and  the  other,  Henry  Leslie  Starnes,  is  a  clerk  in  the  Bank 
of  Montreal. 


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HON.  J  KAN    BAI^ISTE    liOUHGKOIS, 

A  YLMEH.  ' 

fTlHK  subject  of  this  Virief  nifinoir,  one  of  the  .hidgts  of  the  Superior  ( 'ourt  for  the  Province 
-*-  Quebec,  is  a  native  of  this  Province,  being  liorn  in  the  parish  of  St.  i)omiiii(iuc,  county 
of  Bagot,  on  the  19th  of  May,  IS.I.j.  His  parents  wer«'  Fmn<;ois  and  Schohistiquc  (Cote)  Bour- 
gpfiis.  His  grandparents  were  from  Acadia.  Judge  Bourgeois  received  a  classical  education  at  St. 
Hyacinthe  ;  studied  law  at  the  same  place  with  Maurice  LafrandK)ise  ami  Augustin  C.  Papineau, 
both  since  appointed  Judges  of  the  Superior  Cou  it  of  this  Province;  was  called  to  the  bar.  May 
1st,  18.")8,  and  practi.sed  for  eighteen  years  at  St.  Hyacinthe.  Part  ot  that  period  he  was  in  part- 
nership with  tlie  Inte  Hon.  P.  Rachand,  Provincial  Treasurer,  during  the  Joly  administration,  and 
|>art  with  Hon.  Honor<5  Mercier,  who  was  solicitor-general  during  the  same  administration. 

At  the  bar 'Fudge  Bourgeois  ro.se  rapidly ;  soon  distinguished  himself  as  a  municipal  lawyer, 
and  had  a  remunerative  jiractice.  He  took  at  once  a  high  stand  among  such  foremost  lawyers 
as  Messiu  Sicotte,  Papineau,  Chagnon,  Lafromlioisc,  now  all  Justices  of  the  Superior  Court. 
When  M.  Sicotte  was  elevated  to  the  bench,  M.  Bourgeois  took  tlie  lead  at  the  St.  Hyacinthe 
bar.  and  during  sixti'en  yeai-s  enjoyed  an  inunense  practice.  His  profound  learning,  his  clear 
judgment,  his  sterling  integrity,  and  his  striking  suecesse.s,  inspired  such  an  immense  conHdence, 
that  he  acted  as  often  as  arbitrator,  as  couiLsel  amongst  the  litigants.  Mr.  Bourgeois  was  a  good 
lawyer,  but  a  l»etter  frieml,  and  prevented  so  many  law  suits  to  his  clients,  that  they  considered 
him  a.s  a  judge,  long  before  his  ap|K)intment.  His  elevation  to  the  iM'nch,  which  was  not  the 
result  of  any  ambition,  but  a  recompense  to  real  merit  was  apprehended  in  that  part  of  the  I'ro- 
vince,  by  l»oth  political  parties,  though  he  had  taken  an  active  and  energetic  part  in  political 
matters. 

While  at  St.  Hyacinthe,  Judge  Bourgeois  was  one  of  the  leading  citizens,  and  was  <|uito 
prominent  in  educational,  municipal  and  other  matters.  He  was  .school  commissioner  for  a  long 
time  ;  pro-mayor  for  severil  years ;  president  at  one  time  of  tlie  Literary  As.sociation  ;  and  Krst 


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president  of  the  St.  L.iwrence  and  Missisquoi  Junction  Railway.  He  sliowed  a  good  deal  of  public 
spirit  there,  in  leading  ofl'in  variou.s  enterpri.ses,  to  build  up  the  town  and  the  country. 

While  there  he  took  much  interest  in  politics,  being  a  Reformer,  and  in  1874,  was  a  candi- 
date to  represent  the  county  of  Bagot  in  the  House  of  ( "(>mnions,  but  was  defeated,  his  competi- 
tor, however,  Mr.  J.  A.  Mous.seau,  having  a  very  small  majority. 

In  June,  1870,  he  was  appointed  to  his  judical  otlice  already  mentioned,  and  moved  to 
Aylnier,  the  shiretown  of  Ottawa  county,  and  of  the  judicial  district  of  Ottawa,  which  includes 
two  counties.  Before  removing,  a  banquet  was  given  to  liim  by  prominent  men  of  all  parties,  and 
much  regret  felt  at  losing  so  worthy  and  eminent  a  man. 

Judge  Bourgeois  was  married  on  the  Oth  of  September,  18.ji),  to  Miss  Mary  Francis  Gibson, 
daughter  of  William  C  and  Eliza  S.  (Bean)  Oibson,  who  were  from  Vermont,  now  residents  of 
Aylmer ;  and  of  eight  children,  the  fruit  of  this  union,  (mly  three,  two  daughters  and  one  son, 
C'orinne,  Ad<ile  and  John  F.  L.  are  now  living. 

Judge  Bourgeois  is  a  noteworthy  e.\am[>le  of  a  self-edticati'd,  self-made  man.  starting  at  the 
lower  strata  of  society,  and  working  his  way  upwards  by  his  own  inh(?rent  energies  and  perse- 
verance, to  his  present  exalted  position.  His  father  wjis  a  day-laborer  in  very  straightened 
circumstances  ;  but  the  son  was  determined  to  have  mor(>  than  an  ordinary  elementary  education 
—was  bound  t<j  have  a  good  knowledge  of  the  classics,  the  higher  matiiematics,  etc.,  and  not 
being  permitted  to  enter  the  seminary  at  St.  H^acinthe  without  the  schola.stic  costume,  in  order 
to  make  the  purchase,  he  went  from  house  to  house,  soliciting  the  funds  from  his  friends,  who 
.said  that  there  was  something  in  the  brilliant  <j<u\on,  and  cheerfully  aided  him.  Still  further 
to  encourage  him,  he  had  proHere<l  to  him  his  tuition  free.  It  is  of  such  material,  of  such  plucky 
lads,  that  many  of  our  noblest  men  are  made. 


HOSPKK    A.   A'ERKEAU    D.L., 

,  MONTREAL.  . 

HOSPICE  ANTHELINE  VERREAl',  principal  of  Jacques  ('artier  normal  school,  Mont- 
real, is  a  descendant  of  a  family  which  came  from  France  and  sittleil  in  Lower  Canada, 
near  Quebec,  in  1<)H7.  He  is  a  .son  of  Germain  V'erreau  and  Marie  Ursule  Fournier,  and  was 
l)orn  at  I'lslet,  P.Q.,  on  the  Gth  of  Septendx;r,  1828.  He  was  educjited  at  the  Quebec  .seminary, 
taking  a  full  cla.ssical  and  partial  theological  course ;  taught  in  the  same  institution  for  two 
years,  commencing  when  nineteen  years  old  ;  and  inunediately  afterwards  in  Ste.  Therese 
college  for  eight  years,  being  its  principal  during  the  latter  half  of  that  period.  In  18.56,  Mr. 
Vorrean  move<I  to  Montreal,  and  in  March  of  the  following  year,  on  the  opening  of  the  Jacqu<'s 
Cartier  normal  school,  he  became  its  principal,  a  position  which  he  still  holds.      In  addition  Ut 


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liis  general  work  of  supervision  of  tlie  school,  he  also  teaches  more  or  less;  chieHy  Canadian 
history  and  the  art  of  teaching. 

In  1S73,  principal  Verreaii  was  sent  to  Eurojie  by  the  government,  to  make  investigations 
in  regard  to  Canadian  history,  and  while  on  that  mission  he  visited  London,  Paris,  Rome  and 
other  important  cities,  making  extensive  notes  of  his  travels.  Those  notes  were  published,  in 
1875,  in  the  government  report  on  agriculture.  ■ 

Principal  Verreau  is  a  doctor  of  letters  (Laval) ;  correspomling  member  of  the  Society 
des  Antiquaires  de  Normandie;  and  an  oHicer  of  public  instruction,  France,  a  position  granted 
by  the  French  government. 

Our  subject  was  ordained  priest  in  hs.jl,  l»y  the  late  bishop  Prince,  and  often  otticiates  in 
divine  services. 

Principal  Verreau  has  written  some  articles  on  Canadian  history  for  the  Journal  of 
Public  Inslructiov,  and  tliey  have  attracted  considerable  attention. 


IIOHACK    1).   PICKET., 

SWRETSnVRG. 

HORACE  DAIUUS  PICKKL,  high  constable  of  the  district  of  Bedford,  and  mayor  of  the 
village  of  Swcetsburg,  was  born  in  the  township  of  Hrome,  on  tlic  lOth  of  February, 
1838,  being  the  son  of  Thmiiiis  and  Asenath  (McCoy)  Pickel.  His  father  was  from  the  valley 
of  the  Hudson,  New  York,  and  of  (leriuan  descent;  and  his  mother  was  from  the  .same  state, 
and  of  Scotch  descent.  Horace  received  only  a  common  school  education,  afterwards  supple- 
menting it  with  private  study  ;  followed  farming,  the  occu[)ation  of  his  father,  until  eighteen 
years  of  age  ;  then  commenced  .speculating  in  produce,  etc.,  continuing  that  business  and  serving 
as  bailiff  until  18GI,  when  he  was  appointod  high  constable  of  the  district  before  mentioned,  an 
office  for  which  he  seems  admirably  adapted.  He  is  rarely  excelled  by  any  officer  in  the  ability, 
zeal  and  promjjtness  with  which  he  discharges  his  ofticial  duties.  His  maimers,  habits  and 
knowledge  of  human  natuie  peculiarly  adapt  him  to  his  delicate  office.  He  has  aided  greatly 
in  the  detection  of  otf'endei's ;  and  the  comparative  immunity  from  crime  which  exists  here  is 
owing  a  good  deal  to  his  vigilance  ;  he  is  the  chief  officer  of  the  provincial  detective  agency  in 
thi.s  section. 

Mr.  Pickel  has  been  mayor  of  the  village  in  which  he  resides  since  its  incorporation  in 
1874,  and  also  a  member  of  the  county  council  the  same  length  of  time.  H<3  has  likewise  been 
manager  of  his  .school  district,  taking  much  interest  in  educational  matters,  ant'  "n  everything,  in 
fact,  pertaining  to  the  prosperity  of  the  village  and  county. 

Mr.  Pickel  was  a  member  of  the  Home  Guards  during  the  Fenian  raids,  but  the  company, 
of  which  his  brother,  Martin  A.  Pickel,  was  captain,  was  not  called  into  .ser  ice.     He  is  a  knight- 


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templar,  knight  of  tlio  religious  orders  of  St.  Jolin,  Jeriisalom,  Palestine,  Kliotk-s  and  Malta,  and 
lias  held  nearly  every  ottice  in  the  Masonic  order,  including  that  of  district  deputy  grand  master 
under  the  grand  lodge  of  Canada.  He  is  conservative  in  polities,  and  usually  <iuite  active  iis 
well  as  influential. 

In  December,  1864,  he  married  Miss  Ruhaniah  Henliani,  daughter  of  Solomon  Benhani,  of 
Brome,  and  they  have  one  son,  Folliii  Horace,  aged  fifteen  ytar.s,  who  is  pursuing  his  studies 
with  great  avidity. 


.  ,  CHARLES    E.   LEVEY, 

OVR  Quebcf  volnnic  would  lie  incomplete  without  a  brief  sketch  of  the  life  of  the  late 
fine  ohl  English  geiitli'miin,  and  highly  esteemed  and  respected  citizen  of  this  city. 
Born  near  I'ortsinouth,  England,  in  179'^  where  he  was  edncs  ted,  the  late  Charles  E.  Levey  left 
the  old  country  in  early  life  and  settlecl  at  Demcrara,  W.  i.,  where  he  purchase<l  a  large  sugar 
plantation,  on  which  he  resided  for  about  fifteen  yt.'ars,  until  he  finally  settled  in  (Quebec.  He 
was  present  at  the  time  of  the  rebellion  of  the  negroes  in  ]S28,  and  took  with  other  .settlers 
an  active  part  in  supprrssjng  the  revolt.  In  1828  he  (hartcrcMJ  a  vessel  and  sailed  from 
Dcmerara  to  Quebec,  where  his  lirother,  the  late  l^ionel  lievey,  then  oiii'  of  the  most  prominent 
merchants  in  the  timber  trade,  was  ivsiding.  In  182!)  hiond  Levey  died,  and  left  the  whole 
of  his  business  to  the  late  Charles  E.  Levey,  the  subject  of  our  present  sketeli.  This  resulted 
in  the  latter  .selling  off'  the  whole  of  his  viiluable  estate  in  Denierara,  and  esentually  becoming' 
a  .settler  in  Quebec,  where  he  continued  to  carry  on  the  business  of  his  deceased  brother,  as  a 
merchant,  until  he  retired  in  18GS.  For  honesty  and  integrity  in  all  business  tran.saction.s, 
loth  he  an  I  his  brother  obtaineil  a  deservedly  well  earned  rejiute  throughout  the  whole 
commercial  community  of  the  world,  and  it  was  well  .said  of  both,  by  all  whom  they  had 
business  transactions  with,  that  theii-  word  was  a.s  good  as  most  metis  bonds. 

In  18+7  he  married  Miss  Jemima  Bo.xer,  eldest  daughter  of  the  late  Admiral  Boxer,  an  ol'- 
ticer  well  known  and  highly  esteemed  in  llei  Maj(.'sty's  navy.  If  wc  leiiieniber  correctly,  the 
late  admiral,  in  the  early  portion  ot'his  career  in  the  service,  serveil  in  one  of  the  arctic  expedi- 
tions in  search  of  Sir  .lohn  Franklin,  and  afterwards  as  harbor  master  at  Balaclava,  where  he 
died  the  honori'd  d  ath  of  a  sailor  at  the  post  of  iliity  during  the  ('rimean  wai',  irrespective  of 
these  arduous  and  responsible  duties,  he  was  an  ofti'-er  of  considerable  distinction,  and  was  re- 
garded by  the  fellows  of  the  Royal  Geographical  Society  in  England  and  other  kindred  institu- 
tions,  famed  for  their  erudite  scientifieal  and  pn^fessional  members,  as  one  of  the  foremost  of 
their  fratemit;*  For  some  years  the  late  Admiral  resifled  with  his  family  in  Qiielieo,  and  was 
universally  esteT  ^d  socially. 


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The  subjet't  of  our  sketch  was  the  founilei'  and  Hi-st  president  of  the  I'niou  Bank  of  Lower 
Canada  ;  a  director,  and  wo  l)elicve  the  hirgest  shareholder  of  tlie  Quebec  Gas  Co.,  as  well  as  a 
holder  of  considerable  property  in  anil  about  the  city. 

He  took  more  than  ordinary  interest  in  all  ayricultural  pui-suits,  and  in  any  thing  connec- 
ted with  live  stock ;  and  his  especial  predilection  for  all  and  anything  appertaining  to  horti- 
cultural pui-suits  was  well  known  throughout  Quebec,  and  we  Iwlieve  he  was  one  of  the  most 
active  founders  of  the  Queljec  Tandem  ( 'lub.  He  patronized  and  largely  contributed  to  many 
charitable  institutions  in  Quebec  and  elsewhere,  and  was  distinguished  for  his  many  humane 
sympathising  characteristics ;  and  in  his  death  Quebec  lost  one  of  her  most  highly  respected 
citizens.  He  pa.ssed  away  on  the  29th  August,  liS.SO,  at  his  charming  and  picturesque  resi- 
dence at  i'ataraqui,  on  the  St.  Lawrence,  where  his  widow  now  resides. 

By  the  marriage  tliere  was  issue  two  sons  and  two  daughtei-s,  of  whom  one  daughter  and 
one  son  died  in  infancy,  the  others  Charles  Krnest,  and  Florence  (now  Mrs.  West,  who  resides 
in  Ireland),  only  surviving.  , 


.MA^JIJEW    Jl.   GAULT,  .1.1'.,  M.I'., 

MONTREAL. 

MATHEW  HAMILTON  GAULT,  who  repnisonts  Montreal  West  in  the  Dominion  Parlia- 
ment, is  a  scm  of  the  late  Leslie  (Jault,  many  yeai-s  a  merchant  and  ship-owner  nt 
Straban*',  county  of  Tyrone,  IrelamI,  and  of  Maiy  Hamilton,  of  Tronta  House,  county  of  Donegal, 
his  birth  being  date  I  at  Strabane  in  July,  1822.  Ho  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Stra- 
bane;  came  to  ( 'imada  when  he  had  reached  his  majority  ;  settled  in  Montreal,  which  has  Vjeen 
his  home  for  thirty-seven  years;  learned  tho  business  of  insurance,  and  is  still  engaged  in  it. 
He  is  manager  of  the  Britisli  America  A'^suianco  Company  for  the  province  of  Quebec;  agent  for 
the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Coni])any  of  New  Vork  ;  chief  agent  of  the  Royal  Insurance  C<  m- 
pany  of  England;  vice-president  of  the  Sun  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Coin[)any;  director  of  tlir 
Montreal  Assurance  Company  ;  of  the  Dominion  Telegraph  Company  ;  of  the  Hochelaga,  Valley- 
field  and  Stormont  (Jotton  Companies;  the  Windsor  Hotel  Company;  ami  of  the  Richelieu  ami 
Ontario  Navigation  Company;  vice-president  of  the  Montreal  Mining  Company ;  and  of  the 
Railway  and  News  Adveitising  Company  ;  and  president  of  the  E.Kchangc  J'.ank  of  Canada,  and 
of  the  Montreal  Loan  and  Mortgage  Company.  He  was  the  founder  of  .in-  Irish  Protestant 
Benevolent  Society  of  Montreal  ;  the  parent  society  of  the  Dominion.  For  many  yeai-s  ho  took 
an  active  interest  in  the  Volunteer  Garrison  Artillery,  from  which  he  retired,  retaining  his  rank 
as  captain. 

Mr.  (Jault  was  elected  to  Pailiament  to  represent  Montreal  West,  in  SepUmiber,  1878,  liaving 
an  unprecedented  majority  of  more  than  1, 700  voters,  being,  probably  the  mo.st  popular  man  in 


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that  riding.  He  is  a  Conservative,  strongly  atlvcxiating  protection  to  home  industries,  and  hence 
much  pleased  with  the  revision  of  the  taritt",  which  took  place  at  the  first  session  of  the  fourth 
Parliament  in  February,  1879. 

Mr.  Qault  is  a  member  of  the  Church  of  England  ;  was  warden  of  Christ  Church  for  several 
years,  and  has  been  a  delegate  from  Christ  Cliurch  to  the  Diocesan  Synod  of  Montreal.  His 
character  has  always  stood  far  above  reiiroach. 

In  May,  1854,  Mr.  Gault  was  joined  in  marriage  rt  Montreal,  with  Miss  Elizabeth  J.  Bourne, 
only  daughter  of  (Jeorge  Bourne,  and  they  have  eleven  children  living,  and  have  lost  five. 


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MARIE    EMERY   GERYAIS,  M.D., 

THREE  RIVERS. 

ONE  of  the  eminent  and  rising  men  as  a  medical  practitioner  in  Three  Rivei-s  is  the  gentle- 
man that  heads  this  sketch.  Descended  from  an  old  French  family,  who  in  the  early 
part  of  the  present  century  migrated  from  France  and  settled  in  the  now  enterprising  and  pros- 
perous little  city  on  the  banks  of  the  St.  Lawrence,  Dr.  Gervais  has  most  deservedly  won  for 
himself  the  good  will  of  the  whole  community  in  that  neighborhood.  He  was  bom  in  Three 
Rivei-s  on  the  13th  of  December,  1845,  and  is  the  son  of  Louis  Emery  Gervais,  Esq.,  a  merchant 
of  good  repute  of  that  city  and  a  highly  esteemed  citizen  who  was  town  councilor  there  for 
over  twenty  years  ;  his  mother  was  a  Miss  Julie  Huart,  of  Point  Levis,  whoso  father  was  an 
agi'iculturist  and  much  respected.  The  doctor  was  eilucated  at  the  college,  Three  Rivers,  and 
afterwards  studied  medicine  at  the  Victoria  college,  Montreal,  finally  completing  them  at  the 
artiliated  institution  at  Cobourg,  Ont.,  from  which  latter  he  obtained  his  diploma  and  graduated 
as  M.D. ;  he  has  been  a  city  councillor  for  some  few  years  and  was  again  returnetl  by  acclama- 
tion in  July,  1881.  Since  he  passed  his  final  examination,  he  has  been  at  practice  in  the  place 
of  his  birth,  where  he  enjoys  a  more  than  ordinary  amount  of  confidence  amongst  his  numerous 
and  vastly  increasing  luimber  of  patients  from  his  kind  and  careful  attention  to  all  who  come 
under  his  care  in  his  humane  profession  ;  he  is  also  a  niember  of  the  medical  board  of  the  Prov- 
ince of  Quebec,  to  which  office  he  was  elected  for  three  years  in  July,  1880. 

In  his  native  city  he  enjoys  the  friendship  and  esteem  of  all,  and  in  fact  wherever  he  be- 
comes known  he  is  one  of  those  gentlemen — of  the  Lord  Duflerin  type — who  knows  so  well 
iiow  to  make  friends  and  never  foster  an  unkind  regard,  f^-it  his  name  is  legion.  The  Gervais 
family  are  and  have  been  all  known  as  long  lived  ones,  his  father,  wlio  is  now  60  years  of  age, 
and  his  mother  57  years,  are  lx)th  still  alive. 

.     On  the  6th  of  August,  1870,  he  man-ied  Miss  Marie  Madelaine  Etuchiennc  Nomiand, 
daughter  of  the  late  Edward  Normand,  Esq.,  Three  Rivers,  by  which  alliance  there  has  Ikjcu 

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issue  five  children,  all  of  whom  survive.  The  Norinatul  family  formerly  were  and  now  are 
well  known  in  Three  Rivers  for  their  many  estimable  and  philanthropic  characteristics,  and 
the  doctor  would  appear  to  have  inherited  by  his  alliance  with  the  family  all  these  traits. 


LIEUT.-COLONEL   ELGEAR   LA   MONTAGI^JE, 

QVEBEC. 

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL  ELOEAR  LA  MONTAGNE,  is  the  son  of  Michael,  and  grand 
son  of  Xavier  La  Montaf,'nc.  The  latter  came  to  this  country  from  France,  in  1817, 
and  settled  in  St.  Gervais,  county  of  Bellechasso.  Colonel  La  Montagne  was  born  in  the  city 
of  Quebec,  on  28th  June,  1831^  where  his  father,  who  was  a  much  respected  citizen,  had  resided 
for  some  years.  His  mother,  Elevnor  Hardy  de  Chatillon,  was  a  daughter  of  Hyacinthe  de 
Chatillon,  who  settled  in  Canada  about  the  same  time  iis  the  La  Montagnes  and  took  up  their 
residence  at  Cap  Santd,  county  of  Portneuf.  Colonel  Montagne  was  educated  in  the  .seminary 
of  C^uebec,  and  was  appointed  to  the  militia  of  Canada  as  a  lieutenant  in  the  Quebec  field  bat- 
ter}', on  the  31st  August,  185.').  He  was  promoted  to  caj)t<iin  in  command  of  the  Quebec  field 
battery  in  July,  18.58,  and  retaining  this  post  for  seventeen  years,  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
'  lajni-  in  July,  1802,  subsequently  being  gazetted  Brigade  Major  with  the  rank  of  Lieutenant 
. 'oiouel  in  18GG.  He  has  on  several  occasions  been  sent  with  troops  to  the  Red  River  and  in 
e>ery  instance  his  services  have  elicited  considerable  praises  from  his  immediate  superiors. 
Colonel  La  Montagne  at  present  holds  the  appointment  of  Brigade  Major  of  the  7th  military 
di:4trict,  and  is  the  oldest  commissioned  officer  in  the  volunteer  militia,*  and  retains  for  himself 
an  universal  popularity  with  his  brother  officers,  not  only  in  the  arm  of  the  service  under  which 
he  has  l>een  so  closely  attached  for  so  many  years,  but  also  with  the  other  branches  as  being  a 
thoroughly  practical  artillerist,  as  well  as  one  of  the  most  efficient  officera  in  the  whole  Domin- 
ion. 

He  married  on  the  12th  October,  1880  Mar\-  (Minnie)  Lee,  daughter  of  T.  C.  Lcc.  Esq.,  the 
well-known  shipbuilder  of  Quebec. 


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HALIFAX,  N.S. 

IN  17G2,  four  bi'others  of  tlie  name  of  Aichibald,  settled  at  Truro,  County  of  Colchester,  N. 
S.,  all  of  wlioni  married  and  had  families,  two  or  three  of  them  quite  large.  From  these 
four  brothers,  who  became  grantees  of  land  in  Truro  and  that  vicinitj',  liave  sprung  most,  if  not 
all,  the  families  of  'Lat  name  now  scattered  over  this  Province  and  other  Provinces  of  the  Do- 
minion ;  and  representatives  of  them  have  honored  the  several  liberal  professions,  and  tilled 
nearly  every  position  of  great  trust  and  responsibility  in  the  Legislature  and  Government  of 
Nova  Scotia. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  Lieut-Governor  of  Nova  Scotia,  is  a  gi-eat-grandson  of  Samuel 
Archibald,  one  of  the  four  brothei-s  alreatly  referred  to,  grandson  of  James  Archibald,  at  one 
time  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  son  of  Samuel  Archibald,  Esq., 
his  birth  being  dated  at  Truro  on  the  18th  of  May,  1814.  His  mother  was  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Matthew  Archibald,  first  coroner  of  the  district  of  Colchester,  and  represented  that  county  in 
Parliament  for  years. 

He  was  educated  at  the  Pictou  academy,  under  the  late  Dr.  McCulloch,  who  had  the  train- 
ing  of  many  other  young  men  who  have  held  or  are  now  holding  various  high  positions.  Ho 
read  law  at  Halifax  with  William  Sutherland,  late  Recorder  of  that  city  ;  was  called  to  the  bar 
of  Prince  Edward  Island  in  18S8,  and  to  that  of  Nova  Scotia  in  1839,  and  practised  for  mai  y 
years  at  Truro  and  Halifax.  He  was  created  a  Queen's  Counsel  about  18.5').  Almost  from  the 
stall/  he  took  a  high  rank  at  the  bar. 

We  fii'st  find  (iov.  Archibald  in  public  life  in  1851,  when  he  took  his  seat  in  the  Nova  Scotia 
Aaiembly  for  the  county  of  (Colchester,  ami  sat  until  1859,  when  the  county  was  <livi(Ied,  and 
}  'J  *as  returned  for  South  Colchestei',  which  constituency  he  continued  to  represent  until  the 
Oorfederation  (1807).  During  tho.se  earlier  years  of  his  public  life,  ho  was  (juite  prominent  in 
i><,'i'!<ilative  matters,  ami  held  more  than  one  ofiice  in  the  Government,  being  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Council  and  Solicitor  Genend  from  August  14,  185G,  till  the  resignation  of  the  Gov- 
ernment, Feiruary  14,  1857,  and  Attorney  General  fiom  February  10,  1803.  We  learn  from 
the  "Parliamentary  Companion"  and  other  .sources  that,  while  in  the  Local  Legislature,  he 
caiTied  bills  foi  regulating  municipal  asses-sments ;  in  reference  to  the  gold  fields  of  the  Pro- 
vince ;  restricting  elective  franchi.se,  previously  luiiversid,  to  ratepayers,  and  aided  in  maturing 
very  imporUmt  measures  having  reference  to  the  cause  of  education. 

In  1804  he  secom'ed,  as  leader  of  the  Opposition,  Dr.  (now  Sir  (Charles)  Tupper,  the  Pre- 
mier's motion  in  the  Assembly,  for  an  address  to  His  Excellency,  the  Admin*«trator  of  the 


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Govomment,  roquosting  him  to  appoint  delegates  to  confer  with  delegates  appointed  by  the 
Goveinmonts  of  New  Brunswick  and  Prince  Edward  Island,  for  the  purpose  of  considering  the 
Bubjoct  of  a  union  of  the  three  Provinces  under  one  Governuient  and  with  one  Legislature. 

Previous  to  thnt  date,  as  early  in  fact  as  1857,  he  had  lieen  sent  as  a  delegate,  in  company 
with  Hon.  J.  W,  Johnston,  since  deceased,  to  England,  to  arrange  the  terms  of  settlement  with 
the  British  Government  and  the  General  Mining  Association,  in  regard  to  the  mines  of  the  Pro- 
vince, and  to  ascertain  tiic  views  of  the  British  Government  on  the  <iuestion  of  the  union  of  the 
Provinces.  One  happy  result  of  these  Commissioners'  labors,  was  to  secure  to  the  Association 
all  their  rights  and  privileges. 

He  was  a  delegate  to  the  Quebec  conference  held  in  18GI  to  discuss  the;  question  of  an 
Intercolonial  Railway,  and  has  always  stood  ready  to  help  forward  internal  improvements. 

^  Gov.  Archibald  was  one  of  the  foremost  men  in  this  Province  in  advocating  the  cause  of 
Confederation ;  attended  the  Charlottetown  Union  conference  in  June,  18G4,  the  Quebec  con- 
ference held  a  few  months  later  in  the  same  year,  and  the  final  London  (Eng.)  conference  to 
complete  the  tennf.  of  Confederation,  held  in  the  winter  of  1866-07,  having  meanwhile  fought 
the  battle  for  unicii  with  a  courageous  spirit  in  the  Legislative  Assembly,  making  on  this  sub- 
ject, one  or  two  of  his  ablest  extemporaneous  speeches  previous  to  Confedemtion. 

Gov.  Archibald  sat  for  Colchester  in  the  House  of  Commons  from  September,  186!>,  until 
appointed  Lieut.-Governor  of  Manitoba  in  May,  1870,  resigning  in  ^lay,  1S73.  He  was 
appointed  Judge  of  Equity  on  the  24'tli  of  June,  i;»73,  and  held  that  office  until  the  4th  of  tho 
the  next  month,  when,  on  the  death  of  Lieut.-Governor  Howe,  he  was  appointed  to  tliat  liigh 
office,  the  duties  of  which  he  is  still  di.seharging  witli  eminent  .satisfaction,  lieing  re-appointed 
by  the  present  Government.  All  political  parties  recognize  his  great  abilities  and  peculiar  fit- 
ness for  his  present  office'  The  Queen  created  him  a  Comi)anion  of  the  Older  of  St.  Michael 
and  St.  George,  in  1872,  on  account  of  .services  in  ManitoV)a.      L 

Gov.  Archibald  was  one  of  the  directoi-s  of  the  Canadian  Pacific  Railway  under  Sir  Hu<'h 
Allan  (187.3),  and  has  always  been  reaily  to  promote  any  enterprise  calculated  to  contribute  to 
the  welfare  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada.  He  is  a  man  of  broad  views  ami  generous  impulses 
and  a  statesman  whom  the  country  tleiights  to  honor. 

Gov.  Aichilwild  liiis  made  a  great  many  speeches,  on  a  variety  of  occa.sions,  always  adapting 
himself  to  his  audience,  and  never  fails  to  inteivit  and  jilease.  A  friend  has  pluced  in  our 
hands,  a  Halifax  paper  of  October  H,  1877,  which  contains  a  speech  of  the  Governor,  made  at 
the  opening  of  the  Exhibition  held  at  Kentville  at  liiat  time.  We  give  the  last  paragraph  : — 

"  The  present  condition  of  agriculture,  particularly  in  the  older  and  more  atlvancod  counties, 
is  such  as  we  need  not  be  ashamed  of.  Contrasted  with  what  it  was  a  few  yeai-s  ago,  we  may 
well  be  proud  of  it.  If  we  have  made  great  advances,  if  the  interest  in  agriculture  alreaily 
created  gives  an  assurance  of  a  still  steady  advance,  wc  owe  it  largely  to  the  influence  of  such 
exhiltions  ns  these.     It  would  lie  difficult  to  mea-suiv  tlie  gix)d  they  have  already  done ;  and  if 


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farmers  are  now  proud  of  their  calling — if  they  feel  that  they  are  engaged  in  a  pursuit  as  digni- 
fied as  it  is  attractive — if  they  find  they  are  no  longer  the  Helots  of  modem  life — the  hewers  of 
wood  and  drawers  of  water — if  they  consider  themselves  and  are  considered  by  others,  to  be  ele- 
vated to  rank — to  wliat  Lord  Beaconsfield  calls  a  '  territorial  democracy,'  they  are  largely  in- 
debted for  this  improved  position  to  the  V»etter  views  which  exhibitions  like  this  have  ci-eated 
and  difiiised.  You,  fanners,  owe  it  to  your  order  to  do  all  you  can  to  encourage  them.  Your 
presence  here  in  such  large  numbers  shows  you  are  not  insensible  of  this  duty,  and  affords  the 
only  reward  which  is  sought  by  these  gentlemen  who  have  devoted  their  energies  to  this  work. 
It  gives  me  great  pleasure  again  to  congratulate  them  on  the  success  which  crowns  their  labors 
to-day." 

He  married  on  the  1st  of  June,  1843,  Elizabeth  A.,  only  daughter  of  the  Rev.  John  Bumyeat, 
of  Truro,  and  they  have  three  daughters. 


HON.   SAMUEL    CREELMAN,  L.C., 

UPPER  STEWIACKE. 

THE  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  great-grandson  of  Samuel  Creelman,  senior,  who  emigrated 
from  the  North  of  Ireland  to  Nova  Scotia  in  17C2,  and  after  living  awhile  at  Lunen- 
burg and  Halifax,  went  to  Amherst,  where  he  was  residing  in  1772,  when  the  census  of  Nova  Scotia 
was  taken;  he  removed  thence  to  Truro,  where  he  died  about  the  year  1810.  His  son,  Samuel 
(h-eelraan,  junior,  came  from  the  old  country  with  his  father ;  was  with  him  at  the  several 
towns  mentioned  above,  and  went  from  Truro  to  Stewiacke  in  1784,  being  one  of  the  grantees 
of  the  latter  township,  and  was  there  engaged  in  the  cultivation  of  the  soil  until  his  death  in 
1835,  at  the  ripe  age  of  84  years ;  he  became  the  possessor  of  a  sufficient  quantity  of  land  in 
the  new  settlement  to  furnish  each  of  his  six  sons  with  a  good  sized  intervale  farm  on  the  river. 

Our  subject  was  born  at  Upper  Stewiacke  on  the  19th  of  November,  1808,  being  a  son  of 
William  and  Hannah  (Tupper)  Creelman ;  his  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Samuel  Tupper,  Esq., 
and  is  a  distant  relative  of  Sir  Charles  Tupper. 

He  received  an  ordinary  English  education,  and  was  engaged  during  a  portion  of  three  or 
four  years  in  teaching  in  difierent  places ;  he  was  with  his  father  on  the  farm  until  of  age, 
after  which  he  was  in  trade  two  or  three  yeai-s  at  Stewiacke  ;  then  took  part  of  his  father's 
farm,  and  re-engaged  in  agricultural  piireuits,  which  he  has  followed  in  person  or  by  proxy, 
until  the  present  time,  the  farm  which  he  now  owns  being  within  a  mile  of  the  place  where  ho 
was  born ;  he  is  the  principal  proprietor  of  the  woollen  factory  at  Newton  Mills,  Upper 
Stewiacke. 

In  1834,  he  married  Elizalieth  Elliott  Ellis,  and  .she  is  .still  living.    They  have  no  children. 

Mr.  Creelman  was  financial  secretary  and  member  of  the  Executive  Council  of  Nova 
Scotia  from  1851  to  1856  ;  was  chief  gold  commissioner  from  1862  to  1863,  and  a  second  time 
a  member  of  the  Govemnient  for  i)art  of  the  year  1867.  He  represented  the  county  of  (Col- 
chester in  the  Legislative  Assemlily  from  1847  to  1851,  and  South  Colchester  from  the  latter 
date  until  1855,  when  he  was  defeated ;  he  was  api>ointed  a  meml)er  of  the  L?gisUtive  Council 


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in  1800,  and  resigned  in  18G2,  on  being  appointed  gold  commissioner,  and  was  re-appointed  to 
the  Legislative  Council  in  1807,  ami  was  the  leader  of  the  opposition  in  that  body  until  the 
change  of  government  took  j)lace  after  the  election  of  1 878,  when  he  accepted  the  ottice  of  Com- 
missioner of  Public  Works  and  Mines,  which  he  now  holds. 

The  politics  of  Mr.  Creelnian  have  always  been  Liberal,  and  he  is  a  man  of  much  influence 
in  that  party.  In  the  promotion  of  means  for  the  advancement  of  education  he  has  ever  been 
an  earnest  and  efticient  worker ;  he  introduced  the  bill  for  the  establishment  of  a  Provincial 
Normal  School,  and  was  chairman  of  the  commission  appointed  by  the  government  for  the 
erection  of  the  first  normal  school  building  in  Truro. 

Some  of  the  best  work  performed  by  him  has  been  in  connection  with  reformatory  move- 
ments and  Christian  enterprises ;  he  joined  a  temperance  society  in  1830,  when  that  subject 
first  began  to  be  agitated  in  this  province,  and  has  been  a  consistent  and  earnest  worker  in  that 
cause  for  fifty  years;  he  joined  the  Sons  of  Temperance  in  1841):  was  elected  grand  worthy 
patriarch  of  the  grand  division  of  the  order  in  Nova  Scotia  in  18(!8,  and  is  president  of  the 
Nova  Scotia  Temperance  Alliance,  and  a  member  of  the  National  Division  of  the  Sons  of  Tem- 
perance of  North  America,  being  initiated  in  that  body  in  1870. 

At  the  centennial  celebration  of  the  settlement  of  Stewiacke,  held  in  1880,  Mr.  Creelman 
was  one  of  the  speaker,  and  gave  an  address  of  very  great  interest  on  the  first  settlers  and  their 
social  history,  which  was  published  and  widely  read. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Upper  Stewiacke;  has  been  elected  three 
times  to  the  general  assembly  of  that  denomination,  and  on  several  occasions  to  the  Synod  of 
the  Maritime  Provinces,  and  is  a  life  member  of  the  Nova  Scotia  Bible  Society,  and  was  at  one 
time  vice-president  uf  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  of  Halifax,  and  was  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  Sabbath -school  connection  of  the  Maritime  Provinces  in  the  year  1878. 

Mr.  Creelman  is  not  what  could  be  called  a  "  showy"  man  ;  he  is  plain,  outspoken,  yet 
unpretentious  and  conscientious,  doing  as  well  as  knowing  wlijit  is  right.  No  province  is  likely 
to  have  too  many  of  his  class  of  citizens. 


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HON.  LOIiAN   E.  BAKER, 

YAliSlOUTU  y.s. 

LORAN  ELLIS  BAKKR,  member  of  tlie  Legislative  Council  of  Nova  Scotia,  is  a  native  of 
Yarmouth,  dating  his  birth  on  the  l.Stli  of  May,  1831,  his  parents  being  Ellis  and  Delina 
(Kcimeyj  Haker  ;  his  paternal  ancestors  were  from  Ma.ssachusetts,  coming  into  this  province  in 
the  latter  part  of  the  last  century  ;  his  mother's  family  were  early  settlers  in  Barrington,  county 
of  Shelburne.  Mr.  Baker  received  his  education  in  Yarmouth,  finishing  at  the  academy,  paying 
some  attention  to  Latin  and  French,  but  giving  his  time  mainly  to  the  practical  English 
branches :  having  finished  his  studies,  he  became  a  clerk  for  VV.  H.  Townsend,  merchant,  Yar- 
mouth, and  in  185.5  went  into  general  business  and  ship-building  for  himself,  in  company  with 
John  Young,  the  firm  name  being  Young  and  Baker.  T!  Is  partnership  was  dissolved  in  1804, 
and  since  that  date  the  subject  of  tliis  sketch  has  been  operating  alone  as  a  general  ship-owner, 
banker,  etc.,  and  has  made  a  marked  success  of  his  business,  he  being  among  the  leading  capital- 


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ists  of  the  town ;  his  accumulntions  are  the  fruit  of  his  steady  business  tact,  cautiously  and 
honestly  put  forth,  and  are  eminently  creditable  to  his  industry. 

Mr.  Baker  is  president  of  the  Bank  of  Yannouth  and  of  the  Marine  Railway,  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Yarmouth  agricultural  society,  and  Yarmouth  insurance  company,  and  a  president  of 
the  Western  Counties  Railway  and  vice-president  of  the  "  Mountain  Cemetery  Co. ; "  he  is  very 
enterprising  and  public-spirited  and  identifies  himself  with  any  movement  likely  to  develop  the 
national  or  other  interests  of  the  town,  county  or  province.  In  1872  he  founded  a  museum  and 
public  library  together,  which  is  free  to  the  community,  and  open  every  Saturday  for  the  drawing 
and  exchange  of  books.  In  founding  this  institution  Mr.  Baker  has  shown  himself  a  public  bene- 
factor, and  his  generosity  is  thoroughly  appreciated  by  his  fellow  citizens.  Ships  .sail  from  Yar- 
mouth to  every  part  of  the  world,  and  he  has  excellent  facilities  for  enlarging  the  museum,  which 
is  growing  every  year.  In  it  is  the  largest  and  best  specimen  of  spar  the  writer  ever  saw — no 
doubt  the  most  valuable  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada.  In  all  departments  the  sau)ples  are 
highly  attractive,  and  the  nmseum  is  becoming  a  favorable  resort  for  strangers  as  well  as 
citizens. 

Mr.  Baker  was  called  to  the  Legislative  Council  on  the  2.5th  of  February,  1878,  and  is  con- 
sequently a  comparatively  new  man  in  legislative  experience.  Judging  from  his  business  quali- 
ties and  his  brilliant  success  in  managing  his  own  personal  matters,  he  is  likely  to  make  his 
mark  in  the  Council. 

Mr.  Baker  is  a  member  of  Trinity  church  and  senior  warden  of  the  same,  a  liberal  sup- 
porter of  religious  and  benevolent  institutions,  and  a  man  of  unquestioned  purity  of  character. 

He  was  first  married,  in  1857,  to  Mary  E.  daughter  of  Dr.  J.  B.  Bond,  of  Yarmouth,  she 
dying  in  18G8  ;  the  second  time  in  1870,  to  Frances  J.,  daughter  of  H.  G.  Ferish,  M.D.,  of  Yar- 
mouth she  dying  in  1871,  and  the  third  time,  in  1873,  to  Mary  I.,  daughter  of  George  B. 
Creighton,  Esq.,  of  Dartmouth,  N.  S. ;  he  has  one  child,  a  daughter,  living,  by  his  first  wife,  and 
three  sons  by  the  last. 


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HON.  JOHN   W.  RITCHIE, 

HALIFAX,  N.  S. 

JOHN  WILLIAM  RITCHIE,  one  of  the  judges  of  the  supreme  court  of  Nova  Scotia,  was 
born  at  Annapolis,  in  this  province,  on  the  26th  of  March,  1808  ;  his  father  was  Tliomas 
Ritchie  who  was,  for  many  years,  an  influential  member  of  the  legislature,  and  was  subsequently 
appointed  a  judge ;  his  grandfather,  John  Ritchie,  came  from  Scotland,  and  after  residing  some 
time  in  New  York,  came  to  this  province  and  settled  at  Annapolis  several  years  before  the 
cgnmienceinent  of  the  Ameiican  revolution  ;  his  mother  was  Eliza  Wildman  Johaston,  whose 
father  and  maternal  grandfather  reside<l  in  the  Southern  States,  and  adhering  to  the  royal 
cause,  they  both  obtained  commissions  and  joined  the  army  and  continued  with  it  till  the  close 
of  the  contest.  Mrs.  Ritchie  was  the  sist«r  of  the  Hon.  James  W.  Johnston,  judge  in  equity, 
who  died  a  few  years  ago,  upwards  of  80  years  of  age.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  studied  law 
under  him  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1831,  and  practised  his  profession  in  Halifax  until 
he  went  on  the  Iteticli. 


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A  {^entleinau  wlio  has  known  Ju(l<,'e  Ritchie  for  forty  years,  states  that  lie  is  a  clear- headed 
and  sound  lawyer;  tliat  no  man  is  more  highly  respected  in  this  community,  both  as  a, judge 
and  as  a  private  citizen ;  that  he  is  a  warm  friend  and  an  agreeable  companion  ;  and  that  in 
his  official  capacity  lie  has  the  entire  confidence  of  the  legal  profession. 

In  1<S.j4,  Judge  Ritchie  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Legislative  Council,  and  also  of 
the  Executive  Coimcil,  and  Solicitor-Ueneral. 

In  18(50,  he  was  apj)ointed  one  of  the  delegates  to  England  to  arrange  the  terms  of  (/onfed- 
eration  and  the  constitution  of  the  Dominion,  in  which  ho  took  a  deep  interest. 

In  1867,  he  was  called,  by  Royal  proclamation,  to  the  Senate,  in  which  lie  held  a  seat  till 
his  appointment  to  the  bench  of  the  Supreme  Court,  in  1870.  Three  years  afterwards  he  was 
appointed  judge  in  equity  and  judge  ordinary  of  the  court  for  divorce  and  matrimonial  causes. 

Judge  Ritchie  married  in  ISJX!,  Amelia,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  William  Bruce  Almon;  they 
have  had  twelve  children,  iiin ;  of  whom  are  now  living,  three  sons  and  six  daughters.  Two 
of  his  sons,  Thomas  and  George  are  barristers,  practising  in  Halifax,  and  the  other,  John  L. 
Ritchie,  is  a  surgeon  in  the  army,  now  serving  iii  South  Africa. 


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EDWARD  DORAN  DAVISON,  the  leading  lumber  manufacturer  in  the  Province  of  Nova 
Scotia,  is  a  great  grandson  of  one  of  the  original  grantees  of  the  township  of  Horton, 
county  of  King's  (17(J2),  and  was  born  at  Mill  village,  Queen's  county.  Nova  Scotia,  on  the  10th 
of  June,  1819,  his  father  being  Samuel  Davison,  a  farmer,  who  was  Injin  in  Horton,  and  died  on 
the  old  Doran  estate,  at  Mill  Village,  in  1825  ;  liis  mother  was  Eleanor  Doraii,  daughter  of 
Patrick  Doran,  who  was  an  Irishman  of  Saxon  stock,  and  who  came  to  Nova  Scotia  from  New- 
foundland, and  was  a  man  of  much  note,  being  a  magistrate  lor  many  years,  an<l  captain  of 
militia  under  Colonel  Perkins,  holding  his  commission  (dated  in  17!*3  ,  from  [iieutenaiit-(!over- 
nor  Sir  John  Wentworth,  that  commission  being  in  the  hands  of  our  stibj(!ct ;  his  mother  died 
in  182!>,  when  he  was  placed  in  the  care  of  an  aunt,  Catherine  Doran,  until  he  was  old  enough 
0  take  care  of  the  property  which  was  left  him  by  his  maternal  grandfather.  He  received  an 
ordinary  English  education,  and  at  seventeen  yeais  of  age  took  charge  of  that  pro|)erty  which 
he  still  owns. 

Mr.  Davison  has  been  in  the  lumber  business  since  his  early  manhood.  In  I8(j9,  he  removed 
to  Bridgewater,  county  of  Lunenburg,  directly  on  La  Have,  down  whicb  liver  bis  lumber  is 
Hoated. 

His  three  sons,  ( 'harles  Henry,  Edward  D.  and  Francis,  are  in  comi)any  with  him,  and  they 
cut  usually  from  10,000,000  to  12,000,000  feet  per  annum,  an.l  in  ISH.I,  cut  1:1000,000,  b.-lieved 
to  be  the  largest  amount  cut  by  any  one  firm  in  the  ]iinvince. 

Mr.  Davi.son  and  his  sons  own  s(jmething  like  100,000  acres  of  timber  land  in  King's, 
Annapolis  and  Lunenburg  counties,  and  our  subject  has  also  thousands  of  acres  in  Queen's 
county,  dev(iteil  partially  to  agricultural  purposes,  (iOO  of  it  being  the  old  lioinestea<l. 

Mr.  DavLson  has  always  had  a  careful  ovei"siglit  of  his  business,  ami  has  rarely  accepted 
office.    Once  (I85.'5),  he  was  beguiled  with  contesting  (^)ueen's  county  for  the  Legislative  As.sem- 

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Itly,  and  was  siict'essful,  being  in  |>iiiiianiL'nt  for  funr  years,  anil  lia\  iiii;  aniimg  liis  assoeiates, 
Ailanis  (J.  Archibald,  Josepli  Howe,  Charles  Tiipper,  Willian\  A.  Henry,  William  Yoiniu;  and 
otliers,  wlio  liave  since  risen  to  distinction  in  the  province  or  the  Dominion. 

In  his  younger  years,  Mi'.  Davison  was  connected  with  the  militia,  and  rose  to  tlie  rank  of 
cai>tain,  oth  company,  ind  battalion,  (Queen's  county  militia. 

In  lfS3!*,  he  nnirried  Desiah  Mack,  daughter  of  Eli.sha  Mack,  of  Mill  Village,  whose  grand- 
fatlier,  Samuel  Mack  came  to  Nova  Scotia  from  Connecticut  alH)ut  17(J-1',  and  was  a  proniinciit 
man  in  his  day.  Mrs.  Davison  is  the  niotlier  of  ten  cliildren,  all  living  but  two.  William  grew 
up;  became  a  si'aman  ;  was  sick  in  Knglami,  anil  returned  hon)e  and  died.  Annie  died  while 
attending  scliool  at  Sackville  academy.  JJi'sides  the  three  sons  already  nient'oned,  are  five 
daughters;  ( 'atherine,  the  widow  of  John  Struthers,  M.  D.,  late  of  King's  county,  and  son  of 
Rev.  (ieorw  Struthers,  forniallv  a  Presbvterian  miidster  at  Cornwallis  ;  Eleanor  married  to  Ber- 
nard  E.  Rogers,  of  Yarmouth  ;  Mary  D.  to  Rev.  Caleb  Parker,  a  Methodist  minister;  Elizabeth 
De  Wolf,  who  is  in  tlie  State  of  New  York,  ami  Amelia  Freemin,  who  i,s  pursuing  her  studies 
at  hnme. 

The  eldest  s(in,  C.  H.  Davison,  was  elected  to  the  local  parliament  in  l.s7(i,  and  served  two 
sessions,  tillin;;-  the  vacancy  caused  bv  the  resignation  of  Hon.  M.  V>.  Des  Brisav,  on  his  elevation 
to  the  bench.     All  the  sons  are  smart  enterprising  n»en. 

Our  subject,  it  should  be  added  is  a  natural  and  ingenious  medianic,  making  all  his  mills, 
and  never  allowing  a  slip-shod  piece  of  woi'k  to  pass  out  of  his  hands;  his  hnuber  commands 
the  top  tiguies  in  the  Europi'an  market,  and  no  better  deals  than  his,  it  is  safe  to  say,  cro.ss  tlie 
Atlantic. 


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iLox.  JOHN  s.  I).  Tiio^rpsox,  m.e.c, 

HALIFAX,  y.  S. 

JOHN  SPAHHOW  DAVID  THOMPSON,  attorney-general  of  the  Province  of  Nova  Sco- 
tia, dates  his  birth  at  Halifax,  on  the  10th  of  November,  l!S44  ;  his  father  was  John  Spar- 
row Thompson,  who  was  from  Waterford,  Ireland, for  some  time  Queen's  [>rinter,  and  afterwards 
superintendent  of  money  order  .system  in  Nova  Scotia,  tlyiug  at  Halifa.x,  in  IfStiT  ;  and  his  mo- 
ther was  Charlotte  Pottinger,  who  was  front  the  north  of  Scotland.     She  is  still  living. 

M 1'.  Thomp.son  was  ediicateil  in  the  common  .schools  of  this  city,  and  the  Free  Church 
academy;  read  law  with  Henry  I'ryoi',  Q.C.,  stipendiary  magistrate  of  Halifax  ;  and  was  called 
to  the  bar  in  18(i.'),  soon  talking  a  front  ]>osition  among  the  legal  fraternity  of  the  county  and 
province. 

He  has  acted  as  counsel  in  neaily  all  the  important  causes  whicli  have  ari.sen  since  his  ad- 
mission, and  was  also  retaineil  as  counsel  on  behalf  of  the  United  States,  to  act  with  the  Ameri- 
can lawyers  befori'  the  Fishery  Commi^sion,  which  sat  at  Halifax  in  1877,  under  the  treaty  of 
Washington. 

Mr.  Thompson  w  as  an  aldeiman  ol'  the  city  of  Halifax  for  six  years ;  a  school  connnissioner 
about  the  same  length  of  time,  being  viee-chairman  and  chairman  of  that  board  ;  and  was  a 
member  of  the  senate  of  the  university  of  Halifax. 

Mr.  Thomi)son  was  first  elected  to  the  Legislative  A.ssembly,  to  represent  Antigoni.sh,  on  the 
resignation  of  the  sitting  mend)er,  John  J,   McKinnon,  in  November,  1877;  was  re-elected  by 


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I  acclAiiititioii  at  the  next  general  election,  lield  in  Septenilter,  IS7H,  and  was  ajipointi'il  atttirney- 
general  in  Detoher,  1.S78,  on  tlie  foinmtion  of  a  LilnTal  Conservative  cabinet,  from  tlie  ranks 

i  of  tlie  pnrty  that  had  triumphed  at  the  general  election  a  month  previously.  He  was  cre- 
ated a  Queen's  Counsel  by  the  appointment  of  the  (Jovernor  Ceneral  of  Canada,  in  May,  l'S7!>; 
he  is  president  of  the  Nova  Scotia  barristers'  society- 
Being  the  first  attorney-general  in  Nova  Scotia  since  the  iniion,  in  1S<!7,  who  lias  In-en 
actively  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  he  has  secured  for  the  bar,  an  increased  iiiHii- 
enco  in  the  legislation  of  tin-  country  which  was  much  needed. 

Mr.  Thompson  was  manied,  in  1870,  to  Miss  Annie  K.  AtHeck,  of  Halifax,  and  they  have 
four  chiKlren.     Thev  are  members  of  the  Uoman  Catholic  C^hurcli. 


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llOX.   AT.EXAX'DKT?    STfOWART, 

'HALIFAX,  y.  S.  '  , 

LEXANDKU  STEWART  was  burn  at  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  on  the  .SOth  day  of  January, 
A.I).  17!*4';  he  was  the  son  of  a  Scotch  Presbyterian  minister  who  liad  recently  immi- 
grated with  his  wife  to  this  country — lier  maiden  name  was  Klizabeth  Hremner.  He  was  the 
eldest  of  a  family  of  three — one  biother,  James,  subseijuently  his  partner,  ami  one  of  the  mo.st 
learned  and  able  lawyers  in  the  pniviiicc  and  a  sister,  Elizal>eth,  afterwards  marrieil  to  Silas 
H.  Morse,  Ks(|uire,  of  Amherst.  His  lather  died  when  lu'  was  quite  young,  leaving  his  widow 
and  three  ehildivii  in  very  straitencil  eiirumstances.  His  mother  afterwards  married  Stephen 
Oxley,  of  lliver  I'hilip,  in  the  county  of  Cumberland. 

Alexander  Stewart  received  his  education  at  the  Halifax  grammar  school.  'J'he  short 
period  which  the  narrow  means  of  his  motiicr  enabled  him  to  obtain  an  education  must  have 
been  made  good  use  of  He  was  a  iirst  rate  Kiiglish  scholar  and  writer,  .and  jmsses.sed  a  good 
knowledge  of  Latin.  Through  the  assistance  of  .some  friends,  he  olitained  a  situation  in  the 
Ordnance  Department  at  Halifax  as  a  clerk.  He  remained  in  this  |)osition  for  smne  veais,  and 
won  the  confidence  anil  esteem  of  the  olticers  of  this  dei)artmeiit.  When  he  finally  resolved  to 
(|uit  this  employment,  its  head  remonstrated  with  him  saying,  that,  if  he  remained,  he  would 
rise  to  bi'  chief  clerk.  Stewart  replied  that  "  he  would  not  remain,  if  he  could  not  rise  to  be 
liiirher  than  the  chief  of  the  depaitmeiit  himself." 

He  next  entered  the  mercantile  house  nf  a  man  nanie<l  Moody,  doing  a  large  West  India 
bu.siness,  and  sub.se(|Uently  was  admitted  as  a  member  of  the  firm.  In  a  few  years  he  had 
Hniiis.sed  enough  money  to  enable  him  to  retire  in  order  to  devote  himself  to  the  .stiidv  of  the 
law  which  had  been  the  ambition  of  his  life. 

Accordingly  he  was  articled  at  first  to  a  lawyer  named  Kidston,  in  Halifax,  and  subse- 
<|Uently  at  Amherst,  and  completed  his  studies  with  his  brother-in-law.  the  Honorable  James 
S.  Morse,  ami  was  admitted  as  an  attorney  on  the  14th  day  of  March,  A. I).  IfSi'l.and  a  barrister 
of  the  superior  court  on  the  following  year. 

While  .still  in  the  firm  of  Moody  and  Stewart  he  had  married,  on  the  ifith  of  June,  LSKJ, 
Sarah,  sister  of  Hon.  Mr.  Morse,  referred  to  before,  and  by  her  had  five  children — four  daughters 
and  one  son. 


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After  l)ein<j  called  to  the  bar  lie  Cdnimeiiced  practising  in  ('iiniberlaml  County,  rosidinj,;  at 
Ainlierst,  the  shire  town.  He  iiipidly  >,'ained  a  very  larjjeand  lucrative  practice.  So  succe.sHful 
was  he,  and  so  wide  was  his  reputation,  that  he  enjoyed  not  only  a  c'oninuin<ling  practice  in  his 
own  county,  hut  wiu>*  eMi,'eily  sought  after  in  the  adjoiiung  count)-  of  Wi'stnioreiand,  in  the 
I'rovince  of  New  Ihuiiswiek,  and  in  fact  [)insued  his  profession  in  many  other  eounties  through- 
out that  province. 

He  was  fii-st  elected  to  the  House  of  Assembly  of  the  Province  of  Niiva  Scotia  in  l^<2li,  and 
represented  ('und)erland  comity  until  the  year  1S:}7,  when  he  was  appointed  to  the  l..egislative 
C\)uncil,  and  subse(piently  became  a  meiidur  of  the  Kxeciitive  Council  in  1S4(). 

In  the  nieantiiue  lie  had  removed  to  Halifax,  and  continued  to  practise  his  profession  iu 
that  city  until  he  was  elevated  to  the  Heiich  as  master  of  the  rolls,  and  judge  of  the  court 
of  chancery,  and  of  the  court  of  vice-admiiaity  in  iNKi,  on  (he  death  of  his  distinguished 
predecessor  Mr.  Archibald.  He  Hlle<.l  the  position  of  .Judge  of  the  eoint  of  chancery  until  it 
was  abolished  by  the  Legislature  in  185"),  when  he  retireil  with  a  pension  for  life. 

In  the  year  iNJfi  he  was  honored  by  being  made  a  Conii>anion  of  the  Bath,  being  the 
first  colonial  man  of  distinction  to  whom  that  honor  was  awarded.  He  continued  to  act 
as  judge  of  the  court  of  vice-admiralty  until  his  death,  which  happened  at  Halifax  on  the  1st 
day  of  January,  A.D.  ISOM,  in  the  71st  year  of  liis  age.  He  was  buried  in  the  Engli.sh  church- 
yard at  Amherst,  "ith  January,  iStiS. 

The  New  (Slasgow  Plahnlenlir  pul'iished  not  long  ago  a  series  of  sketches  of  the  contem- 
poraries of  Hon.  Jose[)h  Howe,  one  of  them  having  reference  to  our  subject,  of  whom  the  writer 
thus  spoke : 

>Stewart,  physiciilly,  WHS  n  haiulsoine  iiiitn  ;  mid  iiitollectiliilly  he  iitood  hi^h  limoiii^  Nova  Sciitiii's  diHtiu- 
•juished  iiu'ii  forty  or  tifry  yonrs  ago.  There  is  not  in  oiir  Local  Lej;i»hituri"  at  |)resi'iit  a  iiiaii  of  such  Htartiiiii; 
clo<iuenco  and  coiniiiaiiding  al)ility.  Were  the  ocinal  of  liim,  l>y  some  accident  nr  chance,  nuddeiily  i)laced  in 
our  assenihly  to-day,  what  a  senmition  wouM  tliereby  he  cr  'ated  !  What  a  shaking  of  dry  hones  '.  In  the  pre- 
sence of  snch  an  eagle,  there  wo\ild  he  a  Muttering  aiming  the  sparrows. 


IIOX.   BA'NIEL    M<N.    I'AIJKEK,   M.D, 

liAliTMoUTfT,  X.  >'. 

DANIEL  McNHILL  PAllKKK,  memiier  of  the  Legislative  Council  of  Nova  Scotia,  and 
one  of  the  leading  plnsicians  in  Halifax  county,  dates  his  birth  at  Windsor,  county  of 
Hants,  N.  S.,  on  the  28th  of  April,  18:i'2  ;  he  is  of  Yorkshire  descent,  his  grandfather  coining 
from  that  county  in  England  to  this  pnivinc*',  mid  settling  in  Hants  county,  in  IT?').  His  father 
is  Francis  Parker,  Esq.,  who  is  still  living  at  the  age  of  eighty-foiir years;  his  nitither  was  Mary 
Janet  McNeill,  daughter  of  the  late  Captain  Daniel  McNeill,  of  the  British  service,  a  North  Caro- 
linian by  birth. 

Dr.  Parker  received  an  academic  education  at  Windsor  and  Horton  ;  studied  medicine  with 
the  late  Hon.  William  Bruce  Alinon,  and  took  his  metlical  and  surgical  degrees  at  Edinburgh 
university,  and  has  beci.  m  the  practice  of  his  profession,  at  Halifax,  .since  184.5  ;  he  lia.s  lieen 
chairman  of  the  hospital  for  the  in.sane,  and  presiilent  of  tlie  medical  society  of  Nova  Scotia, 
and  of  the  Canadian  medical  association,  and  has  the  highest  esteem  of  the  medical  frateinity 
in  his  wide  circle  of  acquaintances. 


TIIH  CASADIAS   liUXlHM'tnCM.  DrcTlOSA  H  V. 


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The  doctor  lias  been,  ami  still  is,  coniu'ctoil  with  iiistitutii>iis  iiml  cntoiinises  cif  almost 
every  class,  iK'iii;^  at  one  time  a  commiHsidiifr  of  the  jtrovincial  liospitJil  ami  poor's  asylum ; 
presitlpnt  of  tlu'  iiu'liiiatc  usyliim,  Oartiiioiitli ;  prt'sidciit  of  the  mfcliauics'  institute,  Halifax  ; 
an*l  director  of  tlu-  Acadian  |)rovidcnt  association  ;  ami  lie  is  now  a  iriiveriior  uf  Acadi't  colli'^'c  ; 
director  of  tlio  Halifax  <ras  company;  president  of  tlie  Halifax  and  Dartmouth  stcam-l>oat 
cunipany  ;  and  of  the  Halifax  deaf  and  dumi)  institution  ;  and  a  director  of  the  Nova  Scotia 
pi>rmaiu>nt  henetit  huililinj,'  society. 

l)r.  Parker  was  called  to  the  Le;;islativr>  ('nuncil  in  JSdT;  his  pulitics  iire  < 'onscrvative  ; 
his  rcligioUM  connection  is  v/ith  the  Baptists  ;  and  he  is  n  deacon  of  the  (iranville  streif  church, 
of  Halifax. 

He  was  first  nuirried,  in  IN4.v  to  Kliza  Ritchie,  dauf,diter  of  the  linn.  Mr  Justice  .lipjinston, 
of  Nova  Scotia,  she  <lyin_tf  in  l-S.'i.S,  leaviiij,'  one  sou,  who  ilied  while  a  medical  student  at  Kilin- 
burgh  ;  and  the  .second  time,  in  IS.VI,  to  Fanny  H  ,  dau^jlitei-  of  Hon.  W.  A.  H'ack,  meudjor  of 
the  Legislative  Council,  by  whom  he  has  had  six  children,  four  of  them,  one  son  and  thp'c 
danghteiN,  yet  living,  the  former,  William  Frederiik,  graduating  from  Acadia  college  class,  !,SS|. 

Dr.  Parker  ri'siiles  at  I  Dartmouth,  across  the  harhor,  hut  has  an  otliee  in  Halifax,  acting  how- 
ever only  as  consulting  physician.  Besides  attending  t<i  his  professional,  and,  at  certain  times, 
his  legislative  duties,  his  connection  with  numerous  other  hodii's,  partially  enumerated  above, 
requires  a  good  deal  of  his  altenlioii.  and  he  is  a  very  liusy  num  ;  he  gives  no  insignificant  part 
of  his  time  to  his  henevnlent  work,  t  i  which  he  can  loi>k  for  no  com|K'nsation  except  the  satis- 
faction wliich  comes  from  doing  on  •     luty. 


STKI'IIKX    FINCK, 

ONE  of  the  self-m:ide  men,  prominent  merchants,  and  officials  of  LuTienliuig,  is  Stephen 
Finck,  a  native  of  the  town  of  Lunenlairg,  dating  his  hirth  on  the  Sth  of  November, 
liS38.  His  parents  are  Lewis  and  Lucy  C  (Kiseidiauer)  Finck,  both  of  (lerman  descent,  and 
representing  families  which  settled  in  this  country  nearly  a  centmy  ago. 

St(!phen  Finck  received  such  an  English  e(Iucation  as  the  counnon  schoids  of  Lunenburg 
could  furnish,  and  early  went  into  a  store  here  as  clerk,  subse(picntly  serving  in  the  same  capa- 
city in  the  city  of  Halifax.  In  1800  he  conunonced  business  for  himself  at  Lunenburg,  in  com- 
pany with  his  yoiuiger  brother,  Lewis  S.  Finck,  who  (UimI  in  l.S(i(i.  Since  that  ilate  oiu'  subject 
has  been  alone  in  business,  dealing  in  general  merchandise.  He  commenced  on  a  very  small 
capital,  the  fruit  of  his  industry  ;  expanded  his  stock  from  time  to  time,  as  his  means  increa.sed, 
and  has  for  some  years  been  one  of  the  leading  merchants  in  Lunenburg.  No  business  man  in 
the  place  enjoys  a  better  repuUition  for  prudent  managemont,  and  straightforward,  honorable 
dealing,  than  Mr.  Finck,  whose  name,  wherever  known,  is  a  synonym  for  integrity  and  prompt- 
ness. His  is  a  noble  example  of  what  a  self-reliant  young  man  can  do  f<ir  himself,  by  applying 
himself  steadily  and  with  vigor  to  liis  calling,  and  observing  tin;  rult!s  of  economy  and  strict 
business  principles.  He  is  a  sub-agent  for  the  Merchants'  Bank  of  Halifax,  and  is  d(»inga  gofxl 
business  for  that  institution. 

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Mr.  Finck  was  a  school  trustee  several  years  ago ;  and  has  been  a  magistrate  during  the  la«t 
do/en  years  or  more,  and  High-sheriff  of  the  county  since  March,  187!). 

Prior  to  accepting  a  county  oHice,  Mr.  Finck  was  somewhat  active  in  politics,  he  being  a 
Liberal-Conservative,  and  a  man  of  a  good  deal  of  influence.  He  is  captain  and  paymaster  in 
the  75th  battalion,  Canada  Militia. 

Mr.  Finck  was  warden  for  some  years  of  St.  John's  episcopal  church,  and  is  a  liberal  con- 
tributor to  t!ie  support  of  the  Gospel,  and  religious  and  l>enevolent  enterprises  generally. 

He  married  December  1st,  1864,  Miss  Jane  H.  Gow,  of  Perth,  Scotland,  and  they  liavo 
seven  children  living,  and  lost  one  daughter  in  infancy. 


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HON.   S'I^AYLf:Y    IIIIOAVN, 

YARMOUTH,  N.K 

"I     HN  BROWN,  who  died  at  Varmouth  in  I8(>.S,  agfd  ninety-two  years,  thus  describes  his 
t.'        jirth-phiec  : — 

In  the  vale  of  Clyde,  iibout  tweiitj  miles  above  (Jlftsgow,  8t»iulg  the  village  of  DrattUn,  where  my  aiiues- 
lors  lived  for  several  jjeiierntions.  They  were  lairds  of  a  small  farm,  but  the  village,  which  ccmtained  in  my 
youth  about  twenty  families,  and  the  land  around  it  (except  my  grandfather's),  belonged  to  the  Dukes  of 
Hamilton,  and  the  laniily  tradition  is  that  the  first  of  the  family  came  int<i  Scotland  witli  the  ancestor  of  the 
Hamilton  family. 

Returning  in  17tlG  from  a  tw  jears'  visit  to  the  United  States,  John  Brown  married  in 
Glasgow  in  1799  ;  in  1S13.  eame  out  to  Halifax,  and  thence  went  to  Yarmouth,  where  he 
opened  a  store,  and  he  was  so  well  pleased  with  the  jilace  and  lil  •  prospect  for  a  successful 
business  that  he  sent  to  Glasgow  for  his  wife  and  two  son.<.  Staylcy  and  Robert,  whom  he  met 
at  Halifax,  on  2Sth  October,  IS  1.').  John  Brown  continued  in  business  until  1824,  when  he 
retired  to  his  farm  of  "  Dratlkn,"  three  miles  distant,  wliicii  he  had  bought  in  1819.  Writing 
in  181.5,  he  says  :-- 

I  had  my  full  sliaro  of  businesti,  established  on  a  sou  ml  foondation,  and  I  might  reasonably  look  forward 
to  its  increase  now  that  I  had  help  at  hand  ;  for  ni)'  family,  so  far  from  being  a  burden,  were  the  very  nu'ans  of 
increase  of  riches  and  enjoyment      My  eldest  son  was  very  soon  ipuditied  for  any  business  that  occurred  to  uh. 

In  1824,  Str.yley  Brown  succeeded  to  liis  father's  biisi.„.ss.  which  he  greatly  extended,  and 
in  1837,  having  secured  a  conjpetency,  he  retired.  Soon  after,  and  for  a  number  of  years,  lie 
was  a.ssociated  with  the  late  Hon.  James  Bond  in  the  management  of  the  Yarntonth  agency  of 
the  Bank  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  at  tl.at  period  he  was  a  directoi'  of  tiie  Yarmouth  Marine  Insur- 
ance Association,  the  first  institution  of  tlie  kirid  establislied  at  Varnmuth.  and  which  still 
continues  in  successful  operation. 

The  Yarmouth  Tribune,  of  I8th  April,  1877,  has  this  record  :  — 

The  death  of  our  townsman,  the  Hon.  Stayley  Brown,  which  occurred  at  Halifax  on  Saturday  last,  is  an 
event  which  uemands  from  our  pen  something  more  than  a  mere  passing  nutico.  Coming  amongst  us  a  stranger, 
at  an  early  nge,  and  at  a  time  when  our  populous  town  was  but  a  straggling  hamlet,  Mr.  Brown  gradually  won  )iii 
way,  through  the  native  force  and  integrity  of  his  character,  first  to  wealth,  next  to  a  seat  ia  the  legislative 
council  of  the  province,  and  lastly  to  high  olhcial  position.  By  his  death,  one  of  the  few  remaining  links  whioli 
noiiiiects  the  present  with  an  earlier  generation  is  severed.  The  hon.  gentleman  was  bom  in  (ilasgow  in 
1801 .  and  whs  consequently  seventy-six  years  of  ago  at  the  time  of  his  death.  Ho  caino  to  this  country  in  1815 
with  hi<  parents,  and  with  them  settled  in  Yannouth.      Circumstances  led  him  into  trade,  for  which  he  had  a 


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Rpecial  aptitude,  and  there  was  nothing  to  which  he  put  his  hand  that  did  not  prosper.  As  a  merchant,  he  hnd 
none  of  tliose  speculative  tendencies  which  are  to  much  in  fashion  with  business  men  of  the  present  day, 
preferring  the  slower  gains  which  repiilt  from  frugality  and  steadfast  application  to  duty,  to  the  glittering  and 
often  illusory  prizes  which  attract  the  speculator,  liut  he  was  not  content  to  pass  through  life  as  the  mere 
accumulator  of  wealth.  Iii  every  effort  having  for  its  object  to  improve  the  social,  political  or  educational 
position  of  the  community,  he  took  a  leading  and  active  ])art,  and  was  identified  with  all  the  political  move- 
ments by  which  the  heail  of  the  people  has  been  stirred  within  the  last  half  century.  Bred  in  the  school  in 
which  tlia  pioneer  reformers  of  this  province  were  trained,  he  was  from  the  Krst  a  7,ealous,  consistent  and 
intelligent  advocate  of  the  principles  for  which  they  contended,  and  an  energetic  supporter  of  the  men  to  whom 
we  are  indebteil  for  the  ('onstitiition  we  now  onjoy.  In  1843.  he  was  appointed  to  the  legislative  council,  a 
position  which  he  has  now  HUed  for  the  long  period  of  thirty-four  years.  In  1857,  Mr.  Brown  accepted  the 
position  of  Beceiver-lieneral,  under  Mr.  Johnson's  government,  which  he  hold  until  18(i0  when  an  adverse  vote 
in  the  House  of  Assembly  displaced  the  ministry  of  which  he  was  a  member.  In  i8(i5,  when  the  Confederation 
question  came  up  as  a  vital  issue,  Mr.  Brown  warmly  espoused  the  anti-Confederate  cause,  and  took  a  leading 
part  in  the  popular  movements  growing  out  of  the  struggle  that  ensued.  In  1874,  he  succeeded  to  the  presi- 
dency of  the  Le<{islative  Council,  vacated  by  the  death  of  the  Hon.  .■Xlex.  Keith,  and  held  that  position  until 
March,  I87."i,  when,  upon  the  retirement  of  the  Hon.  Wm.  Annand,  he  was  appointed  to  the  office  of  provincial 
treasurer. 

Mr.  Brown  was  distinguished  in  private  life  for  sound  practical  judgment,  indefatigable  attention  to 
business,  and  the  strictest  integrity  ;  ami  to  those  i|ualities  carried  into  public  and  otticial  life,  were  superadded 
abilities  of  a  high  order,  and  an  unswerving  devotion  to  sound  political  principle,  for  principle's  sake,  which 
secured  for  him  the  respect  even  of  those  who  dirt'er<Al  from  him  in  opinion. 

Mr.  JJrown,  in  I  Hi'),  niaiiied  Charlotte  Letitia,  second  daughter  of  Dr.  Richard  and  Mitry 
Fletcher.  She  died,  in  1843,  leaving  three  daughters  and  three  sons,  of  whom  t^vo  .sons  only 
are  living.  Mr.  Brown  married  next,  in  18(5,5,  Ellen  Clranthain,  dauglitei-  of  tlic  late  Dr.  Henry 
Ci.  Fari.sh.     She  survived  him. 


AIS^DRKW   COW  IK. 

LIVERPOOL. 

THE  suhjeet  of  this  sketch,  a  prominent  hatiier  manufacturer  and  ve.ssel-owner,  was  born 
in  the  village  of  Auchanhalrige,  near  Uordon  castle,  county  of  UantT,  Scotland,  on  the 
2()th  July,  17!>8.  His  father  was  William  Cowio,  a  .small  farmer,  and  liis  mother  \...h  Elizahoth 
Milne,  lioth  natives  of  the  county  already  mentioned.  He  was  the  seventh  son  ,  received  a  parish 
school  education  ;  learned  a  trade  ;  came  to  Halifa.x,  No\  a  Scotia,  in  the  .spring  of  181  (i ;  worked 
there  and  at  Lunenhurg  for  two  years,  ami  in  Apv'l,  1818,  settled  in  Liverpool,  and  for  three  or 
four  years  vas  a  dry  goods  merchant.  While  thus  engaged  in  1821,  lie  purchased  and  repaired 
a  small  tannery  and  commenced  the  manufacture  of  leather,  erdarging  his  premises  and  his 
business  gradmilly.  For  several  years  two  of  his  sons  have  been  in  partnership  with  him,  not 
(mly  in  this  branch  of  industry,  but  at  one  time  also  in  the  shipping  l)usiness,  they  owning  .sev- 
eral ves,sels,  and  sliipping  lumljcr  to  the  West  Indies.  They  discontinued  the  manufacture  of 
limdier  .some  time  ago.  Adjoining  their  tannery,  they  have  a  .s.^ddle  and  harness  sliop,  where 
they  are  doing  a  fair  business. 

Anilrew  ( 'owie  enteiid  pidilic  life  in  I8.')l,  being  elected  to  tlie  Legislative  A.ssembly  for 
the  township  of  Liverpool,  ami  serving  four  years,  when  he  retired  for  one  term,  to  make  way, 
a.s  /i«  modestly  declared,  for  a  lietter  man.  In  18o!)  his  constituents  insisted  in  returning  him 
once  more,  and  he  was  kept  in  parliament  until  Confederation  in  18(57,  when  he  retired.  He 
was  a  magistrate  for  some  years. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Church  of  England,  and,  according  to  report,  has  led  an  exemplary 
life.     He  is  held  in  mu<;h  esteem  by  Ids  neighbors. 


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On  the  8th  of  Januiii y,  1.S20,  he  was  joineil  in  wedlock  with  Miss  Janet  More,  of  Liver- 
pool, and  they  are  both  in  fair  health,  and  their  golden  wedding  eame  off  eleven  years  ago. 
Mi's.  Cowie,  who  is  two  years  younger  tiian  her  husband,  is  the  mother  of  eight  children,  seven 
of  tlieni  still  living.  Two  of  the  sons,  William  and  Alexiinder,  are  in  partnership  with  their 
father  :  Andrew  J.  is  a  pliysician  in  Halifax  ;  Arthur  for  more  than  twenty  years  a  clerk  in 
that  city  for  Black  Brothers,  and  Co.,  is  temporarily  in  New  York  city  ;  and  the  re.st  of  the  chil- 
dren, three  daughters,  Elizabeth,  Martha,  and  Mary,  are  at  home, 

Mr.  Cowie  rounded  up  his  four-score  years  in  IS78,  and  is  jiushing  on  steadily  through  his 
seventeenth  luslrum,  being  one  of  the  best  preserved  men  our  writer  has  met  in  a  long  time. 
Although  a  liard  worker  all  his  days,  Mr.  ( "owie  has  maintained  temperate  habits,  has  taken 
the  best  of  care  of  himself,  and  seemingly  bids  fair  to  pass  the  goal  of  ninety. 


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)<\\{    WiLI.IA.M     VOCNG, 

lIM.It.W,  N.  S. 

WE  read  in  "  Dod's  IVcrage,  Baronetagf  and  Kniglitagi'  of  tii'eat  Britain  and  Jrelanil"  foi- 
1.S78,  that  "Sir  William  ^'llung  is  a  sun  of  .b.lin  ^Ouiig,  Es(j.,  of  Falkirk,  Stirlingshire, 
Scotland,  subseipiently  (if  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia;  boiii  at  Falkirk,  in  17!t9  ;  married  in  IH'M), 
Anne,  daughter  of  Hon,  Michael  'J'obin,  nicmt)ci-  of  tbr  Executive  Couiuil,  Nova  Scotia  ;  was 
cducati'il  at  the  iMiiver.sity  of  Clasgow,  where  be  tudk  lion(.)rs  ;  was  admitted  a  barri>ter  in  .N\iva 
Sc.itia  in  lN2<i,aiMl  iiiailf  a  Queens  < 'uunsel  there  in  ]iS4."5  ;  became  a  mend>er  uf  the  Provincial 
I'arliameut  in  ls:{.'>,  aii<l  again  fiom  ISii?  to  18(jl);  tilled  tlie  otiice  of  sjieaker  frtun  l.StS  to 
l.S.')+,  when  HI'  bccami'  attnincy-gcniM-ai  ;  [iresident  of  tlie  council  in  Is.'ilt;  Chief  justice  in 
I8(j(),  and  judge  (jt  tlie  admiralty  there  in  lM(i4  ;  was  delrgate  from  the  I'rovince  of  Nova  Scotia 
to  the  Eai'l  of  Durham  in  INIiN,  and  to  the  Ibiti-Ii  (lovernmeiit  in  l.s:tO,  as  well  as  on  several 
subseiiueiit  occasions;  knightcil  by  ])atent, ' 

Such  is  the  baldest  outline  of  a  sketch  of  Sir  William  Voinig,  but  as  full  as  a  woik  of  the 
kind,  mt'ntioiied  above,  could  reasonal>ly  furnish.  We  proposi'  to  give  some  hints  toward  his 
eminently  iirnisewortby  life-work,  gathered  fiom  various  sources,  paitly  fi'om  the  columns  of 
local  new^i»a|iers,  and  i)aitly  from  interviews  with  men,  youngrr  than  lie,  yet  ass(.)ciated  with 
Sir  William  in  public  life. 

In  conniieniing  his  career  us  a  lawyer  he  had  some  ailvantages  over  most  young  men,  in 
liis  family  c.jniiections,  whieh  wen'  (piite  fortunate,  and  helpeil  him  to  business — to  a  hicrative 
practice  almost  from  the  start.  But  he  did  not  depend  upon  such  connections  for  his  success: 
lie  was  well-read,  clear-lieaded,  energetic,  and  iiound  to  pu-<li  on  to  fortune  and  to  fame,  through 
the  aid  of  his  own  iidierent  powers  and  pi'rseverance.  Wlu'ii  lie  h  ul  estal>lishe<l  his  reputation 
at  the  bur  and  became  indi'pendent  in  his  ciieumstaiices,  he  entered  the  Legislative  Assendil; 
(l.s;{:{)  rejiresenling  ( 'ape  Bn'ton  island  when  it  formed  an  electoral  distrii't.  Subsecpicntl /, 
when  the  islanil  was  divided,  he  repri'sented  lii\erness,  extending  over  a  period  of  twenty-t  .vo 
years,  from  IH'.V^  to  18J'J.  In  the  latter  year  he  .■successfully  contested  (,'uinberland  against  l)r 
(now  Sir  Charli-s,  Tu])pi'r,  Sir  William  being  at  that  time  leader  of  the  Opposition  or  Lib  rals, 
and  Di'.  Tu|ip('r  of  tlie  tiovernnient  or  Conservatives.  Cumberland  returned  them  both  to  the 
JiCgislature,  there  being  three  niembei"s,  Sir  William  taking  tlie  lead. 


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Sir  William  showed  the  boldness  of  his  spirit,  and  his  fearless  disposition  .shortly  after 
getting  into  the  local  Parliament,  in  entering  his  protest  with  a  manly  and  resolute  voice 
against  the  unjust  mining  monopoly  which  had  been  granted  by  the  Crown  to  the  creditors  of 
the  Duke  of  York — a  monopoly  which  he  and  his  brother  George  were  largely  instrumental  in 
abolishing. 

The  occasion  of  his  appointment  as  a  delegate,  with  othei-s,  to  meet  Lord  Durham  in  1838 
was  the  rebellion  then  just  closing  in  Canada,  and  the  numerous  grievances  of  which  the  French 
population  complained.  Those  of  his  own  province  he  exposed  in  a  letter  of  vigorous  remon- 
strance, which  Lord  Durham  annexed  to  his  celebrated  report.  His  associates  in  this  delegation 
were  the  late  Mather  B.  Almon,  J.  W.  John.sou  and  James  B.  Uniacke.  They  met  Lord  Durham 
in  Quebec,  and  in  several  meetings  with  Lord  Durham  and  his  suite,  and  delegates  from  the 
several  other  jirovinces,  laid  the  fir.st  foundation  of  the  Confederation,  afterwards  perfected. 
The  records  of  those  meetings,  if  they  .should  ever  be  disclo.sed,  will  open  a  very  curious  chapter 
in  colonial  history. 

The  next  year  (1889)  our  subject  and  Mr.  Herbert  Huntington  were  .sent  to  England  to 
press  upon  the  Imperial  authorities  the  removal  of  the  grievances  existing  in  the  province,— 
such  a  delegation  being  a  necessity  as  Lord  Durham  had  thrown  up  his  oHice  and  returned  to 
the  mother  country  in  disgust.  This  delegation  showed  great  tact  and  diplomatic  skill,  and 
their  mission  advanced  the  interests  of  the  people  in  many  particulars.  The  report  of  the  dele- 
gation covered  a  wide  field,  and  exhibited  an  active  correspondence  with  the  several  depart- 
ments of  the  home  government,  from  whom  valuable  concessions  were  obtained. 

During  all  the  long  period  that  Sir  William  served  in  Parliament  he  was  a  prominent 
figure  in  that  body,  acting  as  either  chairman  or  a  leading  member  of  the  most  important  com- 
mittees; he  became  a  member  of  the  Executive  in  1842;  was  speaker  from  184:}  for  eleven 
consecutive  years;  leader  of  the  Government  as  well  as  attorney -general  in  IS.^^;  and  of  the 
Opposition  in  1857,  a  change  of  government  having  taken  place,  and  in  185!)  was  President  of 
the  Executive  Council.  For  all  this  period,  even  when  in  tlie  Speaker's  chair,  the  impress  of 
his  strong  mind,  as  the  jouinals  of  the  Hou.se  show,  was  visible  in  almost  every  important 
measure,  commencing,  as  we  have  seen,  with  the  coal  (juestion,  which  was  adjusted  to  the 
general  .satisfaction  of  the  people. 

In  18.')1  he  was  associated  with  Mjssrs.  Ritchie  and  McCully,  both  of  them  afterwards,  like 
himself,  made  judges,  in  revising  the  statutes  of  Nova  Scotia ;  and  on  the  Hoor  of  the  House 
he  was  recognised  as  the  spokesni.in  of  the  agricultural  body  of  the  province— "  a  legacy.' 
as  lias  l)ccn  suggested,  "  which  j)robably  desceniled  to  him  from  his  father— the  famous 
"  Aorh'oi.a"— a  popular  writer  on  agriculture,  both  as  a  science  and  an  art. 

In  1870  Sir  William  Young  started  on  his  sixth  European  tour,  and  just  before  he  left 
Halifax,  the  bar  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  the  mayor  and  coiporati(m  of  the  city  of  Halifax,  pre- 
sented him  with  addres.ses,  which  were  published  in  the  local  papers,  and  which  bear  feeling 
testimony  to  his  eminent  .services,  in  the  legislative  halls,  on  the  bench,  and  as  a  citi/en  in  all 
the  various  .spheres  of  life.  To  these  addresses  he  made  otl'-hand  and  ver_\  happy  responses, 
showing  the  cordiality  of  his  disposition  and  the  warmth  of  his  heart  as  well  aa  his  readiness 
and  abilities  as  a  speaker. 

He  had  then  l»een  upon  the  bench  for  sixteen  yeare  and  had  won  the  highest  distinction 
as  a  judge.  He  has  now  been  chief  justice  for  more  than  twenty  yeai-s,  and  is  still  adorning 
his  profession.     What  was  said  of  him  as  a  jurist  by  the  newspapers  of  Halifax  in  1870,  may 


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well  be  reiMsated  here  :  "  Sir  William  Yoiinn;  brought  to  the  discharge  of  his  high  duties  a  clear 
intellect,  a  sound  undersUuuling  of  law,  and  a  well-trained  judicial  mind.  As  chief  of  the  court 
he  ha.s  attended  to  its  business  carefully.  His  quick  apprehension  of  points,  both  of  law  and  of 
practice,  his  searching  insight  into  all  matters  of  a  difficult  or  abstract  character,  have  made 
him  distinguished  as  a  judge  and  respected  by  the  bar." 

One  of  the  many  adminible  features  in  the  character  of  Sir  William,  is  hia  steadfast  and 
thorough  loyalty  to  the  Crown,  which  is  shown  in  public  life,  anil  in  many  of  his  speeches. 
Probably  one  f)f  the  best  oratorical  efforts  in  his  long  public  career,  was  a  speech  pertaining  to 
this  subject,  made  at  Toronto  in  1844.  iit  a  public  dinner  given  him  by  the  leading  Reformers 
of  Canada.     He  .spoke  as  follows  : 

Tho  learned  chttirinau  coinpliiiientcd  the  Bliienoses,  moaning,  aa  we  all  know,  my  Xova  Scotia  countrymen, 
on  their  iinBilspected  and  devoted  loyiilty.  '  Who,'  he  said,  '  ever  doubted  the  loyalty  of  a  Hluenose  ( '  I  fear, 
if  my  learned  friend  had  read  the  Nova  Hcotia  debates  of  the  last  ten  years,  or  waded  through  the  tiles  of  a 
portion  of  the  press,  that  hi>  woiiUl  have  fo\md  the  loyalty  of  some  Liberals  called  in  ([iiestinn  pretty  much  in 
the  same  fashion  as  the  loyalty  of  tau  Ueforuiers  of  Canada  is  now-a-days  impeached.  With  us,  to  be  sure,  the 
day  has  gone  by,  and  such  accusations  have  become  stale.  Our  noble  denmnstration  when  the  State  of  Maine 
threatened  the  invasicm  of  New  Brunswick,  and  the  stylo  in  which  the  Uluenose  showed  his  teeth,  and  evinced 
his  determination  when  his  blood  was  up,  put  to  shame  and  silenced  these  slanders  forever.  Our  action,  too, 
was  prompt. 

All  party  was  hushed  in  our  AsHeuibly  ;  we  placed  i'l(KJ,l)0O  at  the  disposal  of  the  Government — we  re- 
fonned  our  militia  law.  These  resolutions  passed  unaiiiutoiisly,  and  eight  thousand  of  our  gallant  feUowg  were 
rea<ly  to  cross  the  border  and  defend  our  sister  ]>roviuce.  .\fte~  this  we  have  heard  but  little  of  disloyalty  in 
Nova  Scotia  ;  indeed  it  has  ceased  to  be  the  fashion  to  talk  of  it  ;  and  the  loyally  of  every  man  of  whatever 
party  is  taken  for  granted,  just  as  it  is  in  England,  and  ought  to  be  in  Canada.  For  after  all,  what  is  loyalty, 
and  how  is  it  distinguished  I  it  is  a  mixture  of  passion  and  of  reason,  of  patriotism  that  does  not  wait  to  argue, 
auil  of  argument  tliAt  contirms  our  patriotism.  It  is  a  generous  impulse,  exalted  by  the  love  of  constitutional 
freedom,  and  the  wise  and  rational  preference  of  a  limited  monarchy  to  every  other  form  of  government.  Our 
attachuieut  to  our  (^ueeu  — our  own  Victoria— is  mingled  with  a  tenderness  not  inconsistent  with  the  sterner 
sentiment  which  softens  and  embellishes  without  enervating.  Let  her  legitimate  authority — not  the  irrespon- 
sible power  and  dangerous  discretion  of  a  Ooveriior— but  her  legitimate  power  as  a  constitutional  numarch,  be 
attivcked  ;  let  her  reputation  aa  a  woman  be  assailed,  and  notwithstanding  the  lamentation  of  Burke  that  the 
age  of  chivrtliy  was  past,  thousands  of  swords  would  leap  from  their  scabbards  to  avenge  her  :  aye,  and  they 
would  be  drawn  as  freely  and  wielded  as  vigorously  and  bravely  in  Canada,  in  Nova  Scotia,  as  in  England. 
Loyalty,  lovo  of  British  institutions — they  are  engraftecl  in  our  very  nature  ;  they  are  part  and  parcel  of  our- 
selves, and  1  can  no  more  tear  them  from  my  heart,  oven  if  I  would,  and  lacerate  all  its  fibres,  than  I  could 
sever  a  limb  fnun  my  body.  I  see  in  the  excited  features  and  tlashing  eyes  of  all  around  me,  that  1  am  speakinu 
your  sentinuMits  as  well  as  my  own  ;  that  you,  like  myself,  feel  the  dignity  and  value  of  our  position  aa  Britons, 
and  know  well  that  our  struggle  for  colonial  freedom  and  responsibility,  is  the  best  index  of  our  attachment  to 
the  institutions  of  imr  country. 

Sir  William  is  u.sually  very  happy  in  his  speeches  nuide  on  puiilic  occasions  of  every  kind. 
Thus  at  the  ojiening  ceremonies  of  the  K.xliihitioii  held  at  Kentville  in  Oetolier,  1S77,  he  con- 
cluded an  address  with  tlu;  following  excellent  advice  to  young  farmers  : 

Let  him  learn  to  do  everything  about  a  farm  with  his  own  hands,  and  to  do  it  well.  If  hn  hiis  a  fair  start 
in  life  through  his  own  earnings,  or  with  the  help  of  his  friends  at  an  early  age,  he  may  have  his  own  comfort- 
able house  or  cottage,  surrounded  with  his  own  land  and  free  of  debt.  But  there  is  still  a  want  ;  for  what  is  a 
farmer  without  a  wife  /  If  he  is  happy  enough  to  win  the  atlections  of  some  rosy-cheeked  and  blooming  girl — a 
goddess  in  Ins  eyes-  to  embark  with  him  on  the  voyage  of  life,  and  to  share  his  labors  and  his  fortune — if  he 
has  learned  the  great  lesson  that  there  must  Iks  mutual  forbearance  as  well  as  miitunl  lovo— that  though  the  wife 
has  promised  to  love,  honor  and  obey  him,  he  must  not  be  too  exacting,  nor  the  wife  expected  to  be  too  obedient ; 
then  there  will  settle  upon  his  home  the  sunshine  of  domestic  peace,  and  of  a  pure  ati'ection,  and  our  young 
Nova  Scotia  farmers  need  envy  no  other  on  tho  face  of  the  earth. 

One  of  the  days  of  red-letter  margin  in  the  life  of  Sir  William  Young,  was  the  10th  of 
August,  1880,  when  he  and  Lady  Young  celebrated  their  golden  wedding.  During  the  day 
they  received  calls  from  about  600  people,  and  addresses  were  presented  by  the  governors  of 
Dalhousic  college,  the  members  of  the  bar,  tho  North  British  Society,  and  the  alumni  of 
Dalhousic  college,  to  which  his  Lordship  made  appropriate  replies.     The  presents  were  un- 


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usually  numerous  and  very  costly.  It  was  an  exceedingly  enjoyable  day  to  the  venerable  and 
venerated  couple,  and  to  their  many  friends. 

Sir  William  Young  has  been  and  still  is  an  eminently  useful  citizen.  Journalists  who 
know  him  best  state  that  scarcely  a  benevolent  undertaking  has  been  inaugurated  in  Halifax 
with  which  he  has  not  been  identified.  No  public  improvement  has  gone  forward  without 
receiving  his  supj)ort.  Blessed  with  a  liberal  fortune,  he  has  expended  it  liberally  for  the 
improvement,  embellishment  and  intellectual  good  of  his  native  city.  His  munificence  has 
provided  the  city  with  a  free  libnvry,  and  the  poorest  person  in  the  city  can  have  access  to 
thousands  of  valuable  books  for  nothing.  The  new  ]r.irk  engaged  the  warmest  interest  of  Sir 
William.  Personally  he  went  to  the  groun»ls  and  superintemled  the  laying  out  of  the  planta- 
tions or  portions  and  paths.  Scarcely  an  institution  having  for  its  aim  the  moral  welfare  or 
physical  comfort  of  the  unfortunate  or  suffering,  but  the  name  of  Sir  William  Young  will  be 
found  in  its  directorate.     Such  a  life  is  worthy  of  imitation. 

Sir  William  Young  is  now  an  old  man.  but  it  is  his  good  fortune  to  be  penuitted  to  enjoy 
his  declining  years  much  more  than  is  ordinarily  the  lot  of  men  who  reach  his  age.  His 
health  is  good,  and  the  leisure  he  has  is  spent  in  leading  and  (|uiet  enjoyment  of  the  fruits  of  a 
well-si)ent  life.  The  value  of  intellectual  tiaining  is  not  realized  in  its  fullest  extent  till  in  the 
decline  of  life,  when  the  treasures  of  knowledge  lend  a  charm  to  the  reHecting  hours.  As  a  man 
who  has  lived  and  labored  successfully  :  as  a  man  who  has  expended  his  best  energies  in  the 
interests  of  his  country  :  as  a  man  who  has  reflected  honor  on  his  own  province,  and  given 
dignity  to  her  at  home  and  abroail :  as  an  aged  and  v<'nerable  man  who  ha.",  spent  his  life 
u.sefully  and  well,  all  honor  to  Sir  William  Young.  We  trust  the  record  of  his  life  will  be  an 
example  to  young  Nova  Scotians,  that  they  may  imitate  his  viitues  and  emulate  his  renown. 


HON.   AirrilUIi    M.   (XXllKA^,    M.I.(\, 

MA  IT  LAND,  N.S. 

\  RTHUK  McNUTT  ("OCHK.VN,  one  (.f  the  Nova  Scotia  Legislative  Cuuneil,  is  a  native 
/\  of  Hants  county,  in  this  province,  dating  his  birth  at  Newport,  October  Kith,  hSll.  His 
father  was  Terrance  ("ochran.a  native  of  the  same  townshij),  and  one  of  the  prominent  citizens 
of  Hants  county,  being  high  sheriti'  for  a  long  period.  The  paternal  grandfatluT  of  Arthur  was 
from  , Ireland.  His  mother  Klizabeth  Wier,  a  nativ(>  of  Nova  ScDtia.  was  the  daughter  of  a 
United  Empire  Loyalist,  John  Wier,  who  was  from  llhode  Islaml. 

Mr.  (Cochran  received  a  common  school  education  in  the  county  of  Hants  ;  farmed  with 
his  father  until  sixteen  years  of  age,  when  he  went  to  Halifax,  and  sold  goods  three  years  for 
his  older  brother,  Loran  De  Wolf  Cochran.  Retuining  to  Hants  coiinty  he  engage<l  in  mer- 
mcrcantile  pursuits  at  Maitland,  and  continued  in  trade  until  five  years  ago.  He  i.s 
also  a  ship-owner,  and  has  followed  the  .shipping  business  for  more  than  a  (puirter  of  a  century. 
Farming  is  now  his  principal  occupation.  He  is  in  comfortable  circumstanc(^s,  and  inclined  to 
let  the  world  do  its  own  fretting.  He  is  a  man  of  cheerful  disposition,  very  cordial  and  friend- 
ly, and  al  ways  on  good  terms  with  his  coascience. 

Mr.  Cochran  is  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  has  been  a  .school  commissioner  ft)r  the  district 
of  East  Hants.  ,  He  became  connected  with  the  militia  many  years  ago,  had  command  of «  com- 


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pany  at  one  time,  and  became  acting  lieut.-colonel,  and  then  resigned,  his  ambition  not  lead- 
ing  in  the  direction  of  military  glory. 

Mr.  Cochran  entered  public  life  in  1850,  when  he  was  chosen  to  represent  North  Hants 
in  the  local  assembly,  declining  at  that  time  to  serve  more  than  the  one  term  of  four  years. 
He  was  appointed  to  his  present  seat  in  the  Legislative  Council  in  1875  ;  his  politics  are  Lib- 
eral. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Church  of  England,  and  has  served  as  warden  for  several  3'ears, 
and  was  a  delegate  to  both  the  diocesan  and  provincial  synods.  His  character  is  solid,  and  the 
purity  of  his  life  unquestionable. 

Mr.  Cochran  married  in  183!),  Susan  daughter  of  John  Weir,  of  Londonderry,  N.  S.,  who 
represented  that  township  in  the  Legislative  Assembly  for  several  years,  and  they  have  nine 
children  living,  and  have  lost  one  son.  Lewis,  the  eldest  son,  succeeded  his  father  in  the  mer- 
cantile trade  at  Maitland. 


LIEUT.-C^OL.   II0:N.   CHAELES   J.  CAMPBELL, 

BAD  DECK,  N.S. 

CHARLES  JAMES  CAMPBFjLL,  an  e.vtensive  coal-miner,  ship-builder  and  ship-owner,  and 
general  iiierthant,  in  Victoria  county,  N.S.,  is  descended  from  the  Campbells  of  Breadal- 
banc  and(  ilenurchy ;  ho  is  the  fifth  son  of  the  lateCaptain  JohnCampbell  of  Duntulm,and  Isabella 
Mcllea,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  McKen,  of  Kintail,  Koss-shire ;  was  born  in  Skyo,  Inverness-shire, 
on  the  Gth  of  November,  1819,  and  li\'ed  in  Scotland  until  1830,  when  he  came  to  Nova  Scotia 
with  tlie  family.  He  was  self-educated,  and  has  been  engaged  for  niany  years  in  merchan(iising, 
and  is  proprietor  of  the  .so-called  New  Campbellton  conl  mines,  which  he  has  been  developing 
for  the  last  twenty  years. 

Mr.  Campbell  was  appointed  a  coroner  in  IS+T,  and  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  the  county 
of  Cape  Breton  in  18o() ;  wa.s  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  1st  regiment  Victoria  militia  for  several 
years  prioi-  to  ( "onfedeiation,  and  a  year  after  that  act  took  place  he  waii  appointed  lieutenant- 
colonel  of  the  Victoria  reserve  militia ;  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  agriculture  for  Nova 
Scotia;  chairman  of  the  board  of  liealth  for  Victoria  for  years ;  school  trustee  and  trustee  of 
church  property. 

He  sent  the  first  cargo  of  the  produce  of  NovaScotia  to  Australia, after  the  discovery  of  gold  in 
that  country,  and  subsequently  sent  his  barque  Brindalbin  with  passengers  from  Victoria  county 
to  New  Zealand,  where  she  was  .sold ;  he  tried  seal  fishing  in  the  Gulf  of  St.  Lawrence ;  herring 
fishing  on  the  Newfoundland  .shore,  and  is  interested  in  oil  wells,  gold  mining,  marble  and  lime 
an''  salt  springs. 

Col.  Campbell  was  first  elected  to  the  provincial  parliament  for  Victoria  in  18")  1,  but  was 
unseated  on  petition  ;  was  again  returned  in  18o5  and  sat  until  1859,  being  a  member  of  the 
executive  council  of  Nova  Scotia  the  last  three  years  of  his  term;  was  defeated  in  1859  on 
"  the  Protestant  Alliance  cry,"  and  again  returned  in  18G0  ;  un.seated  on  petition  in  1861;  re- 
turned in  18G3,  and  held  his  seat  until  18C7,  when  he  wa.s  again  defeated  on  the  (juestion  of 
Confederation,  which  he  favored  :  was  again  returned  at  the  general  election  in  1871,  and  held 
his  seat  until  called  to  the  Legislative  Council,  May  2,  1872,  where  ho  sat  till  December,  1874, 


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when  he  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Commons,  having  been  defeated  for  that  body  in  Decem- 
ber the  year  before,  for  Victoria ;  he  was  unseated  on  a  scrutiny  of  votes,  but  re-elected  in 
September,  1870,  upon  the  sitting  niember,  Tremaine,  being  appointed  a  judge. 

Col.  Campbell  ran  eight  times  for  the  Provincial  and  four  times  for  the  Dominitm  Pailia- 
ment,  and  knows  a  good  deal  about  the  ups  and  downs,  the  unccrtaihties  and  j>erplexities  of 
political  life  ;  he  was  defeated  in  187S;  his  politics  are  Conservative. 

Mr.  Campbell  is  the  author  of  the  bill  for  perfecting  titles  to  land  in  the  Island  of  Cape 
Breton;  the  island  having  been  an  independent  province,  ami  on  its  being  annexed  to  Nova 
Sct)tia,  titles  to  land  were  left  in  a  confused  state.  He  strongly  advocated  equal  privileges  to  all 
denominations  of  Christians,  and  was  defeated  in  his  county  in  1859,  on  account  of  his  advocacy 
of  equal  rights  of  the  Catholic  population  with  their  Protestant  fellow  colonists;  he  .subse- 
(juently  advocated  Confederation  and  British  connection,  for  which  he  voted,  and  for  which,  as 
before  mentioned,  he  was  defeated  at  the  following  election.  In  the  House  of  Commons  he  was 
the  first  to  advocate  duty  on  American  cnal  and  other  articles  imported  free  of  duty  from  that 
coimtry  and  protection  to  home  industry  in  187G,  and  to  expose  the  fallacy  of  the  policy  puisued 
by  the  Mackenzie  administration,  regarding  their  political  economy,  their  immigrating  Men- 
nonites,  and  Warned  it  of  the  "hand  writing  upon  the  wall,"  ami  strongly  advocated  such  a 
protective  policy  as  has  been  adopted  l>y  the  present  Government. 

He  married  in  January,  1S43,  F^liza  Jane,  daughter  of  Styles  Ir.  ,raliani,  Ks(|.,  of  Badileck 
and  has  lost  two  children,  and  has  six  sons  and  two  daughters  living.  Colin  N.  ( '.iinpbell,  the 
eldest  son,  is  a  lawyer  ;  Kev.  James  F.  Campbell,  the  second,  is  a  missionary  in  Imliii;  Chnrles 
L.  is  conducting  a  store  at  the  New  Campbellton  mines,  being  a  partner  in  the  establishment; 
La'uchlin  G.  is  conducting  the  branch  estaVjlishment  since  his  father  startetl  the  busine.ss  in  Hal- 
ifax, and  is  a  partner  in  the  Baddeck  estiiblishmcnt;  John  J.  is  a  clerk  at  Halifax;  Edward  K. 
is  a  clerk  at  Baddeck  ;  Jennie  E.  is  the  wife  of  VV.  M.  Doull,  merchant,  Halifax, and  Flora  I.  Is 
at  school. 


nox.  joiix  V.  8'rAiRs,  m.p.p., 

DARTMOUTH,  N.S. 

JOHN  FITZVVILLIAM  STAIRS,  member  of  the  executive  council  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  son 
of  Hon.  W.  J.  Stairs,  who.se  sketch  a|>pears  on  ]>receding  pages  of  this  work,  was  Itorn  in 
Halifax,  N.S.,  on  the  lOtli  of  January,  1848.  For  a  fuller  account  of  the  family,  etc.,  .see  the 
father's  sketch. 

Our  sidtject  was  educated  in  the  Halifax  grannnar  school,  Dalhousie  college,  and  by  pri- 
vate tuition;  and  in  his  sixteenth  year  conmienced  business  with  his  father, — at  first,  in  the 
shipping  line  almost  exclusively,  adding,  in  18(58,  a  rope  walk,  which  our  subject  has  since 
managed.  The  firm  name  is  \Vm.  Stairs,  Son  and  Morrow;  and  they  are  doing  a  thrifty  busi- 
ness, their  headcjuarters  being  in  Bedford  Row,  Halifax,  thougli  oiu-  subject  lesides  across  the 
harbor,  in  Dartmouth. 

Mr.  Stjiirs  was  in  the  town  council  of  Dartmouth  two  yeai-s;  and  ran  for  warden  in  1879, 
but  was  defeated.  In  November,  1879,  he  was  elected  to  the  Hou.se  of  Assembly-  for  Halifax 
county,  and  has  served  two  sessions  in  that  body.      His  appointment  as  a  member  of  the 

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executive  council  is  (lilted  on  DecciiilitT  11  til,  1S7!>.  By  his  request,  he  is  only  on  one  com- 
mittee, that  of  private  nml  local  hills.  His  politics  niv  Liberal  Conservative.  He  is  an  efficient, 
energetic  business  nmn,  and  useful  in  any  position  in  which  he  may  he  placed.  He  is  a 
«lirector  of  the  Halifax  and  Dartmouth  .steam  feny  company. 

Mr.  Staiis  is  a  member  of  8t.  James'  Presbyterian  church,  Dartmouth,  and  a  man  of 
oxeollent  .standinij;  in  all  the  relations  of  life. 

He  was  married  on  the  27th  of  April,  1870,  to  Charlotte  J.,  daujihter  of  James  Fogo,  Esq., 
of  Pictou,  judge  of  probate  for  that  county,  and  they  have  three  children. 


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A\MLLli\M    M   JiLAlK,  M.P.I'., 

<>SSWW,N.!i. 

THE  subject  of  this  brief  l)iographical  notice,  Mend)er  of  the  Legislative  Assembly  for  the 
County  of  Colchester,  and  one  of  the  most  public-spirited  farmers  in  his  district,  was 
born  at  Onslow,  in  that  county,  on  tlie  i.")tli  of  May,  LSSO.  Ilis  father,  Simeon  FL)ward  Blair, 
was  born  in  the  same  town,  and  his  grandfather,  John  Blair,  was  from  New  England, coming  to 
Nova  Scotia  when  three  years  f)f  age.  The  family  was  oiiMiiially  from  Blair  Atliol,  Scotland  ; 
went  thence  to  the  North  of  lieland,  from  that  country  emiyrati'd  to  Mas.sachu.setts, from  which 
Colony,  now  State,  the  great-grandfather  of  ouy  subject,  William  Blair,  came  to  Nova  Scotia. 

The  mother  tif  William  was  Janette  (!.  McCunly,  who  was  boro  in  Onslow,  where  the 
family  settled  towards  the  close  of  the  last  centur}-.  He  received  very  little  school  di.scipline, 
being  hugely  .self-instructed,  and  has  always  been  a  farmer,  owning  about  one  hundred  acres  of 
the  land  originall3-  pos.sessed  by  the  Blair  family,  and  cleared  by  his  great-grandfather  and 
grandfather.  He  has  reclaimed  it,  enriched  it,  and  made  it  one  of  the  best  farms  of  the  smaller 
class  in  that  town  or  in  the  county.  Mr.  Blair  is  one  of  the  most  enteiprising,  hard-working 
men  in  Onslow,  and  has  been  President  of  the  Agricultural  Society  of  that  town  foi-  eight  or 
nine  years.  He  is  also  Master  of  the  Provincial  Change  of  the  Patrons  of  Husbandry,  which 
was  organized  in  September,  1880,  and  Master  of  Dominion  Grange  for  1881,  and  for  years  has 
Iteen  one  of  the  foremost  men  in  the  loca'  (irange.  He  ha.s  a  good  stock  of  cattle,  which  he  is 
gradually  improving,  intending  to  run  them  into  thoroughbred  Durhams. 

On  his  farm  is  a  cheese  factory,  owne<l  by  a  joint  .stock  company,  which  is  making  about 
from  sixteen  to  twent3-five  tons  of  cheese  annually. 

At  twenty  years  of  age  our  subject  joined  the  militia  of  the  Province,  and  gradually 
worked  his  way  up  until  he  became  i.iieutenant  Colonel  of  the  78th  Nova  Scotia  Highlanders, 
with  head-quarters  at  Truro — the  only  regiment  of  Highlanders  in  the  Province. 

Colonel  Blair  was  elected  to  Parliament  at  the  general  election  held  in  Septend»er,  1878, 
and  is  serving  his  first  term  in  a  legislative  body.  His  politics  are  Liberal-Conservative,  the 
principles  of  which  party  he  regards  as  for  the  best  intert;st  of  the  Province  and  Dominion. 

The  Colonel  has  .some  funds  investcil  in  a  <lry-goods  store  at  Truro,  he  being  of  the  firm  of 
Blair  and  Cutten,  the  business  being  managed  by  his  partner,  a  prudent  and  careful  trader,  and 
owns  one-third  of  the  Union  Woollen  Mills,  at  Truro. 

He  is  a  Free  Mason  of  the  4th  degrte,  and  was  for  some  years  Master  of  the  Truro  Lodge ; 


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is  also  a  Son  of  Tfiiipoianrt',  ami  an  exeniiilarv  man  in  all  his  lial>its.     In  18(i4,  he  marni'd 
Harriet  Blair,  daughter  of  Saimiel  .lames  Blair,  of  Truro,  and  thev  have  eight  ehildrcn. 

Persons  who  best  know  Colonel  Blair  sjieak  of  him  as  a  man  who  does  not  juit  his  hand  t<i 


I  the  plough  and  then  look  baek.  He  has  indomitable  pluek  and  pei-severance,  knowing  no  sueh 
words  as  "  halt  "  or  "  fail  "  in  a  laudable  undertaking.  No  province  or  country  can  have  Uk) 
manv  of  this  iliiss  of  agriculturists  and  law-makers. 


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liRIDGEWATEK,  N.S. 

MATHKIl  BYLKS  DES  BRISAY,  judge  of  the  county  court-  of  district  number  two. 
comprising  the  counties  of  Lunenburg,  (Queens,  and  Shelburne,  N.8.,  dates  his  birth  at 
Chester,  county  of  Lunenburg,  N.S.,  on  the  lOtli  of  March,  IS2H.  ]Ie  is  of  Huguenot  descent,  the 
family  having  gone  from  France  to  Kngland,  the  pioneer  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada  being 
Thcmias  Des  Brisay,  who  was  sent  out  as  acting  I^ieutenant-dovernor  of  I'rince  Edward,  then 
St.  .John's  island,  in  plaee  of  tlu^  (iovernor,  who  hail  retired  to  England.  Tliomn-s  Des 
Brisay,  grandfather  of  the  judge,  was  a  captain  in  the  Royal  Artillery,  in  the  garrison  at  Hali- 
fax, and  adjutant  of  the  battalion,  his  father,  (ieneral  J)es  Biisay,  being  at  the  .same  time  com- 
manding otKcer  there.  The  father  of  the  judge  was  Thomas  Belcher  Des  Brisay,  .M.I ).,  who 
(lied  at  Dartmouth,  N.S.,  in  18()!>.  His  mother,  who  is  still  living,  was  Lucretia  VVoodwaril, 
daughter  of  Jes.se  Woodward,  formerly  a  West  India  merchant  at  Halifax,  where  si.  ■  now 
resides.  The  paternal  grandmother  of  Judge  Des  Brisay  wa-s  Sarah  Byles,  a  daughter  of  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Mather  Byles,  a  staunch  Loyalist  in  Boston,  Mass  ,  during  the  American  revolution  ; 
and  the  judge  has  the  portrait,  in  oil  painting,  of  that  witty  old  divine,  and  also  the  portraits 
of  his  father  and  gran<lfather,  luith  named  Mather,  and  both  eminent  niinisteis  of  the  Church 
of  England.     He  has  also  the  portrait  in  oils  of  the  celebrated  Cotton  .Mather. 

Our  subject  was  etlucated  in  grammar  schools  at  Dartmouth  and  Halifax;  studied  law 
at  the  latter  place  with  the  present  judges,  (Irorge  A.  Bianchanl  and  Alexander  James,  and 
was  called  to  the  bar  in  April,  18.31.  He  practised  in  Halifax  several  years,  at  Chester,  his  na- 
tive town,  for  seven  years,  au'l,  in  1S().').  removed  to  Bridgewater,  and  here  practised  until  his 
elevation  to  the  bench,  in  August,  1N7<J. 

Judge  Des  Brisay  was  secretary  to  the  tirst  Provincial  Iiulustrial  and  Agricultural  Exhibi- 
tion, held  at  Halifax,  in  18.')4;  was  appointed  one  of  the  commissioners  for  the  consolidation  of 
the  statutes  of  Nova  Scotia,  in  187(j,  and  was  immigrant  agent  for  the  province  from  1872  until 
lie  was  tlecteil  speaker.  While  |)ractising  at  the  bar,  Judge  Des  Brisay  was  singularly 
reluctant  to  involve  his  client  in  litigation,  and  generally  succeeded  in  getting  his  case 
settled  peaceably  on  principles  of  justice  and  e(|uity.  The  same  disposition  to  discourage  litiga- 
tion, and  especially  litigation  depending  on  technicalities  inversement  of  justice,  has  distin- 
guished his  administration  of  justice  on  the  iK'nch.  His  ilecisions  are  largely  influenced  l)y 
ecinitable  principles,  ami  as  his  judgment  is  sound,  and  his  moral  principles  strong,  he  is  popu- 
lar as  a  jtidge.  Very  few  of  his  judgments  have  been  appealed  from,  and  they  have  rarely  been 
apjH'aled  from  successfully. 


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Judge  Dt's  Brway  sat  lor  Lununluirf,'  in  the  Nova  Scotia  Assoniiily  from  lH(i7  until  cle- 
vatod  to  the  liench,  having  hcen  twiw  elected  liy  large  majorities,  aii<l  one((  l>y  acclanmtion,  and 
was  s])eakor  of  that  liody  from  Ma\'  M,  liS75,  until  he  retired,  .w  above  indicated.  While  in  the 
Assembly,  as  we  learn  from  the  "  Legal  J )iieetory,"  lie  introduceil  and  carried  tlie  Free  (irant 
and  Homestead  Law,  and  tlie  Act  relating  to  road  and  itridgo  service,  the  appointment  of  super- 
visors, &e.  He  also  introduced  a  bill  to  eti'eet  reform  in  the  disposal  of  Crown  lands,  by  pre- 
venting speculation,  and  reserving  them  for  actual  settlement  on  easy  terms,  which  bill  passed 
the  AssemVily,  l>ut  was  rejected  by  the  Council. 

in  Sejitomber,  1870,  Judge  Des  Brisiiy  was  married  to  Ada  A.,  eldest  daughter  of  John 
Hnrley,  Ks(|.,  late  collector  of  customs  at  Mridgewater,  an  Englishman  of  tine  mind  and  character. 

'I'lie  judge  is  a  licensed  lay  reader  in  the  Church  of  England,  and  once  a  montli  goes  to 
New  Ciermiiny,  a  distance  of  eighteen  miles,  where  he  reads  the  .service  and  a  sermon;  and  he 
a.ssists  in  other  places  adjacent  to  his  home,  lie  has  seveial  times  been  cho.sen  a  delegate  to 
the  Diocesan  Synod,  but  liis  othcial  duties  interfereil  with  his  attendance.  His  Christian  cha- 
racter, as  well  as  his  legal  attainments,  ai<l  in  (pialifyiug  him  tor  his  high  position. 

llev.  William  Almon  Dcs  Bri.sa\',  of  the  Epi.scopal  Church  of  the  Unite<l  States,  and  resi- 
dent ill  New  York,  is  a  brother  of  our  suliject. 

The  jiiilge's  beautiful  residence,  I  vviiANK,  occupies  a  tine  position  on  the  height  of  land  over- 
looking Biiilgewater  and  the  valley  of  the  La  Have,  and  has  connected  with  it  an  attractive  gar- 
den, which  he  and  his  wife  take  great  delight  in  cultivating.  He  has  alst)  a  fine  taste  in  other 
ivspects,  having  the  most  beautiful  collection  of  alga;  wo  ever  saw.  all  gathered  and  pres.sed  by 
himself.  He  has  also  a  large  collection  of  stone  implements,  arrow-heads,  axes,  chisels,  gouges, 
spears,  and  other  Indian  relics  ;  a  cup  and  saucer  brought  ovei'  in  the  iV"////(H'('r  (KiiO),  and 
the  projierty  at  one  time  of  the  llev.  John  Cotton,  who  gave  its  name  to  Boston,  Ma.ss.,  and 
many  other  mementoes  of  "  long,  long  ago." 

He  has  also  copies  of  many  valuable  letters  written  by  his  ancestors,  some  of  which  wc 
have  read.  One  of  the.se.  written  by  Theoi)hilus  Des  Bri.say,  father  of  the  (iovernor  of 
Prince  Edward  Lsland,  on  the  .son's  leaving  England,  in  ITli!',  for  his  post  of  duty,  is  literally 
craniiued  with  wholesome  advice.  It  embodies  a  vast  deal  of  wisdom,  breathes  a  noble  Chris- 
tian spirit,  and  is  worthy  of  being  printed  in  letters  of  gold. 


IIOX.   \VlI.LIA:\t    F.   DES    J3AKRES, 

HALIFAX,  A". A 

WILLIAM  FREDERICK  DES  BARRES,  <me  of  the  judges  of  the  .supreme  court  of  Nova 
Scotia,  is  descended  from  one  of  the  heroes  who  fought  under  (ieneral  Wolfe,  at  the 
Uiking  ot  Queltec  (IToO),  and  one  of  the  historical  men  of  Nova  Scotia.  We  refer  to  his  grand- 
father ( 'olonel  -loseph  Frederick  Wallet  Des  Barros,  a  native  of  Switzerland,  but  a  subject  of 
Great  Britain,  serving  at  fii-st  under  George  II.,  by  whom  he  wsis  commissioned  "gentleman 
cadet,"  on  the  1st  of  November,  17.5.'),  in  the  Royal  Regiment  of  Artillery,  and  lieutenant  in  the 
GOth  Regiment,  on  the  SSrd  of  February  following,  our  subject  having  in  his  pcssession  both  of 
these  commissions. 


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Early  in  the  year,  17")'»,  as  wo  learn  from  Brown's  "  History  of  Cape  Breton,"  Lieutenant 
Des  Burres  otnharkoil  with  his  rej^inient  for  America,  and  was  at  first  engaged  in  raising  troops 
in  I'ennsylvania  and  Maryland,  and  in  drilling  a  corps  of  Artillery.  In  IT')?,  he  was  sent  with 
a  few  volunteers  to  i>ursuo  ami  punish  a  band  of  IndiaTis,  who  had  attacked  and  plundered  the 
little  village  of  Schenectady,  New  York,  and  had  scalped  several  of  the  defenceless  inhabitants. 
He  overtook  and  routed  them,  taking  several  prisoners.  He  also  established  a  pos^t  in  the  dense 
forest,  and  remained  there,  protecting  the  whites  from  further  barbarities  for  three  months,  until 
tl;  >  danger  seemed  to  be  past,  [mmediately  afterwards  lie  serveil  under  Lord  Howe,  near  Lake 
(Jeorge,  reconnoitering  the  French  works  at  Ticonderoga.  He  was  at  the  famous  battle  of  Louis- 
bourg  in  17')J"',  and  distinguished  him.self  by  .seizing  an  intnmchmentof  the  enemy,  which  greatly 
aided  the  debarkation  of  the  aiiny  ;  and  later  in  the  day,  the  brave  young  lientrnant  opened  a  sap 
at  the  foot  of  the  glacis,  with  such  skill  and  promptness,  as  to  attract  the  attention  of  ( Jcneral  Wolfe, 
who  laid  his  noble  acts  before  theking.and  the  result  was  that  the  king  commissioned  l)es  Harres 
to  act  as  engineer  under  Wolfe  at  the  taking  of  C^uebec  (in  October,  \l'i\)).  In  that  short  and 
decisive  contest,  yet  fatal  to  the  brave  leaders  of  both  armies,  Dcs  Harres  took  a  prominent  part, 
and  was  in  the  act  of  importing  to  (jeneral  Wolfe  an  order  whi<h  lie  had  ju.st  executed,  when 
the  victor  on  the  Plains  of  Abraham  fell  mortally  wounded.  Des  Banes  .served  in  Canada  in 
17G0-I7<il,  and,  after  the  conijuest,  was  sent  to  Nova  Scotia  to  prepare  plans  and  estimates  for 
fortifying  the  harbor  of  Halifax.  He  was  engineer  and  (|uaitermaster-general  in  the  expedition 
(17<)2),  under  Ceneral  .Vmherst,  for  the  recapture  of  St.  .lohns,  N.  K.,  and  for  ten  years,  commene- 
ing  in  176JJ,  he  was  employed  in  making  surveys  of  the  coast  and  liarlmrs  of  Kova  Scotia  and 
<  "ape  Breton.  The  next  decade  ( 1 77H-  i  /  .'*3),  by  order  of  King  ( ieorge  I IL,  he  spent  his  time  in 
London,  ])re^)aring  tor  publication  the  surveys  he  had  nuide,  and  which  when  completed  were 
published  there.  In  July,  17>i+,  he  was  appointed  Lieutenant-Uovernorof  Caj)e  Mreton,  and  estab- 
lished the  seat  of  goveiiunent  at  Sydney,  which  he  named,  says  the  historian  we  have  referred 
to,  in  honor  of  tin;  Secretary  of  State,  Jjord  Sydney.  He  was  afterwards  appointed  Lieutenant- 
(iovernorof  I'rinci^  Edward  Island,  and  administerecl  the  (Jovernment  from  1>S(I.">  to  LSj.'t,  and 
then  removed  to  Andierst,  Nova  Scotia,  where  he  was  llie  owner  of  large  tracts  of  land. 
Thence  he  removed  to  Halifax,  where  he  died  in  1824,  at  the  great  age  of  one  hundred  and  three 
years.  .\t  the  time  of  his  demise,  he  held  the  rank  of  colonel  in  the  army,  and  was  buried  with 
military  hoiiois,  suitable  to  his  rank,  and  to  so  faithful  a  servant  and  defender  of  the  Hritish 
Crown. 

The  eldest  sun  of  Coloni'l  Des  Harres,  .bjlin  Frederick  William  Hes  Barres,  wa.s  the  father 
of  our  subject,  who  was  born  at  the  "  Elysian  Fields,"  in  Cumberland  county.  Nova  Scotia,  (jn  the. 
1+th  of  Februar}-,  lSiH».  He  was  edueated  at  the  old  Halifax  grammar  .school,  as  it  was  calli^d, 
of  which  the  Rev.  <  Ieorge  Wright  was  p'-incipal -a  well  known  and  popidar  school,  sixty-five 
years  ago.  At  the  age  of  sixteen,  he  commenced  the  study  of  law  with  the  late  Lewis  Morris 
W'ilkins,  then  a  leading  member  of  the  Halifax  bar,  and  afterwards  a  judge  of  the  supreme 
court,  and  was  adniitti'd  to  the  bar  of  Nova  Scotia  in  .\pril,  \St\.  .Shortly  atterwards  he  settled 
and  eommeneeil  the  practice  of  his  |)rofession  at  (iuysborough,  in  which  he  soon  attained  a 
good  stan<!ing  as  an  energetic  ami  faithful  advocate,  always  attending  the  courts  in  the  adjoin- 
ing county  of  Autigoni.sh,  and  in  the  counties  of  Richmond  and  Inverness,  in  Cape  Breton,  as 
well  as  the  local  courts. 

On  the  litth  of  July,  1M2.'»,  he  nuirried  .Maria  Sophia,  daughter  of  Thomas  Cutler,  Es<i.,  for 
numy  years  judge  of  probate,  andcustoH  of  the  county  of  Uuysl)orough, 


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In  1830,  he  rtd.s  returned  as  a  representative  for  the  county  of  CJuysboroiigh,  in  the  Provin- 
cial Parliament,  and  continued  to  represent  that  county  as  long  as  he  continued  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession,  having  always  been  handsomely  supported  l>y  his  constituency  in  all  the  sharp 
contests  held  from  time  to  tlma  for  the  election  of  its  representatives,  fie  was  appointed  Solici- 
tor-! Seneral  of  Nova  Scotia,  » nd  a  member  of  the  Executive  Coimcil,  on  the  9th  of  February, 
1848,  and  was  obliged  to  run  a  hotly  contested  election,  at  that  inclement  season  of  the  year, 
over  an  extensive  county  ;  to  take  the  sense  of  the  electors,  as  to  their  ai)proval  or  disapproval 
of  that  appointment.  On  that  occasion  he  was  triumphantly  elected,  obtaining  more  than  double 
the  nimiber  of  votes  polled  for  his  opponent.  In  Parliament  he  was  a  supporter  of  what  was 
called  the  Liberal  party,  and  as  such  identiKed  with  all  the  great  changes  effected  in  the  consti- 
tution and  government  of  the  countrj',  and  always  enjoyed  the  fullest  confidence  of  the  House. 

On  the  l+th  of  November,  1(S48,  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  judges  of  the  supreme  court 
of  Nova  Scotia,  and  for  nearly  thirty-three  years  has  faithfully  discharged  the  duties  of  that 
honorable  and  resj)onsible  office,  being  now  the  senior  assistant  judge  on  the  bench  of  that  pro- 
vince. Although  far  beyond  the  three  score  ycare  and  ten,  which  the  Psalmist  .speaks  of  as  the 
measure  of  our  .strength,  he  is  still  equal  to  his  judicial  duties  on  the  circuits  and  in  banc,  while 
his  legal  opinions  are  marked  by  strong  common  sense,  a  clear  and  penetrating  judgment,  and  an 
adequate  knowledge  of  law  ;  and  his  impartiality  and  uprightness  are  universally  acknowledged. 
In  the  midst  of  his  family,  and  in  soc'al  intercourse,  he  is  of  a  genial  disposition,  beloved  as  well 
as  respected  for  his  kindness  of  heart,  and  conscientious  discharge  of  all  the  duties  incident  to 
his  position. 


HEII^RY    S.   .lOST, 

LUNENBURG,  N.S. 

HENRY  SMITH  JOST,  fornurly  member  for  Lunenliurg  in  the  Legislative  Assembly  of 
Nova  Scotia,  was  born  in  the  city  of  Halifax,  on  the  2«th  of  May,  IMOK  and  was  there 
educated,  being  a  .school  mate  of  Hon.  Jo.seph  Howe.  His  parents  were  tJeoige  and  Margery 
(Smith)  Jost,  the  former  of  German,  the  latter  of  Knglisli  descent.  In  182U,  ivlr.  Jost  removed 
to  Lunenburg,  where  he  has  since  resided,  being  in  the  mercantile  trade  here  for  more  than 
ibrty  years,  making  u  success  of  his  liusiness.  licfore  leaving  Halifax,  he  joined  the  militia  as 
a  private,  and  kept  up  his  military  connection  after  clianging  his  residence,  being  promoted 
step  by  step,  until  he  became  lieut. -colonel,  a  rank  which  he  now  holds  in  the  reserve  militia. 
He  has  been  a  magi.>trate  since  1,S48.  still  acting  in  that  capacity. 

Mr.  Jost  lii-st  enteicd  Parliament  in  \H')\,  and  during  the  tirst  bjur  years  that  he  seived, 
si.x  sessions  were  held,  it  being  the  period  wheii  the  question  of  railroads  was  rirst  agitated 
(I8.")l),  and  when  the  leciprocity  tieaty  (lHj4j  was  under  iliscussion.  and  he  partieijmted  in 
more  than  one  very  exciting  debate.  Mr.  Jost  coMtestc(l  the  county  uf  (jiiiu'iiburg  in  Is."),")  and 
18.')i»,  and  was  defeated  Loth  times,  but  was  successful  in  IfSti:},  defeating  the  Hon.  Joseph  Howe 
—the  greatest  triumph  of  his  life.  He  was  a  warm  advocate  of  t'onfederation,  both  in  Parlia- 
ment and  out  of  it,  ami  voted  for  the  consunnnation  of  that  Act  in  18(17.  Hi'  was  custo.s  of 
the  county  for  a  decade  or  more,  until  the  law  was  changed. 

Colonel  .Inst  is  past  master  in  the  .Mas(jnie  order,  and  repiisents  the  grand  hwlge  of  .Minne- 
sota in  the  grand  lodge  of  Nova  Scotia.     He  is  well  known  thioiighout  the  province. 


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He  was  fii-sfc  married  in  1829,  to  Caroline  M.  Rudolf,  daughter  of  Charles  Rudolf,  of  Lunen- 
burg, she  dying  in  1837,  leaving  five  children,  two  of  whom  have  since  died;  and  the  second 
time,  in  184(),  to  Mary  C.  Ernst,  daughter  of  Matthew  Ernst,  Esq.,  of  Lunenburg,  by  whom 
he  has  three  children.  Charles  Jost,  the  only  son  living  by  the  first  wife,  is  a  resident  of 
Lunenburg,  and  the  two  daughters,  by  the  same  wife,  are  married,  Caroline  being  the  wife  of 
James  B.  Weddleton,  of  Yarmouth,  N.S.,  and  Jo.sephine,  the  wife  of  Daniel  Waterman,  of 
Boston,  Mass.  Henry  M.,  the  only  son  by  the  second  wife,  is  a  shoe  mercliant  in  Lunenburg  ; 
Emily  S.  is  the  wife  of  Daniel  J.  Rudolf,  Esq.,  merchant,  Lunenburg ;  and  Annie  B.  is  living 
with  her  parents. 


AVILLIAM   MCKENZIE    M^^LEOD,  M.D.,   M.P., 

SYDNEY,  N.S. 

WILLIAM  McKENZIE  McLEOD,  with  one  exception  the  younge.st  meml)er  of  the  House 
of  Commons,  and  who  represents  in  part  the  county  of  Cape  Breton,  is  a  son  of  the 
Rev.  Hugh  McLeod,  D.I).,  minister  of  Sydney,  and  formerly  moderator  of  the  general  assembly 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Canada,  and  Catherine  Ross,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Hugh  Ross, 
deceased,  of  Fearn,  Scotland,  and  was  born  at  Sydnej-,  N.S.,  on  the  4th  of  July,  18.")4.  He  is 
a  younger  brother  of  Hugli  McLeod,  barrister,  who  came  out  with  liis  parents  from  Scotland 
in  18o0,  and  was  elected  to  the  seat  which  his  brother  now  occupies  in  September,  1878,  but  is 
now  dead. 

William  McKen/.ie  McLeod  was  educated  in  the  arts  at  Daihousie  college,  Halifax,  and  in 
medicine  at  Bellevue  hospital  medical  college,  New  York,  and  has  been  in  practice  at  Sydney 
since  187-5. 

Dr.  Mf'Leod  is  a  justice  of  the  peace,  an  adherent  of  the  Prosliyterian  church,  and  a  staunch 
advocate  of  the  principles  of  temperance. 

He  was  elected  to  parliament  in  187!),  and  has  served  two  session.s,  being  on  several  com- 
mittees. His  politics,  like  tho.se  of  his  brother,  who  preceded  him  in  the  House  of  Connnons, 
are  (\)nservative,  and  he  gives  the  present  government  a  steady  and  firm  supjwrt. 


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AKTHiONISlf,  N.  S. 

riIHE  sulijcct  of  tliis  short  biogiaphical  notice,  rector  of  St.  Francois  Xavier  college,  was  born 
J_  at  Ijower  South  Hiver,  county  of  Antigoiiisli,  on  the  18th  of  Decembfr,  1843;  his 
father,  Allan  Cameron,  deceased,  eldest  brother  of  his  lonLshij)  Bishop  Cameron,  was  born  on 
the  same  farm.  The  family  was  originally  fiom  Lochabcr,  Scotlaml ;  his  mother,  before  her 
marriage,  was  Catherine  Macgillivray,  whose  family  emigrated  from  Ari.saig,  Scotlaml  His 
fatlier  died  in  18()1  ;  his  mother  is  still  living. 

Rector  Cameron  was  educated  at  St.  Francois  Xavier  college  and  at  Rome,  in   whiiOi  citv 
he  studicil  eight  years,  completing  his  cotu'se  in   1874,  and  being  ordained  a  priest  on  the  4tli 


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of  April  of  that  year,  by  CanUnal  Patrizzi      Thi'  (k'i,'r('e'i  of  Ph.  1).  and  D.D.  he  received  at 
Rome. 

Returning  to  this  country,  our  sulijeet  heciinu'  pari>.h  prie.st  on  the  mission  of  St.  Barra, 
Grand  Narrows,  Island  of  Cai)e  Breton,  remaining  there  until  1S7G,  when  he  came  to  Antigo- 
nish  to  teach  in  St.  Francois  Xavier  college,  where  ho  !■<  making  good  use  of  liis  excellent  at- 
tainments. He  was  vice-it'ctoi'  of  the  institution  in  l.S8()  and  is  now  rector,  his  specialties  in 
the  curriculum,  this  year,  lieing  the  classics  and  logic.  I'reviou.sly  he  ha<l  taught  other  branches. 
His  own  drill,  when  a  student,  particularly  at  Itome,  v.as  very  thorough ;  he  laid  a  broad 
foundation,  and  while  teaching  others  is  eidarging  the  sphere  of  his  own  acipiisitions.  Perhaps 
the  most  no*:L\vorth3'  trait  in  his  character  is  modesty,  an  excellent  trait  in  any  one,  and 
oftenest  seen  in  the  soundest  scholars. 


I'EIKCMPAL   JOIIX    ]i.   (\'\LKIN.    ^T.A., 

TRUno,  K.  s. 

ONE  of  the  most  efficient  and  successful  educators  in  the  Province  of  Nova  Scotia  is  John 
Burgess  Calkin,  M.A.,  who  is  at  the  head  of  the  provincial  normal  school.  Truro  Ib- 
is a  son  of  Klias  and  Mary  (Burgessj  Calkin,  ami  was  born  at  Cornwallis,  N.S.,  on  the  JGth  of 
November,  lS2!t;  his  father  Ijcing  also  a  native  of  that  place.  'J'h<  famii  ■  was  origiiudly 
from  Wales,  coming  thiough  Connecticut  to  this  province.  The  jvi'ogenitoi-  of  the  Calkin 
family  in  Auurica  was  Hugh  Calkin,  born  in  l.oO'J,  and  came  with  a  Welsh  company  from 
Cheapston.  Monmouthshire,  Wales;  landing  at  Plymouth,  Ma.ss.,  in  l(i4(t;  settled  in  New 
London,  Conn.,  in  1(1.") I.  and  a  branch  of  the  family  came  to  Ainiaiio'is.  No\a  Scotia,  in  ITliO. 

The  Cii)iii(l(t  Sclioiil  Jounuil  for  April,  1H71I,  contains  a  well-riierited  sketch  of  Prini'ipal 
Calkin,  and  from  it  we  gather  the  following  facts  in  regard  to  his  !ife  : — 

Diirin}{  early  life,  in  iiddiiidii  in  sucli  opiiortunitieii  of  obtaining  kumi  lud^'c  as  won-  iiHurlcil  liy  the  dig- 
triot  si'hool,  Ir>  enjoyed  tlif  iul\;intivj<i'S  of  several  yeiira' Htud.y  nnder  the  direetion  of  Hev.  Wni.  Soinervillo, 
widely  known  tliroiighmit  the  lower  i>iovinceR  iis  iin  exeeedinjiy  fnll  iind  i.ciiiiiite  sttliolur.  >  iidouhledly  the 
imimlse  received  from  thi.t  ripe  iiml  eiithnsiiiNtii;  ediicntor  to  a  larj^e  extiiit  deterniiMi'd  hi.s  future  career.  'I'lie 
year  IH.'il  'J  was  spent  in  altiMidanee  at  tlie  Free  t'linreh  oollef^e,  Halifax,  '.henei-  he  retnriie  1  for  a  hhort  time 
t'l  the  mstitnti'ii  eond\ioted  hy  Mr.  Somerville,  and  where  he  had  previounly  nrme  ymid  p  -oi^ress  in  hoth  inatli- 
einatioal  and  classical  ptiidies.  From  IM.V2  to  IH.'ili  he  was  en^aj^ed  in  teachinv;  ih  the  cdiool.s  <if  his  native 
co'.uity,  havinu  charge  <liiring  the  years  IH.MMi  of  one  of  the  connty  '  (irannnar  Sih  'h.  .Anxious  to  (it  liinisclf 
for  the  most  etticient  discharge  of  his  prof es.sion.il  duties,  he  then  spent  a  year  u  he  lU'wly  opened  normal 
school  at  Truro  After  a  hrief  return  to  teaching  in  the  public  schools,  lie  was  sunmiined,  by  tlie  urgent  solici- 
tation of  the  late  lamented  Dr.  Forrester,  to  assume  the  head  mastership  "f  the  moclel  Kchoul  in  connection  with 
the  jirovincial  nornnil  institute.  On  the  adiption  of  the  free  school  !ici,  he  was  induc-'d  b\  superintend  uit 
l<ai\d  to  \indertake  the  <luties  of  the  inspectorship  of  schools  for  King  s  county,  where  fcr  two  years  I  e  spent 
laborious  service  in  laying  the  foundations  of  the  new  system.  He  returned  to  Tniro  as  professor  of  thi  Knglish 
department  of  the  normal  school,  and  on  Doctor  Forrester's  detifh,  in  IHli'.l,  he  was  ai)poiiiteil  his  siieces..  ir  in 
the  priiicipalship,  the  i)osition  wlii'h  he  still  holds. 

In  accordance  with  the  |irevailiiig  usage,  the  ]iriiicipal  delivers  to  the  student- teachers  the  regular 
lectures  on  school  managenii'ii'.  the  philo8o])liy  of  nielhod.  and  the  general  proprieties  of  the  professioii.  I'rin 
cipal  t'alkin's  prelectinns  are  luspired  by  a  strong  c mviction  of  the  soundness  of  the  scientiiic  b.isis  on  winch 
the  theory  of  Mornial  instituti'Uis  is  based.  'I'o  i|uote  from  the  very  elofjueiit  aih'.ress  delivered  at  the  opening  of 
the  new  noun  il  schoid  building  in  Noveiiilier  last,  he  believes  that  'Teauhiiig  is  a  coiiimimicable  art,  and  its 
methods  are  either  derived  from  scientiiic  principles,  or  they  have  been  so  verified  by  oxiierieiice  a  to  form 
un(|uestionable  rules  of  action.' 

Principal  Calkin  is  not  only  a  succcs.sfid  teacher  and  educator  of  teachers,  but  he  is 
equally  successful  as  an  autho'  of  text  liooks  for  scliools       While  professor  nl   the  department 


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of  English  in  the  normal  school,  he  made  good  use  of  his  spare  time  in  preparing  geographies, 
histories,  kc,  which  have  become  very  popular,  and  are  used  extensively  in  the  Dominion  of 
('anada.  Among  these  we  mention  the  "  General  Geography  of  the  World,"  an  unusually  large 
and  valuable  work  of  the  kind,  Vjrought  out  by  the  well  known  publishing  house  of  Thomas 
Nelson  and  Sons,  Edinburgh;  and  the  "Introductory  Geography,"  an  admirable  book  for 
primary  clas-ses  ;  both  works  Iteing  in  use  in  New  Brunswick  and  Ontario,  as  well  as  in  Nova 
Scotia  ;  the  "  History  of  Nova  Scotia,"  a  small  volume,  condensing  into  a  nutshell  nil  the  lead- 
ing facts  in  regard  to  the  province  ;  and  a  treatise  on  "  Elementary  Book-keeping."  He  has 
also  edited  a  special  edition  of  "  Swinton's  English  Grammar."  Whatever  Principal  ( *alkin 
ptits  his  mind  and  pen  to,  he  does  well ;  he  evidently  despises  slip-shod  work  of  any  kind. 
All  his  text  books  have  been  prepared  with  the  greatest  care,  and  are  constantly  gaining  in 
popularity.  A  revised  edition  of  his  history  of  Nova  Scotia  is  about  going  to  press,  and  will 
be  extended  into  an  outline  history  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada. 

In  1870,  the  university  of  Acadia  college,  Wolfville,  N.S.,  bestowed  on  Principal  Calkin 
the  honorary  degree  of  master  of  arts,  a  fitting  recognition  of  his  attainments,  and  his  position 
as  an  instructor. 

In  October,  1854,  he  was  married  to  Martha  Annie,  daughter  of  the  Rev,  William  Som- 
merville,  of  Cornwaliis  ;  and  they  have  four  children,  one  of  them,  the  eldest  daughter,  Sara 
Hany,  being  married  to  Abram  W.  Patterson,  of  Truro.  The  other  three  children,  Amelia  Ben, 
William  Sommerviile  and  Carrie  Hughina,  are  pursuing  their  studies. 

The  family  attend  St.  Andrew's  Presbyterian  church,  of  which  our  subject  lias  been  a 
trustiie,  aiid  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  .school,  from  the  organization  of  the  church, 


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MATTHEW    ]|.    KKMIEY,   Q.C.,   M.P., 

HALIFAX,  N.S. 

MATTHEW  HENHY  RICHKY,  oneof  the  members  of  the  House  of  Commons  for  the 
city  of  Halifax,  N.  S,  WHS  born  at  Windsor,  in  that  province,  on  the  10th  of  June, 
1S28  ;  he  is  the  eldest  son  of  Hev.  Miittliew  Hiehey,  1).]3.,  a  native  of  Ireland,  descended  from 
the  tried  race  of  Covenanters,  and  who  was  at  one  time  president  of  Victoria  college,  Cobourg, 
and  of  the  Wesleyan  conference  in  <  'iiiiada,  and  still  later,  of  the  Wesleyan  conference  of  east- 
ern British  Amei  ica,  now  in  his  7titli  year. 

Dr.  Kichey  was,  in  his  day,  the  most  eminent  and  adniiied  minister  of  the  Methodist 
church  in  ( 'aniida,  in  connexion  with  the  British  conference,  and  at  one  time  or  another  admin- 
i.stereil  its  affairs,  as  presiding  officer,  throughout  its  vast  extent  from  t'le  territory  ,t  the  Hud- 
sou's  Bay  Company  to  Newfoundlarwl  and  tin-  Bermudas ;  his  nanu'  is  also  widely  known  and  hon- 
)red  inthol'nited  States,  li!ivii\g  freipiently  represented  the  British  conference  as  their  dei(;gate 
to  general  conferences  of  the  Methodist  Epi.scopal  church  ;  his  eloquent  utterances  and  manly 
.sentiments  expressed  at  times  of  great  interest  (as  the  division  of  the  churches  north  and  .south) 
are  still  cherished  in  the  memorii's  of  many  who  heard  him,  especially  by  ministers  in  the  .south, 
on  wliose  behalf  his  ,symj)athies  were  enlisted  by  the  recollection  of  a  winter  passed  in  South 
( 'arolina  in  early  life,  where  his  fame  was  so  great  that  no  churches  were  found  s\ifficiently  large 
to  contain  the  crowds  th.it  Hocked  to  hear  him.      He  has  for  some  years  past  lived  in  retire- 


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ment  in  Nova  Scotia  ;  his  once  fine  constitution  having  greatly  suffered  from  injuries  received 
through  devotion  to  the  discharge  of  his  duties. 

The  mother  of  our  subject,  before  her  marriage,  was  Louisa  Matilda  N  ichols,  a  native  of 
New  York,  but  of  English  parentage,  her  grandfather  having  been  one  of  Wesley's  assistants, 
anil  descended  from  good  old  Cornish  families. 

Mr.  Kicliey  was  educated  at  the  Windsor  collegiate  school,  Upper  Canada  academy,  ( 'o- 
bourg,  Upper  Canada  college,  Toronto,  and  Queen's  college,  Kingston ;  read  law  at  Windsor, 
with  Hon.  Lewis  M.  Wilkins,  now  one  of  the  judges  of  tlie  supreme  court  of  Nova  Scotia ;  was 
called  to  the  bar  in  1850,  and  since  that  time  has  been  in  practice  at  Halifax  ;  he  was  created  a 
Queen's  Counsel  in  1873,  and  has  for  years  had  a  high  standing  at  the  bar  of  this  province. 

Ho  has  not  devoted  himself  sedulously  or  exclusively  to  the  practice  of  his  profession,  hav- 
ing always  rather  manifested  a  disposition  for  gratuitous  services  to  the  community  ;  he  was  for 
many  years  a  member  of  the  council  of  the  bar  society  for  his  native  province;  and  is  now 
vice-president  of  the  Dominion  Law  Society. 

Some  years  ago  Mr.  Richey  was  president  of  the  Halifax  school  association,  a  society  origin- 
ated for  the  purpose  of  working  reforms  in  the  school  system  of  his  province  ;  and  when  the 
law  establishing  free  schools  went  into  operation,  in  1805,  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  school  com- 
missioners, and  served  for  several  years. 

On  the  estalilishment  of  the  university  of  Halifax,  umler  an  Act  of  the  Legi.slature,  for 
the  purpose  of  combining,  as  far  as  possible,  the  various  colleges  in  existence,  and  imparting  a 
higher  status  to  the  educational  institutions  of  the  country,  he  Wivs  appointed  by  the  govern- 
ment one  of  the  members  of  the  senate  of  the  university,  and  is  one  of  its  examinci-s  in  juris- 
prudence and  Roman  law. 

He  has  long  been  a  prominent  citizen  of  Halifax,  and  has  l)een  mayor  of  that  city  for  six 
years,  first  from  18(54  to  18(17,  and  then  from  187.)  to  1878.  While  he  was  at  the  head  of  the 
municipality,  the  city  secured  many  improvements  which  have  been  largely  attributed  to  the 
care  and  assiduity  with  which  he  watched  over  its  interests.  Mr.  Kichey's  attention  to  the 
duties  of  his  ofiico  won  general  approbation,  and  were  recognized  as  contributing  to  a  better 
financial  condition  of  the  city,  and  improvement  in  its  general  administration  ;  his  adtlresses  to 
the  common  council  attracted  attention  beyond  his  own  city  and  province,  and  were  quoted 
with  approval  \)y  city  boards  in  the  United  States,  notably  by  the  commissioners  appointed  by 
the  city  of  Baltimore  to  report  upon  an  improved  .system  of  taxation,  by  whom  his  views  upon 
the  vexed  themes  of  assessment  were  given  at  length  in  an  appendix. 

Mr.  l?iclu\v  has  always  manifested  a  strong  inclination  towards  the  pr«)niotion  of  stK-ial 
science,  and  has  given  his  time,  whenever  re(|uired,  for  the  benefit  of  literary  or  chaiitable  in- 
stitutions, without  stint  or  thought  of  reward  ;  he  has  lectured  acceptably  from  time  to  time, 
oil  bolialf  of  many  of  these.  Halifax,  we  may  remark,  is  pre-eminently  distinguished  among 
tlie  cities  of  Canada  for  the  number  anil  efficiency  of  its  charitable  organizations.  During  Mr. 
Ridley's  first  term  of  otficc;  as  mayor,  an  asylum  for  the  blind  was  added  to  these,  a  be([uest 
having  been  made  by  a  wealthy  citizen  in  aid  of  that  object  on  condition  that  a  suitable  build- 
ing should  be  erectetl  within  three  years  from  his  decease,  a  project  to  the  realization  of  which 
Mr.  Richey  innnediateiy  addressed  his  energies,  and  had  the  happiness  to  see  nobly  completed 
through  the  liberality  of  the  leading  men  of  the  city.  In  the  second  year  of  his  first  term, 
also,  an  a.s.sociation  for  improving  the  condition  of  the  poor,  on  the  plan  of  the  New  York  soci- 
ety, was  organized,  of  which  he  was  the  first  [iresident,  and  which  still  continues  in  beneficial 


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operation.  Mi.  Richey  is,  and  has  for  some  years,  been  the  president  of  the  Halifax  society  for 
the  i)rt'venti(»n  of  cruelty  to  animals;  he  introduced  into  the  Parliament  of  Canada,  in  1880,  a 
Bill  to  prevent  and  puni.'sh  wrongs  to  children. 

Mr.  Richey  is  serving  his  first  term  in  parliament,  having  been  elected  in  September,  187H. 
We  learn  from  the  I'lirVinmcntary  Compdnion  that,  being  a  Liberal  Conservative,  he  '•  favors 
such  a  change  in  fiscal  arrangements  as  will  afford  security  against  destructive  foreign  competi- 
tion to  those  engaged  in  the  industrial  pursuits,  for  which  Canada  is  .specially  and  munifestly 
adapted — desiring  to  avoi<l  the  extremes  of  protection  on  the  one  hand,  and  the  misapplied  prin- 
ciples of  free  trade  on  the  other,  and  t«  promote  a  policy  of  adaptation  to  the  varying  circum- 
stances and  relations  of  the  country  "  ;  hence  he  has  great  faith  in  the  new  tariff'  law. 

His  religious  connection  is  with  the  Methodist  church  of  Canada,  of  which,  tho\igh  not 
strictl}' a  member,  he  has  always  been  a  consistent  adherent.  For  six  yeai's,  from  IS-^-l- to 
1800,  he  conducted,  with  marked  success,  the  denominational  organ  of  that  church  in  the  mari- 
time provinces,  extending  its  influence,  and  largely  increasing  its  circulation,  while  at  the  same 
time  rescuing  it  from  financial  embarrassment.  . 

Mr.  Richey  has  been  married  since  June  22,  1854,  his  wife  being  Sirah  Lavinia,  daughter 
of  the  late  Hon.  John  Hawkins  Anderson,  of  Halifax,  senator  from  1S(J7  till  his  demise  in  1870. 
They  have  three  cliildren. 

We  have  only  to  add  that  in  parliament  Mr.  Richey  speaks  but  seldom,  and  always  ably 
and  to  the  point ;  his  principal  .speech  in  the  session  of  1879,  was  on  the  taritl"  (juestion,  tlien 
the  all  absorbing  topic,  and  he  had  the  ear  of  the  Hou.se  steadily  for  an  hour  iind  a-half.  In  the 
session  of  1880,  he  was  selected  by  the  premier  to  move  the  address  in  the  House,  in  answer  to 
the  speech  from  the  throne ;  and  he  led  in  the  adjourned  debate  on  the  (juestion  of  the  fishery 
award  in  a  speech  which  occupied  two  hours,  and  covered  a  large  field  of  constitutional  law, 
and  the  relation  of  the  Province  to  the  Dominion  under  the  Act  of  Confederation. 


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JOSEPH    11.   KrNNEY,   M.P.P., 

YARMOUTH.  N.S. 

JOSEPH  ROBBINS  KINNEY,  member  of  the  House  of  Assembly  for  the  county  of  Yar- 
mouth, is  descended  from  a  family  which  came  from  Barnstable,  Mass.,  before  the  American 
revolution,  and  .settled  in  Y'armouth  county,  some  of  the  niembei-s  subsequently  moving  into 
Annapolis  county,  where,  in  the  town  of  Annapolis  Royal,  our  subject  was  born,  on  the  loth  of 
April,  183!).  His  parents  were  William  and  Orpha  (Robliins)  Kinney,  members  of  the  farming 
conununity.  The  progenitor  of  tiie  Robbins  family  in  America  came  over  in  the  May  Floircr, 
and  the  member  who  emigrated  to  Nc/a  Scotia  was  from  Plymouth,  Mass.,  where  the  pilgrims 
landed  in  December,  1020;  hence  on  both  sides  our  subject  is  of  Eiigli.sh -American  stock. 

Mr.  Kinney  received  a  n.eager  English  education,  becoming  a  clerk  in  n  dry  goods  store 
when  nine  years  old,  attending  no  school  since  that  age.  Like  .s(;ores  of  other  businessmen 
who  have  been  in  the  Legislative  Councils  of  this  province,  he  is  largely  self-educated,  and  has 
built  the  rounds  of  his  own  ladder. 

In  InOO,  Mr.  Kinney  went  into  business  for  himself  at  Yarmouth,  he  being  of  the  firm  of 
Young,  Kinney  and  Co,,  ship-builders  and  furnishers  of  outfits,  the  firm  closing  up  business  in 


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1874.  The  next  year  our  subject  re.suinctl  operations  alone,  Jis  a  ship-broker  and  |,'oneral  mer- 
chant. 

He  wa.s  at  one  period  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  cxehanjje  l)ank  of  Yar- 
mouth, and  of  the  commercial  in-sin-anee  company  ;  and  is  now  an  agent  for  commercial  in.sur- 
ance  companies,  and  holds  the  offices  of  justice  of  the  peace,  notary  public,  and  United  States 
consular  agent,  and  agent  for  several  steiimship  lines. 

Mr.  Kinney  was  elected  to  the  local  parliament  in  September,  1H78,  offering  himself  as  an 
independent  candiilate,  though  he  has  always  l)et;n  a  staunch  Lilieral,  or  peihaps  we  .sliould  .say 
Rjidical.  He  believes  in  free  trade,  and  thinks  the  country  would  be  better  governed  if  the 
local  governments  were  aboli^lu'd,  and  all  railroads  and  telegra|)h  lines  were  owned  and  con- 
trolled by  the  Dominion  Ciovcrnment.  He  is  decidedly  original  in  his  "  method  of  putting 
things,"  and  people  like  his  frank  and  fearless  enunciation  of  lii.s  sentiments  and  desiies.  When 
he  came  out  as  a  candidate  for  the  House  of  As.sembly,  he  sent  out  a  circular  to  his  constituents, 
couched  in  language  something  like  the  following: — "Yielding  to  my  own  inclinations,  I  a.sk 
you  to  return  me  as  your  representative  to  the  Nova  Scotia  Legislature."  Such  a  frank  and 
candid  appeal  for  votes  "took"  with  the  people,  and  he  was  trium|>hai)tly  elected.  His  history 
as  a  legislator  is  yet  to  be  made.  During  the  recent  .session  of  tlu'  N.  S.  Legislature,  Mr.  K. 
attracted  considerable  notice  by  voting  alone  against  government  assistance  to  denominational 
colleges.  He  is  an  off-hand,  practical  business  man,  and  if  his  anceHt(jrs  were  atHicted  with 
laziness,  he  has  not  inheriteil  it. 

Mr.  Kinney  is  a  third  degree  Mason,  and  au  adherent  of  the  Baptist  church.  He  married, 
on  th?  10th  of  August,  1860,  Adaline  ¥j.  Ritchie,  daughter  of  Andrew  Ritchie,  of  Annapolis 
Royal,  and  she  die<l  on  the  l'>th  of  June,  1878,  leaving  four  children. 


HON.   JOHN    r,.   DICKIE, 

TRURO,  N.S. 

JOHN  BARN  HILL  DICKIE,  member  of  the  eLgislative  Council  of  Nova  Scotia,  is  de- 
scended from  one  of  the  oldest  families  in  Cornwallis,  where  he  was  born  on  the  30th  of 
March,  1829.  Hif  great-grandfather  was  Matthew  Dickie,  who  married  Janet  Nisbet,  and  came  to 
Nova  Scotia  from  Londonderry,  Ireland,  about  1700,  and  settled  in  the  township  just  mentioned. 
His  wife  belonged  to  the  brave  old  race  of  Covenanters,  so  well  known  in  history,  and  noted  for 
their  godly  ami  heroic  character.  Mr.  and  Mi-s.  Dickie  came  in  the  same  ship  with  the  Creel- 
mans  and  others,  who  settled  in  this  province.  The  family  were  prosperous  from  the  first,  and 
their  descendants  are  numerous,  and  many  of  them  have  been  prominent  in  legislative  bodies 
and  in  other  otKcial  position.s. 

William,  the  eldest  scm  of  Matthew  Dickie,  was  the  father  of  the  late  Robert  McUowan 
Dickie,  of  Amhei-st,  who  was  M.  P.P.  for  Cumberland  (.ounty  for  several  years,  and  who.se  .son, 
Hon.  Robert  Barry  Dickie,  is  now  a  Senator. 

James,  the  .second  son  of  Matthew  Dickie,  and  grand'^'  .her  of  our  subject,  had  eight  sons 
and  two  daughters  by  his  wife,  Martha  Martin,  the  eldest  t  .vhom  was  the  late  Hugli  L.  Dickie, 
Custos  Rotulorum  of  King's  County.  The  .second  son  of  James  was  Isaac  P.  Dickie,  fatlier  of 
our  subject,  and  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Cornwallis.     He  dii'd  in  1 8,18,  leaving 


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thive  sons.  The  third  son  of  Matthi-w  was  David  Dickie,  father  of  Hon.  (^harles  Dickie,  and 
grandfatlicr  of  David  M.  Dickie,  late  M.  P.P.  for  King's  I'ounty.  Tlie  fourth  son  was  John 
Dickie,  said  to  have  been  the  tirst  EngU.sh  child  bom  in  Oornwallis,  and  whose  descemlants 
are  .settled  in  and  around  Hantsport. 

From  the  daughters  descended,  among  othei-s,  VVilliaui  Henry  Chipman,  late  M.  P.  for 
King's  County,  and  his  son.  Leveret  DeV.  Chipman,  also  late  M.  I'.,  and  Thomas  Logan,  for- 
merly for  Cumberland  County. 

There  have  also  been  several  clergymen  among  the  descendants  of  the  Dickie  family.  Pro- 
fessor Isaac  Chipman,  of  Acadia  College,  was  a  brother  ftf  W.  H.  Chipman.  Dr.  Robert  Dickie, 
a  profes.sor  in  a  mtdieal  college  in  JMiiiadelphia,  was  an  uncle  of  our  subject. 

Isaic  P.  Dickie,  father  of  the  Hon. .).  B.  Dickie,  married  Rebecca  Iiarid)ill,  gieat  grand- 
daughter of  Robert  Barnhill,  who  endgrated  from  Donegal,  in  the  North  of  Ireland,  to  Nova 
Scotia  in  the  autmnn  of  I7()l,  with  about  300  other  persons,  and  a  few  months  afterwards  (in 
the  spring  of  170:^),  settled  at  Chiganois,  county  of  Colchester.  Others  of  the  pavtv  settled  at 
OiLslow,  Londoiiderr}',  Tiuro,  Windsor,  and  Horton.  They  were  all  sent  out  by  the  British 
Qovernincnt.  The  wife  of  Mr.  Harnhill  is  .said  to  be  the  first  person  interred  on  tlie  burying- 
ground  in  the  Chiganois  Marsh,  as  we  learn  from  Miller's  "  Historical  and  (Jenealogicai  Record 
of  the  First  Settlers  in  Colche.^ter  County." 

Our  subject,  who  is  the  eldest  son,  was  educated  at  the  grammar  school  of  Lower  Horton, 
taught  by  Rev.  William  Sommerville,  M.  A.,  and  at  VVolfville  and  Sackvillc  academies,  and  the 
Free  Church  college,  Halifax  ;  taught  for  some  years  in  the  public  .schools  of  Nova  Scotia,  and 
afterwards  occupied  ti>e  chair  of  mathematics  in  the  Halifax  academy.  He  has  lieen  engaged  in 
years  past  in  farming,  merchandising,  banking  and  ship-building,  being  one  of  the  most  enter- 
prising men  In  this  part  of  the  country.  He  was  engaged  in  fanning  for  some  years  at  Onslow, 
where  his  eldest  son  now  resides,  and  was  the  jirojector  and  first  president  of  the  Onslow 
Agricultural  Society,  holding  that  othce  until  he  removed  to  Truro  in  1870. 

Mr.  Dickie  is  the  senior  coroner  for  the  county,  being  appointed  in  18.54  ;  has  been  a  justice 
of  the  peace  since  18(jl,  and  Custos  Rotulorum  since  1808.  He  is  also  a  .school  conunissioner  for 
the  county  of  Colchester,  president  of  the  Truro  Marine  Insurance  Company,  and  up  to  1878.  was 
agent  at  Truro  for  the  Merchants'  Bank  of  Halifax.  He  was  connected  with  the  militia  at  one 
time,  and  rose  to  the  rank  of  major,  and  then  resigned.  He  is  the  principal  owner  and  manager 
of  several  largo  ships  which  are  engag(>d  in  the  North  Atlantic  and  European  trade,  he  being  far 
the  largest  ship-owner  in  Truro. 

Mr.  Dickie  lii-st  entered  pidilic  lifi'  in  1874,  when  he  w;is  elecrted  to  represent  the  county 
of  Colchester  in  the  Legislative  As.sembly,  and  was  Speaker  of  that  body  during  the  session  of 
187.),  at  the  clo.se  of  which  he  resigned  that  position.  He  was  called  to  the  Legislative  Council 
ill  1878.     His  politics  are  Liberal. 

To  his  eti'orts  and  influence  the  town  of  Truro  owes  the  fine  building  of  the  Provincial 
Normal  school,  one  of  its  chief  ornaments,  which  wa.s  erected,  at  an  expense  to  the  province  of 
some  forty  thou.sand  dollara,  by  authority  of  a  special  Act  of  Parliament,  and  under  his  super- 
vision as  chairman  of  the  commi.ssion. 

Mr.  Dickie  is  an  elder  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  having  held  that  otlice  since  18.')8,  and 
he  has  frecpiently  been  a  delegate  >  the  presbytery  and  s^'uod,  in  which  capacity  he  was  pre- 
sent, and  took  part  in  the  Union  of  the  Free  and  United  Presbyterian  Churches  of  Nova  Scotia 
which  took  place  at  Pictou  in  18(J0. 


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He  has  been  twice  inairieil ;  Uie  first  time  iu  18.")0,  at  Stewiacke,  to  Miss  Ellen  Putnam, 
eldest  (laughter  of  late  Timothy  Putnam,  Est] ,  leaving  three  chililren,  two  sons  and  one  daupfhter  ; 
and  the  second  time,  in  l(So8,  at  Onslow,  to  Miss  Harriet  Dickson,  eldest  daughter  of  Hugh 
Dickson,  Ks(|.,  hy  wliom  he  has  seven  daughters  and  one  son.  The  two  sons  hy  the  first  wife 
are  settled  in  life,  Sanuiel,  the  elder,  being  a  farmer  in  Onslow,  and  Martin  lias  his  father's  place 
as  agent  of  the  Merchants'  Bank  in  Tiuro.  He  married  Lucy  H.  Eaton,  of  Maitland.  The 
daughter,  Mary,  is  mariied  to  Jehiel  Fulton  farmer  at  Onslow.  Ellon,  the  eldest  daughter  by 
his  second  wife,  is  a  teacher  in  the  Model  .school,  in  Truro,  and  Susan,  the  second  daugliter, 
is  teaching  at  Cornwallis.     The  other  children  arc  attending  school. 


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REY.   EDMUND   A.   CRAWLEY,   D.D., 

WOLFVILLE,  N.S. 

EDMUND  ALBERN  CIIAVVLEY,  who  occupies  the  chair  of  e.vcgesis  and  gcncial  interpre- 
tation of  the  Greek  Scriptures  in  Acadia  college,  was  Iwrn  at  Ipswich,  Sutt'olk,  England, 
January  20,  179S>,  his  father  being  Thomas  Crawle}',  a  conuuander  in  the  British  navy.  The 
family  sprang  from  Judge  Crawley,  one  of  the  two  judges  who  refused  to  pa,ss  condenmation  on 
Charles  I.  Thomas  Crawley  married  Esther  Bernal,  her  father  being  a  Londoner,  and  she  be- 
ing a  sister  of  Ralph  Bernal,  for  a  great  many  years  member  of  Parliament  for  Rocliester,  hold- 
ing that  position  when  he  died. 

In  the  fifth  year  of  our  subject,  the  family  emigrated  to  Nova  Scotin  and  ho  was  educated 
in  the  arts  at  King's  college,  Windsor,  being  matriculated  in  181G,  and  graduateil  B.A.,  1819, 
and  afterwards  M.A.  He  studied  law  at  Halifax  with  Judge  Johnston  :  was  called  to  the  bar 
in  1822,  and  practised  in  Halifax,  and  in  the  circuit  courts  of  Nova  Scotia,  until  near  the  close 
of  1828,  when,  having  changed  his  religious  views  from  an  Episcopalian  to  a  Baptist,  he  en- 
gaged with  others  in  founding  Horton  academy  at  Wolf vi  lie. 

In  1828,  having  the  ministry  in  view,  Mr.  (Crawley  went  to  Andover,  Ma'^.s.,  and  became  a 
resident  graduate  of  the  theological  institution,  attending  Professor  Moses  Stuart's  lectures  in 
Hebrew  and  Greek  exegesis,  and  those  of  the  Rev,  Dr.  Leonard  Woods,  on  Christian  theology. 
In  1830,  ho  was  ordained  an  evangelist  at  Providence,  R.I.,  Rev.  Dr.  Wayland,  president  of 
Brown  university,  and  other  ministers  in  the  neighborhood,  composing  the  council ;  and  the 
next  year  he  became  pastor  of  Granville  street  Baptist  church,  Halifax. 

In  1839,  our  subject  undertof)k,  together  with  the  Rev.  Dr.  Pryor,  to  commence  the  found- 
ing of  what  was  first  called  "  Queen's,"  and  was  .soon  changed  to  Acadia,  college,  and  of  which, 
when  opened,  he  took  the  chair  of  moral  and  intellectual  science.  About  184.>,  he  received 
from  Brown  university  the  degree  of  doctor  of  divinity. 

In  1847,  Dr.  Crawley  returned  to  his  old  charge  in  Halifax,  on  account  of  some  difiieulty 
which  they  had  in  supplying  the  pulpit;  and,  after  remaining  there  for  five  years,  returned  to 
Wolfville,  and  resumed  the  chair  of  moral  and  intellectual  philosophy,  together  with  the  pres- 
idency of  the  college.  That  position  he  held  for  four  years,  and  then  accepted  the  pastorate 
of  the  Baptist  church  in  Mount  Auburn,  Cincinnati,  O.,  together  with  the  presidency  of  the 
female  college,  then  just  starting  there. 


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Tn  18(50,  Dr.  Cniwl»>y  became  joint-president  with  tlie  Rev.  Dr.  VV'illiam  Curtis,  of  the 
Well-known  female  college  in  Limestone  Springs,  South  Carolina,  and  was  engaged  in  teaching 
tliere  (hiring  the  eivil  war,  returning  in  ISOo  to  Acadia  '•oliege,  as  profes.sor  of  rhetoric  and 
political  eeonomy  ;  and,  fotn-  years  later,  was  transferred  to  tlie  chair  of  the  exegesis  and 
general  interpretation  of  the  (Jrcek  New  Testament  in  the  theoiogieal  department  of  Acadia 
college,  in  conjunction  with  the  office  of  principal  of  the  department. 

Dr.  ( "rawley  has  a  clas.sical  type  of  mind,  and  in  liis  earlier  years  was  very  fond  of  tlie 
languages,  rather  excelling  in  thera  na  a  teacher.  His  preaching  is  of  that  type,  and  is  greatly 
relished  hy  persons  of  a  thoroughly  cultivated  taste.  He  is  a  good  (Jreek  and  Hebrew  scholar, 
his  turn  of  iniml  leading  him  to  harmonise  with  the  genius  of  language. 

Some  years  ago,  Dr.  Crawley  wrote  a  small  work  in  defence  of  the  principii'S  of  the  Baptist 
denomination — the  only  volume,  large  or  small,  we  believe,  that  he  has  ever  had  published. 
He  has,  liowever,  written  considerably  on  educational  and  religious  subjects,  for  newspapers 
and  periodicals,  his  writings  all  sliowing  marks  of  the  clear  tliinker  and  logician. 

j)i'.  Crawley  lias  lw;en  twice  married  ;  the  first  time,  in  1833,  to  Miss  Julia  .\iiielia  Wilby, 
of  Boston,  Mass.,  she  (lying  in  1842,  leaving  one  .son,  who  soon  followed  her  ;  and  the  second 
time,  in  December,  1842,  to  Mi.ss  Elizabeth  Johnston,  daughter  of  Dr.  Lewis  Johnston,  of  Wnlf- 
ville,  and  niece  of  Judge  Johnston,  of  Halifax,  having  by  her  six  children,  all  living  but  one 
son. 


IIO^.   CllAKLEfS   J.   TOW:NSliENi),   Q.C.,  .M.P.P., 

AMHERST  N.S. 

CHARLKS  JAMES  TOVVNSHEND,  barrister-at-law,  ami  member  of  the  Covcrnmcnt  of 
Nova  Scotiii,  is  descended  from  the  Townshends  of  Norfolk,  England,  being  a  grandson 
of  Hon.  William  Town.shend,  who  came  from  the  old  country  about  the  beginning  of  the  pres- 
ent century,  and  was  at  one  time  Comptroller  of  customs,  and  administrator  of  tiie  government 
of  Prince  Edward  Island,  when  that  island  was  under  the  Crown.  Our  subject  is  a  grandson 
of  the  H(m.  Alexander  Stewart,  Master  of  the  Rolls,  and  judge  of  the  vice-admiralty  court  at 
Halifax,  and  a  son  of  Rev.  Canon  Townshend,  and  was  bor.i  at  Amhei-st,  N.S.,  on  the  22n<l  of 
March,  1844.  His  father  is  a  native  of  Prince  Edward  Island;  was  born  at  (liarlottc- 
town,  in  1810.  At  six  years  of  age.  Canon  Townshend  was  sent  to  Scotland  to  be  educated  in 
the  arts,  attending  school  first  in  Dumfries-shire,  Scotland,  and  afterwards  at  the  Kdinbundi 
univeI•sit3^  Returning  to  this  country,  he  prepared  for  orders  in  tlie  Church  of  England  at 
King's  college,  Windsor,  N.S.,  and  was  ordained  by  the  late  Bishop  Inglis,  in  1834,  at  Annapolis 
Royal.  He  was  appointed  rector  of  Amherst  in  the  same  year,  and  is  still  serving  his  Master 
in  that  capacity,  being  one  of  the  oldest  rectors  in  the  province.  Several  years  ago,  he  was 
appointed  Rural  Dean,  and  also  Canon  of  St.  Lake's  cathedral,  Halifax. 

Canon  Townshend  has  been  chairman  of  the  board  of  school  commissioners  of  Cumberlantl 
county  for  thirty  or  forty  years,  and  has  always  been  a  very  active  and  influential  man  in  edu- 
cational matters,  in  this  county. 

Mr.  Townshend  received  his  classical  education  at  the  collegiate  school  and  King's  college, 
Windsor,  graduating  with  honors  in  June,  18G2,  and  receiving  the  degree  of  B.A.  in  1863,  and 
B.C.L.  in  1868.  ,  His  legal  education  he  commenced  at  Amherst,  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Robert  B. 


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Dickey,  senator,  and  com]»Ietetl  it  in  Halifax,  N.S. ;  was  admitted  to  tlie  bar  in  April,  lS(it5,  a!ul 
created  a  Queen's  Counsel  in  Oct  oer,  1880. 

Mr.  Townshend  is  tlie  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Townshend  and  Dieke}',  liis  partner 
being  k  >s'm  of  the  Senator.  Tlieir  business  extending  into  all  the  courts  of  the  province,  Mr. 
Townshend  has  been,  and  continues  to  be,  engaged  in  the  leading  civil  and  criminal  courts  in 
his  county,  and  he  stands  at  the  head  of  the  Cumberland  bar.  He  is  a  rising  young  man,  with 
bright  pro.spects  before  him. 

Mr.  Townshe'id  is  a  Free  Mason,  and  holds  tlie  ottice  of  a  district  de[iuty  grand  master  of 
the  order  in  this  province. 

He  \\as  elected  to  the  Provincial  A.s.sembly  at  the  last  general  election,  held  in  September, 
1 878,  and  was  sworn  ia  as  a  member  of  the  Executive  Council  in  October,  same  year.  His 
jtolitics  arc  Liberal-Conservative,  he  giving  an  earnest  supj)ort  to  the  national  policy,  as  enun- 
ciated and  advocated  by  the  leaders  of  that  party.  Sir  Jcihn  A.  Macdonald,  Sir  Charles  Tupper. 
and  others. 

Mr.  Townshend  was  married  on  the  J.'ird  of  April.  1807,  at  Andierst.  to  Laura,  fourth 
daughter  of  .1.  D.  K'nnear,  Esq.,  judge  ot  probate  foi'  Cumberland  county,  ar.il  they  iiave  four 
children  living,  and  l>a\e  U)st  two. 

(  ui  subject  is  a  mendjcr  of  the  Church  of  Kngliind,  and  lias  held  tlie  ottico  of  waiden  of 
Christ  churcli,  Andierst,  and  been  a  delegate  to  ll.e  Diocesan  Synod.  Hi*  moral,  as  well  as 
legal,  character  is  excellent. 


(UlAKLES    IJEIS'i;  M.D., 

TRUHO,  N.  S. 

CHAIILKS  BENT  is  the  oldest  })hysician  and  surgeon  in  Truro,  and  among  the  weli-kiiowii- 
men  in  the  county  of  Colchister,  his  jnofessional  visits  having,  at  ceitain  jieriods,  Iti'cii 
(juite  extensive.  He  comes  friau  one  of  the  oldest  fandlies  that  settled  in  this  section  of  t' 
country,  liis  great-graniU'iitliei'  being  one  of  the  original  grantei's  of  lau'ls  in  tlic  county  oC  Cum- 
berland. J)r.  Hi'iit  is  a  native  of  that  county,  ilat.ing  liis  birth  at  Amherst,  on  the  iOth  of  Jiui- 
uary,  182(),  his  father  being  .Tohn  Rent,  an  agrieultuiist.  His  mother  was  M.rtlia  McLellan,  .i 
relative  of  Senator  Mcl..ellaii,  an<l  belonging  to  an  oM  iiOiulondorry,  Ireland,  tftrnily. 

Our  .'^iibject  was  ■.•ducated  at  Saikvillc  T'oUcj^o,  N.  B.,  and  the  Pennsylvania  rniversity, 
one  ol  the  oldest  medical  institutions  in  the  United  States,  receiving  tlie  drgree  of  M. I),  in 
i'Ml.  After  juactisiiig  between  five  and  six  years  in  ("umberlnni!  County  tlie  Doctor  removed 
to  Tru'i),  in  1853.  and  has  here  been  in  steady  j»ractic(  for  twenty-eight  years,  lie  luis  always 
had  a  good  run  of  businesw,  a  good  reputation  fur  skill,  and  has  made  a  inarkf  !  snccss  of  his 
jirofession. 

Dr.  Bent  has  been  surgeon  of  a  volunteer  compatiy,  and  a  scluxtl  trustee  ;  is  health  officer 
and  a  coroner  of  the  county,  and  al.so  a  town  eouncilloi.  and  in  variiais  other  ways  has  nia'li' 
himself  useful  to  the  comnuinity.  Although  usually  bu'V  in  his  profession,  the  I'octor  seem-, 
to  have  been  willing  to  bear  his  share  of  the  burdens  of  public  olHce.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Church  of  Enghind  and  has  held  the  olti.^i'  of  vestryman,  and.  we  lielievc,  one  or  two  others  in 
the  church.     His  character  has  always  stood  well,     He  is  kimi  to  the  poor  and  has  riildi-i;  n,any 


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limidietl  inilos  without  any  t'X[>ectation  of  compensation,  except  tlio  comfort  of  giving  seivico 
where  it  was  greatly  iieedcd. 

T!ie  Doctor  has  ilevot(>il  a  ]iortion  of  tlie  K'istire  time  at  liis  command  to  writing  for  tlio 
press,  mainly  fortlie  Monlrcit  Mi<Vi>id  H<  foril i\\v\  the  local  newsj)aper.s.  In  IS.')S  he  pnhlished 
a  mo'iograph  on  Diphtheria,  which  attracted  a  good  deal  of  attention. 

He  has  a  second  wife,  the  first  heing  Mary  Jl.  (ioudge,  of  Truro,  married  in  IS").")  and  <lying 
in  18(i8,  leaving  four  children,  two  since  dying;  and  the  second  heing  P'dizaheth  Metzler,  also  of 
Truro,  married  in  1.S71.  He  has  mly  the  two  children  surviving  the  tirst  wile,  (,'harlcs  and  Mary 
L.  A.,  hotli  living  at  home. 


IIOX.    WILLIAM   d.   ^\LM():S,  AI.D. 


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ILLIAM  J()H\ST(>N  ALMOX,  one  of  the  Senators  from  Nova  Scotia,  is  a  son  ..f  the 


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who  was  apjinintcd  assistant  singeon  ((■  the  Royal  Artillery  at  New  York,  in  June,  177<>,  and 
having  served  in  the  lirilish  army  in  Aiiifrien,  until  the  elosc  of  the  war,  eami-  to  Halifax, 
entered  into  the  pr;;ctice  of  his  jirofcssmn,  aud  married  .Miss  iu'hecca  Byles,  granddaughter  of 


the  Rev.  Mather  lUle.s,  D.D.,  of  l!..st. 


Mi, 


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ted  cli'iieal  vit,a/id  adherent  to  the( 


rown 


during  the  strife  of  the  toldiiies  fnv  iiidependeuci". 

Our  suhject  has  a  copy  of  Rope's  translation  of  Homer's  <).ly.s.si>y,  pre.sented  to  Dr.  Ryles  by 
the  translator,  with  an  autogruph  letter,  si:.;ned  "  .\.  I'upe  "  He  has  also  numerous  letters  written 
hy  Dr.  Ryles,  and  ins  portrait  in  oil  \<\  t '(i|iiey,  and  his  family  RiMe  ;  the  si;rnatnres  of  (^»ueen 
Anne  alidtieoige  the  'fhird.  to  vaiious  documents  and  vari<ius  mementoes, and  remindeis  of  the 
olden  times,  esptciaily  siu'li  as  "tried  mens  souls."    Any  jier.ion  desirous  of  literar}'  .anmsenient 


wdl  do  wi 


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Pr.  Ryles  Wiis  descended  on  his  mother' ,s  si<le,  fre.m  the  Rex.  John  ('otten.  who  emigrated 
fn»m  lioston,  Kngiand,  to  Roston,  .Mass.,  in  l(i.'?<>  and  in  eompliiuent  to  whom  the  town  of  l5oston 
reei'iveil  its  name.  Re\'  Mather  Ryles.  ir,,  IV  1».,  was  (he  tirst  rector  of  Tiinity  Chureh,  St.  John, 
X.  R..  and  chaplain  of  the  forces  there  ,it  the  time  of  his  deaih. 

Dr.  .Mmon  was  lioin  in  llelifaxon  tlie  iJTth  ot  .lanuaiv.  ISRI  his  mother  heing  L.-dealt 
Johnston,  datighter  of  William  .loiiuston,  M,]).,  a  captain  of  New  Voik  Nuhinteeis  in  iTT'i  who 
was  jiresent  at  the  defence  of  Savannah,  was  at  the  capture  of  Fort  Montgonr>rv  on  the  Hud-^.'n, 


ind  nuiiM  i(iii> 


>tl 


iir  K -tioiis  chiiinLT  the  Ameiican  war.      Di.  A'luon  was  educated  in  the  mt,s  at 


Kit 


Hi's  ( 'ollcire 


Windsor,  N.  S.,  xvhere  he  ti"'k  ti.e  degree  of  R.  A.,  in  IN-'H,  and  in  inedieino  at  the 


I'niversities  of  |-'diiiliingh  ;;nd( 'he^gow,  receiving  the  de^^'r.'e  of  M  D   from  tlv  latter  instituti 


on 


in  \s:]S.   He  h 


as  lieen 


for  fortv  ',•)  nn-  a  leadiu''  i'livsi<-i 


id 


i«n  ami  surgeon  lit 


llalifM 


\,  <loing  HH  e.\ten- 


tnisteo  of  the  Nova  Scotia  Btiildinir  Scnietv,  and  a 


sive  and  highly  reuiunera'ivc  lo.siness. 

He  is  a  governor  of  Kings  (\)llcg< 
(diistilting  physician  to  the  Halifax  Hospital  and  Dispensary  ;  and  has  iicen  jircsideiit  of  tlie  St,. 
Cicori^re's  Society,  and  of  the  Halifax  (  hdv  ami  suri,renu  to  tlie  Hali<;i\  Kield  Ratter\  n\'  .Artillery. 

Dr.  Almon  was   elected  (o   the  House  of  t'liiiiiuoiis  lit    the  ecneial   election  in   IN"-,  for  the 
County  of   Halifax,  mid  wtus  cjdlcd   to  t'oc  Senu,     in  1^7!*.     He  is  a  '  oiiservative,  riiei     iid 

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thorough-going  in  his  loyalty  to  the  mother  country,  and  would  do  everything  iu  his  power  to 
strengthen  the  adherence  to  her  institutions. 

During  the  late  war  between  the  Northern  and  Southern  States,  Dr.  Almon  was  an  ardent 
advocate  of,  and  ensrgetic  sympathizer  with  the  South,  and  has  in  his  possession  a  despatch  from 
President  Davis,  "  thanking  him  for  his  efficient  and  disinterested  support  of  the  cause. " 

Senator  Almon  married  in  1840,  Elizabeth  Liehtenstein,  daughter  of  Judge  Ritcliie,  deceased, 
of  Annapolis,  and  she  has  been  the  mother  of  thirteen  children,  eleven  of  them  yet  living;  they 
are  all  living  in  Nova  Scotia,  with  the  exception  of  two  sons.  Cotton  Mather  Almon,  who  resides 
in  Winnipeg,  Manitoba,  and  Andrew  Uniacke  Almon  in  Ottawa. 

Dr.  Alnion's  eldest  son.  Dr.  William  Bruce  Almon,  died  iu  18(57,  and  held  a  commission  as 
assistant-surgeon  in  the  Confederate  States  arm}',  during  their  gallant  but  unsuccessfid  struggle 
for  freedom  and  independent  government. 

His  .second  son,  Dr.  Thomas  Ritchie  Almon,  is  physician  and  surgeon  to  tiie  Poor's  Asylum 
and  to  Infants'  Home  at  Halifax,  and  surgeon  to  the  Halifax  Field  Batter^-,  tlie  oldest  military 
organization  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada.  He  was  educated  at  King's  College,  Windsor,  and  in 
Paris  and  New  Yoi-k,  and  was  mar  '::d  in  Montreal  to  Frances,  daughter  of  the  late  John  Egan, 
M.  P.,  for  Pontiac,  and  has  issue,  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 


GEORGE    8.   ]U{OAVN, 


YARMOUTH,  N.S. 


/^  EOHCtE  S.  brown,  was  born  in  1827  at  Yarmuuth,  wh.iv  he  was  educated.  From 
\jr  1845  to  18+!1  he  was  engaged  in  business  with  W.  H.  Townsend,  first  as  clerk,  then 
as  partner,  and  for  tive  or  six  years  was  employed  as  liookkeeper  for  the  tirm  of  Tliomas 
Killaui  and  Co.  For  twenty-five  years  he  was  a  ship-owner,  interested  in  thirty-eight  ves,sels 
altogether;  for  aighteen  years  a  director  and  for  ten  years  president  of  the  Acadian  Marine 
Insurance  Company  ;  he  promoted  the  ori,'anization  of  the  Yarmouth  (Jas  Company,  and  was 
for  some  years  one  of  its  directors  ;  and  was  one  of  the  principal  original  stockholders  in  the 
Hank  of  Yarmouth,  and  the  Exchange  Bank  of  Yaiinouth. 

In  l8G(),  Mr.  Brown  selected  and  purchased  the  site  for  tli"  "  Mountain  Cemetery  ;  '  pio- 
cured  the  services  nf  H.  W.  S.  CUn-eland,  Esi|  ,  now  of  f!hii'ago,  to  survt-y,  and  lay  out  the 
grounds  ;  was  prominent  in  the  organization  of  the  ccmetfry  comjiany,  ami,  as  trustee,  for  some 
years  devoted  a  good  deal  of  time  in  supervising  the  lalK)rs  of  the  workmen. 

In  1.S62,  he  originated  the  movement  for  building  I  '  ivate  subscription  the  Yarmouth 
seminary,  iH'adiii'.' the  subscrijition  list  with  his  name  for  "*1,(M)0;  in  IHOH,  he  was  electeil  to 
ri'present  Yarmouth  in  the  House  of  .Assembly  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  in  l.S(>")  resigned  his  seat  ; 
in  IS(;:l  and  18(14,  he  built  the  wharf  and  warehouses  known  as  "  (  entral  wharf."  and  occupied 
tliem  till  1877  when  they  were  noM  to  L  E.  Baker,  Esq.  In  1867,  opposed  to  Thomas  Killam, 
and  in  1H7V  oppose*!  to  Frank  Killam.  the  |)resent  member,  was  an  unsuccesHfui  candidate  in 
the  Liberal  interest  for  th^^  Hou.se  of  < 'omni  n.s. 

He  was  appointed  a  magistr.ite  in  IH(i(»and  U)ok  a  lea<ling  |iart  in  municipal  affairs  till 
lH7i>,  when  the  pr  -x:.l  law  for  the  municipal  incorjKjration  of  counties  cam**  into  operation 


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He  was  one  of  the  original  promotoi-s  ami  directors  of  the  "  Western  Counties  "  Railway 
Company,  in  187:2,  but  was  opposed  to  the  abandonment  of  the  interior  route  to  Annapolis, 
and,  upon  the  adoption  of  the  present  route,  he  withdrew  his  support  from  tlie  enterprise. 

Mr.  Brown  is  an  extensive  owner  of  real  estate  in  Yarmouth  county,  principally  farm  and 
pasture  lands,  purchased  mainly  for  stock-raising  and  with  a  view  of  developing  the  agricul- 
tural capabilities  of  the  county  ;  he  is  chiefly  distinguished  for  his  devotion  to  the  agricultural 
interests  of  the  county  in  introducing  to  the  notice  of  the  farmer  improved  agricultural  imple- 
ments and  a  pure  breed  of  Shorthorn  and  Ayi'shire  cattle,  and  by  example  upon  his  homestead 
farm  in  encouraging  a  thorough  cultivation  of  the  land  and  a  systematic  division  and  arrange- 
ment of  a  farm  and  buildings;  he  was  for  some  years  meniber  of  the  N.  S.  Central  Board  of 
Agriculture.     A  Liberal  in  politics  and  religion. 

Mr.  Brown  married  in  1850,  Elizabeth,  third  daughter  of  the  late  Hon.  James  Bond.  They 
have  had  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  all  living  but  the  youngest  son. 

Note.— Charles  E  Hrowii,  brother  of  the  foregoing,  is  engaged  in  mercantile  and  ship-owning  liu^inoss  at 
Milton,  occupying  the  old  h()ine.stend  property  of  his  grandfather,  John  Brown,  suhseiiuently  added  to  and  im- 
proved hy  his  father.  He  has  been  a  director  in  the  Biink  of  Yarmouth,  since  its  or].;anization  in  18t!;{,  and  is 
now  vice-president  ;  is  a  magistrate  and  commi88i(mer  of  schools,  and  an  importer  and  enthusiastic  breeder  of 
.lersey  cattle  ;  he  is  noted  as  tlie  active  and  indefatisjable  president  of  the  Yarmouth  county  a<;ricultural  soci- 
ety ;  is  devoted  to  horticulture  and  is  now  a  meml>er  of  the  N(>\a  Scotia  central  board  of  agriculture. 


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NEl»EA]S^    CLARKE, 

HALIFAX,  N.ti. 

ONK  of  the  oldest  barristers  now  living  in  the  city  of  Halifax,  is  Ncpoan  Clarke,  a  native 
of  this  city,  born  May  24,  18 10.  He  retired  from  a  successful  and  honorable  career  in 
his  profession  just  as  he  had  rounded  up  his  t.-ree  score  years  and  ten,  and  is  now  living  at  his 
ease. 

Mr.  Clarke  is  the  son  of  a  barrister,  David  Shaw  (^larkf,  who  had  the  honor  of  pro- 
claiming the  last  two  sovereigns  of  (!rc:it  Hritani,  and  whose  father  was  a  tiiin  adhi-reiit  tn  the 
(Vowii,  leaving  Rhode  Island  because  of  his  lnyaltv  and  emigrating  to  Nova  Scotia  itt  the  time 
of  the  revolt  of  the  American  colonies.  The  motlu'r  of  our  subject,  Sophia  ibKtfriiian,  was  a 
native  of  Nova  Scotia.  Both  parents  died  many  years  ago.  Long  before  his  father's  death,  he 
fthe  father''  was  offered  knighthood,  but  ileclined  it. 

Mr.  Clarke  was  educated  in  Halifax,  finishing  at  the  excellent  gnimmar  school  taiiL'ht  !iy 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Twining,  and  has  always  taken  a  great  deal  of  interest  in  educational  matters. 
For  a  long  series  of  yt:  -s  he  attended  annually  tlio  anniversary  of  King's  eollegi',  Windsor,  N  S. 
and  held  at  one  jjeriod  the  oHice  of  president  of  the  Alumni  as.sociation. 

He  studied  law  with  his  father,  and  was  called  to  the  bar  -imultaneously  with  his  ai rival 
at  his  majority,  and  was  in  practice  in  Halifax  from  1831  to  1880,  or  one  yew  less  than  half  a 
century,  doing  business  in  the  several  courts  of  the  province,  Supieme,  Chancery  and  Nice 
Adndralty,  and  always  maintaining  a  creditable  standing  at  the  bar. 

Mr.  Clark<'  held  the  olhce  of  clerk  of  the  peace  for  twenty  years,  and  perfoinieil  it>  duties 
promptly  and  faithfully,  a.s  he  has  every  other  duty  devolving  u|>on  him  in  life. 

He  is  a  memlK'r  of  the  Church  of  Ktigland,  and  has  been  active  in  matters  pertaining  to  its 

vst.     His  ffllow -citizens  give  him  eiedit  for  having   lived  a  life  of  striet  integritv.  and  of 


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much  usefulness.     Ho  shares  in  a  largo  nioasuro  the  respect  and  esteem  of  his  neigliliors,  and  of 
all  wlio  know  him. 

Mr.  Clarke  has  had  a  second  wife.  He  was  first  married  in  1>S;U  to  Mary  Jane  Marshall, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Marshall,  of  Halifax,  she  dying  al>out  ItS-t.') ;  ami  thosi!cond  time  in  ItSiS  to 
Mis.  Margaret  Glover,  daughter  of  Mr.  Sweeney,  from  Belfast,  Ireland,  and  in  his  latter  years  of 
Montreal.  He  has  three  cliildren  living  by  the  first  wife,  one  son,  Henry,  a  l)ank  accovntant, 
Halifax,  and  two  daughters— P^nnna,  the  wife  of  Rev.  O.  JI.  Ifrimdon,  of  Bristol,  England,  and 
Mary  Helen,  widow  of  llev.  S.  B.  Kellogg,  of  tlie  Province  of  Ontario.  He  lia.i  been  a  widower 
.since  1808.  The  cousin  of  Mr.  Clarke,  the  Hon.  Beatrice  Byng,  daughter  of  Admiral  Byng,  was 
a  Maid  of  Honor  to  lier  Royal  Highness  Queen  \'ictoria  for  many  years. 


HON.   .lAMEiS    S.    :\tAC  DONALD,  M.L.C., 

HALIFAX,  X.S. 

JAMKS  SIMON  MACDONALi),  member  of  llij  legislative  council  of  \ova  Setttia,  and  a 
well-known  banker  of  Halifax,  was  born  therj  on  the  7th  of  May,  1n:$7.  He  is  the  eldest 
son  of  Robert  Maedonald,  formerly  of  Dornoch,  Sutherlandshire,  Scotland,  who,  fur  fifty  years, 
was  connected  with  the  customs  department,  Halifax.  * 

Ml-.  Maedonald  was  educated  at  Halifax,  and  was  prepared  for  mercantile  life  by  Professors 
McCullocli,  and  Hugo  lleid,  entering  business  early  in  life.  With  a  full  knowledge  of  the 
people  and  wants  of  Nova  Scotia,  he  has  been  enabled  of  late  y(-ars  to  pusii  a  most  suecessfid 
business  in  the  tirir  of  James  S.  Maedonald  and  Company,  bankers  and  brokers.  He  is 
thoroughly  c-inversant  with  his  profession,  and  lias  a  deservedly  liigli  re[iutation  for  integrity 
and  fair  dealing. 

For  the  jiast  twenty  years  Mr.  ]:.hicdonal<l  has  been  a  most  consistent  and  energetic  worker 
in  the  forciuost  rank  of  the  conservative  Jiarty  of  Nova  Seotia.  Previous  to  Confederation,  as 
a  committee  man  and  canvasser,  he  made  himself  well  known  ;  and  since  Confederation  in  the 
amalgami.ti(.pn  i.f  the  Liberals  and  Consei'v.itives  faxuiable  to  tluit  men.'Uie,  lie  has  bee'ii  dis- 
tinguished a.s  a  liilieral  Conservative  in  his  expressed  belief,  and  works  for  the  triumph  of  that 
party,  for  the  good  of  the  country. 

In  liST-t  he  was  selected  liy  the  leailers  of  tbe  Liberal  Conservative  party  to  r  j,'anize  and 
promote  a  company  for  tbe  pwblieatien  of  a  Journal  in  Nova  Seotia  that  woujil  iml  only  well 
represent  the  polities  of  the  party,  but  would  also  1)e  an  organ  that  would  sreure  a  large  circi- 
latie.i  throtighout  the  Lower  I'rovinces.  Mr.  Macdonai<l  enten  il  w  itli  enthusiasm  into  the  task, 
&iu)  aideo  by  a  large  committ  'c  of  stoukholders,  the  Moniiiij  Jinuld  was  started  in  January, 
l.STo,  In  connection  with  tie;  c<.'mpany  Mr.  Maedonald  saw  .some  undoubtedly  hard  work,  iuit 
was  rewardeil  by  the  success  of  the  pa[>er  which  .soon  took  a  leading  place  as  n  Journal,  not  ojily 
in  jiolitics,  but  as  a  thorouglily  relinbk'  papii.  In  \s~'y  tln'  Lilieral  ('oi!s,'i\Mtive  p;irt\'  were 
returned  to  jiiiwer,  and  it  was  universally  aeknow  ledgi'd  that  the  lli  ni/J  hail  largel\' srt  uicd 
that  result,  by  the  untiring  devotion  to  the  party,  of  its  editorial  and  managing  coiiiniittee. 
When  its  success  as  a  journal  had  become  a  certainty,  and  a  eircniation  seeincd  fur  it  second 
to  none  in  the  .Maritime  Pr'ovinees,  Mr.  Maedonald  withdrew  from  his  position  as  secietar\'. 
Although  a  young  man,  le'  lias  thus  seen    considerable  service  ns  a  politician,  fur  tin'  ibities 


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(lescriVted  iibove  as  coiinectud  with  the  Ilcntld  were  by  no  means  confined  to  the  puhhcation  of 
the  j)in)er.  Tlic  Cdiiiniittfe  of  the  Ilernld  in  Halifax  became  the  centre  of  tlie  Liberal  Conser- 
vativi-  party  in  Nova  Seotia.  In  its  ofliet;  tiie  successful  campaign  of  187iS  was  organized. 
Counties  hitherto  (irit  wen-  Hooded  with  Liberal  Conservative  literature,  and  bore  fruit,  in  a 
universal  sweep  of  seats  for  that  jiarty. 

Ill  1S78,  be  was  caliccl  to  a  \aciint  seat  in  the  Legislative  Council;  the  work  of  organizing 
was  over,  l>ut  with  succi'ss  tliat  nf  consolidation  begun.  Mr.  Macdonald,  m  nieml)er  of  the 
council,  has  shown  good  abilitv  as  a  debater,  lias  been  chairman  .)f  .several  important  connnit- 
tees,  and  lm.s  in  that  jiosition  done  good  service.  He  strongly  advocates  the  centralization  of 
power  at  Ottawa  as  the  great  cfutre  of  the  Dcjniinion  ;  advocates  the  abolition  of  the  legislative 
council  as  the  first  ste})  toward>  tliat  great  end,  and  with  just  [)ro.spect  lias  every  assurance  of 
the  al)olitit)n  of  that  antiquated  body  in  a  short  time.  As  a  political  organizer,  Mr.  Macdonald 
is  well  known,  ami  will  likely  be  heard  ironi  in  future  contests  for  power. 

( )ui-  subji'ft  lias  foi'  many  years  be(>n  i-ounected  with  several  of  the  charitable  organizations 
of  Halifax.  With  the  Nortii  British  Societ}-  he  has,  howevei-,  been  particularly  identified 
several  years  as  ofiice-bearer,  and  in  1873  was  elected  president,  the  youngest  man  ever  elected 
chairman  of  this,  the  oldest  Scottish  National  Society  in  the  Dominion.  In  isOil  Mr.  Macdon- 
ald jiublislu'il  The  Annals  of  the  North  Hritish  Society  from  17US  to  1808.  The  work  has  licen 
highly  noticed  ami  much  admired  as  an  interesting  and  historical  publication;  he  was  also  one 
of  the  foundei-s  of  the  Historical  Society  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  is  now  an  otfice-1  K-arei-,  and  has 
been  long  connected  with  the  presbyteries  of  the  Church  of  Sc.>tland  ;  is  a  member  of  several 
mercantile  and  insurance  com])anies,  wa-;  for  over  twenty  years  connected  with  the  militia 
ot"  Nova  Scotia,  and  as  an  officer  of  the  l.Sth  Halifax  was  well  known  as  a  competent  drill 
instructor  in  the  count}-. 

Our  subject  has  thus  v.-ell  identified  himself  with  his  native  city  and  province  in  a  manner 
pi'aiseworthy  and  commendable.  An  earnest  and  intelligent  man,  with  strong  mental  ability, 
he  is  likely  to  make  a  successful  and  useful  member  of  society,  in  whatever  .sphere  he  may  be 
called  to  move. 

Mr.  Macdonald  married,  !)th  June,  1804,  (Jrace  third  daugliti'r  of  James  Thomson,  Esquire, 
of  Halifax,  and  has  a  famil\-  ot  ten  chiMren. 


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HM.ir.W,  N.  s. 

lO  fidl  a  life  of  Joseph  Howe  has  bi'en  published  and  widely  circulated,  and  so  nuiny 
,'tches  of  him  have  appeared  in  print,  that  nothing  more  than  a  brief  outline  of  his 
life  and  eminent  services  to  Lis  country,  need  appear  in  a  woik  lik<'  this.  He  is  acknowledged  to 
have  been  the  greatest  statesman  ami  orator  whom  the  Provimc  of  Nova  Scotia  b.as  produce<l  ; 
and  he  rose  by  the  aid  of  self-culture  and  the  masterly  discipline  of  great  natural  powers.  Like 
Benjamin  Franklin,  Horace  (Jreeley,  and  numerous  other  men,  who  rose  to  distinction;  he  was 
educated  at  the  printer's  case,  and  graibiated  from  the  desk  of  the  joiiinalist. 

Joseph  Ilowe  was  born  on  the  North-West  Arm,  Halifax.  N.  S.,  en  the  l.'Jth  December,  180+, 
and  is  a  descendant  of  a  family  which  left  Englaml  at  the  time  of  persecution,  and  settled  in  New 


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England,  his  father  adhering  to  the  Crown  at  the  time  of  the  revolt  of  the  American  Colonies. 
Up  to  his  fourteenth  year,  our  subject  received  no  education,  except  from  his  father's  lips,  and 
a  few  weeks'  attendance,  in  the  summer  season,  at  a  school  two  miles  from  home.  When 
Joseph  entered  upon  his  teens  his  father  was  Kinjj's  printer  and  Postmaster-General  of  Nova 
Scotia,  and  he  was  placed  ii;  the  office  of  the  Halifax  Gazette,  serviiiji;,  at  first,  we  presume,  as 
"  printer's  devil."  Occasionally,  as  we  learn  from  Annand's  life  of  Mr.  Howe,  the  lad  assisted 
his  elder  brotlicr  in  the  po.st-otttce,  and  v.hen  a  little  older,  in  the  absence  of  that  brother,  had 
charge  of  both  ofiiees. 

Mr.  Howe  made  rapid  progress  in  any  branch  of  industry  to  which  he  gave  his  mind  and 
energies,  and  before  he  had  left  his  teens  we  find  him  at  the  editor's  table,  dasliing  ofi'  prose 
and  vei-se  seemingl}'  with  equal  facility.  His  career  as  a  journalist  proper  connnenced  in  1827, 
when  he  purchased  the  Weekly  Chronicle,  and  ga^  e  it  the  euphonious  name  of  Acadian,  making 
it  a  non-partizan  journal.  At  the  opening  of  thi  next  year,  he  bought  the  Xova  Scutian,  and 
selling  his  interest  in  the  Acadian,  conducted  the  other  with  marked  ability  for  many  years. 

In  182J>,  Mr.  Howe  published  Halliburton's  History  of  Nova  t^cotia,  and  found  it  a  losing 
venture,  the  edition  being  too  large. 

In  1873,  Mr.  Howe  supported  the  National  Policy. 

In  1830,  he  commenced  in  his  paper  a  series  of  sharp  critiques  on  the  views  and  doings  of 
legislators,  called  Leyislative  lievieics,  continuing  them  for  .several  years,  and  in  them  striving 
manfully  for  various  reforms.  Perhaps  the  greatest  triumph  of  his  journalistic  life  was  in 
183(5,  when  he  was  sued  for  libel  by  the  municipality  of  Halifax,  pleaded  his  own  case,  and 
won  it.  The  full  particulai"s  may  be  found  in  the  work  already  rcferreil  to.  With  the  exception 
of  two  years  (1842  and  1843)  Mr.  Howe  continued  in  the  editorial  chair  until  185(J,  managing 
his  old  paper,  and,  after  a  while,  anew  one,  called  the  Morning  Chronicle,  still  in  existence,  and 
now  the  leading  Lil>eral  daily  in  the  province. 

From  1835  to  18G3,  with  one  or  two  sliort  interregnums,  we  find  Mr.  Howe  in  the  Assem- 
bly of  the  Province,  the  latter  ])art  of  the  time  looking  like  a  king  among  the  kingl}-.  During 
the  last  two  decades  of  the  period  here  mentioned  (1843  to  18G3),  there  were  giants  in  the 
legislative  halls  of  Nova  Scotia — Sauls  in  intellectual  stature,  and  Sauls  in  the  keen  logic  and 
the  forensic  sweep  of  the  voice ;  and  no  one  stood  higher  than  Joseph  Howe.  For  a  long  time 
he  led  the  Liberal  party;  one  term  he  was  Speaker;  several  times  he  was  a  member  of  the 
government,  and  twice  premier.  He  was  a  leader  in  the  movement  for  responsible  government, 
for  steamship  couimunicivtion  with  the  mother  country,  and  for  an  Inter-colonial  railway,  not  to 
mention  other  important  enteiprises.  To  him  the  Prox  iiue  of  Xova  Scotia  is  indebte<l  for  the 
railway  links  connecting  the  different  portions  with  the  capital  and  with  each  otlu-r.  His 
name  appears  on  the  records  of  the  legislature  as  a  powerful  and  unfliiu-hing  advocate  of  almost 
every  useful  and  important  measure  which  came  before  the  body  for  consideration. 

In  18G3,  Mr.  Howe  received  from  Her  Majesty,  the  appointment  of  Fishery  ( 'ommissioner  ; 
in  18(i7,  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Commons  for  the  County  of  Hants;  re-elected  by  accla- 
mation; was  President  of  the  Dominion  Council  from  January  I'.ltb  to  November  l!Hh,  I8t!0, 
at  which  latter  date  he  was  appointed  Secretary  of  St«te  for  the  Provinces,  and  Superinten- 
dent-General of  Indian  Affairs.  In  May,  1873,  he  was  appointed  Lieutenant-Ciovernor  of  Nova 
Scotia,  and  held  that  office  less  than  a  month,  death  vacating  the  chair. 

The  addresses,  speeches,  lettei-s,  orations  and  poems,  in  pamphlet  and  book  form,  of  Mr. 
Howe,  published  from  time  to  time,  commencing  in  1834,  show  a  great  variety  of  talent  and  great 


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versatility  of  tlu-  pen.  He  yrappled  with  broail  financial  subjects,  with  the  coinjueliensive  gi-asp 
of  a  statesman,  and  his  speeches  and  orations  were  read  with  admiration  on  both  sides  of  the 
Atlantic  ocean.  His  poems  show  that  while  he  had  a  masculine  and  massive  mind,  he  had  the 
tender  heart  of  a  woman.  His  pathos  and  humor  are  admirable,  and  the  rhythm  of  his  verse 
is  smooth  and  tlowing.  The  claim  of  his  prose  writings,  however,  to  inunortnlity,  is  stronger 
than  his  verse. 

Mr.  Howe  died  on  the  1st  of  June,  1873,  and  the  funeral  prosession  was  no  doubt  tlio 
largest  ever  witnessed  in  Halifax.  Friends  from  afar,  and  the  whole  city,  turned  out  to  show 
their  respect  for  him  wlio  had  long  and  nobly  battled  for  an  imtrammeled  pn'ss,  responsible 
government,  internal  improvements,  and  other  important  measures  which  have  aided  in  devel- 
oping the  diversified  interests  of  his  native  province. 


RODERICK   MACLEA:N^, 

AMHERST,  N.S. 

EODERICK  MACLEAN,  sheriff  of  the  county  of  Cumberland,  is  a  native  of  Inverness- 
shire,  Scotland,  being  born  in  1820.  His  parents,  Donald  and  Marion  (McLeod)  Maclean, 
came  to  Nova  Scotia  when  the  son  was  six  or  seven  jears  old,  and  settled  in  the  township  of 
Wallace,  county  of  Cumberland,  and  there  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  both  parents  tlying 
and  being  b\iried  in  that  place.  After  receiving  a  business  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
•Wallace,  Roderick  became  a  clerk  in  a  store  at  Pugwash,  this  county,  holding  that  situation  for 
eight  yeai-s,  and  then  going  into  mercantile  business  there  for  himself. 

Mr.  Maclean  continued  in  trade  until  the  close  of  185"),  when  he  was  appointed  sheiitf,  an 
office  which,  with  the  exception  of  two  years,  he  has  held  from  that  date,  giving,  as  far  as  we 
can  learn,  excellent  .satisfaction  to  the  public  in  his  ofHcial  capacity. 

Sheriff  Maclean  married,  in  1847,  Miss  Margai'et  Rebee,  daughter  of  Joshua  Beliee,  of 
Cumberland  county  ;  and  she  is  the  mother  of  eight  children,  six  of  them  yet  living.  The 
eldest  son,  James  Roderick  Maclean,  is  an  oculist  at  Amhei-st ;  Edward  Perley  Maclean,  D.D.S., 
is  practising  ilentistry  at  New  Glasgow,  county  of  Pictou,  N.S.  ;  Edith  Amelia  is  secretary  and 
(lei-'Uty-sheriff  under  her  father — the  only  female,  we  believe,  holding  such  an  office  in  the  mari- 
time i)rovinces  ;  Ada  is  a  governei,,,,  and  the  youngest  two,  Francis  Voung  and  George  Towns- 
hend,  are  pursuing  their  studies. 


HON.  AVJLLIAM    AGNEW    DEN:SIY    AEORSE, 

AMHERST,  N.S. 

ONE  of  the  ohlest  families  in  the  county  of  Cumberland,  N.S.,  is  that  of  the  Morses,  who 
have  been  identified  with  the  history  of  the  country  since  the  time  when  the  French 
were  driven  out  of  Acadia.  Joseph  Morse,  the  great  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  one  of  the 
original  grantees  of  the  Crown  in  Cumberland  county,  part  of  which  now  lies  in  this  Province 
an«l  part  in  New  Brunswick,  and  was  the  fifth  generation  from  Sauniel  Morse,  who,  l)orn  in  Eng- 


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land  in  15.S"),  emigiatcil  to  Xt-w  Kngland  in  l«j35,  settled  at  ]3ediienn,  Mass.,  two  years  later, 
and  died  at  Medtield,  same  eolon}',  in  1()")4.  The  descendants  of  Saimiol  Morse  are  now  scattered 
all  over  the  United  States,  Nova  Scotia,  and  other  parts  of  ('anada. 

Joseph  Morse,  in  liis  younger  years  sojourneil  in  ditferent  New  England  colonies,  as  Ids 
business  called  him;  became  the  proprietor  of  the  celebrated  "  George  Tavern,"  at  Roxburv', 
now  a  j)art  of  Hoston,  ami  known  as  the  Highlands,  and  was  gMjatly  esteemed  liy  men  connected 
■witli  tlie  Colonial  (lovernment.  He  saw  some  very  hard  service  in  tlu'  arm)',  being  under  (leu. 
Andierst.  While  the  expedition  was  preparing  to  proceed  under  that  officer,  against  Oswe"o, 
as  we  learn  from  a  "  Memorial "  of  the  Morse  family,  puldished  Ity  Rev.  Abner  Morse,  of  Sher- 
born,  Mass.,  in  1850,  Mr.  Morse  acted  a.s  a  (.'onunissary  General,  and  had  his  full  share  of  the 
disasters  of  the  campaign,  losing  at  the  capture  of  Oswego,  his  propeity  invested  in  provision's, 
etc.,  and  eight  barrels  of  silver  dollars.  He  was  seized  by  the  enemy,  carrie<l  a  prisoner  to  (.'a'-- 
ada,  and  was  finally  sent  to  Bourdean,  France,  where  he  was  I'ansonied  by  the  Government 
through  Lord  Andierst.  While  in  captivity  he  caught  the  small-pox,  and  suti'ered  everything 
but  death,  not  Vicing  able  to  eat  anything  but  frog  broth  and  nnlk  during  the  rest  of  his  life — 
seven  years  of  great  physical  distress.  The  Eriti.sh  Government,  learning  from  his  own  lips  of 
his  .sad  bodily  sufferings,  and  being  cognizant  of  his  loss  at  the  siege  of  O.swego,  gave  him  a 
valuable  tract  of  land  at  and  around  Fort  Lawrence  and  .S4,0()0  acres  to  him  and  otheis  in  what 
is  now  the  Provinces  of  Nova  Scotia  and  New  Brunswick.  He  built  on"  of  the  foi'ts  at  Fort 
Lawivnce,  and  a  large  house  which  hi'  used  as  a  pliice  of  worshij)  on  Sunday,  and  also  estab- 
lished, at  his  own  expenise,  a  public  school  free  to  all.  Ho  spoke  the  French  and  Indian 
languages  fluently,  and  was  generally  and  greatly  respected. 

Our  subject  has  a  copy  of  the  original  grant  of  34,000  acres  mentioned  above,  also  the 
court  sM'ord  worn  by  his  great  grandfather,  and  presented  to  him  by  tieorge  III,  ami  other  nimi- 
orials  of  the  olilen  times.  It  was  Joseph  .Morse  who  gave  its  name  to  the  town  of  Andu'rst,  so 
calling  it  in  honor  of  the  noble  General  under  whom  he  had  served,  and  whose  memory  he 
tenderly  cherished  as  long  as  lie  lived. 

Alpheus  Jlorse,  grandfather  of  our  suVyt'ct,  being  reareil  among  men  connected  with  the 
(tovernment,  when  the  New  England  States  were  colonies,  naturally  adhered  to  the  Crown,  and 
here  in  Nova  Scotia,  being  in  comfortable  circumstances,  lu'  was  in  a  condition  and  had  the 
heart  to  aid  the  destitute  loyalists,  many  of  whom  came  to  him  for  assistance.  Like  his  father 
he  spoke  the  French  and  Indian  languages,  and  hail  warm  friends  among  all  classes.  He  mar- 
ried Tlieody  Crane,  sistt.'r  of  Col.  Jonathan  Crane,  of  Horton,  Judge  of  the  ( 'oin-t  of  Connnou 
Pleas,  and  for  thirty  years  a  leading  member  of  the  Legislature  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  a  daughter 
of  Col.  Crane,  who  came  from  (.'onneeticut  to  Horton  about  177<)  — "  a  lady  well-reported  for 
her  alms,  deeds  and  other  virtui.'s."     Alplieus  .Morse  die(l  at  Amhei'st,  in  ]81(S. 

James  Shannon  Morse,  .son  of  Alphpus  Morse,  was  born  at  Andierst,  in  November,  17'H7,  aiul 
is  yet  living,  being  in  his  04th  year.  He  was  the  first  lawyer  in  ( 'umbeiland,  county  or  in  the 
vicinity  of  the  preseii'  boumlaries  of  this  county,  and  is  older  than  any  other  lawyer  either  in 
tills  Province  or  New  Brunswick.  He  resides  at  Amherst,  and  is  mentally  smart  for  a  gentleman 
of  that  great  age.  He  represented  the  town  of  Amherst  in  the  Provincial  Parliament  ami  wxs  a 
member  of  the  Legislature  and  the  Council  for  the  period  of  thirty  years,  and  is  a  large  land- 
holder in  the  county  of  Cumberland.'  He  married  Augusta  Agnew  Kinnear,  daughter  of 
Andrew  Kinnear,  of  Halifax,  and  granddaughter  of  Andrew  Kinnear,  Sr.,  who  was  Commissaiv 
at  Fort  ("umberlantl  in  1770-1 7!l'>,  aiul  by  her  has  had  five  chililnMi,  William  Agnew  Demi}' 
being  the  third  child.     He  was  born  at  Amherst,  on  the  3rd  of  January,  LS3G;  was  educated  at 


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Saekville  Academy,  ami  by  private  tuition  under  Joseph  Hea,  M.A.,  of  Lower  Korton,  in  whose 
fiiniiiy  he  spent  two  very  profitable  years;  studied  law,  at  first  with  his  father,  and  afterwards 
with  Sir  William  Young,  now  Chief  Justice  of  Nova  Scotia,  with  whom  lie  sjieiit  one  year  sifter 
beiny  admitted  to  the  bar  in  18.ji>. 

Mr.  Morse  became  a  partner  tif  Hon.  Leonard  Shannon,  member  for  the  comity  of  Halifax, 
and  there  practised  for  ten  yeai-s,  when,  on  the  decease  of  his  brother,  Hon.  Clirt'ord  Morse, 
who  was  Judge  of  Probate  for  tlie  county  of  Cumberland,  he  took  liis  place  (18(10;,  with 
residence  at  Amlierst.  In  I87(),he  was  appointed  Judge  of  the  County  Courts  for  Cumberland 
and  Pietou  counties,  and  still  holds  that  oHice.  He  lias  good  cjualifications  for  the  ufiii'e,  and  is 
po[iular  on  the  Bench.  He  resides  on  pait  of  the  lands  granted  to  his  ancestor  in  this  Province 
118  years  ago. 

The  Judge  owns  large  (]uantities  of  marsh  land  which  he  derived  from  his  fiitliei',  and 
which  he  is  engaged  in  (Utehing,  draining  and  improving.  He  was  married  on  the  IGth  of 
December,  1873,  to  Ella  Frances  Rebecca  Bogg,  a  descendant  of  a  U.  E.  Loyalist,  of  Halifax, 
and  they  have  four  chiltlren,  three  sons  and  one  daughter,  and  buried  one  daughter  in  infancy- 


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YARMOUTH,  N.  S. 

REV.  ALEXANDER  MACOREGOR,  pastor  of  the  Tabernacle  (Congregational)  ehurch,  .>t' 
Yarmouth,  was  born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  on  the  3rd  of  April,  I83i,  he  being  a  son  (if 
Rev,  Dugald  Macgregor;  his  grandfather,  Alexander  Macgrcgor,  was  a  fine  specimen  of  the 
staunch  christian  of  Highland  stock,  with  considerable  force  of  character,  and  had  three  sons 
in  the  ministry  ;  the  mother  of  our  subject  was  Louisa  Macdougal,  of  tlie  Macduugals  of  [iuriga, 
Argyle.shire,  Scotland,  who  rendered  valuable  service  to  their  country,  under  the  Marquis  of 
Breadalbane,  in  supi)ressing  rebellion  in  1798.  Some  of  the  medals  of  reward,  being  liamled 
down,  are  now  in  Mr.  Macgregor's  possession. 

Our  sul)jeet  received  his  classical  education  at  Kdinburgh  :  euiigrateil  to  the  Pro\  inee  nf 
Ontaricj  in  18.5.'),  his  father  folhjwing  two  years  later,  and  bi'ing  a  pastor  at  Manilla,  county  <>f 
Victoria,  Out.,  for  eighteen  years,  dying  in  October,  1880  ;  finished  his  studies  at  the  Toronto 
university,  and  Congregational  college  of  British  North  America,  then  in  Toronto,  and  was  or- 
dained in  September,  18()3  ;  he  has  f<jiir  brotliers  in  the  ministiy,  all  in  variou'-  parts  of  the 
Dominion,  at  Guelph,  Toronto,  Osprey  and  Winnipeg. 

Our  subject  was  pastor  of  the  Congregational  ehureli  at  ih-ockville,  Ont.,  fur  eight  years, 
serving  also,  during  seven  of  those  years,  ivs  local  superintendent  of  schools,  and  for  five  years 
missionary  secretary  foi'  the  Congregational  Eastern  District  Missionary  Society,  and  in  Sep- 
tember, 1871,  was  settled  over  the  Talternacle  church  of  Varmouth,  which  is  the  leailing  Con- 
gregational church  in  the  Maritime  Provinces.  He  is  an  earnest,  eloipient  and  pointeil  preacher, 
tender  and  persuasive  in  bis  tone,  and  well  calculated  to  lead  the  thoughtful  in  the  right  way. 
As  a  pastor  he  is  watchful  over  the  Hock,  and  is  especially  attentive  to  the  wants  of  the  pooi\ 
the  sick  and  the  atHicted,  outside  as  well  as  inside  his  congregation.  Possessing  a  catholic 
spirit,  and  a  disposition  of  more  than  ordinary  cordiality,  he  is  very  much  esteemeil  by  the 
whole  communitv.      . 


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Mr.  Macgregor  was  asHociate  editor  of  the  Christian,  Sldmlard,  St.  Jolin,  N.B.,  during  iU 
brief  existence,  nntl  for  the  last  eight  yeai-s  lias  been  secretary  of  the  Nava  Scotia  and  New 
Brunswick  Missionary  Society,  doing  no  inconsiderable  amount  of  work  outside  his  direct 
(mstoral  duties. 

He  is  a  director  of  the  Congregational  college,  Montreal,  and  n  fellow  of  the  senate  of  the 
Halifax  univei-sity. 

Mr,  Macgregor  was  niamed  on  the  9th  of  June,  18.')8,  to  Miss  Miiry  Macdougal,  of  Brook- 
lyn, N.Y.,  she  being  of  Scotch  descent,  and  they  have  nine  children,  having  been  niercifuliy 
spared  from  death  in  the  family.  The  two  oldest  sons,  Ebenezer  and  William  are  in  the  United 
States,  the  former  in  the  Roger  Williams'  liank,  Providence,  H.  I.,  the  latter  in  Boston,  M-  • 
The  other  children  of  suiUible  age  are  pui-suing  their  stmlies. 


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KESTVILLK,  N.S. 

LEVERET  l»E  VEBER  THIPMAN,  agent  of  the  Bank  of  Nova  Scotia,  at  Kentville,  and 
ime  of  the  leading  business  men  in  King's  county,  was  born  at  dunwallis,  on  the  2()th 
of  October,  IN.SI,  his  father  lieing  William  Henry  Chipnian,  who  was  born  at  Cornwallis,  Nov. 
8,  1807,  and  in  his  day  a  farmer,  mereliant,  clerk  of  the  peace,  registrar  of  probate,  prothono- 
tary,  and  a  memlxr  of  the  Dominion  Parliament  at  the  time  of  his  death,  wliieh  occurred  at 
Ottawa  in  March,  lN(if>. 

The  Chipman  family,  as  we  learn  from  Sabine's  "  Loyalists,"  left  England  at  the  time  of 
persecution,  ami  settled  in  the  New  England  colonics.  At  the  close  of  the  American  Revolutitm 
(178tl),  Ward  Chipman,  of  Massachusets,  a  graduate  of  Harvard  university  and  deputy  of  the 
muster  general  of  the  Loyalist  forces  in  the  revolted  colonies  ;  settled  in  New  Brunswick,  and 
there  foinided  a  branch  of  the  family,  sub,se(iuently  l>eeomingcIiief  justice  and  governor  of  that 
province.  Another  branch  was  founded  in  Nova  Scotia  by  Hailley  Chipman,  who  .settled  here 
before  the  close  of  that  war.  William  ffenry  Chipman,  already  mentioned,  was  a  son  of 
Rev.  William  Chipman,  a  Baptist  niinist t,  and  a  grandson  of  William  Allen  Chipman,  who  was 
a  member  of  the  Nova  Seotia  Legislature  for  nearly  thirty  years,  and  custos  of  King's  covinty 
at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Hon.  Samuel  Chipman,  who  sat  in  the  Nova  Scotia  parliament  for  more  than  thirty  years, 
and  who  is  now  registrar  of  deeds  for  the  county  of  King-t,  i)cing  in  his  !)2ud  year,  is  a  great- 
imcle  of  our  subject.  For  more  than  a  hundred  years  the  Cliipmans  have  ln'cn  a  permanent 
family  in  this  part  of  the  piovinee,  leaders  in  enterprise  and  in  legislation. 

The  mother  of  Leveret  de  Vebar  ("hijnnan  was  Sophia  Cogswell,  a  ilcscendant  of  a  Loy- 
alist family,  she  being  a  daughter  of  James  Cogswell,  ami  niece  of  the  Hon.  Hezekiah  Cogs- 
well, Halifax. 

Our  si.bject  was  educated  at  Acadia  college,  Wolfville;  sjient  two yeaix  in  a  ntereantile  house 
in  New  York  city,  ami  for  liftecn  years  wa..  ahardware  merchant  at  Cornwallis,  l)eing  very  suc- 
cessful in  his  business.  For  the  last  eight  or  nine  yeam  he  has  been  the  manager  of  the  Kent- 
ville agency  of  the  Bank  of  Nova  Scotia. 


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On  the  death  of  his  father,  Mr.  Chipmau  took  his  place  (1870),  in  the  House  of  Commons, 
and  was  re-elected  at  the  next  general  election  (1871),  and  defeated  at  the  general  election  in 
January,  1874. 

He  has  l)een  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  the  last  eighteen  or  twenty  years,  clerk  of  the  peace 
nearly  as  long,  and  is,  and  has  lieen,  chairman  of  the  board  of  school  commissioners  for  the 
county,  being  re-elected,  usually,  by  acclamation.  ^There  is  no  more  efficient  business  man  in 
King's  county  than  Mr.  Chipman. 

He  has  Ijeen  connected  for  many  years  with  the  militia,  and  is  lieutenant-colonel  of  the 
68th  "Kings"  battalion  of  volunteer  infantry;  is  a  member  of  the  council  of  the  Dominion 
litle  association,  and  past  master  of  Keutville  lodge,  No.  58  of  the  order  of  Free  Masons,  and  a 
member  of  the  grand  lodge  of  Nova  Scotia. 

Mr.  Chipman  married,  in  1851,  Miss  Nancy  Leonard  Moore,  eldest  daughter  of  Stephen  H. 
Moore,  judge  of  probate  for  King's  county,  and  tliey  have  one  son  and  four  daughters,  the  for- 
mer, Wilfred  Henry,  a  first-class  business  man,  being  with  his  father  in  the  bank,  and  master  at 
the  time  of  writing — spring,  18.S1 — of  the  Kentville  Masonic  lo<lge.  Lavinia,  the  ehlest  daugh- 
ter, is  married  to  Frederick  ('.  Dimock,  of  Puget  Sound,  Washington  Territory  ;  ami  Ethel,  to 
Barcla}'  Webster,  E.s»i ,  lawyer  at  Kentville ;  Annie  Leontinc  is  at  Killx)rn  ladies'  college,  Lon* 
don,  England  ;  and  Evangeline  is  at  bunte. 


AVJLLTAM    U.   ROGEHS, 

AMHERST  N.S. 

WILLIAM  HENRY  R0(5ERS,  inspector  of  fisheries  for  the  Province  of  Nova  Scotia,  is 
of  Welsh  extraction,  his  ancestors  on  both  sides  being  of  that  nationality,  and  his 
parents  David  and  Elizabeth  (Richards)  Rogers ;  his  father  was  a  ineeimnie  in  early  life,  and 
later  a  merchant  and  ship-builder,  and  is  yet  living.  His  mother  was  the  eldest  daughter  of 
John  Richards,  Esq.,  of  Slielburne,  N.  S.     She  died  in  18(!0. 

The  .school  drill  which  young  Rogers  received  was  limited  to  the  common  Englisli  branches 
he  Wing  largely  self-educated  by  private  economy  of  time.  "  Self-help,"  so  admirably  enforced 
by  Samuel  Smiles,  in  his  popidar  wcrk  on  that  subject,  is  well  ilUistiated  in  the  history  of  ')ur 
subject,  as  well  as  in  that  of  many  other  citizens  of  this  piovince,  noticed  in  this  volume. 

In  his  younger  years,  Mr.  il  igers  clerked  for  a  large  shipping  establishment  at  Piigwusli, 
and  was  subse(|uently  a  merchant  at  the  same  place  and  that  at  Amherst,  in  all  about  seven 
years.    While  in  trade  at  the  former  place,  he  was  collector  of  customs  for  four  years. 

In  I8().s,  Mr.  RogeiN  was  appointed  inspector  of  fisheries  for  this  provineo,  and  is  the 
inventor  of  what  is  known  as  tlie  "  Roger's  Fish  Way,"  which  was  patented  in  Canada  ami  the 
Tnited  States  in  June,  1880,  and  which  is  proving  a  great  success,  being  in  general  use  in  Nova 
Scotia,  and  about  to  be  introduced  into  the  United  States.  Jt  is  so  constructed  as  to  render 
mill-dams  or  other  obstructions  on  rivers  as  practical  for  the  ascent  of  fish  as  though  no 
obstruction  existed. 

Mr.  Rogers  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church,  and  was  at  one  time,  for  a  period  of  five 
years,  agent  for  the  American  Rible  Union  for  <'ana<la,  and  traveled  over  three  or  four  pro- 
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He  is  alwo  an  earnest  temperanee  man,  and  has  done  a  gicat  deal  of  hard  work  in  tliat 
cause,  being  at  one  time  the  most  worthy  lecturer  for  the  British  Templars  in  the  Dominion. 
His  pen  too  has  been  wielded  with  good  effect  in  the  battle  for  prohibitory  legislation  in  the 
province. 

In  1H.')1,  he  wa.s  united  in  marriage  with  Mary  Klizii,  ehlewt  daughter  of  Thomas  Page,  Ksrj., 
of  Andicrst,  and  they  have  ten  cliildren  living,  and  lo.st  one  daughter. 


LAWRENCE    DELAP, 

ANNAPOLIS,  N.S. 

THE  subject  of  this  notice,  one  of  the  leading  ship-builders  and  ship-owners  in  the  county 
of  Annapolis,  is  a  native  of  this  county,  being  l)orn  at  (Jranville,  on  tlic  7th  of  May,  182G. 
His  father,  James  Delaj),  was  a  farmer,  and  also  a  ship-buililer,  whose  father  was  a  Loyalist  , 
from  Harnstable.  Mass.  The  mother  of  Lawrence  was  Eliza  Hall,  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia.  He 
received  an  onliiiary  English  education;  s|)ent  the  last  thiee  years  of  his  minority  in  the  state 
of  Maine,  learning  the  trade  of  a  ship  cari)entei' ;  worked  at  that  business  until  l.S)0,  when  ho 
started  for  California  in  an  American  ship,  sailing  round  Cape  Horn,  and  reaching  his  destina- 
tion in  Septi'mbi'r  of  that  year.  At  the  end  of  four  years  he  left  the  country  on  account  of  ill 
health,  having  the  ague,  coming  back  through  ('entral  Amtrica.  On  reaching  (Jranville,  his 
health  was  fully  restored,  and  two  weeks  afteiward  he  returned  to  California  by  the  same  route, 
spending  two  nioie  years  in  the  mines,  and  having  very  fair  success. 

Mr.  Delap  was  one  of  the  discoverers,  in  IH^^-'.").'},  of  the  celebrated  mines  on  Salmon  river, 
in  the  northern  jiart  of  Califurnia  ;  and  he  aideil  in  liR-ating  (1853),  a  place  for  holding  court  at 
Weaverville,  Trinity  county,  in  that  state.  Several  incidents  connected  with  his  mining  life  are 
noteworthy,  an<l  one  of  thi'm,  which  oc<urred  in  LS.'id.  j)ist  as  he  was  preparing  to  return  to  hi.s 
native  province,  is  of  thrilling  interest.  He  and  another  man  were  going  fronr  the  upper 
countiy  to  the  lower,  with  an  expressman,  having  a  mule  loaded  with  treasure,  when  they  were 
waylaid  by  seven  robbers,  had  everything  taken  away  from  them,  and  were  tied,  with  their 
hands  behind  them,  to  trees  a  little  way  otl"  the  trail,  and  there  left.  Mr.  I)elap  had  a  knife  iit 
his  pocket,  wbieli  he  managed  to  get  <nit.  and  fiimlly  cut  himself  loose,  and  also  hi.s  two  com- 
rades. They  had  barely  got  away  ^as  he  afterward  learned  from  one  whom  they  caught),  when 
the  robbers  came  back  to  dispatch  them,  as  "  dead  men  tell  no  tales." 

The  lobbei-s  divided  the  spoil-  the  express  treasure  mainly,  Mr.  Delap  having  his  funds  at 
ji  bank  -and  dispersed.  One  of  them  was  caught  about  a  hundretl  miles  distant,  ^oid  after 
being  stiung  up  twici-,  tinally  confessed  that  he  was  one  (jf  the  gang,  and  told  where  his  share 
of  the  spoils  and  that  one  other  robber  could  be  fouml.  The  two-sevenths  were  recovered,  and 
tive  of  the  robbt^rs  were  afterwards  shot  100  miles  from  the  scene  of  the  robbery,  while  at- 
tempting to  escape.  Thus  the  gang  was  broken  up.  nnich  to  the  comfort  of  those  who  remained 
in  the  diggins."  The  organization  known  as  the  vigilance  conmiittee  of  California  was  then  iu 
Cull  operation,  and  soon  did  its  work  and  disbantled. 

(hi  his  return  to  the  province,  in  May,  1M.')(!,  Mr.  Delap  married  Miss  Caroline  Schafner  of 
(iranville,  and  conunenced  builiJing  sliips  on  the  Hay  of  Fundy.     Ten  years  later  he  located  a 


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(♦hip  yard  at  Granville  Kerry,  and  carried  on  an  extensive  IxisineMs  there  for  several  years. 
While  livinjj  in  that  township  he  also  farmed  for  ten  years. 

In  1873,  Mr.  Delap  moved  across*  the  Annajtoiis  river,  and  commenced  ship-biiildinj^  in 
Anna|)olis  Royal,  he  having  Thonias  S.  Whitman,  lianker,  for  ;i  silent  partner.  Their  opera- 
tions are  carried  on  at  Bay  View  island,  more  pntperly  peninsula,  at  the  north-cast  end  of  the 
village,  where  they  are  manufacturing  lumber,  building  ships  and  doing  a  very  thrifty  business, 
that  being  the  liveliest  part  of  the  place.  They  are  also  merchandising,  and  giving  employ- 
ment in  all  branches  to  about  70  men  and  boys.  Even  cripples  there  find  some  light  work  to 
do,  and  are  well  rewarded.  The  town  is  largely  built  up  of  such  entei-prising  and  kind-hearted 
men  as  our  subject. 

Mr.  Dt'Iap  has  built  in  all  twenty-four  ships,  and  at  no  period  of  his  life,  probably,  put  forth 
more  energy  or  e.\hiV»ited  more  enterprise  than  at  the  present  time.  Ht;  is  a  very  early  riser,  and 
a  hard  worker.  Mrs.  Osgood,  an  American  j>oetess,  says  that  "  labor  is  worship,"  and  our  sub- 
ject verifies  it,  he  finding  his  reward  in  expending  the  strength  which  (io<l  has  given  him  in 
some  honest  and  useful  and  hence  honorabU-  employment.  There  is  nothing  grasping  and  sor- 
did in  his  composition,  he  being  very  free  with  his  money,  attentive  to  the  wants  of  the  nun 
in  his  employment  ami  their  families,  and  generous  to  the  poor  and  needy  whenever  and  where- 
ever  found. 

At  the  time  of  writing  he  is  leading  oft"  in  an  enterpiise  which  is  likely  to  succeed,  and 
which  will  have  a  tendency  to  gn;atly  enhance  the  interests  of  Annapolis  -the  organizing  of  a 
company  to  be  known  as  the  Acadian  steamship  cf>mpany,  whose  boats  will  run  directly  from 
Annapolis  to  London.  He  being  elected  |)resident  and  managiiig  director.  His  whole  heart  is 
enlisted  in  this  enterinise,  and  as  thus  far  in  life  he  ha.s  known  "  no  such  word  a.s  fail,"  we 
may  expect  this  movement,  under  his  pilotnge,  to  be  a  succes.s. 


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ALEXAKDER    MACKvVY,  M.IM»., 

WEST  RIVER,  N.a. 

AliKXANDKR  MACKAY  is  the  son  of  Scotch  parents,  .lohn  and  Margaret  Mackay,  wlio 
emigrated  from  Sntherlandsbire,  Scotland,  in  IfSl-j,  and  settled  in  the  conntv  of  Pic- 
tou,  N.S. ;  and  he  was  born  at  West  Hiver,  that  county,  cm  the  'i.'Jrd  of  April,  1.S18.  Ho 
was  educated  at  the  I'ictou  a<'adi'my ;  worked  as  a  stone-cutter  and  builder  in  his  youm'er 
day.s,  and  of  late  years  has  been  fanning  and  trading,  having  had  fair  success  in  life. 

Mr.  Mackay  has  been  a  justice  of  the  peawi  since  1)S.')!S;  and  has  hebl,  we  believe,  (me 
or  two  other  local  ofiices  of  minor  importance.  He  sat  in  the  local  Legislature  for  I'ictou  county 
from  IHfin  to  18(57,  when  he  was  defeateil;  was  again  successful  in  1872,  ami  sat  tintil  1871-, 
when  he  was  returned  by  acclamation,  and  was  again  returned  in  1878,  his  jwlitics  being 
(Conservative;  he  strongly  supported  Confederation  in  1807;  also  the  railway  system,  and 
earnestly  advocated  free  non-sectarian  .schools.  He  is  on  the  committees  on  railways,  privi- 
leges, and  public  accounts,  also  chairman  of  committee  of  supply,  and  a  faithful  worker  in  the 
conmiittee  rooms. 

Mr.  Mackay  is  a  member  of  the  Church  of  Scotland  ;  has  l)cen  an  elder  of  the  West  River 
church  the  last  twenty  yeai-s,  and  three  times  has  been  a  delegate  to  the  Synod  of  that  denomi- 


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nntion ;  he  reveres  the  name  of  Kirk,  and  every  thing  sacred  in  tlie  fatherlnnd.     The  title  of 
"  lionest  Scotchman"  applies  to  him  with  emphasis. 

He  mai-ried  on  the  "ioth  of  April,  1H.)1,  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  Mackay,  miller,  late  of 
Karltown,  county  of  Colchester,  and  they  have  seven  sons  and  one  tlaughter  living,  and  have 
lost  three  children.  The  eldest  son,  John  S.,  is  a  merchant  at  New  Glasgow  ;  Angus  D.  is  a  sta- 
tion agent  at  Bookfield,  N.S.,  on  the  Intercolonitil  railway,  and  the  others  arc  not  settled  in  life, 
most  of  them  being  engaged  in  acquiring  their  education. 


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KENTVIILE,  N.8. 

BENJAMIN  HOWE  CALKIN,  one  of  the  leading  merchants  and  self-made  men  of  King's 
county,  was  born  at  Cornwallis,  on  the  1st  of  November,  IHl!) ;  his  p.m^nts  being  Klias 
and  Mary  (Burgess)  Calkin  ;  he  is  a  descendant  in  the  eighth  generation,  from  Hugh  Calkin, 
who  was  born  in  Wales,  in  1(!00,  and  left  (Jlepston,  Monmouthshire,  En^/.,  on  account  of  civil 
commotions,  in  1(J40,  and  landed  at  Plymouth,  Mass.  that  year,  bringing  with  him  his  wife  and 
live  or  six  children,  including  two  sons,  John  and  David  ;  John  had  a  son  Samuel,  a  grandson 
John,  and  a  great-grandson  Ezekiel,  who  was  the  great-grandfather  of  our  subject  and  who 
married  Anna  Dewey,  and  moved  from  Connecticut  U.S.,  to  Cornwallis,  in  17(30.  Ahira  Calkin, 
grandfather  of  Benjamin,  born  in  Lebanon,  Conn.,  in  17.")2,  came  with  the  family,  and  died  at 
Cornwallis,  in  May,  1828.  Many  of  the  Calkins  are  found  in  Lebanon,  Norwich,  and  other 
towns  in  Connecticut,  an''  in  other  states  of  the  American  L^nion,  ami  represent  the  several 
professions  and  the  various  branches  of  industry.  The  Nova  Scotia  branch  of  the  family  has 
sjuead  all  over  this  province. 

The  ancestoi-s  of  Marcy  Burgess  were  among  the  Plymouth  colony,  and  early  fcnind  their 
way  into  Connecticut,  coming  thence  to  this  province  about  the  time  that  the  Calkin  family 
came. 

Eliius  Calkin  opened  a  farm  by  going  into  the  woods  seven  miles,  guided  by  l)Iaze<l  trees 
and  then  making  a  commencement  with  the  axe  ;  he  hired  an  Irish  .schoolmaster,  who  .spent 
three  winters  in  his  house,  and  that  is  the  way  in  which  Benjamin  was  able  to  compier  the 
elementary  branches  of  learning.  Remote  from  liipior,  the  teaelier  kept  "  straight,"  and  did 
well,  four  other  boys  in  the  vicinity  coming  to  the  house  of  Mr.  Calkin  for  their  mental  |)abu- 
lum.  As  soon  as  he  was  large  enough  to  swing  an  axe,  Benjamin  aided  in  clearing  the  forest, 
until  from  90  to  100  acres  had  received  the  plow.  Many  a  time  he  ate  his  lireakfast  before 
light,  and  at  noon  sat  on  a  log  and  devoured  his  half-fr<izen  lunch.  In  his  youth  a  dozen  times 
or  more,  he  walked  all  tlie  way  to  Halifax,  7">  miles,  driving  a  teaui  loaded  with  the  jiroducts 
of  the  farm. 

When  our  subject  was  twenty-two  years  of  age,  his  father  offered  him  one  half  of  the 
farm  or  loO  acres,  but  he  refused  to  accept  it,  and  asked  and  received  .SI  in  cash.  Thtis  pro- 
vided, with  one  suit  of  g<ay  homespun  clothes,  he  came  to  Kentville  ;  worked  thi-ee  years  for 
Daniel  Moore,  merchant  at  twenty  pounds  a  year;  went  to  Halifax,  and  clerked  one  year  in 
a  dry  goods  store;  returned  to  Cornwallis,  and  was  with  Mayhew  Beck  with  two  yeai-s,  d<)ing 
all  his  purchasing  and  much  of  his  selling  of  goods.  ,, 


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In  1S47,  Mr.  Calkin  cunnnenccMl  luiMinesH  for  hiinsoif',  with  a  general  stock  of  niorclianiliso, 
with  th'igs  anil  patent  niedicint's  as  a  sjHtcialty  the  first  few  yeai-s,  there  being  no  regnlar  drug 
store  in  town.  After  trading  about  twenty  yeai-s  on  Main  .street,  he  built  on  Ids  present  excel- 
ent  Htand,  corner  of  Webster  and  t'ornwallis  streets. 

Mr.  Calkin  has  been  a  vciy  successful  nu'rchiint,  accumidating  a  handsome  property  8ome 
yeai^s  ago.  This  he  did  by  very  clo.se  attention  to  his  business,  and  by  shrewd,  economical  and 
and  straightforward  management,  he  always  observing  the  rules  of  strictest  integrity  and  fair 
dealing. 

When  very  young,  Mr.  Calkin  hail  some  taste  for  military  drill — was  a  lieutenant  just  be- 
fore he  was  si.xteen,  and  captain  at  nincte.'ii,  when  there  was  .some  change  in  military  matters, 
and  he  dropped  out. 

He  has  l»een  a  ju.stice  of  the  peace  for  the  last  thirty  j'ears,  and  is  at  the  present  time  a 
member  of  the  board  of  .school  conuiiissioners  and  commissioner  for  taking  aHidavits  in  the 
.supreme  court — all  the  civil  oftices  which  we  can  learn  that  he  has  held. 

Mr.  Calkin  is,  we  believe,  a  member  of  no  church,  but  he  is  generous  in  the  support  of 
such  institutions,  and  ha.s  aided  in  building  every  house  of  worslii|)  in  Kentville. 

He  was  first  nuirried  in  18+8  to  Miss  Julia  L.  Dennison,  of  Kentville,  .she  dying,  leaving  no 
fauiily,  ten  years  later;  a.id  the  second  time,  in  l8.j!(  to  Mi.ss  Mary  Penn'ngton,  of  Whitehaven, 
Cundierland  county,  Eng.,  having  by  her  seven  children,  three  sons  and  four  daughtei-s,  all  yet 
living.  The  oldest  .son,  Thomas  P.  is  with  his  father,  and  is  a  business  young  man  of  much 
pronuse ;  Barry  Howe  is  in  Acadia  college,  Wolfville,  and  the  younger  children  are  receiving 
their  eilucation  at  home. 

For  the  last  twenty  years  Mr.  Calkin  has  been  investing  more  or  less  in  stocks,  and  specu- 
lating to  some  extent,  success  usually  attending  his  ventures.  Whatever  he  touches  easily 
turns  to  gold  or  its  equivalent ;  he  and  his  son  intend  to  stsirt  .some  kind  of  manufactory  in 
Kentville,  thus  hoping  to  aid  in  building  up  the  place.  Such  a  class  of  citizens  are  very  valu- 
able to  any  community. 


IJENJAMIX    C;.   GRAY, 

HALIFAX,  N.K. 

BENJAMIN  OEURISH  CiRAV.  barrister,   Halifa.x,  was  born  at  St.  J.,hn,  N.B.,  on  th 
18th  of  June,  1828.     His  great-grandfather  Joseph  (iray,  was  a  ITnited  Emiiire  loyalist, 
who  came  from  Boston  on  its  evacuation  b^-  the  British  troops,  and  settled  at  Halifax,  about 
the  close  of  the  American  llevolution.     The  father  of  our  subject,   llev.  John  W.  D.  fSray, 
deserves  more  than  a  passing  notice. 

He  was  a  life-long  and  indefatigable  student  with  remarkably  clear  logical  mind  -during 
the  larger  part  of  his  life  his  attention  was  mainly  directed  to  theological  stuilies  an<l  contro- 
versial (lUi'stions  in  which  he  frequently  took  able  part  and  upi)n  which  he  published  many 
pamphlets  and  treati.ses  evincing  great  learning  and  reseaich. 

In  the  later  years  of  his  life  his  studies  took  a  wider  range,  and  his  mind  was  a  storehouse 
of  varied  knowledge  on  all  subjects— of  knowledg<'  which  he  had  great  hapjiiness  and  facility 
in  imparting  to  others.     The  St.  John  (N.B.)  Tihynqili,  December  2,  1880,  thus  .speaks  of  him  ; 


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He  wiM  Itorn  »t  Halifax  in  17!H,  ami  liku  IiIh  father,  gmdiiatod  at  King's  college,  WinJitiir.  Ifu  ti>>>k 
ordon,  Hiul  bocainu  rector  of  Aiiihurfit,  ami  in  IH25,  wliuii  l>r.  Willis  vacaiuil  the  rectorship  of  iSt.  •'ohii,  an  effort 
was  made  to  have  him  appointed  to  that  important  chai-gi;.  This,  however,  wat  not  done  at  the  tune,  bui  he 
hecamo  his  father's  aHsiHtant,  and  on  his  retirement,  in  IH'iO,  was  ap|H>inted  rector  of  St.  John  in  his  stead. 
For  nearly  thirty  years  from  this  time  he  led  a  laliorio\is  and  active  life  in  his  parish,  constant  in  the  discharge 
of  his  diltiei)  and  2i-alon.i  in  the  caii.ie  of  his  church.  In  the  early  part  of  1HD8  he  died,  at  the  age  of  7U  years, 
dnring4T  of  which  he  was  in  themini>t'y.  In  lH4<i  Ur.  (tray  visited  Kngland,  in  the  interests  of  Kii^{'s  ciillege, 
Windsor,  and  again  in  lM<i(),  his  health  being  on  th<  latter  ocdttion  in  a  critickl  state.  For  aomo  years  before 
his  death  he  had  an  assistant,  the  work  of  the  parisn  having  become  very  laboriuns  and  his  own  health  being 
bad.  Am  a  preacher  Dr.  (Jray  was  so  excellent  that  his  Hiiccessors  must  for  a  long  time  lalM)r  under  the  disad- 
vantage of  lieing  rei|nired  tu  please  the  high  standard  of  ta^te  which  his  ministrations  created.  His  sentences 
were  well  rounded,  liis  voice  clear,  his  delivery  forcible,  but  never  ungracefully  so,  and  his  pronunciation  of 
every  word  and  syllable  perfect.  He  was  gener.tlly  re;;arded  as  the  best  reader  in  the  province,  ami  it  may  be 
long  before  a  man  is  found  in  New  Hrnnswick  whose  accomplishments  as  a  pulpit  orator  are  eipial  to  those  of  Dr. 
(.•ray.  In  polemics  he  also  took  a  high  pimition  He  was  the  author  of  nirneroiis  pamplilets  on  controver-iial 
subjects,  some  of  which  were  very  able,  and  all  of  which  were  written  in  a  superior  style.  It  is  a  subject  of 
regret  that  he  never  placed  his  thoughts  in  a  more  purmtnent  form  or  publishjd  a  book  on  soma  of  the  theolo- 
gical ({uestions  of  which  he  was  so  able  an  exponent. 

In  the  graveyard  of  St.  John's  Church,  three  miles  from  Halifax,  where  Dr.  Oray  is  buried,  is  a  tombstone 
with  the  following  inscrijjtion  : — 

Uev'd.  J.  W.  D.  (Jkav,  D.  D. 

Rector  of  8t.  John,  N.  B., 

Born  2-itA  July,  ITIC,  died  1st  Feb.,  \mi. 

He  is  nut  dead  whose  glorious  mind 
.  Lifts  ours  on  high  ; 

To  live  in  hearts  we  leave  behind 
Is  not  tu  die. 

Mr,  Ciiay's  <,'raii(lfiitlu'r,  the  Rev.  Bi'iijainiii  flerrish  Gray,  D.D.,Wiis  also  lootor  of  St.  John 
N.B.,  for  many  ycais,  iiud  wa.s  a  prominent  meml>er  of  tliat  eomnuinity  ;  noted  foi  his  loyalty, 
zeal,  ami  the  devotion  of  his  life  ami  fi>rtune  to  deeds  of  benevolence,  antl  was  truly,  as  .stated 
on  tlie  tablet  erected  to  his  memory  by  his  parish,  "a  father  to  the  poor." 

For  sometime  he  was  a  missionary  to  the  Miroons,  "  those  heroic  cut-tliroats,"  said  the 
Tvh'ijraith— 

Whon»  the  British  fiovernnlont  had  imported  into  >fova  Scotia,  to  the  ({reat  annoyance  of  its  peaceful 
inhabitants  and  of  succesaive  Provincial  (ioveruors,  who  were  driven  to  their  wits'  end  to  keep  them  ({uiet,  and 
wasted  reams  of  pap-r  in  corresponding  with  the  home  authorities  on  the  subject.  If  live  or  six  thousand 
vigorous  Xilus  were  brought  to  New  Brunswick  to-day,  our  (leople  would  be  able  to  form  some  idea  of  what 
the  Maroons  were  like.  Dr.  Gray  afterwards  tilled  various  missions  in  Nova  Scotia,  and  in  181!l  became  rector 
of  St.  (ieorge's,  Hatifa.x.  In  IH'Jii  he  sncceeiied  Dr.  Williti  ai  rector  of  .St.  .lolin,  anil  retained  that  position  until 
1810,  when  he  resigned  it,  and  died  in  1854  at  the  advanced  age  of  8b.  Dr.  (iray  was  a  man  of  much  artistic 
taste  and  fond  of  scientiHc  pursuits.  His  charitable  di.si>o.>iition  and  kindness  i>f  heart  are  still  remembered,  and 
it  is  no  hyperlmle  to  state,  as  is  recorded  on  the  tablet  to  his  memory,  that  he  was  a  "  father  to  the  poor."  In 
18;t.l,  a  great  misfortune  befell  him,  for  which  no  sympathy  could  make  amends.  His  house  on  Wellington 
How  was  burned  to  the  ground,  and  with  it  his  wife,  who,  with  a  female  domestic,  in  some  way  got  bewildered, 
and  were  iiniible  to  get  out  of  the  home  with  him.  His  lino  library  and  the  rei-ords  of  the  parish  were  destroyed 
at  the  same  time. 

The  mother  of  Benjamin  (1.  <<ray,  was  Avis  Phillips  Easson,  wlio  was  born  in  the  island 
of  Jamaiea,  but  was  eiluiiated  in  Enj'land,  ami  resiih'd  there  from  her  earlv  life. 

Mr.  Oray  was  fitted  for  eoUe^fe  iiy  private  tuition;  entered  King's  college,  Windsor,  in 
May,  1843  ;  was  graduated  in  September,  ISt?,  having  commenced  the  study  of  law  in  Jidy  of 
the  previous  year,  with  the;  Hon.  John  Hamiltnii  (iray,  of  St.  .lohn.  He  was  called  to  the  bar 
of  New  Brunswick  in  JH.'il),  and  befon.-  tipuning  an  otHce  went  to  England,  and  was  thereat  the 
time  of  the  great  international  exhibition.  He  made  a  short  visit  to  France  al.so ;  returned 
in  the  latter  part  of  IWl,  ami  was  admitteil  to  piactieo  in  Nova  Scotia  at  Michaelmas  term, 
1S4'1,  locating  at  Halifa.x,  and  doing  business  in  the  several  courts  of  the  province 

In  IS.'i'J,  Mr.  ("lay  removed  to  Boston,  Mass.,  and  resitled  there  for  six  years,  having  busi- 
ness connections  between  the  British  Provinces  and  that  city. 


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TIIK  CAXAI>IAX  RtnaiiAl'inCM.  ItH'TIONAnV. 


M^:^ 


Wliilf  living  in  HoNton,  1801,  lie  nmnictl  Mitry  J(),soi)liino  Clincli,  <linigliU'r  of  \\v.\.  JcHfph 
H.  Clinch,  a  <listin<rui.she(l  clergynmn  iin<l  liU'raiy  ytintienmn,  wlioliiul  resiiled  in  Boston  since 
183.'l,  fornioriy  fioaj  Newfoiindlimd,  iiml  a  gradimle  of  Kinj^'s  colii'j,'c,  Nova  Scotia. 

In  l.S(i.'),  Mr.  dray  ri'turneil  to  Halifax,  and  liere  renewed  tin-  practice  of  Ids  profession, 
which  was  attended  with  {.'uod  siicccs.s.  Mr.  (liay  has  devoteil  his  attention  to  professional 
work  in  preference  to  the  inducements  of  a  iKditioil  career,  and  latterly,  owinj^piirtly  to  severe 
illne.ss  consequent  upon  overwork,  he  has  done  niaiidy  otti'.'e  and  chanilters'  work.  He  has  a 
great  deal  of  trust  liusiness  for  persons  in  this  province  and  the  Ihiited  States  and  Kngiand. 
He  has  a  high  reputation  for  integrity  and  promptness  in  business  uiattei's,  and  the  unlimited 
confidence  of  the  community. 


I 


KEY.   (CHARLES   TUPPER,    D.IX, 

KINaSTON,  A'.S. 

REV.  CIIAIILKS  TUPPKR,  who  died  at  Kingston,  N.  S,  on  the  l!Hh  of  January,  IS81, 
had  lived  a  great  many  years,  and  done  a  vast  amount  of  solid  ( 'nristian  work.  He 
was  born  at  ('i)rnwallis,  in  this  provincr,  in  August  of  171)4,  ami  lienci'  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  in  his  87th  year.  We  glean  from  obituary  notices  of  him  in  the  provincial  news- 
papers and  from  private  sources  a  few  items  of  ntuch  interest.  He  was  almost  entirely  self- 
educated  ;  was  converted  in  181.'),  entered  the  ministry  in  1817,  and  his  jiulilic  labour  cxtendeil 
over  a  period  of  sixty-tive  years,  sixty-two  of  them  as  an  ordained  minister.  Probably  a  more 
industrious  and  successful  life  has  never  been  spent  in  these  jirovinces.  In  addition  to  the  great 
amount  of  pastoral  labor  that  he  performed,  his  labors  have  abomuled  aUo  in  utiier  spheres. 
The  temperance  reform  had  in  llev.  Dr.  Tupper  an  early  a<lvocate.  .Much  time  and  strength 
during  his  ])ublic  life  were  givi'U  to  this  great  work.  His  zeal  never  flagged  in  that  cause. 
The  enterprise  of  foreign  mi.ssions  was  helped  in  its  infan<-y,and  fostered  and  advocated  until 
the  day  of  his  death  by  this  great  and  good  man. 

He  hehl  pastorates  at  Andiei-st,  N.  S.,  St.  John,  N.  B.,  Tyrone,  P.  K.  I.  and  Aylsford,  N.  S., 
the  tirst  ami  last  being  very  long,  resigning  at  Aylsford  only  live  oi-  six  yeais  before  he  died. 
In  all  places  and  all  positions  he  was  thoroughly  devoted  to  the  Master's  work. 

He  helped  to  found  the  Itapti.st  institutions  at  Wolfville.  His  lalxjrs  and  synipathies 
were  given  to  them  from  the  beginning  till  the  close  of  life.  Having  spent  some  I'f  his  stiength 
in  his  earlier  life  in  teaching  at  Krederieton,  N.  11.  being  principiil  of  the  IJaptist  seminaiv 
he  naturally  felt  a  .sjK'cial  interest  in  this  department  of  public  work.  No  one  hailed  with 
nxire  jdeasure  the  common  .scIumjI  system,  intioiluced  into  this  Pro\  ince  iindei-  the  leadei-ship  of 
his  son,  now  Sir  Charles  Tupper,  than  did  the  venerable  father. 

The  Ba/itinl  Mdijdz'tne,  a  monthly,  and  a  predecessor  of  the  Chrixlimi  Mmsi ni/i'i;  was  for 
some  years  edited  by  him.  He  travelled  extensively  in  the  interests  of  the  ('lirislinii  Mmsi  n- 
(ji'v,  ami  was  closely  associated  with  it,  sometimes  in  an  editorial  way,  an<l  always  as  agent  and 
writer.  "The  Baptists  are  greatly  indebted  to  him  for  valued  lalK>is  in'many  dejmrtmiiits  of 
denominational  enterprise  ;  and  in  a  very  high  degree  is  their  indebtedness  to  him  in  tlie  wmk 
of  journalism,  esjiecially  in  their  eailier  history," 

Dr.  Tupper  had  great  knowledge  of  languages,  His  diary  for  Dec.  '2'2,  18.39,  contains  the 
"  Finished  the  perusal  of  Luther's  Cierman   version  of  the  Bible.     I   have 


following  entry 


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436 


run  cas'ai>iak  lUoaUAVinrAL  D/crioxARr. 


now    iMTUsod    tlio  wlioli'    of    the   sacrcil    voliiino    in    cijjlit   laJij^niiijt'x ;    thosi^  lU'c,   Hi'Jirnw, 

Syriftc,  (Jrct-k,  liRtiii,  Italinn,  Frcncli,  (JiTinan  ami   Kiij,'lisl>,  licsidi's  tlic   Ni-w  Tt'.Htftiiient  in 

S|»aniNli  nml   I^)rtuJ»^U'^4C."     Ho  wad  tho   New  Ti-staiiu'iit  in  Umi   langiingos.  Says  one  who 
knew  liini  well : 

His  iiieinory  iiiny  l>o  Mid  to  iiavuliviMi  lo  roteiitivo  IhnUio  for^nt  nothing.  l(i-«iili'iitho  Htmly  of  Ihii<;iiii.{oi, 
ho  reail  uxtuiiNivuly  in  thu  irveial  ilu|iHrtnienU  of  hii  iiriifcRxion,  imil  witu  r«!i{nril«<(l  lui  n  Hoiniil  thttnlo^inn, 
and  a  diitinxniahed  uxentutical  scholar.  No  irreuularitv  of  lal>or,  and  nim^h  of  hin  lifo  wim  sj>i>nt  in  labor  of 
tliiH  kind,  was  allowud  to  kiii|H)nd  lyitaniatic  study.  Ho  u.krriod  Inn  books  with  liiiii  wlicn  tnivclling,  .tnd  a.i 
■ooii  as  his  friendly  and  roligioiis  intorcoumo  with  Iho  fainilius  wliere  he  liNlgud  was  jiidKed  liy  him  to  Vmj  atton- 
dud  to,  he  would  o|i«n  his  liiMiks  anil  proceod  with  his  stiuly.  In  (his  way  Uv  ovurcaiuo  all  diiwtdvantiiuvN,  and 
attained  to  great  excollenoy  in  schularship.  Ho  rucvivod  in  Wu  tho  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  in  |)ivinity 
from  Acadin  cidlege. 


HON.   DUNCAN    C.   FRA8KI{, 

NE fi'  GhAXGOW,  N.S. 

DTNCAN  CAMERON  FRASER,  banister,  i.s  a  .son  ..f  Ali>xiui.l."r  Kiuser,  nn.l  Annie  ('lii.s- 
Iioiin,  hi.s  wife,  and  was  liorn  at  Hrooklyn,  near  New  (iliisgow,  eounty  of  I'ictoii,  on  the 
Hrst  day  of  Octolier,  184.">.  iiotli  parents  were  born  in  the  siiiiie  county,  and  both  fiiniilie-i 
were  orioinaliy  from  Inverness-shire,  Scotland.  Tiie  son  was  educated  at  the  normal  seliool, 
Triiro,  and  Dalhoiisie  college,  receiving  tlu'  degree  of  H.A.,  in  IM72  ;  connuenced  stmlying  law 
at  Trino  with  Frederick  A.  Lawrence,  and  Hnisheil  at  Halifa.x,  with  Hon.  .lames  McDonald,  now 
minister  of  justice  in  the  Dominion  Ciovernment,  and  was  called  to  the  bar  in  l>s73.  Since  that 
date  he  ha.s  been  in  practice  at  New  (Jlasgow,  doing  business  in  the  .several  courts  of  the  pro- 
vince, and  being  the  leading  barrister  in  that  place.  As  a  pleader  he  is  candid,  clear  and  logical 
and  makes  an  excellent  impiession  in  addressing  a  jury. 

Mr.  Fra.ser  has  been  a  school  trustee,  and  a  town  councillor,  and  one  year  was  a  member  of 
the  Nova  Scotia  (iovenuaent,  being  appointed  a  member  of  the  executive  coinieil  in  FVliruary, 
1.S78,  and  .serving  one  session.  He  ran  for  the  comity  of  (Juysborough  in  September  of  that 
year,  and  was  defeated. 

He  is  a  Liberal  out-and-out,  a  radical  free  trader,  and  a  man  who  can  give  in  lucid  language 
a  reason  for  his  political  belief. 

Mr.  Fraiser  is  solicitor  for  the  Halifax,  and  Cape  Breton  Railway  Co..  past  president  of  the 
alumni  of  Dalhousie  college  ;  a  third  degree  Mason,  and  an  Oddfellow,  and  a  member  and  elder  of 
the  I'anada  Presbyleiian  church. 

He  married  in  187H  Mi.ss  He.ssie  (Jraham,  daughter  of  William  (bahain  of  New  CJIasgow, 
and  they  have  one  child.       _   \.  j^i  D 


KATIIAN    TUIM'EK,   M.I)., 
AMiiEii'sr,  y.s. 

nVXATHAN  TUPPER,  jdu-sician  and  surgeon,  and  collector  of  customs  at  Amherst,  is  a  son 
_L^  of  Rev.  Charles  Tupper,  D.D.,  a  Baptist  preacher  for  more  than  sixty  years,  and  tho 
oldest  minister  of  that  denomination  now  living  in  tlu;  Dominion  of  ('.mada,  being  born  at 
Comwallis,  N.  S.,  and  now  in  his  8Cth  year.     The  mother  of  our  subject  w,as  Miriam  Lockhart, 


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who  ilii'<l  ill  18.'»l.  Nathan  im  a  yoiingor  brother  of  Sir  Cliailon  Tiippor,  minister  of  railways 
ami  i-analH  in  tlio  Dinuiiiion  Caliint't,  aii<l  ono  of  its  very  ahlest  iiutiiilH>rs. 

Ur.  Tnpiti-r  was  ln>rii  at  Ainhcrst,  county  of  Cumhurlaiul,  on  tho  ISth  of  July,  1823  ;  was 
uiliicateil  in  part  iiy  his  father,  an<l  in  part  at  Fro<lerii-ton  seminary,  N.  R,  stmliud  medirine  in 
l'liilailul|ihia,  ami  there  received  the  dej,'reo  of  doctor  of  medicine  from  the  university  of  Penn- 
Mvlvania,  in  IM.H,  since  wliich  time  he  has  been  in  practice  at  Amherst.  Latterly  however,  ho 
has  aimed  to  do  but  a  limited  professional  business,  ho  holding;  some  civil  olBccs,  which  diiim 
most  of  his  time. 

I>r.  Tupper  has  lH>en  collector  of  customs  since  December,  1S7.'1,  and  is  also  rej^istrar  ami 
surveyor  of  shippinjj  :ind  collector  of  Inlaixl  Revenue.  In  his  early  professional  life  he  wiw 
sur^'con  of  militia.  His  polities  are  Coiwervative,  though,  since  taking  ortice,  he  has  not  been 
active  in  such  matters. 

He  is  a  Free  Mason,  and  past  master  of  Acacia  Lodge  No.  .S,  of  Nova  Scotia,  also  ])ast 
grand  junior  wanleii  of  the  graml  lodge  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  grand  representative  of  the  grand 
lodge  of  Coloratlo.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  reform  temperance  club  of  Amherst,  and 
uses  his  iiiHueiice  in  every  possible  way  to  suppress  tho  vice  of  intemperance  in  the  commu- 
nity. His  father  was  one  of  the  first  nun  in  tho  province  to  m:)V(^  in  this  noble  cause,  lieing 
the  lender,  it  is  believed,  in  forming  the  fiixt  temperame  society  in  Nova  Scotia. 

Dr.  Tupper  iiarried  in  IMt",  Kllen  J.,  daughter  of  John  Bent,  of  Amherst,  grandson  of  one 
of  the  tirst  Knglish  settlers  in  Nova  Scotia,  and  they  have  five  children  living,  and  have  lost 
two.  One  of  the  deceased,  Kdgar  A.  Tupper,  who  died  in  1N77,  was  a  druggist  and  settleil  in  life. 
Charles  Osborn  Tupper,  the  only  son  living,  is  a  student  at  Acadia  college,  Wolfville,  N.  S. 
Three  of  the  daughtei-s  living  are  marrie<l. 


AVILLIAM   N.   WKJKWIRE,  M.IX, 

HALIFAX,  N.  S. 

WILLLVM  NATHAN  WK'KWIHK,  (Jovernmcnt  inspecting  physician  of  the  port  of 
Halifax,  and  one  .)f  the  juominent  surgeons  of  this  city,  is  a  descendant  of  I'vter 
Wickwire,  who  came  from  Rhode  Island,  and  was  one  of  the  original  grantees  of  the  tcjwnshiji 
of  Cornwallis,  King's  county,  N.  S.,  and  where  our  subject  was  born  on  the  I8th  of  November, 
1839.  His  parents  were  Peter  and  Eliza  Ann  (Rockwell)  Wickwire,  his  mother  being  connected 
with  the  Rockwells  of  New  York,  .New  Kngland,  and  other  States,  and  whose  pedigree  wa.s 
])ublished  a  few  years  ago  by  Henry  Knsign  Rockwell,  of  Washington,  D.  (\ 

Dr.  Wickwire  was  educated  at  Acadia  college,  Wolfville,  in  this  province,  receiving  tho 
ilegree  of  HA.  in  I8(i0,  and  M.A.  in  18(52.  His  medical  studies  were  pursued  at  the  Edinburgh 
university,  whence  he  received  the  tlegree  of  M.D.,  in  18G4. 

( >n  his  return  from  Scotland,  Dr.  Wickwire  entered  into  the  practice  of  his  profession  at 
Halifax,  in  company  with  Dr.  (now  Sir  (*harles)  Tupper,  and  that  partnei'ship  continued  until 
the  removal  of  the  latter  to  the  Province  of  Ontario,  about  ten  years  ago.  He  has  always 
been  in  general  j)ractice  in  this  city,  and  stands  in  the  first  rank  of  tho  medical  fraternity  at 
the  capital  of  thi^  province. 

Dr.  Wickwire  was,  for  a  few  years,  assistant  inspecting  physician  at  this  port,  and  was 
promoted  to  his  present  position  on  the  resignation  of  Dr.  Gossip.     Ho  has  been  for  some  years 


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smjioon  to  the  Provincial  and  City  Hospital,  and  was  at  one  time  surgeon  of  u  ooun>any  con- 
nectoii  with  the  I'rovincial  Militia. 

He  is  a  Master  Mason,  an  adherent  of  the  English  chui-ch,  and  a  man,  so  far  as  we  can 
ascertiiin,  of  much  stability  of  character. 

His  wife  was  Margaret  Louisa  Keith,  datighter  of  the  late  Hon.  Alexander  Keith  of  Hali- 
fax ;  a  prominent  manufacturer  and  policitian,  and  at  the  time  of  his  demise,  President  of  the 
Legislative  Council  of  Nova  Scotia. — married  on  the  28th  of  Juno,  1870,  They  have  two 
children  liviii''  and  have  buried  three. 


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HON.  ALEXANDER    KEITir, 

HALIFAX,  y.S. 

THK  LATK  ALFAANDKIl  KKITH  was  too  prominent  a  man,  and  has  too  recently  left 
the  scene  of  action,  to  be  overlooked  in  a  work  like  tliis.  He  was  born  at  Halkirk, 
Caithness-shire,  Scotland,  on  tlic  .")th  of  Octolier,  17!*">  ;  his  father  being  a  highly  respectable 
farmer,  and  thief  of  the  clan  Keith.  After  receiving  a  good  e<lucation  in  his  native  country, 
lie  went,  ill  JNl  2,  to  Sunderland,  Kng.,  where  he  learnt^l  tht-  Idewing  and  malting  business  with 
ail  uncle,  and  then  (l.Sl7j  came  to  Halifax.  Here  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Charles  Boggs, 
the  brewer,  and  three  years  later  bought  out  his  partner's  interest,  and  for  more  than  half  a 
ci-ntuiy  was  t-ngaged  in  the  business  alone,  aceuiiiulating,  by  liis  industry  and  eereful  attention 
to  his  private  matters,  a  handsome  property  years  before  his  lalwirs  wer»'  closed. 

Previous  to  the  incorporation  of  the  city  of  Halifax,  Mr  Keith  acted,  for  several  years,  as 
commissioner  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  ;  and,  in  1.S43,  he  wa.s  elected  mayor,  and  again  in 
l.s.Vi  ami  !.S.'i4;  having,  in  the  interim,  also  served  as  alderman,  taking  a  very  active  part  in 
!-ivic  atUiirs.     He  was  al  one  j)eiiod  a  director  of  the  Hank  of  Nova  Scotia. 

In  IcS4.'},  he  w!is  called  to  the  legislativi-  council,  and  in  I.S(i7  (on  the  completion  of  the 
Ciinfederation),  he  was  appointe<l  to  the  presidency  of  that  body,  Imlding  that  honorable  posi- 
tion when  lit  ilicil,  on  the  I +th  of  December,  1873.  Just  after  being  appointeil  president  of 
the  legislative  council  ;  in  that  same  year  he  was  callet!  to  the  senate  by  rtiyal  |)ioelami'*'on, 
but  declineil  the  honor  of  that  othce. 

At  the  time  of  his  demise,  Mr  Keith  hatl  U'en  a  member  of  the  N'irgin  lotlge  of  Frt>e 
Masons.  Ilalitax,  for  lifty-six  years  ;  and  for  nearly  thirty  years  was  provincial  grantl  master 
ftir  Xttva  Sctttia,  New  Hriinswiek,  I'rince  Kilwanl  Islaml  antl  Nt^wfoiimlland,  under  the  au- 
thority of  the  Knglish  ami  Scotch  (band  Lotlges;  and  when  the  varituis  divisions  of  the  masonic 
body  wt^re  mergeil  into  the  grantl  loilife  of  Nova  Sctitia  (I.S(!(!),  he  was  electeil  grand  master,  to 
which  position  lie  was  re-elected  every  year  while  he  lived. 

A  short  time  beftire  his  death,  The  (h'lifhinini  iiiid  Cdinnliiin  MiiKoiiir  Ui'inrtl  published 
an  account  of  this  "  eminent  cummamler  of  the  exalt(Ml  order  of  Knights  Templar, "  ami  after 
lilting  soiMf  of  the  leading  acts  of  his  life  ami  mentioning  his  fine  fortune,  "  the  result  of  a 
ciiurse  of  upright  and  honorable  habits, coupled  with  sterling  integrity  of  purpose  and  urbanity 
of  mannei's, "  proceeileil  as  follows: — 

Ah  :i  iiiiijiiriif  llio  militia  iiMil  n  jnHti,'o  nf  the  ih'hco,  tlio  llnnnnililo  Mr.  Ki^ith  liiis  over  been  roaily  to 
wrve  hii*  yiiffii  aiid  country,    in  the  North  Kritish  Bociety  and  HiKhlaiul  siK^iety  of  Nova  .Scotia,  brother  Koiih 


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has  repeattiilly  tilled  the  presidential  chair,  and  at  the  present  time  worthily  discharges  the  duties  uf  chief  of  the 
latter.  It  is  i|iie8tioiiable  whether  there  is  within  the  Dominion  any  one  person  who  has,  during  his  lifetime, 
presided  at  as  many  public  nners  as  has  uur  worthy  and  esteemed  citizen  ;  he  haviu'.:,  in  his  own  [leciiliar  and 
acceptable  way,  <N!cupied  th  .air  on  no  less  than  one  hundred  and  ten  such  occasions,  during  his  public  career. 
This  fact  alone  is  Riithoient  to  ])rove  the  high  esteem  in  which  our  distinguished  brother  has  always  been  held 
fur  his  many  excellent  qualities. 

Another  Masonic  paper,  piiMislied  outside  tliis  province,  spoke  at  one  time  of  the  vnluable 
testimonials — presentations  and  addresses — whicli  had  l>een  presented  to  Mr.  Keith,  showing 
the  high  appreciation,  among  tlie  craft,  "of  his  sterling  integrity  and  masonic  worth."  On  one 
occasion,  says  that  journal,  Mr.  Keith  "was  .specially  .selected  by  most  worshipful  the  Earl  of 
Zetland,  then  (jli'nnd  Master  of  Kngland,  to  settle  some  delicate  matters  in  dispute  amongst  the 
brethren  in  New  Hrunswick,  and  su<'eeeded  in  effecting  an  arrangement  mutually  satisfactory 
and  honorable  to  all  parties  concerned.  The  laying  of  corner-stones  of  many  of  our  principal 
and  public  institutions,  also  form  a  prominent  feature  in  the  ma.sonic  career  of  our  worthy 
brother,  as  evidenced  by  the  public  records  and  the  numerous  silver  trowels  in  his  possession." 
An  elegant  epergne,  presented  by  the  craft,  is  supported  by  three  figures — Faith,  Hope  and 
Charity — ami  is  one  of  the  choicest  tokens  of  the  e.steem  in  which  Mr.  Keith  wa.s  held  by  th« 
fraternity  ;  now  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Keith. 

The  account  of  the  funeral  of  Mr.  Keith,  which  took  place  on  the  17th  of  December, 
occupied  between  one  and  two  colunuis  of  the  local  dail}'  papers  ;  but  in  a  sketch  like  this  wo 
can  only  adtl  that  it  was  very  largely  attendeil  l»y  the  craft  of  this  province  anil  New  Bruns- 
wick, by  the  governor  and  staff,  the  mend lei-s  of  the  supreme  court,  tin-  (Catholic  archbishop 
and  clergymen  generally,  and  by  the  citizens  in  a  mass,  all  showing,  by  their  presence  and  the 
deep  solemnity  of  their  faces,  the  great  loss  which  they  anil  the  publi.-  at  large  had  sustained. 
A  beautiful  Scotch  granite  monument,  erected  by  the  family  to  the  memory  of  Mr.  Keith 
adorns  the  new  cemetery  at  Halifax.  It  is  the  most  elegant  and  costly  monument  in  that 
cemetery,  and  is  admired  by  everybody  who  visits  that  hallowed  s])ot. 

His  willow,  who  was  Miss  Eliza  Keith  (married  in  !S;W\  and  who  lived  with  him  for 
forty  years,  still  survives  him,  together  with  four  children,  one  son  and  three  daughtei's,  others 
preceding  their  father  to  the  spirit  world.  The  widow,  the  son,  and  two  daughteis  still  reside 
at  the  homestead,  "  Keith  Hall."  The  other  daughter  living  is  married  to  Dr.  Wick  wire,  whose 
sketch  appeals  on  another  page  of  this  work. 

Mr.  Keith  was  a  man  whose  memory  is  still  cherished,  not  only  by  his  own  family  and 
the  Itrethren  of  the  "  mystic  tie,"  but  by  his  fellow  citizens,  and  all  who  were  a.ssociateil  with 
him  in  either  a  public  or  private  capacity.  He  was  a  wise  counsellor,  and  had  l»oth  an  ear  and 
a  hand  open  to  the  plea  of  the  needy. 


.lOlI^'    D.    KINNEAK, 

AMllKHST,  ^^..^. 


JOHN  DENNY  KIN  NEAR,  a  practising  Iwrister  in  the  county  of  CumlK-rland  for  forty- 
five  years,  and  judge  of  piobate  for  more  than  twenty  yeai-s,  is  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia, 
dating  his  birth  at  Halifax,  im  the  31st  of  January,  ISH.  His  father  Thomas  Kinnear, 
came  from   Ireland   when    ijiiite   young,  his   grandfather,   Andrew    Kinnear,  coming  to  this 


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country  in  the  Britisli  army,  and  spending  his  last  days  as  commissariat  at  Fort  Cumberland. 
The  family  ofliis  motlier,  Mary  Ann  Denny,  who  was  horn  in  i^lalifax,  was  also  from  Ireland. 
Both  families  were  among  the  most  respectahle  in  their  counnunity. 

Our  subject  was  educated  at  Pictou  college,  where  he  was  a  room-mate  of  Chief  Justice 
Richie,  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Canada  ;  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  S.  G.  \V.  Archibald,  then 
Attorne3'-Oeneral  of  Nova  Scotia  and  afterwards  Master  of  the  Rolls,  and  was  admitted  to  prac- 
tice in  July,  1835.  At  that  date  he  opened  an  office  at  Amherst,  which  town  has  since  been 
his  home.  His  practice  has  been  confined  alnxjst  exclusively  to  the  county  of  Cumberland,  and 
lias  been  in  connection,  to  a  considerable  extent,  with  other  business.  He  has  always  been 
identified  with  land  operations  on  a  liberal  scale,  ho  owning  several  farms  and  large  marshes  in 
the  county  of  Cumberland. 

Mr.  Kinnear  was  appointed  master  in  chancery  in  lJ<-ti,  notary  public  in  184.i,  registrar 
of  probate  in  l.S+7,  and  judge  of  probate  in  INJO,  and  is  and  always  has  been  a  faithful  official 
in  every  trust  assigne  1  him. 

His  religious  connection  is  with  the  Church  of  England  ;  his  political  with  the  Conserva- 
tive party,  and  before  taking  ottice  he  was  a  very  active  partisan. 

Mr.  Kiiuiear  was  joined  in  marriage  in  April,  1841,  with  Miss  Mary  Bent  of  Amherst,  a 
descendant  of  one  of  tlie  oldest  families  in  tiiis  province,  and  she  died  in  18')."),  leaving  seven 
children,  three  sons  and  five  daughters,  all  married  but  the  youngest  of  the  latter.  The  three 
sons,  Agnew,  Vivian,  ami  John  Sydney  Kinnear,  ail  live  in  California.  Mr.  Kinnear  is  held  in 
very  high  t.'steem  by  his  neighbors  and  by  all  who  know  him. 


'VUE    \'EIIY    RYX.  JAMES    liOSS,  D.D., 

HALIFAX,  N.S. 

THE  subject  of  this  .sketch.  Principal  of  the  Dalhousie  college  and  Professor  of  Ethics  and 
Political  Economy,  is  the  filth  son  of  the  late  Rev.  Duncan  Ross,  a  native  of  Tarbet, 
Ross-shire,  Scotland.  In  early  life  he  removed,  with  his  parents,  to  Alyth  in  I'\)rf!ii"shire,  and 
received  the  rudiments  of  his  education  in  the  jiaioehial  school  in  that  town.  After  passing 
through  the  usual  eunicuhim  in  the  Edinburgh  university,  and  attending  the  Divinity  Hall 
for  three  sessions,  he  was  ordained  li^-  the  I'resbytery  of  Forfar,  January  2()th,  171)"). 
He  shortly  afterwards  sailed  for  Ameiica,  and  arriveil  in  Pietou  in  the  month  of  June  of  the 
same  year.  He  acted  as  assistant  to  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  Me(iregor  until  1801,  when  betook 
charge  of  the  United  Congregations  of  West  and  Middle  Rivers  and  Roger's  Hill,  where  he  con- 
tinued to  labor  with  great  diligence  and  success  until  his  death,  which  occurred  October  :i5th, 
18.'U.  The  mother  of  the  venerable  Prineijml  of  Dalhousie  College  was  Isabella  Creel  man, 
granddaughter  of  Samuel  Crecbuan,  sen.,  an  inuiiigrantfi-om  the  North  of  Ireland,  who  came  to 
Nova  Scotia  in  the  year  17">i',  and  whose  desciiidants  are  nosv  found  in  ditt'crent  parts  of  the 
Province,  some  of  them  occujiying  important  and  honorable  positions.  The  Hon.  oamuel 
Creelman,  the  present  Commi-ssionei  of  .Mines  and  I'ublie  Works,  is  her  nephew. 

Dr.  Ross  was  l)orn  at  West  liiver,  Pictou,  on  the  I'Mth  day  of  July,  1811,  and  educated  at 
the  Pictou  academy,  lb'  studied  divinity  under  the  distinguished  scholar  and  divine,  the  late 
Rev.  Thomas  McCulloch,  D.D.,  and  had  chaigo  of  the  Westmoreland  (N.Il.j  (jr.tnnnar  School  for 


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four  years.  The  .sfliool-house  in  which  he  taught  was  in  tlie  innnediiitc  vicinity  of  the  loeation 
of  the  Moinit  Allison  College  and  academies.  Several  of  his  pupils  afterwards  tilled  important 
stations  in  tltat  Province.  He  wa.s  licensetl  to  preach  tlie  Gospel  hy  the  Presbyt^M-y  of  Truro, 
in  March,  183."),  and  in  October  of  the  same  year  was  ordained  over  the  congregations  of  West 
and  Middle  Rivers,  over  which  his  father  had  been  minister  about  thirty-nine  years. 

On  the  2()th  of  September,  18.S8,  he  married  Isivbella  Matheson,  daughter  of  William 
Matheson,  Esq.,  of  Green  Hill,  "  whose  praise  is  in  the  Gospel  throngliout  all  the  churclu's."  His 
son  by  this  marriage,  James  Duncan,  studied  medicine,  and  has  been  for  many  years  a  successful 
practitioner.  His  eldest  daughter,  Lilia  Mary,  lives  with  him.  His  youngest  daughter,  Helen 
Frew,  was  married  to  William,  youngest  son  of  the  late  Hon.  Joseph  Howe,  who  died  Lieuten- 
ant-Governor of  Nova  Scotia.  This  daughter  died  suddenly  at  Ottawa,  Ont.,  March  11th,  liS77. 
Her  mother  tlied  at  Halifax,  October  27th,  1875. 

In  1842,  Dr.  Ross  was  appointed  editor  of  the  I'renhi/tcrinn  Biinver,  which,  after  a  short 
career,  was  merged  into  the  Eauti'rn  Ckmnicle,  when  liis  connection  with  it  ceased.  Our  subject 
was  for  several  years  Clerk  to  the  Synod  of  the  Presbyterian  Cliurch  of  .Nova  Scotia,  from  the 
duties  of  which  he  was  relieved  on  his  a]>p()intment  to  the  chair  of  Hebrew,  and  Hiblical 
Criticism  ami  Kxegesis,  on  the  death  of  Dr.  Mc(.'ullocli,  the  formor  Professor  of  Divinity. 

At  this  time  the  church  was  exceedinglv  straitened  for  want  of  ministers.  The  Pietou  Aca- 
demy  no  longer  furnished  the  preparatory  education  reipiired  by  the  church  of  students  before 
entering  the  Divinity  Hall,  and  the  doors  of  Dalhousie  College  were  clo.sed,  so  far  as  liigher  edu- 
cation was  concerned.  On  the  death  of  its  distinguisheil  principal.  Dr.  McCulloch,  to  whom 
reference  has  already  been  made  in  this  sketch,  a  few  ministers  were  received  from  the  United 
Presbyterian  Church  in  Scotland,  but  the  su[)ply  was  (piite  inadeijuate  to  meet  the  urgent  neces- 
sities of  the  case.  In  these  circumstances  some  of  the  lirethren  re(juesteil  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  to  direct  atid  superintend  the  studies  of  two  young  men,  who  wished  to  piejiare  them- 
selves for  the  ministry.  He  was  so  far  successful  that,  when  they  presented  themselves  for 
exaujination,  the  Presbytery  felt  justified  in  certifying  them  for  admission  to  the  Divinity  Hall, 
and  they  afterwards  became  acceptable  and  useful  ministers.  The  arrangement,  however,  was 
not  satisfactory.  A  number  of  the  more  zealous  and  sanguine  mcnd)ers  of  the  Synod  projected 
the  estal>lishment  of  an  institution  of  education,  to  meet  the  exigencies  of  the  case.  After  much 
opposition  and  discouragement,  and  freipient  delays,  the  Theological  Seminary  was  started  at  the 
West  River,  and  Mr.,  now  Dr.,  Ro.ss  appointed  to  take  charge  of  it.  'J'lie  resources  of  its  friends 
did  not  enable  them  to  provide  a  salary  for  him  independently  of  his  stipend  as  a  minister  of  a 
couirregation.  For  a  short  time,  he  not  oidv  gave  instruction  to  a  numlier  of  voung  men  in 
cla.ssics,  mathematics  and  pliilosophy,  but  discharged  most  of  the  duties  of  the  pastorate.  Hi.i 
labors  at  this  period  were  exjes-sive.  In  a  few  years  he  was  relieved  from  his  i)astoral  duties,  and 
was  henceforth  enabled  to  devote  his  whole  time  and  labor  to  the  education  of  aspiiants  to  the 
ministry.  The  result  of  the  etl'ort  now  became  apparent.  Tiie  interest  in  tlu'  seminary  gradually 
incrca.sed,  and  additional  funds  were  forthcoming.  The  Synoil  felt  that  the  time  had  arrived 
when  it  could  afford  to  supjmrt  a  second  professor,  and  the  late  Thonuis  McCulloeh,  Ks(|.,  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  situation.  Alxjut  the  year  18.">8,  it  was  deemed  cxpeilient  to  remove  tin-  seminary 
from  the  West  River  to  Truro,  and  a  couuuodious  building  was  erected  for  the  purpose  in  that 
thriving  and  beautiful  village.  A  year  o''  two  later,  the  luiion  between  the  Presbyterian  Clmrch 
of  Nova  Scotia  and  the  Free  Chinch  was  ittVcteil,  and  the  educatiomil  institutions  of  the  two 
bodies  were  amalgamated,  liy  this  happy  union  the  staff  of  juofessurs  in  the  arts  department 
was  incren.sed,  by  the  additi(;n  of  the  Rev,  Dr.  Lyall  to  the  number. 


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At  this  time  the  condition  of  Dallioiisio  College  was  very  nnsatisfactory.  Its  go\'ernors 
opened  a  correspondence  with  the  various  c  )lleges  in  the  Province,  with  a  view  to  induce  them 
to  imite  their  resources  and  energies — to  rally  around  Dalhousie  College — 1<.)  make  it  a  non-soc- 
tArian  institution — and,  by  their  united  efforts,  to  establish  a  college,  which  would  nttbrd  to  the 
youth  of  the  Province,  an  education  far  superior  to  that  which  cotild  be  furnished  by  small 
denominational  colleges — a  college,  in  a  word,  which  would  be  at  once  efficient,  and  a  credit  to 
the  country.  To  this  appeal  the  Presbyterians,  and  they  only,  returned  a  favorable  response.  In 
1863,  the  seminary  at  Truro  was  merged  into  Dalhousie  College,  an<l  llie  subject  of  our  sketch 
was  appointed  principal,  and  professor  of  ethics  and  politicil  economy.  Under  his  reijhne, 
and  by  the  eo-operation  of  able  and  enthusiastic  professors,  it  has  attained  a  degree  of  efficiency 
and  success,  far  beyond  tlie  expectation  of  its  most  sanguine  friends. 

The  degree  of  D.D.,  was  conferred  on  him  by  the  Senate  of  Queen's  College,  Kingston,  Ont., 
on  the  ICth  of  April,  18(i4. 


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SAMUEL   G.  KIGBY,   Q.C., 

HALIFAX,  N.  ^\ 

SAMUEL  GORDON  RIGBY,  one  of  the  most  prominent  barristei-s  at  the  Halifax  bar,  is  a 
native  of  the  island  of  Cape  Bretcm,  being  born  at  Sydney  Mines,  on  the  17th  of  Septem- 
ber, 1842.  His  father  was  Douglas  Gordon  Rigby,  of  English  descent,  and  born  in  the  city  of 
Halifax,  and  was  for  manj'  years  an  accountant  for  the  general  mining  association  of  C^ape 
Breton,  being  still  alive ;  his  mother  wiis  Mary  Caroline  Clarke,  daughter  of  Dr.  Williani 
Clarke,  a  surgeon  in  the  British  army.     She  died  in  1865.  i     , 

Mr.  Rigby  was  educated  at  the  Sydney  Mines  grammar  school,  and  by  piivate  tuition  ;  his 
range  of  studies  including  the  classics  ;  commenced  the  study  of  law,  in  1858,  with  Hon.  J.  W. 
Ritchie,  now  judge  in  equity,  and  elsewhere  sketched  in  this  work,  and  was  admitted  a  bar- 
rister and  attorney  in  OctoV>er,  1863 ;  ard  commenced  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Pictou, 
in  partnership  with  Hon.  James  McDonaltl,  now  njinister  of  justice  in  the  Dominion  cabinet. 
Mr.  liigby  remained  at  Pictou  until  1870,  when,  in  compliance  with  the  wishes  of  Mr.  Mc- 
Donald, who  had  settled  at  Halifax,  he  also  removed  to  this  city.  He  is  of  the  firm  of 
McDonald,  Rigby  and  Tupper  ;  the  junior  member  of  the  firm  being  Charles.  H.  Tupper,  son  of 
Sir  (Miarles,  the  distinguisheil  minister  of  railways.  This  is  one  of  the  leading  law  firms  in 
Halifax.  Mr  Kigby  has  kept  almost  entirely  aloof  from  politics,  and  has  given  his  entire  time, 
attention  and  energies  to  the  study  and  practice  of  his  profession  ;  hence  his  iiigh  standing 
among  the  legal  fraternity.  He  is  a  Huent  speaker,  with  good  tact  and  judgment,  and  one  of 
the  best  niti-pritiJ^  advocates  in  the  province.  In  1873,  Mr.  Rigb}^  was  appointed  one  of  Her 
Majesty's  Counsel,  learned  in  the  law,  by  the  Governor-General.  Since  February,  1880,  he  has 
lield  the  office  of  vice-president  of  the  barristers'  society  of  Nova  Scotia,  having  jtreviously 
been  a  member  of  the  council  of  that  society.  He  is  the  solicitor  of  the  bank  of  British  North 
America  at  Halifax,  the  Ocean  Marine  insurance  association,  and  a  numlier  of  other  companies. 
Since  the  removal  to  Ottawa  of  the  Honorable  James  McDonald,  he  has  been  retained  in  all  or 
nearly  all  of  the  important  suits  tried  or  argued  at  Halifax,  and  generally  on  opposite  sides 
to  the  present  attorney-general,  Mr  Thompson.  He  has  followed  the  midland  circuit,  of  which 
he  has  been  tli(>  leader  for  a  number  of  years,  anil  has  lieen  engngetl  in  many  of  the  election 


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cases  in  tlie  province.  Having  enjoyeil,  for  n  young  man,  a  very  largo  sliarc  of  jiracticc,  to 
whicli  and  the  study  of  his  profession  he  has  devoted  himself  industriously,  he  cannot  fail  to 
secure,  at  no  distant  day,  eminence  and  promotion. 

Mr.  Higlty  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  an<l  has  ludd  tlu'  office  of  deputy  grand  master  of  the 
grand  lodge  of  Nova  Scotia.  He  is  al.so,  we  helieve,  an  Oddfellow,  ami  a  niemher  of  the  Hali- 
fax club.     His  religious  connection  is  with  St.  Paul's  (Kpiscopal)  church,  Halifax. 

ifr.  Uighy  w^as  married  in  June,  LST-t,  to  Miss  Klizaheth  Archibald  Buriiyeat,  daughter  of 
Charles  Burnyeat  (brother  of  Governor  Archibald's  wife)  and  a  granddavighter  of  Rev.  .rohii 
Burnyeat ;  and  they  have  two  ehildre?i  living,  and  lost  one  in  infancy. 


WILLIAM    A.    PATTE118()>s,   M\\\\ 

TATAMAOOUi'UE,  X.S. 

WILLIAM  ALBKRT  PATTERSON,  a  representative  of  the  county  of  < 'olchester  in  the 
Legislative  As.sembly  of  Nova  Scotia,  is  a  son  of  Abram  Patterson,  formerly  a  merchant 
at  Pictou,  in  this  province,  by  Christina,  eldest  daughter  of  the  Rev.  James  McCregor,  D.D., 
the  Hi-st  Presbyterian  minister  at  Pictou,  and  grandson  of  John  Pattersijii,  who  came  from 
Paisley,  Scotland ;  and  was  born  at  Pictou,  N.S.,  on  the  10th  of  July,  1.S41.  He  received  an 
academic  education  in  his  native  town,  and  early  engaged  with  his  father  in  the  mercantile  and 
lumbering  business  at  Tatamagouche,  which  he  is  still  following. 

He  entered  public  life  in  \H7i,  when  he  was  elected  to  his  ])rosent  seat  in  the  House  of 
Asscmldy,  defeating  Hon.  Thomius  K.  Morrison  by  a  large  majority,  and  was  re-elected  in  1>S7n, 
his  politics  being  Liberal  Conservative.  He  introduced  and  carried  through  the  Nova  Scotia 
Legislature  the  Orange  Inci>rporation  Act. 

Mr.  Patterson  has  held  a  few  local  offices,  like  those  of  town  clerk,  school  trustee,  \c.,  anil 
seems  to  be  willing  to  bear  his  share  of  the  light  burdens  common  to  any  municipality.  H(> 
was  at  one  peritxl  captain  of  militia.  lie  Indongs  to  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  to  the  ( 'obe- 
(|uid  Lodge  of  h'reo  Masons, 

Mr.  Pattei-son  mariied,  in  Halifax,  on  the  2.'h(l  of  December,  iNlii),  Bessie,  youngest  daughter 
of  William  Campbell,  Ks(|.,  late  ctdlector  of  customs  at  Tatamagouche,  and  they  have  had  seven 
of  a  family,  of  whom  Hve  are  living. 


ALFRED    W.   8A\'ET?Y,   ESQ., 

DIOHY,  N.S. 

ALFRKD  WILLIAM  SAVKRY,  judge  of  the  county  court  of  Digby,  Aiuiapolis  and  Yar- 
mouth counties,  is  descended  from  a  New  Kngland  family.  His  paternal  gramlfather, 
Nathan  Savery,  who  was  liorn  in  Plymouth  Co.,  Mas.s.,  was  in  the  fifth  generation  from  tlie 
"Pilgrim  fathers,"  ami  came  to  the  county  of  Digby  in  thi^  yeai-  \1^\\,  or  \~f>\.  Heie  the 
father  of  our  subject,  Sabine  Savery,  who  was  named  for  his  maternal  grandfather,  who  was  a 


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grent-niiclo  of  Tlon.  Lorenzo  Saliino,  autlior  of  tlie  "  Loyalists  of  Amoriea,"  was  liorn,  and 
also  liis  son,  the  latter  on  the  10th  of  Oetoher,  1.S3L  His  mother  wius  Olivia  Marshall,  whose 
father  was  an  American  Loyalist  from  New  York,  and  settled  in  Yarmouth,  N.S. 

The  subject  of  this  sketeh  was  educated  in  the  Knglish  hranchos  by  John  Hood,  Ksq.,  at 
the  Weymouth  grannnar  school,  and  pursued  his  preparatory  studies  at  the  collegiate  school, 
Windsor,  N.S. ;  entered  King's  college,  in  the  same  place,  ami  was  giaduated  in  the  class  of 
is.').');  studied  law  at  St.  John,  N.B.,  with  Messrs.  Gray  and  Kaye,  and  was  called  to  the  bar 
of  New  Brunswick  in  1N.')7,  and  to  that  of  Nova  Scotia  in  ISGl.  He  practised  four  years  in 
the  former  province,  and  in  18(52  removed  to  Digby,  where  he  continued  at  the  bar,  doing 
considerable  Ijusineas,  until  he  went  on  the  bench  (187<i)  as  alread}-  mentioned,  when  county 
courts  were  established  in  the  province.  The  appointment  was  a  .satisfact(<r3'  one,  eminently 
fit  to  be  made,  he  being  a  Avell-read  lawyer,  and  a  dear-heailed,  cool,  discriminating  and  impar- 
tial judge.  At  the  present  time  (Aug.  1881)  his  early  promotion  to  the  supreme  court  bench  of 
Ills  province  is  confidently  expected  by  his  friends. 

On  the  formation  of  the  Confederation  (18G7)  Judge  Si  very  were  elected  to  the  House  of 
Connnons  for  the  count}-  of  Digby,  and  represented  that  constituency  until  the  close  of  1873, 
he  being  defeated  at  the  next  general  elections  held  in  Januaiy,  1874.  His  atfiliations  have 
always  been  with  the  Liberal-Conservatives. 

Sometime  jtrior  to  going  on  the  bench  he  was  an  inspeetor  of  scliools,  and  has  held,  we 
believe,  one  or  two  other  offices  of  minor  importance,  believing  it  to  bo  his  duty  to  bear  a  por- 
tion of  such  burdens.  His  Chrislian  membership  is  in  the  Clnirch  of  England,  he  being  of 
what,  we  l)elieve,  he  calls  the  '  evangelical  school." 

He  married,  on  the  20th  of  Februarj',  1877,  Bessie  Crookshank  Otty,  daughter  of  Henry 
P.  Otty,  of  St.  John,  N.B.,  and  granddaughter  of  Conunander  Otty,  R.N.,  and  grand-niece,  on 
the  mother  .s  .side,  of  the  late  Hon.  Joseph  Howe. 


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THOMAS   JOIINSOTs", 

LOCKPORT,  N.S. 

ONK  of  the  most  prominent  citizens  of  Loekport,  county  of  Shelburne,  N.S.,  is  Thomas 
Johnson,  who  was,  for  seven  years,  sheritt'of  that  county,  and,  for  twelve,  a  memlier  of 
the  local  parliament.  He  was  born  at  Shelburne  on  the  30th  of  October,  1821,  being  a  son  of 
Thomas  Johnson,  Sr.,  who  was  also  born  in  the  same  place.  His  grandfather  was  from  Scot- 
land, and  his  grandmother  from  the  north  of  Leland  ;  his  mother,  licfore  her  marria<'e,  was 
Agnes  Muir,  a  native  of  Shelbuine,  and  of  Scotch  descent. 

Mr.  Johnson  attended  .school  part  of  each  year  until  fifteen  years  old,  and  after  that  age 
had  to  educate  himself,  while  working  at  the  trade  of  a  mechanic  with  his  father,  who  died  at 
Halifax  in  January,  1H|3,  and  was  buried  in  that  cit}';  his  mother  lived  to  a  great  age,  dying 
in  August,  1871). 

At  twenty-four  years  of  age,  our  subject  commenced  a  seafaring  life  ;  having,  in  1848,  the 
command  of  a  West  India  trading  ve,s.sel,  sailing  out  of  Halifax. 

He  held  the  office  of  sheriflfof  Shelburne  county  from  1849  to  1853,  and  then  resigned; 
but  was  persuaded  to  accept  it  again  in  1801,  and  held  it  until  18C4',— in  all,  seven  years.      In 


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January,  1S6.'),  lie  iriiuiveil  to  Lorkport,  wlitiv  lio  has  since  resiJoil,  ami  where  lie  is  en<,'a},'etl 
in  iiiereantile  pursuits,  (loinj;  also  a  large  West  India  business,  owning,  in  company  with  other 
parties,  nearly  a  dozen  schooners  and  brigantines.  These  several  crafts  are  employed  princi- 
pally in  fishing  and  in  shipping  fish  to  the  West  Indies.  Mr.  Johnson  is  a  thororghgoing 
business  man,  and  well  known  in  the  province. 

He  represented  his  county  in  the  legislative  ii-ssembly  from  18(57  to  the  close  of  1878,  a 
period  of  twelve  years,  and  held  the  honorable  position  of  chiiirman  of  the  committee  on  public 
accounts.  Wiiile  in  i>arliaiiieiit,  as  we  learned  from  members  who  sat  beside  him,  he  did  Itut 
little  talking  and  a  great  deal  of  hard  work.  No  man  in  the  committee  room  was  more  indus- 
trious than  he,  or  exhibited  a  sounder  judgment.  He  looked  well  to  tlie  finances  of  the 
province,  and  his  labors  in  tlic  legislative  body  will  long  be  remembered.  In  polities,  he  does 
not  disown  the  name  of"  (hit." 

The  year  after  Mr.  Johnson  removeil  to  Lockport,  lie  married  ^^rs.  Jerusha  Todd,  daughter 
of  John  Locke,  uncle  of  Senator  Locke,  who  was  a  member  of  the  provincial  parliament  from 
18ol  to  Confederation  in  18G7.     We  believe  they  have  no  children. 


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THOMAS    S.    WHITMAN, 

ANXAPVUS,  X.S. 

THOMAS  SPUHR  WHITMAN,  agent  of  the  Bank  of  Nova  Scotia  at  Annapolis,  and  one 
of  the  leading  business  men  of  the  place,  dates  his  birth  at  Halifax,  N.S,  on  the  llJth  of 
>i'ovember,  18:J8,  his  father  being  John  Whitman,  also  a  native  of  this  province,  being  born  at 
Chester,  and  following  mercantile  pursuits  at  Halifax.  The  family  came  from  New  Kngland 
and  made  their  first  settlement  at  llo.sette,  county  of  Annapolis.  The  mother  of  Thomas  was 
Eliza  S|)urr,  who  was  of  Knglish  descent,  aiul  whose  parents  resided  at  Round  Hill,  in  Anna- 
polis county. 

Mr.  Whitman  finished  his  (Mhicatioii  at  Wolfville  academy,  became  connecteil  with  his 
father's  store  at  fifteen  years  of  age,  ami  has  been  in  business  ever  since.  He  went  to  New  York, 
in  1857,  and  was  there  for  ftjuiteen  years  in  the  general  commission  business  with  the  We.st 
Indies,  British  provinces,  England  and  Scotland,  when  his  health  failed,  and  by  the  advice  of 
his  physician  he  leturnetl  to  Nova  Scotia, 

He  resumed  business  in  June,  1 870,  as  attorney  for  the  Nova  Scotia  Lloyd's  Marine  In- 
surance Association,  and  also  took  the  agency  of  the  Union  Bank  of  Halifax  a  few  months 
later.  That  agency  he  resigned  in  1877,  intending  to  retire  from  business,  being  still,  at  times, 
troubled  with  his  old  disease — that  of  nervous  indigestion;  but  at  the  solicitation  of  the  direc- 
tors of  the  Biink  of  Nova  Scotia,  he  accepted  the  agency  of  that  popular  institution,  which  ho 
is  managing  in  a  very  satisfactory  manner. 

Mr.  Whitman  is  a  silent  partner  of  Lawrenc*'  Delap,and  they  ai-e  engaged  in  ship  building, 
lumber-manufacturing  and  merchandizing  at  Bay  View  (formerly  Hog)  Island,  at  the  north- 
eastern extremity  of  the  village  of  AnnaiKilis,  giving  employment  u.sually  to  alK)ut  seventy  men, 
antl  doing  (juite  an  extensive  business.  By  encouraging  manufactures  our  subject  i.s  aiding  to 
build  up  the  town  while  advancing  his  own  interests. 


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Mr.  Whitiimii  is  a  inemVifr  of  tlie  Baptist  chinch,  ami  lilwral  in  his  contributions  to  religious 
and  benevolent  objects,  liut  rarely  accepts  an  office  of  any  kiml.  Politics  he  seems  to  eschew 
altogether.     He  is  a  very  quiet,  yet  eminentl}'  useful  as  well  as  reliable  citi/en. 

]n  the  spring  of  1857  ho  married  Miss  Louisa  Tobias,  daughter  of  Simeon  Dwight  Tobias, 
wlio  was  of  New  Kngland  stock,  and  she  is  the  mother  of  seven  sons,  all  living  but  the  eldest, 
who  died  in  infancy. 

Some  years  ago  Judge  Wliitman,  a  prominent  citizen  of  Portland,  Maine,  publislied  a  his- 
tory of  the  Whitman  family,  one  noteworthy  peculiarity  of  whicli  is  its  great  longevity,  many 
membei-s  of  the  old  stock  living  to  be  8.'),  and  some  beyond  !K)  years  of  age.  It  is  a  little  sin- 
gular that  the  wives  also  of  the  Whitmans,  in  many  cases,  reached  or  pa.ssed  their  fourscoro 
yeai-s. 


AliEL    ('.   HOBIJINS, 

YARMOUTH,  S.S. 

ABKfi  (TTLKIl  IIOBBINS,  one  of  the  largest  .shipowners  in  the  Province  of  Nova  Scotia, 
and  for  more  than  thirty  years  a  prominent  business  man  in  Yarmouth,  is  a  native  of 
this  county,  dating  his  birth  at  Chebogue  Point,  on  the  IJHh  of  October,  18|!(,  His  father, 
Joseph  Robbins,  a  farmer  by  occupation,  and  his  grandfather,  Josepli  Robbins,  senior,  were 
from  Plymouth,  Mass.,  tlie  latter  being  among  the  men  who  took  up  arms,  in  177">,  for  the  in- 
dependence of  the  colonies,  removing  to  this  county  in  the  latter  i)art  of  tlie  last  century.  The 
mother  of  Abel  was  Hannah  Raymond,  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  a  member  of  an  excellent 
family,  her  father  being  the  founder  of  the  first  temperance  society  ever  formed  at  Beaver 
river,  Yarmouth  county  (1828),  ami  an  enthusiastic  worker  for  the  good  of  his  fellow  men. 

Our  siibject  faiiued  until  seventeen  years  of  .age,  brousing  meanwhile,  during  the  winter 
months,  on  some  of  the  lower  branches  of  the  tree  of  knowledge  in  a  local  school,  and  at  the 
Yarmouth  ac.idemy ;  at  the  ago  mentioned,  went  to  sea,  and  followed  it  a  little  more  than  a 
year,  making  three  voyages  to  the  West  Indies,  when  his  health  failed,  and  he  abandoned,  as 
he  supposed  oidy  temporarily,  a  sea-faring  life.  He  now  spent  one  year  in  a  private  school, 
paying  particular  attention  to  the  study  of  navigation,  and  fitting  himself  for  a  teacher,  a  pro- 
fession whicli  he  followed  one  year. 

A  little  before  he  became  of  age,  Mr.  Robbins  went  into  business  a.s  a  genen>l  merchant, 
with  W.  H.  Townsend,  the  firm  name  being  Townsend  and  Robbins,  and  they  were  in  partner- 
ship between  six  and  seven  years,  when  the  liealtli  of  our  subject  again  failed,  and  he  withdrew 
trom  business,  and  travelled  two  years  in  tlie  West  Indies  and  England. 

In  1848,  he  lesumed  business  as  a  general  trader,  and  at  the  same  time  commenced  ship- 
buil.ling,  which  he  has  followed  steadily  and  successfully  for  more  than  thirty  years,  dosing 
the  meicantile  branch  of  his  business  in  187.S.  He  has  had  an  interest  in  no  less  than  eiglity 
vessels,  owning  some  of  them  entirel}',  and  having  a  half,  three-fourths,  or  .seven-eighths  in- 
terest in  most  of  the  others.  He  is  now  a  part  owner  of  no  less  than  twenty  vessels,  and  the 
census  of  1871  showed  that  he  was  (and  he  probably  still  i.s)  the  largest  .sailing  shipowner  in 
the  county  of  Yarmouth,  which  is  the  leading  town  in  such  traffic  in  the  province. 

Freigliting  was  his  principal  business,  thougli  he  occasionally  purcha.sed  a  cargo  of  lumber, 
took  it  to  the  West  Indies,  and  brought  back  the  products  of  these  islands.  ^     . 


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Mr,  Rohbiii.s  earned  liis  own  capital  witli  which  to  eoinnumcu  laisineMH,  and  har*  alwaysi 
lici'n  entirely  Heifreliiint,  attendin;,'  to  lii.s  hiisintvHS  very  elosely.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  no  man 
in  tht!  town  was  ever  inoro  punctual  in  his  nppointiuents,  or  more  prompt  and  straij;htforward 
in  his  transactions.  His  reconl  in  liis  dealini,'s  witli  his  follow  men  is  clear,  clean,  and  credit- 
alile,  and  the  les.son  of  his  life  in  this  respect  may  he  .studied  with  profit  hy  many  men  just 
enteriii;;  upon  a  husiness  career.  'J'he  onlv  civil  (jfKces,  we  helieve,  that  Mr.  Uohhins  ever  held 
w<'i'e  those  of  postmaster  a  V(>ry  short  time,  and  one  of  the  hoard  of  the  hij^h  .school.  He  is  a 
memher  and  deacon  of  the  First  liaptist  church,  Yarmouth,  and  is,  and  ha.s  lon^'  heen,  a  liheral 
KUpporter  of  i elisions,  henevolent  and  literary,  or|,'anizations.  Ho  has  frB(|uently  contributed 
to  the  sujipoit  of  Acadia  coUejfe,  and  when  an  endowment  for  that  institution  was  raised,  not 
Ion;;  a;;o,  he  led  oH' with  a  subscription  of  fflO.OOO — a  characteristic  deed  of  the  man.  He  is 
president  of  the  Baptist  Home  Missionary  Union. 

Mr.  llobbins  has  been,  r.'.id  still  is,  identitied  with  different  local  institutions,  he  helping  to 
establish  the  Commercial  Insurance  Company,  .uid  ha.s  been  one  of  its  directors  from  the  start, 
ciy;htecn  years  a;,'o,  and  being  also  a  director  of  the  Hank  of  Yarmouth  from  its  establishment 
until  a  recent  ilate.  He  is  prciident  of  the  Exchange  Bank  of  Yarmouth,  and  a  director  of  the 
\Yest  County  Railway.  No  man  in  the  town  takes  more  pleasure  in  tryhig  to  proiiote  its 
welfare,  than  our  subject,  who  is  not  likely  to  tire  in  any  good  cause. 

He  was  married  in  Sei)temlier,  lh4.S,  to  Sarah  Jane,  daughter  of  Kbene/.er  I'orter,  an  old 
and  much  rcs|)ccted  citizen  of  Yarmouth,  and  they  have  two  sons  and  foin-  daughti'rs  liviu", 
and  liave  buried  two  children.  The  iwo  sons  are  in  business  in  Yarmouth,  John,  th'  elder, 
with  his  father,  antl  Charles  in  the  firm  of  I'arker,  Kakins  and  Co.  Kllon  M.  is  the  wife  of  l.>r. 
H.  A.  Parr,  dentist,  Y'arniouth,  and  the  other  daughters  arc  at  h(»me. 


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GKOlUiE    CAMIM5KLL, 

TlWlti),  y.  K. 

G^  KOUOK  CAMl'HKlib,  iuirrister-at-law  and  registrar  of  the  court  of  proliat.,  for  the 
^  county  of  Colchester,  is  a  native  of  Tatamagouche.  in  this  county,  dating  his  bji  tli  on  the 
7th  of  (,)ctober,  IHIV2.  His  father  wius  the  Hon.  Alexander  Campbell,  who  was  for  a  great  many 
vears  a  member  of  the  Legislative  Council,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  i  k.sVo.s  rululiinna 
of  the  comity  of  Colchester,  and  a  member  of  the  Kxecutive  Council  of  .Nova  Scotia,  of  which 
province  he  was  a  native.  \Yilliam  Campbell,  the  father  of  Mm.  Alexander  Campbell,  was 
from  Scotland,  and  settled  at  Pictou  where  he  died. 

The  mother  of  George  Campbell  was  Mary  Archibald,  daughtei-  of  Col.  David  Archibald  of 
Onslow,  a  member  of  one  of  the  oldi-st  and  most  respectaiilc  families  in  Colchester  county  set- 
tling there  in  I7(i-.  Col.  Archibald  was  a  brother  of  Hon.  S.  (i.  W.  ArchibaUl,  Ma.ster  of  the 
Rolls. 

Mr.  Can>pV)ell  was  educated  at  the  NY esleyan  academy.  Sack vi lie  ;  sttidietl  law  at  Truro, 
with  the  present  Governor  of  Nova  Scotia,  Hon.  Adams  G.  Aiehibald;  wa.s  called  to  the  bar  in 
December,  1S.)6,  and  was  in  partnership  with  Gov.  Archibald  until  the  (Confederation  (l.S()7).sinee 
which  time  he  has  been  alone  in  tlie  practice.  His  business  extends  into  all  the  courts  of  the 
Province,  ami  is  highly  remunerative.     "  Mr.  Campbell,"  writes  a  gentleman  who  knows  his 


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history  tlioioughly,  "  is  an  ablo  ami  coiisciontioiis  lawyer,  an<l  enjoys  the  contiilenec  of  the  en- 
tire peeple  of  the  county  in  whieh  he  reside*.  He  is  not  a  speaker,  but  a  sound  lawyer  ami  an 
excellent  man  of  business." 

Mr.  Cani]>bell  was  appointed-  re^jistrar  of  probate  in  l>S(J;l,  and  still  holds  that  ottice.  He 
was  conneeted  for  a  long  time  with  the  militia  of  the  province,  and  rose  to  the  rank  of  lieut.- 
colonel  of  the  7'Sth  Highlamlers,  resijifninj,'  in  November  LS7!). 

He  was  recorder  of  the  town  of  Truro,  when  it  was  tirst  incor])(>rated,  holdin;^  that  post 
two  or  three  years;  is  a  Master  Mason,  a  mendier  and  trustee  of  St.  Andrew's  Tresliyterian 
ehiireh,and  a  man  of  high  standing  in  all  his  relations  to  the  community,  as  well  as  in  his  pro- 
fession. 

On  the  20th  Decend>er,  1800,  Mr.  (."ampliell  was  married  to  Miss  Sarah  Ross,  daughter  of 
the  late  John  Ho.ss,  of  Truri),  at  one  time  a  member  of  parliament  for  Colchester,  and  they  iiave 
buried  two  children,  and  have  three  living. 


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IK  iif  the  leading  phy-^icians  and  suri^eons  of  the  County  of  I'ii'tou,  is  the  gentleman 
whose  name  heads  this  sketch.     He  is  a  native  of  this  county,  being  born  at  Barney's 

n  in  this  county. 


the  '2\u\  of  Novcmlier,  li^'I').     His  father,  David  Muiiav ,  was  also  bon 


His  giandfather,  Walter  .Muiray,  and  his  mother,  Margaret  lluggan,  weri'  from  Scotland.     The 
Huggans  in  the  old  country  are  a  family  of  shepherds. 

George  Murray  was  educateil  at  tlu'   Harney's  River  gramnuir  school,  and  l*ict«)n  academy 
Ids  boyhood  aiding  his  father  more  or  less  in  farm  work  ;  commenced  teaching  school  at  six- 


in 


teen,  and  was  enga 


ii:ed  ftnir  years  in  that  vocation,  two  at  Churchviile,  Ka.st  lliver,  N.  S., 


ami 


two  at  Sydney  mines,  C.  R.     He  studied   his  professicm  at  the  Pennsylvania  nu'dical  coilego 
PhihuU'lphia ;  received  the  degree  of  M.D.,  in   IS.'jO;  practised  four  years  in  his  native  place. 


an( 


I  then  in  Novendier,  IS.")4,  si'ttled  iu   New  (^dasgow,  where  he  has  been  in  steadv  and  s 


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cesst'ul  practice  for  twentv-sevcn  years.  Altliough  in  general  jiractice,  he  is  especially  noted 
for  his  skill  in  surgery,  he  having  perforncd  a  number  of  dittic'idt  operations  on  the  eye  and 
throat,  such  as  the  deft  palate  or  sla|iiiyloro|ihy,  hair-lip,  and  cataract  of  the  eye.  The  last 
named  disease  he  removes  by  the  operation  called  solution  in  the  case  of  children,  and  by  ex- 
traction in  atlults.  He  is  the  only  surgeon  of  whom  we  have  heard  in  this  pro\  ince,  that  has 
successfully  |icrformcd  the  operation  of  staphylorophy. 

Di'.  Murray  has  a  diiig  store  for  Ids  own  couxcnience.  lie  was  a  school  trustee  four  or  five 
years;  is  a  county  coroner,  and  from  bStIT  ti>  1S7I  re|)resenteil  Pictou  county  in  the  Nova 
Scotia  House  of  Assembly,  coudng  out  at  the  head  of  the  jxill.  He  was  again  a  camlidati'  in 
|s7l  and  in  1S7N,  and  Wi;s  defeated  bolh  times,  bu  ran  ahead  of  his  ti<'ket.  His  attiliations 
liave  always   been   with   the    LiU'ial   [jarty.     II 


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that  a  prondnent  is,Hue  in   bSl)7.     «)n  that  subject  we  lielieve  he  has  never  clianged  his  mind, 
he  ii'garding  it  as  an  in\politic  and  tmfortunate  niea  ,ure  for  his  native  ])rovince. 

The  doctor  is  an  elder  of  the  Presbyteiian  church  at  New  (ilasgow  ;  has  fre(piently  been  a 
delegate  to  the  synod,  and  lias  been  appointed  ii  delegate  to  the  general  as.send»iy,  but  could  not 


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atteiul.  In  187G  ho  was  elected  liy  the  nu'ilieal  society  of  Nova  Scotia  a  ropresentiitive  to  the 
Internationel  Medical  Congress  which  met  in  Philadelphia  in  September  of  tliat  year.  He  is  a 
warm  friend  of  Sunday  schools,  .  \  has  tauijht  a  class  wlien  not  too  niiich  pressed  with 
piofes.siona!  Imsiness  :  his  impulses  are  all  in  the  rijjht  direction. 

In  .fune,  1S.')4,  <i  few  months  before  removinj;  from  Harney's  river  t"  New  (^ilasi^uw,  l>r. 
Murray  married  Mary  Ann,  daiijjliter  of  Hohert  P.  Pattei-soii,  and  they  have  two  sons  and  two 
dauj^hti'rs  livinij,  and  have  buried  two  daujjhters.  Howard,  the  elder  son,  is  principal  of  the 
grammar  school  at  New  tila-sorow.and  a  suiierior  scholar,  standiin'  vhcn  at  Dailionsie  coilei'e.  at 
the  head  of  every  class;  (Jeorge  K.  M.  is  clerk  in  the  Hank  of  Nova  Scotia,  at  New  (ilasgow, 
and  Ella  and  Uessie  are  at  home. 


ANGUS    :NrACGILLI\HAV.  :^I.1M\. 

ANTiaONISU,  N.  S. 

THK  subject  of  this  biograjihical  sketch  is  a  prominent   attorney-at  law  in  Antigonish,  and 
a  meuil>er  of  the  House  of  Assendily  for  that  county.     He  is  a  grandson  of  Angus  Mac- 
gillivray,  who  emigrated  fiom  Arisaig,  Inverness-shii-e,  Scotland,  and  sou  of  .loliu  and  ("atlierine 
Macgillivray,  dating  his  birth  at  Bailey's  Hrook,  ci)nnty  of  I'iituu,  on  the  2:ind  of  January,  lsi:l. 
J      When  lie  was  (piite  young  the  family  removed   to  Antigoni.sh,  where  his  father  fallowed  the 
j      business  of  farming.     Angus  was  educate<l  at  St.   Kri>ni;ois    Xavicr  <-olli'ge,  Antigonisli ;  eom 
i      nu-nced  the  study  of  law  with  the  Hon.  Hugh  McDonald,  now  one  of  the  judges  of  the  supreme 
\      court  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  completed  his  studies  with  tin-  late  firm  of  Hianehanl  and  Meagher, 
of  Halifax,  and  was  called  to  the  bai'  of  Nova  Scotia  on  the  i.'lrd  of  .luly,  1N74;  he  is  perntittt'd 
to  ]iracti.se  in  all  the  courts  of  the  province  iind  in  the  Su]ircme  Court  of  the  Uoiuiuion.  and  is 
doing  a  highly  remunerative  business,  being  of  tlu'  tirm  of  Mclsaae  and  .Met  iiilivray  :  he  is  well 
read  in  law,  and  an  earnest  and  persuasive  .speaker,  and  makes  a  favoi'able  impression  on  a  jury. 
j     The  father  of  Lord  Beaconsfield  states  that  "  enthusiasm  is  the  nur-^e  ot' genius,"  and  our  sul>ji'ct 
is  enthusiastic  in  the  advocacy  of  any  good  cause  which  he  espouses.     .Sncees.s  is  bet'ore  him. 

Mr.  Maeuiilivrav  is  st)licitor  for  the  Meichaiits' Bank  of  Halifax  fni- the  .Vntiironish  iii'encv 
and  a  school  trustee  for  the  town,  and  a  sehool  eounnis.sioner  for  the  eeuuly.  taking  a  lively  in- 
terest in  the  cause  of  education.     In   April,  1n7S,  he  wius  ap|ioiuted   by  the  (loxerunient  uue  of 
'     the  conuuissioners  to  investigate  the  claims  of   l.iluni'rs   iuid   ■itbeis   against  cunt ractoi-s  (lu  the 
Kiustern  Kxtension  Haihvay. 

He  was  first  returned  for  his  piesent  seiit  in  the  ijcgislative  Asseuibly,  on  the  17th  of  Sep- 
tember. I.s7>,  by  acclamation  ;  his  is  an  independent  ( 'onseiv.itiv  e  districl,  and  the  principles  .if 
that  party  he  has  always  clu'iislu'd. 

He  is  on  the  committees  on  law  amendments,  private  and  lueal  liJlU,  agriculture,  railwa\s 
and  temperance ;  he  seconded  the  motion  in  i.s7!i  to  .ibolish  the  Legislative  Council,  and  made 
an  elaborate  speech  on  the  occasion  ;  he  has  also  made  speeches  on  the  subject  of  agricultural 
matters,  taking  strong  gi-oumi  against  catlle  iiinning  at  large  on  the  |iuliiic  liighways,  etc. 

He  hoMs  tiiat  the  Legislative  Council  is  an  unueccs.sar\  branch  of  the  House  of  A.s.sembly; 
als)  that  jiarty  politics  should  not  interfere  with  the  deliberations  df  mend>crs  of  the  Provin- 
cial Legislature.     This  can  be  gathered  from  the  fnHuwing  extracts  from  his  speech  in  support 


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of  Hon.  Mr.  Townshcnd's  resolution  "for  concerted  action  on  tlie  ])art  of  tlic  Maritime  Provinces 
for  the  abolition  of  the  Legislative  Councils  in  those  provinces,"  April,  1881 : 

Mr.  Macgillivray  said  lie  was  in  a  position  to  disciiHS  this  <|uestion,  as  thu  mover  of  the  resolution  had 
stated  that  it  should  be  discussed,  ciilnily  and  dis|iiissioiiately.  He  was  not  trammeled  by  party  8|)leen  or  par- 
tiality. He  had  always  held  the  view  that  the  business  of  this  province,  particularly  in  its  local  atfairs,  as  trans- 
acted within  the  sphere  of  the  IockI  government,  should  be  carried  on  without  any  great  display  of  political 
feeling  being  manifested  by  the  members  returned  to  this  House,  and  that  the  members  of  the  upper  branch  of 
this  legislature  as  well  should  drive  away  from  their  minds  altogether  any  feelings  of  that  kind.  He  feared 
very  much,  however,  from  llie  action  recently  taken  by  the  Council,  and  he  felt  more  regret  than  anything  else 
at  the  fact,  that  feelings  of  that  kind  had  actuated  its  members  in  treating  as  they  had  done,  the  mejisnres 
piissed  by  this  House  this  session.  It  was  very  much  to  be  regretted  that  the  business  of  the  House,  brought  in 
and  '•^atured  by  those  who  were  responsible  to  the  people,  should  be  thwarted  by  the  memliers  of  the  upper 
brancn,  who  were,  to  a  large  extent,  irresponsible  parties.  The  idea  of  a  body  of  that  kind  was  to  check  the 
impetuosity  of  this  branch  in  measures  detrimental  to  the  interests  of  the  country,  Imt  it  was  almost  impossible, 
within  the  legislative  jurisdictiim  of  this  House,  that  any  measure  of  that  kind  should  be  passed.  He  did  not 
think  anyone  could  conceive  of  any  measure  that  could  be  brought  here  and  passed,  detrimental  to  the  interests 
of  the  province,  within  the  limits  of  the  jurisdiclion  of  this  legislature.  He  contended,  therefore,  that  the 
Legislative  Council  was  a  useless  portion  of  the  lejjislature  of  this  province.  It  whs  so  considered  in  Ontario,  a 
much  larger  province,  with  larger  and  more  varied  interests  and  with  more  extensive  duties  and  heavier  respon- 
sibilities to  be  undertaken,  and  larger  sums  of  public  money  to  be  controlled  by  its  legislature.  The  gentlemen 
who  formerly  composed  the  Legislative  Council  in  that  province  saw  that  they  were  unnecessary  for  the  carrying 
on  of  the  public  business,  and  therefore  they  consented,  and  even  exjiressed  a  desire,  that  they  should  be  abolished. 
They  retired  gracefully,  and  that  was  all  this  House,  in  187!S  asked  our  Legislative  Council  to  do.  They  had 
simply  been  asked  by  resolution  of  this  House  to  pass  a  measure  to  abolish  themselves.  He  might  refer  for  a 
moment  to  the  action  of  that  body  during  the  present  session.  He  did  not  think  there  could  be  found  in  con- 
stitutional historj-  any  proceedings  in  any  Hritish  legislature,  from  the  Home  Parliament  down  to  the  siiiallest 
colonial  body,  where  the  majoiity  of  the  upper  branch  liad  taken  upon  themselves  the  responsibility  of  defeat- 
ing measures  involving  the  expenditure  of  public  moneys,  except  the  instance  here  in  this  session.  Such  bodies 
certainly  might  be  opjiosed  to  the  jiolitical  views  of  the  luling  party  in  the  lower  branch,  and  might  discuss 
their  measures  very  freely  and  let  the  discussion  go  before  the  country,  but  they  always  passed  the  measures 
and  threw  the  responsibility  on  the  representatives  of  the  people.  Before  he  came  to  this  House  it  was  his 
opinion  that  the  upper  branch  of  this  legislature  was  unnecessary,  and  he  believed  that  opinion  was  shared  by 
the  large  majority  of  the  people  of  this  province,  In  this  age  the  popular  will  must  in  the  long  run  be  submitted 
to,  and  he  believed  that  body  could  not  long  exist  when  the  popular  will  was  so  nearly  unanimous  in  favor  of  its 
abolition. 

Mr.  Macgillivray  was  president  of  i\w  Highland  Society  of  Antigonish,  in  1878,  and  had 
the  honor  of  presenting  an  address,  jointly  with  the  Caledonian  Society  of  Prince  Edward 
Ishuul,  to  His  Excellency,  the  Manpiis  of  Loine,  (lovernor-Oeneral  of  Caiuida,  on  his  arrival  at 
Halifax.  The  address  was  prepan-d  with  great  care,  ami  its  delivery  was  highly  creditaMe  to 
our  .suliject.     We  may  here  add  that  he  speaks  the  Gaelic  witli  great  fluency. 

Mr.  Macgillivray  was  married  nn  the  .'ith  of  February,  1878,  to  Maggie,  daughter  of  the 
late  Alexander  Mcintosh,  Es(|.,  of  Antigonish,  and  she  died  on  the  8th  of  September,  187!>, 
leaving  an  infant  son. 

Our  subject  is  a  member  of  the  Pioman  ( 'athulic  ( 'hurch  ■.  a  man  nf  sound  principles  and 
generous  imjiulses,  cordial  in  his  disposition,  full  nf  g(io<l-clieer,  sunny-snuled,  and  alwavs  ready 
tti  Viear  his  part  in  a  chorus  of  laughter, 

At  the  time  the  ipiestion  of  the  distriliution  of  the  "  Ki.shery  Award  '  was  before  the 
House  of  Assembly,  Mr.  Macgillivray  made  a  carefully  prepared  speech,  ending  as  follows: — 

It  WHS  well  kii'iwn  that  the  hshing  industry  was  the  best  in<lu.ttry  of  the  I'nuiiice  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  one 
of  the  largest  that  we  had,  and  that  if  Nova  Scotia  had  not  been  a  part  of  the  l)(jiiiinion,  the  award  which  the 
Fishery  <'  inuissioiiers  hail  been  bound  li-  make  wcmld  have  been  very  much  smaller  iuileed  than  it  wa.i.  He 
would  ask,  tlu'iefore,  if  it  was  \\i,\\t  that  this  inoney  should  uo  for  the  purpose  of  building  railways  to  Hrilish 
Coliiinbia  and  the  coimliiictiou  of  ]iublie  works  in  the  interior  provinces  of  the  Doiiiinioii.  He  believed  that 
this  railway  was  a  very  costly  atf.iir,  and  that  it   had  bc.n  very  badly  misiiianaged.  ♦  »  ♦ 

He  was  very  criHlibly  iiifnniieil  that  the  location  of  llie  roail,  before  a  single  sod  of  it  had  been  turned,  had  cost 
li#IO,(HHl  a  mile,  and  that  i^veii  the  stall  of  engineers  Wiia  composed  largely,  not  of  the  natives  of  the  Dominion, 
but  of  nii'ii  from  Kngliiiid,  sons  of  gentlemen  for  whom  positions  were  made  in  counectioii  with  the  construc- 
tion of  this  line,  anil  that  our  own  people  were  excluded  from  positions  on  the  stall' of  engineers.  He  (Mr.  Mac- 
gillivray) thought  this  was  a  very  great  grievance,  and  he  only  referred  to  it  in  this  eoiinection  as  going  to  in- 
tensify the  {(rievances  of  this  proviiic",  and  to  sliengtheii   the  argument  which  he  was   pressing  in  favor  of  the 


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right  of  this  province  ti)  the  money  which  had  been  paid  into  the  Dominion  troagnry  on  acconnt  of  the  fishing 
privileges  for  which  it  liad  been  awarded.  It  miglit  Ix;  said  that  tlio  people  of  this  province  had  tlic 
same  opportunity  of  deriving  benefits  from  the  lisheries  around  our  coasts  tliat  they  had  before  the 
Wasliington  treaty  was  negotiated.  Hut  lie  was  informed,  on  good  authority,  that  the  seining  of  fish  in  the 
bays  and  gulfs  of  the  Maritime  Provinces  had  the  ert'ect  of  largely  destroying  the  value  of  the  tislicry,  and  he  be- 
lieved that  this  was  pro\ed  by  the  fact  that  forty  or  fifty  years  ago,  on  the  coast  of  Fox  island,  the  yield  of  the 
fishery  was  so  abtindant  that  in  some  instances  the  fishermen  were  obliged  to  allow  their  catch  to  rot  when  there 
was  no  salt,  but  that  in  conseiiuence  of  the  seining  of  them  in  such  enormous  ((uantities,  and  allowing  them  to 
rot,  the  value  of  the  fishery  had  been  destroyed,  in  ci>nse(|uence  of  which  the  fishermen  luid  been  driven  away 
from  these  grounds.  The  result  was,  therefore,  disastrous  to  one  of  the  best  interests  of  the  Maritime  Provin- 
ces and  especially  to  the  Province  of  Nova  l:^eotia,  and  this  was  a  reastm  amongst  others,  why  the  Province  of 
Nova  Scotia  which  was  most  largely  interested  in  this  industry  should  receive  the  lar;,'e8t  portion  of  this  award. 
He  thought  it  was  the  duty  of  this  House  and  also  of  the  Legislative  Council,  for  he  r'-esunied  tliat  the  same  sub- 
ject would  be  diaciissed  in  the  upper  end  of  the  building,  to  join  in  the  appointment  of  a  committee  to  draw  up 
an  address  to  the  (iovernor-deneral.  and  tliat  the  hands  of  the  committees  should  be  strengthened  by  the  most 
earnest  remarks  that  could  be  made  by  the  members  of  this  House — by  the  strongest  remarks  that  could  be 
made,  of  eouise,  with  the  greatest  prudence  in  drawing  up  this  address,  and  that  the  address  should  be 
couched  in  the  strongest  language  in  which  our  claim  could  be  pressed  upon  the  attention  ipf  the  Dominion 
(lovernment.  He  believed  it  was  the  duty  of  every  lion,  member  of  this  Legislature  to  join  in  the  movement 
which  had  been  made  by  the  Hon.  Provincial  Secretary,  and  he  was  very  glad  to  hear  the  remarks  of  that  hon. 
gentleman,  that  all  political  feeling  should  be  laid  aside  in  discussing  this  (piestion.  He  believed  that  no  politi- 
cal feelings  should  enter  into  the  discussions  of  this  House  at  all.  He  held  that  this  House  was  simply  to  be 
compared  to  any  of  the  municipal  councils  of  the  several  counties.  They  had  as  great,  and  even  greater  powers 
in  assessing  tlie  municipalities  which  they  governed  than  this  House  had  to  raise  a  revenue  for  the  province, 
and  he  believed,  therefore,  that  it  was  not  tlie  business  of  the  House  to  fight  over  crunciied  bones,  or  to  intro- 
duce into  its  discussions  political  feelings  and  prejudices.  They  had  simply  to  go  about  tlie  business  they  had 
to  do  in  the  management  of  the  province,  and  in  piessing  the  rights  of  the  province  upon  the  Dominion  tiov- 
erninent.  He  was  afraid  that  the  British  North  America  Act  had  not  in  it  the  elasticity  which  the  Hon.  Pro- 
vincial Secretary  had  claimed  for  it,  and  which  would  ena)>le  this  province  under  the  terms  of  that  Act  to  insist 
upon  an  amelioration  of  its  financial  condition.  But  he  held  that  this  House  should  press  for  buch  coiices- 
siuns,  and  should  knock  at  tlie  door  of  the  Dominion  House  until  it  obtained  its  rights. 


KEV.   A.   W.   SAWYER,  D.B. 

WOLFVILLE,  N.S. 

ARTKMAS  W V  MAN  .SAWYER,  president  of  Acadia  collcg.',  i.s  a  native  of  Rutland  comity, 
V't,  being  boi-n  at  West  Haven,  on  the  -ttli  of  March,  1827;  his  father  was  the  Rev. 
Reuben  Sawyer,  a  Baptist  minister,  and  lnutlier  of  Joseph  ("onant  ami  Isiuie  Sawyer,  all  niinis- 
ters  of  the  same  denomination,  Isaac  and  Coiiant  Sawyer  being  still  alive.  Reuben  Sawyer 
held  pastorates  in  Vermont,  New  Hampsliire  and  New  York,  pn'aehiiig  until  near  the  close  of 
life,  which  terminated  at  Leyden,  N.  V.,  in  l.SfiH.  His  wife  was  liiuira  Wyman,  a  native  of  Rut 
land  county,  Vt.     She  died  in  1847. 

President  Sawyer  received  his  preparatory  education  at  the  New  f.nndon  (N.  H.)  academy, 
and  is  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  college,  cia.ss  1M47;  he  taught  for  three  years  in  the  higli  school 
at  Winilsor,  Vermont,  and  tlien  entered  upon  his  tlieological  studies  at  Newton,  Mas.s.,  being 
graduated  in  bs.")3,  and  ordained  in  that  year  at  Lawrence,  Mass.,  wheri'  he  was  pastor  between 
two  and  three  years. 

In  December,  1)S."»,'),  Dr.  Sawyer  came  to  Wolfville  as  teacher  in  the  classicid  department  of 
Acadia  college ;  retimied  to  tlie  United  States  in  18G(),  and  was  pastor  of  the  liaptist  church  at 
Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y.,  until  l.Sti+,  when  lie  became  principal  of  the  New  London  academy, 
holding  that  position  until  the  autumn  of  Dsti!*,  when  he  returiu'd  to  Wolfville,  lia\iiig  accepted 
the  presidency  of  tlie  Acaiiia  college,  together  with  the  chair  of  intellectual  and  mural  philoso- 
pliy.  Since  he  took  liis  place  at  the  heud  of  this  ii.stitution,  it  has  had  a  steady  growth,  tlio 
endowment  and  faculty  having  been  enlarged,  and  the  number  of  students   incrensed,     The 

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acaiU'iny  lias  also  grown  in  popularity,  and  a  aeniiiiary  has  J)cfin  sturU'd.  Tlic  ^(joil  executive 
abilities  as  well  as  broad  and  rijjo  scholarship  of  the  doett>r  adniiralily  fit  him  for  the  [wsitioii 
which  he  holds. 

During  the  last  fifteen  or  twenty  years  President  Sawyci-  has  contributed  many  articles  on 
educational  and  religious  subjects  to  newspapers  and  periodicals,  and  1ms  also  written  some  for 
the  reviews. 

In  December,  1858,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Ifaria  K.  Chase,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  Chase, 
of  Wolfville,  and  they  have  one  son  ami  one  daughter.  Kverett  W.  is  a  graduate  of  Acadi.i 
college,  and  is  teacliing  at  Cornwallis,  N.  S.,  and  Laura  M.  is  pursuing  her  studies  at  the  Wolf- 
ville seminary. 


HON.  AKCIII73ALT)    W.   iM^I.ELAX, 

{riisidenl  (if  Vie  Pririi  Council  of  Ciiiuida), 
LONDONDERRY,  A'.X 

ARCHIBALD  WOODBITRY  ^fcLELAN,  from  the  province  of  Nova  Scotia,  is  a  descen- 
dant of  an  Irish  family  that  settled  very  earl}'  in  Nova  Scotia,  his  great  grandfather, 
Peter  McLelan,  coming  over  from  Londonderry  in  the  last  century,  and  settling  at  Londonderiy . 
Ho  is  the  only  son  of  Gloud  Wilson  and  Martha  (Spencer)  MeLelan,  and  was  born  at  London- 
derry on  the  2tth  of  December,  \im.  His  father  was  a  merchant  and  a  prominent  man  in  that 
part  of  the  j>rovince,  being  a  member  of  the  Nova  Scotia  Asst'ndjh-,  representing  Londonderry 
and  Colchester  from  18.36  to  IS.'iS,  and  dying  in  18.58;  his  mother  died  in  1848. 

Mr.  McLelan  was  e<lucated  at  Londonderry,  and  at  Mount  Allison  Wesleyan  academy,  at 
Sackville  ;  learned  the  mercantile  business  in  early  life,  and  followed  it  for  several  years,  adding 
ship-building  and  ship-owning  some  time  ago,  and  latterly  jmyiug  particular  attention  to  this 
branch  of  business. 

Mr.  McLelan  was  a  member  of  the  Provincial  Assembly  for  the  county  of  Colchester  from 
1858  to  18(>y ;  for  Northern  Coicliester  frt)m  the  latter  date  until  the  Coufi-deration  (I8li7),  ami 
for  Colchester  in  the  House  of  Commons,  from  the  Confederation  until  called  to  the  senate  on 
the  21st  of  June,  1800,  when  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  counnissioners  for  the  construction  of 
the  Intercolonial  railway. 

On  the  20tli  May,  1881,  after  nearly  twelve  years'  service  in  the  Senate,  he  resigned  his  seat 
and  was  sworn  of  the  Privy  Council  of  Canada,  with  a  view  to  enter  the  House  of  ( 'onniions  as 
the  representative  of  Colchester  (his  native  county),  'i'liomjs  Mclvay,  Ks(|.,  the  sitting  mend>er, 
having  resigned.     On  the  I8th  .lune  following  he  was  elected  by  a  large  majority. 

Mr.  McLelan  is  the  son  of  one  of  the  old  Nova  Seotia  Ueformers,  and  has  always  advocated 
Liberal  pi'inciples  and  progressive  action.  Although  he  stronglv  opposed  the  Act  of  (.'onfedera- 
tion,  it  was  mainly  on  the  ground  that  the  terms  of  union  did  not  give  to  Nova  Scotia  sutlieient 
revenue  for  local  purposes.  On  the  final  passage  of  the  .\ct  by  the  Imi>erial  I'arliami'nt.he  was 
one  of  the  candidates  for  the  representation  of  Colchester  in  the  Dominion  House  of  ConnnoUs. 
In  accepting  the  candidature  at  a  mass  meeting,  he  took  the  position  that  the  Act,  having  iie- 
comc  law,  was  final,  and  no  alternative  left  but  to  work  it  out  in  the  lu'st  manner  jwssible ;  imt 
that,  if  elected,  he  pledged  himself  to  seek  a  modification  of  the  financial  terms  so  as  to  increase 


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tlie  Provincial  rovenut'.  Aftcra  pn)lon^'od  and  severe  contest,  iie  was  electoil  lij- a  liamlsoinc 
majority.  The  all  but  unanimous  return  of  the  candiilatos  who  were  of  the  anti-(.'onfederate 
party  turned  public  opinion  for  a  time  in  Nova  Scotia  to  a  repeal  of  the  Act.  Mr.  McLelan, 
yielding  to  tliis  opinion,  kept  his  pledge  for  a  time  in  abeyance,  but  his  friMpieiit  references  in 
the  House  of  Commons  debates  to  the  financial  position  tA'  Nova  Si'otia  imlicate  that  he  never 
lost  sight  of  it.  In  the  winter  of  l.S<j8-C0,  when  it  was  i)lain  that  the  repeal  agitation  had 
failed,  Mr.  McLelan  joined  the  Hon.  Joseph  Howe  in  negotiating  with  the  Dominion  government 
for  a  readjustment  of  the  Nova  Scotia  revenues,  and  took  an  active  part  in  securing  what  is 
known  as  "  Better  Terms  foi'  Nova  Scotia." 

Mr.  McLelan  is  a  Presbyterian. 

Jn  ISo-i  he  was  married  to  Mi.ss  Caroline  Metzlor,  of  Halifa.v,  and  has  tliiee  chililren  by  her. 


JOHN    M.   CALDNVELI^ 

COHyWALUS,  N.S. 

JOHN  ^^ATlSHALL  CAL1)WKLL,  sheriff  of  the  county  of  King's  formorethan  a  ipiarter  of 
a  century,  is  a  son  of  John  and  Nancy  (Clark)  Caldwell,  who  were  both  from  In-ljind, 
members  of  the  Presbytcnan  chun-h,  and  much  res])ccted  ;  he  was  born  at  Coniwallis,  in  this 
county, on  the  11th  of  May,  bSOl, being,  therefore, at  the  time  of  writing  this  sketch,  just  eighty 
years  old.  John  Caldwell  was  a  farmer  most  of  his  life,  and  gave  his  son  a  good  knowledge  of 
that  vocation;  the  latter  receiving,  meanwhile,  seven  y(;ars'  schooling,  giving  two  of  those  years 
to  the  study  (jf  the  classics. 

Mr.  Caldwell  has  been  an  extensive  fanner,  and  made  a  success  of  his  liusiness.  Whih;  a 
vouni'  man  he  was  clerk  for  several  vears  of  a  military  comi)anv,  in  which  he  rose  to  the  rank 
of  captain  ;  and  finally  he  became  lieuteiia)it  colonel  of  a  regiment  of  infantiy,  resigning  on  being 
appointed  sheriff  in  18.")-t;  he  has  been  re-appointed  twentj-six  times — a  sufficient  indication  of 
the  manner  in  which  he  discharges  the  duties  of  that  otlic(>.  He  has,  we  lielieve,  never  been  an 
active  politician ;  religiously  wa.s  brought  up  a  Presbyterian,  to  which  cliur<h  he  still  adheres, 
but  he  is  not  a  conununicant ;  bis  general  character  is  irrepruachablc.  ami  he  has  the  confidence 
and  respect  of  a  large  circle  of  friends,  many  of  them  of  long  stamling. 

In  IiS2")  Mr.  CaMwell  was  joined  in  wciHock  with  Miss  .Mary  Sarah  Kinsman,  of  Corn- 
wallis,  and  she  has  had  one  ilaughter  and  one  s(.,n,  both  yet  living.  Maiy  Ann  is  the  wid(  w  of 
Pr,  Burden,  of  <."ornwallis,  and  E>:ekiel  K.  is  engaged  in  railroading  in  Massachusetts. 


lUW.   -lOllN    M^KINNON,  AI.I.C., 

ANTiaoMSlI,  N.S. 

THK  subject  of  this  .sketch,  who  has  been  a  meniberof  the  Nova  Scotia  Legislature  for  thirty 
years,  is  a  descendant  of"  a  branch  of  the  family  bilonging  to  the  western  isles  of  Scotland, 
being' a  son  of  John  McKiiinon,  senior,  who  emigrated  to  this  province  from  Invermss-shire, 
and  .settled  in  the  county  of  Syilney.     His  niolhei  was   Kunice  McLcod,  who  won  also  Scotch, 


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Ho  WHS  liorn  in  Doicho4er,  county  of  AntiLfiniish,  on  tlie  2()th  of  Novombor,  1808,  wliore ^vlso 
his  younger  brotluT,  tlio  Iliglit  Hov.  C.  F.  McKinnon,  D.D.,  Archbishop  of  Arichat,  was  born,  and 
who  dieil  in  1878. 

Mr.McKinnon  had  very  limited  scliool  privileges,  niaiidy  educating  himself  ;  lias  always  been 
a  fanner,  and  occupies  one-half  of  the  original  homestead,  having  it  wholly  cleared  and  devoted 
to  tillage  and  pasture,  and  well  stocked. 

In  his  younger  years  he  was  connected  a  long  time  with  the  militia,  and  held  the  rank  of 
captain.     When  the  old  system  was  dissolved,  he  did  not  enter  into  the  new  organization. 

Mr.  McKiiuion  sat  for  Antigonish  in  the  Legislative  Assembl}-  from  1851  to  iSiiT,  when 
he  was  callcil  to  the  Legislative  Council,  of  which  he  lias  been  a  member  for  fourteen  years, 
making  in  ail  thirty  consecutive  years  of  service  in  legislative  bodies.  From  1857  to  1800  ho 
was  a  member  of  the  Executive  Council  without  office,  and  also  from  1.SGM  to  18(17.  For  seven 
years  he  was  on  tlii'  Government  boaid  of  educatinn,  being  associated  with  such  men  as  Dr. 
Tupper,  H<m.  J.  W.  Johnston,  Hon.  W.  A.  Ib^nry,  Hon.  J.  W.  Kitchie,  and  others. 

Mr.  McKinnon  has  been  a  niiigistiate  for  forty  years,  and  was  for  .some  time  a  member  of 
the  board  of  agricultural  commissioners  for  Nova  Scotia.  In  many  ways  he  has  made,  and  is 
making,  himself  a  useful  citizen,  and  is  much  esteemed  '  for  his  works' sake  "  as  well  as  for  his 
general  character.  He  warmly  adheres  to  the  faith  of  his  ancestors,  being  ardently  attached  to 
the  R(jiiiaii  Catholic  Church,  and  bearing  a  high  character  for  rectitude  and  honesty. 

Mr.  McKinnon  married,  in  18,'U,  Jeannet,  daughter  of  John  Chisholm,  Escj.,  of  Antigonish, 
and  they  have  one  sun  and  three  daughters  living,  and  lost  the  two  eldest  daughtei-s.  The  son, 
John  J.  McKinnon,  is  an  attorney -at-law,  and  a.ssistant  clerk  of  the  Nova  Scotia  House  of 
Assembly  ;  Catherine  is  the  wife  of  Andrew  McFarlane,  Estj.,  of  Antigonish  ;  Eunice  is  the  wife 
of  Dr.  Hugh  Cameron,  M.L.C.  of  Mabou,  N.S.,  and  Ljdia  is  at  home. 


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]iENNE1T    «M1T11, 

WINDSOR,  N.S. 

THE  subject  of  this  brief  notice  is  a  son  of  John  Smith,  and  was  born  in  Windsor  on  the 
2!ltli  of  November,  ISOS.  His  fatlier  was  a  farmer  early  in  life,  but  luul  a  dispo- 
sition for  ship-building,  and  followed  that  business  at  Wiiulsor  until  his  death  in  his  .jOth  vear  • 
anil  his  grandfather  was  John  Smitli,  senior,  fiom  Yorkshire,  England,  coming  to  Nova  Scotia 
in  177:1,  settling  at  Newjiort,  near  Wimlsor,  living  a  very  i|uiet  farmer's  life,  and  dying  in  his 
!»Oth  year. 

The  mother  of  Dennett  Smith  was  Ann  (iraiit,  a  native  of  Ihooklyn,  New  York  ;  she  ac- 
companied her  father,  e'aptain  John  Grant,  and  the  rest  of  the  family,  to  Nova  Scotia  in  the 
autumn  of  178;},  the  year  that  tlie  Revolutionary  war  closed.  Captain  (bant  was  a  brave 
Highlander  ;  fought  in  the  huliaii  war,  being  at  Detroit  in  1703 ;  ami  twelve  and  fifteen  years 
later  was  in  the  Colonial  war,  fighting  for  King  (ieorge  under  Gen.  Howe  and  others.  He  was 
wounded  repeatedly  in  both  wars,  and  liis  dash  and  Viravery  did  credit  t  >  his  Highland  blood. 

Mr.  Smith  received  a  moderate  ediicatiim,  enough,  however,  to  enable  him  to  do  business 
successfully  ,  learned  to  build  ships  of  his  father,  taking  naturnlly  to  that  vocation,  and  lias  fol- 
lowed it  all  his  life,  having,  on  the  whole,  met  with  remarkable  prosperity.    He  has  built,  him- 


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self  alone,  in  all  about  twenty  ships  and  barques ;  has  purchased  half-a-dozen  others,  and  has 
built  and  bou^dit  in  company  with  other  parties  a  dozen  more  ships.  He  is  now  part  owner  of 
fourteen  vessels  engaged  in  the  foreign  trade.     He  has  also  a  general  store. 

Mr.  Smith  has  also  been  an  early  riser  ;  has  paid  the  closest  attention  to  liis  business,  and 
his  industiy  and  enterprise  have  been  amply  rewarded,  his  Anancial  standing  being  in  tho  very 
front  rank  of  Windsor  merchants  and  manufacturers. 

Mr.  Smith  has  never  been  an  office-seeker,  and,  witli  one  exception,  has  kept  out  of  otticial 
])ositions.  On  the  demise  of  lehabod  Dimock,  a  little  more  than  twenty  years  ago,  our  subject 
consented  to  take  his  place  in  the  House  of  Assembly,  and  served  the  term  out,  declining  to  be 
a  candidate  for  re-election.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  a  trustee  of  the  same,  and 
a  generous  supporter  of  the  gospel. 

He  married  Rachel  Harris,  daughter  of  David  Harris,  of  Horton,  and  they  have  .six  children 
living,  and  have  buried  two.  The  eldest  of  all,  William  B.,  died  in  infancy ;  Ann  was  married 
to  J)r.  Haley,  now  a  commission  merchant,  Windsor,  and  died  in  1880;  the  three  sons  living, 
Thomas  B.,  Charles  DeWolf,  and  John  M.,  are  with  their  father  in  business;  Sarah  is  the  wife 
of  Captain  Thomas  Aylward,  Windsor ;  Emma,  of  J,  A.  Shaw,  druggist,  Windsor,  and  Ilaehel 
K.  is  at  home. 


JOSEPH   W.   HAD  LEY,   M.IM'., 

(iUYSHOliOUGH,  N.S. 

JOSEPH  WILLIAM  HADLEV,  a  member  of  the  House  of  Assembly  for  the  county  of 
Ciuy.sborough,  is  a  native  of  that  county,  being  born  at  Manchestei,  on  the  2.')th  of  No- 
vember, 1819.  His  parents,  William  and  Sarah  (Hart)  Hadley,  were  born  in  the  same  town- 
•ship.  His  paternal  great-grandfather  was  one  of  the  tii-st  Englishman  who  .settled  in  Ouys. 
borough  county,  and  drew  l."),()()()  acres  of  land  from  the  crown.  He  brought  with  him  three 
daughters  and  two  sons,  one  daughter  marrying  William  Campbell,  afterwards  Uovernor  of  Up- 
per Canada.  The  Harts  were  also  an  early  family  in  that  country,  his  maternal  great-grand- 
father .settling  there. 

Joseph  was  educated  in  a  country  school;  farmed  and  fished  until  eighteen  years  of  age  ; 
then  went  to  sea— his  father  l)eing  capttiin  of  a  sliip^luul  coniniand  of  a  vessel  for  more  than 
thirty  years,  being  engaged  in  the  coastwise  traile,  and  discontinui'ig  it  in  187'{.  Meanwhile 
he  was  also  in  the  mercantile  business,  dealing  largely  in  groceries,  fi.sh,  (Sec.  Success  has  at- 
tendeil  him  in  most  of  his  ventures.  His  is  a  family  of  sea  captains,  his  great-grandfather, 
grandfather,  and  father,  himself  and  one  of  his  sons,  James  E.  Hadley  having  been  master  of  a 
ship.     His  father-in-law  and  brothers-in-law  have  held  the  .same  post. 

I 'apt.  Hadley  contested  his  present  seat  unsucessfully  in  1871  and  187 ■!•,  l>eing  first  re- 
turned at  the  general  election  hehl  in  September,  1878,  hence  is  comparatively  a  new  man  in 
legislative  work.  He  is  a  chaii.nan  on  the  connnittee  on  navigation  security, and  is  also  on  the 
land  drainage  connnittee.  He  is  a  man  of  good  judgment,  attends  faitlifully  to  committee  busi- 
ness, and  is  rarely  ab.sent  from  his  seat  in  the  House. 

('aptain  Hadley  has  been  a  magistrate  since  1857;  is  a  third  degree  Ma.son,  a  meinbei'  of 
the  Methodist  church,  and  a  large-hearted  liberal  man,  generous  in  the  support  of  the  gospel, 
and  other  good  causes. 


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Captain  Hadley  manii'il  in  January  1M4+,  Miss  IsaWlla  Ii«>gan  Harty,  tlau<,'liter  of  Captain 
Michaol  Haity*  of  Mancln-ster,  N.  S.,  and  tliey  liave  three  sons  and  tliiec  dan^flitiTH  livin<,', 
and  iiavt!  lost  two  cliildrcn.  William  (Jodfrey,  the  eldest  son,  is  a  hookkeper  at  Cape  Cause  ; 
James  Edward  is  a  sliip  master  on  the  steamer  M.  A.  Starr,  and  Charles  and  the  three  daugh- 
ters are  at  home. 

*  During  the  American  ruvtihition  Ciiptain  Harty  and  faniily  wore  sailing  from  Halifax  to  Oa[)e  Cause  un- 
der a  cnnvoy,  but  getting  ini])atient  during  the  voyage  left  the  jTottction  nf  the  convny  under  cover  of  the 
night  when  they  were  Hei/.ed  liy  an  American  cruiHer,  8trij>]>ed  of  all  their  valuables,  including  a  gold  watch 
which  Mrs.  Harty  his  mother  had  slijijiid  down  her  stocking  leg,  jmt  on  a  boat,  and  set  adrift,  reacliiny  Ca|)« 
Cnnso  in  safety. 


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UlNDSOH,  N.S. 

THOMAS  BARLOW  S.MITH,  a  memher  of  the  House  of  Assembly  for  the  ootmty  of 
Hunts,  was  born  at  Windsor,  N.  S.,  on  the  28th  of  Ootohor,  \x'V.K  His  parentage  and 
etc.,  may  he  found  in  a  sketch  of  his  father,  Bennett  Smith,  Es(|.,  printed  with  portrait,  in  other 
pages  of  this  work,  whore  justice  is  aimetl  to  lie  done  to  one  of  the  most  ontcrj)rising  and 
wealthy  men  in  Hants  county.  Thomas  was  educated  at  the  grammar  school  of  his  native 
town,  and  since  t'arly  manhood  has  had  an  interest  with  his  fatlier  \n  ship-htiilding,  ship-own- 
ing and  merchandising,  of  the  firm  of  ISeiuiett  Smith  and  Co. 

Our  .subject  entered  public  life  in  iMTi,  Ix'ing  returned  on  the  4th  of  ifarch  of  that  year 
to  fill  a  vacancy.  Mr.  Smith  sat  one  session,  and  was  defeateil  by  a  small  majority  at  the  next 
general  election, which  took  place  on  the  17th  of  DeiemlxM',  I.S74.  He  again  contest'd  his  for- 
mer constituency  at  the  last  general  election,  held  on  the  17th  of  September,  lS7iS,  and  was 
successful.  He  is  a  Liberal,  and  strongly  advocates  the  principles  of  his  party.  On  the 
floor  of  the  House  his  speeches  are  much  above  the  averagt;  length  and  the  average  strength. 
He  is  on  the  committee  on  private  and  local  bills,  education,  temperance,  railways  and  public 
accounts. 

Mr.  Smith  married  at  Windsor,  on  the  Gth  of  April,  18G4,  Miss  Azubah  Scott,  daughter  of 
David  Scott,  Esq.,  deceased,  and  they  have  three  chiMren,  two  girls  and  one  boy. 


NEIIEMJAII    DOANE    Mt'CiHAY, 

CAPE  ISLAND,  HARRINGTON,  N.tt. 

I^EHEMIAH  DOANE  Mc(  J  RAY,  one  of  the  members  of  the  Nova  Scotia  House  of  As- 
.X.  1  .sembly  for  the  county  of  Shelburne,  is  a  native  of  that  county,  dating  his  birth  at 
Cape  Island,  township  of  Barrington,  Juno  2!),  1838,  his  father  being  Asa  Mc(hay,  who  was 
born  in  lenity,  Maine;  his  giandfather.  Rev.  Asa  McGra}',  senior,  was  a  Freewill  Baptist 
preacher.  The  progenitor  of  the  family  in  Maine  was  from  Iri'land.  Asa  Mc(}ray,  junioi,  was 
a  farmer,  and  died  on  Cape  Island  in  bS77  ;  his  wiilow,  whose  maiden  name  was  Kliza  Ann 
Doane,  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia,  is  still  living. 


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Our  siiljoft  atU-n<le<l  a  county  school  part  of  the  time  each  year  until  Nixtecn,  then  went 
Ui  sea,  following,'  it  for  twenty -two  yeai-s,  and  for  .sixteen  of  theni  luul  coniuiand  of  large  vessels^ 
engageil  in  the  foreign  trade,  and  doing  a  carrying  business,  mainly  between  the  ITnited  States 
and  Kurope.  A  few  times  he  had  occasion  to  go  round  the  Cape  into  the  Indian  ocean,  and  is 
an  interesting  eonverser  on  maritime  life  and  the  peri's  of  the  same. 

Mr.  MfCiray  left  the  sea  in  1877,  and  has  since  been  in  general  traile  cm  his  native  island, 
and  is  doing  a  fair  business  ;  he  has  also  a  small  farm,  and  perhaps  a  dozen  head  of  cattle,  and 
is  in  (juite  comfortable  circumstances. 

Mr.  Mctiraj'  is,  ov  has  be-Mi,  a. school  trustee,  and  held,  we  believe,  no  other  oHiee,  until,  in 
the  autumn  of  1878,  he  was  elected  to  the  local  parliament,  where  he  is  serving  his  fii-st  term, 
his  politics  being  Liberal  Conservative  ;  he  is  on  the  connnittees  on  public  accounts  and  printing 
and  reporting. 

Mr.  MctJray  is  a  meml)er  of  the  Free  Baptist  church,  a  Son  of  Temperance,  and  active  and 
influential  in  the  cause  of  prohibition,  being  unable  to  see  any  benefit  in  the  free  and  general 
sale  of  intoxicating  licpiors  ;  he  is  a  conscientious,  true  man. 

lie  married,  in  February,  1 801,  Mary  Jane,  eldest  daughter  of  James  C.  Smith,  of  (\pe 
Island,  and  .she  has  hail  five  children,  only  two  of  them  imw  living. 

AFi'.  ^Ictlray  is  largely  a  self-educated  man ;  is  well  informed  on  politics  and  public  (pies- 
tlons  generally,  and  owes  his  seat  in  the  House  lo  the.se  facts,  coupled  with  his  integrity  of 
character,  and  his  decided  stand  on  the  prohibition  question. 


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GEORGE    HEADING, 

TRUIIO,  N.S. 

/^  KORfiK  REAT)IXG  is  one  of  the  old  inhabitants  of  Truro.  He  is  an  Englishman,  born 
Vjr  in  \Vorcest<!rsliire,  Februaiy  4, 1812.  In  18.S0  lie  came  to  St.  Andrews,  N.B.,  in  the  employ 
of  Richard  HuslucU,  hardware  merchant  in  Birmingham,  Eng.,  who  had  an  establishment  in  St. 
Andrews,  where  he  sold  at  wholesale  all  kimls  of  goods  of  British  maTuifacture.  Mi'.  Reading 
remained  in  this  establishment  three  or  four  years,  and  then  went  to  St.  John,  in  the  same 
])rovince,  and  there  became  head  (derk  in  a  moreantile  house,  which,  in  addition  to  importing 
goods  generally,  was  uiigagi'd  extensively  in  shipping  and  ship  Imilding;  and  this  branch  i)f 
their  business,  <luring  the  years  IS.SS  and  18:}!>,  necessitated  freipunt  visits  by  Nfr.  Reading  to 
Maitland  and  Truro,  Nova  Scotia. 

In  1840  he  connnenced  mercantile  liusiness  in  his  own  name  at  the  latter  place,  and  con- 
tinued to  trade  until  the  year  1872,  when  he  retired  and  was  appointed  prothonotary  of  the 
supreme  court  and  clerk  of  the  crown  for  the  county  of  Colchester,  which  ottices  he  still  holds. 
He  was  appointed  a  justice  of  the  peace  in  18.')(),  and  when  the  free  school  act  was  pa.s,sed  be 
was  appointed  a  .school  commissioner. 

Mr.  Reading  is  retiring  and  una-ssuming  in  his  habits,  but  is  not  without  some  ambition  ; 
for  in  18.3.5  he  contested  the  county  of  Colchester  in  the  Conservative  interest,  against  the  Hon. 
A.  (J.  Archibald,  Liberal,  but  was  defeated,  although  in  Truro,  where  both  candidates  livc'ji'  ^»!''.. 
Reading  polled  the  larger  vote.  He  ran  again  foiu'  years  later,  and  was  again  unsuccessful,  afi'l* 
became  severed  almost  entirely  from  politics.     He  was  a  warm  advocate,  however,  of  Confedo- 


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TIIK  CASAhlAN  IMOORAnHCAL  DWTIOKAhY. 


ration,  an<l  when  the  Hon.  A.  (1.  Arcliittald  was  ap)>uinte(l  liout.-govonjor  of  Manitoba,  Mr. 
Rcatliii}^  was  seloctetl  a.s  a  lamiiilate  to  i-ontcNt  tlio  seat  tlins  inado  vacant,  but  \w  <loclini'tI  the 
lionor,  inefeirinj,'  to  live  quietly  ir  '  eacefiilly  in  the  Itosoni  of  lii«  family  during  the  leniaindcr 
of  lii.s  (lays. 

Mr.  Heading  is  a  consistent  nienilKT  of  tlie  Church  of  Kngland.  He  lia.s  represented  liis 
cliureh  at  the  Diocesan  Synod  from  its  formation  to  tlie  present  time,  and  has  also  rcprescnt^-d 
the  Diocesan  Synod  in  the  Provincial  Synod.  He  has  lived  a  higldy  exemplary  life,  and  m 
greatly  esteemed  for  his  many  excellent  social  and  iHjnevolent  as  well  as  moral  qualities. 

In  1841  lie  was  joined  in  marriage  with  Eliwv,  daughter  of  Jolin  MacKcnzie,  of  Truro. 
They  have  lost  one  son,  and  have  six  daughters  and  one  .son  living.  The  eldest  <laughter,  Mary 
is  the  widow  of  Samuel  H.  Cox,  late  a  merchant  at  Shelburne,  N.S. ;  Harriet  is  the  wife  of 
Cu'orge  R.  tJibson,  Nova  Scotia  ;  Julia  is  the  wife  of  li.  F.  Pear.son,  attorney -at- law,  and  the 
other  tluee  daugiitei-s,  Kliza,  Knupa  L.  and  Annie  are  at  home.  The  son,  William  Kdward,  is 
married  an<l  lives  in  California. 


STEPHEN    ir.  MOOT^E, 

KENTVILLE,  N.^. 

STEPHEN  HARRINGTON  MOORE,  judge  of  probate  for  the  county  of  King's,  is  a  son  of 
William  C.  and  Elizabeth  (Harrington)  Moore,  and  his  birth  is  dated  at  CornwalJis,  in  this 
county,  October  22,  1802.  His  paternal  grandfather  was  a  British  otticer  during  tlie  struggle 
of  the  American  colonies  for  independence.  The  Harrington  family  were  also  from  tlic  States, 
The  parents  of  Stephen  belonged  to  the  farming  conmuinity,  and  lived  amd  toiled  at  Corn- 
wallis,  where  they  l)oth  died  and  are  buried.  Mr.  Moore  was  educated  in  common  and  grammar 
schools ;  cultivated  tlie  soil  until  nearly  of  age ;  studied  law  in  Kentville  with  John  Whidden, 
Esq. ;  was  called  to  the  bar  on  the  22nd  of  January,  1828,  and  has  practised  his  profession  in 
Kentville  for  fifty-three  ycai-s,  being  one  of  the  oldest  lawyei-s  in  tlie  western  part  of  the  pro- 
vince.    He  was  created  a  Queen's  counsel  in  February,  187.*{. 

Mr.  Moore  lias  made  a  fair  success  of  his  profession  pecuniarily,  and  has  always  had  a  re- 
spectable standing  among  the  legal  fraternity.  Hs  has  never  had  much  to  do  with  politics,  and 
has  sedulously  refused  to  ott'er  himself  for  any  political  post,  his  ambition  not  running  in  that 
direction.  He  seems  to  have  ])een  contented  to  stand  well  in  his  profession.  Unsolicited  by 
him,  the  oflicc  of  judge  of  probate  was  conferred  upon  him  in  March,  1879,  and  its  duties  now 
absorb  most  of  his  time. 

His  ancestors  for  many  generations  have  been  churihmen  ;  and  Mr.  Moore  attends  St. 
James'  church. 

Mr.  Moore  was  first  married  in  Octolier,  183,*),  to  Miss  Lavinia  Angus,  of  Kentville,  she 
dying  in  December,  1842,  leaving  three  children;  and  the  second  time  in  October,  1840,  to 
Mi.ss  Hannah  M.  De  Wolfe,  of  Liverpool,  N.S.,  having  by  her  al.so  three  children,  losing  one  of 
them.  Nancy,  the  only  daughter  by  the  first  wife,  is  married  to  Leveret  De  Veber  Chipman, 
agent  of  the  bank  of  Nova  Scotia,  Kentville;  Stejihen  1).  is  a  farmer  at  Greenwich,  King's 
count)- ;  Joseph  J.  is  a  lawyer  at  Kentville ;  George  T.,  the  only  son  by  the  second  wife,  is  a 
lawyer  at  Liverpool,  N.S. ;  and  Catherine  is  married  to  T.  S,  Greenalgh,  of  Lynn,  Mass. 


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Daniel  Moore,  an  older  hrotlior  of  Steplien  H.  (l>orn  December  1:1,  lnOl),  is  .still  livinjj  ivt 
Kentvilif.  He  was  a  very  iinuiiiiient  Imsine.ss  man  for  many  yoai-s,  In-in^j  enpijiiMJ  in  farming', 
mer(linn(li.sin)Lf,  .ship-buildiii},',  milliiij,',  etc.,  tie.  In  tlie  eonrse  of  nine  years,  lie  lironj^lit  into 
tlie  eonntry  ninety-six  tiiuiiHnnil  pounds  sterling,  tlio  proceeds  of  the  sales  of  timbiT  and  lumber 
made  in  that  period.  * 

Mr.  Moore  wn.s  a  member  of  the  Ocncral  As.<?cmbly  of  Nova  Scotia  for  thirty-four  years, 
being  connected  with  the  Conservative'  party.     But  he  opposed  ( 'onfederntion,  a  pet  scheme  of 
^      that  party,  and  last  his  seat.    Thoiigh  in  his  SOth  year,  he  enjoys  fair  health,  and  has  tt  clear 
i      mind.     He  has  four  children  liviny,  losiny  his  wife  in  December,  1.S72. 


HON.  Tno:NtAs  v.  moriuson,  m.l.c., 

LITTLE  DYKE,  LONDOSDEURY,  N.S. 

THOMAS  FLETCHER  MORRISON,  a  member  of  the  Lej,'islative  Council  of  Nova  Scotia, 
was  born  at  Londonderry,  N.S.,  on  the  22nil  of  February,  1808,  being  a  .son  of  Joseph 
Morri.son,,a  native  of  the  same  place,  and  Isabella  Fletcher.  He  is  a  grandson  of  John  Mor- 
rison, who  removed  to  Nova  Scotia  from  southern  New  Hampshire  in  1760,  and  wlio  was  a 
grandson  of  John  Morison  (following  the  old  family  spelling),  who  emigrated  from  Ireland 
about  1720,  and  settled  in  Londonderry,  N.S.,  and  died  in  17.'J<j,  aged  108  years  1  The  farm 
on  which  this  pioneer  .settled,  located  in  Rockingham  county,  N.H.,  was  called  "  Deny  Dock,"' 
and  still  retains  that  name.  The  .settlers  in  Londondeiry  were  the  tii-st  persons  to  introduce 
the  Irish  jiotatoes  into  that  part  of  New  England.  The  Morisons,  a  few  generations  ago,  were 
noted  for  their  longevit}' ;  John  Morison  dying,  as  we  have  stated,  at  108  years  of  ago  ;  his  .sttn 
John,  (great-gi'andfather  of  our  .subject)  at  98  years:  and  his  grandson  John  (Thoma.s' grand- 
father), in  Nova  Scotia,  in  181G,  in  his  01st  year.  The  last  named  .settled  at  Truro  at  tii-st,  and 
seven  or  eight  yeai-s  later  removed  to  Lomlonderry,  where  his  remains  lie.  He  represented  the 
township  of  Londonderry  in  the  Nova  Scotia  legislature  for  seven  years,  being  the  tirst  member 
from  that  place.     Legislator,  in  those  days,  had  no  pay  for  their  services. 

The  Morisons,  as  the  name  would  indicate,  were  originally  from  Scotland,  and  went  to 
Ireland  about  the  time  William  of  Orange  drove  James  II.  out  of  England,  and  the  latter  was 
striving  to  get  back  on  the  throne,  a  litth;  less  than  200  years  ago. 

Our  subject  had  very  little  schooling  in  his  youth,  being  largely  self-taught,  nuvstering 
navigation  by  private  study,  and  afterwards  teaching  it  in  the  same  way  tt)  others.  One 
winter  he  taught  a  jiublic  scluwl,  but  never  intended  to  make  teaching  his  profession.  He  was 
in  the  coasting  trade  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century,  being  a  successful  master  mariner 
most  of  that  time.  He  is  still  doing  a  little  fi.shing  at  times,  but  farming  is  his  ])rincipal 
vocation.     He  is  also  surveyor  of  shipping  for  the  port  of  Londonderry. 

Mr.  Moriison  .sat  for  North  ('olchester  in  the  Nova  Scotia  Assembly,  from  the  general 
election  in  1855  to  18G3;  and  for  the  county  of  Colchester  from  the  general  election  in  18({7  to 
1874,  when  he  was  defeated.  He  is  the  autht)r  of  the  bill  which  he  carried  through  the  legis- 
lature, establishing  voting  by  ballot  at  elections.  Ho  was  appointed  to  the  Legislative  Council 
on  the  5th  of  January,  187(>. 


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Mr.  Morrison  Ims  liocn  a  scliool  trustee,  and  an  overseer  of  tlie  poor,  and  lias  heltl  otlicr 
posts  whicli  we  do  not  recall.  He  has  often  been  cliosen  as  arbitrator,  and  lia.s  even  <;one  into 
other  provinces  on  such  an  errand.  He  is  a  man  of  ^neat  candor  and  of  j^'ood  jndi,mient, — cool 
and  impartial;  and  one  in  whom  his  neij^hhors  and  the  public  generally  have  great  confidence. 
He  was  an  emigrant  agent,  atone  period,  for  Nova  Scotia,  but  resigned  some  y^JU's  ago- 

Mr.  Morrison  has  been  one  of  the  managers  of  the  Presbyterian  church  of  Upper  Londor- 
derry,  of  which  ho  has  long  been  a  niend)er ;  and  is  a  man  of  sterling  character. 

He  was  first  manied,  in  LS3.S,  to  Miss  Hannah  Faulkner,  who  died  in  1842,  leaving  one 
daughter,  Melissa  Jane,  now  in  Boston,  Ma-ss. ;  and  the  second  time,  in  ISI^,  to  Miss  AFargaret 
Brown  Fletcher,  by  whom  he  has  had  seven  children,  only  four  of  them  now  living.  Samuel 
Fletcher,  the  eldest  son  living  is  a  merchant  at  Folly  village,  Londonderry ;  Alfred  Ci.  is  a  law- 
student  in  Ilalifa.x  ;  ami  Thomas  William  and  Florence  are  at  home. 


VxEK.  JOIIX    M.   CRA^IP,  D.D., 

WOLF VI LIE,  X.S. 

JOHN  MOCKKTT  CR.\MP,  ex-president  of  Acadia  college,  and  the  oldest  Baptist  minister 
in  Nova  Scotia,  was  born  at  St.  I'eters,  isle  of  Thanet,  county  of  Kent,  England,  on  the 
25th  of  Jul}',  1791),  his  parents  being  Kev.  Thomas  Cramp,  a  ]3aptist  minister,  and  llcbecca 
Gouger.  He  firii.shed  his  education  at  Stepney  college,  near  London,  having  been  baptized  on 
the  ISth  of  September,  l!S] 2  ;  was  ordained  on  the  7th  of  May,  LS18,  over  the  JX-an  street 
Southwavk  Baptist  church,  London,  the  place  ^  here  the  chinch  then  stood  l>eing  now  covered 
by  railway  Avorks.  Subse((ueiitly,  for  fourteen  _  ears,  he  a.ssisted  his  fathei'  in  the  pastorate  of 
St.  Peter's  church,  in  his  native  town.  In  LS+O,  he  became  pa.stor  of  the  church  at  Hasting.s, 
comity  of  Su.sse.x  ;  and  four  years  afterwards  he  came  to  Canada  to  take  charge  of  the  Bajitist 
theological  school  in  Montreal,  where  he  remained  until  l.S.")l,  when  he  was  called  to  the 
presidency  of  Acailia  college,  and  to  the  chair  of  moral  iihiiosophy.  That  position  he  held  for 
eighteen  years,  resigning  in  1S(!!),  after  seeing  the  institution  jilaced  on  a  good  foundation.  He 
was  an  excellent  instructor  in  moral  philosophy  and  in  any  branch  he  undertook  to  teach, 
being  a  fair  Hebrew  .scholar,  and  excelling  in  ecclesiastical  history. 

After  leaving  the  college,  Di'.  Cramp  continued  to  preach  more  or  less  imtil  three  or  four 
years  ago  when  he  became  too  infirm  to  occupy  the  jmlpit.  His  style  as  a  preacher  is  textual 
rather  than  topical — indulging  very  little  in  imagination  or  in  the  .symoathetic,  yet  abounding 
in  ai)t  illustrations ;  and  although  very  st)lid,  he  hatl  a  familiar  way  of  expi-essing  himself,  and 
making  himself  understood  by  his  hearers.  His  sermdiis,  as  a  whole,  were  better  fitted  to  feed 
Christians  than  to  (piicken  the  conscience  of  the  careless. 

Dr.  Cramp  is  the  author  of  a  "Text-book  of  Po[iery,"  first  ]>ublished  in  London  in  a  duo- 
decimo volume  in  1S.S1,  the  third  edition  in  octavo  form;  'History  of  the  Baptists,"  first 
published  in  London,  and  subse(|Uently  b^-  the  American  Bajitist  publication  society  ;  and 
'■  I'aul  and  Christ,"  London,  Halifax  and  Montieal,  lfs7;(.  The  first  work  has  had  a  wiile  salo 
on  'loth  sides  of  Uie  Atlantic;  the  .•.cond  is  (piite  popular  in  the  Cnited  SUites,  as  well  as  in 
other  parts  of  the  Christian  world  ;  ami  the  sale  of  the  last  has  been  ii.:;..t  extensive  in  the  old 
country  ;    other  works  of  a  similar  character  largely  superseding  it  in  the  Uniteil  States,      He 


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also  wrote  two  small  works  for  tlio  roli<:fions  tract  society,  ontitloil  "  The  Reformation  in 
Europe  "  and  "  The  Councii  of  Trent,"  liesides  editing  other  works ;  he  has  also  written  a  gieat 
many  newspaper  articles  and  essays,  and  these  are  unusually  concise  and  pithy,  his  sentences 
often  being  short  and  shiup.  and,  long  or  short,  full  of  meaning.  Our  suliject  was  matle  a 
Doctor  of  Divinit}'  by  Acadia  college,  during  his  residence  in  Canada  in  LS+iS. 

He  was  first  married  in  1821  to  iliss  Maria  Agate,  of  London,  she  dying  in  1S22,  leaving 
one  daughter,  Maria,  the  wife  of  Stephen  Selden,  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Christian 
Mexxengcr,  Halifax;  and  the  2nd  time  in  182(!,  to  Miss  Anne  Jiurls,  also  of  London.  She  was 
the  mother  of  nine  childn'U,  and  dieil  in  lN(i2,  two  sons  and  three  dauichters  ■^•Mvivinj'  her. 
Thomas  is  a  merchant  and  (n'orge  a  lawyer  in  the  city  of  Montreal ;  Fanny  is  the  wife  of  Geo. 
B.  ^luir,  also  of  that  city  ;  Kliza,  of  Rev.  T.  A.  Higgins,  Baptist  minister  at  Annapolis,  N.S. ; 
and  Mary  Ann  is  with  her  father. 


GEORCJE    A.  liLANCUAUi^, 

KENTVILLE,  N.S. 

GEORGK  AUGlJSTrS  RLANCHARD,  judge  of  the  county  courts,  district  nuadier  four, 
including  the  counties  of  King's,  Hants  and  Colchester,  was  born  at  Truro,  in  this  pro- 
vince, on  the  ()tli  of  Septend)cr,  1811.  He  is  a  brother  of  Sheritf  Ulanchard,  of  Truro,  in  whoso 
sketch,  in  other  pages  of  tins  work,  m.13'  be  found  the  name  of  the  parents,  and  some  account 
of  tile  family  on  the  maternal  as  well  as  paternal  side  The  mother  of  our  subject,  who  was 
Jean  Archibald,  was  an  aunt  of  the  present  Covei'noi",  Hon.  Adams  G.  Aiehibald,  whose  portrait 
fronts  the  Nova  Scotia  part  of  this  volume. 

Judge  Blanchard  was  educated  principally  at  the  Pictou  academy,  under  that  celebrated 
scholar  and  e(lucator,  ])r.  McCulloch,  having  for  schoolmates  Governor  Archibald,  Sir  Hugh 
Hoyles,  Newfoundland,  (liief  Justice  i^itchie,  of  Ottawa,  and  others  who  have  sinc(^  distin- 
guished themselves;  and  substMpu>ntly  he  taught  two  or  three  years  in  that  institution. 

He  commenctMl  studying  law  at  Pictou,  with  his  cousin,  Jothaiii  Blanchard,  M.I'.;  finished 
with  the  late  Hon.  J.  \V.  .lohuston,  afterwards  Judge  in  ei|uity  ;  was  calii'd  to  tlie  bar  in  IS.'}!), 
and  ]>ractisi>(l  at  Antigoiiish  until  IS|7,  when  he  remoxed  to  Halifax,  and  was  for  sunic  years 
in  partnership  with  .bidge  Alexamler  James,  having  an  extensive  legal  practice.  WhiU'  in  that 
citv  our  subject  hel<l  the  otlice  of  recorder  for  two  ccmsecutive  years,  and  as  such  cumlucted  tho 
legal  business  of  that  city. 

He  was  .ipiMiinteil  judgi'  of  probate  for  King's  county  on  tlie  2()th  of  August,  18.H,  and 
settled  in  Keiitville,  tho  county  town.  His  appointment  to  his  ])resent  ntliee  of  judge!  of  tho 
county  courts  for  the  three  counties  already  mentioned,  was  dated  August  21,  In7<). 

While  Judge  Blanchanl  was  associated  in  professional  business  with  Judge  James,  under 
the  tinn  of  Blanchard  and  James,  lie  was  engaged  in  several  iniinutant  trials,  amongst  others, 
,S',(i/^  vs.  .fiiiiK's,  for  liliel,  and  l-\ilfO})fv  vs.  Siivi/i'i\  besides  conducting  a  number  of  legal  argu- 
ments //(  UmiiK.  Mr.  illaiicliard  was  remarkalilo  for  great  assiduity  and  painstaking  in  all  his 
work,  and  was  known  not  only  as  a  well  read  lawyer,  but  as  a  truly  honorable  practitioner. 
Since  he  has  held  ollice  as  a  judge  Ids  deei;  ions  liavi^  been  much  respected,  not  less  for  their 
aliility,  than  for  their  rigid  impartiality,  which  has  secured  to  him  the  unlimited  respect  nnd 
confidence  of  the  U\v  and  the  public, 


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Judge  Blancliard  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  t'hurch  of  Canada,  and  has  Iwen  a  dele- 
gate to  the  General  Assembly  two  or  three  times,  and  was  a  member  of  the  committee  which 
arranged  the  terms  of  union  l)etween  the  different  branches  of  thaL  denomination.  He  is  and 
has  been  for  several  yeai-s  an  elder  of  the  local  church. 

On  the  27th  of  October,  IS+O,  he  married  Jane,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  James  Robson,  of 
Pictou,  and  they  have  six  children,  three  sons  and  three  daughters. 


REV.  EGBERT   13UR:NET, 

PICTOU,  N.S. 

r  I  iHE  subject  of  this  brief  biographical  sketch,  a  prominent  minister  of  the  Presbyterian 
_l_  denominaticm,  and  a  well  known  writer  on  horticuU'.e  and  agriculture,  is  a  native  of 
Berwickshire,  Scotland,  his  birth  being  dated  at  Lady  kirk,  on  the  18th  of  June,  1823;  his 
father,  James  Burnet,  ii  gentleman,  belonged  to  a  family  that  for  five  hundred  years  were  millers 
at  Newstead  Mill,  county  of  Roxburghsliire.  A  member  of  this  family  carried  the  colors  at 
the  battle  of  Bothwell  Brig.  The  mother  of  Eobert  Burnet  was  Elizabeth  Blair,  a  native  of 
Ayrshire. 

He  was  educated  at  Kdinburgh  and  Abenleen,  ordained  to  the  gospel  ministry  in  the  parish 
of  Fetteresso,  in  1852,  and  came  out  imme(liately  to  Canada  West  as  a  missionary,  with  head- 
quarters at  Hamilton.  A  few  months  afterwards  he  had  a  call  from  Ht.  Andrew's  church,  in  that 
city,  ami  was  its  pastor  for  nearly  a  (juarter  of  a  century.  The  church  was  very  small  and  weak 
at  that  time — nearly  thirty  years  ago — there  being  only  twenty-four  male  members  to  sign  his 
call;  b'.it  under  his  faithful  and  untiring  labors,  and  the  fa^■or  of  the  Divine  Spirit,  that  body 
had  a  steady  growth,  and  wheTi  he  left  Hamilton  foi-  London,  in  1870,  it  includeil  more  than 
two  hundred  and  si.xty  families. 

Mr.  Burnet  became  |)astor  of  St.  Stephen's  church,  London,  in  the  year  just  mentioned,  and 
after  preaching  there  a  little  more  than  three  years,  accepted  a  call  frijm  St.  Andrew's  church, 
Pictou,  settling  in  April,  1880.  Tliis  is  a  very  strong  churcli,  with  over  370  families  connected 
with  it,  antl  is  imiuasing  eveiy  montii. 

Mr.  Burnet  preaelies  without  notes,  and  is  very  hapj>y  in  intiodueing  fresh  incidents  to 
illustrate  his  subject  or  to  make  a  point.  There  is  notiiiiig  hackneyed  in  his  style,  which  is 
strikingly  lucid  and  logical,  he  toueliing  no  subject  which  he  eaiuiot  make  dear  to  the  under- 
standing of  hisauilitnee.  Some  of  liis  oratorical  flights  remind  his  hearers  of  the  pulpit  etforts 
of  Dr.  Chaliners  and  Robert  Hall. 

Mr.  Burnet  has  long  taken  great  interest  in  agricultural  and  horticultural  matters,  and  has 
written  a  great  deal  on  such  subjects.  While  in  Ontario,  he  was  for  some  time  a  member  of 
the  Provincial  Jioard  of  Agriculture,  also  of  the  Dominion  Board;  was  likewise  a  member  of 
the  Ontario  Entoujological  Society,  and  for  twelve  or  thirteen  years  held  the  presidency  of  the 
Ontario  Fruit  Growers'  As.sr)ciation. 

Mr.  Burnet  is  one  of  the  vice-presidents  of  the  American  Pomological  Society,  and  lias 
often  attentled  its  meetings  and  participated  in  its  discussions  ;  he  is  as  well  known  among  the 
leading  horticulturists  of  New  England  and  the  middle  States  as  in  Canada. 


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His  papei-s  wliich  have  appeared  from  time  to  time  in  the  ti-ansactions  of  the  American 
Pomological  Society,  his  addresses  before  the  Fruit  (Jrowers'  Association  and  the  Entomological 
Society  mentioned,  and  indeed  all  his  writing  on  the  topics  here  hinted  at,  show  that  Mr.  Bur- 
net has  made  vegetable  nature  a  very  careful  study;  and  as  Hugh  Miller  and  Professor  Hitch- 
cock found  divinity  in  the  rocks  and  religion  in  geology,  so  the  subject  of  this  sketch  finds  rich 
material  for  his  illustrations  of  infinite  wisdom  and  goodness  in  the  vegetable  kingdom,  as  well 
as  in  everything  else  which  comes  from  the  hand  of  the  Divine  Architect. 

Mr.  Burnet  married,  in  1850,  Miss  Rosa  Doggett,  daughter  of  Joseph  Doggett,  of  Hanover 
street,  Hanover  square,  London,  Eng.,  and  they  have  had  seven  children,  losing  two  of  them, 
James  Abercrombie  and  Fanny,  in  youth.  Of  the  five  who  are  yet  living,  only  one,  the  eldest 
daughter,  Rosa,  is  married,  she  being  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  James  Gray,  A.M.,  minister  at  Stirling, 
Ontario.  Tiie  others  are,  Emily,  Alice,  May  and  Mart>n  Russell,  most  of  whom  are  completing 
their  education. 


REV.  WILLIAM   H.   SXYDER, 

M  All  ONE  UAYyN.S. 

EEV.  WILLIAM  HENRY  SNYDER,  rector  of  Mahone  Bay  for  nearly  thirty  years,  is  a 
descendant  of  united  empire  loyalists  on  both  sides  of  the  family.  His  grandfather, 
William  Snyder,  came  from  the  United  States  about  17iS4,  and  settled  and  died  at  Shidburne, 
N.S,  where  his  son,  Henry,  father  of  our  subject,  was  lx)rn,  and  was  a  merchant  until  the  time 
of  his  death.  There  William  Henry  was  born  on  the  21st  of  June,  1X12,  his  mother  being 
Maiia  Taylor,  a  native  of  Weymouth,  county  of  Digby,  N.S.,  and  daughter  of  Capt  John  Taylor, 
an  ofhcer  in  the  British  army  at  the  time  of  tiie  rebellion  of  the  American  colonies,  ilrawuig 
half  pay  as  long  as  he  lived. 

Mr.  Snyder  received  his  classical  and  tiieological  education  at  King's  college,  Windsor, 
obtaining  the  degree  of  bachelor  of  arts  in  1832,  and  being  ordained  deacon  in  1835,  and  priest 
in  183G,  by  Bishop  Inglis. 

Prior  to  this  period  he  was  a  lay  reader  at  Weymouth,  and  a  curate  at  Ijuncnburg,  a  few 
months  at  each  place.  In  1S3.5  he  returned  to  Weymouth,  and  was  rector  there  for  seventeen 
years,  at  the  close  of  which  period  (liS.52)  he  .settleil  at  Mihone  Bay,  county  of  Lunenbnr", 
and  has  been  rector  of  St.  James'  chuich  since  that  date.  Wlien  he  commenced  his  paroeliial 
labors  here  the  parish  numbered  less  tlian  fifty  communicants ;  it  now  has  more  than  three 
hundred,  and  embraces  in  all  nine  preaching  stations,  two  of  them  where  the  minister  of  no 
other  denomination  goes.  The  parish  is  240  square  miles,  and  one  little  chuivh,  St.  John- 
in-the-wildeniess,  is  twenty-two  miles  distant  from  tiie  parish  church.  His  curate  aids  him  at 
some  of  these  points.  He  has  baptized  over  2,000  people,  adults  and  childi-en,  since  settlin<'  at 
Mahone  Bay.  As  might  be  inferred,  Mr.  Snyder  has  attended  very  faithfully  to  his  duties, and 
has  done  a  thorough  work  in  his  very  large  i)arish  ;  and  no  man  in  this  community  is  more 
highly  esteemed  for  his  "  work's  .sake,"  he  lieing  a  Christian  gentleman  of  the  noblest  stamp. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  diocesan  synod  of  Nova  Scotia,  and 
usually  attends  the  public  gatherings  of  the  church;  but  except  on  such  occasions,  is  not  oftim 
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Mr.  Snyder  wns  first  married  in  1836  to  Ann  Freeman  DeWolf,  daughter  of  James  R.  Do 
Wolf,  of  Liverpool,  N.S.,  she  dyinj,'  in  October,  1878,  and  the  second  time  on  the  Jhd  of  Novem- 
ber, 1880,  to  Caroline  Amelia  Mills,  daughter  of  John  Mills,  of  Ciranville  Ferry,  Annapolis 
county,  N.S.  Mr.  Snyder  has  five  children  living  by  the  first  wife,  and  ha,s  buried  seven,  all 
but  two  of  them  in  infancy  or  youth.  John  Taylor,  the  only  .son  living,  is  in  a  mercantile 
liouse  at  St.  John,  N.B. ;  Maria  E.  C.  tJ.  is  married  to  James  S.  McGivern,  of  the  same  city ; 
Catharine,  to  Rev.  D.  Nickerson,  chaplain  in  the  army  and  now  in  England  ;  Ann  E.  to  William 
L.  Wade,  merchant  at  Mahono  Bay,  and  Margaret  DeWolf  to  Milford  G.  E.  Marshall,  teacher,  at 
Chester,  N.S.  The  oldest  daughter  was  married  to  Dr.  Charles  Gray,  of  Mahone  Bay,  and  dioil 
in  187:i.  Two  sons,  James  R.  ]3eW.  ,\.nA  deorge  H.  grew  to  manhood,  the  fovuKr  dying  in 
1872,  and  the  latter  in  18S0. 


RUFUS    S.   BLACK,  M.I).,  L.E.CIS.E., 

HALIFAX,  N.  S. 

RUFUS  SMITH  BLACK,  one  of  the  older  and  most  reputable  class  of  physicians  and  sur- 
geons in  Halifax,  and  president  of  the  Halifax  medical  college,  is  a  grandson  of  Rev. 
William  Black,  the  pioneer  of  ilethodism  in  Nova  Scotia,  from  Huddersfielil,  Eng.,  and  son 
of  Martin  Gay  Black,  a  native  of  Halifax,  N.  S.  The  mother  of  our  subject  was  Fanny, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Rufus  Smith,  of  Fort  Cinnberland,  her  father  being  jui  adiierent  to  the  crown 
during  the  war  of  the  colonies  against  the  mother  country,  and  coming  from  the  States  to  this 
province  at  the  close  of  that  war. 

Dr.  Black  was  educated  in  the  arts  at  Wilbraham  academy,  Mass.,  and  Brown  imiversity, 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  giving  one  year  to  study  at  the  former  place,  and  two  years  at  the 
latter  when  his  health  gave  out  and  his  studies  were  suspended  for  a  time.  In  the  year  1832 
he  went  to  Edinburgh  for  the  purpose  of  studying  medicine  ;  the  winter  of  iNSi-":}.")  he  .spent 
in  Paris,  and  returned  to  Edinburgh  in  1830,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.,  from  the 
university,  and  the  licen.se  to  practise  surgery  from  the  Royal  College  of  Surgeons  ;  he  returned 
to  Nova  Scotia  the  following  year,  and  settled  in  Halifax,  where  he  has  praeti.se<l  for  forty-four 
years.  For  thirty-six  of  those  years,  ending  in  Jul}',  1880,  he  held  the  post  of  surgeon  to  the 
provincial  penitentiary,  the  institution  being  removed  from  Halifa.x  to  Dorchester,  N.B.,  at  that 
date:  ae  is  a  visiting  physician  to  the  provincial  and  city  hospital,  and  hiis  been  presirlent  of 
the  Halifax  medical  college  since  187"). 

Dr.  Black  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  a  man  of  sterling  character  and  nob'e  im- 
pulses, and  has  riililen  nuiny  a  hiuidred  miles  to  visit  the  pooi,  with  no  thought  of  reward, 
except  the  happiness  of  relieving  su tiering. 

Dr.  Black  married  in  18;}!l,  Mary  Theresa,  daughter  of  .John  Ferguson,  of  Halifax,  and 
she  is  the  mother  of  two  sons  and  six  daughters,  all  yet  living  but  one  son  who  died  in 
infancy. 


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JOHN  FERGUSON   BLACK,  M.D.,  the  other  son,  was  born  January  21,  1847,  and  is  an 

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sicians  and  snr;^cons,  New  York ;  lie  is  in  practice  with  liis  fatlier,  and  is  one  of  the  rising 
young  medical  men  of  the  province,  oecn])ying  the  chair  of  materia  nie<lica,  tiierapcuties  and 
clinical  surgery  in  the  Halifax  medical  college  ;  he  is  also  one  of  the  surgeons  to  the  provincial 
and  city  hospital,  and  was  last  year  president  of  the  Halifax  county  medical  society.  Prohahly 
no  )oung  man  of  his  age  in  the  province  stands  better  in  the  medical  profession  than  Dr.  John 
F.  Black. 


HON.  THOMAS   B.  ARCHIBALD, 

NORTH  SYDNEY  {C.K.),  N.S. 

THOMAS  DICKSON  ARCHIBALD,  senator  for  Nova  Scotia,  was  born  at  On.slow.in  this 
]>rovince,  on  the  8th  of  April,  1813,  his  parents  l^eing  David  and  Olivia  (Dickson)  Ar- 
chibald. He  is  a  descendant  of  the  Colchester  county  Archibalds,  whose  family  is  briefly  no- 
ticed in  the  sketch  of  Gov.  Archibald  in  another  part  of  this  work.  His  maternal  grandfather, 
Charles  Dickson,  was  a  native  of  Colchester  county.  Senator  Archibald  was  educated  at  the 
I'ietou  academy,  and  in  his  younger  j'ears  was  employed  at  the  Albion  mines.  In  1832  he  re- 
moved to  North  Sydney,  where  he  has  since  been  engaged  in  mining,  merchandising,  &rc.  He 
is  of  the  firm  of  Archibald  and  Co.,  two  of  his  soas  being  in  the  firm,  and  is  president  of  the 
Gowrie  Coal  Mining  Co.  Senator  Archibald's  firm  are  ship-brokers,  consular  agents  for  Spain 
and  the  United  Stitcs  at  Sydney,  and  agents  for  Lloyd's  and  the  New  York  and  Liverpool 
Board  of  underwriters. 

He  entered  public  life  in  18:50,  when  he  took  his  seat  in  the  Nova  Scotia  Legislative  Coun- 
cil, and  sat  until  the  (Confederation  in  18()7,  being  meantime  a  member  of  the  executive  council 
from  18G0  to  18G3.  He  was  called  to  the  Senate  by  Royal  Proclamation  in  May,  18G7.  His 
politics  are  Liberal  Conservative :  his  religion,  Presbyterian. 

Senator  Archibald  has  had  three  wives,  and  buried  all  of  them.  The  first  waa  Su.san, 
daughter  of  William  Corbett,  Ksq.,  of  Pietou ;  the  .secon<l,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  George 
Hughes,  Escj.,  of  Boston.,  Mass.,  and  the  third,  Maria  Louisa,  relict  of  John  Burnyeat,  Es(j.,  she 
dying  in  March,  IST.!  He  iuul  seven  children  by  the  first  wife,  and  none  by  the  others. 
Oidy  four  children,  all  .sons,  and  all  good  business  men,  are  now  living.  The  two  sons  in  busi- 
ness with  their  father,  are  William  H.  and  ('liurles.  Edward  is  a  clerk  in  a  bank  at  North 
Sydney,  and  Blowers  is  a  barrister  at  North  Sydney. 


ROBERT    K  BURKS,  D.D., 

HALIFAX,  N.S. 

EGBERT  FERRIER  BURNS,  oneof  the  leading  clergymen  (.f  the  Province  of  Nova  Scotia, 
I  and  pastor  of  Fort  Massey  Picsbyterian  church,  Halifax,  ilateshis  birth  at  Paisley,  Ren- 
frew.shire,  Scotland,  on  the  23rd  of  December,  182G.  His  father  was  the  Rev.  Rol>ert  Buins, 
D.D.,  an  eminent  clergyman  and  edn<'ator,  and  his  mother  was  Janet  Orr,  daughter  of  John  Orr, 
first  Provost  of  Paisley.     His  father  was  located  for  33  years  in  Paisley,  Scotland,  over  the 


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clmrch  where  once  there  stood  Dr.  John  Witherspoon,  prior  to  his  translation  to  the  presidency 
of  the  College  of  New  Jersey — (the  only  clergyiniin  whose  name  is  on  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendance.)  Dr.  Burns,  senr.,  took  the  principal  part  in  forininfj;  and  conducting  the  C!la.sgow 
Colonial  Society,  which  estahlished  Presbyterianisni  in  old  Canada,  and  .sent  out  many  Presliy- 
terian  ministers  to  the  Maritime  Provinces.  He  was  sent  out  as  delegate  from  the  Free  Church 
of  Scotland  to  the  American  churches  in  1844,  and  did  much  in  organizing  and  extending  the  Free 
Church  throughout  the  B.N.A.  Provinces.  He  came  out  to  Toronto,  Ont,  in  1845,  and  was  pastor 
of  Knox  church  there  till  l.S.i(i,  when  he  became  Profe,s.sor  of  Church.  History  and  Apologetics  in 
Knox  (College,  then  the  only  theological  .seminary  of  his  Church.  He  was  an  extensive  author 
and  an  indefatigable  worker.  His  name  in  Western  Canada,  to  whose  extremities  he  had  tra- 
velled as  a  missionary  pioneer,  is  "  familiar  as  household  words,"  and  his  memory  fragrant.  He 
died  in  old  Knox  College,  Toronto,  a  fortnijrht  after  returnin<'  from  an  extended  visit  to  Father- 
land,  on  the  10th  August,  18C9,  in  the  80th  year  of  his  age.  We  may  add  that  the  uncle  of  the 
subject  of  our  sketch  was  Dr.  George  Burns,  the  fii-st  Presbyterian  minister  in  St.  John,  New 
BiTinswick. 

Our  sulyect  was  educated  principally  at  Paisley  and  the  Oli'sgow  University;  came  to 
Canada  West  in  ISl;) ;  completed  his  education  at  Knox  College,  Toronto,  and  was  ordained  to 
the  Christian  ministry  on  the  1st  of  July,  1847.  He  was  pastor  for  eight  years  of  Chalmer's 
church.  Kingston,  Out.,  and  Kno.v  church,  St.  Catharines,  same  province,  nearly  twelve 
3'ears  (from  July,  18.';.5,  to  March,  1807).  He  then  .spent  three  full  years  in  Cliicago,  as  pastor 
of  the  Scotch  Presbyterian  chunh  on  the  west  side,  and  diil  a  great  deal  to  gather  his  country- 
men together,  and  strengthen  that  religious  interest.  In  that  city,  as  in  other  cities  where  he 
has  held  pastorates,  Dr.  Burns  was  very  assiduous  in  the  discharge  of  liis  duties,  and  did  no 
inconsiderable  work  outside  his  own  church  and  denomination.  From  1S67  to  1870,  with  a 
nunilier  of  other  noble-hearted  clergymen  of  Chicago,  he  co-operatctl  with  Mr.  Moody  in  carrying 
forward  mission-work  in  that  city. 

In  May,  1870,  Dr.  Burns  was  called  to  Montreal  to  take  charge  of  what  is  now  known  as  Crescent 
.street  Presbyterian  church,  remaining  there  until  March,  1875,  when  he  was  settled  over  his 
present  charge,  already  mentioned,  in  Halifax.  Here  he  has  a  very  strong  church,  including  in 
its  membership  quite  a  number  of  the  leatling  Uien  and  leading  mimU  of  the  city. 

While  at  St.  Catharines,  our  subject  did  some  commendable  work  on  the  Orannnar-school, 
Boaril  of  that  city;  and  the  year  l^efore  he  left  there  (18GG),  Hamilton  College,  Clinton,  N.  Y., 
conferred  upon  him  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity — an  honor  most  worthily  be- 
stowed, for  the  doctor  is  a  man  of  broad  scholarship  and  tine  culture,  and  an  able  lecturer  and 
writer. 

Since  the  Union  of  the  Presbyterian  Churches  in  Canada  in  June,  187-',  he  has  been  Chnirmnn 
of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Presbyterian  College  of  the  Lower  Provinces,  and  has  annually, 
for  the  Inst  three  years,  given  special  courses  of  lectures  l>efore  the  students  of  that  institution  ; 
and  though  not  a  professional  literary  lecturer,  he  has  been  accustomed,  for  years,  to  sjxiak 
occasionally  before  literary  and  scientific  societies.  He  has  not  had  a  little  to  do  in  starting  and 
prosecuting  the  ;?100,()0()  .scheme  for  endowing  the  theological  college. 

Dr.  Burns  is  the  author  of  a  number  of  books  and  pamphlets.  His  life  of  his  father,  a  volume 
of  400  pages,  first  issued  in  1872,  has  already  passed  through  three  editions. 

He  wrote  in  conjunction  with  another  gentleman  a  little  volume  entitled,  "  Maple  Leaves  from 
Cfliiada  for  the  grave  of  Abraham  Lincoln." 


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Tin-  lumieruus  |)aiii|>lik'ts  from  liis  pen  tlint  liavo  lieen  piibliHlied,  oinlirm-o  a  variety  of  topics, 
religious,  liteiaiy.  tcinpcranct',  etc.  ( )iio  of  those  is  on  tlie  "  Maine  Ijicjuor  Law,"  and  so  pleased 
were  the  friends  of  Temperanee  witli  it  that  tlie  (Jrand  Division  of  the  Sons  of  Temperance  of 
Nova  Scotia  caused  .'),0()(>  copies  of  it  to  be  printed  anil  tiiculated  Inoad-L-ast  over  the  country. 
A  tract  of  his  on  "  (Sivinji;,"  so  delii,'lit»'d  a  Montreal  philanthropist,  thut  he  caused  10,000  of  them 
to  he  ]irinted  at  his  own  expense. 

I>r.  Burns  was  a  delegate  to  the  International  Temperance  Conference,  heldat  Philadelphia  at 
tlie  time  of  the  Centennial  Kxposition  ( I  !S7<>),  and  read  a  paper  on  that  occasion  on  the  "  llelatiori 
of  Temperance  to  Revivals,"  which  is  puMished  in  the  large  memorial  volume  of  the  pro- 
ceedings. 

He  was  also  a  delegate  to  the  Raike.s  Centennial  Sunday  Sdiool  Celehration,  held  in  London, 
England,  in  the  suunner  of  1880,  and  to  the  Pan-Presbyterian  Assembly  held  in  Philadelphia  a 
little  later  in  the  same  year — the  only  clerical  delegate  from  Nova  Scotia  present  at  the  latter 
gathering.  When  in  London,  at  the  Sabbath  School  Centennial,  he  preached  the  official  sermon 
before  the  assembled  delegates,  which  was  afterwards  publi.she<I. 

l)r.  Burns  was  married  on  the  first  of  July,  1852,  to  Elizal)etli,  second  daughter  of  Rufus 
Holden,  M.  D.,  deceased,  of  Belleville,  Ontario,  and  they  have  eight  children,  four  sons  an<l  four 


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ALEXANDKR    N.   M'DOXALD,  ^f.P.R, 
snEiiimooKK,  a:s. 

ALEXANDER  NEIL  MiDONALD,  who  represents  the  county  of  (luysborough  in  the 
Legislative  Assembly  of  Nova  Scotia,  is  the  eldest  son  of  Hugh  McDonald,  merchant 
and  was  born  in  Slurbrooke,  in  that  county,  on  tlie  SOth  of  Septembei',  ISIS,  llis  father  was 
born  in  the  isle  of  Rum,  in  178!) ;  emigrated  to  Nova  Scotia  in  18()N;  married,  in  1810,  Kliza- 
beth  Archibald,  third  daughtei-  of  Daviil  Archibald,  of  Truro;  representi-d  tlie  county  of  (luys- 
borough  for  two  sessions  in  the  local  parliament;  held  the  offices  of  postmaster,  custos  of  the 
district  of  St.  Mary's,  registrar  of  deeds,  judge  of  ])robate.  etc.,  for  several  years,  and  died  at 
Siierbrooke  in  1877,  aged  8S  years.  His  wife  died  something  like  thirty  years  earlier.  Hugh 
McDonald  was  a  man  of  great  usefulness,  an  elder  in  the  church,  a  Sunday-school  worker,  and 
greatly  respected  in  the  comniuniiy. 

Our  subject  was  educated  in  the  Sherbrooki- grammar  school  ;  attended  shop  for  his  father 
in  his  youngei'  years,  and  for  nearly  forty  years  has  been  a  storekeeper,  shijibiiilder,  and  manu- 
facturer of  timber  and  lumber,  doing  (piite  an  extensive  business.  For  twelve  years  he  was  in 
the  fishing  business,  while,  as  now,  selling  goods  and  getting  out  lumber  and  timber  ;  and  was 
also  engaged  in  gold  mining  for  sometime.  Hi.'  has  had  his  "  ups  anil  downs,"  like  most  enter- 
prising men,  but,  on  the  whole,  has  Ijcen  successful. 

Mr.  McDonald  held  for  a  number  of  years  the  offices  of  comptroller  of  customs,  collector  of 
excise,  and  surveyoi'  of  ship])ing,  resigning  them  when  he  became  an  importer  and  a  candidate 
for  parliamentary  honors  ;  and  we  believe  he  still  holds  the  offices  of  magistrate  and  ci)mmi>- 
sioner  for  taking  affidavits  in  the  supreme  court,  and  for  relieving  insolvent  dclitors.  Ho  is  also 
a  sub-agent  for  Lloyds'. 


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Mr.  McDonald  was  electeJ  to  take  liis  fathors  old  seat,  in  the  Nova  Scotia  Lej^ixlature  in 
1878,  and,  consequently,  is  serviny  his  tirst  term  in  such  a  l)ody.  He  is  a  niiin  of  good  business 
capacities  and  solid  common  sense,  and  tliese  are  good  (jualities  in  a  legislator.  He  is  on  tiie 
crown  lands  and  temperance  eonunittees.     His  polities  are  Liberal  Conservative. 

Mr.  McDonald  is  an  elder  in  the  Sherbrooke  Presbyterian  church  ;  has  repeatedly  been  a 
delegate  to  the  Synod,  and  is  a  prominent  layman  in  the  county  of  Guvsborough. 

He  first  married,  in  November,  184o,  at  Truro,  Rebecca  Archibald,  third  daughter  of 
Samuel  Archibald,  Es(i.,  and  sister  of  the  Lieutenant-Uovernor  of  Nova  Scotia,  she  dying  in 
September,  1870,  leaving  four  children,  one  son  having  preceded  her  to  the  spirit-world;  and 
the  second  time,  in  October,  1873,  in  Truro,  to  Sarah  Blanehard,  sister  of  Judge  Blancliard,  of 
Kentville,  and  the  late  Sherifl' Blanehard,  of  Truro,  l:)oth  of  whon»  have  sketches  in  this  volume. 
James  McDonald,  the  only  son  by  the  fiint  wife,  is  living  at  Stillwater,  N,S. ;  Elizabeth  is  the 
wife  of  Stephen  T.  Hall,  station  agent  at  Strait  of  Canso  ;  and  the  other  three  daughters, 
Emma,  Margaret  and  CJracc,  are  at  home.     There  is  no  issue  from  the  second  marriage. 


alexa:ni)er  eobb, 

AMHERST,  N.S. 


ONE  of  the  oldest  and  most  prominent  manufacturers  in  Amherst,  is  the  gentleman  whose 
name  heads  this  sketch.  He  came  here  when  a  child,  received  a  moderate  school  drill, 
and  with  no  capital  except  a  sound  constitution,  correct  habits,  and  "  a  mind  to  work,"  through 
untiring  industry  and  a  prudent  and  economical  method  of  doing  business,  placed  hlui.self  in 
comfortable  circmnstances  years  ago. 

Mr.  Robb  was  born  at  Leicester,  ('umV)erland  county,  N.S.,  March  -tth,  1827,  and  lias 
always  remained  a  resident  of  the  county ;  his  father,  Alexander  Robb,  senior,  was  from  the 
North  of  Ireland,  and  came  to  Nova  Scotia  in  the  early  part  of  the  present  century  ;  his 
mother  was  Annie  Brown,  who  was  from  the  same  part  of  Ireland. 

Having  mastered  the  rudimentary  branches  of  knowledge,  Mr.  Robb,  learned  the  tinsmith 
trade,  at  Amherst,  and  at  twenty-one  years  of  age  commenced  business  in  the  tinware  line  for 
himself,  at  tirst  with  a  very  small  stock,  adding  stoves,  imported  from  the  United  States,  a  short 
time  afterwards. 

In  180(1,  Mr.  Robb  built  a  foundiy,  which  he  has  since  enlarged,  adding  a  machine  shop 
•several  years  ago.  Tht"  principal  articles  now  made  in  this  manufactory  are  stoves,  ranges, 
furnaces,  plows,  rotary  saw  mills,  ship  castings,  plain  and  japanned  tinware,  and  hoUowware. 
The  firm  of  A.  Robb  and  Sons  also  deals  in  engines,  turbine  wheels,  steam-tittings,  pumps,  etc., 
and  is  doing  a  safe  and  prosperous  business,  giving  employment  to  between  thirty  and  forty 
workmen  in  all  the  shops  and  foundry.  In  stoves  alone,  between  2,000  and  3,000  are  made 
annually.  The  wares  and  machinery  of  all  kinds  are  well  made  and  find  a  ready  market, 
mainly  in  the  several  Maritime  Provinces.  A  branch  of  the  Intercolonial  Railway  runs  to  the 
foundry,  which  was  put  in  communication  with  the  store  Ity  means  of  a  telephone,  in  Octolwr, 
1877,  the  first  enterprise  of  its  kind  in  these  provinces. 

Mr.  Robl)  has  always  lived  a  quiet  as  well  as  indu.strious  life,  and  has  shunned  offices  of 
every  kind.   Years  ago  he  took  great  interest  in  the  establishment  of  free  schools,  and  has  done 


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all  \w  ooiiM,  in  liis  mias,suiiiiii<,'  way,  to  further  the  cause  of  eiliication,  giving  liis  own  chililivii, 
as  tticy  arrived  at  a  suitalilo  a;,'o,  in  a  literary  sense,  a  f,'0O(l  Imsiness  outfit. 

He  married  in  Marcli,  l)S."j.'»,  Miss  Kmeline  Lof,'an,  of  Amliei-st  Point,  in  tliis  connty,  and  tliey 
have  fonr  sons  ami  one  daughter.  The  tlnec  oldest  sons,  David  VV ,  Fied  V,.  and  Waiter  R.,  are 
engaged  in  business  with  their  father,  the  tirni's  name  having  already  heen  mentioned ;  and 
tliere  are  no  steadier,  lictter  liusiness  young  men  in  rnmlK>r]and  county.  Wortliy  sons  of  a 
worthy  sire,  tliey  are  building  »ip  a  .solid  character,  as  well  as  extending  their  business.  The 
younger  members  of  the  family,  Maggie  A.  and  Aubrey  (J.,  are  pursiiing  their  studies. 

Air.  Kobb  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  cliurch,  and  so  far  as  wo  can  a.scertain,  hoH 
always  lived  an  irreproachable,  blameless  life. 


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J  ION.   UECTOJl    Y.   Mf'DOUGALL,   M.r.P., 

C/IRISTMAS  ISr.ANlK  r.li.,  X,S. 

HF.OTOR  KRANt'lS  MrDOUGALL,  member  of  the  Kxecutive  Council  of  Nova  Set.tia, 
is  a  son  of  Malcolm  and  Mary  (McNeil)  McDougall,  and  was  born  at  f'hristmas  Island, 
C.  R,  on  the  (ith  of  June,  lis48.  Hoth  parents  are  also  natives  oi'  Cape  Breton.  Thegrand- 
])arents  were  from  the  Islaml  of  Hiirra,  Scotland.  Malcolm  McDougall  has  been  engaged  in  mercan- 
tile pui'suits  and  stock  ilealing  for  forty-tivc  years,  and  still  has  ehaige  of  his  business,  being 
ipiite  active  and  ethcient. 

Our  subject  received  a  common  .school  education  at  his  native  home,  and  for  several  years 
has  been  iissistiiig  his  father  in  carrying  on  his  business. 

He  was  mariied,  at  .Vriehat,  ("ape  Hreton,  on  the  0th  of  Se|)tember,  1S7.'),  by  the  lit.  Ilev. 
John  Cameron,  D.D.,  Hisliop  of  Arichat,  to  Christina,  daughter  of  Allan  Cameron  and  ( "a tharim^ 
McOillivray,  of  Antigonish,  N.  S.,and  niece  of  that  Hishop. 

Mr.  McDougall  is  a  councillor  of  the  district  of  Christmas  Island  in  the  municipality  of 
Cape  Hreton,  and  member  of  the  provincial  "  Board  of  Agriculture." 

He  was  Hi-st  returned  to  |)arliament  at  the  late<feneral  election,  held  on  the  17th  September, 
1878,  when  he  was  just  thirty  years  of  age,  defeating  the  attorney-general  of  the  then  administra- 
tion by  !)7  votes,  and  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  K.vecutive  Council  on  the  22nd  of  October 
of  that  year,  being,  we  believe,  the  youngest  member  of  that  council  ever  apjiointed,  and  the 
youngest  member  of  the  ]iresent  House  of  Assembly.  He  rarely  sjieaks  in  that  body,  and  never 
unless  he  has  something  to  say  worthy  of  the  attention  of  the  Ifouse. 


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ELTSIIA    W.   B.  MOODY, 

YARMOOTn,N.  H. 

ELISHA  WlfJdAM  MCDD  MOODY  is  a  son  of  John  Moody,  in  his  day  a  farmer  at 
Weymouth,  N.S.,  and  grandson  of  the  celebratiMl  Col.  James  Moody,  of  New  Jersey, 
whose  daring  exploits  are  recoided  by  Mr.  Sabint;  in  his  "  Loyalists  of  the  American  Revo- 
lution,' and  who  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  1st  Iwttalion  of  New  Jei-sey  volunteers,  being  in  Col, 


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Barton's  loijis.  Tliis  bravo  lij,'liU'r  for  the  Hritisli  Crown  was  in  tin*  war  from  1777  to  17SI, 
and  employed  miieli  of  tlie  time  as  a  spy,  anil  in  interceiitinj;  Washinj^ton's  despatehes  ami 
seizing  "  rebel  mails. "  'i'lic  iianati\o  of  these  adventm-es,  j,'iven  fnlly  in  tlio  socond  volume  of 
tlie  woik  mentioned,  is  iimonj;  tlie  most  tlirilliiij,'  found  in  its  pa'  '  "t  wliieh  we  caiuiot  repeat 
in  iletail  in  a  volume  like  this,  which  deals  with  the  iiscently  dui  .  prominent  and  self-made 

living  men. 

For  four  years,  Col.,  then  Lieut.,  Moody  wa.sa  terroi'  to  the  Whigs  wherever  he  was  known. 
The  cry  that  "Moody  is  out, "  or  "Moody  is  in  the  country,"  thrilled  every  rebel  heart,  and 
«ome  of  his  deeds  art-  so  audacious  and  wondorfid  as  to  almost  stagger  the  credulity  of  the 
reader.  Once  he  had  several  balls  .shot  through  his  clothes  and  hat  when  pursued  by  a  sipiad 
of  Whigs,  another  Ijall  giazing  his  arm;  but  lie  shot  down  his  foremost  pursuer  and  cscajjed. 
Another  time  he  saved  his  lift>  by  r<meealing  himself  in  a  shock  of  corn,  standing  there  for 
forty-eight  houis  without  either  food  or  drink.  Another  time  he  was  caught,  put  in  irons  and 
thus  held  until  his  wrists  were  fearfully  lacerateil,  the  irons  being  ragged  on  the  imier  side  ;  ho 
was  shown  a  gallows  on  which  he  wa.s  told  that  ho  was  to  be  hanged  ;  but  on  a  ilark  and  rainy 
night  ho  broke  the  liolt  of  his  hand-eutf's  without  being  noticed,  sprang  past  the  iniu  r  sentinel, 
knocked  the  next  one  clown,  ami  seized  his  gun,  avoided  foui'  others  stationed  near  him,  and 
made  his  escape  ! 

For  a  long  time  he  bore  fatigue,  hunger  and  cold  without  i  Mit  injury — liardships  fatal 

to  others — his  companions     who  were  h>s  robust;  but  his  hea  lly  failed,  and  in  Novem- 

ber, 17SI,  he  left  the  army.  Ills  tine  farm  and  all  his  property,  valued  at  .tl,")()0  sterling,  had 
been  confiscated  ;  he  had  nothing  to  hope  foi'  if  the  rebels  gained  their  independence,  and  on 
the  reconunendation  of  his  physician,  he  wont  tt)  Kngland  on  the  invitation  of  Sir  Henry 
Clinton,  remaining  theie  two  or  three  years.  He  addressed  several  men\orials  to  pei-sons  in 
power  on  the  sul  joct  of  his  sufferings  and  destitution  ;  and  he  had  the  temporary  allowance  of 
one  hmulred  |)ounds  per  annum,  the  grant  of  some  lands  "  of  inconsiderable  value"  in  Nova 
Scotia,  and  the  half  pay  of  an  oliicer  of  his  rank. 

"  He  .served  the  Crown,"  says  Sabine,  "  because  he  wished  to  live  and  die  a  British  subject, 
and  not  for  military  rank  or  pecuniary  reward.  He  exposiid  his  life  f(jr  a  year  without  even 
the  pay  of  a  common  soldier.  For  taking  the  first  mail  ho  received  (me  hundred  guineas  ;  for 
the  second  twice  that  sum  ;  but  he  shared  so  liberally  with  his  associates,  that  one  hundred  and 
twenty-five  guineas  for  these  two  exploits,  and  thirty  more  paid  him  by  (!ov.  Robertson  as  an 
outfit  to  sei/e  (5ov.  Livingston  (an  undertaking  which  failed),  make  the  stun  total  of  his  emol- 
uments lioyond  others  of  his  rank." 

On  his  return  from  Kngland  Col.  .Moody  sojourned  a  while  in  Halifa.x,  and  in  ITiSd  settled 
at  Weymouth,  where  he  boeamo  a  colonel  in  the  militia,  and  where  he  died  in  LS(>!>,  a^ed  U.> 
years.  Among  his  warm  friends  wore  the  Duke  of  Kent  an<l  Lieut.-Governor  Sir  John  Wont- 
worth. 

A  brother  of  bis,  .lohn  Moody,  was  also  a  lioyalist,  and  was  taki-n  prisoner  while  attempt- 
ing to  break  into  the  I'liiladolphia  State  House,  in  order  to  carry  otl"  the  books  and  papers  of 
the  Continental  Congress;  was  fried  as  a  spy,  and  executed  in  Philadelphia  in  1781,  he  boiii" 
only  '22  years  of  age.  Ho  was  "  the  darling  son  of  his  aged  father,"  and  his  deatli  caused  the 
old  gentleman  to  become  lioj)elessly  insane.  J.  Wontworth  Moody,  mentioned  below,  h;us  a 
touching  letter  written  by  John  Moody  in  jail  the  night  before  his  execution,  breathing  a  noble 
spirit  of  forgiveness  towards  his  betrayers. 


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Tho  j^ramlsoii  ut  Col.   Mooily,  wlmsc  iiainc  licivds  tliis  sketcli,  wius  Ihhii  at  Woviaoutli, 


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17!>!) ;  N|K'iit  a  portion  of  Iiis  yontli  in  llaiifax,  ninl  in  I.S17  settled  in  Vnnnoutli,  wliore  ho  en- 
j^ii^ed  ill  trade,  and  was  one  of  the  leading;  iiieiehants  ami  ri>al  estate  owners  until  his  demise 
in  l>s(i''i.  l''or  tliirty-tive  years  ho  was  I^Ioyd's  a;,'ent  for  the  district  now  eiiiliraein^'  '*'o''y  ''"'' 
Slielliiirne  eonntii's.as  well  as  Varinoiitli.  He  was  jiistiee  of  the  |»eiioe  and  custos  of  the  eoiinty 
of  Yarmouth  for  a  long  period, holding  hotli  oHieos  at  tho  tiiii  •  of  his  death.  In  lN+7  and  IS') I, 
he  eontcsteil  Varmouth  for  the  Ifouseof  Assemhly,  lint  he  lielng  a  ( 'onservati\e  and  the  l.,ilierals 
iieing  in  the  asceiidaiiey,  he  wa.s  defeated,  ih'  was  an  active,  intelligent  and  upright  man,  and 
discharged  every  duty,  social  as  well  as  otHcial,  witli  punctilious  regurd  to  faithruliiess. 

He  hat!  two  wives,  the  Hist  heing  Sarah  Harding,  daughter  of  Israel  Harding,  of  Yar- 
montii;  the  second  Mary  Ann  Stowart,  daughter  nf  Henry  Stewart,  of  Digl'y,  the  result  of 
these  two  marriages  heing  a  family  of  tiftecii  children.  The  eldest  cliild  hy  tlie  first  wife,  and 
the  representative  pio|)i'f  of  the  family  in  Yarmouth,  is  .hilm  Wentworth  Moody,  who  was  born 
on  the  lllth  of  Novemher,  l.S2(!,  and  who  took  his  father's  placi  m  Lloyd's  agent  for  the  iroun- 
tics  of  Cuinlierland,  Colchester,  Hants,  King's,  Anna[iolis.  Dighy,  Yarmouth  and  Shelhourne, 
also  as  agi'iit  for  the  l^iverpt)t)l  undersvriters'  association.  He  is  one  of  the  prominent  ship- 
owners of  this  town,  and  an  energetic,  puhlic-spiriteil  man,  liolding  various  jiositioiia,  such 
lis  Sweden  an  1  Norway  vice-consul  at  Yarinouth,  tho  Spanish  consular  agent,  a  director  of  the 
hank  "f  Yarn-DUth,  president  of  tho  Yarmouth  .Marine  A.s,sociation,  and  a  magistrate  for  tlio 
county.  i{\i  is  one  of  the  memhers  and  lil)eial  sui)porti'rs  ot  Trinity  (Kpiscopii!)  church,  having 
repeatei"\  served  as  wanleii  of  the  snme — in  short,  he  is  a  worthy  descendant  of  him  who  fou<'ht 
so  liravi  u    II'    the  si  ivice  of  King  (Jeorgo  III,  and   slerp-<  at  Weyinnnth,  and  of  him  who,  for 


forty 


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was  a  leailing  citi/en  and  prominent  oHicial  in  the  ruimty  of  Yarmouth,  and  whose 


remains  lie  in  the  puhlic  cemetery  of  N'arinoutli. 

In  l.s.'iT  Mr.  .Moody  married  Miss  Janette  Ihaiiie,  of  New   York  city,  and  she  has  had  live 
children,  four  of  whom  are  yet  living. 


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IJKL'T.-COL.    HON.   CIIAIILKS   .1.    MA("I)()N  A  LI ), 

IIAIJI'AX,  \.  s. 

OHAHLKS  J.  M.\(T)<»NAM)was  horn  at  Halifax,  N.S.,  April  1,  IMl,  he  heing  the  tliiid 
son  of  Uohert  Macdoiiaiil.  forineily  of  Dornock,  Sutherlandshire,  Scuthind.  He  was  edu- 
cated at  Dalhousie  college,  llalifa.x  ;  studied  law  with  Hon,  .1.  S.  D.  Thompson,  and  was  called 
to  the  har  in  1S72.  He  has  always  taken  an  active  part  in  the  volunteer  organization  in  .Nova 
Scotia;  was  district  paymaster  of  the  militia  of  the  province  from  ls7'2  to  1>S7S,  when  the 
office  was  aholi.shed  ;  and,  in  consideration  of  liis  services,  he  was  retired  with  the  honorary 
rank  of  lieutenant  colonel,  and  was  again  apiiointed  major  of  the  (Jfitli  Princess  Loui.se  Fusileers 
with  the  hrevet  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel.  He  has  heen  i<lentiHed  with  all  civic  improvements, 
and  was  an  alderman  lor  the  city  of  Halifax  from  lS7<i  to  l.S7!>,  when  he  retired. 

Col.  .Mac  loiialil  has  hren  an  active  nn!iiil>'.'r  of  the  North  Mritish  Siuttish  National  Sociefv, 
of  which  he  was  elected  president ;  was  also  the  principal  mover  in  the  formation  of  the  (Jrand 
Lodge  of  Free  Ma.sons  of  Nova  Scotia,  aiul  actcti  as  secretary  from  its  organization  to  liS(i!»,  at 
the  date  of  union,  when  he  was  elected  suhstitute  grand  master.      He  is  the  represfntative  of 


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the  }»rainl  lodge  of  Ohio,  ami  a  past-deputy  grand  master;  is  also  a  past-grand  higli  |iriest  i)f 
the  grand  chai>ter. 

Col.  Maedonald  was  elected  to  Parliament,  as  a  memher  of  the  House  of  Assembly  for  tho 
city  and  county  of  Halifax,  at  tho  general  election  in  1878,  and  was  appointed  a  member  of  tho 
Executive  Council  for  the  province  in  1879,  when  lie  retired  from  Parliament,  and  was  ap- 
pointed post  office  inspector  for  Nova  Scotia. 

He  has  been  twice  married  ;  first,  to  Mary  Tamson,  daughter  of  William  Evans,  by  whom 
he  had  one  child,  a  daughter;  second,  to  Annie,  daughter  of  James  jlcLeam,  by  whom  he  has 
had  two  daughters. 


TIJE    LOA'nT    FAMILY, 

YAJiMOUTH,  N.8. 

A  Mono  the  grantees  of  the  township  of  Yarmouth  (the  grant  being  dated  April  7,  17ti7\ 
we  find  the  name  of  Andrew  Lovitt,  who  was  the  founder  of  the  family  of  that  name 
representing  .i  great  amount  of  ])roperty  as  well  as  respectability  in  this  town.  Andrew  Lovitt 
came  from  the  United  States,  where"  he  had  several  daughters  boVn  to  him,  his  only  .son,  Israel, 
being  born  after  he  hail  settled  in  Yarmouth  ;  here  both  father  and  son  lived  anddieil,  the  lat- 
ter being  at  one  time  captain  of  a  compun}'  of  militia,  ami  both  being  valuable  citizens.  Their 
lemains  lie  in  tlie  Ya^Tnouth  public  cemetery. 

The  wife  of  Israel  Lovitt  was  Sarah  Bain,  daughter  of  Alexander  Bain,  of  Yarmouth,  and 
she  was  the  mother  of  ten  children,  seven  sons  and  three  daughters,  only  thret;  of  the  .sons, 
Andrew,  the  eldest,  Joseph  B.  and  Alexander,  the  youngest,  now  living. 

Andrew  Jjovitt,  who  was  named  for  his  grandfather,  and  who  was  born  in  LSOS,  is  a  ship- 
owner, and  althojgb  hugging  closely  upon  his  eightieth  year,  is  still  an  active  man,  with  ener- 
gies scarce'y  uui  bated. 

John  \V.  Lovitt,  ojieof  his  brothers,  who  died  July  li,  I.S71',  was  a  ship-owner,  a  magis- 
trate, an  active  member  of  the  Temple  Baptist  church  ;  of  a  benevolent  disposition,  and  one  of 
the  leading  men  of  the  town  foryiars,  being  president  of  the  liank  of  Yarmouth  at  the  time  of 
his  death  :  he  married  Ann  Jenkins,  daughter  of  Jauics  Jenkins,  ship-owner,  Yarmouth,  ami  she 
still  survives  him. 

Joseph  B.  fjovitt  is  a  ship-owner  and  sea  captain,  and  is  (|uite  an  enterprising  man. 

Alexaniler  fiovitt  lias  also  been  a  ship-master,  and  is  now  living  on  bis  farm  near  the  town 
of  Yarmouth,  being  in  very  comfortable  circumstances,  like  most  of  the  Lovitt  family,  and 
"  taking  things  easy." 

The  sons  of  Andrew  Jjovitt,  and  great-grandsons  of  the  progenitor  of  the  family  in  Nova 
Scotia,  are  Oeorge  H.  an<l  William  I).  Lovitt,  both  active  and  prominent  business  men  and  ship- 
owners, directors  of  local  insurance  companies  and  Imnks,  and  eminently  successful  operators  in 
their  business  ventures  generally. 

The  sons  of  John  W.  Lovitt  (decea.sed),  aie  John  ami  James  J.  Lovitt,  who  are  engaged  in 
ship-buihling.  and  are  heavy  ship-ownera  ami  prominent  men  in  the  county  of  Yarmouth  ;  the 
t  inner  being  a  member  of  tho  Ibjuse  of  Assembly  for  Yarmouth  iluring  the  Hill  govem- 
mi'nt,  and  now  a  direi-tor  of  insurance  companies  and  the  bank  of  Yaniioiith,  and  the  latter  is 
warden  of  the  county,  and  similarly  connected  with  insurance  oHices, 


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The  sons  of  Joseph  B.  Lovitt  arc  Edward  H.,  a  ship-master  and  ship-owner,  actively  en- 
gaged in  business  at  Yarmouth  ;  and  Henry,  a  ship  chandler,  tloing  business  in  Liverpool,  Eng- 
land, both  men  of  first-class  business  habits  and  talents. 

It  is  seen  by  the  above  brief  notes  of  the  Lovitt's  that  the  family  is  (juite  prominent  in 
Yarmouth,  and  that  it  represents  its  full  share  of  the  wealth  and  solid,  manly  character  of  the 
town.  Its  members,  as  a  class, are  industrious,  shrewd,  straightforward  men,  and  their  "  diligence 
h\  business,"  which  has  been  observed  with  almost  scriptural  exactness,  ha.s  been  amply  re- 
warded, so  far  as  it  regards  material  success,  and  honorable  standing  in  the  financial  world. 
Such  a  class  of  citizens  are  among  the  best  "  assets  "  of  anv  town. 


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REV.   JAMES    J.  RITCHIE,   M.A., 

ANNAPOLIS,  N.S. 

JAMES  JOHNSTON  RITCHIE,  rector  of  Annapolis,  is  a  son  of  Hon.  Justice  Ritchie,  nn.l 
was  born  at  Annapolis  on  the  0th  of  February,  18IG,  his  great-grandfather  being  from 
Scotland.  His  mother  was  Eli/a  Wildman  Johnston,  who  descended  from  a  Loyalist  family. 
Hei'  grandfather  married  a  Peyton,  a  lady  of  Huguenot  extraction,  and  he  was  governor  of  the 
province  of  Georgia  a  short  time  liefore  the  American  revolution.  When  war  commenced  his 
sons  all  took  up  arms  for  "  King  George  and  the  I'nited  Empire,"  and  three  of  them  fell  in 
action.  On  one  occasion  one  of  them  saved  his  life  by  hiding  in  a  cofiin,  and  lieing  mourned 
over  by  sympathetic  friends, 

"  They  wept  the  living  Hector  as  the  dead." 

Our  subject  is  a  brother  of  Chief  Justice  Ritchie  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Dominion, 
and  in  the  sketch  of  that  brother,  whiili  appeared  in  the  Ontario  vohmie,  we  mentioned  that 
his  mother  was  a  sister  of  the  late  Hon.  James  W.  Johnston,  formerly  judge  in  e([uity  of  the 
Province  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  who  died  in  November,  187.S,  at  the  age  of  eighty-eight  years. 
His  father  was  a  captain  in  a  regiment  of  Nitrfolk  (Virginia)  volunteers,  raised  by  the  maternal 
grandfatlier  of  the  late  Judge  Haliburton,  .Major  .Mexaiider  Grant,  a  Scotch  ottieer  who  fell 
mortally  womided  at  the  storming  of  Fort  Stanwix,  ami  died  in  the  arms  of  Captain  Johnston. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  at  King's  college,  Windsor,  receiving  the  degree  of 
B.A.  in  183"),  and  of  M.A.  in  JN.jl  ;  studied  law  at  .Annapolis,  with  Charles  McColla,  and  at 
Halifax  with  the  late  Judge  Johnston ;  was  aihiiitteil  to  the  bar  in  isijs.and  practised  at  Anna- 
polis for  thirteen  yeai-s.  At  the  end  of  that  perio<l  he  changed  his  views  as  it  legarded  his 
duty;  studie<l  theology,  was  ordained  deacon  in  I8.')l  by  the  Right  Kev.  Misho|)  IJinny,  and 
priest  a  year  or  two  later  by  the  same  bishop. 

Mr.  Ritchie  was  the  a.ssistant  minister  at  Annapolis  for  three  years,  and  then  (18.341  be- 
came rector.  Under  his  paternal  oversight  the  parish  church,  St.  liuke's,  has  had  a  healthfid 
growth,  which  has  Ixten  felt  throughout  the  parish.  He  is  assiduous  and  untiring  in  his  i»as- 
toral  work,  a  sound  preacher,  and  a  gentleman  greatly  esteemed  by  the  comnninity  generally. 
He  is  one  of  the  leaders  in  the  province  of  what  is  known  us  the  Low  Chureli  party,  anil  is  a 
man  of  sound  judgment  and  nnieh  infiuence. 


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Mr.  Ritchie  was  cliairniiin  of  tin-  lucal  board  of  school  coniini.ssioners  for  several  years,  ami 
did  a  good  work  in  fiirtlu'ram-o  of  tlu'  cause  of  educatiuii  in  this  comiminity  ;  and  he  is  now 
chairman  of  the  committee  of  education  foi'  the  synod  of  Nova  Scotia.  Twice  he  has  heeii  a 
delegate  to  the  provincial  synod,  held  at  Montreal. 

Mr.  Ritchie  was  fust  married  to  Eliza  R.,  daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  William  Bruce  Almon, 
of  Halifax,  she  dying,  leaving  four  children;  and  the  second  time  to  Mrs.  Sophia  (".  Harr, 
dauiihtcr  of  (Janet  Ciarretson,  of  Staten  Island.  N.Y..  having  one  child  hv  her. 


DONALT)    OTiANT, 

NEW  GLASGOW,  N.S. 

DONALD  (iRANT,  warden  of  the  town  of  New  Gla-sgow,  and  an  enterprising  huilder  and 
manufacturer,  was  horn  at  Wentworth  Grant,  county  of  Pictou,  N.S.,  on  the  (ith  of 
•Fanuary,  ltS2!).  His  father,  John  (Jrant,  a  carpenter  by  trade,  in  early  life,  and  latterly  a 
farmer,  was  from  Inverness-shire,  Scotlaml.  His  mother  was  Sophia  McDonaM.  a  native  of 
Pictou  county.     Both  parents  arc  still  living. 

Donald's  educaticjn  was  limited  to  the  rudimentary  branches.  He  learned  his  father's 
trade,  connuencing  at  seventeen,  and  worked  for  years  as  a  contractor  and  house-V)uiIder,  add- 
ing, in  1H77,  a  factory  for  th(,'  manufacture  of  sash,  door,  blinds,  iVe.  He  is  a  stirring  man, 
having  no  fellowship  with  him,  who  woidd  rather  rust  out  than  wear  out.  He  began  with  a 
good  stock  of  health  for  his  capital,  and  imt  a  dollai  in  money,  and  has  by  industiy  been  well 
rewarded.  Years  ago  he  engagcil  in  riiiiwav  business,  and  built  the  liranih  IVom  the  DruiuiuDud 
colliery  to  the  intercolonial  line. 

Mr.  (irant  has  lieM  a  few  local  dthces,  such  as  liic  warden,  warden  of  the  town,  iVc,  but  is 
not  an  oHiee-seeker.  When  he  does  accept  anythiiig  of  the  kind,  he  does  it  irom  a,  sense  of  duty, 
which  he  owes  to  his  fellow-citi/ens.  He  shirks  no  obligation,  and  is  a  "  ui'ighbor  "  in  the 
scriptural  meaning  of  the  word. 

He  is  a  niemVier  nf  the  Kirk  of  Seotlnnd,  anil  fc)n<liy  cherishes  the  faith  of  his  forefathers, 
tracing  them  back  to  the  days  of  the  grand  old  ri'foruiers,  who  thought  more  of  truth  than  of 
life.     His  polities  are  ljiberal-( 'onservative. 

The  wife  of  .Mr.  (bant  was  Klizabeth  M(d\ay,  daughtei-  of  Angus  .Nbdvay,  of  Stellerton. 
Slie  was  born  in  Scotland,  married  in  JS.'i.S,  and  is  the  niotlier  of  six  ebildren,  live  of  \,liom  are 
yet  living.      Most  of  them  aie  engiigcd  in  securing  their  «i|iicnti<iii.. 


IIO.X.   SAMUFL    T.orKE,  M.L.(\, 

l,0<  KI'OIIT,  N.S. 

TllK  subject  of  this  notice,  a  rtiemln  ■  of  the  Legislative  Council  of  Nova  Scotia,  dates  his 
biilh  at  liockport,  county  of  ^  uelburiie,  on  the  Kith  of  October,  1S1:{.  His  father, 
Sanniel  Locki,  sen,  was  a  native  of  th  :  same  place,  and  a  West  Indian  merchant.  His  grand- 
father, Jonathan  Locke,  came  from  Rl  ode  Island,  and  was  a  pionee  settler  at  Lockport,  the  place 


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being  named  for  him.  His  mother,  whoso  maiilen  name  was  Lotitia  MfKillop,  was  horn  in  Shcl- 
hurno  county,  her  parents  being  from  Ireland.  In  liis  youth,  Samuel  had  a  limited  English 
education  i>eing  principally  selt'-tauglit ;  at  thirteen  went  to  sea:  beeamo  master  of  a  vessel  at 
nuietoen,  and  followed  a  seafaring  life  abcut  twenty  years,  being  principally  in  the  /oreign  trade. 
Since  about  18-itj,  Mr.  Locke  has  been  a  merchant  at  Lockport,  at  firet  in  the  firm  of  Samuel 
Locke  and  Brothers,  and  latterly  in  the  firm  of  Samuel  Locke  and  Sons,  theirs  being  one  of  the 
leading  mercantile  houses  in  that  village. 

Mr.  Locke  was  .sworn  in  as  a  member  of  the  Legislative  CNjuncil  on  the  5th  March,  1881, 
and  has  attended  only  part  of  one  session  in  that  body ;  hence  in  law-making  he  is  a  "  raw 
h.T.nd."  Ho  has  good  sound  son.se,  a  practical  business  turn  of  mind,  and  will  be  likely  to  do 
well.     In  politics  he  is  a  Conservative  ;  in  religion  a  Methodist. 

In  1840,  Mr.  Locke  was  joined  in  wedlock  with  Miss  Am  Crowell,  daughter  of  Freeman 
Crowell,  Hsherman  and  farmer,  of  Shelburne  county.  Tlie  issue  of  tlitir  union  being  ten  chil- 
dren, all  living  but  two.  John  and  Henry  are  in  pnrtnership  with  their  father ;  Edwin  is  an 
artist  at  Lockport ;  Frank,  a  merchant,  in  the  same  place;  Albert  is  completing  his  education  ; 
Letitia,  is  married  to  Thomas  Brown,  Yarmouth  ;  Eleanor,  to  Amasa  Fisk,  Lockport,  and  Eliza- 
beth to  Rohert  Aikens,  Yarmouth. 

Hon.  John  Locke,  who  died  a  few  j'ears  ago,  while  a  member  of  the  Senate  of  the  Dominion, 
was  a  younger  brother  of  our  subject.  He  .served  for  eight  years  in  the  Nova  Scotia  Assembly 
befoie  becoming  a  .senator,  and  for  a  while  was  in  the  executive  council  of  the  province.  Ho 
left  a  widow  and  three  children,  who  icside  at  Lockport.  He  was  a  well  informed  man,  thor- 
ough-going and  honest,  a  good  counsellor,  widely  and  very  nuich  esteemed,  his  memory  still 
being  warmly  cherished, 


AVIIXIAM    C.  I5ILL,  M.r.P., 

lilLUrOWN,  N.S. 

WILLIAM  ("(XiSWKLL  Bibb,  one  of  the  reinvsentativrs  of  King's  .ounty,  N.S.,  in  tho 
Nova  Scotia  House  of  Assembly,  was  born  at  Billtown,  townsliip  of  Cornwallis,  N.S., 
on  tho  10th  of  January,  1828.  His  father,  Caleb  K.  Bill,  was  an  extensive  land  owner,  and  a 
prominent  man  in  King's  coniity,  repn'senting  it  in  the  Legisliitive  AsseniMy  for  eiirbt  \<'ars, 
then  In  ing  appointed  tn  tin  DDUiininii  Senate,  dying  when  a  memlier  of  that  hody,  in  .lanuary, 
1871;  and  his  mother  wiis  Rebecca  Cogswell,  who  was  also  burn  in  Cornwallis,  and  whoso 
family  was  from  the  United  States.  She  died  many  years  ago.  The  villiige  of  BilltiMvn  was 
named  after  the  grandfather  of  tho  present  representative  from  that  euunty. 

Mr.  Bill  was  educated  at  Horteii  academy,  Wolfville,  and  like  his  father,  followed  farming 
until  that  parent  died.  The  homestead  farm  has  about  200  acres,  one  half  of  it  hay  land,  ami 
having  on  it  an  orchard  of  eight  or  nine  acres;  he  has  also  something  like  8,000  acres  of  land, 
held  liy  deeds  and  mortgages,  and  including  lea.ses  and  wild  lands.  Since  giving  up  farming 
.Mr.  1)111  has  attended  to  conveyancing,  which  is  now  his  leading  business. 

He  is  a  justice  of  the  peace,  which  otlice,  however,  ahsorbs  liut  little  of  his  time. 

IIo  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Assembly  by  the  biberal-Conservative  party,  on  tho  17th 
of  SeptiMidter,  1878,  and  has  attended  three  se.s.sions  of  that  liody  ;  he  is  the  author  of  an  im- 
portaiit  bill  which  passed  the  House  by  a  vote  of -J^l  tod,  liut  was  defeated  in  the  Ipper  Houso 


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by  ono  vote  ;  a  bill  to  regulate  the  school  lands  in  Cornwallis,  given  l)y  King  George,  placing 
them  in  charge  of  trustees,  and  letting  the  accruing  interests  on  proceeds  go  for  the  benefit  of 
the  schools  in  that  township. 

Mr.  Bill  is  a  <lea«on  of  the  Baptist  chui-ch  at  Billtown,  a  son  of  temperance,  a  good  templar, 
and  an  earnest  worker  for  prohibition,  both  in  Parliament  and  out  of  it ;  he  has  held  the  ottico 
of  grand  worthy  a.ssociate  of  the  grand  division  of  the  sons  of  temperance  in  Nova  Scotia,  and 
also  treasurer  of  the  same;  hi"  impulses  are  all  in  the  right  direction,  and  he  .seems  to  be  wil- 
ling to  spend  both  time  and  money  in  furthering  the  cause  of  reform  in  its  widest  range,  as  well 
as  of  religion. 

Mr.  Bill  first  man-ied  in  18.>3,  Miss  Ethlinda  A.  Dodge,  of  Wilmot,  she  dying  in  1803, 
leaving  five  children,  two  having  previously  died  in  infancy  ;  and  the  second  time  in  1804,  to 
her  younger  sister,  Arabella  A.  Dodge,  by  whom  he  lias  three  children. 


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JOII^    PUGH,   M.IM'., 

HALIFAX,  N.S. 

JOHN  Pl^GH,  a  member  of  the  Legislative  Assembly  for  Halifax,  is  descended  from  an  okl 
Irish  family,  from  the  county  of  Wicklow,  members  of  which  are  now  scattered  over  the 
world,  some  of  them  being  ([uite  prominent  politicians  in  this  and  one  or  two  of  the  southern 
States.  The  parents  of  our  subject  were  Thomas  Pugh,  merchant,  and  Ann  Byrne,  and  he  was 
born  in  Dublin,  Ireland,  in  August,  1821.  He  there  attended  school  until  1832,  when  he  went 
to  sea,  serving  an  apprenticeship  of  five  years.  He  attended  school  a  while  in  Liverpool,  ami  at 
twenty-one  years  of  age  had  command  of  a  merchant  vessel.  Captain  Pugh  had  tiade  in  many 
parts  of  the  world,  including  several  Tnited  States  ports,  Brazil,  in  South  America,  South 
Africa,  the  Kast  Indies,  China,  etc.,  the  last  twelve  years  of  sea-faring  life  being  in  West  India 
trade.  His  experiences  of  "  life  on  tin-  ocean  wave"  were  very  amusing,  and  some  of  them 
truly  perilous  and  thrilling,  and  the  incidents  of  his  life  would  make  a  very  entertaining  i)ook. 

Captain  Pugh  sailed  out  of  Halifax  fm-  sixteen  years,  and  finally,  in  1S.')7,  made  uj)  his 
mind  to  leave  the  ship,  and  take  his  chances  on  being  buried  on  the  land.  Since  that  date  ho 
has  been  in  the  mcreaiitile  business  in  Hali('ax,his  business  place  being  at  No.  32,  Bedford  row. 
He  is  of  the  firm  of  John  Pugh  and  Son,  and  they  deal  in  general  West  India  and  American 
goods,  wholesale  groceiies,  wines,  li<|Uors,  etc. 

Our  subjfct  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  iniblie  works,  under  the  Tupper  administration, 
from  l!S(J4'  to  ISO?;  is  chairman  of  the  pilot  commission,  an  office  appointeil  by  the  Dominion 
(ioverinMcnt ;  and  is  viee-chairnian  of  the  school  board  of  the  city  of  H.ilifax,  and  of  the 
Chebucto  marine  insurance  company. 

From  the  inception  of  the  idea  of  confederation  until  that  work  was  accomplished,  in  1807, 
Captain  Pugh  labored  very  hard  for  it,  giving  nmch  time,  and  all  his  energies  and  inHuenee,  in 
that  direction.  He  did  not  enter  ])ublic  life  until  1878,  when  he  wa.s  elected  to  the  local 
Parliament,  and  where  he  is  serving  his  first  term. 

In  1850,  he  was  niarriol  to  Mi.s.s  Alice  Saumlers,  of  Halifax,  and  the}-  have  two  sons  and 
three  daughters.     John  B.,  the  elder  son,  is  in  business  with  his  fatlier;  Henry  J.  is  a  miller  at 


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Mountain  City,  Manitoba,  and  the  tlirec  dauglitei-s  are  at  lionie.      The  family  aie  Roman 
Catholics. 

The  subject  of  tliis  sketch  lias  licen  in  so  many  paitn  of  tlie  world,  is  so  familiar  with  tlie 
mannei-s  .and  customs  of  so  many  nations,  and  has  such  a  valuable  store  of  kno\vled«;e  at  liis 
command,  and  is  so  eommunicntive,  that  lie  makes  his  conversation  exceedini^ly  inU-restinjjf. 
He  has  all  the  qualities  of  the  perfect  gentleman,  and  is  a  rich  entertainer  in  the  social  circle. 


WILLIAM   M.   rULLERTON,  Q.C., 

AMHERST,  N..-i. 

WILLIAM  McINTOSH  FULLERTON,  barrister  and  registrar  of  probate  for  the  county 
of  Cumberland,  is  of  Scotch  descent,  his  grandfather,  James  Fnllcrton,  coming  to  this 
province  from  the  Isle  of  Skye ;  he  was  born  in  River  Herliert,  county  of  Cumb,>rland,  on  the 
!Hh  of  Sei)tember,  1S20,  his  parents  being  William  and  Elizabeth  (PugleyJ  Fullerton ;  his  father 
is  a  native  of  this  county  ;  his  maternal  grandfather  was  an  ailheient  of  King  Ceorge  III.  during 
the  revolution  of  the  American  colonies,  residing  in  New  York. 

William  Fullerton  was  a  farmer,  and  the  son  was  enira^'ed  in  tillin';'  the  soil  until  twentv- 
five  years  of  age,  his  education,  in  his  younger  years,  being  limited  to  the  English  branches  ;  he 
studied  law  in  Amherst,  finishing  in  the  ofiice  of  Hon.  Alexamlir  MaeFarlani' ;  was  admitte<l  to 
the  bar  in  July,  IH.')."},  and  since  that  <late  has  been  in  praeticti  at  Amherst,  dning  business  in  all 
the  courts  of  the  province,  though  chiefly  in  the  supreme  court ;  he  has  ma'le  a  success  of  his 
J)rofes9ion  and  other  busini'ss. 

Mr.  Fullerton  was  appointed  registrar  of  probate  in  February,  1S51>,  and  still  holds  that 
office  ;  he  was  created  Queen's  Counsel  in  June,  l(S(i7. 

He  owns  a  steam  saw-mill  at  Athol  in  this  county ;  also  three  or  four  farms,  ami  is  |)arti- 
eularly  interested  in  agricultural  [jursuits,  as  well  as  in  the  manufacture  ci.  lumber,  and  is  doing 
n  good  work  in  aiding  to  devulup  various  industries  in  the  county. 

Mr.  Fullerton  is  a  member  of  the  Church  of  England,  and  held,  we  believe,  at  one  perioil 
the  office  of  warden  of  Ciu'ist  church,  Amherst;  he  is  a  man  of  very  kimlly  ftolings,  particu- 
larly toward^;  the  unfortunate,  and  always  stands  ready  to  help  those  who  are  trying  to  help 
themselves.     For  drones  ho  has  no  sympathy. 

He  married,  in  1.S(i:{,  Lucy  A.  Moise,  daughter  of  Silas  H.  Morse,  of  Andierst,  sister  of 
Lady  Charles  Tupper,  and  cou->in  of  Judge  Morse;  and  they  have  live  children,  three  sons  and 
two  daughters. 


JUDGE    JOIIXSOX, 

DARTMOUTH,  N.S. 

JAMES  WILLIAM  JOHNSTON,  judge  of  the  county  court  for  district,  now  county  of 
Halifax,  was  born  in  the  city  of  Halifax,  on  the  10th  day  of  .lanuary,  1824,  his  father 
the  lati'  Hon.  James  William  Johnston,  was  long  a  leading  ])()litieian  in  the  Province  of  Nova 
Scotia,  and  leader  of  the  Consersative  party  in  the  House  of  As.sembiy  beloic  llie  eonlederation 


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of  the  provinces,  and  for  some  years  previous  to  his  deatli  filled  the  office  of  judyc  in  ecpiity  in 
the  Province  of  Nova  Scotia.  His  grandfatlier  was  a  native  of  Scotland  iind  considered  himself, 
thoii;,'h  he  never  pressed  his  claim,  entitled  to  the  now  long  dormant  title  of  Manpiis  of  Annan- 
dale  ;  he  settled  in  Savannah,  Georgia,  where  he  owned  an  estate  called  Ainiaiidale.  On  the 
breaking  out  of  the  revolutionary  war  he  espoused  the  side  of  the  loyalists,  and  at  the  close  of 
the  war  returned  to  Scotland.  The  grandfather  of  the  present  Judge  Johnston  removed  to 
Kingston,  ami  the  family  subsequently  settled  in  Nova  Scotia,  wliere  the  father  of  Judge 
Johnston  married  Amelia  Elizabeth  Almon,  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Almon. 

Our  subject  giaduatedat  Acadia  college,  Wolfsville,  Nova  Scotia,  and  studied  law  with  his 
father  in  the  law  office  of  Johnston  and  Twining,  and  was  admitted  an  attorncj'  and  barrister  <  f 
the  supreme  and  other  courts  of  the  province  in  the  year  IS*")  ;  he  practised  his  jjrofession  in 
Halifax,  and  in  1873  was  appointed  by  the  Dominion  government  Queen's  Counsel  for  tlie 
Province  of  Nova  Scotia.  He  was  appointed  one  of  the  ml  hoc  judges  to  try  Dominion  con- 
tested elections,  and  in  L(S73  received  his  commis.sion  .<isjudge  of  the  county  court. 

In  the  year  ISIO,  Judge  Johnston  married  Katharine  Preacott  Fairbanks,  daughter  of  the 
late  Hon.  John  F]leazer  Fairbanks,  of  Woodside,  Dartmouth,  by  whom  he  had  nine  children, 
four  of  whom  are  dead  ;  his  eldest  .son,  Preseott  Johnston,  is  the  manager  of  a  coal  mine  in 
Cape  Breton,  and  his  other  son,  Arthur  Clement  Johnston,  is  accountant  and  book-keeper  in 
the  Dominion  Savings  Kank,  at  Halifax.  Judge  Johnston  has  one  daughter,  Edith  Hlagden, 
married  to  Frederick  Hamilton,  chief  electrician  on  board  the  cable  steamship  M'ninir,  his 
otlii'r  (laughters  Amelia  Elizabeth  and  Mary  Kate,  are  still  at  home. 

.hidge  Johnston  is  a  Freemason  and  past  master;  he  is  also  deacon  of  the  Baptist  churcli 
in  Dartmouth. 


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YARMOUTH,  N.S. 

THK  siibjoct  of  this  notice  was  born  at  Cheboguo,  on  the  3rd  Decendjcr,  181(5,  and  was  there- 
fore in  the  li-tth  j'ear  of  his  age  at  the  time  of  his  death,  SeptiMuber,  1 880.  On  both  .sides  of 
the  family  he  came  of  the  grand  old  Puritan  stock ;  his  mother,  indeed,  was  a  native  of  Plymouth, 
Mass.^  the  original  landing-place  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers— and  to  the  fact  of  his  Puritan  ancestry, 
we  readily  trace  the  salient  points  of  his  character.  Coming  of  such  an  ancestry,  burn  of  God- 
fearing j)arents,and  trained  by  them  from  earliest  youth  in  the  careful  manner, which  was  the  fash- 
ion of  the  time,  we  feel  at  no  lo.ss  to  account  ft)r  the  deep  religious  convictions  that  through  after 
life  C()nstituted  an  innate  principle  of  his  moral  being.  Circumstances  led  him,  in  conunon  with 
most  of  his  young  conipeei"s,  to  choo.se  a  .';eafaring  life,  which  he  contiimed  to  follow  until  his 
settlement  in  Yarmouth,  some  time  previous  to  the  year  1848.  In  that  year  was  organized  the 
Congregatii>nal  society,  now  worshijiping  in  the  Tabernacle.  It  was  an  era — so  to  sjK'ak — in 
Captain  (."lements'  existence.  Sympathizing  in  all  lespects  with  the  aims  and  views  of  the  in-- 
fant  .so<;iety,  of  which  the  Rev.  Freilerick  Tompkins  was  at  that  time  pastor,  he  threw  liimself 
with  lieart  and  soul  into  all  its  movements.  It  was  without  a  i>lace  of  worship  ;  he  caused  a 
hall  to  be  fitted  up,  in  the  second  story  of  his  place  of  business,  for  its  temporary  occupation — 
and  in  tiiis  primitivi'  apartment,  known  to  the  bygone  generation  as  Pinitan  hall,  the  sabbath- 
day  and  weekly  services  of  the  church  continued  to  be  hcM  until  the  opening  of  the  Taberna- 


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cle,  in  18.')3.  The  corner-stono  of  tliat  eilifice  was  laid  in  1S40  ;  and  here  it  may  he  reniarkLMl, 
that  talvinjf  into  consideration  the  numerical  weakness  of  tlic  society,  and  the  fact  tliat  no  one 
in  V'armouth  was  at  the  time  particularly  rich  in  this  world's  goods,  the  undertaking  was  in 
truth  a  most  formidable  one.  The  men  who  constituted  the  society,  however,  did  not  think  so 
— least  of  all  did  Captain  Clements — and  under  his  energetic  management  the  work  of  build- 
ing wi'nt  steadily  forward  to  completion,  and  the  sacred  edifice  was  at  last  opened  for  divine 
woi-ship.  This  auspicious  result,  however  was  not  accomplished  without  a  heavy  strain  on  the 
pecuniary  resources  of  the  leading  members  of  the  society;  and  as  one  of  these  ('apt.  Clements 
was  at  all  times  ready  to  bear — and  did  bear — far  more  than  his  proportionate  share  of  the  bur- 
den. The  liberality  thus  early  manifested  by  him  has  ever  since  continued  to  characterize  al- 
most his  eveiy  act  in  connection  with  the  church  and  its  various  enterprises.  It  would  lead  us 
too  far  to  enumerate  the  particular  instances  in  which  this  has  been  the  case ;  but  we  may  men- 
tion that  in  the  spring  of  18G9  a  claim  of  82,500  held  by  him  against  the  society  for  moneys 
advanced  in  furtherance  of  its  objects,  was  voluntarily  and  cheerfully  relinciuished  by  him,  and 
the  debt  cancelled. 

In  no  degree  le.ss  remarkable  and  noteworthy  were  his  efforts  and  sacrifices  in  behalf  of  the 
cause  of  superior  education.  In  1803,  when  a  series  of  su^-cessful  commercial  ventures  had 
given  him  the  control  of  great  wealth,  he  conceived  the  idea  of  founding  in  this  town  an  insti- 
tution of  high  etliciency — almost  collegiate,  indeed,  in  its  character — and  out  of  that  idea  grew 
tlu>  Yarmouth  seminary.  The  spacious  grounds  on  which  that  noble  edifice  is  built  were  the 
joint  gift  of  Captain  Cle*  onts  and  the  late  George  Killam,  Esq.,  and  the  deed  of  cimveyance, 
which  lies  before  us  as  we  write,  is  an  enduring  monument  of  the  unselfish  generosity,  enlarged 
public  .spirit,  and  wise  provision  of  the  donors.  There  were  at  that  time  no  free  public  schools 
in  Nova  Scotia,  nor  was  there  any  apparent  probability  of  their  being  provided  by  statute. 
The  absence  of  such  schools  had  long  been  a  source  of  regret  to  men  of  enlightened  views  ;  and 
in  the  deed  of  conveyance  above  referred  to,  besides  due  stipulation  for  the  advanced  and  clas- 
sical dejiartments  as  now  existing,  provision  is  made  for  a  Free  Pnmnr>j  School,  to  be  open  to 
the  youth  of  the  school  district  in  which  the  .seminary  is  situated.  Capt.  Clements'  eft'orts  in 
behalf  of  the  seminary  did  not  end  here ;  his  gift  of  land  for  it  was  generously  supplen)ented  by  a 
subscription  of  81,000  in  aid  of  the  building  fund.  The  onerous  duty  of  procui'ing  plans,  en- 
gaging a  competent  architect,  and  looking  after  the  carrying  forward  of  the  work  of  construction 
was  by  tacit  consent  assigned  to  him.  That  duty  he  faithfully  performed.  The  edifice — a  struc- 
ture of  harmonious  and  beautiful  proportions — tells  its  own  story  of  the  good  taste  and  sound 
judgment  evinced  in  the  selection  of  suitable  pi  ins.  The  energy  which  pushed  forward  tlu' 
work  to  speedy  completion,  we  all  know  something  about.  Of  the  courageous  wrestling  with 
financial  dilHculties  which  ensured  its  steady  progress,  few  have  any  idea  whatever.  The  aggre- 
gate donations  of  Captain  Clements  to  this  institution  amount  to  thirteen  thousand  doll((r><. 

The  business  entorpri.se  in  connection  with  which  Capttiin  Clements  was  best  known,  here 
and  abroad,  was  the  .steamship  line  called  after  his  name,  and  plying  alternately  between  Yar- 
mouth, St.  John  and  Boston — an  enterprise,  the  inception  ami  maintenance  of  which  were  whollj- 
due  to  his  public  spirit,  far-sighted  sagacity,  and  indomitable  perseverance.  Yarmouth  capital- 
ists had  tried  the  experiment  of  steam  connnunication  with  Boston  before,  having  in  18'),')  pur- 
cha.scd  the  Eaxtcrn  Slate,  ai»d  continued  to  run  her  until  the  first  year  of  the  American  civil 
war,  when  they  became  discouraged  and  sold  her  to  the  United  States  government.  For  four 
yeai*s  thereafter  the  business  intercourse  between  Yarmouth  and  Boston  was  carried  on  by 
means  of  sailing  packets.     In  180.5  Captain  Clements  actively  exerted  himself  to  put  an  end  to 


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this  condition  of  things,  and  in  tho  spring  of  that  year  he,  in  ronjiinction  with  Boston  capit»»l- 
ists,  put  a  pionoi-r  stoamor  on  the  line  between  St.  John,  Yarinoutli  and  Boston.  Tiiis  steamer 
— the  P<ilnii/rn — unfortiumti^ly  got  ngioiimi  on  oni;  of  her  trips,  and  this  cireinnstance  so  dis- 
couraged the  lioston  owners,  that  they  refused  to  permit  her  to  continue  on  tlie  route.  Notliing 
daunted.  Captain  Cienients  went  at  onee  to  New  Vork,  where  (in  ISOO)  he  purcha.sed  34-G+ths 
of  the  steanisliip  Lnuhi — tlie  renniining  intere.st  being  lield  by  New  Yori<  parties.  He  .subso- 
(juently  sueceedetl  in  procuiing  tlie  organization  of  the  Yarmouth  and  Boston  Steam  Naviga- 
tion Co.  (being  himself,  luiwever,  the  principal  stockholder),  and  tho  l/imJn  was  run  by  this  cor- 
poration until,  in  the  autumn  of  LS71,  she  unfortunately  went  ashore  at  High  Head.  Without 
tho  loss  of  an  unnecessary  day,  Caj>tain  Clements  immediately  replaced  her  by  the  purchase,  in 
St.  John,  of  the  .steamer  Emperor.  The  new  boat  undi'rwent  extensive  alterations  and  improve- 
ments during  the  ensuing  winter;  but  she  made  only  two  tii|)s  after  resinning  her  place  on  the 
route,  being  lust  (in  May,  1M7-J  near  Matinieiis  llocks,  on  the  coast  of  .Maine.  Capt.  Clements 
then  turned  his  attention  to  the  work  of  launching  tin;  Liiuhi  from  the  position  in  which  she 
had  lain  at  High  Head,  and  after  iei)eated  failures  and  a  heavy  outbi}-  was  successful.  The 
steamer  was  brought  to  \'aiiiinuth,  thoroughly  repaired  and  streiigtheiuMl,  and  placed  onee  more 
on  her  routi',  her  name  having  meantime  been  changed  to  the  Douilnioa.  After  the  death,  \\y 
drowning,  of  Captain  Leary,  of  St.  John,  who  eommanded  tho  steamer  (in  May,  1874),  Captain 
Clements  took  command  of  her  and  run  her  must  successfully — arriving  and  departing  in  all 
sorts  of  weather  with  clock-like  rt'niilarity. 

Captiiin  Clements  was  at  ail  times  a  zealous  advocate  of  maiiufactuiing  enterprises.  The 
.ship-owning  business,  he  contended,  enriched  only  the  few,  without  benetiting  the  many,  ex- 
cept in  an  inap|ircciable  degree  ;  the  manufacturing  enterprises,  on  the  other  hand,  would  be 
more  direct  and  ditl'usive  in  its  beiU'tits,  and  mure  pnwerfullv  etheient  in  promoting  the  material 
welfare  of  the  community.  He  tried,  in  i.S(i7,  to  interest  uur  people  in  a  cuttuii  manufactory, 
and  had  the  rccpiisitL'  i)lans  and  surveys  made  at  great  expense;  but  tho  shipowning  idea  being 
at  the  time  too  firmly  imbedded  in  tho  i)()pular  mind,  and  the  undertaking  too  gigantic  for  indi- 
vidual enterprise,  he  reliiuiuished  bis  elfuits  in  that  direction.  J)iiring  the  winter  of  liS71t-'^0, 
however,  lengthy  conferences  on  the  subject,  between  him  and  several  of  our  wealthy  citizens, 
took  place;  and  the  prubability  then  was,  that  in  the  cuurse  of  the  ensuing  season  the  project 
would  take  practical  form,  and  a  company  (iii  which  Boston  ami  St.  John  capitalists  would  take 
part)  be  organized  here  for  the  |iurj)ose  of  starting  a  cuttun  manufactory. 

He  had  for  some  time  had  in  .seriuus  contemplatiuii  the  erection  of  a  woollen  factory  at 
Darling's  lake,  the  plans  for  whieli  were  already  com|)li'ted  and  the  .surveys  made;  and  had  he 
lived,  the  work  would  no  doubt  have  been  uiiderlaki'ii  by  him  as  n  private  enterpri.se  during 
the  ensuing  winter. 

Ca[)tain  Clements  was  always  a  zealous  "  railway  man."  When  in  1 8.V}  the  Liberal  govern- 
ment adopted  the  policy  by  which  alone  I'ailway  construction  in  this  Proviiiee  was  po.ssiblc,  and 
commenced  operations  on  the  first  section  of  the  Halifax  and  Windsr)r  line,  he  warmly  sup- 
ported it  because  of  that  policy,  at  a  time  when  the  whole  current  of  local  popular  sentiment 
was  running  in  the  opposite  direction.  The  first  serious  efforts  towards  (obtaining  for  Yarnn)utli 
railway  cuiinectifin  with  Annapolis,  was  made  by  him  in  the  autumn  of  I.SG8,  when  ho  i)ersist- 
ently  brought  the  matter  home  to  the  attention  of  both  the  local  and  general  governments,  and 
.so  impressed  the  idea  on  the  i)ublic  mind  in  this  community  that  it  never  after  lo.st  its  hold 
until  the  project  assumed  a  practical  shape. 


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Til  |)(ilitit's  Captain  I'lcnu'iits  was  a  zealous  Lil>i!rftl,an<l  an  anloiitailinircrol'JoHopli  Howe. 
Wlicn  tlu'  CdiifiHli'iiitioii  sclii'nio  was  niootcil,  in  l.Sfit,  lie,  innionilii'iinj^  wliat  tlio  union  of  tlio 
Vnitcil  States  liail  dimt'  lor  tiiat  country,  ami  liclicvinj^  tliat  a  lii<e  policy  woulil  Im  pi'oductivo 
of  similar  results  if  appliml  to  these  provinces,  j^ave  iiis  hearty  su])port  to  the  movement,  and 
lias  since  steadfastly  a<lliered  to  the  party  with  which  he  then  found  himself  in  alliance.  After 
the  death  of  Mr.  Killam,  in  l8t!.S,  Captain  (,'Ienients  liecame  a  (candidate  for  the  vacant  seat  in 
tilt!  House  of  ( 'unnnons,  lielievin;;  that  if  (dected  he  would  he  in  a  hetter  position  to  conmuirnl 
from  the  (ioverinnent  the  desired  aid  towards  the  construction  of  the  railway.  In  the  then  ex- 
asperated state  uf  public  feelin;.^  towaiils  everytliinj^  "  Canadian,"  it  was  not  po.s.sihle  that  any 
cantlidate  on  that  side  could  he  successful,  hut  Captain  (^Icnvnts'  (,'reat  personal  popularity  did 
nevertheless  sutlice  to  secure  for  him  a  handsome  vote. 

Till!  YiirniiHilh  Tr'ihn nc  thus  refers  to  his  death  : 

With  fi('liiit,'8  <pf  11(1  (inliiiiiry  siirniw  foclintis  in  whicli  mii'  ri'iidiM'n  i^cncnilly  will  siiaru  -wo  reonril  tlio 
ilonlli  of  our  towiiHiimn,  N.  K.  ('U'liieiitH,  V.>>i[.,  which  ocoiirreil  ut  his  ri'Kidoucn  on  I'lirmlo  atroot,  shurtly  iifti^r 
six  o'clock  on  Satuiihiy  I'vcnin;^.  In  Iho  (leiiiise  of  Mr.  ('li!iii  'iit.s  -or  ('aiitiiin  ('hiiiicnts,  uh  lie  was  fiiiniliiirly 
oalluil — it  is  not  too  niiuh  to  Niiy  that  Yarmouth  has  8iistaini!il  a  Iosh  which  cannot,  or  at  all  i'Vcnt»  will  not,  hn 
rt'paireil  (luring  the  lifcliiuo  of  the  proscnt  generation.  There  iH  hardly  a  deiiartnieiit  of  oiir  outward  life— ro- 
liyious,  eiluealional,  or  coniiiiercial  which  will  not  ini.ss  the  sliinuliisof  his  woiidi^rfnl  enerj^y,  and  tho  fo.stiM'inj; 
aid  of  his  slill  more  wonderful  lilierality.  Me  was  the  life  and  soul  the  leidini^  .spirit  of  the  reliijioiis  ori^an- 
izatioii  with  which  he  was  connected  ;  the  fonmler  and  inunilicent  iiatron  of  tho  iiohle  seminary  of  which  wo  all 
feel  so  proud  ;  the  promoter,  and  for  years  the  solo  proprietor,  of  tho  etlicieiit  steaiiishiii  line  which  lias  done  so 
much  to  huild  up  tlu^  trade  and  further  tho  interests  of  our  port.  His  onthusiastie  ailvocacy  it  was  which  forced 
the  suhject  of  a  local  railway  upon  the  attention  of  holli  tlic;  provincial  and  ^{eneral  j^DVeriiments,  ami  made  tho 
project  feasihie  ;  and  his  too  was  the  clear-eyeil  aanacity  wliicli  loii'.^  a!{o  foresaw  the  consei|uences  to  our  capital- 
ists of  ni:ikint<  an  idol  of  their  slii[ipiu^,  and  piintiMl  cuit  to  them,  mi  every  tittin;.^  occasion,  th;it  thnm;.,'li  the 
ustahlishmeiit  of  manufaotnriiii{  enterprises  lay  their  surest  road  to  |iros|)crity.  When  such  a  man,  in  the  niys- 
tenons  providiuico  of  (iod,  '\a  called  away  from  tho  activities  of  life,  to  minglo  with 

'  tlie  celd  sliailow.s  which  cliviili! 
The  liviiii;  from  the  dreau   inkiiown,' 

we  instinctively  feel  that  respect  for  the  honm'ed  dead  domands  at  our  hands  somethini.,'  more  than  a  mere  casual 
notice.  It  is  not  easy  within  the  com|pass  of  a  news[)aper  article  to  do  full  justice  to  tho  character  of  t'aptain 
("leiiieiits,  or  to  dwell  upon  Ins  sterlinji;  virtues  ami  countless  ;{ood  deeds  wiihoiit  seemiiij;  to  indulgo  in  the  laii- 
f,'uaij;e  of  extrava','.iiit  eulo,>y  -than  which  nothing  can  he  farther  from  our  imrpose,  feeling  iUi  we  do  that  in  this 
case  the  sim|)le  recit.il  of  the  truth  is  the  iiohlest  encomium  in  our  power  to  pronounce. 

Space  would  fail  us  were  we  to  attempt  an  an  ilysis  of  the  diameter  of  our  dep.irlo  I  frieml.  An  eiiiiii- 
oiitly  niiselti.sli,  a  just  and  a  lii-nerous  man -a  warm-hearted  frieml,  a  public-spirited  citizen,  and  a  consistent 
("hriatian,  his  death  is  an  irreparaiilo  loss  to  the  com'uiinitv  of  which  ho  w.n  a  ^'cnerons  henef.ictor,  ami  tho 
church  1  f  which  he  was  a  worthy  and  honore.l  m 'inlier.  Kir  his  hureaved  f.imily  we  have  no  adeipiate  lan  • 
KUagc  in  which  to  ex[)ress  our  sympathy—  a  fceliuL;  which  we  aro  sure  we  share  with  the  great  ho  ly  of  our  towns- 
mou. 


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REV.   JOXATJIAX    11.    I'.OKJJEN, 

SlIt'LUUHNK,  N.S. 

JONATHAN  RAN'I)  MURDKN,  jiastor  of  tho  Methodist  church,  Shelhiirne,  is  a  ^neat-j,nand- 
son  of  Perr}'  licirilen,  who  came  to  Nova  Scotia  from  Fall  River,  Mass.,  and  was  one  of  the 
loO  inunigrants  who  took  up  the  <,'rantof  the  township  of  Cornwallis,  Kinj^'s  comity,  soon  after 
the  expulsion  of  the  Acadians ;  ami  he  was  born  there  on  the  17th  of  March,  IH.'Ki.  His  parents 
were  William  and  Rebecca  (Rand)  Rorden,  members  of  the  ajjriculttu'al  ela.ss,  thi;  Rands  beinif 
also  aniony  the  j,'rantees  of  Cornwallis.  The  father  of  Perry  Rorden  was  the  oovernment  sui- 
veyor,  and  smveyed  the  townshii)  of  Cornwallis,  and  portions  of  Ihints  county,  and,  leaving' 
his  son  in  Nova  Sctjtia,  rettnned  to  the  l'nite<l  States. 


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THH  ( '.{ AM  />/.i  ,v  nioaii'A  rmcA  i.  dictwsah  y. 


Onr  sulijoft  ivccivi'il  most  of  his  eilucation  at  the  Tniro  normal  school,  ami  tho  Sackvillo 
acndoiii}',  an<l  was  eiiyaj^eil  for  scvi-nil  years  in  teaching,'  district  schools  at  (.'ornwallis,  llorton, 
ami  in  Hants   county,  ami  finally  om;  year  in  tho  Sackvillo  acatlemy. 

Durinjf  this  jx'riod  of  his  life,  Mr.  Bonicn  gave  monujr  less  of  his  leisure  time  to  the  study 
of  theoloL,'y,  |irejiarinj^  for  the  ministry,  f;"''"o  '•"  ^''"  I'ircuit  in  June,  1870.  Ho  was  pastor  for 
two  years  of  the  Methodist  church  at  Margaret's  Hay;  three  years  each  at  Port  I^a  Tour  and 
Ciuyshorough,  and  has  heen  three  years  at  Shelbunie.  During  his  pantorato  at  most  of  these 
|)laccs,  tlu"  church,  of  which  he  had  the  eluirge,  was  favored  with  a  healthy  growth.  Mi'.  Horden 
is  a  elear-henilod  thinker,  and  a  logical  preacher — of  warm  feelings,  yet  appealing  to  the  reason 
rather  than  the  passions  of  his  hearers.  Nobody  can  listen  to  his  [)idpit  oHorts  without  beiny 
instructed. 

During  most  of  the  time  since  entering  tho  ministry,  Mr.  Borden  has  been  the  annual  re- 
porter of  the  Nova  Scotia  conference;  ami  he  has  done  moi'o  or  less  writing  for  tho  j)re.s.s,  but 
nothing,  we  pri'sumo,  which,  in  his  modesty,  he  wotdd  doom  of  .sutKcient  importance  to  bi^  par- 
licularised.  He  is  an  earnest  advocate  of  tempeiance,  and  seems  to  bo  always  ready  to  plead 
in  public  for  that  noble  cause,  as  well  as  for  reformatory  enterprises  generally.  For  tho  last 
six  years,  ho  has  been  a  meud)er  of  the  boai'tl  of  school  commissioners,  and  cheerfidly  gives  a 
portion  of  his  time  to  help  forward  the  cause  of  education. 

His  wife  is  Mary  Klizabeth,  daiightei-  of  Deacon  Joshua  Kllis,  of  Cornwallis,  thoir  marriayo 
being  dated  June  18,  1807.     They  have  three  children. 


11: 


nOX.  EJ)WARD   FAREELL,  M.J)., 

HALIFAX,  N.S. 

EDWARD  FARRKLL,  professor  of  surgery  in  the  Halifax  school  of  medicine,  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Nova  Scotia  medical  .society,  was  born  at  Dartmouth,  N.S.,  on  the  i')th  of 
Sei>teiid)er,  184:2,  he  being  the  second  .son  of  Dominick  Farrell,  junior,  who  settled  in  this 
l>rovince  in  LSIli),  and  grand.son  of  Dominick  Farrell,  .senior,  lA'  \V;itiit'..r  i  Iivland.  The  latter 
was  an  otticer  in  the  Irish  brigade  of  Franco,  and  other  i  family  hold  commis- 

sions in  the  British  army,  and  one  was  a  judge  in   Ceyl'  '  h,  r  of  Edward  Farrell, 

before  her  marriage,  was  Mary  Gorman,  a  nati\  '  md.        le  was  educated  in  the 

arts  at  St.  Mary's  college,  Halifax,  receiving  the  ee  of  A        a  l8i    ■ ;  and  in  medicine  at  the 

college  of  physicians  and  surgeons.  New  York,  i  ing  grailuateJ  M.D.  in  LSUl';  and  sub.se- 
(piently,  for  two  years,  was  a.ssistant  s>n-geon  and  house  s'  igeon  at  Hellevue  hos[tital,  in  the 
same  city. 

Dr.  Farrell  settled  in  Halifax  in  18(17,  ami  sooti  built  up  a  good  practice.  has  bot^i 

professor  of  surgery  in  the  Halifax  school  of  medicine  since  that  institution  v-  into  oper- 
ation; is  also  surgeon  to  the  provincial  and  city  ho.spital,  and  president  of  tl  N>>va  Scotia 
me<lical  society,  and  has  boon  one  of  the  coronci-s  for  the  county  of  Halifax,  ami  jn-esidont 

of  tho  Halifax  comity  meilical  societ}'. 

In  1871',  Dr.  Farrell  was  elected  one  of  tho  mombei-s  of  tho  local  legislature  for  tin,'  county 
of  Halifax  ;  an<l  during  the  last  se.s.sion  of  his  term  of  ofticc  in  that  body,  was  a  member  of  tlm 


Tllh:  CAXADIAS  liloanM'JlK  AL  VlVTntXAh'V. 


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I'Xt'oiitivo  council,      lli.s  pqlities  are   Lilxjial,  anil  ho  gave  hoaity  suiipuit  to  tliu  Mnck«>ii/iu 
acliiiiiiistmtioii  wliilo  it  was  in  power. 

I'roffssor  Fni'it'll  was  niairii'il  in  Jnno,  1870,  to  Mary,  daiif,'htor  of  Tlionias  Walsli,  of 
Halifax,  ami  tlicy  liave  seven  eliilijiiMi.  Tlu'  family  arc  nK'niU'ls  of  tlic  Konian  I'athoiic 
( 'luux'Ii, 


CllAJiLES    M.    FOKIJES, 

ANNAPOLia,  N.tt. 


CHARLES  MILLER  F(  )RBES,  ivslstrar  of  probate  for  the  county  of  Annapolis,  is  a  son  of 
Donald  ami  Sopliia  (Milli'r)  Forlies,  nienihers  of  the  fanninj,'  oonununity,  and  was  horn 
in  Nairn,  Scotland,  on  tlie  UOth  of  June,  1811.  lie  had  a  liheral  education  in  his  country,  and 
there  taught  in  families  and  in  public  hcIiooIh  until  18fJS,  when  ho  camo  to  Nova  Scotia,  and 
tauglit  a  <j;rammar  nchool  at  Antigonish  until  18.'1!),  at  whicii  date  \w  .settled  in  Anna|)olis, 
brinji;ing  with  him  iiis  young  bride,  Marj^'aret  Mudie,  whom  he  had  married  at  Antii,n)nish  on 
the  l-tth  of  February  of  that  year.  She  is  a  native  of  this  province,  her  parents  being  from 
Scotland. 

Mr.  Forbes  was  at  the  head  of  the  Annapolis  Royal  academy  for  about  a  dozen  years,  after 
which  lio  kept  a  kuuiII  store  nearly  the  same  length  of  time,  and  was  then  ajipointed  registrar 
of  probate,  an  ottico  which  ho  still  holds,  much  to  the  satisfaction  of  tlie  people,  for  ho  is  always 
at  his  post,  and  promjit  and  careful  in  oftieial  business. 

.Mr.  Forbes  has  been  a  member  of  the  local  school  board  for  a  long  time,  and,  as  the  reader 
might  infer,  is  a  warm  friend  of  education,  but  has  not  alwa3's  been  in  accord  with  the  methods 
put  foith  to  advance  that  cause,  and  latterly  has  rarely  met  with  the  board. 

He  is  a  momVior  of  the  Presbyterian  church ;  has  been  an  older  of  the  .same  for  some  years, 
and  ha.s  long  endcavoni!  to  faithfully  till  his  place  among  Chvi.stian  workers.  His  eliaracter  in 
without  a  blemish,  and  ho  has  the  high  respect  of  people  who  know  him  best. 


DUNCAN    CAAIPHELL,   M.D.,   ^l.IM\, 

roiiT  HOOD,  y.i^. 

THE  subject  of  tliis  biographical  notice,  one  of  the  membcr.s  of  the  Nova  Scotia  Hou.se  of 
Assembly  for  the  county  of  Inverness,  is  a  son  of  Sanniel  Campbell,  formerly  a  merchaiit, 
aii'l  now  a  farmer,  and  wa.s  born  at  Margaree  Forks,  in  that  county,  in  18-t.").  His  mother  was 
Ann  McDonald,  a  native  of  this  province,  her  parents  or  grandparents  being  from  Scotland. 
He  obtained  his  literary  education  in  his  native  township,  and  his  medical  at  Harvard  univer- 
sity, Cambridge,  Ma.ss.,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.I),  in  18(59. 

Dr,  r'ampbell  i)ra(tised  a  very  short  time  at  Port  Hastings,  and  then  .settled  at  Port  Hood, 
his  present  home,  where  he  is  having  a  liberal  liusiness,  I  oth  medical  and  surgical,  for  a  place 
like  that.     He  look  much  pains  to  educate  himself  for  his  profession,  and  for  a  man  of  his  ago 

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stands  liiuli  amoiit;  the  nu'tlical  fratt'rnity.     He  has  a  half  interest  hi  a  mercantile  house 
nmnajxod  l>y  his  hrothcc. 

The  doctor  is  a  justice  of  the  peace,  school  connnissioiiei',  eonimissioncr  for  taking  adidavitj*, 
and  coroner  and  health  ottieer  for  Inverness,  and  held  for  a  few  years  the  post  of  emigrant 
agent.  When,  in  1.S72,  Samuel  McDonald  resigned  his  seat  in  the  Ifonse  of  Assembly  to  run 
for  the  House  of  Commons,  our  subject  was  elected  to  fill  the  vacated  seat,  and  was  re-elected  at 
the  general  elections  held  in  \^~^i  and  1878.  His  politics  are  Liberal.  In  tlie  legislature  he 
is  serving  on  the  committees  on  humane  institutions  (of  which  he  is  chairman),  law  amend- 
ments, and  education.  Dr.  Campbell  is  a  fluent  speaker,  but  rarely  occupie..  much  time.  He 
goes  to  the  pith  of  the  matter  at  once,  and  stops  when  he  has  exhausted  his  subject — never  ex- 
hausting himself. 

He  is  a  Roman  Catholic — the  faith  of  his  ancestors  as  far  back  as  the  family  can  be  traced. 

Tu  February,  18.')-1,  Dr.  Campbell  married  Klizabeth,  daughter  of  Hon.  Peter  Smyth, 
deceased,  of  Port  Hood,  formerly  a  member  of  the  Legislative  Council  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  they 
lust  their  ehlest  and  only  son,  and  have  three  daughters  living. 


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Ri:V.   moMAS    II.    WIllTK,  D.D., 

SUEI.IiVUNK,  N.S. 

THOMAS  HOWLANDWHITK,  rector  of  Slu-lburne  .since  1885,  is  a  deseendant.in  the 
fifth  gciieratio'i.  from  I'l  regriui'  White,  the  first  white  child  born  in  New  Kngland.  and 
dates  his  liirth  at  Shciburne.  on  the  :22nd  of  .March,  isOti.  He  lives  in  the  same  house  in  which 
his  father,  ('apt.  (iideon  W'liite,  was  married  to  Delxirah  Whitwoith,  and  in  which  the  son  was 
born.  ( '.iiitain  White  was  a  loyalist  during  the  American  revolution,  and  had  command  of  a 
company  in  flie  4th,  or  Duke  of  Cumberlan<l  regiment  ;  anil  his  wife,  who  was  a  daughter  of 
J)r.  Miles  Whitworth,  of  iJoston,  and  fifteen  years  old  in  177"),  witnessed  from  the  top  of  her 
father's  house,  the  battle  of  I'.unker  Hill.  During  lliat  engageiuent  an  otKcer  entered  the  house, 
and  oi'dered  her  to  lie  ln'ouglit  down,  iis  she  was  a  niaik  for  the  eneni}'. 

It  was  throngli  the  in- Irunieiitality  of  ('ajitain  White  that  Shelbnine  was  selected  as  a 
]ilace  for  settlement  of  a  very  large  body  of  loyalists  ;  our  sul  jeet  hav  ing  in  his  possession  the 
letters  to  Ca])tain  White  in  regard  to  that   matter;   be  has  also  the  coat  of  arms  of  the  White 


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lUght  over  in  the  Mat/  Fhxirr,  the  writing;-  1 


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a  Ciievroii  lietween  three  lioars"  Heads,  Coupe  dWigent,  Armed  Or,"  lb;  has  likewise  the  coat 
of  aims  of  the  HowlamI  family  :  'lb'  l>eareth  Salih's,  Two  Hais  Argent,  on  a  Chief  of  the 
Seconil,  Tiiree  I, ions  Rampant,  of  the  Kiist,  and  foi-  his  Crest  on  a  Wrt'ath  of  liis  (Colors,  a 
Lion  l'a.s,sant  Sable." 

According  to  the  aiiangements  made  by  Captain  White,  two  fleets  were  sent  out  to  Shci- 
burne in  l"''*'^,  the  year  that  peace  was  declared  between  the  I'niled  Stntes  andtireat  liritain, 
oiH'  in  Mr;,',tl  other  in  Si']ilendier ;  the  aggregate  of  passengers  lieing  several  thousand. 
Sul>se(Hiently  o.ters  were  made  to  those  who,  on  certain  conditions,  would  return  to  the  I'nited 
States,  within  a  given  time  specilied,  shouhl  have  their  confiscated  pioperty  restorcil  to  them, 
and  some  wi'iit  back  ;  others  stiayed  off  to  other  parts  cjf  the  provjnci^  and  to  other  parts  of  the 


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world;  and  tlie  population  rapidly  dwindled  away.      The  village  of  Sholburiie  has  not,  at  this 
time,  more  than  ],')()0  inhaliitants. 

Capt.  White  settled  in  Shellninie  in  17H+  or  17^-'),  and  was  eustos  of  the  county  and  judge 
of  prolmte  until  his  death,  in  lh;};{;  his  wife  died  in  ISIU. 

Our  suliject  was  educated  at  King's  college,  Windsor,  N.  S.  ;  ordained  deacon  at  Halit'av, 
on  Trinity  Sunday,  June,  18-2!),  and  priest  in  I8:U),  hy  the  Ht.  lli'v.  -lohi;  Inglis,  D  !).,  lVLsho|)  of 
Nova  Scotia,  the  services  taking  jilace  at  Windsor.  Mr.  White  wi\s  sent  as  a  missiomiry  to  An- 
tigoni.sli,  where  he  labored  for  six  years,  and  in  December,  IS.'?,'),  became  rector  of  Slielbunie. 
when  this  parish  had  about  sixty  connuunicants.  It  now  has  more  than  one  hundred  and  sev- 
enty. Since  settling  here  our  subject  has  bai)tized  about  3,000  pei-sons,  married  at  least  000 
couples,  and  buried  more  than  700  peojjle. 

He  has  been  a  conunissioner  of  schools  for  fifty  years  or  more,  and  chairman  of  the  board 
at  Shelburne  for  ujjwards  of  forty  years,  he  always  taking  a  great  iiiterest  in  educational  mat- 
ters, and  aiding  all  he  coukl  to  help  forward  that  cause. 

He  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from  King's  colk'ge,  Windsor,  in  lN(j(!  ;  and 
was  made  rural  dean  the  same  year. 

Dr.  White  was  married  on  the  inA  of  Noveudier,  1831,  to  Cornelia  Ogden,  daughter  of 
Ik.'njainin  Ogden  of  Antigonish,  formerly  of  New  York,  and  an  officer  in  the  liritisli  army  at 
the  tinu- of  the  revolt  of  the  American  colonies.  She  died  in  Sliell>urne,  1n7-'),  Ii'aving  two 
diiidren,  a  son  and  a  ilaughtor.  The  former,  Nathaniel  Wbitworth,  sketclied  elsewhere  in  tliis 
volume,  represents  Shelbiuiie  in  tlte  local  parliament,  and  is  a  meudier  of  tlie  govermiieiit.  'i'be 
daughter  lives  with  her  father. 

Dr.  White  is  seventy-five  yei'rs  old  and  has  been  a  Chi'istian  minister  foi-  tlfty-two  yeai-s, 
Jind  a  very  faithful  servant  of  his  Master;  he  is  very  social  and  cordial  in  his  ilisposition,  with 
clear  and  strong  mental  faculties,  and  comnnniicative  habits  ;  and  having  great  stores  of  know- 
ledge, his  conversation  is  usually  very  entertaining  and  instructive.  The  tra\ fler  would  have 
to  go  a  long  way  to  find  a  better  companion  in  the  social  ciri'le. 


KDWAUl)    ViClvKIiV,    M.IM'., 

PA  It  RS  no  Hi)',  K.S. 

AMoNti  tht  men  \\]iii  do  more  tliinking  tlian  talking  in  tlie  Nova  Scotia  House  of  .\sseiii- 
blv,  is  the  niemlier  whose  n.inn'  heads  this  sketch,  and  who  lias  lieen  a  sucei  ssful  eauili- 
date  for  the  county  of  <  'muberland  at  three  successive  elections.  He  is  deseemled  fiom  a  Loyal- 
ist family,  his  grandfathei',  .b)nathan  \'ickery,  removing  to  Nova  Scotia  from  i?oston,  .Mass.,  at 
the  time  of  the  revolt  of  the  colonies,  he  j)it'ferring  to  live  under  the  jliitish  Hag.  He  settled 
in  ("innberland  county,  when  the  father  of  oui'  sidject,  dames  Vickery,  was  born  near  the  close 
of  the  last  century  Edward  Vickery  first  saw  the  light  (d'  this  world  at  Parr.sboro,  Cumber- 
land County,  on  the  iJlst  of  Sr|)t((mber,  1M23,  his  mother,  before  her  tuariiage,  being  Mary 
Tate,  also  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia,  'I'he  township  in  which  he  was  born,  was  naini'd  for  (>ov. 
I'arr. 

Mr.  Vickery  was  educated  at  Ihu'ton,  and  was  a  nierchant  a  long  time  in  his  tuiti\c'  \ill- 
age,  being  (piite  sui'eessfiil  in  his  business.  He  has  also  been  eiigajced  in  sbi|i-biiildiiig  to  a 
snuill  e\teni. 


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He  was  paymaster  at  one  time  under  the  old  militia  law  ;  and  has  been  a  school  commis- 
sioner since  1863.  . 

Mr.  Vickery  contested  Cumberland  unsncceasfullj' at  the  general  election  immediatelj*  after 
Confederation  (1867),  and  was  successful  at  the  next  three  general  elections,  hold  in  1871, 
1874,  and  1878.  His  seat  is  on  the  Conservative  side  ;  yet  he  has  ever  taken  a  deep  intere.'<t  in 
the  Spring  Hill  and  Parrsboro'  railway  and,  in  the  st.ssionof  1872,  supported  the  railway  policy 
of  the  Liberal  Government,  which  embraced  a  subsidy  to  that  railway,  although  his  own  politi- 
cal fiiends  in  the  House,  including  his  colleague,  voted  against  the  railway  bill. 

His  church  connection  he  holds  with  the  Methodists,  and  has  a  good  reputation  for  consis- 
tency of  life. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Vickery  was  Miss  Matilda  Church,  of  Amherst,  to  whom  he  was  married 
on  the  26th  of  January,  186!).  They  have  lost  one  daughter,  and  have  one  son,  Edward  llugin- 
ald,  living. 


COL.   HENRY   PRYOR, 

HALIFAX,  N.S. 

THE  subject  of  this  brief  biogiaphical  notice  is  a  grandson  of  Edward  Pryor,  who  went  from 
England  to  New  York,  before  the  outbreak  of  the  colonies  against  the  Crown,  and 
siding  witli  the  king,  left  the  United  States,  with  thousands  of  other  lo^'alists,  at  the  close  of 
the  war  for  independence,  and  settled  in  Halifa.x,  here  dying  about  Ls;U  ;  and  son  of  John 
Pryor,  many  years  a  leading  merchant  in  Halifax,  dying  in  1820.  Henry  Pryor  was  born  in 
this  ci^y  on  the  3rd  of  July,  1808,  his  mother  being  Sarah  Stevens,  also  a  native  of  Halifa.x. 
He  wa:j  ei'ucated  at  the  Halifax  grannnar  scool,  Windsor  aeademv,  and  Kinir's  colleire,  from 
which  latter  institution  he  received  the  degrees  of  A.  B.,  A.  M.,  and  D.  C.  L.,  and  is  now  one  of 
the  governors  of  that  institution. 

Mr.  Pryor  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  Mr.  Justice  Bliss,  was  called  to  the  bar  of  Nova 
Scotia  in  1831,  and  practised  in  Halifax  until  1807,  when  he  was  appointed  stipendiarv  magis- 
trate, an  otlice  which  he  still  iiolds,  and  made  a  Q.  C.  in  1873.  Previous  to  the  appointment 
of  .stipendiary  magistrate,  lie  had  been  a  member,  foi'  the  western  district  of  the  county  of  Hali- 
fax, of  the  House  of  Assend)ly  for  eight  years.  He  was  for  a  longtime  agent  at  Halifax  f)r  ,he 
North  British  Fire  and  Life  Assurance  company. 

Mr.  Pryor  entereil  the  local  militia  in  1827,  when  only  nineteen  years  old,  as  a  lieutenant  in 
the  2nd  Halifax  regiment,  Nova  Scotia  militia,  and  at  the  time  of  the  Fenian  invasitm  of 
Canada  he  liad  conunand  of  a  light  infantry  company,  whose  services  he  oHered  to  aid  in  ex- 
pelling the  invadeis.  Subse(|uently  he  rose  to  the  rank  of  lieutenant-cohmei  of  the  regiment 
which,  on  the  recommendation  of  the  late  colonel,  the  Hon.  Sir  Samuel  Cunard,  was  permitted 
by  the  war  department  to  bear  upon  its  colors  "  Second  Queen's,"  Halifax,  'i'his  ilistinction 
was  shown  the  regiment  because  of  its  gallantry  and  patriotism  in  oHering  to  go  to  Canada,  ami 
aid  in  ilriving  o>it  the  Fenian  raiders.  He  holds  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel,  under  the 
Dominion  of  Canada,  and  is  in  command  of  the  reserve  militia  of  the  city  of  Halifax. 

Col  Pryor  haw  served  at  sundry  times  as  mayor  of  the  city,  in  all,  five  tenures,  and  so  faith- 
fully did  he  discharge  his  duties  at  the  head  of  the  municipality,  that  his  fellow-citizens  pre- 


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sented  him  with  an  elegant  silver  epergne  and  claret  jugs,  with  suitable  insciiptions,  showing 
their  appreciation  of  his  services. 

He  was  for  several  years  president  of  the  St.  George's  society  of  Halifax,  which  society 
presented  him  with  a  silver  cup  and  salver,  as  a  testimonial  of  the  liigh  esteem  in  whicli  he  is 
held  by  its  membei-s. 

Mr.  Pryor  belongs  to  the  Church  of  England  in  Canada,  and  was  chosen  lay  secretary  at 
the  establishment  of  the  Diocesan  Church  Society  of  Nova  Scotia,  now  calloil  the  Diccesan 
Synod  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  he  is  one  of  the  vice-presidents  of  that  body. 

Our  subject  1ms  been  twice  married,  first  March  8th,  1831,  to  Eliwi  P.,  daughter  of  the 
late  Hon.  Mr.  Justice  Rykc,  then  of  the  King's  Bench,  Montreal,  she  dying  in  LSoS,  and  the 
.second  time  February  3,  1863,  to  Charlotte,  daughter  of  James  McKie,  of  Halifivx.  He  ha-s  n(> 
children  livinof.  .  , 


HON.  CHARLES   ]M.   FRANCIIE^'ILLE,  M.L.C., 

GUYSBOROUGH,  N.S. 

CHARLES  M.  FRANCHEVILLE,  a  member  of  the  Legislative  Council  of  Nova  Scotia 
is  a  son  of  Edward  H.  Francheville,  by  Sarah,  daughter  of  Thomas  Peart,  Esij.,  and 
was  Iwrn  at  Guysborough,  on  the  24th  of  February,  18Kj.  His  father  was  from  the  United 
States,  and  his  mother  descended  from  a  L^nited  Empire  loyalist  family.  He  was  educated  in 
the  Guysborough  grammar  school,  was  a  shipmaster  for  several  years,  being  on  the  sea  from 
18G1  to  1870,  and  for  the  last  ten  or  eleven  years  has  been  in  the  general  shipping  and  mer- 
cantile liusiness,  his  operations  being  somewhat  extensive.  He  owns  several  veasels  engage>l 
in  the  coasting  trade. 

Mr.  BVancheville  is  an  agent  for  marine  insurance  companies,  a  justice  of  the  peace,  notary 
public,  captain  and  adjutant  of  the  3rd  Guysborough  regiment. 

He  wa.'i  tiist  returned  to  Parliament  for  the  county  of  Guysborough,  in  March,  1874,  on  the 
resignation  of  John  A.  Kirk,  the  sitting  member;  was  re-elected  at  the  next  general  election 
held  in  the  same  year,  and  was  called  to  the  Legislative  Council  in  1878,  his  politics  being 
Reform. 

Mr.  Francheville  married  in  June,  1808,  Miss  Harriet  Amelia  Jost,  of  Guysborough,  and 
tlicy  have  five  childn^ii.  'I'he  family  attend  the  Methodist  elnncli,  of  which  .Mrs.  Franclusville 
is  a  mi'inber. 


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EDWARD    C.   COAVLIXCJ, 

ANNAPOLIS,  N.S. 

EDWARD  ('riLER  COWLING,  barrister-at-law,  justice  of  the  supreme  court  and  judge 
t  of  proliate  for  the  county  of  Annapolis,  is  a  son  of  Samuel  Cowling,  who  came  from 
England  when  a  young  man,  and  after  speniling  a  few  years  in  Halifax,  settled  in  Annapolis 
Royal,  and  was  prothonotary  of  the  supreme  court  and  clerk  of  the  peace  for  many  years  until 
his  death  ill  1848;  and  was  here  born  on  the  20tli  of  October,  182.').     His  mother  was  Miriam 


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Louisji  ("iitliT,  a  (laughter  of  Khcnezer  Cutler,  a  Loyalist  from  Cnotou,  Mass.,  wiio  settled  at 
Annapolis  Royal  and  was  for  many  years  protlionotary  and  clerk  of  tiie  peaee  for  the  county, 
drawing  a  pension  from  the  British  Oovernment  until  his  death. 

Mr.  Cowling  was  educated  at  the  Annapo'i''  Rv>_)al  academy,  his  course  of  studies  includ- 
ing the  classics  and  French,  as  well  as  higher  Knglish  branches;  commenced  the  stud}'  of  the 
law  here  with  Charles  T,  C.  MacCoha,  and  finished  at  Windsor  with  the  present  Judge 
Wilkins,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1847,  and  practising  here  since  that  date. 

Mr.  Cowling  was  at  one  period  clerk  of  the  board  of  school  commi.ssioners  for  the  western 
district  of  the  country  of  Annapolis,  and  in  180(1  was  appointed  to  his  present  ofHce  of  Judge  of 
probate,  a  position  the  duties  of  which  he  is  tilling  with  marked  ability. 

Judge  Cowling  is  a  decided  Conservativi;  in  his  political  sentiments,  Annapolis  Royal 
having  no  citizen  more  loyal  to  the  ( *rown.  He  was  at  one  period  president  of  the  local  Liberal 
(Conservative  association,  and  formerly  took  a  very  active  ])art  in  political  contests,  he  being  a 
man  of  considerable  influence  in  the  party. 

Judge  Cowling  is  a  member  of  the  Annapolis  Royal  Lodge  of  Free  Masons,  and  has  been 
senior  wanlen  of  the  lodge.  He  has,  we  believe,  taken  only  the  third  degree.  He  was  reared 
in  the  Church  of  England,  and  has  served  as  warden  of  8t.  Luke's  church. 

He  married  in  18.')5  ilary  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  (Jeorge  R.  Gassie,  Esq.,  of  Annapolis, 
formerly  high  sheriff  of  the  county  of  Colchester,  and  she  had  four  children,  oidy  two  of  them, 
Thonuis  Delisle  and  Samuel  Lumden,  now  living.  Mrs.  Cowling  died  on  the  L")th  of  February, 
1880. 

Mr.  Cowling  has  resided  for  fifty  years  in  the  .same  house,  it  having  been  purchased  by  his 
father  from  the  late  Judge  Haliburton  (Sam  Slick).  The  history  of  Nova  Scotia  was  written 
bv  him  during  his  residence  in  this  house. 


HON.  W.ILL1A:M   .TA:NtES    STAIRS, 

HALIFAX,  N.  s. 

WILLLV.\r  JAMKS  STAIRS,  one  of  the  leading  merchants  in  Ibilifax,  and  at  one  time  ft 
mendier  of  the  livgislative  Council  of  Nova  Scotia,  is  a  grandson  of  John  Stairs,  who 
was  born  in  Philadelphia,  I'a.,  and  was  there  at  the  time  when  the  yellow  fever  was  raging, 
near  the  close  of  I  last  century,  and  lost  his  wife  liy  that  fi;ll  scourge.  That  calamity  led  him 
to  send  his  children  lo  Nova  Scotia,  where  he  had  previously  been,  and  where  he  luul  relatives 
and  frieml--,  he  himself  also  settling  about  the  same  time  in  Halifax.  In  this  cit}'  otu'  subject 
was  liorn  on  the  *24th  of  Septemlx'i,  1811>,  his  parents  being  William  Stairs,  born  in  Halifax, 
an<l  Margaret  Wiseman,  also  born  in  this  city,  and  of  Scotch  parentage. 

Young  Stairs  was  educated  at  Morton  aeademy,  N.S. ;  learned  the  mercantile  trade  of  bis 
father,  and  in  I8-1'1  went  into  business  fur  himself,  di-aling  in  general  merchandise,  wholesale 
and  retail,  and  making  a  success  of  his  calling,  he  being  one  of  the  most  prominent  businessmen 
of  the  city. 

Mi-.  Stalls  is  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  \Vm.  Stair-,  Son  and  Morrow,  who  are  doing  a 
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Our  suV)jcct  was  in  the  city  CDuncil  several  years  as  alderman,  and  while  serving  his  neigh- 
bore  in  that  capacity,  he  had  a  watchful  eye  to  the  intoiests  of  the  cit}'. 

He  K'canie  a  nietnher  of  the  Legislative  Council  aliout  the  time  of  (confederation,  and  re- 
signed that  position  after  a  few  yeare;  he  is  a  man  who  does  his  own  thinking,  and  is  disposed 
to  be  independent  in  politics  ;  he  will  do  nothing,  knowingly,  to  hoist  bad  men  int<j  power  ;  he 
is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church. 

Mr.  Stairs  was  married,  in  1845,  to  Mi&s  Su.san  Morrow,  of  Halifax,  and  has  nine  children  ; 
bis  eldest  son,  John  Fitzwilliam  Stairs,  mentioned  elsewhere,  is  a  member  of  the  Legislative 
Assend)lv  of  Nova  Scotia.  , 


iie:n^ry  xrHKAvooi),  m.d., 

PKJTOU,  N.S. 

THE  oldest  physician  recognized  by  the  medical  frateinity  of  Pict<ju  county,  now  practising 
in  the  town  of  I'ictou,  is  Henry  Kirk  wood,  who  was  born  in  this  town  on  the  1st  of  May, 
IKW).  His  father  was  ])r.  Edward  Kirkwood,  surgeon,  who  was  born  in  England,  and  came 
out  and  settled  at  Pictou  about  1832,  here  practising  his  profession  until  his  death.  Henry 
Kirkwood  was  educated  at  Pictou  academy,  and  Jefferson  medical  college,  Philadelphia,  receiv- 
ing the  degree  of  M.D.  in  18.5'J.  Returning  to  Pictou,  he  here  j)raetised  until  1S6;"»,  wlun  he 
went  to  Cape  Breton,  and  was  surgeon  for  eight  ycais  at  the  Cowrie  minns.  In  1872,  Dr. 
Kirkwood  resumed  praetiee  in  his  native  town,  and  no  medical  man  in  the  place  is  attending 
more  closely  and  faithfully  to  his  professional  duties.  He  seems  to  almost  entirely  ignore  poli- 
tics; has  accepted  no  otticc  except  that  of  inspecting  physieian  for  the  port  of  I'ictou,  the  duties 
of  which  are  directly  in  his  line;  and  he  makes  the  sciences  of  medieine  ami  surgery  his  con- 
stant and  most  careful  study.  His  highest  ambition  seems  to  l)e  to  succeed  in  his  profession  ; 
and,  with  his  studious  habits  and  a  good  library,  it  is  almost  nei'dless  to  say  that  he  is  a  grow- 
in"'  man.     The  conununity,  as  we  are  assiired,  have  the  greatest  coiitidence  in  his  .skill. 

Dr.  Kirkwood  is  a  member  of  the  Piv  tou  county  medical  .society;  a  third  degree  Ma.son  ; 
and  a  member  of  the  Ci'.urch  of  England. 

He  Wiis  married  in  June,  18()l,  to  Miss  Margaret  Hockin,  daughter  of  Daniel  Hockin, 
custos  of  the  county  of  Pictou,  and  they  have  live  children  living,  and  have  lost  two. 


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RT.  REV.  JOHN    CAMEliO.N,    L'li.l).,    D.I)., 

ANTI(l(>N[tiH,  N.  .Sr. 

HIS  Lordship,  the  Bishop  of  Arichat,  whose  name  heads  this  sketch,  is  a  native  of  Anti- 
gonish,  dating  his  liirth  on  the  lOth  of  February,  1827.  lie  was  given  the  name  of  his 
father,  a  well-ti)-do  farmer,  who  came  to  this  province  from  Inverness-sliire,  Scotland,  alM)ut 
the  beginning  of  this  century,  settled  in  the  township  of  Antigoiiish,  and  died  in  1874,  in  the 
!t4th  year  of  his  age.  His  wife  was  Christina  Macdonald,  a  native  of  the  same  shire  in  Scot- 
land.    She  died  in  I8(J8,  aged  84. 


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Our  subject  was  educated  at  Antigonish,  and  at  Rome,  spending  ton  years  at  the  latter 
place,  where  he  was  ordained  priest  in  1853,  and  where  he  received  the  degrees  of  doctor  of 
philosophy  and  doctor  of  divinity. 

In  1854,  he  returned  to  Nova  Scotia,  and  took  charge  of  the  St.  Francois  Xa\  ier  college, 
then  at  Arichat.  The  next  year  the  institution  was  moved  to  Antigonish,  he  continuing  its 
president  for  three  years,  and  occupying  the  chair  of  divinity,  besides  having  charge  of  two 
large  parishes  till  the  year  1803. 

In  1863,  his  lordship  returned  to  Arichat,  took  charge  of  a  large  parish  there,  and  also 
acted  as  vicar-general  of  the  diocese  until  the  spring  of  1870,  when  he  was  appointed  coadjutor 
bishop  of  the  diocese,  being  consecrated  at  Rome  on  the  22nd  of  May,  by  Cardinal  Cullen, 
Archbishop  of  Dublin.  He  then  attended  the  Ecumenical  Council,  the  sessions  of  which  were 
held  for  several  months,  and  returned  to  this  countr}"^  in  the  autumn  of  that  year. 

He  became  administrator  of  the  diocese  of  Arichat  in  1877,  and  shortly  after  bishop,  on 
the  resignation  of  his  lordship.  Bishop  McKinnon,  removing  from  Arichat  to  Antigonish  in  tho 
autumn  of  1880. 

On  accepting  the  office  of  bishop,  his  lord.ship  found  a  heavy  debt  on  the  diocese,  but 
nothing  seems  to  discourage  him;  he  grappled  with  it  with  his  usual  courage  and  pei-severance, 
and  cleared  off  nearly  every  dollar  of  it.  His  lordship  is  well  acipiainted  with  hard  work,  and 
supplementing  his  tine  scholarship  with  energy  and  tact,  he  can,  and  docs,  accomplish  a  great 
deal  of  labor,  both  of  a  mental  and  material  character.  As  a  jireacher,  he  has  but  few  compeers 
in  the  Province  of  Nova  Scotia, 


JAMES    F.   BI^NCIIARD, 

TJiUliO,  N.  S. 

JAMES  FLEMINO  BLANCHARD,  the  oldest  merchant  an<l  long  one  of  the  leading  men 
in  Truro,  was  born  hero  on  the  8th  of  November,  1815.  His  parentage  and  the  pedigree 
of  the  family  may  be  found  in  a  sketch  of  his  older  brother,  SheriH"  Blanchard,  in  preceding 
pages.  He  received  a  granuuer  sclmol  education,  and  most  of  his  life  has  been  engaged  in 
mercantile  pursuits,  having  in  18.')5  connuencod  business  in  company  with  Robert  ( !hambei-s, 
dealers  in  general  merchandise.  The  Hrm  name  has  iind.igone  some  changes,  and  is  now  J.  F. 
Blanchard  A:  Co.,  who  deal  i>i  dry  goods  ordy,  and  are  doing  a  safe  and  remunerative  business, 
wholesale  and  retail.  The  house  is  well  known  in  a  wide  circuit,  Mr.  Blanchard  having  been 
in  trade  here  more  than  a  i|uarter  of  a  ct-ntury,  and  always  boine  a  good  reputation  for  fair  and 
honorable  dealing. 

He  joined  the  militia  when  a  young  man,  going  in  as  lieutenant,  and  being  promoted  to  a 
cai)taiiicy,  and  then  to  major,  acting  also,  at  one  period,  as  adjutant. 

Mr.  Blanchard  was  an  advocate  of  Confederation,  and  at  the  tiist  general  election  after  its 
completion,  wa-s  a  camlidate  for  Colchester  for  the  Dominion  Parliament,  he  being  at  that  time 
a  supporter  of  the  (iovernment.  He  was  unsucces.sful.  His  polities  have  usually  been,  and  are 
now,  Lilieral. 

In  lfS,"»(t,  .Mr.  nianchard  was  ajipointed  prothoiioUry  of  the  Supreme  ( 'ourt,  and  <K'rk  of  the 
t.'rown,  anil   resigned  in  1872,  when  he  became  a  candidat<!  to  represent  the  county.     He  has 


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ln-en  a  magistruto  about  tliirty  years,  and  is  also  a  master  in  the  Supromo  Court,  and  coin- 
niissioner  for  taking  affidavits  in  tlie  same  court. 

He  is  an  older  in  St.  Andrew's  Presbyterian  chtnch,  1'as  been  a  delegate  to  the  Synod  and 
(Jenoral  Asseiiibly,  and  in  religions  matters  is  one  of  the  leading  laymen  in  Truio. 

Mr.  Blanihard  was  married  in  bSSS  to  Jessie,  daughter  of  George  Johnston,  of  Chatham, 
New  Brunswick,  and  she  has  had  ten  chihlren,  only  six  of  them,  three  .sons  and  three  daughters, 
now  living.  Sedley,  the  eldest  .son,  is  a  lawyer  in  Winnipeg,  Manitoba ;  Robert  is  a  graduate  in 
medicine  of  Edinburgh  university,  and  is  now  a  surgeon  on  one  of  the  Canada  Pacific  lailway 
contracts  ;  Charles  W.  is  a  law  student ;  Mary  Little,  the  eldest  daughter,  is  the  wife  of  K.  H. 
Keating,  city  engineer,  Ilalifa.K  ;  Agnes,  the  .second,  is  at  liome ;  and  Harriette,  the  youngest,  is 
in  England  at  present,  residing  with  her  aunt,  Mi-s.  Johnston, 


HON.   LEWIS    WILKINS,   D.C.L., 

U'lNDSOli,  N.S. 

IEWIS  MORRIS  WILKINS,  retired  judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  Nova  Scotia,  wa.s 
^  born  in  Halifax,  on  the  24th  of  Afay,  INOI,  his  father  being  Hon.  Lewis  Morris  Wilkins, 
senior,  many  years  speaker  of  the  ?lou.se  of  A.ssembly,  and  subsequently  a  judge  of  the  supreme 
court  of  Nova  Scotia. 

The  mother  of  Judge  Williams  was  Sarah  Creighton,  daughter  of  an  Knglish  oflicer  from 
Somei-setshire,  England.  Judge  Wilkins  was  educated  at  King's  college,  Windsor,  from  which 
institution  he  received  the  degi-ee  of  D.C.L.;  read  law  witl.  William  Eraser,  Q.C,  of  Windsor, 
and  there  practised  from  \H'2i\  to  IS.Mi,  when  he  was  appointetl  to  the  bench  ;  he  had  previously- 
been  a  member  of  both  branches  of  the  legislature,  and  was  a  member  of  the  executive  coun- 
cil, and  provincial  secretaiy,  when  called  to  don  the  ermine. 

While  in  the  practice  of  tiie  law,  he  had  business  in  all  the  courts,  and  made  a  brilliant 
success  of  his  profession. 

On  the  bench  he  was  dignified,  clear-headed,  impartial,  and  quick  to  see  the  bcaiings  of  a 
rase.      He  retircil  in  Ocfobei',  1871),  without  a  stain  on  his  character. 

Judge  Wilkins  wits  once  sent  as  a  delegate  to  England  to  look  after  the  interests  of  the 
province,  and  his  niif^sion  was  eniinently  satisfactory  to  Mie  aut'iorities  who  comiuissioned  him. 


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llOiS^.    IIIEEMAX    l^UPPEE, 

MILTON,  N.a. 

THE  L.VTE  EKEEMAN  TITPEK,  for  a  long  period  a  member  of  the  legislative  council 
of  Nova  Scotia,  and.  in  his  day,  a  most  estimable  man,  was  born  at  Milton,  county  of 
(Queen's,  on  the  !Uli  of  .\pril,  1!S()2.  His  father  was  Nathan  Tupper,  junior,  who  was  born  in 
Martha's  Vineyaid,   Mass;i(liusrtts  :    cann'   to   Nova  Scotia   with  hii  father,   Nathan   Tupper, 

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riiK  ('A.\AJ>/A\  jiioaJi'M'jucAi.  jncrioyAh'V. 


sonior,  iii  17(iO,  when  tliive  yours  old  ;  iuid  was  slieiiH'of  Queen's  county  and  lieuteimnt-colonel 
of  a  Itattalion  of  Nova  Scotia  militia. 

Freeman  Tiip])ei'  received  an  Kiiylish  education  at  Liverpool,  N.S.,  and  was  a  ship-builder, 
shipowner,  West  India  and  lumber  merchant  and  lumber  manufacturer,  being  a  very  enter- 
prising^ mim. 

Mr.  Tuppor  was  for  many  years  conneeted  with  the  militia  of  the  province,  and  rose,  step 
by  step,  from  lieutenant  to  lieutenant-colonel.  He  was  apiiointed  a  ju.stice  of  the  peace  in 
1832;  cnstos  of  Queen's  county  on  the  Dth  of  January,  184!) ;  and  a  member  of  tlie  legislative 
council  on  tlcj  .SOth  of  Januiiry,  iNlil,  holiling  tliat  ottice  nntil  his  death  on  April  1!),  1880. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  (_'ongre;,Mtional  chuirh,  one  of  the  pillars  of  the  society  of  that 
name  at  Milton,  ami  (piite  active  in  relij^ious  enterprises. 

Freeman  Tupper  owned  and  occupied  tlio  i)roperty  on  which  his  grandfather  settled  in 
ITtiO,  and  the  hou.se  of  liis  son,  Nathan  Tupper,  stands  on  the  .same  spot  as  the  house  built  by 
] lis  great-grandfather  in  17^1. 

Mr.  I'upiier  married  Jane  Huberts,  of  i.,iveriiool,  and  she  had  seven  children,  tive  <>f  whom 
are  still  living.  The  eUlest  son,  Mason,  is  a  magistrate,  lumber  manufacturer  and  farmer  at 
Milton ;  Allen  F.  is  also  a  lumberman,  a  merchant  and  general  business  man,  in  the  .same  place  ; 
these  two  having  families  ;  and  Jamos,  the  other  son,  is  single.  Jane  is  the  wife  of  Uichard 
Knowles,  of  Milton  ;  and  Jed.dah  is  living  at  the  .same  place,  unmarried.  The  Tuppers  are  one 
of  the  leading  and  most  respectable  families  in  the  townsliip. 


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JIO^'.   JAMKS    WILLIAM    -K)J1  >;sT():s, 

HALIFAX,  N.S. 

THl']  subjei't  of  this  sketch  was  born  at  Kingston,  in  the  island  of  Jamaica,  on  the  2!>tli  of 
August,  17it-.  At  an  early  age,  lie  was  sent  to  Scotland  for  his  education,  and  placed 
niuler  the  cai-e  of  the  lati'  llev.  Dr.  l)in\can,  uf  Huthwell.  His  family-  subseipiently  removed  to 
Nova  Scotia,  where  Mr.  .lolmston  studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  that  i)rovince  in 
181.").  lie  coinmenced  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  the  \illage  of  Kentville,  but  shoitly 
after  removed  to  Halifax,  and  enteied  into  partnershi])  with  the  late  linn.  Simon  IJrailslieet 
lloliie,  then  ;imong  the  tirst  piactitioners  in  that  province. 

Mr.  .Iiiluiston  rose  rapidly  in  his  prnfession.  and  soon  attained  the  highest  rank,  which  he 
continni'd  unilialli'Uged  to  hold  until  his  elevation  to  the  bench  of  the  supremi;  court  of  Nova 
Scotia. 

Mr.  ,l<ihn>tiin  had  peculiar  tact  and  skill  in  cross-examination,  and  in  extracting  the  truth 
from  the  most  reluctant  and  perverse  witness,  while  his  strong  and  comprehensive  grasp,  his 
memory,  that  seemed  ever  obedient  to  his  will,  and  his  rapidity  of  perception,  gave  him  a 
wonderful  readiness  at  repartee,  and  enabled  him  to  seize,  like  lightning,  on  the  mistakes,  or 
unwise  or  weak  arguments,  of  an  op[)oncnt,  and  tuiii  tluMu  to  the  advantage  (jf  his  own  sidi', 
and  to  these  he  addeil  untiring  perseverance  and  industry-.  Kew  of  Mr.  Johnston's  forensic 
efforts  liaM'  been  pre^iiTved,  but  in  cases  where  tiie  battle  was  to  be  fought  against  wrong  and 
ojipresNion,  as  notaldy  in  the  case  of  Carton  against  the  Archbishop  of  Halifax,  who  had  ejected 
him  from  his  •  -w  in  the  chapel,  he  was  esjiocially  powerful,  rising  to  the  occasion ;  his  bnrsts  of 


rilE  CA NA  DIA  X  llfOdtfA  I'lffCA  L  DICTWSA U  V.  y.V?, 

impassioned  elo(|Ut'nce  would  sweep,  as  witli  tlie  force  of  a  toinndo,  bearing  down  all  before 
tliem. 

In  the  year  IMIJ."),  lie  was  appointed  .solicitor-j,feneral  of  the  province,  which  office  was  iit 
that  time  non-politiciil.  It  was  not  until  the  year  I8.SH  that  Mr.  Johnston,  yieldinjj;  to  thi' 
earnest  soliritatioii  of  Sir  Colin  ('anij)bell,  the  then  j^overnor of  Nova  Scotia, consented  to  enter 
the  Legislative  Comicil,  and  eoinnienee  his  political  career.  Here  his  talents  at  onee  raised  him 
to  distinction,  and  he  became  the  acknowledged  leader  of  the  Conservative  party.  He  took  a 
prominent  pait  in  the  struggles  attending  the  introduction  of  responsible  government,  and, 
while  acknowledging  the  eHeteness  of  the  old  regime,  and  recognising  the  rights  of  the  pe()])le 
to  control  publie  aHairs  through  their  representatives,  he  yet  deemed  it  neces.sary  to  watch 
with  eaie,  and  efficientl}'  to  guard,  the  very  radical  changes  sought  to  be  made  in  the  political 
constitution. 

Jn  the  year  1843,  Mr.  John.ston  was  appointed  attorney-general  of  the  province ;  on  the 
di.ssolution  of  the  House  of  Assembly  in  that  year,  he  resigned  his  seat  in  the  licgislative 
Council,  and  entered  the  popular  branch,  as  representative  of  the  important  county  of  Ainiapolis, 
wliich  constituency  he  continued  uninterruptedly  to  represent  until  his  elevation  to  the  bench. 
A  large  part  of  .Mr.  Johnston's  political  life  was  spent  in  ojjpositioii,  a  position  foi'  which  his 
forensic  and  ilei'lamatory  talent,  and  his  povvi^r  of  invective,  eminently  qualified  him.  He, 
however,  dii  .s(>veral  occasions,  K"d  the  (lovernment  with  rare  [loiitical  tact  and  ability,  and  his 
])arty  not  oidy  followed  him  with  unfaltering  fidelity  and  unbounded  confidence,  as  their  poli- 
tical chief,  but  had  for  him  a  respect,  and  a  devoted  personal  attachment,  accorded  to  few  public 
men,  but  engendci-ed  by  his  conunanding  talents,  his  many  nobk"  (|ualities,  his  iniselfish  I'egard 
lor  otheis,  and  his  unswerving  integrity. 

Mr.  Johnston  wa.s  selected  as  one  of  the  delegates  to  meet  Lord  Durham,  the  high  com- 
missioner for  settling  the  ilitheidties  in  < 'anada.  and  confei'  with  him  on  the  contemplated 
changes  in  colonial  government. 

Among  the  many  Acts  on  the  statute  book  tliat  bear  testimony  to  his  sagacity  and  forecast, 
.stands  foremo.st  the  simultaneous  polling  Itill,  in  which  provision  is  made  for  the  holtling  elei  - 
tions  in  every  county  in  the  province  on  on(>  and  the  same  day,  instead  of  the  poll  being  kept 
open  in  each  county  fiom  six  to  ten  ilays,  according  to  its  size,  and  remove  about  from  place  to 
place.  In  18")(!,  on  a  change  of  Government,  Ah'.  .Johnston  again  became  j)remier  and  attorney- 
general,  and  at  onee  bent  all  his  energies  to  abolishing  tin?  monopoly  which  the  general  mining 
a.s,  K'iation  held  over  all  the  mines  and  minerals  of  Nova  Scotia.  In  June,  1N;')7.  having  asso- 
ciated with  himself  .Vdains  (!.  Archibald,  the  jireseiit  governor  of  the  province,  then  a  leailing 
member  of  the  opjiosition,  Mr.  Johnston  left  for  Kngland.  and,  after  a  good  deal  of  negotiation, 
succeeded  in  ert'ecting  a  eonipromise,  by  which  the  M;eneral  mining  association  ceded  to  the 
Ciovenunent  their  rights  over  all  the  then  unworked  mines. 

To  Mr.  .Johnston  belongs  the  honor  of  being  the  first  statesman  who,  in  the  halls  of  Legis- 
lature, advocated  the  union  or  confederation  of  these  North  American  colonies.  In  the  year 
LS54,  on  the  tloor  of  the  House  of  Assembly,  lie  movetl — "That  the  union  of  the  British  pro- 
vinces on  just  principles,  while  calculated  to  perpetuate  their  connection  with  the  parent  state, 
would  promote  their  ailvancement  and  ]»rosperity,  increa.se  their  strength  and  influence,  and 
elevate  their  position."  Before  the  luiion  was  consumnuitcd,  he  had  retired  from  publie  life, 
and  was,  therefore,  in  no  way  responsible  for  the  details  of  the  scheme  ;  yet  there  can  be  no 
dotibt  that  his  advocacy  of  the  measure,  on  its  broati  basis,  tended  to  create  ami  educate  publie 
opinion,  and  smoothed  the  way  for  those   who  eventually  succeeded  in  eH'ecting  this  important 


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THE  CAXAIHAX  JIlOGRAI'IifCAL  DtcriONAli)'. 


change  in  tlie  tonslitution.  In  the  year  18G.S,  Mr.  tlolmston  Jicceptcd  a  seal  t)n  tlic  Ih'mcIi,  an 
judge  in  equity,  and  judge  of  the  Supreme  (yourt.  His  decisions  were  unifonnly  leeeived  by 
the  bar,  as  clear,  logical,  anti  exliaustive  expositions  of  the  law.  In  August,  liS72,  he  left  Nova 
Sct)tia  for  the  south  of  France,  in  hopes  tiiat  its  milder  climate  would  ameliorate,  if  not  remove, 
the  bronchial  attection  under  which  he  was  suH'ering,  but  tlie  beueticial  results  anticipated  from 
the  change  unfortunately  did  not  follow. 

On  the  death  of  the  Hon.  Josepli  Howe,  in  the  suunuer  of  ISTS,  Mr.  .lohnston  was  offered 
the  governorship  of  the  province.  This  ottice  he  at  tirst  accepted,  and  prepared  to  leave  Kng- 
land,  and  return  to  Nova  Scotia  ;  but,  ere  his  preparations  to  leave  were  completed,  his  fast 
failing  liealth  and  strength  compelled  him  to  resign  the  oHice  he  was  well  ([ualifled  to  till. 

Early  in  life,  Mr.  Johnston  connected  himself  with  the  Baptist  body  of  Nova  Scotia,  and 
to  the  end  continued  a  member  of  that  communion,  and  through  life  devoted  his  time,  energies, 
and  talents  to  promoting  the  interests  of  that  body,  socially  and  educationally  The  llorton 
academy  and  Acadia  college,  at  Wolfville,  owe  their  existence  largely  to  his  ]>eisonal  labors  and 
exertions  in  the  cause  of  this  latter  institution,  now  occupying  a  prominent  position,  ns  the 
Baptist  college  of  the  Maiiti me  Provinces.  He  contiiuiod  a  governor  by  repeated  re-election 
from  its  first  inception  to  his  death. 

Mr.  Jolinston  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Amelia  Klizabeth,  daughter  of  the 
late  Dr.  Almin,  by  whom  he  had  three  .sons,  the  eldest  of  whom  is  now  the  judge  of  the  county 
court  for  the  metropolitan  city  and  county  of  Halifax,  and  three  daughters,  five  of  whom  sur- 
vived him.  His  second  wife  was  Louise,  widow  of  the  late  Captain  Wentworth,  of  the  rovid 
artillery,  liy  whom  he  had  four  children,  all  of  whom  are  living. 

The  state  of  his  health  rendered  a  return  to  Nova  Scotia, impossible,  and  he;  retired  to  pass 
the  winter  at  Cheltenham,  England,  where,  on  the  21st  day  of  November,  liS73,  at  the  ripe  age 
of  eightj'-one  years,  he  died  full  of  honors,  and  with  his  nuMital  faculties  unimpaired,  leaving 
to  the  country  of  his  adojition  the  recollection  of  a  patriot  statosnuin,  and  to  his  friends  the 
memory  of  a  n.anie  untarnished,  and  a  character  above  reproach,  and  to  those  who  hereafter  fill 
the  place  vacated  by  him,  the  illustration  of  an  astute  and  learned  jurist  and  an  upright  judge. 


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.lAMES    W.   c;Al{.\tJCIIAEL, 

NEW  OLASaoW,  N.S. 

JAMKS  WILLIAM  OARMICHAKL,  ship-builder  and  .sliip-ownor,  and  one  of  tlie  Icalin-' 
buslnes.'j  men  in  the  county  of  I'ictou,  was  born  at  New  tHasgow.  this  comity,  on  the  Kith 
of  Decembv-r,  iSli) ;  his  father,  James  Carmiclui'jl,  was  born  in  the  sanic  c  )Uiity  ;  his  grandfather, 
James  Carmichael,  senior,  came  from  Scotland  ;  his  mother  was  Christian  Mackenzie,  daughter 
of  John  Mackenzie,  who  came  from  Inverness-.shire,  Scotland,  and  .settled  in  Halifax,  where  In- 
reareil  his  family. 

Our  subject  was  eilucated  in  a  grammar  school  and  the  Pictou  academy  ;  was  for  some 
veal's  a  clerk  in  the  store  of  his  father;  who  was  a  prominent  merchant,  for  many  years  at  New 
Cihtsgow,  afterwards  commencing  business  for  himself  in  comJ)any  with  his  fatlier,  continuing 
the  mercantile  traile  awhile  after  his  father's  death.  Latterly  the  leading  business  of  Mr.  Car- 
michael has  been  .ship-building  and  ship-owning;  he  is  also  agent  for  the  Bank  of  Nova  Scotia, 


THE  CAXADIAX  IIIOORAPIIICAL  DICTlOXAliY. 


.in.'. 


presidont  til'  the  Ni-w  (Jlagow  Marine  Iii8Ui-ant-u  Coinpany,  and  an  uiicigotiu,  tlionuij^di^foiiiy 
liu^iness  man. 

Mr.  ("arniic'liai'l  entered  pulilie  life  at  the  time  of  Confederation,  in  ISG7,  lieing  eieetcd  to 
icpieHeiit  tlie  eonnty  of  Fictou  in  the  House  of  Commons;  sat  (uitil  1(S72,  wlil'n  lie  was  delViited  ; 
was  iiyain  returned  at  the  1,'eneral  election  in  1^74,  and  again  defeated  in  X^l^  ;  his  atliliatioii 
has  always  been  with  the  Liherals,  and  he  is  a  strong  advocate  of  fiee  trade  and  other  political 
tenets  of  that  party. 

Mr.  (.'arniichael  was  connected  for  some  time  with  the  active  militia  of  tlie  province,  lieiu'^ 
promoted  frtim  time  to  time,  initil  he  held  the  rank  of  lieut. -colonel  oi  I'icton  reserve  militia. 


HON.  uoiJEirr  \\  (uiajST, 

ricTou,  y.s. 

I-)()HKRT  PATTKRSON  OHANT,  memher  of  the  J)ominion  Senati',  is  a  son  of  Lewis 
.V  (iiaiit,  in  his  lifetima  a  liook.seller  and  puhlisher,  Inverness,  Scotland,  and  was  Ihhii 
tlierc  in  i)S14.  The  maiden  name  of  his  mother  was  Haimah  Haywood.  He  was  educateil  at 
tlie  Inverness  royal  academy;  came  to  I'pper  Canada,  in  liSJW,  and  .served  two  years  in  tlie 
employ  of  Hon.  Koderiek  Matlicson,  merchant,  at  Perth,  and  then  cjime  to  Pictou,  when-  he  has 
since  resided,  and  is  engaged  in  marine  insurance. 

We  learn  from  the  Parliamentary  Companion,  that  Mr.  (Irant  contested  four  elections  in 
the  Lilieral  interest,  all  prior  to  Confederation,  being  succe.s.sful  in  only  one  of  them,  at  whieli 
tinu'  lie  was  elected  for  tlie  north  riding  of  Pictou,  and  sat  from  IS.JO  to  1803.  He  has  always 
been  a  liiberal,  but,  nnlike  most  of  his  party,  strongly  favored  Confederation.  His  appoint- 
ment to  tlie  Senate  is  dated  on  tin'  2iid  of  February,  1H77.  he  taking  the  place  of  Hon.  dolin 
Holmes,  deceased. 

Oui'  subject  attended  tlie  Detroit  (Mich.)  Convention  in  tiS(K!,  as  a  delegate  from  tlie 
Halifax  boar<l  of  trade,  on  which  ou  -k  n<>u.  Jo.scph  Howe  made  .  speech,  whi el i  was  re- 
garded as  one  of  the  most  nia,steriy  aioriea!  eH'orts  of  his  life.  Senator  (h'ant  has  always 
taken  the  deepest  interest  in  intt>M  ,  .iniiro\.'iiients,  and  in  eveiytliing  pertaining  to  the  wel- 
fare of  No\a  Scotia,  and  the  Dominio.' 

Senator  Grant  is  a  justice  of  the  peace,  president  of  the  Pictou  bank,  and  attorney  for  the 
underwriters  of  the  Home  ilarine  In.surance  Association  of  Pictou. 


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S'I^A^'>s^\GE    .1.  JACOliS,   :M.1)., 

LUNENBURG,  N.S. 

STANNAGK  JAMES  JACOBH,  one  of  the  leading  iihysicians  in  the  county  of  Lunenburg, 
is  a  native  of  tlie  town  of  Lunenburg,  his  birth  being  dated  on  the  18th  of  March,  ISJJti. 
His  father  was  (Jodfrey  Jacobs,  M.I).,  a_  native  of  Halifax,  N.S.,  and  who  practised,  at  one 
period,  on  a  sliip  eoinmanded  by  Admiral  Owen,  and,  later  in  life,  at  liiiiu'iibiiig,  where  lie  died 


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Tiff:  r.t  KADI  AN   ntOGttAPttlCM,  MrTlOXAKV. 


in  May,  ISG.'J;  and  liis   ni(jtliiT  was  Mary  Ann  Sliriovc,  who    was  born  at  Parrsborouj,'li,  \,S., 
and  died  in  1^77. 

I>r.  .lacolts  was  ediicati'd  at  Kind's  collo^'i-,  Windsor,  ami  tlit'  nioilical  dcpiirtint'iit  ^A'  Har- 
vard iMiivLMsity,  Jioston,  Mass.,  receiving;  the  dt'^Mt'e  of  doctor  of  ini'dicini-  in  lH(i().  He  prac- 
tised at  tiiNt  for  a  sliort  tinio  at  Lunenburg,  following  it  with  three  years  at  St.  John,  N.B., 
when  he  was  called  to  Petite  Riviere,  N.S.  Two  years  later  (1806),  he  was  recalled  to  Lunen- 
burg, and  has  been  in  steady  aii(i  suceessful  practice  liere  for  sixteen  years.  He  does  ii  general 
business,  and  is  especially  noted  foi'  his  skill  in  surgery  and  midwifery,  liis  drives  extending 
into  three  or  four  townslups.  He  is  ipiite  well  known  in  the  soutliern  part  of  the  county, 
where  he  lias  many  warm  friends. 

The  doctor  was  .surgeon,  for  a  period  of  tluee  j'ears,  to  the  Lunenburg  battalion  of  Canaila 
militia;  and  is  medical  suiierintcndent  of  the  port  of  Lunenburg.  He  is  a  ("on.servalive  in 
polities  ;  but  has  kept  clear  of  civil  otliees,  disconnected  with  his  profession,  giving  his  wliole 
time  to  the  study  and  practice  of  hi.s  profession. 

He  is  a  fourth  degree;  Xfason,  and  has  held  the  ottices  (jf  junior  and  seniir  warden,  and 
junior  and  scnioi'  deacon  in  that  order.  His  leligious  membership  is  in  the  IJhurch  of 
England. 

Dr.  Jacobs  was  married  June  21,  ISU.j,  to  Henrietta,  daughter  of  Samuel  Huyghue,  of  the 
couiaiMsariat  department  of  the  British  army,  and  of  four  children,  the  fruit  of  this  union,  only 
oue  daughter,  Floieiae,  aged  ten  joars,  is  still  living. 

Dr.  .lacobs  Iiad  two  bnjthers  who  were  ])hysicia«is,— Henry,  at  Moncton,  N.B. ;  and 
Thonui.s,  at  Shclbuine,  N.S.,  both  dying  at  those  places.  Anotlier  brother,  Lewis,  formerly  a 
merchant  at  Galveston,  Texas,  is  also  dead.  Several  of  tin;  family,  uncles,  iVe.,  were  or  are 
ministers  of  the  English  church,  our  subject  being  nameil  for  an  uncle.  Rev.  Stannagc  James 
Jacobs,  who  died  in  Ontario.     Two  other  uncles,  James  and  Charles  Shrieve,  were  clergymen. 


AiYGUS    M.   (UI)^^F:Y, 

HRIDGETOWN,  N.S. 

A  NOTTS  MORRLSON'  tUDNEY,  one  of  the  old.'st  journalists  now  living  in  Xova  Scotia, 
is  a  native  of  New  Brunswick,  his  birth  being  dated  at  Jemseg,  May  9th,  18().S.  His 
father,  Jo.shua  (iidney,  was  Vjorn  in  the  state  of  New  York,  coming  to  New  Brun.swick  when 
sixteen  years  of  age,  with  hi.s  own  father,  who  wa.s  a  loyalist.  In  the  early  infancy  of  Angus 
the  family  moved  to  Digby  Neck,  N.  S.,  and  in  1808  to  Bridgetown.  Angus  was  largely  self- 
educated,  being  very  fond  of  books,  ami  early  exhibiting  great  facility  with  the  pen,  contri- 
buting to  the  press,  both  in  pro.se  and  ver.se,  when  not  more  than  seventeen  or  eighteen  years 
old. 

In  184.*]  ^Ir.  (iidncy  became  the  editor  of  the  Nova  Scotiai>,  at  Halifax;  soon  afterwards 
was  a,s.sociate  editor  of  the  Morning  Chron'ivlc,  assisting  Hon.  William  Annand, about  the  same 
time  as  parliamentary  reporter,  and  continuing  to  write  for  the  Xova  Scotian.  In  184.'),  he 
went  to  Yarmouth,  bought  out  the  pro[>rietor  of  the  Herald,  and  condncttMl  it  for  several 
years,  writing  also,  at  the  same  time  foi'  Lower  Province  periodicals.     H<  al.so  wrote  a  stoiy. 


rilK  C.lXM'l.iS  liKKiUM'IIK'M,  nUTloS  M{  V. 


m 


callt'il  "Tlic  Rt'fuj^t'f's  i)aiii,'litur,"  which  was  pulilislu'il  in  tlio  l.iv(upool  (N.  S.)  Ti'tnifrri/if.  in 
lSo7-'">H,  and  {'ontaiiu'd  foity-threo  ehnptoi'.s. 

Kioni  l.S."(!)  to  18(il  Mr.  (iidncy  cilittMl  Tin-  Acadian  at  Digliy,  puliiinhoil  by  his  son  ;  and 
ill  the  latter  ytai'  took  a  Hiniilar  position  on  the  Hrid^^etown  lieijixfc)'.  \i\  IMli.S  \w  iiiid  liis  mmi 
started  tin-  Uiid;^oto\vn  Free  Pirxn,  a  stron;^  Lih(^ral  paper,  of  wiiicli  Mr.  Uidncy  was  thief  edi- 
torial iiiariai'er  most  of  the  time  foi'  ten  years.  He  was  seim'ant-at-arinM  of  tiie  House  of  As- 
seinldy  for  eleven  years,  connnenein^  in  18(!(S,  ami  when  deprived  oi  that  ottiee  ho  lost  his  ehief 
means  of  supjwrt.  Mr.  (iidne}-  has  written  a  ji^reat  many  metrical  compositions,  and  some  of 
them  had  a  widi'  eireiilation  at  the  time  of  their  first  appearance  in  prir.t,  bein<,'  widely  repro- 
duced. One  of  his  religious  poems,  on  the  death  of  >rrs.  Ann  Hi'ze,itin>.'  .r^e'son,  the  Hr-it  wife 
of  the  pioneer  American  Baptist  missionary  to  Burmah,  was  copied  into  a  Ixi  jk  (we  helieve  it 
is  "  The  .Tud.son  Oflering,")  publi.shed  in  the  United  States  more  than  thirty  yciirs  a-o.  The 
sentiment  of  his  poem.s  is  usually  very  fine,  and  the  rhythm  almost  peifoct. 


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KPEliiNS    -lO.NKS, 

WHYMOUTlf,  K.S. 

NKi\.\{\j\  a  century  a;,'o,  three  brothers,  Josiah,  Simeon,  and  Stephen  .Fones,  came  into  Nova 
Scotia  from  New  Kni,dand,  and  settleil  in  We^'mouth,  other  pai'ties  of  the  .smiie  name 
comiiifj;  into  the  samt!  township  not  lon<;  afterwards.  From  the  pioneers  of  that  name  have 
sprung  nmuerous  families  now  spread  over  this  c(junt\',  the  j)rovince,  and  some  parts  of  the 
I'nited  Stiites,  they  beiii;,'  as  a  cla.ss  industrious,  enterprising,  and  well-to-do  people.  Some  of 
them  have  been,  or  still  are,  (piite  prominent,  and  sketches  of  at  ItuLst  three  oi'  foui'  of  ihem  aie 
contained  in  this  volume. 

Sterns  Jones  is  a  son  of  (.'ereiio  IJphain  donos,  a  native  of  Weymouth,  and  a  magistrate, 
member  at  one  period  of  the  Nova  Scotia  House  of  Assembly,  and  .judge  of  the  court  of  com- 
mon pleas,  dying  in.lune,  bS52,  in  his  .S.lth  year  ;  and  was  born  on  the  l.")tliof  Aj)rii,  1N14.  He 
receiveil  an  English  education  of  a  limited  nature,  and  worked  his  way  up  in  life  as  best  he 
could,  suiiplenieiiting  his  eounti'y  .school  drill  with  more  or  less  study  in  jnivate.  lie  was 
reared  on  his  father's  tiirin,  and  followed  th;it  occupation  exclusively  until  he  became  a  govern- 
ment otlicer,  and  is  still  doing  s(.>nietliing  in  that  Mik;. 

Mr.  Jones  was  appointed  a  justice  of  the  peace  in  Is.')  I.  and  collector  of  customs  for  the 
port  of  Weymouth  in  iSfi;},  .still  Imlding  both  otKces,  together  with  those  of  registrar  of  ship- 
ping and  surveyor  of  shipping.  He  is  likewise  a  health  otlicer.  -Mr.  Jones  is  a  eonscientiotis, 
tliorough-g(jing  man,  having  scrupulous  regard  to  his  official  duties,  and  doing  everything 
jiromptly  and  well.  He  is  a  mendier  of  St.  I'eter'.s  church,  Weymouth,  and  was  at  onetime 
warden,  and  for  a  long' time  clerk  of  the  vestry.  He  takes  a  deep  interest  in  the  welfare  of  liis 
fellow-men,  and  is  an  earnest  advocate  of  social  ref(jrms,  being  especially  active  in  the  temjirr- 
ance  cause,  which  he  espoused  more  than  thirty  years  ago.  He  belonged  to  the  sons  of  ti^m- 
perance,  and  has  held  all  the  offices  in  the  local  lodge.  No  man  in  the  comnninity  ha.s  more 
thoioughly  at  heart  the  good  of  his  neighbors  than  Mr.  Jones. 

He  wa.sjoinecl  in  wedlock  on  the  22nd  of  December,  l.SMO,  with  Margaret  Ann,  daughter 
of  Isaac  Doane,  of  Waldoborough,  Maine,  and  they  have  two  sous  and  one  daughter.     Anthony 


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T/in  CAXtDI.W  ISKXinM'lllCM.  DICTIONARY. 


Forbes,  the  elder  sun,  was  formerly  a  merchant,  and  is  now  a  liotel-keeper  at  Weymouta  bridjjie  ; 
Frank  W.,  is  a  circuit  mann<,'er  of  tlie  Western  Union  Teloj,'riii>h  Co.,  with  headcpiarter;  in  New 
York  city,  and  Ijiiinetto  Maria  M.  is  married  to  Charles  Burrill,  of  tlie  firm  t)f  Burrill  <,nd  (Jo., 
Yarmouth,  his  residence  being  a'.  Weymouth. 

Our  subject  has  his  office  in  the  house  in  wliieh  he  was  born,  and  where  h"  lias  always 
lived,  and  is  one  of  those  officials  who  are  always  rea<ly  for  work.  He  and  his  goud  lady  are 
very  social  and  cordial  iieople,  and  give  strangers,  as  well  as  friends,  a  liei'»'ty  welcome  at  their 
hospital  lie  home. 


ItlGIlT   IlEV.   IIERBEHT    lilNIS'EY,   D.U, 

HALIFAX,  iN.N. 

BISH(»1'  ]51^^'K^',  for  thirty  years  in  the  episcopal  office  in  Nnva  Seutia,  is  one  of  the 
oldest  prelates  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  still  occuj)ving  sees.  The  Dioee.se  at"  Nova 
Scotia  was  founded  in  1787,  beinu',  we  understand,  the  first  eolomal  see  estab'i.shed  l\v  (beat 
Hritain.  At  first  it  included  Nova  Scotia,  New  Bi'imswick  and  Prince  Kdward  island,  this 
state  of  things  existing  until  IS-t-l.  when  the  Province  of  New  Brnnswicli  was  forini'il  into  a 
separate  see  under  the  name  of  the  liiocese  of  Fredericton. 

Bishop  Binney  is  a  son  of  the  Rev.  Di.  Binney,  rector  of  Newbury,  Berks ;  was  boi-n  in 
Sydney,  Cajie  Breton  (of  which  parish  his  father  was  then  rectoi-),  in  the  year  1S10  ;  was  edu- 
cated at  King's  collogi,',  l.ondon,  Kng.,  afterwards  became  .-icholar  an<l  fellow  of  Worcester  col- 
lege, O.xford,  of  which  college  he  wa-s  appointed  tutor  in  18tfi  and  bur.sar  in  l.s+S.  Was  or- 
dained deacon  in  1842  and  jiriest  in  1^43.  In  IS.")!  lie  was  nonunated  to  the  see  of  Nova  Seo- 
ua,  and  on  the  25th  of  Minch,  of  the  same  year  was  consecratetl  bishoj)  in  Landieth  chapel  b\ 
t)ii'  .\rchbishop  of  Canterbury,  as>isted  by  the  Bishops  of  London,  Oxford  and  Chichester. 

As  a  prelate  Bishop  Bintiey  has  had  a  highly  creditable,  because  an  eminently  successful 
career,  and  his  praise  is  on  the  lips  of  the  people  all  uver  his  diocese.  As  a  citizen  he  has  the 
credit  of  having  done  a  groat  deal  to  advance  th"  ])ublic  institutions  of  the  city  of  llalifa.x,  and 
its  interests  generally. 

On  Fri'lay,  the  2.")th  of  March,  lci.-<l.  the  bishoj)  celebrated  the  .SOlh  anniversary  of  liN 
episcopate,  special  services  being  held  at  St.  Luke's  cathedral  a  that  day.  It  sviis  made  tlie  oe- 
ciusion  of  many  warm  congratulations  m  the  part  of  liis  nunserous  tViends  in  the  city  of  Il;di- 
fa.\. 


IIO^.    KDWIN     R.    OAKES, 

I'KUty.  x.s. 


JJ\\)\\\S  RANDOLPH  OAKKS  is  a  son  <,f  the  late  Ifemy  Oakes,  who,  at  the  age  „r 
IJ  eleven  year-^,  came  with  his  father,  .b>se  Oakes.  to  Aiuiapolis  county,  N  S.  frem  Long 
Isiaml.  New  ^^lrk,  immediately  after  the  close  of  the  An\eiieMn  revolution,  and  wjs  born  at 
Pleasant  \:ille\ ,  cdunly  ut'  liigby,  Nbucli  2.".,  IMS;  bis  motliei  Mils  Mar\  Randolph,  daughter 
tif  Robert   Randolph,  born   in    Woodbridge,  State  of  Ni  w    Viuk,  in  177").      Both  fannlies  were 


THE  CAXADIAX  lUOOItA  rillCAL  DhTroXAin'. 


-.:!!» 


adherents , to  the  British  Crown,  and  left  tlie  United  States  on  that  aeeount.  Henry  Oak es 
was  born  iit  Htintinij;ton,  Lon<;  Island,  in  1772;  purehased  a  large  tract  of  land  at  Pleasant 
VaUe3',  ^\^llieh  he  eultivated  with  success  and  profit;  was  a  captain  of  militia,  and  an  active, 
onterprisinjf  man,  dying  in  IStiO  at  eighty-seven  years  of  age. 

Mr.  Oakes  received  a  grammar  school  edtication,  was  a  clerk  at  St.  .Tolin,  N.R.,  initii  nine- 
Iren  years  of  age,  at  twenty  he  comnienceii  the  mercantile  luisiness  foi'  himself  at  f'riiliictown, 
Annapolis  county,  where  he  renuiined  until  1S40,  and  then  removed  to  IHghy,  retiiing  in  iMi-, 
after  ,t  suc'ssful  business  career  of  nearly  a  «iuarter  of  a  century. 

Of  late  years  Mr.  Oakes  has  lived  a  comparatively  quiet  and  ea.sy  life,  having  a  small  farm 
near  ;<jwn,  wliidi,  with  otlier  business,  occupies  his  time  ami  atttMition  just  enough  to  atfnril 
hini  healthful  exerci.se  and  recreation. 

He  was  a  scliool  trustee  for  fifteen  or  sixteen  years,  and  has  been  a  magistrate  for  about 
the  same  period.  He  sat  for  the  county  of  Digby  in  the  House  of  Commons  at  Ottawa  finui 
the  opening  of  1874  until  called  to  the  Legislative  ( 'ouncil  in  October  of  the  same  year,  hi* 
]'olities  being  Liberal. 

Mr.  Oakes  was  the  i)riiiH'  mover  in  forming  St.  Paul's  Reformed  Kpisco|)al  church  il.S7(!\ 
of  which  ho  is  the  most  lilteral  supporter. 

He  was  married  at  ])igbv,  to  (Jeorgiana  .lane  Maria,  daughter  of  (J(>orge  Hragg,  Ks(|., 
formerly  >>f  Birmingham,  Eng.,  anil  they  have  three  children,  two  sons  and  a  daughter. 
(Jeorge  B.,  the  eldest  son,  is  a  physician  at  Digby. 


WILLIAM     \.    FOSTKIJ, 

HUIIHiF.ToWN,  A'.s". 

"rTTi  LLL\M  Vol;  N't  i  K(  >STKU.  one  of  the  longest  residents  of  Hridg.'town,  and  deputy  chrk 
V  V  of  the  county  c<Mirt,  and  treasurer  of  the  county  of  Annapolis,  was  liorn  in  the  town- 
sliip  of  Oianville  in  this  county,  on  the  22nd  of  May,  bsoii.  His  futln'i-,  Kzra  Karnswortli 
Foster,  wius  ai'o  bom  in  that  township,  he  being  a  son  of  a  I'nitid  Kmpin'  lioyalist  from  the 
Srnti's  and  one  of  the  [lioncer  settlers  in  Oran\illiv  Both  father  and  grandfatln'i-  were  fariiuTs, 
and  the  fiiriiier  was  at  one  pi'iiod  tirst-iieutenant  of  ^  militia  (nni])aiiy.  'i'lie  mother  of  William 
was  ;- ii.sanna  'i'loop.  a  native  of  tliis  pinviiinv  and  liaughriT  i>f  .bilm  Tronp  of  hutch  di'si-cut. 
Both  parents  dieil  at  Aylfoni,  his  fatlin  in  his  !t2nd  ami  his  mo. her  in  her  lltitli  yi'ar. 

Mr.  Fn-ti'r  leccivcd  liis  educatimi  in  a  count  r;.  sihool  ;  fan I  until  nearly  of  age  ;  clerked 

a  \\lole  in  a  store  at  !<ridgcto\\  ii.  and  was  tlirn  ui  par(iiers1ii]i  fui'  tineeyears  wit!i  a  man  engaged 
in  the  mcreaMtili'  irade  and  sjiip-buildiiig  A  little  Ir.ter  i^bS47  Mr.  Kn-t.  r  h'suummI  m.icantil.' 
imrsuits  alone,  and  followid  them  umil  IMG')  whfii  he  clo.seil  out 

lb-  lias  !iei  t)  a  magistrate  for  several  \  ears,  deputy -cii-ik  of  the  county  couit  ii<uily  ivs  long, 
and  treasurer  of  the  count  \  since  Octol)er,  1S7.H  In  lieing  n  straightforward,  aci-urati-  and 
perfectly  reHnble  busini'ss  man.     He  was  (br  ^i'n;e  years  treasurer  of  a  Im-al  agricultural  socii-tv. 

In  former  years  he  wa*  somewhat  active  in  politi'al  life:  favtued  Coiifederatioh.  .oid  in 
ls(i7  cfiitteNteil  Annapolis  I'uuntv  '>n  the  « 'on.'^crvativ  c  •-id''  for  the  Nous.'  .if  ,\«si'mbly  and  was 

defeated 

til 


540 


THk  CANAbTAN  litOGRAPtllCAL  VWTtOKAtiY. 


He  is  a  chuichinan,  ami  has  served  at  various  tiinos  as  vestryman  of  St.  .lames'  church. 
Nobody,  we  presume,  questions  the  ])urity  of  his  life. 

Mr.  Foster  was  joined  in  marriaife  in  IMS.)  to  Menetta,  (hiuj,diter  of  Setll  Leonanl.  of  Para- 
di.se,  N.S.,  faiiner  and  magistrate,  and  slie  has  had  one  son  and  three  (hiugliters,  oidy  the  tliree 
latter  heing  now  alive.  Charlotte,  the  eldest,  is  the  wife  of  James  Forsyth,  of  Detroit, 'Mich.  ; 
(Mara  Bennett,  is  the  wife  of  Ambrose  Bent,  merchant,  of  Paradise,  and  Elizabeth  Jane  is  with 
her  i>arents. 

Mr.  Foster  has  lived  in  Bridgetown  since  181(1,  and  is  the  only  man  now  Ikmc  wlio'was  a 
resident  at  that  date.  Although  seventy-tive  years  of  age,  he  is  well  jiieseived,  has  good  use 
of  his  mental  faculties,  and  is  still  an  active  man,  and  greatly  respected  by  the  many  |Wople 
in  the  countv  who  know  him. 


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ANGUS    Mf'TSAAC,  M.P., 

ANTIGOyiSH,  N.t^. 

THFi.  .subject  of  this  sketch,  who  represents  the  county  of  Antigonisli  in  the  House  of  Com- 
mons, is  of  Scotch  descent,  and  a  son  of  Donald  and  Mary  (Macgillivray)  Mclsaac,  and 
was  born  at  Antigonisli  in  l.S+i.  He  was  educated  at  St.  Francois  .Xavier  college,  Antigonisli, 
read  law  in  the  same  place  with  the  late  William  Croke,  M.P.,  and  Hon.  Daniel  JfcDonald, 
fornicily  of  Uie  i<egislative  As.sembly  of  Xova  Scotia,  and  wascalli'dto  the  bar  in  1871.  He  is 
of  the  law  tirm  of  Mclsaac  kt  Macgillivray.  and  is  a  well-ri'ad  lawyer  and  able  advocate,  being 
cleai ,  logical  and  ])crsuasiM',  and  making  a  strorg  iiu|)ression  on  a  jury. 

Some  years  ago,  Mr.  Mclsaac  hehl  the  olHce  of  inspector  of  schools  for  .Antigonish  county, 
the  only  local  otHce,  we  bi'lievc,  he  ever  held. 

He  wa^  first  letiirned  to  parliament  for  his  jiicsent  seat  in  December,  187:5.  on  the  resig- 
nation of  the  sitting  m«'ml«er,  Hon.  Hugh  McDonald,  now  a  judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  Nova 
Scotia,  but  >  id  not  take  his  seat,  owing  to  the  dissolution  of  parliament  soon  afterward.  He 
was  re-electvd  iii  1874,  and  again  in  1878,  his  politics  being  Liberal. 


DUNCAN    CAMPHKLL. 

HALIFAX,  A'.N. 

r>  I'NCANCAMl'iiKI.Lwas  iiorn  in  Oban,  Aigylesbiie,  Scotland,  on  the  .Srd  of  April.  181S. 
He  is  tlie  youngest  son  of  the  lie..  Jolm  < 'ampbell,  for  tbrty-two  years  jiastor  (,i  tiie 
Congregational  church  in  that  town.  Mr.  Camiiliell's  fatliei  died  in  IS"):>,  and  his  sun's  lirst 
woik  was  H  memoir  of  his  father,  published  by  A.  Fullartoii  and  <'n..  in  I8.');{.  'Die  book  was 
Well  rect'ived;  it  presents  a  pictiiie  of  a  mi.ssionary  and  ministerial  life  in  the  Highlands  of 
Scotland  during  tlie  early  Jiart  of  the  present  century,  by  narrating  the  niosi  striking  iiieidetits 
in  the  life  of  a  devoted,  and  most  laborii>iis  servant  of  ( 'luist.  wiio  for  upwards  of  half  a  ceii 
turv  labored  in  that  inti'restiiig  H(d<l. 


TIIF  CASADIAN  BWGSAl'lllCAL  DlCTIONA/n: 


541 


Mr.  CampK'll  was  connected  with  the  nowapaper  picss  for  a  number  of  years.  He  occu- 
pied tlio  position  of  editor  of  the  Glufujuv  Anjus,  and  was  an  editorial  contributor  to  the  Lhd/;/ 
Jiidlcdii, the  Hi'.st  penny  daily  newspaper  established  in  Scotland. 

In  \H(')'2  he  wa.s  coiinnissioned  by  the  Cila.sgow  Roail  Reform  A.ssociaiion  to  lecture  in  the 
principal  tcjwiis  in  Scotland  on  that  .subject.  The  agitation  was  most  successful.  Tlie  aboli- 
tion 0/  the  obnoxious  toll  .system  has  since  been  prosecuted  by  all  the  counties,  and  in  three  or 
four  years  the  .system  will  be  a  tluTij.,'  of  the  past. 

Mr.  Campbell  arrived  in  Halifax  in  charge  of  a  large  body  of  emigrants,  in  18G(J,  brought 
throuidi  the  instrumentality  of  the  provincial  government,  of  which  Sir  Charles  Tupper,  the 
pre.'if'i'it  distinguished  minisier  of  laitways,  was  then  the  heail.  Since  liis  arrival  in  Nova  Sco- 
tia Mr.  Campbell  has  p\iblished  a  history  of  the  province,  which  embodies  about  half  a  century 
of  history  which  had  not  l)een  tracked  by  any  pievious  historian.  The  book  has  been  very  fa- 
vorably received,  and  has  had  a  circulation  of  about  .'S.dOO  copies.  He  also  publislied  a  school 
history  of  Nova  Scotia  of  which  1(),()()()  copies  are  in  circulation, and  likewise  produced  in  187'> 
a  history  of  I'rince  Edward  Island,  of  which  ;j,()0(»  co|)ies  have  been  sold. 

Besides  these  works  Jlr.  Campbell  has  written  a  mniiber  of  elaborate  letters  on  thi'  evils 
resulting  fron\  the  sale  of  the  provincial  crown  lands,  without  any  conditions  as  to  occupancy 
and  cultivation,  and  also  on  the  i)ernicious  road  system  of  the  province,  as  well  m  other  sub- 
jects relating  to  its  material  interests, 


MINER    TUPPER, 

HHTlXiETolVN,  N.S. 


rilHK  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  at  Tupperville,  in  the  county  of  Annapolis,  on  the  .'Kith 
1_  of  .laniuiiy,  IM7.  The  family  were  I'nited  Empire  Loyalists  ;  his  grandfather  Miner  came 
from  New  Voik  to  Nova  Scotia,  aboiit  the  time  of  the  war  for  iudependfuce.  His  father  John 
niarri''<l  Elizabeth  L<jngli'y,  youngest  daughter  of  Isi'ael  I.ongley,  orif  of  the  old  loyalists,  he 
settled  on  the  old  honu'stead  and  was  an  intelligent  farmer  and  justice  of  the  [jcaee  for  over 
twenty  years.     Both  parents  were  buried  at  i{ound  Hill  ciant^teiy  in  this  county. 

■Mr.  Tupper  received  an  ordinary  English  education  at  the  ohl  town  of  Annapolis,  lie 
married  Kli/.abctli  .Vnn  Winchester,  of  Ito^ett.  near  Amiapolistown,  on  the  2nd  of  February, 
IS+'J,  and  the\  have  seven  children.  The  olde-t  son,  John  Hinegar,  occupies  the  olil  Wiiichestei' 
farm  ;  William  M..  is  a  merchant  at  Bridgetown.  The  sons  are  both  marrieil;  al.so  one  daughter, 
<  'ordelia  Victoria,  to  l.eander  S.  MorT,  lawyer  and  school  inspectorfor  the  counties  of  Annaiiolis 
and  I  >igbv.  The  other  children,  Harriet  Annie,  Eliza  Jane,  Ella  Bertha  and  Lillie  .Mary  Borteus, 
are  at  home. 

Ml.  Tupper  has  followeil  farming,  milling,  and  trading  in  hi.s  day.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders,  dii-etois  ami  owners  of  the  lie(|uille  cloth  mills,  near  Annapolis,  which  has  proved  a 
great  l)enetit  to  the  community,  and  the  pri>vince  at  large.  In  the  spring  of  |n."i">,  he  bought  a 
liand.some  liriek  house  in  liiidgctovMi,  and  he  also  pnr-hased  a  eommodious  store,  with  the  view 
of  extending  Ids  trade  in  general  merchantlise  and  shipping.  By  careful  anil  economical 
managemvut,  he  succeeded  well,  h'lving  accumulated  tt  handnunie  properly,  placing  himself  iu 


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comfurtihle  circmiistaiices  for  life;  and  he  has  the  satisfaution  of  knowing  that  his  aeeiiuuUntions 
were  honostly  o})tainecl. 

Mr.  TuiUK'f  wont  to  Kn;^'aii'l  and  spent  two  months,  visiting  the  nianufactorios  of  Man- 
cliestor,  Liverpool,  Birmingham,  Staflordsliire  and  London,  Avhero  he  selected  a  large  stock  of 
goods,  and  made  arrangements  to  have  goo<ls  shipj)ed  monthly  an<l  half-yearly,  which  proved 
very  satisfactory,  and  remnnerative  for  many  years,  until  he  sold  out  his  stock  in-trade,  Decem- 
ber, L*S7K  and  retired. 

In  the  summer  of  18G4,  he  made  arrangements  with  three  of  his  neighhors  and  Liiiilt  a  huge 
schooner  on  his  old  faiin  at  Tupperville,  for  tlie  American  and  West  India  trade  ;  they  traded 
in  the  Boston  market  for  seveiji!  years  before  the  schooner  becani'-  too  small  to  do  thi^  bu.-iiness. 
They  built  a  new  one  which  pi'oved  very  remunerative,  taking  i)otatoes,  apples,  lumbei ,  etc.,  etc., 
to  the  Boston,  New  York  ami  Baltimore  mark«^ts,  and  leturning  with  tiour  and  com-meal,  etc., 
etc.  After  liaving  successfully  run  these  ent.i'rprises  fur  nine  yeais.  they  had  the  niist'oitune  to 
lo.se  both  of  tlie  vessels,      Mr,  Tup]ier  then  gave  up  his  interest  in  shipping. 

He  has  lield  the  magistrate's  commission  for  the  county  nearly  forty  year.-^ :  siiuctury  and 
treasiu'cr  of  the  poor  districts,  lioth  for  ilie  township  of  Annapolis  and  (Iraii\lllt ,  many  years. 
He  is  trustee  and  stewanl  of  the  Methodist  chu.ch  ;  was  electetl  a  delegate  tn  the  first  general 
confei'.'nce,  held  in  Toronto,  September,  \X7\,  where  the  Wesleyan  .Methodist  and  New  Connec- 
tion Methodist  unitecl.  under  th"  name  of  the  M.ethodist  t'huicli  of  Canada. 

He  is  a  Liberal  in  politics,  and  has  given  much  time  ami  money  toailvance  the  interests  of 
the  great  reforms  and  respoi\sible  government ;  and  is  an  earnest  Wfjrker  in  the  great  temi^'rance 
reform,  having  spent  imudi  time  and  attentiou  in  gi  tting  up  tlie  petitions  for  ti.c  »  anaila  Scott 
Act,  which  was  voted  ui)on  in  April,  bSSl,  in  this  county,  and  ]/ass(!d  by  about  1,000  niMJority, 
which  atl'ordeil  i,im  great  satisfaction. 

He  has  lieen  amendierof  (lie  ^'oung  .Men  s  Cliristian  Association  ovei- twelve  years,  and  has 
spent  much  time  anil  money  in  ailvancing  the  interest  ot  this  good  institution.  He  attended  the 
great  convention  iield  a(  (Quebec,  in  September,  lis77,  and  the  convention  held  at  ( 'hailotte- 
town,  I'rinci.'  Mdward  Island,  Sei>tend)ei',  liS8(). 

He  has  held  the  ottice  of  sciiool  commissioner  many  years,  beinga  warm  friend  of  education, 
and  is  anxious  to  raisi'  the  stan<lard  of  the  schools  of  his  eouMty  and  province,  having  experi- 
ence th(>  ^reat  want  of  a  Vietter  education  himself. 


•lOlIN     K.    UY'KliSON, 

iAHMiiLTH,   N.:< 

JOHN  Klidj.V.M  KVKKSON.of  the  lirm  of  Uyeison,  Muses  and  Co.,  shipping  ami  commi.ssiim 
nierdiants,  is  descended  troni  one  of  the  eaily  Dutch  settlers  in  tie  State  of  New  \'<Mk, 
and  was  born  at  Aimapolis  Hoyid,  N.S.,  on  the  Kith  of  duly,  |S'2<».  hn  fathei'  being  Stephen 
D.  Hyerson,  a  farmei',  and  son  of  Krancis  Ryerson,  a  United  Kmpire  Loyalist,  who  came  to  N(j\a 
Scotia  at  the  close  of  the  revolution  ;  ids  motiier  was  a  Miss  Kiilam,  daughter  of  John  Killam, 
who  v\iis  from  Beverly,  Mass. 

Ml".  R^ersoii  received  a  smattering  knowledge  of  t!ie  elementary  branches  in  a  countrv 
school,  but  is   lai'gely  .self-educated,   is  a   well-informed,  business  man,  and  hai;  field  positions 


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of  honor  as  well  as  trust.  At  seventeen  years  of  age  he  went  ti>  sea,  and  at  twenty-one  was 
master  of  a  vessel,  following  a  mariiiine  life,  and  being  engaged  in  the  West  India  and  Knropean 
trade  until  IHoO,  when  he  became  a  ship  owner  and  commission  merchant,  and  has  been  in  the 
firm  already  mentioned  about  twenty  years.     They  are  doing  a  good  business. 

Mr.  Ryerson  was  a  town  councillor  under  the  old  municipal  system,  and  captain  at  one 
period  of  a  naval  brigade;  has  been  a  magistrate  foi  a  long  time;  a  director  of  the  Atlantic  In- 
surance Company,  Yarmouth,  for  the  last  fifteen  years  ;  was  one  of  the  founders,  and  is  one  of 
the  govern<jrs  of  the  Yarmouth  seminar^',  and  liberal  in  supjiorting  and  encouraging  local  enter- 
prizes  of  a  laudable  kind. 

At  the  time  of  the  CJonfeUeration  (18G7),  he  was  electi'il  to  represent  Yarmouth  in  the 
House  of  Assembly' ;  was  defeated  in  1872,  and  again  returned  in  1S7.S.  to  fill  a  vacancy  caused 
by  the  re.^ignatidn  of  VV.  H.  Townsend,  serving  in  all  in  a  legislative  body  a  period  of  seven 
years,  and  always  afiiliated  with  the  Liberal  party;  he  is  a  Master  Mason. 

In  IN+H  Mr.  Ryerson  was  joined  in  wedlock  with  Miss  Abby  Shaw,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Shaw,  of  Yarmouth,  w'ii  was  for  many  years  high  sluiiH'  of  this  ctainty ;  and  she  has  ha<l 
eight  children,  only  three  of  them,  one  son  and  two  daughters,  now  living.  Kthuund  A.  vS.  is 
an  accountant  for  his  father;  Julia  is  the  wife  of  C.J.  B.  Tucker,  merchant,  Yarmouth,  and 
Ktta  F.  is  at  home. 


liEV.  JOHN    T.   T.   MOODY,   A.M., 

YARMOUTH,  N.  S. 

JOHN  THOMAS  TIDMARSH  MOODY,  rector  of  Varmuuth,  is  a  native  of  this  province, 
being  born  at  Halifax,  on  the  2.>th  of  March,  1804' ;  his  father,  .b)hn  Moody,  merchant, 
was  born  in  New  York,  June  19,  1779:  his  great-grandfather,  .Inbn  Moody  (iiorn  in  London  , 
was  a  Loyalist  during  the  war  of  the  colonies  with  the  mother  idiintry.  as  was  also  his  grand- 
father, Thomas  Moody.  The  family  came  to  Nova  Scotia  about  1783.  'I'lie  mother  of  our  .sub- 
ject was  Mary  K.  Tidmai-sh,  a  native  of  Halifax.  They  were  married  in  iHOO,  and  lived  to  a 
grea.t  age,  Mr.  Moody  to  his  !t2nd  year,  and  Mis.  Moody  to  her  Stitli. 

Mr.  Moody  was  eiliicated  at  King's  colluge,  Windsor,  ^of  which  in--titution  he  is  a  master  of 
arts),  and  was  ordained  deacon  in  1827,  by  tlie  Rt.  Ilev.  John  Inglis,  I >.!).,  Hishop  of  Nova 
Scotia,  and  priest  in  DecemlKn-  of  the  following  year,  by  the  same  Iiishop.  While  deacon  he 
commenced  his  ministerial  labors  at  Liverpool,  N.S,,  in  succession  to  the  Rev.  W.  Twining,  the 
first  rector,  and  remained  there  nearly  twenty  years,  attending  to  his  parochial  duties,  which 
were  of  a  missionary  character,  throughout  the  county  of(^»ueen's;  he  presided  all  that  time  at 
the  board  of  school  coiniuissioners.  Before  Mr.  Moody  left  Liverpool,  he  had  the  pleasure  of 
seeing  his  parish  church  nuich  eidarged,  and  two  chapels  ami  several  sdiodl-houses  erected  in 
the  rural  ]>arts  of  his  parish,  and  the  communicants  increased  from  IK  to  200. 

In  iH^fi,  Mr.  Moody  was  appointed  rector  of  Yarmouth,  and  has  held  that  position  for 
thirty-five  years,  during  which  periotl  he  has  seen  the  iiumlier  of  communicants  in  his  parish 
more  than  trebled,  ami  has  baptized,  during  his  luinistiy  ot  '<{■  years,  more  than  2,0(10  persons. 
H"  t'rc.-.ent  parish  church  bears  the  name  of  the  Holy  Trinity.  It  was  consecrated  in  1872,  l>y 
th»     '"   Rev.  Bishop  Binney.     It  is  a  very  handsonn^  brick  structuii!, in  the  early  English  |ierioil 


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of  architecture,  and  will  scat  nearly  700   i)ersons.      The  property  of  this  parish  is  valued  at 
{<4'0,000.     There  are  in  the  parish  two  handsome  Sunday  school-liouses. 

Mr.  Moody  married,  on  the  l-tth  of  September,  lu.SO,  Sarah  Bond,  eldest  daughter  of  tlie 
late  H.  (5.  h'arrish,  M,D.,  of  Yarmouth.  They  celebrated  their  <,'olden  wedding  on  Septendier 
14,  liSXO.  Thov  have  had  nine  childi'en,  only  foui'  of  whom,  three  daugliters  and  one  son,  an- 
now  living.  James  I".,  the  only  surviving  .son,  i.s  a  graduate  of  the  eoUegti  of  physicians  and 
surgeons,  of  New  York,  and  has  been  in  extensive  practice  for  many  years  at  Richibucto,  N.S, 


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HON.   ROBERT    BOAK,   M.L.C., 

HALIFAX,  N.  S. 

EGBERT  BOAK,  president  of  the  Legislative  Council  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  until  ipiite  re- 
)  cently  a  tradei'  in  West  India  goods,  was  born  in  Leith,  Scotland,  on  the  IDtli  of  Sop- 
tendier,  l^'l'l.  His  father,  Robert  Boak,  senior,  was  fn^m  Shields,  county  of  Durham,  Englund. 
The  maiden  name  of  his  mother  was  Mary  Ann  Baxter. 

He  received  a  eonmion  English  education,  fittin;:  himself  fdf  mercantile  business.  He  was 
a  clerk  in  early  life,  holding  that  post  until  .Fanuarv  1,  1.S47,  when  he  commenced  business  in 
the  firm  of  John  Essen  and  Co.,  which  in  lJS5i  wiui  changed  to  Plssen,  Boak  and  Co.,  dealing 
all  the  time  in  West  Iiitlia  goods  and  acting  as  conuuission  merchants.  Mi'.  Boak  luvs  always 
nuinaged  his  business  with  prudence,  retiring  in  187"). 

As  Mr.  Boak  has  been  a  careful  manager  of  his  own  private  affairs,  the  public  has  seen  tit 
to  entrust  him  with  more  or  less  of  its  business.  He  is  at  this  time  [ursident  of  the  Acadia 
Fire  Insurance  Co.;  was  at  one  time  presiilent  of  the  Merchants'  Insurance  Co.  ;  is  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Halifax  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  of  tiic  Nova  Scotia  Chamber  of  ('ommerce  ;  a 
director  of  the  I'nion  Bank  of  Halifax,  and  was  president  of  the  Repeal  League  of  18G7-l8(iiS. 
Jn  all  the  public  positions  in  which  \\r  has  been  placed,  he  has  shown  himself  eminently  trust- 
worth  \-. 

He  was  called  to  the  Legislative  Council  on  the  2lst  of  February,  187-,  and  is  now  its 
president.     His  politics  are  Lil)eral. 


'.O^s'.    SI.\1(L\     11.    110J.MK.S 

HALIFAX,  N.S. 

SIMON  lirciH  li(>LMI'>  |iiovincial  secretary  of  Nova  Scotia,  was  born  Jiear  Springviile, 
Kiist  River  townshii),  lounty  of  I'ictou,  on  ilis  ;J()th  of  July,  IS.'U  ;  his  parents  being  the 
Hon.  John  Holmes,  and  Catlnrine  Eraser,  his  wife.  The  latter  was  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia; 
the  fornu'r  came  from  Ross-shire,  Scotland,  to  this  province  in  |.S()I$,  John  Hoinu's  was  Imrn 
in  17^4^5;  rcpresiMited  I'ictnu  county  in  the  Nn\a  Scotia  legislature  fn.m  is;{!t  t.i  IN4'7and  from 
IH'il  to  bS.").');  appointeil  to  the  Leuislative  Council  in  1N'>.S;  and  ti>  the  Senate  at  the  t'eie  ui 
tlic  Confederation,  in  1807, 


THK  CANAJ)IAK  RlOVRAl'HtCAL  DTCTlONARr. 


■Ao 


Our  subject  was  educated  at  tlie  New  Glasgow  grammar  siliool  and  tlic  Pictou  aoadeiny ; 
.studied  law  with  Hon.  James  McDonald,  now  Chief  Justice  of  Nova  Scotia;  was  called  to  tiie 
har  of  Nova  Scotia  in  August,  \8G-i,  and  up  to  a  recent  date  was  in  practice  in  Pictou,  making 
an  lionorable  record  as  a  barrister.  He  is  a  good  logician,  and  an  able  speaker,  and  makes 
a  very  favorable  impression  before  a  jury. 

-Mr.  Holmes  was  for  fourteen  years  editor  and  proi>rietor  of  the  CohmmJ  Stiuiilaril.  Pictou, 
an  out.spoken  Liberal  Conservative  paper,  which  he  conducted  with  marked  cabijity,  and  which 
had  a  great  influence  in  .shai)ing  the  politics  of  the  coimty. 

^Ir.  Holmes  w  i  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  the  county  of  Pictou  at  the  general  clt'iMion 
in  1^0(7  ;  was  again  a  candidate  f<)r  his  present  seat,  at  the  general  election  of  IN"!  :  was  n- 
elected  by  acclamation  in  1S74,  when  he  was  selected  as  leader  f)f  the  Opposition  ;  and  by 
contest  in  1878,  and  was  called  upon  to  form  the  present  administration,  of  which  he  became 
provincial  secretary  on  the  1st  of  October,  1878.     He  is  premier,  and  a  man  of  gi'cat  tact. 

He  joined  the  volunteers  of  the  jirovince  when  a  young  man,  and  rose  to  the  rank  of 
captain;  was  subseipiently  captain  of  militia,  and  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  major,  and 
resigned  on  being  elected  to  parliament. 


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BOKALT)    ARCniBALD, 

MUS(,>VODOnOIT,  N.  S. 

DONALD  ARCHIBALD,  warden  of  the  county  of  Halifax,  which  lie  represented  for  eight 
yeai-s  in  the  Incal  legislature,  is  one  of  the  self-educated  men  of  the  county,  being  born 
at  Mus(|uoiloboit,  on  the  1  nth  of  August,  ]  840.  His  parents  were  Matthew  and  Jane  (Orant'i 
Archiliald,  his  father  being  a  gramlson  of  one  of  the  four  Archibalds,  who  settled  at  Truro.  Plis 
mother's  family  wt're  from  Inverness-shire,  Scotland.  His  maternal  grandfather,  Daniel  Grant, 
after  whom  he  was  named,  servisl  for  tifteen  years  in  the  British  army,  when  he  received  his 
dischargf.  and  emigrating,  settled  in  Lower  Mus(iuodoboit,  County  of  Halifa.x. 

Donald  was  reared  on  his  fatlier's  farm,  attending  school  until  thirteen  yeais  of  age,  when, 
owing  to  his  father's  failing  of  health,  he  had  to  close  his  books,  ver\'  much  to  his  regret,  and 
give  his  whole  time  to  tlu'  fai'm.  He  reumined  at  home  until  twenty  years  of  age,  when  gold 
lieing  discovered  in  Nova  Scotia,  he  went  to  try  his  luck  in  the  mines.  After  spending  two 
years  in  prosp«^ting,  he  jiurchased  a  farm  in  the  township  of  Musnuodoboit,  about  twelve  miles 
fniiii  hi^  birth-place,  where  he  still  resides,  engaged  in  agricultiu'al  pursuits,  giving  considerable 
time,  als').  during  the  iast  two  years  to  mining  speculations.  He  is  a  thoroiigh-goiug  liusiness 
man. 

At  the  age  of  twenty-three  years,  Mr.  ArchibaM,  at  the  unanimdus  reeoiinuendatinn  of  the 
freeholds  of  his  district,  was  appointe<l  by  the(Jovernment  a  ju.stice  of  tie  peace, an  otlice  which 
he  .still  holds,  He  was  elected  to  the  Legislative  As.sembly,  to  rei)resent  his  native  countv,  in 
1871,  when  onlv  ihiity-one  years  of  age,  was  re-elfcted  in  l87t.  and  otl'ered  hini.self  again  in 
1878.  but  was  defeated,  it  being  a  disasterous  year  to  the  Liberal  party,  to  which  he  belongs. 

Ml .  Archibald  is  a  worker  in  whatever  he  is  engage.l.  and  while  in  tiie  Legislature  took  a 
,  .'rv  active  part  in  furthering  the  agricultural  interests  of  the  Piovince,  and  in  improving  the 
roads  .  nd  laidgis  in   the  county  of  Halifas.     He  was  uimiiimuu.sly  elected  councillor  of  his 


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ilistiict  in  1S8()  and  1S81,  ami  in  tlio  latter  years  was  clectefl,  witlioiit  a  (lissentinjr  vote,  to  tie 
office!  of  \vfir<U'n.  He  had  been  president  of  tlie  Lower  Musquodoboit  Af^i'ieultural  Society  f<»r  the 
Inst  st'ven  j-ears,  and  is  a  iendinj^  man  iti  sucli  matters. 

Mr.  Archibnld  is  a  member  of  tlie  Presbyterian  church,  and  for  tlie  last  ten  years  has  held 
the  ottice  of  rulinfjf  elder  in  the  conjfregation  at  Mns(iuodoboit,  he  bein^-  a  man  as  solid  in  char- 
acter as  in  liiiild.  Mis  heiidit  is  six  feet  four  inches,  his  weifirht  i'A)  iiounds,  and  he  is  one  of 
the  most  ]iowerful  men  in  the  farmiufj  districts  of  the  county. 

Mrs,  Archibald  was  (iriz/ei)  McL.achlan.  dauifhter  of  William  McLaehlan,  of  Stewiaeke, 
("oichester  county,  Nova  Scotia,  a  Scotchman  who  emigrated  from  (ilasgow  in  18.S.").  She  was 
married  to  Mr.  Arcliibald,  February  the  Gth,  18(1.').     The  family  consists  of  seven  sons. 

We  ha\e  stated  that  Mr.  AichibaUl  left  school  when  only  thirteen  years  old;  but  it  is  hardly 
necejisary  to  state  that  he  did  not  wholly  abandon  his  studit^s ;  foi'  tlu'  reader  will  understand 
tliat  no  man  could  have  held  the  positions  that  he  has,  and  the  one  he  now  holds,  without  having 
stirred  uj)  a  good  deal  of  knowledge, after  entering  his  teens.  Mr.  Airhibald  has  a  strong  miml, 
and  well  as  a  strong  body,  and  he  has  never  allowed  his  leisure  time  to  run  to  waste.  lu  fact 
lie  is  a  man  of  more  than  orcii nary  general  intelligence,  and  withal  a  good  converser. 


.ta:me8  n.  k  :m:aksijatj., 

LIVERPOOL,  N.S. 

JAMES  NOBLK  SHANNON  MARSHALL,  judge  of  probate  for  the  county  of  Liverpool, 
and  American  consul  at  tlie  port  of  Liverpool,  is  a  son  of  the  llev.  John  Marshall,  who 
was  a  native  of  Peterborough,  Northamptonsiiire,  Eng.,  and  who  died  at  Lunenburg,  N.S.,  in 
July  LS(!4;  and  of  Harriet  Shannon,  wlio  was  from  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  .she  being  the  daughter 
of  a  W  K.  Loyalist,  who  himself  never  left  the  I 'iiited  States,  she  coming  to  Nova  Scotia  with 
lier  brothi'r,  and  dying  in  Halifax,  in  A})ril,  183!*.  Mr.  Marshall  was  born  at  Newport,  Hants 
county,  on  the  13th  of  June,  I82ii,  and  was  educated  at  Sackville  college,  N.H. ;  lie  studied  law 
with  his  cousin,  Hon.  S.  L.  Shannon,  Halifax  :  was  a  iiiitted  as  an  attorney,  in  .July,  I8")l,  ami 
as  a  barrister,  just  one  year  later,  and  was  made  a  ((Mieen's  ( 'ounsel  by  the  provincial  govern- 
ment in  187<i. 

Our  subject  I'.as  been  in  practice  at  Liverpool  for  twenty  years,  d  iiig  business  in  all  the 
courts,  anil  being  well  and  favorably  known  in  this  part  of  the  province. 

Ife  was  ajipointed  judge  of  |irobate,  in  December,  LS7(),  ami  is  prompt  ainl  faithful  in  dis- 
charging the  duties  of  that  ofliet' ;  he  was  also  ec  i>lticii>  judge  of  insolvency  until  the  t 'ounty 
Courts  Act  came  into  operation  in  1>s7(j  ;  his  appointment  as  .\merie,in  cdiisid  fur  this  jiort  dates 
from  March,  ls7t!.     In  ]iolitics  he  is  a  Lilieial. 

He  i'i  a  Past  Master  in  tlie  .Masonic  oider.  and  I'ast  High  Priest  of  the  Royal  Arch  Masons, 

Mr,  Marshall  takes  eonsi<leiable  interest  in  agricultural  atfaiis — is  a  nu'inber  of  the  local 
agricultural  society,  and  at  its  last  annual  exhibition  (188(»},  delivereil  the  address  at  its 
opening. 

He  is  an  adherent  of  the  .Nbthodist  church,  of  which  his  father  was  a  prominent  minister 
for  over  forty  yeaix,  during  the  greater  part  of  which  time  he  labored  in  the  Maritime 
Provinces, 


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Tlic  subject  of  this  sketch  lias  hecn  twice  niarrieil,  tiist  in  July,  18.^6,  to  Miss  Adelaide 
Allison,  of  Cornwallis,  N.  S,,  she  dvintr  in  April,  l.*S."i!>,  leavintr  three  children;  and  the  second 
time,  in  l!S(t.S,  to  Miss  Anj,'iista  Maek,  of"  Mill  Villa«,'e,  Queen's  county,  N.  S.,  he  havinj,'  by  her 
nine  chililren,  eij,dit  of  them  still  liviiij,'.  The  three  children  hy  th(^  first  wife  still  survive^  her, 
two  of  tlieni  lieinj^  .sons  and  settleil  in  life  ;  William,  the  second  son,  beiuL,'  a  bjirrister  in  Liver- 
[)ool,  and  John  .S.,  the  eldest,  a  farmer  in  Nranitoba.  Most  of  the  children  l>y  the  second  wife 
are  pursuini,'  their  studies. 


ale:\axi)er  .M<cuisir,  M.p.l^, 

ST.  PETER- f>  {C.n.),  X.S. 

THE  <,'entlenuin  whose  name  heads  tiiis  sketch,  and  who  is  a  member  of  the  House  of  Assem- 
bly for  the  county  of  Richmond,  wns  born  at  Loch  Lomond  (( '.  M.)  N.  S.,  on  the  third  of 
January,  18-1';},  his  parents  tiein^  Archibald  and  Jane  (McDonald)  McCuish ;  his  father  was  from 
North  Uist,  Scotland,  his  motlitr  from  North  Uist,  Inveniess-ahire,  same  country.  Archibald 
McCuish  is  a  thrifty  farmer  at  Loch  Lomond  ;  his  wife  is  still  livini,'.  In  his  childhood,  Alexander 
had  a  little  drill  in  the  puhlic  school  in  his  native  town,  but  his  education  was  obtained  mainly 
outside  a  school  room  ;  he  was  cnj^aged  in  farming  and  mining  until  about  twenty-five  years  of 
age,  since  which  time  he  has  been  trading,  with  fishing  supplies  as  a  specialty ;  ho  has  been 
very  industrious,  attending  carefully  to  the  minutiie  of  his  business,  beginning  on  nothing  but 
a  will  to  do  something  for  himself,  and  a  good  mind  in  a  strong  botly.  Pushing  steailily  for- 
ward, success  has  attemliMl  his  efforts  to  jilace  himself  in  comfortable  circumstances;  and  he  is 
the  owner  of  three  schooners,  besides  his  handsunu  property  at  St.  Peter's. 

Mr.  McCuish  has  tried  to  keep  out  of  office,  justice  of  the  peace  being  the  only  one  he  would 
accept,  until  1878,  when  he  was,  so  to  speak,  forcccl  to  accept  the  nomination  of  his  iJlieral 
('onservative  friends  f'oi-  the  seat  which  he  now  licpid;,  in  the  local  legislature.  This  he  was  per- 
suaded to  do  in  order  to  heal  a  breach  in  the  party,  and  secure  its  success  in  that  constituency. 
We  doubt  if  legislati\e  work  is  congenial  to  his  taste;  but  he  is  very  popular  in  Uichmond 
county,  and  may  l)e  per'^uaded  to  remain  in  iiailiament  longer  than  he  anticipated  doing  when 
he  entered  it. 

Mr.  McCuish  is  a  second-degree  Mason,  and  an  adherent  of  the  United  Presbyterian  church, 
lie  married  on  the  1st  of  Api'il,  1872,  Jessie  Ann  McPhee,  daughter  of  Angus  McPhee,  of  West 
J3ay,  Liverness  county,  N.  S.,  and  they  have  one  son  and  one  ilaughter. 


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HON.   HUGH    :\t<' DONALD,   Q.C., 

ANTHIONISH,  N.  S. 

IT  is  safe  to  say  that  nearly  three-fourths  of  the  men  whose  names  appear  in  fliis  volume, 
are  the  sons  of  faiineis,  the  suhject  of  this  .sketch,  one  of  the  judges  of  the  Si;])reiiu'  ('curt 
of  Nova  Scotia,  lielongiug  to  that  niinilier.  Mis  father,  Allan  McDonald, from  tiie  Mighlands  of 
Scotland,  emigrated  to  Prince  Kdward  Isi.ind,  the  early  part  of  this  century,  and  finall\  settled 


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TIIK  CA  S'A  DIA  .\    l!t(t(;l!A  I'JliCA  L  DtCTlOKA  R  Y. 


on  11  farm  at  Aiitl;;(»nish,  \.S.,  wliorc  llii;,'li  wiw  liurn  on  tlio  4tli  of  May,  1.S27.     'I'lif  nmi'lcn 
name  of  liis  motliuf  was  ('liristiria  Cameron,  also  from  Seotlainl. 

lliiyli  McDonalil  was  eiliicated  at  tlic  St.  AiidifWH  giammar  scliool,  ami  tho  St.  Francois 
Xavier  c'olloj^e,  Antigonisli ;  eoiiimeaeeil  .studying;  law  at  Aricliat,  llielimoiul  connty,  N.S.,  and 
finLslu'd  in  tlie  (jtliee  of  William  A.  litany,  now  one  of  the  judLfe.s  ol' tlic  Supreme  ( 'ourt  of 
Canada,  and  was  called  to  the  har  of  Nova  Sccjtia  in  Di-cendier,  l.S.Vj,  and  created  a  (,hieen's 
Counsel  in  1872.  He  lemained  at  Antij^^onish  for  eighteen  years,  practising  his  jirofession  in 
four  co\nities,  and  doing  a  thrifty  laisini'ss  in  tho  several  courts,  siipiciue,  ecpiity,  \;c.,  luitil  ho 
was  api)ointed  to  the  Supreme  liench  on  the  5th  of  Octoher,  1S7.S,  when  he  ivmoved  to  Halifax. 

While  at  the  liar  Judge  McDonald  was  (piito  ]n-omincnt,  Ijeing  a  lawyer  of  marked  ability 
— tlie  leader,  in  fact,  on  tho  circuit.  Ho  was  a  can<lid  and  logical  jileader,  and  had  great  inllu- 
ence  with  a  jury.  As  a  judge,  he  is  cool,  clear-heailod,  impaitial,  correct  in  his  deportment  and 
on  excellent  terni.s  with  the  bar. 

In  liS,")9,  Judge  McDonald  entered  public  life,  representing  the  county  of  Inverness  in  tho 
Legislative  Assendjly  four  years,  when  he  re;  ned  that  constituency,  and  nuiiainod  out  of  otHce 
until  Confederation  (18G7),  when  he  was  sent  to  Ottawa  to  represent  Antigonish  in  the  House 
of  Conniions.  He  lield  that  seat  until  the  downfall  of  the  Macdonald  administration  in  1873, 
and  for  a  short  time'  was  in  the  cabinet,  first  as  I'l-esidojit  of  the  Privy  Council,  and  then  as 
Minister  of  Militia  and  Defence.  It  was  Mr.  McDonald  who,  in  Apiil,  18GS,  moved  the  reso- 
lution for  the  recall  of  Di.  Tu[iper,  which  resolution  led  to  the  tlebate  in  which  Hon.  D'Arcy 
McGeo  distinguished  him.self  only  a  few  minutes  before  he  was  murdered.  The  politics  of  our 
subject  have  always  been  Conseivative  ;  his  religion  is  Roman  Catholic. 

Judge  McDonald  was  a  delegate,  with  iMessi's.  Hcjwe  ami  Annand,  to  England,  in  opposition 
to  the  Confederation  Act  then  proposed  (winter  of  18GG-7),  and  they  succeeded  in  .securing  better 
terms  for  union. 

He  was  married  in  l8.)r)  to  Sarah  Smith,  daughter  of  Joseph  Snuth,  Estj.,  of  Antigonish, 
and  they  have  one  son  and  three  daughteis  li\  ing,  and  have  buried  one  daughter.  The  son,  J. 
C.  McDonald,  is  at  college,  and  the  others  are  pursuing  their  studies. 


IIEV.  GEORGE    \V.  HILL,  A.M.,  D.C.L., 

HALIFAX,  N.  S. 

EEV.  GEORGE  ^WILLIAM"  HILL,  chancellor  of  the  Univer,sity  of  Halifax,  was  born  in 
this  city,  on  the  Hth  of  Novendier,  I.s:i4,  his  parents  being  Captain  \.  T.  Hill,  Ro\al 
Staff  Corps,  and  Hannah  Harriet  Hill,  daughter  of  Ste]>heu  Hall  I5inney,  of  Halifax. 

Chancellor  Hill  commenceil  his  education  in  the  Halifax'  granmiar  school :  .spent  two  years 
at  Acadia  college,  Wolfville,  and  then,  after  trying  his  hand  two  years  at  fainiing,  and  thereby 
strengthening  his  physical  constitution,  he  felt  it  his  duty  to  enter  the  ministry  of  the  Church 
of  England,  and,  with  that  end  in  view,  entered  at  King's  college,  Windsor,  N.S.,  on  advanced 
standing.  After  a  very  successful  career  of  collegiate  studies  he  was  graduated  bachelor  of 
arts  in  1847. 

We  learn  from  the  Cundiln  Svlioul  Journal,  for  Januarv.  187!*,  that  from  his  (graduation 
until  18.")4,  our  subject  "  tilled  the  position  of  curate  in  the  influential  pari.sh  of  St.  (ieorge's 


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Halifax.  In  tlio  liittor  ycai',  liaviiij,'  rotiimeil  from  a  iiif(M'ssful  mission  to  (Ifcat  Britain  on  lic- 
lialf  of  iii.s  iihiui  muter,  iu'  ruooivt^d  tlic  a|ii)ointm(.>nt  of  [iiofossor  of  pastoral  tlu'oloLTy  in  tliat 
institution,  and  for  Hve  years  tilli'<l  tlie  position  vvitli  i,'n'at  satisfaction.  In  l.S.")!>,  ho  returned  to 
Halifax,  as  tlic  curate  of  tlie  historic  old  church  of  St.  I'auls,  and,  on  the  death  of  the  venerahlo 
incundient,  in  1S(I.),  he  wns  ehoson  rector.  This  j)ositioti,  wliich  Ik-  still  retains,  is  one  of  the 
mo.st  important  centres  of  eeclesiastieal  influence  in  the  Maritime  IVovinces.  "  We  may  ohserve," 
continues  the  JininKil,  "tliat  the  church  edifice  of  St  Paul's  ha.s  a.ssociations  and  a  history 
surpassing  in  interest  ijroiiably  thoso  of  any  other  Prot».^st»int  sanctuary  in  the  Dominion.  Huilt 
within  a  year  of  the  founding  of  Halifix  (17.'>0),  its  frame  of  oak  is  still  untouched  l>y  the 
tooth  of  time.  On  the  ostalilishment,  in  l.S7(I,  of  the  university  of  Halifax,  a  degree-conferiinLj, 
non-tea('liing  institution,  modelled  after  the  university  of  London,  and  designed  to  simplify  and 
unify  the  collegiate  system  of  Nova  Scotia,  eonsiderahlo  speculation  arose  as  to  the  gentleman 
likely  to  he  named  for  the  important  and  dignitieil  ofHce  of  chancellor.  Doctor  Hill's  apjioint- 
nient  thei'cto  was  accepted  \>y  all  as  a  most  i'elieitous  solution  of  the  prohleni,  and  under  his 
able  direction,  the  .senate  of  the  tiniversity  has  made  gratifying  progress  in  bringing  into 
harmonious  co-operation  the  higher  educational  forces  of  the  province." 

At  the  time  of  his  appointment  to  the  chancellorship  of  the  university  of  Halifax,  th(! 
degree  of  D.C.L.  was  confern.Ml  upon  him  by  tlu!  university  of  King's  college — a  well  merited 
tributi'  to  the  scholarship  of  one  of  her  ripest  scholars. 

Dr.  Hill  is  president  of  the  Church  of  England  institute  and  of  the  board  controlling  St. 
Paul's  alms  house  of  industry ;  governor  of  the  oi'phan  asylum,  and  vice-pre.sident  of  the 
Biitish  and  Foreign  Bible  Society  and  of  the  Tract  Society.  He  has  been  for  many  years 
chaplain  of  the  Legislative  Council  of  Nova  Scotia  ;  he  is  a  delegate  from  the  diocese  of  Nova 
Scotia  to  the  synod  of  the  Anglican  Cliurch  in  Canada,  and  a  member  of  the  executive  com- 
mittee of  the  .synod.  He  is  also  a  prolific  writer,  the  number  of  books  and  pamphlets  from  liis 
pen  being  quite  numerous  and  able,  We  Hml  a  copy  of  most  of  hjs  works  in  the  legislative 
Jjbraiy  at  Halifax, 


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known  in  the  province  of  Nova  Scotia,  b-it  iu  otiier  provinces  of  the  Dominion  of 
Canada,  he  having  served  in  both  the  J'rovincial  and  Dominion  I'arliaments  for  .several  years, 
and,  at  one  jieriod,  as  a  minister  in  the  cabinet  of  Hon.  Alexander  Mackenzie.  Few  pur(\ly 
self-made  men  in  Nova  Scotia  liave  matle  a  more  prominent  or  Ijetter  reconl  than  Mr.  Uo.ss. 

He  is  a  native  of  the  Island  of  JSoularderie,  Cape  Breton,  named  for  one  of  the  French 
governors,  when  Cape  Breton  was  under  France;  and  he  was  born  on  the  27th  of  December, 
182.").  His  parents,  John  and  Robina  (Mackenzie)  Ro.ss,  were  both  from  Scotland,  and  belonged 
to  the  agricultural  community.  He  was  e<hicated  at  diU'erent  private  schools,  tinishing  in 
IS+I  at  Halifax,  when;  he  attended  one  year;  then  entered  a  shop  in  Cape  Breton,  where  he 
learned  the  mercantile  t  ia<le,  (•ommencin;;  business  for  himself  at  St.  Aim's,  Cape  iJrcton,  in 
l!S4'7,  and  continuing  it  until  |87+,  when  he  was  appointed  collector  of  customs  at  Halifax, 


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Mr.  Ross  was  postmastor  at  St.  Ann's  for  many  yeai-s,  and  held,  we  believe,  other  local  offices 
of  minor  importance.  In  ISoJ),  he  was  elected  to  the  Nova  Scotia  legislature  for  Victoria,  and 
re-elected  four  years  later,  serving  for  eight  consecutive  yeai>i  in  that  body.  He  was  the  au- 
thor of  the  bill  introduced  into  parliament  in  IST^,  which  was  passed,  and  on  which  wan 
founded  the  military  college  at  Kingston.  Among  the  legislators  he  was  a  first-class  counsellor 
and  worker. 

Mr.  Ross  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Commons  for  the  same  constituency  in  18G7 ;  re- 
elected in  1872,  and,  ( :i  being  appointed  Minister  of  Militia  in  the  administration  of  Mr. 
Mackenzie,  he  w^iis  re-elected  in  187 ■t.  It  is  woithy  of  note  that  our  subject  was  elected  three 
times  to  the  Dominion  Parliament  by  acclamation — a  very  clear  proof  of  the  confidence  the 
people  had  in  him,  and  of  the  high  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  his  constituents. 

As  collector  of  customs,  Mr.  Ross  is  very  attentive  to  his  duties,  and  has  made  it  a  rule  to 
do  well  whatever  task  the  public  or  the  government  assigns  him. 

He  is  a  master  mason,  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  a  man  of  untarnished  jind 
truly  stable  character.  In  1S5.'),  he  was  joined  in  marriage  with  Kliza  Hiirriet,  daughter  of 
Peter  Moore,  of  North  Sidney,  Cape  Breton,  and  of  eight  chililren,  the  fruit  of  this  union,  six 
are  yet  living.  The  eldest  son,  Peter  Hugh,  is  a  surveyor  in  the  county  of  Victoria;  another 
son,  John,  is  in  Dalhousie  college,  and  the  other  children  are  in  Halifax. 


UOK  IIU(Jn    CAMERON,  M.D.,   :Nr.L.C., 

MA  HON,  x.s. 

DR.  HUGH  CAMKRON,  mcmljer  of  the  Li-gislative  Council  of  Nova  Scotia,  was  born  at 
Antigonish  in  this  province,  on  the  18th  of  March,  1830,  his  father  being  Alexander 
Cameron,  who  was  Injrn  in  the  .same  place.  The  family  Iwlongs  to  Fort  William,  Scotland,  be- 
ing highlandfi-s  of  the  Lochiel  clan.  The  grandfather  of  our  subject,  Hugh  ( 'ameron,  conung 
out  and  settling  at  Antigonish  in  the  early  part  of  the  present  century.  The  mother  of  Dr. 
Cameron  was  Ann  Boy<l,  whose  pari'uts  were  also  from  Scotland. 

He  was  edueati'd  at  St.  Francois  Xaviercoilttgc,  Antigonish  and  the  univeraity  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, receiving  the  degree  of  MM.  from  the  latter  institution  in  I8(il.  After  practising  three 
years  at  Malnm,  county  of  Inverness,  Cape  Breton,  Dr.  Cameron,  in  18()-t-G5  attended  lectures 
at  Beilevue  hospiUii  medical  college,  New  Vork,  and  then  returned  to  his  old  fi»'ld  of  practice, 
where  he  has  been  nearly  twenty-one  years,  and  has  done  a  good  l)usiness,  broken  in  upon  w- 
casionally  by  politics. 

Dr.  Cameron  early  gave  c(m.siderable  attention  to  political  atlairs,  in  which  he  liocame 
much  interested,  and  in  18(i7,  the  year  of  Confeileration,  consented  to  contest  in  Inverness  for 
the  House  of  Commons,  and  was  successful,  representing  that  constituency  until  the  general  elec- 
tion in  1872,  when  he  was  dpfeatA.'<l.  H<'  was  also  defeated  in  IS74  and  \H7s,  each  time  by  a 
very  small  majority,  the  constituency  Iwing  usually  Liberal,  while  he  is  a  Con-servative.  He 
was  appointed  memlx'r  of  the  Legislative  Council,  in  Febnia  y,  lf<7!',  he  usually  sjieaks  well 
on  all  important  (piestions  which  come  up  for  consideration,  and  is  always  clear,  logiail  and 
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Dr.  Cameron  was  surgeon  of  militia  a  few  years,  and  then  resigned.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Roman  (,'atholic  church. 

He  was  married  in  18G5  to  Miss  Eunice  McKinnon,  daughter  of  Hon.  John  McKinnon, 
M.L.C.,  of  Antigonisli,  and  they  have  six  children  living,  and  have  lost  three. 

Dr.  Cameron  ha.s  written  very  little  on  medical  science,  and  much  on  politics,  for  which 
lie  seems  to  have  a  strong  predilection.  He  strongly  advocates  protection  to  home  industiiis, 
and  heartily  eudoi'ses  the  measures  generally  of  the  present  Dominion  Government. 


JAME.S   MURR.\Y, 

YARMOUTH,  N.S. 


THE  subject  of  this  notice,  judge  of  probate  for  the  county  of  Yarmouth,  since  1852,  is  a 
native  of  the  town  of  Yarmouth,  his  birth  being  date<l  on  the  9th  of  July,  1817.  His 
father,  John  Murray,  was  from  the  town  of  Banff,  Scotland,  coming  to  Yarmoutli  when  a  young 
man  under  age,  and  wiusa  merchant  here  in  mitldlo  lift-,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  regis- 
trar of  deeds  for  the  county.  His  mother,  whoso  maiden  name  was  Mary  Richan,  was  liorn  in 
Yarmouth,  her  f-^bor,  a  native  of  the  Orkney  Isles,  being  a  lieutenant  in  the  British  i.<*vy. 

Mr.  Murray  »>  '-•"f:a,tct'  in  Yarmouth,  and  St.  John,  N.  B. ;  read  law  with  William  L. 
Keating,  now  regis.tra.  •  "^  deed .4  at  Halifax  ;  was  called  to  the  bar  in  1841,  and  had  a  good 
practice  in  the  Eupreme  ( 'ourt  ot  the  province  until  he  retired  from  the  Imr. 

Mr.  Murray  has  been  judge  oi  probate  for  nearly  thirty  yt-ars,  and  agent  for  the  Bank  of 
Nova  Scotia  for  a  quarter  of  a  century,  and  is  a  very  careful  and  nliablo  business  man. 

He  was  for  a  long  period  secretary  of  the  Yarmouth  Marino  Insurance  Company,  and  is 
president  of  the  board  of  governors  of  the  Yarmouth  seminary,  a  master  of  the  Supren^e  Court ; 
notary  public ;  a  member  of  the  Cliurch  of  England,  anil  has  served  as  warden  of  Trinity 
church.  He  is  a  man  of  good  character,  and  a  creditable  representative  of  one  of  the  older 
class  of  Yarmouth  families. 

'i'he  wife  of  Mr.  Murray  was  Anne  Bond,  daughter  of  Hon.  James  Bond,  M.  D.,of  Yar- 
mouth, married  in  1844',  and  they  have  four  children,  two  .sona  and  two  ilaughters. 


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WINDSOR,  y.ti. 

CHARLES  ED(;AR  l^E  WOLF,  judge  of  probate  for  the  county  of  Hants,  was  born  at 
Windsor,  the  cotinty  town,  on  the  »»2nd  of  July,  1845.  His  father  was  .Fames  Lovitt  De 
Wolf,  a  lawyer,  luirn  in  the  same  town,  and  son  of  Benjamin  !)e  Wolf,  meniU'rof  the  House  of 
Assembly  for  Hants,  the  same  county  which  Hon.  Josepli  Howe  aft«>rwards  represented  in  the 
House  of  Commons  immediately  after) 'onfederation,  Mr.  I>e  Wolf  finally  declining  to  represent 
it  any  Itmger.  Ijoran  De  Wolf,  father  of  lk>njamin,  repivsented  the  town  of  Windsor  in  (he 
local  legislature  for  a  number  of  yeai-s.   Tlie  De  Wolfs  are  not  only  numerous,  but  have  long  Iwen 


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a  prominent  family  in  tliis  part  of  the  province.  Tlie  village  of  WollVille,  ttevontoen  miles  west 
of  Windsor,  took  its  name  from  thoin.  Tlie  progenitor  of  the  family  in  Nova  Scotia  was  Nathan 
Pe  Wolf,  a  res|)ectal lit'  and  valuable  citizen,  who  was  a  graduate  of  Yale  college,  and  came  from 
Connecticut  when  Loran  was  only  seven  years  old,  and  settled  at  Horton.  He  was  for  many 
years  the  oldest  magistrate  in  King's  county. 

Our  subject  was  educated  at  the  collegiate  acadoiiiy  of  King's  college,  in  his  native  town ; 
was  a  clerk  a  while  in  the  old  mei-cantile  house  of  B.  l)e  Wolf  and  Son,  estjihlished  by  his  grand- 
father, and  with  which  his  father  was  at  one  time  connected,  and  which  stood  for  fifty  yoai-s ; 
commenced  the  study  (if  law  in  the  I'nited  States ;  finishc<l  at  Halifax  with  the  Hon.  James 
McDonald,  now  Minister  of  Justice  at  Ottawa;  wii.s  called  to  the  bar  in  1870,  and  opened  an 
office  at  Windsor,  and  in  connection  with  his  practice,  edited  and  published  the  Wbuhov  Mail, 
a  Con.servative  paper,  for  five  years. 

His  present  office  of  judge  of  probate  he  accepted  in  the  summer  of  1880,  and  to  its  duties 
he  is  now  ilevoting  his  time. 

Previous  to  hi.s  apiwintinent  to  that  office,  in  warm  political  eontests,  of  which  Hants 
county  has  been  the  arena  since  18(17,  he  took  a  very  active  part,  both  by  pen  and  jn  the  plat- 
form, in  support  of  the  principles  of  the  Conservative  jiarty. 

Mr.  De  Wolf  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  body,  ariJ  is  a  prominent  promoter  and  advocate 
of  the  temperance  cause,  both  as  a  speaker  and  writer. 

Mr.  De  Wolf  has  paiil  considerable  attention  to  the  art  of  elocution,  and  occasionally  gives 
public  rendiiigs  for  the  benefit  of  religious  and  charitable  objects. 


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nOK   NATHANIEL   W.   WHITE,  Q.C.,  M.I'.R, 

SHELHURNE,  N.S. 

l^ATHANIEL  WHITWORTH  WHITK,  a  memkr  of  the  Executive  Council  of  Nova 
_L  1  Scotia,  is  a  son  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Thomas  H.  White,  rector  of  Shelburne,  and  rural  dean, 
and  grandson  of  Captain  (iideon  White,  of  the  4th,  or  Duke  of  Cumberland's,  legiment  during 
the  American  revolution  (1775-1783),  and  a  lineal  dcscondant,  in  tim  (ith  generation,  of  Pere- 
grine White,  the  fii-st  white  child  born  in  New  England,  and  who  was  a  grandchild  of  the 
Hi.shop  of  Exeter;  and  was  Inirn  at  Shelburne,  N.S.,  on  the  £nd  of  June,  1837.  A  sketch  of 
his  father  appears  on  preceding  pages  of  this  volume.  His  grandfather  was  ijuite  a  prominent 
man  in  his  day,  and  represented  Harrington  in  the  Nova  Scotia  House  of  Assembly  from  178i) 
to  1793. 

Mr.  White  wa"  educated  at  Shelburne,  largely  by  his  father;  commenced  the  study  of  law 
with  the  pivsent  Judge  Smith,  of  Halifax,  then  a  barrister  at  Shelburne;  finished  with 
Attorney-(!ener.d  (afterwards  Juilge)  Johnston,  of  Halifax  ;  called  to  the  bar  of  Nova  Scotia  in 
18.59,  and  wivs  created  a  Queen's  Counsel  on  the  '2Ctt\\  of  December,  1.S72. 

Mr.  White  has  a  large  practice  in  the  several  ctnnts  of  the  pi-ovinee,  and  has  lieen  very 
successful  in  his  profession. 

He  enten'il  public  life  in  1878,  U'lng  electt-d  in  February  of  that  year  to  the  f^ocal  Hou.se 
for  the  county  of  Shelburne,  and  was  re-elected  in  SeptemU'r  of  the  same  year,  and  on  tho 


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22nd  of  the  next  inanth  was  appjiuted  a  meiabjr  of  the  Executive  Cauiicil.  His  polities  are 
Liberal-! 'onseivative. 

Mr.  White  is  a  meniber  of  Christ  church,  Shelburrie,  of  whicii  liis  father  is  tiie  rector;  has 
often  .served  as  church  warden,  and  as  dele^jate  to  the  diocesan  s^'nod. 

He  was  first  married  on  the  15th  of  August,  1800,  to  ALuy,  third  daughter  of  Joshua 
Snow,  Es(j.,  of  Shelburne,  she  dying  May  1,  IHIil;  and  the  second  time,  on  the  I4th  of  June, 
1864,  to  Fannie  S.,  eldest  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  De  Wolfe,  of  Sackvilic,  N.B.,  having  by  her 
two  children  living,  and  they  have  buried  two. 


HON.  DAVID    Mf CURDY,   M.L.C., 

HADDECK,  N.S. 

DAVID  Mf'(^rRDY,  son  of  James  and  Agnes  (Arcliibald)  McCurdy,  was  born  at  Onslow, 
county  of  Colchester  N.  S.,  on  the  '19i\\  of  July,  LSlO. 

Mr.  ilc(,'urdy  is  a  merchant  at  Baddeck,  where  he  .settled  about  seventeen  yeai"s  ago,  and 
is  doing  the  largest  business  in  his  line  of  any  man  in  that  vicinity,  being  also  engaged  in  the 
plaster  trade. 

Mr.  3k[cCurdy  was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  the  county  of  Victoria  in  the  local  parlia- 
ment at  the  general  election  in  1871 ;  was  first  returned  in  November,  187'J,  to  fill  a  vacancy 
caused  by  the  resignation  of  the  sitting  member,  C  J.  Campbell,  Es(|.,  was  re-elected  at  the 
general  elections  in  1874,  and  fuur  years  later  was  called  to  the  L>'gislative  Council. 

Mr.  McCunly  has  been  a  magistrate  for  a  long  time,  and  has  held  at  times  other  local  offices, 
being  tnie  and  faithful  to  every  trust  confided  to  him.  He  has  been  a  mendjcr  of  the  Presby- 
terian church  since  early  nmnhood,  and  an  elder  of  the  same  at  Unslow  and  Baddeck,  in  all  for 
nearly  forty  years.  He  has  also  been  a  delegate  repeatedly  to  the  general  asseuibly  of  his 
denomination. 


ISIDORE    Le   BLANC,   M.l'.P., 

ARICHAT,  N.S. 

ONE  of  the  most  prominent  ship-owners,  merchants,  and  business  men  at  Arichat,  Richmond 
coimty,  is  a  represeatative  of  that  county  in  the  House  of  Assemldy,  his  name  heailiug 
this  sketch.  He  was  born  at  Arichat,  on  the  30th  of  November,  18.S7,  being  a  son  of  Peter  Le 
Blanc,  a  ship-owner  and  ship-master,  lx>rn  in  the  same  place,  and  Barbara  Landry.  Both 
families  are  of  the  old  French  stock  in  Nova  Scotia.  Isidore  was  e<lucated  at  the  Arichat 
college  ;  went  to  sea  at  fourteen  years  of  age  ;  at  seventeen  was  master  of  a  ship,  and  held  that 
post  on  dirterent  vessels  and  baixjues  until  ten  or  eleven  years  ago.  He  was  in  the  coasting  and 
foreign  trade,  visiting  Europe,  Cibraltar,  and  the  Meiliterranean  Sea,  and  South  America,  as 
well  as  the  I'nited  States,  and  the  West  Indies. 

Although  still  having  an  interest  in  shipj)ing,  and  owning  one  or  two  vessels,  Mr.  Le  Blanc 
abandoned  a  sua-faring  life  in  1870,  oiul  opened  a  large  store  at  Arichat,  where  he  hits  been 


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doing  a  heavy  mercantile  business,  closing  out  in  1879.  ~A  few  ycare  ago,  he  liuilt  the  largest 
vessel  ever  launched  at  Arichat,  the  County  of  Richnumd,  which  was  sunk  at  sea,  in  1880,  with 
all  on  board  but  two  men. 

On  leaving  the  ocean,  Mr.  Le  Blanc  liecame  greatly  interested  in  politics,  and  in  1H71  con- 
tested the  constituency  of  Richmond  for  the  ]..egislative  A.s.scnibly,  and  was  defeated  by  only 
thirteen  of  a  majority.  He  was  again  a  candidate  in  1878,  and  was  successful,  and  has  attended 
three  sessions  of  the  Legislature.  He  was  an  earnest  a<lvocate  of  the  Fishery  Award  Bill,  the 
Eastern  Railway  Extension  Bill,  and  some  other  bills  of  no  inconside table  importance  to  the 
province.  He  is  a  Liberal  in  jwUtics,  with  indejwndent  leanings  ;  takes  an  interest  in  nearly 
all  the  bills  which  come  before  the  House,  and  is  very  ready  to  express  his  opinion  of  them. 
Once,  in  1879,  he  spoke  in  French  ;  otlierwise,  his  speeches  have  always  lieen  in  English,  of 
which  language  he  has  perfect  command. 

Mr.  Le  Blanc  is  a  notary  public,  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  lias  been  a  school  trustee,  and 
stands  ready  to  take  hold  of  any  enterprise  which  will  advance  the  interests  of  his  native  town 
and  county,  l>eing  public-spirited,  and  us  full  of  enterprise  as  a  whale  is  of  blubVier.  He  has  an 
agency  for  underwriters'  and  shipjiing  insurance  companies. 


NATHAN    MOSES, 

YARMOUTH,  N.8. 


NATHAN  MOSES,  ship-owner,  of  the  firm  of  Ryerson  and  Moses,  and  one  of  the  promi- 
nent business  men  of  Vnrmoutli,  was  born  here  on  the  2nd  of  March,  1819.  His  father, 
William  Moses,  was  also  l>orn  in  this  township,  and  was  a  farmer  by  occupation,  dying  many 
years  ago.  His  grandfather,  William  F.  Moses,  a  native  of  London,  Eng.,  went  thence  to 
Georgia,  U.S.,  and  came  from  that  stiite  to  Nova  Scotia,  settling  at  first  in  Shelbume  county, 
and  finally  in  Yarmouth.  The  mother  of  Nathan  was  Lydia  Butler,  whose  father  left  the 
United  States  a  few  years  after  the  close  of  the  revolution,  and  settled  at  Yarmouth,  where  his 
daughter,  Lydia,  was  born. 

Mr.  Moses  attended  the  Yarmouth  schools  until  fifteen  yeai-s  old,  when  he  went  to  sea, 
Wcoming  master  of  a  vessel  at  nineteen  years  of  age.  Leaving  school  so  early,  and  occupying 
the  positions  which  he  has  done  since  reaching  manhood,  it  is  almost  needless  to  state  that  he 
is  largely  .self-educated,  and  is  well  posted  in  political  and  general,  as  well  as  nautical,  matters. 

Mr.  Moses  followed  the  .sea  for  more  tluin  twenty  years,  leaving  it  aliout  1850,  when  he 
became  a  ship-owner  and  general  merchant,  with  the  fi.shing  supply  business  as  a  specialty. 

Mr.  Moses  entered  public  lite  in  18.'>.j.  when  he  was  fleeted  to  the  House  of  As.seml)ly  for 
Yarmouth,  ami  served  four  years.  It  was  dming  his  term  in  Parliament  that  the  discussion  of 
the  question  of  the  coal  monojioly  of  the  province  came  up,  and  he  aided  in  breaking  up  that 
monopoly. 

He  was  for  twenty  years  a  director  of  the  Acadian  Marine  Insurance  Company  ;  has  bi'en 
a  magistrate  for  a  (juarter  of  a  century  or  more  ;  was  at  one  period  custos  of  the  county  for 
three  c(m.secutive  years  ;  is  a  director  of  the  Yarmouth  building  and  loan  association  ;  a  trustee 
of  the  public  schools ;  president  of  tlie  Yarmouth  cemetery  association  ;  and  was  one  of  the 
foundei-s,  and  is  one  of  the  governors,  of  the  Yarmouth  seminary,  taking  nnieh  interest  in  cdu' 


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cntional  and  other  sulijects  pt'itainiiifi  to  the  wclfino  of  thu  foniiniinity.  Tlui  toiii|(cniH('c  causo 
fiii'is  ill  liiiii  a  warm  fVii-ml,  and  iin  untiring  advocate.  In  short,  liis  inipulsos  arc  all  in  tho 
liglit  diiTctioii,  ami  ho  is  a  tine  well-wisher  to  his  fellow  man. 

.Mr.  Moses  has  liceii  a  inomheiof  the  Methodist  eliurch  for  forty  years,  and  has  held  varion.s 
otHces  in  it,  heing  at  this  time  a  trusttM*  of  tho  I'rovidenee  church. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Moses  was  Salna  Ryerson,  danghter  of  Stephen  Ilyerson,  of  Annapolis 
count}',  ami  sister  of  his  partner,  J.  K.  Ityeison,  tlieir  marriage  taking  place  in  .ruly,  I.S4I. 
They  have  lost  three  chililren,  and  have  six  living.  William  Frank,  tho  eldest  son,  is  in  tho 
ilry  goods  business  in  Varnioutli  ;  .JameH  llowanl  is  a  grocery  merchant  in  the  .same  town  ; 
Steplien  D.  is  an  accountant  at  the  Halifax  commercial  ci)Ilege;  Lois  is  the  wife  of  ('a|)tain  K. 
C.  Killani,  Yarmouth ;  Sarah  Jane  is  the  wife  of  Williuni  A.  Killam,  Yarmouth;  and  Lydia 
Maria  is  with  hei'  parents. 


ANDREW    If.  .lOlJNSOX, 

W(tlF\'ILI.E,  y.s. 

TMH  counties  of  .Aniiaiiolis,  King's,  and  Hants,  constitute  the  best  fruit-growing  district  uf 
Nova  Scotia,  and  a  few  men  in  that  section  have  not  only  turned  their  attention  to 
liorticultnre,  as  a  liraiich  of  husbandry,  but  to  its  stmly  as  a  science.  Ai..  ^ngst  this  class  of 
thinkers  and  thrifty  men,  is  .\ndrew  Hay  Johnson,  secretary  of  the  fruit-growers'  assucialioii  nf 
Nova  Scotia,  and  one  of  the  leading  hurticulturists  in  the  province.  He  was  bom  on  the  i((th 
of  Julv,  \S'.h),  at  Wiilfville,  in  the  same  house  in  which  he  now  lives,  and  on  the  same  spot 
where  his  fatlier,  William  Johnson,  and  liis  grandfather,  (icorge  Johnson,  liveil  before  him,  the 
latter  being  from  Yorkshire,  Englaml,  and  .settling  here,  as  a  pitiiieer,  with  tlie  De  Wolt's,  the 
Pecks  and  the  Clevelands.  The  mother  of  Andrew  wa.s  Hannah  P  ttiiigel  fmm  St.  John, 
N.H.,  her  father  being  an  early  settler  in  that  city. 

William  Jolmsuii  was  an  agiicultu:isi,  a  surveyor,  ami  at  one  peiiod  a  membif  of  the  Pro- 
vincial Parliami-nt  for  King's  county.  Andrew  was  eilucated  at  llorton  acadetuy,  and  iMirpos- 
iiig  to  take  a  full  classical  course,  was  matriculated  at  Acadia  college,  Wolfville,  in  IS.'i.S,  but 
liis  cve-sii^ht  partly  failecl,  and  he  was  obliged  to  abandon  his  studies.  Hi'  became  u  cii'ik,  but 
preferring  out-door  work,  he  >oon  left  the  store,  and  has  lu'eii  a  farmer  and  horticulturist  since 
l.H").").  He  now  occupies  a  jioitiou  of  the  old  Immestead,  having  twenty-two  acres  of  u|'l.iiid, 
and  ten  of  dike.  He  has  also  a  farm  of  KtOacresiii  the  towiishij)  of  F.ilmoiitb  county  of  Hants, 
in  which  lie  lived,  and  which  he  caref\illy  cultivated  for  ten  years. 

Mr.  Johnson  early  turiu'd  his  jitteiitioii  to  horticulture,  and  has  made  it  a  s[>ecialtv  and 
a  study  for  a  score  of  yeai's.  Wliih?  at  "  (Ireeiiwood,"  the  name  of  his  Falmouth  farm,  he  ad- 
opted a  .system  of  packing  apples,  which  has  proved  a  great  improvement  on  old  methods,  and 
which  has  since  been  generally  copied  by  fruit  raisers  in  this  vicinity.  All  of  his  apjdes  aro 
as.sorteil  into  three  or  four  cla.sses,  and  those  of  a  uniform  size  are  j)acked  by  themselves,  his 
fruit  always  commanding  the  highest  price  in  the  London  market.  Some  years  he  has  nettol 
as  high  as  three  dollars  on  every  barrel.  In  a  good  bearing  year  he  has  rai.sed  TOO  bariels  on 
the  Falmouth  farm,  ami  "JOO  in  Wolfville.  He  also  raises  excellent  pe;iehes,  pears,  (piiiu'es  and 
grapes,  and  the  small  berries,  all  of  which  do  well  in  this  part  of  tie  prov  inee.  |''oi  ei;,dit  con- 
secutive years  his  fruit  from  "  Cirocnwood"  has  taken  the  liighest  prizes  at  the  Nova  Scotia 


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fruit  ^Towors'  association  ami  provincial  fair.  Ho  was  for  years  vice-|)rosidcnt  of  that  associa- 
tion, an<l  is  now  its  etticit'nt  secretary,  ho  havinj(  lieen  very  active  iiml  inthiential  in  tliat  or- 
^rani/ation  from  tlie  start.  It  is  such  men  as  Mr.  Johnson,  ami  his  faithful  coadjutors  in  tho 
iVuit-firtiwinj;  line,  who  are  makin;^  certain  sections  of  Nova  Scotia  "  Itlossoni  like  the  rose." 
The  yartlcn,  farm  and  orchard  jjlories  of  the  province  stretch  for  thirty  miles  east  of  Wolfvillo 
to  seventy  west. 

Mr.  Johnson  has  paid  iiome  attention  to  stock-raisiny,  and  has  a  few  Jei-sey  cows  of  hij^h 
grade  and  excellent  (luality,  they  being  superb  milkers.  It  is  just  as  easy  ordinarily  to  have 
cattle  of  a  good  gratle  as  of  a  poor;  and  an  enterprising  farmer,  like  our  subject,  will  have 
notliing  beUmging  to  the  second  clas.s. 


1»1{0FKS8011   JA^[E8   DE    MILLE,  A..M., 

HALIFAX,  N.S. 

TIIK  late  Professor  Do  Mille,  formerly  teacher  of  the  classics  in  Acadia  college,  and  after- 
wanls  occupying  a  chair  in  Dalhousie  college,  was  a  son  of  Nathan  S.  l)e  Mille,  of  St. 
John,  N.B.,  and  was  educated  at  Ilorton  academy,  Acadia  college,  and  Burn  university,  and  was 
graduated  in  bs.').').  lie  spent  a  short  time  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  winding  up  the  aHiiirs  of  a  mining 
association  ;  returned  to  his  native  city,  where  he  was  in  business  until  bs<i2,  when  he  became 
the  classical  teacher  in  Acadia  college.  Ilis  inaugural  address,  we  are  told,  "  was  an  clo(juent 
pica  tor  the  classics,"  and  the  ideas  and  plans  then  enunciated  he  fully  carried  out  during  his 
stay  at  Wolfville.  In  bSli.")  he  removed  to  Hal''*a.\,  and  was  a  teicher  in  Dalhousie  college  until 
his  death,  Jiinuary  2.sth,  ISSO.     Me  left  a  widow  and  four  children,  who  reside  in  Halifax. 

I'rofessor  De  .Mille  is  best  ami  widely  known  on  account  of  hi^  i)ublisheil  works,  commenc- 
ing with  a  Suncla\ -school  book,  called  "  The  Martyr  of  the  Catacombs,"  a  touching  little  story  of 
the  cai ly  ag.-  of  ( 'luistianity.  He  wrote  quite  a  numbi'r  of  volumes  pleasing  to  the  young,  and 
several  papers  for  American  magazines,  which  attracted  a  gooil  deal  of  attention,  lieing  widely 
read.  .Vbout  a  year  before  he  ilied,  he  published  a  treatise  on  Rhetoric,  which  received  tho 
high  c<iiiimendation  of  the  press,  and  of  persons  oapable  of  judging  of  its  merits.  lie  was  a 
popular  lecturer,  ami  was  t'very  where  welcomed,  his  efforts  on  the  platform  being  received  with 
applau.se  and  enthusiasm. 


LIEUT.-COL.   HON.  ALFRED    (;.  JONES, 

HALIFAX,  N.  8. 

ALFRKd)  (ilLI'lN  JONKS,  late  member  of  tho  House  of  (.'ommons,  and  Minister  of 
.Militia  and  Defence  in  tho  Mackenzie  administration,  is  a  descendant  of  Jusiah  Jones, 
who  emigrated  from  England  to  Boston,  Mass.,  aliout  !(!(}•>,  and  whose  oHsj)ring  are  scattered 
over  the  .New  Kngland  arul  other  States,  and  the  Maritime  Provinces.  One  of  his  ilescemlants 
was  Stephen  Jones,  grandfather  of  our  subject,  a  graduate  of  Harvard  university,  and  an  otticer 
in  the  King's  American  dragoons,  settling  in  Nova  Scotia  at  the  close  of  the  revolutionary  war, 


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ami  (lying  in  1830.  Hin  son,  (iiiy  Carleton  Jonos,  fatlicr  of  Alfml  Oiljiiii,  was  born  at 
Weymontli,  N.S.,  ami  lit-Itl  the  '>rtiee  of  registrar  of  deeds  for  the  county  of  Digby,  where  he  dieil 
in  18(>4. 

The  subject  of  this  notioo  was  bom  at  Weymouth,  on  the  28th  of  SeptcmK'r,  1824',  ami 
finishc<lliis  education  at  the  acmieniy  in  his  native  town.  He  acciuircd  a  knowledge  of  iner- 
C4vntih>  pursuits,  settling  in  Halifax  in  IS4'2,  and  was  for  many  years  a  niemlier  of  the  tinn  of 
Thomas  ('.  Kinnear  and  Co.,  West  India  commission  merehant.s.  He  is  now  of  the  tiriu  of  A. 
(}.  Jones  and  Co.,  who  arc  in  the  West  India  shipping  trad",  doing  a  thrifty  business.  He  is 
agent  for  the  Dominion  and  Ik-avcr  lines  of  steamers,  and  in  nil  re.sj>ects  a  first-class  business 
man. 

Mr.  .Tones  became  coiniccted  witli  the  j)rovincial  militia  when  a  young  man,  and  was  pro- 
moted from  time  to  time,  until  he  became  lieut.-col.  of  the  1st  "Halifax"  brigade  of  garrison 
artillery,  which  he  conunanded  for  .some  years. 

Col.  Jones  is  president  of  the  Nova  Scotia  Murine  Insurance  Company,  a  director  of  the 
Acadia  fire  Insurance  Company,  Halifax,  and  is  governor  of  the  Protestant  orphans'  home,  and 
of  Dalhouslc  college.     He  takes  great  interest  in  literary  and  benevolent  institutions. 

lie  entered  political  life  contemporaneously  with  Confederation,  sitcing  for  Halifa.K  from 
that  year  (18(17),  until  1872,  when  he  was  defeated.  He  wa.s  again  returneil  l)y  the  same  con- 
stituency at  the  general  (-lection  in  January,  1874.  He  resigned  in  January,  1878,  and  was  re- 
elected in  June  of  the  same  year,  on  being  appointed  Minister  of  Militia  and  Defence,  becoming, 
at  the  same  time,  a  member  of  the  Privy  Council. 

Col.  Jones  belongs  to  the  LiK-ral  party,  and  believes  that  a  tariff  higlier  than  for  revenue 
pur|)o.ses  is  detrimental  to  the  interests  of  the  coinitry. 

He  was  first  married  in  1 850,  to  Margaret  Wiseman,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  W.  J.  Stairs, 
she  dying  in  Februaiy,  18(;."),  leaving  six  children,  the  eldest  son,  Alfred  Krnest,  b«'ing  of  the 
firm  of  X.  G.  Jones  and  Co. ;  and  the  second  time  in  1867,  to  Emma,  daughter  of  Edward  Albro, 
of  Halifax. 


SAINT   CLAIR    JONES, 

WEYMOUTH,  N.S. 

ABOUT  the  time  of  the  American  revolution  several  Joneses  left  the  United  States,  and 
settlcil  at  Weymouth.  Among  these  was  Cereno  Upham  Jones,  a  Loyalist,  who  was  at 
one  time  a  judge  of  the  court  ()f  common  pleas  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  who  died  at  Weymouth,  in 
18.')2.  He  was  the  grandfather  of  our  sulject,  and  father  of  Cereno  Jones,  who  was  burn  in 
Weymouth  in  1801,  postmast.  r  of  the  place  for  nearly  forty  years,  and  died  in  Mav.  I8S().  U'- 
ing  a  very  robust  old  gentleman,  and  engriged  in  holding  a  i)low  nut  n\ore  than  a  week  before 
he  died.     His  wife  was  Mary  H.  Whipple,  who  was  from  the  States. 

S.xiNT  Claiu  Jonks  was  born  at  Weymimth,on  the  22nd  of  March,  182S,  and  received  a 
very  limited  education  in  a  country  sc1kv)1,  K-ing  early  bred  to  business,  entering  his  father's 
store  as  an  assistant  before  he  was  twelve  years  old.  On  reaching  his  majority,  he  commenced 
business  f(jr  himself,  putting  some  (jf  the  Hi-st  money  wiiieh  he  mmle,  into  the  home  which  he 
now  occupies,  and  which  he  built— being  his  own  architect — before  he  was  married      He  iiegan 


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TIIK  CANADIAN  niOGliAPniCAL  VlCTIONAtiY. 


iMisiiH'ss  ns  a  j,'cntrjil  iiiorclmnt  ami  •4liii)iier,  Imildinj;  liis  (iwii  vessels,  luiulin;^'  tlieiii  inul  sDndiii;^ 
tlii'iii  to  <lifierem  jtarts  of  tlic  i^'lolie,  Iwiii^f,  on  the  wluilc,  iiiiite  siiici'ssfnl  in  his  ventures. 

A  few  yeaix  nj^n  he  retired  fioni  ^'eiieral  htisiness  for  a  whiU',  coiitinin;;  himself  to  sliipjMiijj 
only,  liiit  on  his  eldest  son  reaehin;,'  manhood.  Mr.  Jones  aj^nin  opened  a  store  (  IS7(>).  iind  is 
still  sel'in;;  general  nierehandise.  Ahout  that  time,  on  eonsiderini,' the  state  of  thinj^s  amonj,' 
the  land-owners,  he  came  to  tlie  eonclusion  that  there  was  a  serious  laek-  of  horn?  |iroducti()ns, 
pjirtieularly  of  liread  stuffs;  and  to  enoowrap;"e  the  farmers,  he  puichased  and  brought  liome  iJOO 
liushels  of  Manitolia  wheat,  which  was  distrilaiteil  among  the  farmers,  ami  sown,  ami  it  did 
exceedingly  well,  ileantime,  in  onlor  that  the  wheat  couM  be  ground  here,  early  in  the  year 
LS7H,  he  built  a  steam  flouring  mill — the  first  of  the  kind  in  this  part  of  the  county — and  had 
it  ready  ior  use  in  the  autunui  of  that  year.  Now  the  breailth  of  wheat  sown  in  this  vicinity 
is  (piite  large,  and  the  farmers  seem  to  have  taken  n  "new  departure"  in  thrift,  and  the  country 
is  increasing  in  wealth.  Mr.  Jonos  has  also  two  threshing  buildings  in  connection  with  his 
mill,  and  much  of  the  ^raiii  laised  in  this  vicinity  is  theie  cleaned.  He  lias  a  store  near  the 
mill,  ami  a  gootl  run  ai  business  in  that  line,  and  is  still  engaged  in  shipping.  In  short,  he  is 
doing  his  full  share  in  aiding  to  build  up  the  general  interests  of  the  country,  his  enterprise 
•seeming  to  increa.se  with  his  years.     He  is  jjresident  of  the  Weymouth  agricultural  society. 

Mr.  Jones  has  kept  out  of  political  otKce,  but  is  a  protectionist  in  liis  views,  and  therefore 
afliliate.s  with  the  Conservative  party.  He  is  a  man  of  no  inconsidera1)le  influence,  which  is 
felt  in  a  quii't  way,  ]iartieularly  during  an  animated  political  contest. 

He  \^  a  member  of  St.  I'eter's  chuich,  Weymouth;  has  repeatedly  .served  as  warden  of  the 
.same,  ami  is  a  man  of  a  good  deal  of  moral  stamina. 

In  IM.")')  Ml'.  Jones  was  joined  in  marriagi!  with  Miss  Helen  C".  Ladd,  daughter  of  V.  P. 
Ladd,  of  Hostoii,  Mass.,  and  they  have  buried  four  children,  and  have  eight  living.  Herbert, 
the  elilest  son,  is  in  his  fatlu'r's  store;  Howard  J',  is  a  student  at  King's  college,  Windsor,  and 
the  otlur  children  are  pursuing  their  studies  at  home.  Mr.  Jones  has  a  well-selecteil  lilnary, 
wliich  he  replenishes  occasionally ;  and  a  rich  suppl}  of  family  newspapers  and  periodicals  ;  and 
no  member  of  his  household  is  ever  short  of  inviting  mental  food. 


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noX.  ROl'.ERT   li.  BICKEY,   Q.C., 

AMHERST,  N.S, 

ROI'.KUT  l^AIJKY  DK'KKY,  member  of  the  Senate  since  Confederation,  is  a  native  of 
Amherst,  N.S.,  dating  his  birth  on  the  10th  of  November,  LSI 2.  He  is  a  son  of  Robert 
.Me(iowan  Dicki'V,  who  was  born  in  the  same  town,  his  father  being  fVoni  the  north  of  Ireland  ; 
and  Kieanor  ( 'liapman,  whose  family  was  from  Yorkshire,  Kng.  His  father  represented  Cum- 
berland in  the  Nuva  Scotia  A.s.sembly  for  fifteen  years,  and  died  in  this  county  in  IfS-H. 

Our  subject  was  educated  at  Windsor  academy,  N.S. ;  studied  law  with  Hon.  .Me.xander 
Stewart,  CI*.,  fornieily  master  of  rolls  and  juilge  of  vice-ail  in  ir.alty,  and  was  called  to  th<'  bar  of 
Nova  Seiitia  in  January.  bs.'{4,  and  to  that  of  New  Ihiinswick  in  the  following  year.  He  did 
for  many  years  a  large  legal  business  in  both  provinces,  with  his  home  at  Amherst;  and  during 
all  those  yt!ars  he  maintained  a  highly  honorable  standing  in  the  profession. 


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Mr.  Dickey  was  nt  fine  poriod  a  dirt'ctor  of  tlii'  Nova  Scotia  Klectrie  Tcl('f;ral)li  Co.,  aii<l 
also  consular  aj^'ont  nt  Anilicrst  for  tlio  United  States.  It  \va.s  he  who  nej^'otiuteil  at  New  York 
the  loan  and  sale  of  the  N.  S.  Tele;,nni'^»  l'"*'  to  the  American  Telejjraph  Co.,  and  afterwards  to 
the  Western  Union  Ttle^'rapli  Co.  He  was  a  delej:jate  from  Nova  Scotia  to  England, on  the 
suhject  of  an  intercolonial  railway  in  is.j.s,  and  again  in  lH(i,5,  and  to  the  <^ut'liee  Union  Con- 
ference in  1>S(!4, 

Mr.  Dickey  wa.s  a  meniher  of  the  I^'gislative  Conncil  of  Nova  Scotia  from  January.  iS.'iH, 
until  the  Confederation,  in  lS(i7,  in  May  of  which  year  he  wn  ;  called  to  the  Senate  by  Royal 
proclamation.  His  politics  arc  Conservative.  In  the  Legislative  t'ouneil  he  was  the  author  of 
the  Joint  Stock  Company  Act,  which  is  still  in  existence,  and  succtssfully  op]M)sed  the  Synod 
hill,  introduced  by  the  Hi.shop  of  Nova  Scotia.  In  the  Dominion  Parliament  he  le<l  the  oppo- 
sition to  the  E-squimaidt  and  Nanaimo  Railway  bill,  and  to  the  deceased  wife's  marriage  bill, 
which  measures  wore  defeated  in  the  Senate. 

Si'iiator  Dickey  is  an  ardent  advocate  of  home  industries,  and  encourages  them  with  his 
money  as  well  as  voice  and  vote,  he  being  a  stockholder  in  the  Amherst  lioot  and  Shoe  Co., 
and  had  an  interest  in  the  tannery  owned  by  that  company  when  it  was  destroyed  by  fire. 

He  gave  the  land  for  the  beautiful  cemetery  at  Amhei-st,  and  is  a  member  of  that  com- 
pany;  owns  several  fanns  in  the  county  of  Cumberlaml,  and  takes  great  interest  in  the  growth 
of  his  native  town,  and  in  the  progress  of  agriculture  ai\d  other  industries  in  his  native  county. 

He  is  a  stock-holder  in  banks  at  Halifa.x,  Montreal  and  Toronto,  and,  as  might  be  inferreil, 
ha-s  always  been  a  prudent  as  woll  as  successful  manager  of  his  business.  He  letired  from  the 
active  practice  of  his  profession  .several  yeais  ago. 

In  October,  1S44,  he  married  Mary  Blair,  third  daughter  of  Hon.  Alexander  Stewart,  C.B., 
who  was  of  Scotch  extraction,  ami  they  have  five  chihlren,  three  sons  and  two  daughtei-s,  all 
married  but  the  youngest  son,  Frank  Stewart,  who  is  a  student  at  King's  college,  Wind.sor, 
N.S.  James  Alexander,  the  eldest  son,  is  a  civil  engineer,  farniei.  and  shijiper  of  cattle  to  Eng- 
land, with  residence  at  Amherst;  Arthur  is  a  barrister,  of  the  firm  of  Townshends  and  Dickey, 
Audiei-st;  Mary  is  the  wife  of  Henry  E.  Milner,  C.E.,  fellow  of  the  institute  of  civil  engineers 
at  Norwood,  London,  and  Ellen  is  the  wife  of  Martin  W.  Maynard,  who  is  in  the  railway  de- 
partment at  Ottawa. 


IlEV.   JOHN    ^tACLEAX,   A.Af., 

I'icrou,  K.s. 

A  MONO  the  pioneer  preachers  and  "  fatheis  of  Presbyterianism  "  in  the  .Maritime  Provin- 
ces, the  memory  t)f  no  one,  it  is  safe  to  say,  is  more  sacredly  cherished,  particularly 
among  his  own  denomination,  than  that  of  Rev.  .John  Maclean,  a  native  of  West  River,  county 
of  Pictou  ;  his  birth  being  dated  on  the  1st  of  September,  IM)!.  His  parents,  John  and  Jane 
Maclean,  were  among  the  eiidgrants  who  came  from  Dumfries,  Scotland,  to  Nova  Scotia,  in 
17IS(),  and  "  pitched  their  tent.s  "  principally  on  tlie  West  River.  We  learn  from  a  sketch  of  our 
sidijeet,  published  in  the  Ildllfit.r  Kn'nnxj  MniL  of  November  12,  18S(),  that  his  ancestors,  for 
scveial  generations,  were  Ood-fearing  peojile,  "  his  paternal  grandfather  being  one  of  the  tii-st 
cidei-s  ordained  in  this  (Pictou)  county,  while  his  father,  two  brothers,  and  a  nephew,  even  four 


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gcnoratioiis  liiive  fillod  tlie  ottico  successivi'Iy  in  tliat  section  of  the  country,  from  tlic  year  17S6 
to  tlic  prcm'nt  tiiiu'. 

Our  Nulijcft  recoived  some  of  \\'w  enilior  mental  training'  innler  a  dassical  tenclier  from  Ox- 
ford, Kiij,'.,  ami  at  tlie  Pietou  jL^riimmar  scliool,  under  the  Uov.  Tliumas  MrCulloeli,  D.D.,  and 
then  entered  (he  fiint  chins  of  the  I'ictou  academy,  at  its  opening;,  in  iSlS  ;  he  studied  theoh)^y 
at  tlie  same  |i1nce,  \nider  Dr.  Mc('ullouj,'h,  ar.d  lieiny  licensed  to  preach,  he  went  to  Scotland, 
pamod  a  thorough  esamination  under  the  professors  of  (ilasjjow  university,  and  received  the 
deforce  of  master  of  arts. 

On  his  riturn  to  Nova  Scf>tia,  he  was  ordained  (I82.'>\  and  the  next  year  was  settled  over 
the  Pro>liyfcrian  church  at  Uichiltucto,  New  lirunswick.  where  ho  lahoied  with  assiduity  for 
seven  years,  and  very  likely  went  Inyond  liis  8tren;^th,  as  he  had  a  ;;reat  deal  uf  misHionary 
work  to  do,  and  fropu'iitly  preached  at  ])laces  remote  from  his  home  ;  he  was  often  ol>lii,'ed  to 
travel  over  the  poorest  ajiolofjies  for  roads,  and  cross  bridLTcless  streams  to  reach  i'>en  all  the 
inemliers  of  his  conjjrc^'ation,  who,  at  that  early  day,  were  very  nuieh  scattered. 

Pci"»on.s  are  still  livinjj  who  heaid  Mr.  Maclean  preach  tifty  years  aj(o,  while  he  was  sta- 
tioned at  Kichihiicto.  One  of  them  thus  speaks  of  the  character  of  his  sermons,  and  his  inriu- 
ence  as  a  speaker  : 

Hi.'<  sermiiiis  were  gdiiiid,  prnctical  ami  cvaniijelical  ;  indicatinf;  good,  tlmugh  not  cxtiniirdiimry  power* 
of  mind  -,  ><ut  liig  writti-n  pulilioatioiis  i;jvo  no  idea  of  tliu  ini|irc!<iii(iii  whii'h  his  delivery  of  them  |ii'(idiiued 
ii|>oii  the  iiiindH  of  \\\»  lieareni.  Tall  and  commanding  in  Kgnre,  with  a  piercing  eye,  and  a  voice  of  rich  mel<Kly 
and  great  conipaHs,  Inn  appearance  and  manner  commanded  attention  ;  and  his  natural  earneHlneHH  would  in  any 
caau  have  conniiandtid  the  interest  of  liis  hearers.  '  Itnt  his  preeminence,'  said  his  friend  Mr.  Murdoch,  'arose 
from  his  deep-toned  piety,  which  gave  solemnity  and  iuipressivenesH  to  all  his  miniHtration.  tlis  whole  soul 
was  on  tire  with  sacred  things,  and  his  earnest  appeals  thrilled  every  heart  ;  while  again  his  tenderness  and 
pathos  melted  the  stoutest  hvart  to  tears.' 

Half  a  century  ajfo,  the  country  where  Mr.  Maclean  preached  was  not  only  sparsely  settled 
and  comparatively  wild,  V)ut  many  of  the  ])eople,  as  is  customary  in  any  new  country,  and  es- 
pecially a  lumln'riiio  section,  like  his  location,  partook  of  the  nature  of  the  laud  :  they,  too 
were  wild  and  rough,  ami  some  wen'  profane,  intemperate,  and  Saltl)ath-l>reakerH.  But  he  was 
hold  and  fearless,  though  of  a  kindly  nature,  and  never,  we  Iwlieve,  failed  to  rebuke  sinners, 
or  to  declare  the  whole  truth.  "  The  homes  of  the  farmers,  the  stores  and  camps  of  the  lum- 
bermen, ail  tol<l  the  tale  of  strong  drink  and  its  evils."  Mr.  Maclean,  seeing  this  state  of  things, 
made  up  his  mind  that  it  was  his  duty  to  denounce  in  the  most  public  manner  this  trattic  in  al- 
coholic liijuors,  and  to  portray  the  consequences  of  their  use  ;  and  he  did  it  in  a  nmmier  that 
showed  the  metal,  the  true  courage  of  the  man.  He  appeared  before  the  coinl  of  sessions  of 
the  county,  and  with  its  nuigistracy  among  his  hearers,  preached  the  first  temperance  .sermon 
e\er  heard  in  that  pai t  of  the  Province  of  New  IJrunswick.      Says  the  writer  alreiuly  (pioted  : 

He  took  a.s  hix  text  two  jiiuisjiges,  I  Cor.  vi,  !(,  10  ;  '  lie  not  dcceived  —  dnnikards  shall  not  inherit  the 
kingdom  of  (iod,'  iind  Hal>.  ii.  15  :  '  NVne  unto  him  that  giveth  his  neighhor  drink,  that  puttest  thy  liottio  to 
him  and  niakest  hiiu  drunken  also,  that  tlmu  niayest  loi.k  im  their  nakednesH.'     And  seldom,  since  the  old 

tirophets  uttered  their  waniings  in  the  face  of  the  rulers  of  Israel,  have  such  plain  truths  and  thrilling  apiieals 
H'cn  thundered  in  the  ears  of  men  in  power.  Not  a  Word  of  personal  ahnse  did  it  contain,  hut  a  solemn  reason* 
ing  of  temperance  and  judgments  to  come.  The  result  was,  that  while  Mr.  Maclean  won  universal  esteem  for 
his  boldnens  and  faithfulness,  he  was  instrumental  in  rousing  some  from  their  lethargy  and  danger  ;  and  so  im- 
pressed were  the  niagistraey  with  his  appeals,  that  they  granted  no  licenses  that  yiNir.  At  the  retpiest  of  a 
iiuml>er  of  those  who  heard  it  delivered,  his  sermon  was  published.  It  was,  probably,  with  the  exception  of 
newspaper  iirticles,  the  tirst  contribution  from  the  press  to  that  salutary  reform,  in  the  Itritish  Provinces  ;  and 
Contributed  much  to  direct  attention  to  the  subject.  We  may  add  that  this  engaged  his  interest  during  the  whole 
of  his  career  ;  ami  an  address  which  he  delivered  in  the  year  VWX\,  at  a  ipiarterly  lueetinj;  of  the  I'ictou  and 
>Vest  kiver  societies,  was  published,  by  request,  in  a  pamphlet  of  twenty- four  pages. 


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THE  CA  XA DIA  .V  niOdHA  rilU  A  I.  lUi  TUtS'A R  Y.  3«;i 

We  liavo  aln-aily  intiniatiMl  tlmt  tlu«  laliorw  of  niir  siilijcft  wcro  very  uni'DiN,  niul  cm- 
lunci'tl  a  vt'iy  wilil  ficlil.  TIm y  cxtiMnlfd  in  fai't,  over  tlic  wlioli-  iiDrtlii-rn  odant  of  Now  Shuiis- 
wick, and  tlio  (.'aiiatliaii  siih-  iif  tin-  Bay  ( 'Iialfiir,  lie  distriliiitiin,'  liililes  and  dolivoiiii;,'  tlu-ir  iiu's- 
>^ngti  wlu-ri'ver  lie  went.  Kimdly  Ids  ^'■''•it  "'"'  'xliaiistive  laliiHH  l)c<(an  to  tell  si'iiously  upon 
liis  pliysical  system,  an<l  in  tin-  siiininer  of  |8.S(>  lie  lunl  ii'iicated  and  eojiiinis  li('iiioiilia;,'e  of  tlie 
lunj(s ;  and  sonii  afterwards  went  to  tlie  Soiitliern  States.  Partially  reeiipeiated,  lie  retiirneti, 
late  in  the  spring'  of  ls:U,  and  continued  to  lalnir  for  two  years  inoro,  when  he  had  an  attack  of 
pleurisy,  and  symptoms  of  the  eoiisiiniption,  and  left  the  [pastorate.  For  two  years  h; 
taii«;ht  a  private  academy  at  Halifax,  then  had  to  reliiKiuish  all  lahor,  and,  removing,'  to  I'ietou, 
where  he  died  on  the  2()th  of  January,  WXt.  Ifis  remains  were  takun  to  the  old  \Ve.st  River 
liuryinjj  ground,  and  were  deposited  Ix-side  those  of  Ids  father. 

His  widow  s';ill  survives  him,  and  resides  with  her  eldest  son  at  Halifax. 


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He  left  four  chililren  three  sons  and  one  dauf^hter,  of  whom  two  sons  are  living.  J  Ue 
ehlest,  J.  S.  Maclean,  ii  endeavoring  to  keep  up  tin-  gootl  name  of  hisforefathei-s,  and  is  more  or 
less  intei"estcd  in  and  working  for  the  various  henevolent  institutions  of  Halifax,  especially  the 
yoiuig  men's  ('hristian  a.ssoeiation,  ami  asylum  for  the  hliiul ;  he  lias  also,  l»y  his  own  exertions, 
risen  to  a  first  place  among  business  men,  heing  at  i\w  head  of  a  successful  wholesale  grocery 
estalilishiiieiit,  and  also  president  of  the  Hank  of  Nova  Scutia,  and  director  in  several  insurance 
and  other  cotupanies. 


IIEV.  TllO^fAS   :NrAY^^ARD,  M.A.,  ]).!)., 

It  iM IS! Hi,  y.s. 

r-)KV.  THOMAS  MAYN.\I{1>,  rector  of  Windsor,  and  canon  of  St.  Luke's  cathedral,  Hali- 
\i  fax,  is  a  son  of  (.'aptain  Thomas  Maynard,  of  the  Jhitish  navy,  and  a  native  of  Devon- 
shire, Knghind,  and  was  iKirii  in  Halifax,  N.  S.,  on  the  Nth  of  Noveinlier,  ISH..  His  niothei  wa-s 
Lucy  < 'reigliton,  also  horn  in  Halifax,  .iiid  daughter  of  J.  (Veighton,  one  of  the  Hist  iMiglish 
settlers  in  Nova  Scotia,  coming  from  Somersetshire. 

He  was  educated  at  King's  college,  Windsor,  heing  graduated  in  the  arts  in  |.sS2,  ami  is  a 
D.l).  as  well  a.s  M.A.  of  that  veiierahle  institution. 

He  was  ordained  deacon  by  the  Right  Rev.  John  Ingli.s,  Rishoj)  of  Nova  Scotia,  in  LS-H,  and 
priest  liy  the  .same  bishop  one  year  later ;  was  curate  of  Dartmouth  one  year,  and  of  St.  ( teorges 
chuich,  Halifax,  about  the  same  length  of  time  ;  rector  of  Rawdon,  and  subseipiently  of  I'igiiy, 
alMjut  five  years  each  ;  then  of  Sackviile,  near  Halifax,  four  years,  and  has  been  rector  of  Windsor 
since  is.')!).     He  has  also  iieen  rural  dean  for  the  last  ten  years,  and  canon  sinct;  June,  ISr"). 

His  public  ii.inistrations  are  free  fnim  di.splay  and  self-consciousness,  but  show  rather  a 
yourning  love  for  the  souls  of  men.  He  intluenees  others  by  his  Mords  of  wisdom,  and  by  liis 
personal  holine.s.s.  He  has  the  rare  power  of  attracting  and  guiding  the  young.  He  is  withal 
posses,sed  of  a  genial  disposition  and  a  keen  sense  of  humor.  His  preaching  corresponds  with 
the  character  of  the  man,  and  is  calculated  rather  to  deejien  the  .spiritual  life  of  tho.se  under  his 
care  than  to  attract  those  who  arc  without. 

t'anon  Maynard  has  often  been  appointed  examiner  in  divinity  in  King'.s  college,  ami  has 
been  a  delegate  several  times  to  the  provincial  .synod,  held  at  Montreal,  as  well  as  the  diocesan 
synod. 


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He  inanii'il,  on  Miurli    tlio   Mli,  ISKV    Miss   Sivriih    Wilkiiis,  iliinditt'i-  of  llio    lloii.  I 


,t'\VIS 


Mo;  lis  Wilkins  on'.-c  spoakor  of  llio  Nova  Scotia  Iloiisc  of  Assoiiilily,  ami  snlwoijiu'iitly  a  jinlj^'o 
of  \\w  siniroiiK'  rouit  of  tlio  |irovinco,  ami  sister  of  lion.  Lewis  Morris  Wilkiiis,  jiiii,,  wlio  lias 
nvciitly  ri'siijiu'd  liis  scat  on  tlio  -.inii'  lioncli  ;  ami  tliov  liavo  oii:;lit  ciiildnMi.  Martin  is  in  tlio 
iloi<ar'.nu'nt  of  lands  ami  rr.ilways.at  Ottnwa  ;  (iooi'u;o  Kowko  isi-nralo  at  llfniii;;  Covo,  ;oiinty 
of  Halifax  ;  .lolin  S.  is  a  law  student ;  Harriot  Kli/'vl'otli  is  tlio  wife  of  tlio  Rev.  Ilonry  How, 
vicar  of  Nowjiort,  county  of  Hants,  and  tlio  rest  aiv  at  homo. 


HON.    WILLIAM    :MiLLKH,   Q.C 


//.l/.//'.(.V,  N.  N. 


rnilE  snl.icct  of  this  sketch. 


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one  o 


f  tl 


le  senators  from  Nova  Scotia,  is  dt^scended  from  an  Irish 
I'amily  that  came  iVom  the  old  country,  in  17:.'0,  and  settleil  at  l^elt'ast,  in  the  State  of 
Maine,  removiiiij  thence  to  Nova  Scoiia  in  i7t><>.  lie  was  liorn  at  Antii^onish,  N.S.,  on  the 
l'2tli  of  Kelirnary,  IS:i."),  his  parents  lieiiiLj  Charles  and   Kliza  (^Smith'l  Miller,  his  motlier  heiiii;; 


from  Ireland.      He  was  educati-d  in  the   i/rammar  school  at    St.  Audi 


cw 


and   the   .\nti''onish 


acailemv ;  was  i 


ailed  to  the  liar  of  Nova   Scotia  in    Mav,  iSdO,  and  since  that  date  has  heen  in 


practice  at  Halifax  and  Cape  HretcMi,  heinij  create  1  a  (j^ueesi's  Counsel   in   IN7l'.     His  pract 
extends  into  all  the  courts  of  the  iiro\ince  anil  the  Dominion,  and  is  \i-v\  remunerative 


ice 


Senator 


Mill 


er  en 


tei('(l  on  his  puMic  cari'cr  in  the  year  ISiI.'i,  wlien  he  was  elected  to  the 
Nova  Scotia  Assemhly.  represent iiij;  Hichmoiid,  and  occujiyiiii^  tlial  seat  until  tlu'  ( 'oiifederatioii 
four  v  ars  later.  While  in  that  hoiiy  he  took  a  prominent  part  in  llie  steps  preliminary  to  the 
union,  earmstly  opjiosiiit;  tin'  tiiiancial  conditions  and  other  details  settled  upon  at  tlie  (jt.ieliee 
t'onlVrcnce  held  in  the  autumn  of  1,S(14,  and  it  was  at  his  sut,'i;estion  that  the  ( Jovenimeiit 
delcLiation  to  Kni;land  was  appoir.ted  in  iMli!,  the  mission  of  the  ilele^ation  heiiin'  to  ^^eellre, 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Imperial  authorities,  such  modilication  of  the  plan  nnrliiied  at  t,>iie- 
liec,  as  wouM  render  it  acceptahh'  to  the  jieopli'  of  Nova  Scotia.  He  was  nominated  as  a  dele- 
jjato  to  that  conference,  hut  di'clined  to  act.     thi  the  completion  of  the   work  of  Confederation 


in 


ISliT,  he  was  calletl  to  the  Senate,  in  which  hodv  he  does  his  full  share  of 


Wol 


II 


IS    IXI 


Lil 


lire  l.iilioii>.; : 


is  religion  Komaii 


Calh 


iliti 


.1011  \    A.    V.    PLKNKV,    M.I). 


SIIKLIIUIiNh:,  SS. 


J 


OHN   ALKNANDKIl  IMIASKU  ITUNKV 


if  the  leadiiiiij  jiliy 


siciaiis  and  sur''eoiis  in 


th 


iiilvol'  Slielliuiiie,  is  a    native  of  the   couiitv .  ••ind    dates  his  iiiitli  at  S.iiidv    I'oiiit 


111  the  tJ">tIi  i^f  .lannarv,  |N|'">.       His   fatlu'r,  dohn    I'uiiiey,  a   meicliant,  was   horn    in  the  same 
•ouiilv,  and  is  still  tradiiiLr  at  Sandv  I'oint.      His  i,'randfatlu'r,  William  riiiiiew  was  also  liotn  in 


tliis  county.     The  L;ie;>|-:;ramlt'alhei  of  01 
hclore  her  marriaL'e,  was  .l;ino  Firth,  a  iia 


ir  snlijeet  was  l.orn  in  London,  Kngland.     liis  innlliei, 
live  of   Ireland, 


TiiK  r.t.v.i/'/.i.v  iiioait'.tniirM.  I'lcrioyMtr. 


503 


Dr.  runny  wa«  fihicMtcil  at  tlitM'ollc^jf  schoul,  Wimlsor.  N  S.,  and  tlic  Slit'llnirnc  ncmloniy; 
stiiilicil  iiuMliciiif  nt  Ilnrvaril  uiiivciNity,  Mastii.,iniil  tlii>  collc;^!' of  iiliysicians  ami  .siir^'t'uns,  Nfw 
York  city,  and  ri'iTivod  Iiis  diploma  fmni  ♦lie  lattor  iiistitiitiop.  in  I.S(15.  l^cforc  ivtiiiiiinjj;  t(» 
Nova  Scotia,  Mi'.  Piirncv  spi-iit  nearly  a  your  nt  PattiTson  Park  liospital,  Haltinioic,  Md.,  it  In-- 
iiif^  at  tlic  I'losi-  of  tilt'  civil  war,  wlim  tlic  liuspjijds  of  tlic  I'nitcd  States  wci'c  j^cncrally  full, 
and  there  was  j;reat  licniand  foi  a-vsistam  e.  Tlie  experieno<'  wliieli  he  had  dniin;.;  that  year  wiw 
of  jjreat  value  to  him  in  sMhsequent  practice. 

In  1S()(»,  Dr.  Pnrney  letmnid,  and  settled  at  Shelimnie,  the  comity  town.  In  ISTOhe  was 
appointed  slieritr  of  the  coii'ity,  and  held  that  otlice  until  the  close  of  JST'',  when,  lindinu;  its 
d;ities,  even  with  the  aid  ot"  an  ellicient  deputy,  inteifeiiuL,'  with  the  practice  of  his  profession; 
he  resi;,'iied,  and  durinjj  the  last  six  years  has  ;,nven  his  whole  time  to  medical  study  and  pnic- 
tice,  doinjj  a  y;eneral  ami  remunerative  husiness  ;  his  practice  in  surijery  has  heen  and  still  is 
(piite  lar^'c  for  a  coinitry  like  that  throUL;h  which  his  rides  extend. 

The  oidy  otlice  which  In-  held  since  re^iy;niu;^  the  shrievalty,  wt>  helieve,  is  that  of  county 
councilloi',  hell!  one  year  i  |SS(»\  He  is  a  hihernl  «'(Mis','i\;itivi'  in  politics,  hut  takes  no  activu 
pai't,  except  duriuLT  an  especially  "x.'itiuL;  ennvas-i ;  is  secretary  of  the  Shelhiniie  hoard  of  health  ; 
past  master  of  Alhert  lodt^e  of  Free  and  .Vccepted  .Masons,  and  waiilen  of  Christ  church,  Shel- 
hiu'nc  ;  he  takes  an  interi>st  in  Sunday-school  and  otlu'r  <  'hristian  enterprises,  hut  his  extensive 
practice  interferes  with  his  teacliinj^  in  such  school. 

In  .January,  ls71.  l>r.  Purney  was  nuirried  to  .\melia,  dauj^htei  of  Samuel  .Muir,  senior,  a 
native  of  Shelhuriu',  and  i,'rauddaui;hter  of  J >r.  .lamieson,  formerly  a  suri,^'on  in  the  Ihitish 
navy  ;   and  they  have  four  childreii, 


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HON.   ClIAKLlvS    DlCKIi:, 

r,i.v.v/.V(,',  .v.y 

ClIAKIiF.S  DU'KIK,  mendier  of  the  i,e^i.slative  Council  of  Nova  Scotia,  is  a  jxnimlson  of 
Matthew  Hickie.  a  linon  merchant  in  the  old  countiy,  and  who  came  from  DiMi-y,  Ire- 
land, to  Cornwallis.  Kiny;'s  county.  N  S.,  ahout  I77<l,  iiurchasel  a  tiact  of  laml,  and  cultivated 
it  until  his  death,  and  son  of  J>a\id  Dickie,  and  was  hom  at  Cornwallis  on  thi'  l'.")th  of  .Ian- 
nary,  I.StMl.  His  mother  was  .lerusha  Clark,  <lau!,diter  of  Asa  Clark,  who  was  from  New 
I'inLcland,  and  settled  on  land  adjoining  that  of  Matthew  Dickie.  The  land  purehiised  hy  Mr. 
Matthew  Dickie  is  still  in  the  hands  nf  the  j'aniily. 

Charles  Dickie  eoninieni'i'ij  tradiui^i't  CanniuLi:,  in  \s',\:\,  and  followed  that  husiness  until 
alH)nt  ten  years  aj;o,  when  he  retired.  ||e  once  left  his  country  store,  came  to  Halifax,  and 
was  the  Jirst  man  to  o|)en  an  a.irricultural  warehouse  in  that  cit\'  ;  conlimiini^  there,  howi'ver, 
only  a  few  years,  and  retiniied  to  Canada  I'p  to  a  recent  date,  throu^di  all  his  life,  Mr.  Dickie 
has  also  heeii  en;,'ai^ed  in  a;,'! iciiltiiral  jiursuits,  turnin.i,'  his  farm  over  to  his  eldest  son  oidy  a 
few  rears  a;;o. 

He  was  a  mendier  of  the  Legislative  Council  fiom  Isdl  to  j.Sdtl.  and  then  retired,  heiu"..; 
opposed  to  Coid'edi'iation.  He  wu.s  re-appoint*  il  in  1.S7I,  and  still  sils  in  that  hody,  Ium 
politics  heiiig  Lihei;d 

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THE  CAXADIAN  lilOGRArmCAL  DICTIONARY. 


He  has  been  a  stipendiary  magistrate  for  the  last  fifteen  or  twenty  years,  anJ 
faithful  in  the  disehargo  of  every  trust.  He  belongs  to  the  Presbyterian  churcli  at  Canning, 
and  is  clerk  of  the  deacons'  court,  and  a  man  whose  integrity  is  above  suspicion. 

Mr.  Dickie  was  joined  in  marriage,  in  182G,  with  Miss  Sarah  Tupper,  daughter  of  Eliakim 
T<ipper,  of  Colchester  county,  ami  they  have  three  sons  and  two  daughters  living,  ami  have 
lost  two  children.  Four  of  the  living  are  married.  Eliakim  E.  was  formerly  a  merchant,  and 
is  now  a  farnier,  occupying  the  homestead  deeded  to  him  by  his  father,  and  is  a  horticulturist 
and  extensive  speculator  in  fruit.  Daniel  M.  is  a  merchant  and  .ship-owner  at  Canning,  and 
largely  engaged  in  the  foreign  trade;  Sarah  is  the  wife  of  Rev.  William  Murray,  Presbyterian 
minister  on  the  island  of  Jamaica;  and  Emma  is  the  wife  of  Charles  M.  Blanchard,  merchant, 
Truro. 

Although  in  his  82nd  year,  Mr.  Dickie  has  always  been  a  temperate  man,  and  is  well  pre- 
servetl.  His  has  been  a  life  of  industry,  as  well  as  sobriety  and  integrity,  and  his  example  may 
well  be  copied  by  the  young. 


.10  UN    WELSH, 

l:iaHY,N.S. 

TUK  subject  of  this  brief  biographical  notice  is  a  grandson  of  Morris  Welsh,  who  was 
originally  from  Ireland,  and  once  occupied  the  present  site  of  Jersey  city,  N.J.,  and  being 
a  faithful  subject  of  King  CJeorge,  left  the  United  States  about  IT^SU  and  settled  fii-st  in  New- 
foumlland,  then  in  Nova  Scotia;  and  son  of  (Jeorge  Welsh,  who  accompanied  his  father  to  this 
province,  aiitl  was  a  farmer  at  Hear  River,  county  of  Digby.  His  motlier  was  Letitia  Dunn, 
whose  father.  Captain  William  Edward  Dunn,  had  command  of  a  company  in  the  Halifax 
garrison,  during  the  war  of  is  12  14. 

Our  sui)ject,  who  was  Itorn  at  Bear  River,  August  2.'),  1828,  picked  up  his  e<lueation  as 
best  he  could,  going  four  miles  to  a  district  school  a  few  months  in  each  year,  and  studying 
".Murray's  Spelling  Book,"  the  "  Introduction  to  the  Kngli.sh  Rt-ader,"  and  "  WaJAinghame's 
Arithmetic,"  the  only  bonks  he  ever  used  in  school.  This  slight  mental  drill  he  supplemented 
by  private  study,  he  being  his  own  teacher,  an<l  aciiuiring  a  good  business  education.  He  is  a 
well  informed  man. 

Mr.  Welsh  was  engaged  in  farming  exclusively  until  about  twenty  jears  ago,  the  farm 
being  the  original  homestead,  consisting  of  .*$.')()  acres,  a  large  part  of  which  he  put  under  good 
cultivation  a  long  time  ago.  For  the  last  score  (if  years  or  more,  he  has  been  engaged  in 
8hip])ing  as  well  as  farming  ;  sometimes,  also,  contracting  for  the  buililing  of  vessels,  putting 
forth  a  gooil  ileal  of  energy  and  exiiibiting  much  enterprise  in  his  business  operations. 

In  1S78,  Mr.  Welsh  .sold  his  farm  to  two  men,  father  and  son,  who  had  rettirned  from 
Kansas;  ami  he  is  now  en^;aged  in  different  kinds  of  spirulati(ms,  exercising  a  good  deal  of 
care  and  caution,  as  well  as  slutwdness,  ami  rarely  failing  U)  do  well. 

He  has  been  a  l>iiilge  contractor  repeatedly,  for  both  the  Dominion  and  Provincial  govern- 
ments; has  Ijeen  a  justice  of  the  peace  since  1864,  and  being  a  good  judge  of  law  has  fr<M|uently 
been  consulted  by  other  justices  iind  oilier  otlicials  on  ditlicult  questions ;  and,  in  1881,  he  was 
appointed  l)y  Mie  government  ci-nsus  conuiiissioner  for  the  county  of  Digl>y,  an  appointment, 
of  which  he  had  no  intimation  until  he  received  his  papers. 


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Mr.  Welsh  is  a  Liberal  Conservative,  and  for  the  last  five  or  six  years  has  been  chaiminn 
of  the  Lilicral  (yonservativo  assoeiation  of  Digby  county,  having  much  inf  aence  in  that  con- 
nection, as  well  as  in  othci's,  in  that  constituency.  He  has  been  a  master  Ma^on  the  last  fifteen 
years. 

In  1857,  he  was  joined  in  wedlock  with  Annie  A.  Goucher,  of  Melvern  square,  Wilmot, 
and  sister  of  Rev.  J.  E.  Goucher,  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church,  Truro,  and  of  Inglis  P.  Goucher, 
one  of  the  oldest  and  most  successful  teachers  in  Annapolis  county.  They  have  no  children, 
but  have  an  adopted  daughter,  14  yeara  old,  whom  they  are  carefully  educating.  Mrs.  Welsh 
is  a  member  of  the  Firet  Hillsl>urgh  Baptist  church,  Bear  River,  and  very  active  and  efficient 
in  Christian  labor. 


JOHN   A.   MOERISON,  M.P.P., 

ST.  ANN'S,  N.  S. 

IN  "  Tl>e  History  of  the  Morrison  oi-  Morri.son  Family,"  written  by  Leonard  A.  Morrison,  of 
Windham,  N'.H.,  and  puV)li,shed  by  A.  Williams  and  Co.,  Boston,  Mass,  in  ^SHO,  wo  read 
that  "Angus  Morrison  was  the  ninth  generation  in  descent  from  an  Episcopal  clergyman  in  the 
island  of  Lewis,  .Scotland,  who  was  a  descendant  of  the  celebnvted  Blireitheiudi  Looghasach 
(Lewis  Judge).  Tracing  the  genealogy  backwards,  according  to  the  ohl  Highland  custom, 
Angus  was  the  son  of  John,  son  of  Angus,  son  of  Donald,  son  of  Angus,  son  of  John,  son  of 
Donald  (Ban),  .son  of  either  Roderick  or  Angus,  sons  of  the  above  named  Episcopal  clergyman. 
He,  like  many  of  the  family  from  which  he  descended,  was  noted  for  his  chariUible  and  hos- 
pitable disposition,  his  fairness  and  uprightness  in  all  transactions,  and  his  exemplary  conduct 
through  life,  as  well  as  for  his  sincerity  and  zeal  in  matters  of  religion.  In  his  yo'ith,  he  wiis 
an  accomplished  player  on  the  Highland  bag-pii)es,  but,  at  the  age  of  twenty-six,  he  beciime 
religiously  inclined,  and  gave  up  playing  on  his  favorite  instrument,  for  the  reason,  as  he  re- 
marked, that  he  found  it  '  tended  to  lead  him  into  temptatitiu.'  Some  yeai-s  after,  when  a 
hand.some  sum  was  ofleivd  him  for  his  bag-pipes,  he  refused  the  money,  neither  would  he  give 
the  instrument  as  a  gift,  stating  that  he  fouml  it  an  injury  to  himself,  and  what  was  an  injury 
to  him  he  '  woul<l  not  place  in  the  hands  of  another  to  his  hurt,'  He  then  took  it,  tied  a  stone 
to  it,  and  threw  it  into  the  sea." 

Angus  Morrison,  .spoken  of  above,  is  the  father  of  our  subject,  and  was  born  at  Stroud, 
Scotland,  in  September,  17!'-;  tame  to  Cape  Breton  about  1S2<S;  marritd  Martha  Catherine 
McKillop,  in  1817  ;  and  died  at  St.  Aim's,  C.B.,  on  the  !lth  of  Febiuarv,  ls78;  his  wife  dying 
a  year  earlier.  She  wan  the  mother  of  eleven  children,  of  whom  our  subject  was  the  fifth  ,son 
and  si\th  child. 

John  Anol's  MoliUlsoN  waM  born  at  St.  Ann's  on  the  15th  of  April,  1S.S3;  finished 
his  education  in  a  normal  school ;  and  was  engaged  in  teaching  from  I.S50  to  lfs7-.  Sixteen  of 
these  years  ho  was  in  one  school,  and  the  rest  of  the  time  in  two  others.  No  inconsiderable 
number  of  the  pupils  who  were  under  his  instruction  during  that  long  period  are  now  holding 
positions  of  trust  and  honor  in  this  proviiice,and  other  parts  of  this  country,  and  even  in  New 
Zealand. 

He  is  now  devoting  his  time  to  farming  and   mi.sceUaneous  business,  together  with  his 


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ortieial  <liitie.s.     While  cngiij,'C(l  in  teaching,  Mr.  Morrison  helJ  the  ottice  of  postmaster  of  St. 
Ann's  for  sixteen  years  ;  has  been  a  school  trustee,  anil  is  an  issuer  of  marriage  licenses. 

On  the  17th  of  Septeinher,  1878,  he  was  elected  to  represent  the  county  of  Victoria  in  the 
Nova  Scotia  A.ssenilily,  and  the  duties  of  that  ottiee  he  is  now  filling.  At  the  close  of  the 
session  held  in  l.S7!>,  he  delivered  a  speech  in  Gaelic,  in  favor  of  teaching  that  language  in  the 
schools  of  Nova  Scotia, — the  first  oratoiical  eHort  of  the  kind,  probably,  ever  njade  in  a  legis- 
lative body  on  the  western  continent.  That  speech  was  piinted  on  page  4.S2  of  the  work  fiom 
which  we  have  already  quoted. 

Mk.  Morrison  siiid  : — Fhir  lahhairt,  agns  dhaoine  nasal  Urramach.  .A'r  dhonihhe  a  bhi  t<iirt  faiipar  gii 
blicil  oirpean  inor  air  a  chur  air  clioia,  agns  nior  aontain  air  a  tlialilia  raiihoibili  iv  pairt  do  Clianiiadiaii  I'rra- 
miicli,  an  a  slio,  agns  an  iiirc an  uilc  a,  chnni  a  chainte  Klirangaioh  a  cliur  air  chuis,  unnsa  an  carrain  so  don  I'ach- 
drannachd  (Dominion)  le  tnillo  [laidheadh  n  bni  air  a  tlmbhairt  do  Mliaistoarin  8goill,  a  thcagaisis  don  chlan 
Flirungacli,  a  chaint  Fiangaeli.  Acli  a  tha  inise  don  bharraii  g\i  blioil  a  glia'lio  I  rrauiach  cho  priaeale,  agns  cho 
feaniail  a  bhi  air  a  teagaisg  ri  caintu  sani  bith  uilu  ;  gn  Hrrinetu;h  se  a  gliit'lic,  a  chaint  n»  shin  agns  a  chainte  as 
fhear,  a  tha  an  diiibh  san  It'aosaobhail.  Tha  duil  aigbichd  labliairt  na  beanrle  gn  bht-il  a  chaint  sin  nis  dig- 
hluach  air  nrrani,  no  a  ghii-liu  ;  ach,  tha  iadsan  goraeli  :  agns  tha  niise  cinntoacli  nach  faidhear  an  dinbh,  aon 
duine,  a  bhreddhnas  a  bhcanrla  gu  cuart,  ach  an  duine  aig  am  buil  a  gliaelic.  So  a  ghaidic  a  chund  Cha  nta  bha 
air  nn  talambh  ;  agns  niiar  nach  bi  a  chaint  sin  ann,  cha  bhi  fenui  air  8aintu  Ham  bidh.  Mar  sin,  ma  bhis  nUa- 
chndh  air  a  dheanndh  airson  a  Chainte  Fhrangach.  gn  ^'inntcach  feamar  iillachndli  a  dheanndh  air  son  a  ghaelic. 
Tha  na  sgoilloar  an  mor  aims  an  t'scann  dntliaich  a  ginseadth  dluiin  giir  u  a  ghachc  righ  gach  cainte  ;  gn  bheil, 
i  beartachf,  deisail,  eallnnt,  binfhoclach  briarach,  agns  gic  mhath  arisiin  aoarudli,  agns  gach  ni  math  ei  e.  8e  a 
ghaelic  a  chaint  a  hlia  aig  Adliandi,  anns  a  gharadh.  Si  a  chainte  a  blia  aig  na  bainlean,  agns  aig  na  Sheanafen, 
agns  feamar  a  cmnait  suas.  Cha  neil  anns  a  chainte  FhriVngach  acli  pUiba  taich  bhochd  ;  agns  chan  eilu  pairst 
do'n  blienria  moran  nis  fhear.  Margin,  tha  misu  aig  radh  :  tSnas  leia  a  ghaelic  anns  an  Sgoille  ;  agiia  es  an 
sgiiille  :  ngiis  ma  libithis  tastan  air  o  a  fhaotan  airson  cainte,  flirabacli,  leibide.u'li  nam  Flirangach  a  chuniail 
suas,  bitluidh  deich  tastan  airsun  a  ghaelic,  nihor,  nrramach  -an  Cluinn  sibh  shin  I 

Mr.  Morrison  niairied  Annie  Bella  Mcljean,  on  the  i')th  of  December,  18G2,  and  they  have 
seven  children  living  and  have  buried  three. 


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HALIFAX.  N.S, 

MALACHY  Bowes  DALY,  a  member  of  the  House  of  Couunons  for  the  city  of  Halifax. 
N.S.,  was  born  at  Marehmount,  near  Quebec,  on  the  (ith  of  Keliruary,  183(),  his  parents 
being  Sir  Dominick  Daly  and  Caroline  Maria  (iore,  daughti-r  of  Col.  Gore,  of  Barrowmount, 
county  of  Kilkenny,  Ireland.  Sir  Dominick  Daly  was  a  son  of  Dominick  Daly,  Es(|.,  and 
Joanna  Harriet,  (laughter  of  Joseph  Henry  Blake,  Ksq  ,  and  .lister  of  Baron  Wallscourt,  and  was 
boiii  in  Ireland,  in  17!t!>,  luing  a  scion  t)f  an  old  Galway  family.  A  memoii'  of  him  appi'ared  in 
the  second  volume  of  Tayhn's  "Sketches  of  British  Americans,"  published  in  l.S((7.  He  was 
educated  at  St.  Mary's  Catholic  college,  Oscott ;  spent  some  of  his  younger  years  with  his  uncle, 
Malneliy  Daly,  a  banker  in  I'aris ;  came  to  Canada,  and  entered  the  public  service  of  Lower 
Canada,  and  rose  gradually  until  he  became  provincial  seeretaiy,  which  ottice  he  lu'M  at  the 
time  of  the  U'"'^''  (1841),  and  seven  years  afterwards,  representing  Megnntie  in  tiie  Canada  legis- 
lature. La  "e,  he  was  lieutenant-governor  of  Tobago,  West  Indies,  lieutenant-governor 
of  Prince  Ei  ...d  Island,  and  governor-in-chicf  of  South  Australia,  where  he  died  at  Adelaide, 
in  187.".. 

Our  subject  was  educated  at  St.  Mary's  college,  0,Hcott,  near  I'.irmingham,  Eng. ;  studied 
law  at  Halifax  with  Hon.  S.  L.  Shanmm;  was  called  to  the  bar  in   18iI4,  and  foi-  several  years 


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was  of  tlio  law  firm  of  Henry  and  Daly,  Halifax,  his  partner  being  Hon.  William  A.  Henry,  now 
one  of  the  justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Dominion. 

He  was  privatt;  .secretary  to  his  father,  when  the  latter  was  governor  of  Prince  Edward  Is- 
land ;  was  also  private  secretary  to  Sir  R.  G.  MacDonnell,  governor  of  Nuva  Scotia,  and  Sir 
Hastings  ])oyle,  and  likewise  provincial  aide-de  camp  to  Sir  W.  Fenwick  Williams,  governor  of 
Nova  Scotia. 

Mr.  Daly  was  first  elected  to  parliament  at  the  general  election  in  Septendier,  1878,  and 
has  served  three  sessions,  being  on  the  committees  of  Iwinking  and  commerce,  privileges  and 
elections,  and  library.     His  politics  are  Liberal-Conservative. 

liesides  practising  his  profession  as  a  conveyancer,  Mr.  Daly  is  general  agent  for  the  Impe- 
rial Fire  Insurance  Company  of  London,  England,  for  Nova  Scotia.  He  was  for  two  consec\i- 
tive  year.s  president  of  the  Charitable  Irish  Society  of  Halifax ;  is  now  president  of  the  general 
council  of  the  society  of  the  St.  Vincent  de  Paul,  .same  city,  and  is  prompt  to  identify  himself 
with  any  movement  or  enteiiiri.se  of  a  philanthropic  character. 

Mr.  Daly  wajfi  married  on  the  4th  of  Jul}',  IS.jO,  to  Joanna,  .second  daughter  of  Sir  Edward 
Kenny,  of  Halifax,  at  one  time — July,  18G7-May,  1870 — a  member  of  Sir  John  A.  Macdouald's 
ministrv.  and  they  have  one  child. 


TROF.  JOn:N"   BURWASir,  M.A., 

SACKVILLE,  N.S. 

THE  sidtject  of  this  biographical  notice,  who  occupies  the  chair  of  chemistry  and  jdiysics  in 
Mount  Allison  Wesleyan  college,  was  born  in  the  county  of  Argenteuil,  Province  of 
QuelH'c,  on  the  8th  of  May,  1842,  his  father  being  Adam  Burwa.sh.  The  family  were  Loyalists 
at  the  time  ui  the  revolt  of  the  American  colonies,  the  grandfather  of  Adam  Burwash  fighting 
for  King  tieorge  during  that  war,  and  moving  from  Vermont  to  what  was  then  known  as  Lower 
Canada,  .settling  in  the  county  already  mentioned.  The  father  of  John  was  a  volunteer  in  the 
rebellion  of  18,'J7-'38,  and  an  uncle  had  eonnnand  of  a  regiment  at  that  exciting  period  in 
Canadian  iiistory. 

When  our  subject  was  in  his  infancy,  the  family  moved  to  Canada  West,  now  Ontario,  antl 
settled  on  a  farm  near  Coltourg,  where  Victoria  college  is  located.  In  that  institution  our  sub- 
ject was  educated,  receiving  the  ilegree  of  bachelor  of  arts  in  18(!3,  and  that  of  master  of  arts 
some  years  later.  While  pursuing  his  studies  in  college,  he  taught  a  common  school  two  years, 
and,  on  receiving  his  first  degree,  entered  immediately  on  the  work  of  the  ministry  in  the 
Methodist  chnreli,  being  first  stationed  at  Canton,  near  Coltourg,  removing  thence  to  Colborne, 
and  two  years  later  to  Bariie. 

After  his  pastorate  at  the  latter  place,  our  subject  taught  one  year  in  Victoria  college  ;  then 
held  pastorates  at  Kelli'ville  and  Parkliill,  after  which  he  resumed  the  work  of  teaching,  being 
jirofessor  of  science  tliree  years  in  Mount  Allison  Wesleyan  college.  Subseiiently.  he  returned 
to  Ontario,  ami  was  pastor  one  year  at  L'Orignal,  coimty  of  Prescott.  At  the  eml  of  that  time, 
(1h7.'))  he  returned  to  Saekville,  to  fill  the  chair  already  mentioneil.  For  the  last  three  years 
lie  has  also  been  provincial  assayei'  for  the  Province  of  New  Brunswick. 


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Prof.  Burwa.s)i  is  a  very  poi)ular  jncachoi'.  His  seriuons  are  fresh  and  attractive  in  Mtyle, 
thoughtful  and  orijjjinal  in  matter.  His  elocutionary  abilities  are  of  a  high  ortliT.  In  his  pro- 
fessional pursuits,  he  is  earnest  even  to  enthusiasm  ;  is  not  satisfied  with  merely  following  the 
Waten  traek  of  text-hooks,  but  investigates  for  himself,  and  keeps  fully  abreast  of  the  latest 
discoveries  in  science.  He  excels  in  chemistry  and  mineralogy,  but  he  has  also  made  mathe- 
matics a  special  study.  In  the  lecture-room,  he  is  clear  and  emphatic;  his  .students  question 
him  without  reserve  on  the  subjects  under  discussion,  and  are  thus  familiarly  guided  into  the 
most  interesting  paths  of  scientific  research. 

Professor  Burwash  married,  in  18G7,  Miss  Eden  Henwood,  daughter  of  Charles  Henwood, 
of  Hope  towaship,  county  of  Durham,  Ontario,  and  they  have  one  daughter. 


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HON.   AV.  B.   YATL, 

HALIFAX,  N.a. 

WILLIAM  BERRIAN  VAIL,  late  Minister  of  Militia  and  Defence  in  the  Dominion  Cabi- 
net, and  one  of  the  leading  public  men  of  Nova  Scotia,  is  a  native  of  New  Brunswick, 
having  been  born  at  Sussex,  King's  county,  on  the  IDth  of  December,  18:2.3.  His  fatiier  was 
John  Cougle  Vail,  .son  of  Robert  Vail,  one  of  the  adherents  to  the  British  Crown  duiing  the  war 
of  the  Atnerican  colonies,  and  emigrated  from  the  United  States  to  St.  John,  New  Brunswick,  at 
the  close  oi  that  war.  The  father  of  our  subject  represented  King's  county  in  the  New  Brunswick 
legislature  for  nearly  a  fpiarter  of  a  centur}' ;  he  was  a  judge  of  the  Court  of  Conunon  Pleas,  and 
also  held  several  important  local  ottices.  John  Cougle  Vail  married  Charlotte  p]lizabeth  Arnold, 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  Oliver  Arnold,  rector  of  Su.s.sex,  who  was  educateil  at  Yale  college,  (Connec- 
ticut, United  States ;  and  removed  to  St.  John,  New  Bruaswick,  at  the  clo.se  of  the  American 
war. 

Two  Oi  Mrs.  Vails  brothers.  Rev.  Horatio  Nelson  Arnold  ami  Edwin  Arnold,  were  min- 
isters of  the  C^hurch  of  England,  and  the  latter  is  at  present  a  professor  in  a  college  in  the  State 
of  M  :iT  yland. 

Doctor  Edwin  Arnold  Vail,  a  brother  of  our  subject,  succeeded  his  father  in  representing 
King's  county,  and  both  liefore  and  since  Confederation,  has  held  the  oftice  of  .speaker  of  tlie 
New  Brunswick  Hou.se  :)f  As.send)ly. 

W.  B.  Vail  was  educateil  at  the  county  griuiunar  school,  and  removed  to  Digby,  Nova 
Scotia,  in  ]8-t(i,  where  he  joined  his  elder  brother,  John  ().  Vail,  who  was  at  that  time  engageil 
in  an  extensive  shipping  and  West  India  business,  which  was  continued  until  I8(i7,  when  he 
acce))ted  a. seat  in  the  Nova  Scotia  Cabinet,  with  the  ottice  of  provincial  secretary,  ami  retired 
from  commercial  pursuits.  His  political  career  was  thus  sketched  in  the  Toionto  Globe  in 
October,  187(i,  at  the  time  when  he  was  a  meml)er  of  the  Hon.  Alexander  Mackenzie's  Govern- 
ment : 

Mr.  Viiil  was  n  strDlii}  (i)>ponent  of  Ooiifi'dcratidii,  chiiliy  tm  the  gromul  that  he  regarded  the  terms  of  iniion 
ai  tiiiancially  unfair  to  Nova  Scotia,  and  01  iiiBidunul  tlio  niodu  of  forcinj;  Confederation  upon  the  people  of  that 
I)rovinco  by  tlio  Tn|)per  adniiniHtratiou  to  l>e  liotl'  arhitrary  and  nnjnat,  \i  the  general  election  in  IHCi"  lie  wan 
verj'  strongly  urged  to  accejit  u  nomination  for  the  House  of  Connnous,  but  declined,  and  it  was  then  that,  on 
the  urgent  solicitation  of  a  lar^e  body  of  the  electoiH,  he  consented  to  st.uid  as  a  candidate  for  the  local  leijiHla- 
ture,  and  was  elected  by  a  very  large  majority  over  his  opponent.     In  October  of  the  same  year  the  Hon.  A, 


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McHeffey  wbb  called  «i)on  by  the  Lieutenaiit-fiDvernor,  Sir  Hastingfi  Doyle,  to  form  a  new  luinifitry.  The 
course  taken  by  Mr.  Hutfey  was  thu  somewhat  unuHual  one  of  calling  together  the  niombers  elect — the  House  rot 
having  at  that  time  been  convened  in  session  — and  submitting  the  names  of  the  proposed  cabinet  for  their  ap- 
proval. Mr.  Vail  was  accepted  for  the  ntlico  of  provincial  secretary  by  the  unanimous  vote  of  the  thirty-six 
guverment  supporters  present,  the  two  absentees  necessary  to  make  up  tlio  full  number  of  the  House  being  the 
sole  representatives  at  that  time  of  the  opposition.  The  nccei)tanceof  otlico  by  Mr.  Vail  compelled  his  return  to 
his  constituents,  and  subjected  him  to  a  sharp  contest  with  Mr.  John  C.  Wade,  the  ex-Speaker  of  the  House  of 
Assembly,  who  had  previously  represented  Digby  for  fifteen  years.  The  election  was  regarded  with  much  in- 
terest as  atrial  of  strength  between  parties  in  the  province,  but  resulted  in  Mr.  Vail  being  placed  at  the  head 
of  the  poll  by  u  majority  of  41)4.  To  the  duties  of  provincial  secretary  were  now  added,  under  the  authority  of 
an  Act  passed  in  the  last  session  of  the  old  legislature,  those  of  financial  secretary.  It  devolved  therefore  upon 
Mr.  Vail  to  superintend  the  financial  arrangements  and  adjustments  rendered  necessary  by  Confederation,  in- 
cluding the  c(uupilation  of  the  public  accoiuits,  which  he  accomplished  with  great  expeditiou,  although  laboring 
under  the  serious  disadvantage  of  having  a  staff  under  him  who  were,  like  himself,  wholly  new  to  the  work  of 
the  department.  P'rom  this  period  till  October,  1H74,  Mr.  Vail  held,  without  interruption,  the  ottices  thus 
assigned  to  liim,  and  from  J87I)  he  was  also  leader  of  the  government  in  the  House  of  Asseni'iy. 

During  his  terui  of  oflice  the  Windsor  and  .Vnunpohs  railway,  subaiilized  by  the  ;;overnment,  was  built  and 
opened  for  traflic  ;  the  vexed  ipieatiou  of  the  proprietorship  of  tlie  now  provincial  buildings,  for  souie  time  iu 
dispute  between  the  Dominion  and  local  govurnuients,  wan  s:itiHriiutorily  settled  ;  the  muisuro  for  the  couititu- 
ti<ui  of  county  courts  was  c.irried  through  the  legislature  ;  the  proviucial  statutes  wore  revised  ami  consolidated  ; 
and  an  A:'t  was  passed  providing  for  the  extensicm  of  the  provincial  railway  system  from  Aunapolig  to  Yar- 
mouth in  the  west,  and  from  New  (ilasgow  to  the  Strait  of  Oanso  in  the  east. 

Lpon  tne  fall  of  Sir  John  Mncdonald's  government  (IKTIJ),  more  than  eight  hundred  of  Mr.  Vail's  con- 
stituents again  presented  him  with  a  memorial  asking  hii  acceptan\.e  of  a  iioininatiim  for  the  House  of  Commons, 
but  he  declined  the  invitation,  his  colleagues  iu  the  local  government  strongly  objecting  to  his  retirement  at  that 
time,  owing  ti'  the  dithculty  of  obtaiuin.{a  suitable  successor  to  assume  the  onerous  duties  of  provincial  secre- 
tary within  a  few  weeks  of  tlio  meeting  of  the  legislature.  A  counter  memorial,  signed  by  a  large  number  of 
leading  men  of  the  Reform  party  at  Halifax,  endorsing  tlio  opinion  of  the  governiucnt  as  to  tlie  dithculty  of 
tilling  up  the  position,  was  also  presented  to  Mr.  Vail,  which  decided  him,  in  the  interests  of  hi^  party  and  of 
the  public  generally,  to  retain  for  at  least  another  session  his  seat  in  the  local  government  and  as.iembly.  In 
September,  1874,  Mr.  Vail  was  called  to  the  Privy  Council  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  and  offered  by  the  pre- 
mier the  portfolio  of  Minister  of  Militia  and  Defence,  vacated  by  the  a|)pointment  of  the  Hon.  William  J^oss  to 
khe  collectorship  i^f  Her  Majesty's  customs  at  Halifax.  <  Mi  iiis  acceptance  of  this  othce  Mr.  Vail  was  elected,  for 
the  fourth  time  in  seven  yeai's,  by  his  old  cjustitu'ints  to  represent  the  county  of  Digby,  receiving  under  the 
new  election  law,  which  has  a  tendency  to  greatly  reduce  the  number  of  vote.s  polled,  a  m.ijoiity  of  'iA'2.  During 
Mr.  Vail's  term  of  otHce  as  Minister  of  Militia  and  Defence,  the  east  wing  of  the  new  royal  military  college  at 
Kingston  was  completed  and  opened  for  the  reception  of  cadets. 

Mr.  Vail  was  married  in  18.50  to  Charlotte  Leslie,  dauylitor  of  Charles  Jones,  Esq.,  of  Wey- 
mouth, Nova  Scotia;  and  they  have  two  daughters,  Ella  Leslie,  married  to  A.  S.  Mitchell, 
Halifax  ;  and  Annie  Fari.sh,  who  is  completing  her  education  at  Soutliampton,  Englaml. 

With  the  cxcei>tioii  of  the  four  years  he  was  a  meiuher  of  the  cahinet,  Mr.  Vail  hns  resided 
at  Halifax  since  18G7.  He  is  a  metnber  of  the  (.'hurch  of  England,  and  has  been  several  tiiin-s 
jippointed  a  delegate  to  the  Provincial  Synod,  held  at  Halifax,  and  wasalso  elected  a  delegate  l)y 
the  Provincial  .synod  to  attend  the  Geneva  Synod,  held  at  Montreal  in  September,  1880.  He  is 
a  man  of  solid  character. 


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HALIFAX,  N.S. 

JAMES  McDonald,  memlxjr  of  the  House  of  Commons  for  Pictou,  N.S.,  and  Minister  of 
Justice,  belongs  to  a  family  which  came  from  tlie  Highlands  of  Scotland  near  the  close 
of  the  last  century,  and  settled  at  Pictou.  In  East  Iliver,  in  that  comity,  our  subject  was  U^rii 
on  the  1st  of  July,  1828.  His  parents  were  Alexander  and  Janet  (Eraser)  McDonald:  his 
mother  being  from  Inverness-.shire,  Scotland.  She  has  had  foiu"  children,  all  of  tlnin,  with 
herself,  still  living ;  she  being  in  her  7!)th  year.    The  father  dietl  nearly  twenty  years  ago. 

Mr.  McDonalil  was  educated  at  the  grammar  .school.  New  (Jlasgow,  N.S. ;   studied  law  at 
Pictou,  with  Martin  Wilkins;  was  called  to  the  l)ar  iu  18  > I,  and  practised  at  Pictou  until  18G.'<, 


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He  was  created  a  Queen's  Counsel  in  18(57.  For  a  decade  or  more,  Mr.  McDonald  was  tlio 
leading  lawyer  in  the  eastern  part  of  Nova  Scotia,  having  a  large  practice,  gi-eat  weight  with 
juries  and  much  influence  with  judges.  In  1803,  ho  transferred  his  i)ractiro  to  Halifa.x,  and 
nlniosi  from  the  start,  l)ecame  the  leader  of  the  bar,  with  extensive  practice,  particularly  in 
cn.ses  involving  points  of  commercial  law.  On  the  occasion  of  the  2.5th  anniversary  of  his 
ndmi.ssion  to  the  rank  of  bairister,  he  wa-s  entertained  at  Halifax  by  his  professional  brethren, 
without  regard  to  political  feeling,  which  then  ran  high. 

Mr.  McDonald  is  a  director  of  the  Confederation  Life  Association  ;  was  chief  railway 
commissioner  for  Nova  Scotia  from  June,  18(i3,  to  Deeemlter,  1864,  at  which  last  date  he  was 
appointed  financial  secretary  in  the  government  led  by  Sir  Charles  Tupper,  a  position  which  ho 
continued  to  hold  until  the  Confederation  (18<!7).  He  represented  his  province  as  one  of  the 
commissioners  appointed,  in  1865,  to  open  trade  relations  between  the  West  Indies,  Mexico  and 
Brazil  and  the  British  American  provinces ;  the  labors  of  which  commission  were  completed  in 
1866. 

Mr.  Mcl>onald  represented  Pictou  in  the  Nova  Scotia  assembly  from  18.59  until  the  union, 
and  in  the  local  legislature  from  the  general  election  in  1871  luitil  July,  1872,  when  he  re- 
signed ;  and  was  elected  for  the  Hou.se  of  Commons  at  the  general  election  of  that  year.  He 
was  a  candidate  for  the  same  constituency  for  the  Hou.se  of  Commons  in  1867,  but  failed  to  bo 
elected;  was  defeated  in  1874,  and  .successful  in  1878;  was  sworn  of  the  Privy  Council  iis 
Minister  of  Ju.stice  in  October,  1878,  much  to  the  gratification  of  the  whole  bar  and  three- 
fourths  of  the  people  of  his  own  province ;  and  ho  is  sedulous  in  performing  the  duties  of  that 
ortice.  The  government  is  in  the  hands  of  the  Conservatives,  with  wliom  he  has  always 
artiliated,  and  has  been  one  of  their  leading  memV)ei"s  in  his  province. 

In  religion,  he  strongly  adheres  to  the  church  of  bis  forefathers,  the  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Scotland. 

In  1856,  Mr.  McDonald  married  Jane  Mortimer,  daughter  of  William  Mortimer,  Esi^.,  de- 
ceased, of  Pictou,  and  they  have  eight  children. 


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ROBERT    G.  IRWIN, 

SHELBVRNE,  N.S. 

EOBERT  GOVE  IRWIN,  judge  of  probate  for  the  county  of  Shclburne,  is  a  native  of  this 
county  and  was  born  at  Sand  Point,  on  the  25th  of  December,  1833.  His  father,  Robert 
Granby  Irwin,  many  jears  a  teacher,  and,  in  later  yeai*s,  a  farmer,  was  Itorn  in  the  same  town- 
ship, and  died  in  1865.  His  grandfather,  John  Irwin,  was  born  in  Armagh,  Ireland;  joined  the 
British  army  in  1771  ;  served  four  j-ears  in  Ireland;  came  to  Quebec,  under  the  command  of 
Lieut.-Colonel  Hill,  early  in  1776  ;  served  under  Carlton  and  Burgoyne,  respectively;  ami  was 
taken  prisoner  with  the  latter's  army  and  was  held  for  four  years.  When  released,  he  went 
to  New  York  ;  joined  the  4()th  regiment,  under  Musgrave;  and  when  ilischargod  in  1783, 
came  to  Nova  Scotia.  The  mother  of  Roljort  was  Isabel  Firth,  who  was  lx)rn  in  Sligo,  Ireland, 
and  is  yet  living. 

Our  subject  attended  .school  at  Sii.nd  Point  until  about  thirteen  years  of  ago  ;    and  froni 
that  date  until  of  age  was  engaged  in  fishing.     He  then  went  to  Truro,  and  prepared  him.self 


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for  an  insti-uctor,  and  taught  two  ^'eai-s  in  Shelburnc  county,  and  two  yeai-s  in  Milton  academy, 
Queen's  county. 

His  health  failing,  in  1858,  Mr  Invin  came  to  the  town  of  Shelburne,  and  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile pursuitB,  which  lie  is  still  following,  having  a  general  store.  He  hiw  also  a  fourth 
interest  in  a  large  gang  saw-mill  in  town,  and  docs  a  little  farming. 

Mr.  Irwin  was  appointed  judge  of  probate  in  1870,  school  coniniissioner  in  1872,  and  a 
member  of  the  l)oard  of  health  and  couiniissioner  for  the  relief  of  insolvent  debtors  in  1873. 
He  is  well  educated,  and  capable  and  efticient  in  any  business  he  underUikes. 

Mr.  Irwin  holds  a  captain's  commission  in  the  Nova  Scotia  militia,  but  was  never,  we 
believe,  called  into  nctive  service.  He  is  a  Master  Mason  of  Albert  lodge,  Shelburne  ;  a  strong, 
unwavering  Liberal  in  his  political  principles  ;  and  a  meml)er  of  the  Methodist  church,  and  a 
steady  and  energetic  Sunday  school  worker,  in  the  post  of  superintendent,  which  lie  has  held 
for  nineteen  or  twenty  consecutive  years.  He  is  also  a  consistent  total  abstinence  advocate, 
having  never  l)een  known  to  drink  a  glass  of  strong  liquor,  and  from  youth  has  l)een  identified 
with  temperance  reform.     In  him  are  combined  the  elements  of  true  manhooil. 

His  wife  was  Isabel  Archer,  a  native  of  Yarmouth,  and  daughter  of  Freeman  Archer,^ 
married  in  June,  1801,  and  they  have  ten  children, 


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HON.  JOHN    CAMn3KLL   ALLEN, 

FIlEDEHICroN,  N.R.  ^ 

THK  HON.  JOHN  C.  ALLEN,  cliiof  justice  of  Now  Bninswick,  was  horn  in  tlie  parish  of 
Kiiigsclcar,  county  of  York,  N.B.,  on  tlie  1st  of  October,  1817.  His  ^'randfatlicr,  I.saac 
Alii-n,  was  a  U.  K.  Loyalist.  Ho  resiiled  in  Trenton,  New  .li'i-soy,  wluTo  lie  practised  law. 
l>urini^  the  revolutionary  war,  which  broke  out  in  177ri,  lie  was  iippointoil  lieutenant-colonel  of 
the  '2ud  battalion  of  New  Jeixey  volunteers,  one  of  the  provincial  rtigiiuents  raised  durin;^  the 
war.  At  the  i)eace  in  1783,  he  settled  in  Nova  Scotia,  and  when  the  Province  of  New  Hnms- 
M'ick  was  establislied  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  judf^es  of  the  supreme  court,  a  position  he 
held  until  liis  death  in  Octolwir,  180(1.  His  wife  was  Sarah  ('auipbell,  of  Philadelphia.  His 
son,  the  father  of  the  present  chief  justice,  was  John  Allen,  Es(j.,  formerly  a  captain  in  the  New 
Brunswick  Fencibles,  a  corps  raiseil  in  New  Brunswick  durini;  the  war  of  1812,  and  com- 
manded by  General  John  Toftin.  This  re^'iment  was  disbandeti  in  LSI 7,  and  Captain  Allen 
was  subse(|uently  appointed  lieutenant-colonel  and  in.specting  field  otticer  of  the  militia  of  New 
Brunswick  ;  and  whei  that  office  was  abolished,  was  appointed  (juarter-master  "general  of  the 
militia.  He  represented  the  county  of  York  in  the  Hou.se  of  Assembly  from  1801)  to  1847. 
He  <lied  in  April,  187'),  aged  91  ;  his  wife  died  in  1822. 

Our  subject  was  etlucated  at  tlie  Fiedirictou  graiiiiiiar  school ;  studied  law  with  the  Hon. 
John  Simcoe  Saundeis,  son  of  the  then  chief  ju.stice  in  Fredericton ;  was  ailmitted  its  an 
attorney  in  October,  1838;  and  to  the  V>ar,  in  Michaelmas  term,  18+0. 

In  IS4'),  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  commissioners  for  settling  the  claims  to  lantls,  under 
the  fourth  article  of  the  treaty  of  Washington  (1842).  While  the  boundary  between  the 
Province  of  New  Brunswick  and  the  United  States  wa.s  in  dispute,  the  i)ortion  of  the  country 
known  as  "  the  disputed  territory,"  extending  from  near  the  CJrand  Falls  of  the  river  St.  John 
to  the  head  of  the  river,  and  including  the  whole  Madawaska  settlement  on  both  sides  of  the 
river,  was  being  occu})ied  by  settlers,  principally  Acadian  French,  who  held  by  possession  only, 
the  government  refusing  to  make  any  grants  of  the  land.  By  the  treaty,  the  channel  of  the 
river,  from  a  point  about  three  miles  above  the  (Jraiul  Falls  to  the  mouth  of  the  river  St. 
Francis,  a  tributary  of  the  St.  John,  about  seventy  miles  aln^ve  the  Falls,  was  fixed  as  the 
boundary  between  the  two  countries ;  and  the  fourth  article  of  the  treaty  provided  that  all 
eipiitable  possessory  claims,  arising  from  a  possession  and  improvement  of  any  land  for  inoie 
than  six  years  before  the  date  of  the  treaty,  shouM  be  deemed  valid,  and  be  confirmed  to  the 
persons  so  in  possession.  The  commi.ssion  was  afipointed  to  investigate  and  settle  the  claims  of 
the  persons  in  pos.scssion  of  that  portion  of  the  lands  in  dispute,  which  fell  within  the  dominion 
of  (Jreat  Britain.  During  the  years  LS+S  and  18+7,  they  heard  and  determined  the  claims  of 
all  the  settlers  between  the  Grand  Falls  ami  the  St.  Francis,  and  grants  of  the  lands  were  after- 
wards i.ssued  by  the  government  to  the  respective  parties,  in  accordance  with  the  report  of  the 
commissioners.  The  other  commissioner  was  the  late  James  A.  Maclauchlan,  who  was  formeily 
an  officer  in  the  l()4th  regiment,  and  served  in  Canada  between  LSI 3- 1.'),  and  who  liad  for 
many  years  acted  as  warden  of  the  disputeil  territory,  by  appointment  of  the  British  govern- 
ment, for  the  purpo,se  of  preventing  the  cutting  of  timber  upon  it.      The  most  valuable  part  of 


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I  "  disputed  territory,"  the  fertile  valley  of  the  Aroostook,  was  ceded  to  the  United  States 
'■.  the  treaty. 

Mr.  Allen  was  appointed  clerk  of  the  executive  council  of  the  province  in  November,  18.')1, 
id  held  that  office  till  January,  185G,  whon  he  resigned  it,  anf'  offered  as  a  member  of  the 
'  ouse  of  Assembly  for  York  county.  In  February,  1«S.5<),  he  svi.  elected  a  representative  of 
.  '  county  of  York  in  the  general  ii.ssomldy,  and  in  May  following  was  appointed  solicitor- 
■  •^loral,  which  position  he  held  until  May,  KSoT,  when  the  government  lesigned,  having  been 
(''featod  at  the  general  election.  In  liS(i(),  he  was  offerod  the  position  of  t^ueen's  Counsel,  Imt 
•',•> .'lined.      He  was  speaker  of  the  N\'w  Brunswick  Assembly,  from  1X02  until  the  dissolution 

■  i'  that  body  in  18(i.i  for  the  purpo.se  of  ascertaining  the  opinion  of  the  people  on  the  (|uestion 
1''  Confederation,  as  agreed  upon  by  the  delegatt-s  a.ssembled  at  Quebi'c  in  September  previous. 

I I  iving  lieen  again  elected  as  a  representative  opposed  to  Confedeiation,  in  April,  18(J'>,  he  was 
li'pointed  attoiney -general,  which  offiet>  In-  held  until  the  21st  of  Septembei- following.       In 

■  1  .ne  ot  that  year,  he  was  sent  by  the  provincial  government,  with  the  Hon.  Albert  J.  Smith 
(ri'terwards  Sir  Albert),  a.s  a  delegiite  to  the  British  government,  for  the  purpose  of  urging  the 
(ibjections  of  New  Brunswick  to  the  confederation  of  the  provinces.  Soon  after  his  return 
fiom  Kngland,  on  the  21st  of  Septenilicr,  l.SU.5,  he  was  appointed  a  jmisne  judge  of  the  supreme 
court  of  New  Brunswick  ;  a  vacancy  having  been  caused  by  the  resignation  of  Sir  James 
Carter.  On  the  8th  of  October,  1875,  he  was  appointeil  chief  justice  of  New  Brunswick,  as 
sueci'ssor  to  the  IIiju.  Wm.  Johnston  Ritchie,  who  at  this  time  was  appointed  a  pui.sne  judge  of 
the  Supreme  Coint  of  Canada. 

On  the  8th  of  October,  l8G(i,  he  was  ajipointed  vice-president  of  the  Court  of  Governor  and 
Council,  for  iletermining  suits  relating  to  marriage  and  di\  oree.  By  an  Act  of  Assembly,  j)a.s.sed 
in  17!n,  a  court  was  constituted  consisting  of  tlu'  lieutenant-governor  of  the  province  and  His 
.Majesty's  council,  for  the  determinati(tn  of  suits  and  (juestions  coneeining  marriage  and  divoi-ce 
and  alimony, — the  governor  to  be  president  of  the  court.  The  governor  was  also  authorized  to 
ai'point  the  chief  justice  or  one  of  the  judges  of  the  supreme  court  or  the  master  of  the  rolls 
to  be  vice-president  of  the  eoiiit,  and  to  act  in  his  place.  In  18(10,  a  new  c(jMrt  for  the  trial  of 
matrimonial  causes,  was  created  iiy  tlie  act  2.S  \'ie.,  c.  M7.  and  all  suits  pending  in  the  court 
liefore  tlu'  governor  and  council — (except  those  in  which  evidence  had  lieen  examined,  whieli 
were  to  be  proceedeil  with  as  before) —were  transferred  to  the  new  court.  Mr.  Justice  Neville 
I'arki'r  was  appointed  the  judge  under  this  Act.  We  presinne  Mi'.  Allen's  ai>i»ointment  as  vice- 
president  of  the  Court  of  ( Jovernor  and  Council  was  for  the  purpo.se  of  hearing  sonui  case  com- 
menced uniler  the  old  law,  in  which  evidence  had  lieen  examined;  but,  so  far  as  we  can  learn, 
he  has  iie\er  acted  under  lijs  conmiission. 

In  June,  1878,  he  was  appointed,  in  the  place  of  the  late  (lovernor  Wilmot,  one  of  the 
arbitrators  for  settling  the  north-west  boumlary  of  the  Province  of  Ontario.  The  other 
arbitrators  were  Sir  Kdward  Thornton,  the  British  minister  at  Washington,  and  Chief  Justice 
Harrison,  of  Ontario.  The  time  appointed  foi-  tln'  meeting  of  the  ailiitrators  having  been  fixed 
for  till'  early  part  of  Jidy,  and  dithculties  existing  iii  the  way  of  a  postponement.  Chief  Ju.stico 
Allen  was  obliged  to  resign  the  ap|iointment  ;  as  his  jtidicial  duties  preventd  him  from  attending 
to  it,  -the  trial  of  the  Osborne  family  for  the  alleged  munler  of  Timothy  .McCarthy,  coming  on 
at  the  circuit  court,  then  alM)ut  to  open,  at  which  he  was  to  preside. 

Among  the  mo.st  notable  crinnnal  ca  es  which  (.'hief  Justice  .Allen  lias  tried  may  be  men- 
tioned that  of  .lohn  .\  Munroe.  in  I8()!i,  foi  the  miu'der  of  Sarah  .Margaret  Vail  and  hei'  child, 
at  St.  John;  and  in  1875,  of  a  uundjcr  of  persons  at  Bathurst,  in  the  county  of  Uloueester,  who 


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j)articipatc(l  in  the  <  'arnwiuet  riots,  wliich  originated  in  resisting  the  enforcement  of  thi 
<  <onnuun  Schools  Act ;  also  that  of  Chnsson  and  ten  others,  for  tlie  murder  of  one  (Jittbi'd,  who 
had  aided  the  sheriH's  officers  in  arresting  the  Carra(|Uet  rioters  (mentioned  ahove).  He  aI»io 
tried  the  Osborne  family  twice  for  the  alleged  murder  of  Timothy  McCarthy  at  Shediae,  in  th. 
county  of  Westmorelanil.  The  first  trial,  in  July  and  August,  1h7H,  occuiiied  six  weeks.  Th.' 
jury  having  disagnud,  the  prisoners  were  again  tried  in  Noveml)er  and  December  of  the  sanvj 
year,  the  trial  occupying  nearly  six  weeks;  and,  as  In'fore,  the  jury  failed  to  agree. 

In  l.S+T  Mr.  Allen  puhli.shed  a  lM)ok  of  the  rules  of  the  supreme  court  of  New  Brun-^- 
wick,  and  the  Acts  of  Assendily  relating  to  the  practice  of  the  courts.  He  has  also  rendercl 
niucli  valuable  seivice  to  the  legal  profession,  in  the  coini)ilati<)n  and  publication  of  several 
volumes  of  law  reports,  embodying  tlu!  decisions  of  the  court  extending  over  a  number  of  year 

In  his  yotmger  days,  Mr.  Allen  took   an  active   interest   in  the   militia  of  the  jirovinci. 
About  the  yi'ar  183"),  he  joined  a  volunteer  company  of  artilleiy  in  Krederieton.     In  lfS3.S.  th' 
.several  companies  of  artillery  in  the  province,  viz.,  at  Krederieton,  St.  John,  St.  Andrews  an 
St.  Stephens,  were  fornu-d  into  a  regiment  called  "The  New  Hrunswick  regiment  of  Artillery 
under  the  comnuvnd  of  liicutenant-Colonel  Richard  Hayne,  formerly  of  thr  royal  artillery.      1: 
1H,S8.  Ml'.  A.  was  ajipointed  second  lieutenant  in  the  regiment;  afterwaids  first  lieutenant  an. 
adjutjvnt,  and  captain  in  Jidy,  ISil.     The  militia  law  having  been  materially  altered  in    I.St).'>. 
he  has  not,  since  that,  had  any  active  connection  with  the  force. 

In  ISi^,  he  was  appointed  provincial  n/i/c-i/c-cin/i/)  to  Sir  William  Colebrooke,  the 
lieuteniint-governoi'  of  the  |iroviner,  and  continued  so  till  he  resigned  the  goveriunent  in  l.S+<s. 

Chief  Justice  .Mien  is  a  member  of  the  Church  of  England,  and  for  thirty  jears  has  been 
a  member  of  the  eliiirch  eorpoiation  in  Fredeiicton.  lie  has  also  held  the  position  of  church- 
warden in  the  parish  fliinih  for  over  twenty  years,  and  on  two  occasions — 1H77  and  1H80 — 
has  In'en  elected  ilclcgate  to  the  provincial  synod  at  Montreal. 

In  1H45,  Chief  Justice  Allen  nuirried  .Margaret  A.  Drury,  daughter  of  the  late  Captain 
Charles  Drury,  29th  regiment  of  foot,  who  died  at  St.  John,  in  ls:}5.  He  has  seven  children 
living:  John,  Charles  Driny,  William,  Thomas  Carleton  (a  barrister  practising  at  St.  John), 
Edmund  H.,  George  W.,  and  Heiuy. 


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ST.  JOHN,  N.B. 

WK  read  in  Sabine's  "  Loyalists  "  the  nanu.'  of  Samuel  Tilley  who  was  from  Hrooklyn,  N.Y., 
and  came  to  New  Ihunswick  at  the  clo.se  of  the  American  revolution,  b.'t;g  a  grantee 
of  St.  ib)lin,  and  dying  in  that  province.  His  widow,  Elizabeth  Morgan,  died  at  1'  rtland,  N.H., 
in  18.'{.'),  aged  eighty-four  years,  This  Samuel  Tilley  was  the  progenitor  of  the  family  in  that 
jirovinee,  and  the  great  grandfathei  of  Samuel  Leonard  Tilley,  the  sidject  of  tliis  brief  bio- 
giaphy,  who  was  Unn  at  Gagetown,  Queen's  county.  May  8th,  iMlM.  His  parents  were  Tlioma 
M,  and  Susan  Ann  (Peters)  Tilley.  His  maternal  grandmother  came  to  New  Briuisw  ick  from 
Westchester,  New  York,  in  17H.S,  the  year  in  which  the  war  with  the  colonies  clo>ed. 

Mr,  Tilley  was  educated  at  the  county  granuuar  school ;  learned  the  druggist  busines;- 
when  a  young  man,  and  followed  it  at  St.  John  until  1Sj4. 


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le  entered  piiMic  life  in  1850,  representing  the  city  of  St.  John  in  the  I.rf>giHlativo  Assembly 
from  June  of  that  yenr  until  18.56,  when  he  wa.s  defeated  on  the  prohi}>ition  i|uestion,  and  the 
^'overnniont  resijjned  ;  from  June,  1857,  to  March,  18()5,  when  he  wa.s  defeated  on  the  Confed- 
eration policy  of  the  government,  and  again  from  1806  until  the  Confederation,  when  he 
resigned  to  accept  a  seat  in  the  House  of  ( 'ommons,  and  to  represent  this  province  in  the 
Dominiim  (Jabinet. 

During  the  different  periods  that  Mr.  Tilley  was  in  the  local  legi.slature,  he  took  a  very 
prominent  part,  being  a  member  of  the  Executive  Council  from  November,  18-")1',  to  May,  l8.")t!, 
from  July,  1857,  to  March,  18().'>,  and  from  April,  ISfid,  until  the  Confederation,  his  portfolio 
during  tliose  several  periods  being  that  of  provincial  secretary.  From  March,  18G1,  to  March, 
1805,  he  was  tlie  leader  of  the  government ;  and  indeed  for  a  long  period  he  lias  been  the  fore- 
most man  and  leader  of  the  Liberal  Conservative  party  in  this  province,  and  luas  had  very  mucli 
to  do  with  the  sliaping  of  its  laws.  'I'lie  pruhibitoiy  liijuor  law  nf  New  Hrunswick  was  his 
originating  as  a  j)rivate  iminlKT,  and  as  a  membei-  of  the  government  hi-  aided  in  carrying 
through  the  bills  for  vote  by  liallot,  and  extension  of  the  franchise  ;  authorizing  the  construc- 
tion of  the  Kuropean  and  North  American  railway  as  a  government  work  ;  autliorizing  the 
building  of  the  Intereohmial  railway,  his  province  agreeing  to  pay  three-and-a-half  twelfths  of 
the  cost ;  and  granting  facility  for  the  con.structi(jn  of  t;ertain  railways  under  which  230  miles 
have  been  built  in  the  province. 

Mr.  Tilley  took  a  prominent  ]>art  in  the  movements  preliminary  to  the  union  of  the 
Ihitish  North  American  Provinces.  He  was  a  ilelegate  to  the  Charlottetown  conference  in 
September,  !8(>4  ;  to  the  Quebec  conference  later  in  the  same  year,  and  to  the  London  Colonial 
conference,  to  complete  the  terms  of  union,  in  IHiKJ,  '(I7. 

He  has  Iwen  sent  t(j  England  on  several  important  missions  to  confer  with  the  Imperial 
(lovernment  on  matters  such  as  that  with  reference  to  the  Union  of  the  Hritish  American 
Provinces,  the  buililing  of  the  intercolonial  railway,  etc.,  and  also  on  missions  to  the  other 
provinces. 

Mr.  Tilley  holds  a  jiatent  of  rank  and  precedence  from  Her  .Majesty  as  ani'X-councillor  of 
New  Hnmswick,  and  was  created  C  15.  ('livil)  liy  Her  .Majesty,  in  18(17,  and  K.  C.  .M.  (}.,  <m  the 
-•4th  May,  187'.». 

He  was  sworn  of  tlif  Privy  Council,  and  appointed  Ministtr  of  Customs  for  the  Dominion 
on  the  1st  of  July,  I8(i7,  the  date  of  the  formation  of  the  first  cabinet;  was  acting  Minister  of 
I'ublic  Woil.s  Jroi.i  Novend>er,  ISOS,  to  .\pril,  iSdll,  and  Ministi'r  of  Finance  from  February 
22nd,  1^7I.>,  nulil  November  5th  of  the  sanu  year,  when  the  government  resigned. 

Mr.  Tiil>'v  V  as  liieu tenant-Governor  of  Now  Hrunswick  from  Noveml)er  15th,  1873,  to 
July  11?!'.  1^7'^,  Im  September  of  which  latter  year  he  was  returned  to  the  House  of  Conunons 
for  St.  Joi.n,  I'-i''-  11  the  lOth  of  the  following  month,  had  again  the  portfolio  of  finance  placed 
in  his  li:'.nds. 

Tl:  i^oW  IV,;', ive  party,  which  came  into  power  in  1878,  and  which  was  committcnl  tu 
what  is  r.i.wAii  a,  the  "National  Policy,"  i.e.,  a  Uiriff  for  the  protection  of  home  industries,  had 
a  I'leat  :.MiI  *.\"  \  liilhcult  task  befoie  it,  the  responsibility  and  Imrden  of  which  must  nece.ssariiy 
fall  upi  n  lb"  V  .u(!e  Minister,  who,  in  his  budget  speech,  miule  at  the  opening  of  the  4th  Par- 
'iameni.  "  T"'  1 '  "i  of  February,  187!),  laid  before  the  House  of  (^ommons  and  the  country  an 
epitomi  .  ♦  '  III  it  of  his  herculean  labors.  His  speech  on  that  (X'casion  showed  that  a  great 
deal  inoie  liiil  'ii;  dime  than  a  readjustment  an<l  reorganization  of  the  existing  tariff;  an 
entirel     i.^w  vi-  bad  bt^en  made  out.     It  bore  the  results  evidently  of  much  consultation,  and 


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certainly  of  profound  study,  and  would  be  likely  to  accomplish  the  oVijoct  for  which  it  was 
instituted — the  increase  of  the  revenue  of  the  country,  as  well  as  the  fostering  of  Canadian 
manufactures  and  other  lo<;al  industries.  With  the  exception  of  adding  the  estimates  for  the 
next  year,  Mr.  Tilley  concluded  his  great  speech  as  folloM's  : 

Sir,  that  we  have  now  arrived  at  the  time  when  it  becomes  necessary  for  tliis  cfnuitry,  for  tliis  Parliament, 
to  decide  whether  we  are  to  remain  in  the  position  we  now  occupy,  witli  a  certainty  that,  within  two  years,  with 
the  existing  laws  upon  o\ir  statute-book,  almost  every  nmnufactiiring  industry  in  the  co\intr}-  will  be  closed  up, 
and  the  money  invested  in  it  lost.  The  time  has  arrived,  1  think,  when  it  becomes  our  duty  to  decide  whether 
the  thousands  uf  men  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  this  country  who  are  unemployed,  shall  seek  em- 
ployment in  another  country,  or  shall  find  it  in  this  Dominion  ;  tlie  time  has  arrived  when  we  are  tu  decide 
whether  we  will  be  simply  hewers  of  wood  and  drawers  of  water  ;  whether  wc  will  be  simply  a^'Hculturists  rais- 
ing wheat,  and  lumbermen  producing  more  lumber  than  we  can  use,  or  (ireat  Kritain  and  the  I'nited  States  wiK 
take  from  us  at  remunerative  j)rice8  ;  whether  we  will  confine  our  attention  to  the  tisheries  and  certain  other 
small  industries,  and  cease  to  be  wliat  we  have  been,  and  not  rise  to  be  what  I  believe  we  are  destined  to  be 
under  wise  and  judicious  legislation,  or  whether  we  will  inaugurate  a  policy  that  will,  by  its  ])rovisious,  say  t(' 
the  industries  of  the  country,  we  will  give  you  Nutticient  protection  ;  we  will  give  you  a  market  for  what  you  car. 
produce  ;  we  will  say  that,  while  our  neighborH  build  up  a  Chinese  wall,  wo  will  impose  a  reas<mable  duty  oii 
their  products  coming  into  this  country  ;  at  all  events,  we  will  maintain  for  our  agricultural  and  other  produc- 
tions, largely,  the  market  of  our  own  Dominion.  The  time  \\n»  certainly  arrived  when  ve  must  consider  whethe;' 
we  will  allow  matters  to  remain  as  they  are,  with  the  result  of  being  an  unimportant  and  uninteresting  portion 
of  Her  Majesty's  Dominions,  or  will  rise  to  the  position,  which,  I  believe,  Providence  has  destined  us  to  occupy, 
by  means  which,  I  believe,  though  I  may  be  over  sanguine,  which  my  colleagues  believe,  though  they  may  bo 
over  sanguine,  which  the  country  Vielieves  are  calculated  to  bring  prosperity  and  happiness  to  the  jieople,  t  > 
give  euii)loyment  to  the  thousands  who  are  unemployed,  and  to  make  this  a  great  and  prosperous  country,  lis  wc 
all  desire  and  hope  it  will  be. 

During  the  year  187! >,  Mr.  Tilley  spent  considcrahlc  time  in  visiting  the  manufacturin  • 
towns  of  the  ditt'erent  jirovinces,  going  through  the  factories  himsi-lf,  and  making  the  mo.'-t, 
minute  inquiries  a.s  to  tlic  workings  of  the  new  Uiiiff ;  and  satisfying  himself  in  regard  to  whai, 
if  any,  changes  should  be  made.  The  practical  knowledge  thus  obtained  was  of  very  great 
benefit  to  him,  and  resulted  in  his  suggesting,  in  his  budget  speecli  of  ISSO,  a  few  changes  iii 
tile  schedule  of  the  previous  year,  which  changes  were  matle. 

We  liave  only  to  add,  on  tliis  point,  that  Sir  S,  L.  Tilley  ha.s  made  jiolitical  science  h: 
careful  study  for  thirty  years,  and  that,  as  a  Hnancier,  his  peers  are  scarce  in  the  l)ominion  i  f 
(\iiada. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Chunh  of  England;  vice-president  of  the  diocesan  chtueh  society 
New  Brunswick  ;  vice-president  of  the  Auxiliary  IJibie  Society,  Ottawa,  and  a  warm  friend  (/' 
religious  and  humanitarian  enterprises  generally.  Probably  no  man  in  (Canada,  and  certainly 
no  man  in  New  Brunswick,  has  done  more  than  lio  to  advance  the  cause  of  temperance. 


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ALBERT  JAMES  SMITH,  meml>er  of  the  House  of  Commons  for  Wt  . 
N.B.,  and  a  prumineiit  politician  of  the  Liberal  class,  is  of  Loyalist  dv^ 
of  the  family,  his  parents  iieing  Tboma.s  E.  and  iiebecca  (Meckwith)  Smi  'i 
Shediac,  Westmoreland  eoiuity,  N.B.,  on  the   1'Jth  of  March,  IS'2'2 ;  leeeived  a  -n   •  , 
education;  studied  law  at  Dorchester  with  Hon.  E.  M.  Chandler;  was  called  ut  .Ii 
Brunswick,  in  February,  1H47,  and  some  years  lat(>r  was  created  a  Queen's  Co.i:.  A.      i 
as  a  barrister  were  not  slow  in  being  developed  ;  he  .soon  had  liberal  opportir.utir,   >.i  ixhi'   I 


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ihein  ;  his  success  with  juries,  almost  from  the  start,  was  marked,  and  liis  practice  was  soon 
■|iiite  remuneiative.  He  early  liccanie  deeply  interested  in  polities,  and  his  attention  was 
ilivided  between  this  subject  and  that  of  his  profession.  Five  years  after  opening  a  law  office 
;it  Dorchester,  we  find  him  (18.")2),  in  the  provincial  legislature,  where  he  sat  until  ('onfedera- 
•  ion  (I8(i7),  when  his  Liberal  friends  in  Westmoreland  transferred  him  to  the  House  of  Com- 
i'lons,  where  they  still  keep  him.  Both  in  the  local  and  J)ominion  riirliaments,  Mr.  Smith  has 
distinguished  himself,  and  outside  of  both  many  important  missions  have  been  confided,  in 
v.  hole  or  in  part,  to  him. 

In  liS54,  when  the  (Conservative  Cfovernment  was  overthrown,  he  was  associated  with 
Hon.  Charles  Fi.sher,  late  judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  New  Brunswick  ;  Hon.  Sir  William  J. 
Ritchie,  now  chief-justice  of  the  supreme  court  of  Canada,  and  Hon.,  now  Sir  Samuel  Leonard 
Tilley,  in  forming  the  first  Liberal  administration  in  New  Brunswick.  A  prohibitory  liipiur 
1  'W,  enacted  the  next  year,  and  then  very  unpopular  with  the  people,  overthrew  that  adminis- 
I  ration,  after  being  in  power  between  one  and  two  years.  A  year  or  two  later  (18")7),  there 
\  as  a  "dead-lock  "  in  the  legislature,  and  another  general  election  brought  the  Liberals  once 
1  ore  into  power,  and  in  the  new  cabinet  we  again  find  the  name  of  our  subject. 

Mr.  Smith  was  a  member  of  the  Executive  Council  Iroin  18.')G  to  18(!3,  and  also,  for  a  short 
I'lie,  in  18(i(5,  and  attorney-general  from  18G2  to  18(>3,  when  he  retired  from  the  government, 
\"  Iding  the  same  othce  in  his  own  administration  in  LSG').  The  cause  of  his  retirement  from 
liie  cabinet  in  LSG 3  was  on  account  of  a  disagreement  with  his  colleagues  in  regard  to  tho 
Intercolonial  railway. 

In  18.")8,  Mr.  Smith  was  a  delegate  to  England,  with  the  late  Judge  Fi.sher,  on  matters 
concerning  the  railway  just  mentioned,  its  manner  of  construction  propositi  eliciting  much  dis- 
crepancy of  opinion  and  no  inconsiderable  debate  ;  in  18t!.5  he  was  again  sent  to  England  on 
public  business,  with,  as  a  co-delegate,  the  present  Chief-Justice  Allen.  The  next  year  he  was 
a  delegate  to  Wa.sliiiigton,  together  with  Messrs.  (ialt,  of  Quebec;  Ilowland,  of  Ontiirio,  and 
Henry,  of  Nova  Scotia,  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining,  if  possible,  a  renewal  of  the  reciprocity 
treaty- — an  un.succe.ssful  mi.ssion.  In  that  year  (18G(i),  Mr.  Smith  was  tendered  tho  exalted 
office  of  chiff-justiee  of  his  native  province,  but,  for  some  reason  unkown  to  us,  he  declined  it. 

Mr.  Smith  was  an  early  and  eainest  opposer  of  Confederation — went  against  the  Quebec 
Confeii'Mce  held  in  l.S(i4,  an<l,  when  a  dissolution  ttxtk  place  in  order  that  the  i)eople  might 
makt>  known  their  feelings  on  the  (iuesti(m,  he  went  before  them,  with  other  strong  and  intlu- 
eeiitial  aiiti-confedtiates,  and  they  tr;umphe<l,  and  he  was  called  upon  to  form  an  administiation, 
he  taking  soon  afterwards  the  port-folio  of  attorney-general,  as  already  intimated,  retiring  in 
180(1.  When  the  scheme  of  Confederation  triumiihed,  he  cheerfully  aeiiniesced,  and  has  since 
labored  faithfully  and  assiduously  to  promote  measures  which  he  regards  as  for  the  welfare  of 
the  whole  Doiiiinion. 

In  1S73,  Mr.  Smith  was  ofl'ered  the  ofliee  (A'  Lieutenant-(i()V(>rnor  of  New  liiiiiiswick,  but 
decliiH'il,  ami  on  the  7th  of  November  of  that  year,  f)n  the  downfall  of  the  Consiivative  Cov- 
ernment  at  Ottawa,  he  was  appointed  Minister  of  Marine  and  Fisheries  in  the  Mackenzie 
administration,  and  held  that  office  until  a  change  of  government  in  1878,  During  the  five 
yeai-s'  tenuri'  of  ottice,  he  carried  important  legislation  regarding  the  merchant  shipping  act  ; 
an  amendment  to  the  deck  loads  act,  and  other  eminently  practical  measures. 

In  the  summer  and  autumn  of  L877,  Mr.  Smith  represente<l  the  Dominion  (Government  be- 

foiv  the  arbitrators  at  the  Fisheries  (Commission,  which  sat  at  Halifax  ;  and  in  consideration  of 

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his  eiuiuont  scivices  lemlered  on  that  occa-sion  lie  was  created  (May  -i'ltli,  1N78)  a  Knight 
Commander  of  tlie  Order  of  St.  Micliael  and  St.  Georg  -an  lutnor  not  alway.s  so  wortliily 
bestowed. 

Sir  Albert  J.  Smith  i.s  one  of  the  lucky  politicians  who  have  never  suffered  personal  defeat 
at  tlie  polls  ;  ho  has  been  leturned  by  the  sivme  constituency — Westmoreland— at  fourteen  con- 
secutive elections,  and  four  times  by  acclamation.  The  Liberal  Government  of  the  Province, 
or  of  the  Dominion,  may  fail,  but  Sir  Albert  always  stands  erect.  Old  Westmorelaml  never 
goes  back  on  her  friends. 

lie  married,  in  .Fune,  18(j«,  Sarah  ^[.,  daughter  of  John  W.  Yotnig,  Esq.,  of  Halifa.\,  N.S., 
and  they  have  one  son,  John  Wilson  Smith,  aged  twelve  years. 


nOK   ISAAC   BURPEE, 

ST.  JOHN,  N.li. 

THE  Burpees  in  New  Brunswick  are  descended  from  a  Huguenot  family,  that  were  driven 
out  of  France  a  little  more  than  three  liundred  years  ago  (about  1570),  and  found  refuge 
in  England,  whence  some  of  the  mend)crs  emigrated  to  America,  in  1G22,  in  order  to  enjoy 
freedom  of  conscience  and  of  religion,  joining  in  Massachusetts  IJay  the  little  company  who 
had  sailed  in  the  Mayjlvwcr  two  sliort  years  before.  Aftei'  they  had  spread  over  the  New 
England  colonies  for  a  hundred  and  fifty  years,  in  17(i3,  twelve  years  before  the  revolt  of  tho 
American  colonies,  Jonathan  Burpee  removed  from  Bowley,  Mass.,  to  Maugerville,  in  what  is 
now  the  Province  of  New  Brunswick,  where  he  settled,  and  where  he  has  many  descendants. 
One  of  them  was  David  Burpee,  who,  after  holding  the  ofiices  of  [)rovost  marshal  and  high  sheritf', 
became  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  of  this  province ;  he  was  the  grandfather  of  our 
subject. 

Isaac  Burpee,  who  represents  St.  John  in  the  House  of  Commons,  is  the  eldest  son  of  Isaac 
Burpee,  sen.,  deceased,  by  Phebe,  daughter  of  Moses  Coburn,  Esij.,  and  was  born  at  Slietheld, 
Sunbury  County,  N.B.,  on  the  2Sth  of  November,  1825  ;  he  was  educatetl  at  the  county  gram- 
mar school,  and  in  bS+S  settled  in  St.  John,  forming,  a  little  later,  a  partnei-ship  with  his 
brother,  Frederick  Burpee,  in  the  hardware  business,  under  the  firm  name  of  I.  and  F.  Burpee. 
Subseipientl}',  on  the  retirement  of  this  brother,  he  took  into  partnership  a  younger  brother, 
John  P.  <'.  Burpee,  ami  this  firm  continued  until  our  subject  took  ottice  in  the  Dominion 
Cioveriniient,  in  1.S74'. 

Mr.  Ihu'pee  first  entered  public  life  in  1S72,  when  he  Wiis  elected  for  his  present  seat  in  tho 
House  uf  Connnons,  and  was  re-elected  at  the  general  elections  in  iST-t  and  187>^,  andwaa 
Hworn  of  the  Privy  Council  and  appointed  Minister  of  Customs,  on  the  7tli  of  Noveml)er,  1S7I'. 
His  polities  are  Liberal,  and  he  is  one  uf  the  pi'omineut  men  in  the  h<iuse  on  that  side  ;  he  is 
the  father  of  the  bill  consolidating  the  customs  law  iif  the  Dominion,  and  of  other  public  acts, 
and  makes  a  valuable  mendier  of  the  legislative  body. 

Mr.  l^iurpee  is  what  may  be  termed,  with  much  propriety,  a  live  ami  progressive  man,  al- 
ways ready  to  not  only  enlist,  but  to  lead,  in  any  enterprise  which  would  be  for  the  pulilic 
good.  lie  early  took  an  active  part  in  establishing  manufactures  in  St.  John  and  the  adjoining 
town  of  Portland,  where  he  lives,  investing  in  several  such  companies,  ami  he  was  one  of  tho 


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foremost  men,  as  wo  learn  from  the  "  Parliamentary  Comi)anion,"  in  "  the  movement  to  seeuro 
for  the  town  of  Portland  an  aet  of  ineorpoiation,  thus  doinj,'  away  with  the  old  system  of  irre- 
sponsible life  magistrates,  and  placing  the  administration  of  civil  affairs  under  the  control  of 
the  people."  He  was  the  first  chairman  of  the  town  council,  holding  that  post  for  several  years, 
and  exhibiting  nnich  public  spirit  while  so  doing. 

Mr.  Burpee  waa  at  one  period  a  director  of  the  Victoria  mining  company,  and  of  the  Deaf  and 
Dumb  Institution ;  was  trea.surer  of  the  St.  John  industrial  school,  ami  is  now  vice-president 
of  the  New  Brunswick  land  and  lumber  company,  and  vice-president  and  managing  director 
of  the  New  Brunswick  railway  company. 

Mr.  Burpee  is  a  member  of  St.  David's  Presbyterian  church,  and  was  at  one  time  vice- 
president  of  the  evangelical  alliance  of  New  Brunswick,  an>l  a  member  of  the  executive  council 
of  the  Congregational  union  of  New  Brunswick  and  Nova  Scotia. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Burpee  was  Henrietta  Robertson,  youngest  daughter  of  Thomas  Robertson, 
Esi].,  of  ShetHeld,  England,  their  marriage  bearing  date  March  tlth,  18.>3 ;  they  have  six 
children  living  and  have  lost  two. 

The  residence  of  ilr.  Burpee,  "Bellevue,"  on  the  height  of  land  north  of,  and  overlooking 
portions  of,  the  city  of  St.  John,  is  most  charmingly  located,  and  is  fitteil  up  with  much  taste, 
making  one  of  the  niost  attractive  "  homes  "  in  that  vicinity, 


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THOMAS   TEMPLE, 

FREUERIGTON,  N.li. 

ASIDE  fiv.m  being  for  many  years  a  prominent  public  character,  and  <ine  who  has  tilled 
oiHces  of  trust  and  emolument  with  honor  and  credit  to  himself  and  his  adnpt(;d  province, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  deserving  of  a  cons[)ieuous  })lace  in  this  volume  as  an  eminent  ex- 
ample of  a  man  who  has  successfully  fought  his  way  from  a  small  lifginning  to  his  present 
position  by  the  employment  of  his  own  resources,  and  almost  wholly  relying  upon  integrity  of 
purpose  and  the  indomitable  energy  be(jueathed  liiiu  frmu  his  forefathers.  Thomas  Temple  is 
the  st)ii  of  Charles  Tenii)le,  a  native  of  O.xfordshire,  Kngland,  who  caniL-  to  this  country  in  1S.S2, 
and  settled  in  the  count}-  of  York,  N.I>. ;  he  was  bom  in  Bampton,  Oxfordshire,  on  tlit;  \{\\  of 
Novendier,  1818. 

Young  Temple  did  not  enjoy  the  benefits  of  a  bi'tter  eilueation  than  his  native  place 
afforded  ;  he  cami'  to  this  roiuitiy  at  the  age  of  thirteen,  and  his  father,  a  farmer  by  m'cupa- 
jiation,  just  starting  again  in  life,  re(|uireil  ail  the  help  his  son  could  give,  so  that  our  subjeet 
had  no  mole  oppoitunities  for  schooling,  and  had  to  ti'ust  in  his  own  natural  ability  ami  i|uicl\- 
ness  of  |)erception  to  fit  himself  for  his  futui'c  career.  At  the  age  of  twenty,  he  made  his  first 
move ;  having  obtained  the  gift  of  a  horse  from  his  father,  he  joined  a  company  of  the  \'ork 
light  dragoons,  under  Major  W'ilmot  (subse(|uently  lieutenant-governor  of  New  Ih'unswiek  i,  a 
corps  raiseil  to  protect  the  interests  of  the  province  iluring  the  troid)les  which  existed  between 
this  country  and  the  United  States  in  regard  to  the  boundary  line  l)etween  the  Province  of 
New  Ihunswick  and  the  bonlering  State  of  Maine.  He  served  three  months  in  this  capacity, 
when  the  war,  known  as  the  Aroostoek  \\,\r,  came  to  a  termination  in  the  treaty  of  Ashburton. 
Soon  after  the  disbandnieni  of  his  corps  he  went  into  the   lumbering  business,  and  nn't  w  ith 


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such  succcas  that  liu  purchasoJ  the  Pociuiock  saw  mills  from  Messi-s.  Morrison,  Shivos  and 
MePherson,  ami  ran  them  for  two  years,  when  lio  sold  thorn  to  an  American  house  and  moved 
to  Fredeiicton,  where  he  now  resides.  For  four  j'ears  after  this,  he,  in  company  with  Mr. 
Pickard,  tlie  present  member  for  the  county  of  York,  and  others,  went  aj,'ain  into  the  lumber 
business,  this  time  on  a  somewhat  extensive  scale.  The  firm  soon  after  bought  a  large  saw  mill 
and  engaged  in  cutting  timber  for  the  English  market.  This  branch  of  their  business  came  to 
a  sudden  termination  through  the  mill  being  tlestroyed  by  fire. 

One  of  the  greatest  (>f  Mr.  Temple's  achievements,  however,  and  for  which  the  gratitude  of 
the  province  at  large  is  imlobted,  is  the  building  of  the  Fredericton  railway.  IIj,  in  conjunc- 
tion with  Mi!ssr.s.  Pickard  and  Burpee,  with  a  subsidy  granted  by  the  government,  begin  the 
building  of  the  road  in  the  fall  of  ISO!),  and  completed  it  in  1M71,  when  it  was  ready  for 
regular  traftic.  It  is  now  owned  by  Messrs.  Temple  and  Burpee,  Mr.  Temple  being  the  i>resi- 
dent,  a  position  he  has  held  ever  since  the  beginning. 

Mr.  Temple  is  the  owner  of  the  largest  farm  in  the  Province  of  New  Brunswick.  It  is 
situated  in  the  county  of  Gloucester,  and  has  an  area  of  five  hundred  and  thirty  acres,  three 
hundred  of  which  are  cleared ;  it  ha-s  a  mill  in  connection  engaged  in  preparing  timber  for  the 
market.     Mr.  Temjile  bought  the  whole  of  the  projjcrty  in  LS70. 

Our  subject,  for  the  last  seventeen  years,  has  held  the  position  of  high  sheriff  of  tho 
county,  an  appointment  made  by  the  government  every  year. 

The  People's  Bank  of  Fredericton  owes  its  existence  in  a  great  measure  to  Mr.  Temple,  ho 
having  been  the  principal  originator  of  it ;  he  has  the  position  of  a  director  since  its  inaugura- 
tion in  1804. 

Mr.  Temple  was  married,  in  October,  1840,  to  Susanna,  the  only  daughter  of  Solomon 
Howe,  of  Maine,  and  has  had  by  her  five  children,  three  only  of  whom  are  living. 


f<A:N[UEL   E.  TnOMSOX,   Q.C., 

ST.  JOHN,  N.  U. 

SAMUEL  1U)BERT  THOMSON  was  tho  fourth  son  of  the  Rev.  Skefiington  Thomson, 
LL.l).,  for  many  years  rector  of  St.  Stephen,  N.B.  The  Hev.  Dr.  Thom.son  wasagraduatc 
of  Trinity  coilegc,  Dublin,  ami  was  noted  for  his  extensive  and  accurate  learning,  and  espe- 
ciall}'  for  his  knowledge  of  the  classical  authors.  His  sons  were  cliietly  taught  tiy  himself,  and 
were  thoroughly  educated. 

George  Thomson,  tho  elder  l>rother  of  our  sulject,  entered  the  piofession  of  the  law,  I)eing 
admitted  in  18:37.  S.  I{.  Thomson  entered  his  otllce  as  a  student,  and,  in  1840,  was  admitted 
as  an  attorney,  and  on  the  ."{rd  of  February,  LS+S,  was  called  to  the  bar.  On  hisailniission,  Mr. 
Thomson  at  once  to<jk  a  foremost  rank  in  his  appearances  before  the  court,  and  the  vigor  and 
force  of  his  arguments,  even  at  an  early  age,  gave  him  the  ear  of  the  court,  which  he  ever  after- 
wards retained.  Soon  after  conunencing  practice,  Mr.  Thomson  removed  to  St.  John,  and,  after 
some  time,  entered  into  a  partnershii)  with  Robertson  Bayard,  which  continued  for  a  great 
nundier  of  years,  and  was  only  terminated  by  the  death  of  Mr.  Bayard.  The  firm  wa.s  'vn-  w'l 
as  "  Bayard  and  Thomson. "  They  were  connected  otherwise,  Mr.  George  Thomson  having  mar- 
ried Mr.  Bayard's  sister.     When  Mr.  Thomson  came  to  St.  John,  the  loaders  of  the  bar  were  the 


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late  Hon.  Robort  Hazon,  tlio  iireseiit  cliief -justice,  Sir  VV.  J.  Ilitcliie,  tlio  Into  Hon.  J.  A.  Street, 
tlu!  late  Hon.  \V.  B.  Kiiinear,  and  the  present  Mr.  Justice  (Jray,  of  British  Coluinbia.  It  was 
soon  fouml  that  the  youu^  liarristor  from  St.  Stei)hen  proved  to  bo  a  formidable  competitor, 
even  of  these  eminent  men. 

One  of  Mr.  Thomson's  earliest  and  most  successful  efforts  was  in  the  case  of  AfcXichol  v. 
iV (.(•(»/(,  a  police  case,  involving,'  a  elaim  for  trespass,  in  which  the  Hon.  J.  H.  (Iray  wa.s  virtually 
the  defendant,  the  action  eomplaiiu'd  of  havin;,'  been  taken  at  his  instance.  Mr.  Thomson  took 
the  leading'  jiart  in  the  defem^e,  the  Hon.  W.  B.  Klnnear  bein^'  en<,'a,!,aMl  on  the  other  siile.  His 
condiK-t  of  this  case  gave  Mr.  Thomson  a  considerable  start,  but  not  nciirly  so  much  as  tiio  ease 
soon  afterwards  trieil,  and  known  as  the  Lawton  and  Larrant  case,  .^[r.  Lawton'.s  property  hail 
been  seizeil  by  the  high  sheriff  of  thi>  city  and  county  of  St.  John,  under  execution  at  the  suit 
of  Knglish  and  American  creditoi's  against  James  ( '.  Black.  These  creditors  disputed  Mr.  Law- 
ton's  right,  and  harl  engaged  all  the  leading  lawyeis  of  the  day,  ineiuding  Messrs.  Hazen,  (Iray, 
Kerr,  Bayaril,  and  others.  Mr.  Thomson,  almost  single-hauled,  confronted  this  formidable  array 
of  counsel,  Mr.  C.  W.  WeMon,  then  just  conunencing  practice,  being  his  only  associate.  Mr. 
Thomson  was  not  succe.ssful,  but  his  conduct  of  the  case  and  the  power  he  displayed  produced 
an  extnaonlinary  impression,  and  at  once  placed  him  in  the  front  rank  uf  a  brilliant  bar. 

The  defence  of  John  (•.  Winslow,  Ksip,  of  Carleton  county,  for  iwsault,  wa-s  one  of  Mr. 
Thomson's  forensic  triiniiphs.  He  gave  his  services  gratuitously,  alt.solutely  declining  to  accept 
any  fee.  Mr.  Winsluw's  friends  in  the  county,  in  gratitude  foi'  .Mr.  Thomson's  efforts,  raised  a 
fund,  purchased  a  gold  cuj),  and  presented  it  to  Mr.  Thomson,  in  whoso  family  the  xouvmilr  is 
preserved. 

In  the  criminal  ciise  of  Jacob  Arthur  and  .Mr.  Kveleth,  which  was  rather  celebrated,  the 
jiarties  were  defended  by  Mr.  Thomson,  who  also  subseipiently  defended  Mr.  Eveleth  and  Dr. 
Spinney.  His  impassioned  appi-als  to  the  juries  in  those  (;ases,  and  in  that  of  John  A.  Munioe, 
charged  with  murder,  were  amongst  the  most  touching,  elot|uent  and  impressive  ever  heard  at 
the  New  Brunswick  bar.  In  the  latter  case  (in  I.S(Ji)j,  Mr.  Thomson's  position  was  very  trying  ; 
Munroe,  during  the  trial,  eonfessud  to  him  that  he  was  guilty.  It  was  to )  late  to  throw  up  the 
case,  and  he  eontinued.  The  evidence  for  the  prosecution  was  overwheluung,  and,  at  the  conclu- 
sion, Mr.  Thoms^m  addressed  the  jury  in  a  manner  that  brought  tears  to  the  eyes  of  all  in 
court.     Munrot^  was  condemned  ami  cxeeuteil. 

The  authorities  of  Harvard  college  wrote  to  .Mr.  Thomson  for  areportof  the  trial,  which  he 
sent  them,  and,  in  acknowledging  the  recei))t  of  it,  they  say  that  they  consider  his  speech  in 
that  case  the  ablest  sinee  the  one  ma  le  in  the  case  of  the  Sl'ih'-  v.  Wih^ler,  in  l.S.")(i.  It  is  said 
that  this  speech  was  afterwards  n-iven  to  the  students  at  Harvard  as  a  mo. lei  of  professional 
etitjuette,  Mr.  Thomson  having  never  once  uttered  a  word  to  intluence  the  jury  by  hinting  that 
he  believed  the  man  to  In;  iiuioeent,  aiul  also  of  an  a]i|)eal  for  mercy. 

The  late  .Mr.  (ieorge  Thomson  was  a  man  of  kindred  style  and  eloi|Ueiice  to  his  younger 
brother;  rarely  h,as  any  bar  luul  two  lirothers  so  eminently  gifted.  Ouly  once  were  tlujy  en- 
cai'cd  on  opposite  sides.  The  case  was  a  criminal  one,  tried  at  St.  Andrews.  In  that  ease  the 
ability  of  the  younger  brother  achieved  a  triumph. 

In  the  Benjamin  Smith  will  case,  .Mr.  Thomson  succeeded  in  estfiblishing  several  import- 
ant princiiiles.  Mr.  Smith  had  been  married  twice.  The  daughters  liy  tin,'  first  marriage  hail 
some  property  in  right  of  their  mother,  Mr.  Smith  made  a  will  making  certain  provisions  in 
their  favor.  In  consideration  of  these  pi-ovisions  the  daughters  conveyed  to  him,  by  deed,  the 
property  lieM  in  right  of  their  mother.     >Mr.  Smith  then,  before  his  death,  revoked  the  bequests 


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to  thoHo  Jau^^htors.     Mr.  Thomson  tiled  a  bill  in  iMniity  to  have  it  iltx'laiL'iI  tliat  tliu  tostntoi' 
could  not  n'voko  tlio  Ijonuo.sts  to  those  ilau^fhtorM,  and  was  siicet'ssful. 

Mr.  Thomson  was  ongaj,'nd  in  many  other  impditiint  will  cases,  ])rol>al)ly  the  most  siiij^iilar 
Ihmh^  the  Stoekton  case,  where  a  will  was,  for  the  tirst  time,  j)roved  without  Keiny  produced. 
The  Ilazen  will  case,  which  was  ilroppeil  in  consocjuence  of  the  death  of  the  contestant.  In  the 
SlnumiU  V.  GHht'rt  ca.so,  wliich  has  heen  tried  twice,  ^[r.  Thomson  appeare<l  for  the  <lefetidant. 
At  the  first  trial,  which  occupied  twenty -seven  days,  the  jury  disagreed,  ami  at  the  second  trial 
a  venliet  was  entered  for  the  defendant.  This  the  plaintiff  has  moved  to  set  aside.  .\Ir.  Thoui- 
8on  made  a  most  p(jwerful  address  to  the  jury  in  this  case,  considered  hy  many  to  he  his  ahlest 
effort  in  a  civil  cause. 

The  ('ara(|uet  rioters  wore  defended  Ijy  Mr.  Thomson.  This  was  a  most  remarkable  case. 
In  con.secpience  of  disputes  as  to  tlie  Free  School  Law,  the  prisoiKsrs  resisteil  constables  who 
sought  to  arrest  thtMu.  One  constable  was  shot  and  killed.  Twelve  men  wwe  arresteil  and 
committtid  for  trial  for  murder.  The  ti'ial  of  the  first  occupied  forty  days.  Mr.  Thomson  hail 
technical  objections  noted,  which  he  considered  were  sufficient  to  (piash  the  conviction.  If  the 
others  were  tri(Ml,  he  felt  that  similar  objectionable  evidence  would  b,>  avoidfil,  and  tlie  pris- 
oners condenmed.  He  therefore  proposed  to  the  Attorney-(  ieiieral  that  lu' would  bring  the 
other  prisoners  into  court  and  make  them  plead  guilty  of  murder,  subject  to  the  .same  objec- 
tions. The  offer  was  accepted  ;  the  ])risoners,  all  Frenchmen,  came  into  court  weeping,  and 
pleaded  guilty.  The  oljections  wi're  afti'rwards  argued,  and  tlie  conviction  (piashod,  the  j)ri- 
soners  obtaining  their  liberty.  Mr.  Thomson  looked  upon  this  as  one  of  his  greatest  victories. 
No  other  counsel  in  the  world  ever  took  upon  himself  the  responsiblity  of  making  eleven  ].i'i- 
sonei-s  deliberately  plead  guilty  of  the  high  crime  of  mur<ler,  in  the  hope  of  cpiashing  the  con- 
viction on  a  technicality;  and  Mr.  Thomson  has  often  saiil  that,  although  it  was  the  best  thing 
to  lie  done  uniler  the  peculiar  circumstances,  still,  if  it  liad  U>  be  done  ovei'  again,  he  would 
harilly  be  the  man  to  do  it. 

In  1880,  Mr.  Thom.son  wa.s  engaged  as  prosecuting  otHcer  in  a  most  difficult  and  peculiar 
case.  (Japtain  Tower  was  charged  with  scuttling  the  ship  HivUhtx'  Pridr,  wIhmi  loaded  with 
melado,  which  wius  insured  as  sugais,  with  intent  to  defraud  the  insurance  companies.  The 
trial  occupied  forty-five  days,  the  evidence  being  very  clear.  Tiu;  jury,  lu'  claimed,  was  pack,  ii 
for  the  prisoner.  Mv.  'I'homson  lioldly  nami'd  a  juryman  whom  he  suspected  to  be  influenced,  ai:  I 
a.ssured  him  that  he  would  be  dealt  with  afterwards — in  conseiiuence  of  which,  to  his  own  utt  •.' 
surpri.se,  probably'  more  than  that  of  any  one  else,  the  jury  agreed,  and  a  verdict  of  guilty  wt  ; 
returned. 

These  are  only  a  few  of  the  leading  cases  in  which  Mr.  Th«imson  was  engageil.  It  wool  i 
occupy  too  much  space  to  give  even  a  brief  notice  of  all  the  leading  cases  in  wliicli  he  wiis  em- 
ployed :  suttiee  it  to  .say,  that  hardlj'  an  important  cause  has  been  trieil  in  the  I'rovince  of  New 
Brunswick  for  years  in  which  lie  was  not  engaged  on  one  side  oi-  tin?  other. 

But  his  field  of  labor  was  m)t  confined  to  his  native  jirovince.  In  Prince  Edward  Islanil 
Mr.  Thomson's  name  was  for  yeai-s  almost  a  household  word.  His  fir-it  appearance  tiiere  was 
as  counsel  for  the  tenantry,  before  the  ccdebratcil  land  conunission  of  liS;!().  His  maiiagcuieni 
of  the  important  public  interests  then  committeil  to  his  care  gave  miiversal  satisfaction,  and  hi.- 
final  presentation  of  his  clients'  case  to  the  commission  was  one  of  the  most  powerful  and  elo- 
((uent  condenniations  of  the  system  of  landlordism,  as  ajiplied  to  this  new  country,  ever  listened 
to.  His  denunciations  of  the  evils  incident  to  a  system  which  drove  the  best  young  men  away 
from  their  native  land,  to  enrich  and  build  u])a  foreign  country,  lang  for  years  in  the  ears  of  the 


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p('(i|il(',  wliilst  his  li.aiitifiil  patlictic  iliscriptioii  of  tlic   wroii^js  of  tlie  oppressed  tonants  and 
their  faniihes  left  his  audience  liatlied  in  tears;  even  the  severe dij^nity  of  the  bcncli  itself  lieinj^ 
insullieieiit  to  prevent  the  eoumiissioners  from  throwing  in  their  tril)nte  to  this  iiurst  of  sympathy. 
In  IS?"*,  Mr.  Tiiomson's  services  were  again  secured  hy   the  Province  of  I'riiice  Kdward  Island, 
lii'foie  the  eomndssion  which  sat  under   the  now   famous  (.'omjiulsory  Land  A(t  of  187').     He 
again  was  pleading  the  cause  of  the  iiid"(jrtunate  tenantry,  hut  an  ironical  fate  had  now  placed 
his  rival  of  1800  (Mr.  Ilalilmrton).  on  the  bench  before  himasajudge.     Mr.  Thomson's  earnest, 
logical  and  convini'ing  .si)ecches  showetl  that   time  hail  niMther  weakened  the  force  of  his  elo- 
(pience  nor  blunted  the  marvelous  keenness  of  his  intellect.     The   moral  courage  which  ho  t>x- 
hibited  in  resenting  even  the  suspicion  of  an  attemiit  on  the  pait  of  the  chairman  of  the  com- 
missioners to  place  liis  (,'lient  at  a  disadvantage,  the  self-posse.ssion  and  dignity  of  his  carriage, 
the  mercilcHS  logic  with  which   he  presented  all  his  facts,  and  the  elcMiuenco  with  which  he 
clothed  them,  all  united  to  proclaim  him  the  mighty  advocate.    It  was  before  the  Halifa.x  Fish- 
eries ( 'onnnission  of   1S77,  howevei',  that  he  gained   the  greatest  tiiumph  of  professional  life. 
Hitherto  he  had  been  matched  against  provincial  lawyers  only  ;  now  lu^  was  to  be  pitted  against 
some  of  the  most  eminent  jurists  of  tlie   United  States.     The  result   more  than  justified  the 
choice  of  the  Government  in  selecting  him.     It   is  no  disparagement  to  Ids  colleagues  to  say 
that  h(^  stood  at  their  heail.  The  legal  and  constitutional  (piestions  di.scusseil  were  most  of  them 
novel,  and  to  the  «(.s/' y<c(((.M  lawyer  almost  unknown.     But  his  master  mind  was  cipial  to  the 
occasion,  and  the  mysteries  of  international  law,  when  expounded  by  him,  seemed  a.s  plain  and 
simple  as  the  rudiments  of  the  liest  known  science.     His  closing  speech,  which  occupied  four 
day.s,  was  a  marvel  of  arrangement,  tact,  and   ehKpunce.     The  speeches  of  the  Americans,  who 
precedi'il  him,  were  .spiced  with  .sarcasms  against  Canada  and  her  people.     They  evidently  had 
reckoned  without  their  host.     The  pride  of  one  of  Canada's  most  elocpient  .sons  was  toucheil, 
and  his  stinging  retorts  and  biting  sarcasms,  in  I'cply,  effectually  convinceil  our  American  cousins 
that  neither  our  "  Fishermen's  diet "   nor  (jur  "cold  forbidding  shores"  had  thinned  the  blood 
of  the  race  from  which  Canada's  sons  had  sprung.     Mr.  Thom.son's  dexterity  in  the  management 
I    and  presentation  of  the  immense  mass  of  information  and  figures  which  he  hud  before  him  was 
I     the  subject  of  universal  womler  and  j)raise.     The  sophistry  of  his  opponents  melted  away  bo- 
■     fore  his  merciless  lo'j;ic,  like  the  mists  before  the  burning  sun,  while  the  power  and  cl(jc|uence  of 
his  closing  words  were  alike  worthy  of  the  orator  and  the  occasion.     ( 'aniida's  first  diplomatic 
battle  was  fought  ami  won.     'J'he  vast  wealth  and  importance  of  her  fisheries  wi're  demonstrated 
before  the  world,  and  the  ability  of  her  sons  to  defend  her  rights  by  their  brains  was  as  signally 
indicated  as  it  had  been  half  a  century  eariici-  by  their  fathers  in  the  prowess  of  their  arms. 

Mr.  Thomson  always  put  in  an  appearance  at  the  Supreme  Court  of  Canada,  in  Ottawa, 
and  succeeded  in  having  a  large  projiortion  of  the  adverse  judgments  from  which  he  appealeil 
reversed.  At  a  meeting  of  the  barristers  held  in  Ottawa,  for  the  purpose  of  forming  a  Domiiuon 
as.sociation,  Mr.  Thomson  was  called  upon  to  preside,  and  he  occupied  the  chair. 

He  was  not,  however,  a  |iublic  man  in  the  ordinary  sense  of  the  term.  He  once  or  twice 
contested  the  city  of  St.  John  for  a  seat  in  the  Legislature,  but  was  unsuccessful.  He  was  not 
the  kind  of  man  to  win  the  popular  vote,  and  he  scorned  the  tricks  and  arts  in  which  the  mere 
)>olitician  delights,  and  by  means  of  which  he  too  often  succeeds.  He  would  not  make  a  per- 
sonal canvass.  By  many  people  he  was  looked  upon  as  proud  and  I'eserved,  but  this  was  a  very 
false  estimate  of  his  cliaracter.  To  those  with  whom  he  was  intimate  he  was  known  to  be  the 
;  most  genial  and  kind-hearted  of  men.  A  thoroughly  educated  man,  lie  had  improved  his  op- 
portunities by  extensive  reading,  and  was  preeminently  all  that  is  embraced  in  the  phrase,  a 


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TITK  CAKADIAK  JlIOGIurillCAL  DICTlOXAJtr. 


man  of  vulture.  It  was  in  liis  profossioii,  liowever,  tliat  he  made  liis  mark  ami  i-aructl  his  lau- 
rels. For  many  years  he  stdud,  with  scarcely  a  rival,  at  the  head  of  the  New  I5riinswi(;k  har, 
and  was  "jfenerally  rej,'arded  hy  the  profession  as  one  of  the  first  lawyers  in  the  Dominion. 

In  Septondier,  IS.sO,  Mr.  Thomson  attended  the  Northtnnlierlaud  circuit,  and  he  returned 
feeling  rather  ill.  He  went  to  Frederieton  to  attend  the  Michaelmas  term  of  the  supreme  court, 
and  there  hecame  worse.  The  city  corporation  were  anxious  to  Jiave  him  go  to  England  to  op- 
pose an  appeal  from  the  judgment  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Canada  to  tlie  Judicial  Committee 
of  H.  M.'.s  I'rivy  ( 'o'.mcil,  in  the  case  against  the  foreign  hanks  for  tii.ves.  Jlr.  Thomson  appeared 
for  the  city  at  Ottawa,  and  therefore  considered  it  his  iluty  to  go,  if  he  could,  Imt  felt  too  ill. 
I.  ('■  jdiysician,  however,  thouglit  the  rest  and  sea  voyage  might  do  him  good,  and  on  the  .'}()ch 
of  October,  liS80,  he  left  St.  John  for  the  last  time. 

Mr.  Straton,  who  had  been  a  student  in  Mr.  Thomson's  oHice  about  four  3'ears,  wrote  to  his 
brotlier.  Dr.  Straton,  mayor  of  Wilton,  England,  tliat  Mr.  Tiiomson  was  sailing  for  England  in 
poor  liealtli,  and  to  see  him  and  .see  that  he  wanted  for  nothing. 

The  following  letter  from  Dr.  Straton  will  show  how  he  performed  the  tru-^t,  and  givi's  all 
paiticulars  of  the  .sad  <leath  of  this  truly  great  man  : — 

West  LoiniK,  Wm.ton', 

S.M.i.-iiiriiv,  Nov.  '-'It,  IHSO. 

Mv  Dkak  JaMks,— Kiiouiiif;  liciw  liclovi'd  .tnil  resjiecti'd  Mr.  TIkiiusoii  was,  not  only  in  Saint  John,  but 
thnmghout  tlie  whole  Dominion,  1  havi"  thought  it  well  to  write  you  more  fully  than  I  Imve  hitlierto  had  time 
to  do,  and  give  you  all  the  particulnrs  of  his  nlness,  which  ended  so  aadly,  and  with  a  lojs  ao  irreparable  to  his 
family  and  to  liis  country. 

When  I  had  your  first  letter  telling  me  he  had  left,  as  it  did  not  contain  any  address,  I  wrote  at  once  to 
the  care  of  the  shipiiiiii,'  agents  at  Liverpool  ;  a.d  when  your  next  one  came  giving  me  the  names  of  the  Loiiiloii 
solicitors,  I  wrote  a  second  letter  to  their  care  In  liotli  of  these  I  begged  him  if  lie  fell  out  of  sorts  after  his 
voyage  to  come  down  and  stay  with  us,  that  the  rest  ami  cpiiet  of  the  country  might  restore  him  before  his  case 
enme  on.  On  Tuesday  he  reached  London;  and  went  to  a  hotel  closi'  to  the  railway  station  for  the  night  ;  and 
lUi  Wednesday  he  found,  by  the  assistance  of  one  of  tlie  solicitors,  very  comtortable  apartiiient.s  in  I'all  .Mall, 
This  geiiileiiian  called  upon  him  in  the  evening  on  his  way  to  the  theatre,  and  ihinkiiig  le  hxiked  ill,  and  know- 
ing he  was  sutl'ering  from  diarrleea,  brought  back  his  cousin,  a  doctor,  whom  he  met  t  the  theatre,  ami  gut 
him  to  pveaci'ibe  some  r.stnngent  mixture  for  him.  Next  ilay.  'riiursday,  Ilth  Novembei  he  wrote  me  the  last 
letter  he  ever  wrote.  In  it  he  says  ;  '  I  would  have  answered  your  two  kind  letters  befor"  had  1  been  able. 
Hut  I  am  very  ill.  It  is  with  ditliculty  thai  '  "an  now  write.  I  had  been  seriously  unwell  beiore  leaving  New 
Hriinswiok  for  Kn'_dand,  hut  hoped  that  the  sea  voyage  would  set  me  up  a  little.  It  did  not  do  so.  I  am  now 
worse  than  when  I  left,  and  I  fe  .r  I  shall  never  see  my  home  aiiaiii. 

'  The  cane  which  1  am  to  aiL;iie  before  the  .ludicial  Committee  of  the  Privy  Council  will  probably  be  called 
on  for  hearing  on  Tuesday  or  Wednesday  next,  and  I  hope  that  by  that  lime  I  may  have  gained  .siitlicieiit 
strength  to  act  ;  if  not,  I  must  ap|ily  for  a  postponement,  and  retain  another  (,>iieen's  counsel  to  act  as  leader  in 
my  stead.  If,  aftiT  the  argument,  I  feel  strong  enoiii,di,  I  will  accept  with  pleasure  your  kind  iiiMtation,  .and  I 
will  in  that  case  seinl  you  a  telegram  ;  but  iiiiliss  1  shall  have  mended  in  health  very  much,  the  chances  are 
gru.  tly  against  my  reaching  luiiie  as.'ain  alive.' 

I  wrote,  telling  him  1  trii.sted  things  were  not  so  Impelesa  as  he  imagined,  and  that  I  would  come  up  by 
the  earliest  train  next  morning  (Saturday),  and,  if  possible,  bring  him  back  with  me  and  nurse  him  up  until  his 
case  came  on. 

1  reached  his  loil^ings  at  I'all  .Mall  on  Saturday  a  little  before  eleven,  and  was  struck  by  his  appearance. 
I  asked  him  to  allow  me  to  examiue  hiiii,  and  I  fouinl  him,  as  far  as  I  couhl  form  an  opinion  at  one  visit,  sutl'er- 
ing frcuii  typhoid  fever,  and  in  probably  the  third  or  fourth  weik  of  (he  fever.  On  ipi<  stioniiig  him,  I  learned 
that  he  had,  while  on  circuit  in  the  provinces  in  the  moiiih  of  Seplemln'r.  ilruiik  w.iler  fium  a  tank  which  had 
been  contaminated  with  sewage  matter  ;  that  he  hail  been  attacked  w  illi  diarrhua  afterwanls  ;  that  he  had  had 
headache,  sickness,  shiseriny  ami  pains  in  his  limbs,  .about  a  week  before  siarling,  and  that  lie  had  sull'i  rcil  from 
nickness  am'  liarrlma  all  the  way  across  the  .\tlanlic,  with  great  iirosliatioii  of  sdeiigth,  and  |iains  in  his  bowels 
and  back.  With  Ibis  history,  and  with  a  tongue,  t<  nij.erature,  pulsi'  and  large  spleen  to  coiilirm  it,  1  gave  him 
my  opinion  that  he  was  sutlering  from  typhoul  tev<  r,  and  that  he  must  go  to  lied.  I  asked  him  to  allow  me  to 
call  in  the  aid  of  Sir  William  .leiiiier.  Hart.,  who  was  probably  the  highest  authority  on  typhoiil  fever  in  the 
world.  To  this  he  consented.  Sir  William  .leiiiier  saiil  he  had  no  doubt  he  was  siill'eriiig  from  typhoiil,  and 
ordered  him  to  bed.      .As  my  time  was  short.  I  then  drove  to   the  .Middlesex    llospit.il.    where  I  hail  an  articled 

iiu)>il.  Mr.  Doiity,  in  the  last  term  of  his  medical  ciirruuliim.  He  had  been  a  most  clislingiiished  student,  ami 
had  every  conhdeiice  in  him.  II"  promised  to  sii  ure  the  services  of  :  day  iimae  and  a  niuht  nurse  from  the 
instilulioii  for  trained  nurses,  am,  .Is  1  yit  I'r.  \S  illiam  t'ayley,  the  physician  to  tlu'  London  Kever  Hospital,  lo 
gee  .Mr.  Thomson  regularly.  He  was  put  to  beil  and  fed  on  slrong  beef  tea  and  milk,  with  an  all  .v- 
unco  of  wine  at  frec|uenl  interv.ils.     He  liked  to  be  read  lo^  ami  Uouty,  and  the  nurse  oudiiiy,  read  aloud  to  liim 


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by  turns.  He  saiJ  \i  sontlied  him.  I  asked  liiin  if  I  iniglit  tole^^rapli  to  Mrs.  Tlioinson,  but  lio  said,  consider- 
ing lier  state  of  health,  I  was  on  mi  aeeouiit  to  do  sci,  liut  that  I  was  to  write  fully  to  you  and  ask  you  to  retain 
counsel  in  all  liis  eases,  an<l  ni:in;ige  everything  for  the  heat,  as  if  he  were  tliere.  He  spoke  of  yoi',  I  am  happy 
to  say,  in  terms  that  were  a  ijreat  comfort  and  satisfaction  to  me.  During  tlie  night  the  sickness  returned,  but 
yielded  to  remedies.  His  night  temperatine  showed  a  rise  of  thii  l^  degrees,  and  towards  the  morning  it  be- 
came neees.tary  to  give  hiiu  brandy,  in  .small  ipiantities,  fre(|Uently.  as  his  pnjse  became  feeble  and  interinit- 
toiit.  His  temperature  fell  again  in  the  nioriiitig,  and  ho  seemed  better  and  more  cheerful  ;  and  he  made  Doiily 
read  to  him  for  four  hours  in  the  afternoon,  during  which  time  he  freipitntly  slept,  but  awoke  immediately  the 
reading  stopped.  With  the  night  cinie  another  sharp  rise  in  the  temperature,  with  great  prostration  towards 
tlij  morning.  Jle  had  then  some  ipiiet  sleep.  On  Monday  I  .-igain  went  up  to  London,  and  had  a  considtation 
witli  I)r  Cayley.  He  thought,  with  care  and  perfect  rest,  he  might  still  pull  throtigh  ;  the  sickness  seemed  less 
urgent,  and  diarrluea  had  abated  ;  the  symptom  which  gave  us  most  alarm  being  the  intermittent  pulse  and  in- 
creasing feebleness  of  the  tirst  sound  of  the  heart.  I  write  thus  fully  because  he  may  have  medical  friends  in 
St.  .lohn  to  whom  these  particulars  will  bt?  of  interest,  and  to  whom  you  may  commnnica'e  them  if  you  please. 
I  asked  him  if  I  could  do  anything  for  him  more,  and  he  said  I  was  not  to  telegraph,  but  to  write  to  you.  He 
told  mo  he  had  given  a  bank  ''.raft  that  morning  to  the  solicitor  who  had  called,  and  1  suggested  that  Douty 
should  act  as  his  purser  and  pay  everything  for  him  that  was  wanted,  and  keeii  an  account,  and  he  said  the  .sidici- 
tor  was  to  give  Douty  money  as  he  re(iuirod  it.  He  told  mo  he  could  not  express  his  gratitude  to  Douty  for  his 
unremitting  kindness  to  him  by  night  and  by,day  ;  he  was  the  greatest  possible  comfort  to  him.  The  nurses, 
too,  he  told  me,  were  most  gentle  and  kiml  As  his  bedro  )m  was  small,  I  had  a  small  iron  bedstead  fitted  up 
in  the  centre  of  his  sittini;-room,  which  he  \'\\  'd  much  better.  I  also  wrote  to  the  solicitors  asking  them  to  get 
a  postponement  of  his  case  for  a  month,  if  possible.  They  applied  for  this,  but  only  succeeded  in  getting  one 
till  Deccnd)er  1st. 

On  Tuesday,  he  was  better  in  all  particulars,  his  pulao  fuller,  loss  frei|Ueut  and  not  intermitting,  and  he 
took  nourisment  well  thro'.ighout  tlie  day. 

On  Wednesday,  he  was  not  ([uite  so  well  ;  more  prostrate,  and  pulse  more  intermitteiit,  and,  irtnw  symp- 
t(nus  which  1  cannot  explain  to  you,  it  was  elear  to  us  that  the  ulceration  of  the  bowel  was  very  extensive.  On 
Tliursd.iy  the  fever  seemed  ci>uipletfly  ltoih',  but  the  prostr.itioii  was  much  greater,  and  on  Thursday  night  bo- 
came  alarming.  The  nurse  called  Mr.  Douty  up  in  the  night,  and  Dr.  ('ayley  was  also  sent  for.  Ho  was  now 
taking  brandy  and  beef  tea  every  hour.  .\t  eight  o'clock  on  Friday  morning  they  telegraphed  for  me,  and  by 
the  time  I  readied  London,  nearly  a  hundred  miles  oil',  collajise  was  sotting  in.  He  was  ipiito  conscious,  but 
had  no  strength  to  speak  to  me  much.  I  asked  him  if  he  woidd  like  to  see  a  clergyman,  and  he  said,  '  Yes.' 
The  Key.  (i.  W.  |{.  Kent,  of  Christ  Church,  .Mbany  street,  for  whom  1  had  telegraphed  in  the  morning,  was  in 
attendiancc,  and  'Iministered  the  Holy  Communion  to  him  ;  the  two  nurses,  Mr.  Douty  and  myself  communi- 
cating with  him,      id  about  tive  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  he  passed  to  his  rest. 

My  lirst  in  ,.ulse  was  to  have  his  body  sent  out  to  New  Hrnnswick  ;  but  as  tlu're  is  great  difficulty  in 
transmitting  a  b  idy  dying  of  fever,  and  as  I  had  his  own  instructions  to  respect  .Mrs  Tlinmson's  health,  and  on 
no  account  to  telei,'r;ipli,  I  thought  1  .should  act  for  the  best  by  having  his  funeral  in  Kuglaiid.  1  had,  however, 
a  east  of  his  head  taken,  in  case  the  citi/.i'iis  of  St.  .lolin  should  wish  to  have  a  bust  of  one  of  their  most  elo(|uont 
and  distinguished  counsel  to  place  in  their  town  hall.  His  services  in  the  ti-ihcry  arbitration  alone  were  worthy 
of  some  recognitiou,  and  that  recognition,  I  doubt  not,  will  be  none  the  less  [irompt  and  hearty  when  it  is  re- 
membered that  he  died  far  from  ho;iie  and  in  the  cinse  of  tlie  corii'iration  of  St.  .lohn. 

[  do  not  know  that  in  my  practice  I  over  experienceil  anything  so  inexpressibly  sad,  or  anything  which  de- 
pressed me  more.  I  have,  however,  this  eou.solation,  that  he  wanted  for  nothing  which  the  highest  skill  could 
suggest  or  which  money  ciuld  provii'e  :  and,  beyond  that,  I  have  the  comfo''t  of  believing  that  ho  died  in  th.it 
peace  which  p.isseth  all  understanding. 

With  our  ileejiest  sympathy  for  Mrs.  Thomson, 

1  am,  my  dear  ,la,ne8, 

Your  atl'ectiiunite  lirollier, 

CltUll.F.s    U.    SrllAToV. 

The  lii'Ws  of  Mr.  TliuniMiii's  >uil  ilnitli  cuum'iI  a  |)rc)foiiinl  si'iisatioii  tliniuolidiU  tlio  city. 

If  WHS  iiiiiiiimicrd  lit  the  iiiootiii:,'  III'  tlio  .Iiiil'u'ial  < 'umiiiittt'i'  nt'  tlio  I'fivy  Coimi'il  on  (' 
notli  NdveinliiT,  iiinl  the  cuMioiiiary  iiicmniiiil  nctiuii  was  taken  liy  tluit  Im  ly.  Tiic  circuit  cm;  i, 
Mr.  Justice  Wcstniorc  ]iic>.i>liiio,  was  adjoiinu'd  (lilt  iif  respect  tn  \\\*  iiieiiiory,  as  was  also  tlie 
ciitiity  cmirt,  ]iicsiileil  over  liy  Mi".  .Iiistiee  I'aliiier.  Meetiiijj;s  of  the  liar  Wciv  held  in  Frcdeiic- 
ton  and  St.  .Idliii,  at  wliicli  nvoliitioiis  of  leorit  and  eoiidoleiiee  were  passed,  and  for  tiftecn  days 
the  liRii'isters  wore  ciaiie  on  the  aim  as  mourning  foi  their  leader.  The  St.  .lolin  Law  Society 
liave  since  appointed  aconiniittee  to  take  wtcps  to  have  a  luist  of  Mr.  'J'lioihs;>ii  taken  froni  the 
cast  olitaincd  hy  Dr.  Stratoii,  to  Lc  placed  in  their  iiliriuy, 

Ml. 'riioin.son,  Lite  in  life,  in  l'"elini  try,  ISTii,  was  united  in  inarriaLfe  to  ("utherine  M., 
danoliter  of  .1.  K.  MeDonoll,  l',-,|,,  (  ,K,  Two  children  of  the  marriage.  Loth  sons,  survived  him, 
anil  a  postliumiMis  child,  a  daiii;liter,  was  Imrn  of  the  niairiaoe  in  Felmiaiy  foIlowiiiL.'  his  death. 
Mr.  Thomsons  family,  it  is  ofatifying  to  knuw,  huvo  licen  li'ft  in  comfortahio  ciicuuisUiuc.'s, 


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Mr.  Thoiiisoii's  rtiiiains  were  afterwards  cxhuined  and  brought  to  this  countiy,  being  met 
at  Halifax  by  F.  E.  Barker,  Escj.,  Q.C.,  one  of  Mr.  Thoinst)n's  executors,  and  Mr.  James  Straton, 
whence  they  were  conveyed  to  St..  John,  and  there  interred  in  the  rural  ccmeteiy,  the  llev. 
Cnnon  De  Veber  officiating  as  clerygman,  and  the  Hon.  Cliief- Just  ice  AUen,  the  Hon.  Mr.  Jus- 
tice Duff,  tlie  Hon.  Judge  Watters,  C.  W.  Weldon,  M.P.,  Henry  Gilbert,  E.sti.,  and  Thomas  (Jil- 
bert,  Esq.,  being  pall-bearers. 

Mr.  S.  R.  Thomson  was  aged  fifty-five  years,  and  was  survived  by  a  brother,  Dr.  Robert  C. 
Thomson,  of  St.  Stephen,  and  a  sister,  Mrs.  Carey,  wife  of  Rev.  Mr.  Carej-,  Grand  Manan. 


BLAIR   BOTSFORI), 

DORCHESTER,  N.It. 

THE  subject  of  this  biographical  notice  is  a  son  of  the  Hon.  William  Bot~sford,  deceased, 
formerly  judge  of  the  superior  court  of  New  Brunswick. 

Blair  Botsford  was  born  at  Sackville,  N.  B.,  on  the  .Ith  of  Januar}-,  1821;  received  an 
academic  education  at  Gagetown  ;  in  liis  j-outh  clerkeil  a  while  for  J.  and  H.  Kinnear,  mer- 
chant's, St.  John,  and  was  suVi.sequently  a  clerk  in  the  custom  house,  same  city.  In  184.">  he 
engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits,  and  continued  in  that  line  until  184!t,  when  he  was  appointed 
sheriff  of  Westmoreland,  his  native  county,  and  held  that  position  until  1880,  a  period  of  tliirty- 
one  years,  making  a  j)rompt  and  efficient  officer. 

Mr.  Botsford  gave  up  the  office  of  sheriff  to  accept  that  of  warden  of  the  Dorchester  Peni- 
tentiary, which  office  he  has  held  only  one  year.  During  that  time  he  has  jierfornied  wonders 
in  leveling  the  new  penitentiary  grounds,  fencing  them  in,  putting  up  shops  of  various  kinds, 
bringing  in  water,  etc.,  etc.  This  work  has  been  done  almost  entirely  liy  the  convicts,  whose 
confidence  anil  good  will  Mr.  Botsford  seems  to  secure  in  a  marked  degree.  He  disciplines 
largely  by  kindness,  and  has  great  success,  being  evidently  the  right  man  for  his  post.  He  is 
well  known  in  his  native  province. 

Mr.  Botsford  i.orried  in  18bS,  Miss  Sarah  Cogswell,  of  Cornwallis,  Xova  Scotia,  and  they 
liave  seven  children,  two  of  them  are  sons  and  five  danghteis.  Lc  IJaron,  the  eldest  son  is  a 
1 'lysician  at  Sackville;  Fanny  is  the  wife  of  J.  11.  Nickeison.  of  .\Ionctoii  ;  Mary  is  the  wife 
(I  David  Diek.son,  of  the  same  place;  Elizabeth  D.  is  the  wife  of  Di.  HIiss,  of  Amherst,  N.  S., 
and  the  others  are  single. 


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FREDERH'TON,  N.U. 

AI-I<'I!ED  BENNISOX  ATHEHTON,  ..he  of  the  leading  surgeons  in  N«  w  Hrunswiek,  was 
born  in  York  county,  in  this  pinvinee,  on  the  22nd  of  Jainiary.  18-t:).  liis  father,  John 
Atheiton,  being  also  born  in  the  same  eount_\-.  His  grandfather,  Bi'iijaniin  Atli"itoii,  came 
from  New  Knglanil  to  what  is  now  New  Brunswick,  before  the  .Vmeiiean  revolution,  and 
helped  to  take  P'ort  Cumbeiland  finm  the  French, afterwards  settling  in  Fredericton,  when  there 


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was  only  one  otlior  English  family  in  tlio  place.  Benjamin  Atheitoii  was  a  cousin  of  Sir  Oiiailes 
Hiiniiiluey  Atherton,  many  years  a  New  Hampshire  state  senator;  and  tlie  latter  was  tho 
fatlier  of  tlic  Hon  Cliarles  (J.  Athoiton,  who  represented  New  Hampshire  in  the  United  States 
Senate  during  tlic  adniinistiations  of  Presidents  Van  Buren,  Harrison  and  Tyler.  John 
Atherton  niarrietl  Charlotte  Perley  Bonnison,  a  native  of  New  Brunswiek,  her  family  being 
originally  from  England. 

Our  subject  was  educated  in  arts  at  the  university  of  New  Brunswick  (class  1862),  ami  in 
medicine  and  suigery  at  Harvard  univei'sity,  Boston,  and  the  Royal  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons.  Edinburgh;  lieing  an  M.I),  of  tho  tormer,  180(!,  and  L.R.C.P.S.  of  the  latter,  lN(i7. 
Prioi"  to  going  to  Scotland,  Dr.  Atherton  spent  tlu*  years  ''8(J.j-(J(J  as  house  surgeon  of  the 
Boston  city  hosj)ital ;  and  both  there  and  in  Edinburgh  gave  particular  attention  to  the  study 
of  surgery;  cominen<'ing  practice  at  Fredericton  in  lH(i7. 

Among  the  many  ditlicult  operations  in  surgery  which  Dr.  Atherton  has  performed  aro 
two  (I'sophagotondes  ;  one  in  the  case  of  a  young  child,  the  other  a  woman  past  seventy,  both 
cases  receiving  notice  in  European  as  well  as  American  medical  journals.  This  operation  has 
Hcldom,  if  ever,  been  performed  in  Canada.  The  doctor  has  performed  two  abdominal  opera- 
tions for  the  removal  of  internal  strangulatiim  of  the  bowels. 

Dr.  Atherton  was  vice-president  of  the  Canada  medical  association  for  New  Bnnissviek, 
one  yeai- ;  belongs  to  the  mcilical  council  of  New  Brunswick,  being  the  youngest  member  in 
that  body ;  has  been  a  member  of  the  senate  of  the  university  of  New  Brunswick  for  twelve 
years,  and  was  president  (jf  the  alui;ini  society  of  that  institution  for  two  years, 

He  has  been  a  Free  .Mason  since  i  still,  but  has  taken  only  three  degrees,  his  professional 
studies  and  practice  monopolizing  most  of  his  tinif". 

Dr.  Athi'rton  married.  May  20,  1808,  Sarah,  daiighter  of  Uobcrt  Wiley,  of  Frederict<.)n,  aiij 
we  believe  ihey  have  no  issue. 


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SAMUEL   G.    MOUSE, 
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.VMCKL  CAY  Ml  (IbSE,  clerk  of  the  pcaei'  for  the  county  of  Albert,  registrar  of  proii.ites, 
O  etc.,  diites  his  birtii  at  I'mt  < 'luubeilaiid,  N.  B.,  on  the  2nd  of  Septendier,  1805.  His 
fiitlier,  Alpluus  Morse,  jr.,  and  his  grandfiitlier.  Alplieus  Morse,  sr.,  were  natives  of  Cumberland 
countv,  N.  S.,  and  bis  great-grandt'ather,  Joseph  Morse,  was  known  as  "Commissary  Moi-sc." 
Sam  lel  (1.  Miii<e  is  a  nepluw  of  .Tames  S.  Morse,  who  clicd  at  Andierst,  N.  S.,  early  in  tbi>  year 
bSSl,  in  bis  !)Sth  yeai',  l"ing  at  tlu'  tim.'  of  his  drath,  the  oldest  barristei'  in  the  Maritime  Prov- 
inces, or,  probably,  in  the  I>ominion.  Alphens  Moi-se,  jr..  married  Aim  A.  Davis,  and  they 
lived  and  died  at  Oxford,  Cumberland  county,  N.  S. 

Our  subject  was  educated  at  the  Andierst  giamniai'  school;  served  his  time  ;tt  the  mercan- 
tile house  of  W.  A.  and  S.  lilack.  of  Halifax;  studied  law  at  Dorchester,  N.  B.,  with  .\li'X- 
ander  and  James  Sti'wait  ;  wasailmitted  as  an  attorney  in  IMU,  and  as  a  barrister  in  1m37,  and 
has  lieen  |iractising  in  Albert  county  ]>arisli  ever  since,  first  at  Hopewell  Hill,  and  for  the  last 
tweutv  \e,irs  or  more  at  llo|ie\\ell  Cnjie,  the  ciiunty  seat  of  Albert.  He  has  a  good  reputntjoi) 
for  honesty  as  a  lawyer,  and  in  all  bis  .lealings  witii  liis  fullowincn, 


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Mr.  Morso  was  appointed  dork  of  tlio  poace  in  1S4(»,  soon  after  AlluMt  county  was  sot  off 
from  Wostniorolanil,  ami  still  holds  that  otHco.  Ho  is  also  roj^istrar  of  proViatos,  clork  of  Alhort 
circuit  court  and  clork  i.f  the  county  coui't.  The  ihilics  of  those  sovoial  oIKcos  ho  ])eifoini.s 
with  promptness  and  accuracy,  and  is  one  of  the  host  known  and  most  lii;,ddy  esteemed  citizens 
of  the  county,  being  faithful  in  the  discharge  of  every  oliligation  to  the  puhlic.  While  at 
Hopewell  Hill  he  was  secretary  of  the  local  agricultural  society. 

Aliout  thirty  years  ago  he  was  inihiced  to  run  for  the  loc-al  a.ssemhiy  for  the  county  of 
Albert,  on  the  Independent  ticket,  and  was  defeated.  We  believe  he  Iiad  not  taste  enough  for 
jiolitical  excitement  to  make  another  attempt  to  get  into  a  legislative  Vtody. 

Mr.  Morse  is  a  master  mason  of  Howard  lodge.  Albert  county,  and  a  member  of  the  Church 
of  England.  While  residing  at  Hopewell  Hill  he  was  church  wanl<-.i  all  tlie  time.  Ho  bears 
an  irroiiroachable  character  ;  is  kindly-hearted  i"id  generous  to  the  unfortunate,  and  a  good 
neighbor. 

Mr.  Morse  did  not  marry  until  1801,  his  wife  lieing  Rachel  Peck,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Peck,  of  Hopewell.     We  believe  they  have  no  issue. 


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ST.  JOHN,  N.ll. 

JOHN  liOYD,  a  i)rominent  St.  John  merchant,  and  one  of  the  recently  api»ointed  senators 
for  New  ISrunswick,  is  descended  from  a  Covenanter  family,  which,  bccau.se  of  their 
religious  and  political  opinions,  wore  driven  out  of  Argyleshire,  Scotland,  at  the  time  of  the 
persecution  (KiS.l),  in  which  the  great  DuUe  of  Aigyle  was  beheaded,  and  many  of  Scotland's 
noblest  sons  sealed  their  testimony  with  their  blood.  He  was  born  at  .Magherafelt,  county  of  Lon- 
dondeiry,  Ii'oland,on  the  2.Sth  of  September,  l.S2<5.  His  parents  were  James  Hoyd,  shopkeeper, 
and  Margaret  E.  Lynn,  the  latter  being  descended  from  a  Dutch  family.  Hisfatherdied  in  bS.SI, 
leaving  two  sons,  our  subject,  aged  five  \ears,  and  .bimes  Smyth,  two  years  younger.  With 
these  two  sons,  tin;  widowe(l  muilier  starteil  for  America,  intending  to  settle  with  ndatives  in 
New  York  city,  imt  on  reaching  St.  .Icjlm,  after  a  passage  of  eleven  weeks,  before  the  era  of 
steam  Vessels,  >he  conebided  to  reinaiu  luiv  Tie-  \oun'4'er  son  went  to  Australia  many  years 
agt),  and  there  died. 

Mr.  IJoyd  roi-oived  a  gi'ammar  school  I'ducation  at  .St.  John  ;  at  eleven  years  of  age  went 
into  the  employment  of  Messrs.  Holdsworth  ami  Daniel,  dry  gou. Is  merdiMnts,  where  ho  received 
a  very  thorough  bMsiness  education.  St.irtiuLC  as  en-.|i  buy,  in  a  few  yciirs  he  liecame  bodk- 
keepei' and  buyer  i?i  lOuropi',  remainiu';'  witli  that  higlily  respectable  house,  uiuler  all  its  vai'ious 
changes  until  the  present  time.  In  \><')\,  he  bec;imo  a  partner  of  Mr.  Daniel.  The  firm  of 
Daniel  and  l>oyd,  as  intimated  in  a  sketch  of  the  former,  on  preceding  pages,  is  tin;  leading  house, 
in  extent  of  business  and  connm  icial  standing- in  the  I'loxince  tA'  New  Hrunswick,  and  thi'ou'di 
their  kindness  and  liberality,  some  of  the  leading  firms  in  the  city  and  ]iro\  luce  owe  their 
present  i)osition  ami  prosperity. 

Mr.  Boyd  is  a  director  of  the  St.  John  gas  company,  the  Maritinu'  IJ.mk,  and  varioirs 
benevolent  societies,  being,  in  fact,  id"ntitied  with  almost  every  interest,  material,  charitablo 
and  educational,  in  the  city  of  St  John. 


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Pcrhaiis  his  best  work  lias  lieon  doiiu  in  coniK'ctioii  witli  {\w  ptiliiic  scliools;  he  has  ht'on  a 
im'nihcr  i)f  i\\v  school  hoard  since  the  law  canio  into  force  in  liS71,  ami  was  appointed  hy  tlu" 
eovernnient  chairman  of  the  Board  of  School  Trustees  in  1874,  and  largely  throuj^h  his  concil- 
iatory and  untiring  offorts,  the  vexed  school  question  that  so  long  separated  the  Protestants 
and  (.'atholics  was  aniieahly  settled  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  the  goveriuiient  and  of  all 
classes  of  the  people,  This  is  nlso  true  of  the  })i'ovince  which  soon  followed  the  example  of  its 
chief  city,  St.  John,  Nor  did  the  influence  of  this  work  end  with  New  Brunswick.  Prince 
Edward  Islanil  had  long  heen  troul)Ie<l  with  this  same  perplexing  question,  and  Ifon.  L.  H. 
Davies,  then  attorney-genend  and  |>remier  of  that  province,  hearing  of  its  settlement  an<l  actual 
workings  of  the  systeu)  here,  came  to  St.  John,  interviewed  the  chairman  of  the  school  hoard, 
learned  all  the  particulars  of  the  settlement  which  he  approved,  and  the  result  was  a  similar 
adjustment  of  the  qui'stion  in  tliat  |irovince  in  like  satisf'aeloiy  niiinner.  This  is  a  good  illirs- 
t ration  of  the  value  of  common  sense  and  Chi'istian  charity  when  applied  to  the  distracting 
(pie.stions  of  faith  and  morals,  which  Avill  ever  he  agitating  humanity. 

Mr.  Boyd's  appointment  to  the  oflice  of  .senator  i.s  dated  on  the  lOth  of  February,  18.S(),  hut 
he  did  not  take  his  seat  until  two  months  later  ;  he  di<l  not  aspire  to  the  position  which  had 
been  pre\iously  urged  u) ion  hira.  Since  he  took  his  seat  in  that  body  he  has  made  two  or 
three  speeches  of  noteworthy  merit.  The  one  on  the  Pacific  Railway  bill  delivered  in  Feb- 
ruary, ISSl,  is  one  of  the  best  in  favor  of  that  bill,  made  by  New  Brunswick  members  of  the 
Senate.  It  is  not  only  logical,  but  is  full  of  humor,  and  is  decidedly  entertaining  reading, 
having  well-spiced  points  fioni  the  "  Biglow  Papers"  and  other  quarters. 

When  the  bill  for  making  it  h'gal  for  a  widower  to  marry  a  deceased  wife's  sister,  was 
before  the  Senate,  he  made  a  very  strong  speech  in  siqiport  of  the  bill,  which  he  said  "  had  only 
the  opposition  of  mere  sentiment,  an<l  against  which  there  had  not  been  advanced  one  argiunent 
throughout  the  discu.s.sion,  that  could  .stand  the  test  of  human  reason,  or  the  light  of  holy 
sci'ipture." 

When  the  great  lire  of  June  20,  1N77,  laid  the  large  r  part  of  St.  John  city  in  ashes,  Senator 
Boyd  was  one  of  the  foremost  men  here  in  stirring  up  the  hearts  uf  the  citi/ons  to  take  coiu'age 
and  rebuilil.  Soon  after  that  aniful  calamity,  a  public  meeting  was  held,  and  the  local  papers 
published  an  .account  of  it  and  gave  the  substance  of  a  speech  made  on  that  occasion  by  Senator 
Boyil.  The  speech  is  well  worth  reailing,  it  being  a  grand  rallying  cry  for  the  citi/ens  to 
summon  pluck  and  icstore  the  city.  Artemus  Ward  w<rA  to  sny.  when  ;in  emi'rgenc\-  iirose,  it 
is  proper  to  rise  up  and  pum  h  the  emergency's  head,  and  that  has  liei.'u  Mr  l!o\ds  course  in 
all  such,  none  mi)re  so,  than  in  that  greatest  of  .'ill. 

in  a  work  ]iuMisheil  not  long  after  the  great  tire,  the  following  well-ui'iifed  tribute  is  pjiid 
to  Mr.  Boyd,  who  lo>t  in  the  great  eontiagi'ation  an  elegant  residt  nee  of  brown-stone  front,  one 
of  the  best  libraries  in  St.  Jolni,  ami  a  very  \alualile  eollection  of  works  of  ;iit,  statuarv,  paint- 
ings, engi'aviugs,  i^-c,  collected  with  his  own  hands  in  tlie  Old  Worlil.  Nothing  being  sa\(>d,jvs 
he  knew  nothing  of  the  burning  of  his  residence,  being  in  another  part  of  the  city  taking  cliarge 
of  his  warehou,se. 

"  Mr.  Boyd  presents  one  of  those  exanqiles  of  sterling  business  integrity  ami  soci.d  worth 
of  which  it  is  always  ]>leasant  and  prolitabit'  to  write.     His  infliu'nee  in  the  Province  of  New 

I'.runswiek,  and  especially-  in  the  city  of   St.  John,   is  hardly   ex( leil   by  that  of  anv  pidilic 

otHcial  ;  and  it  ha.s  been  obtained  by  steady  ani  ciucfid  imhistry,  condiined  with  an  emimMit 
desire,  evcr^-where  a]iparent    in    his  acts,  to  be   useful  to   his  neighbors  .ind  count  ryinen.     Me 


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has  lirilliant  talents,  whicli  fit  liiiii  for  nny  position,  and  a  liappy  jrcnial  manner  in  his  inter- 
course with  strangins,  wliicli  secures  them  at  once  as  life  friends."  He  is  an  eloiiuent  spt^aker, 
and  from  his  public  entertaimnents  hy  readings  and  lectures,  has  raised  liirge  sums  for  literary 
and  benevolent  olijects  in  the  Dominion  an<l  elsewhere.  He.  lost  the  manuseripts  of  over 
thirty  lectures  by  the  fire. 

Senator  Boyd,  as  we  have  already  intimated,  is  a  descendant  of  the  Scotch-Irish  presby- 
tcrians,  a  race,  many  of  whose  mendters  liavo  made  an  honorable  impress  on  many  lands  ;  and 
he  ardently  cherishes  the  faith  of  his  persecuted  ancestors;  he  is  a  member  of  St.  David's 
Presbj'terian  chuich,  and  nobody,  we  believe,  who  knows  him,  doubts  eitlierthe  sincerity  of 
his  belief  or  the  purity  of  his  life.  He  is  a  man  of  large  sympathies,  ever  ready  to  help  all 
worthy  objects,  believes,  and  he  himself  practises  the  lielief,  that  every  man  .should  serve  his 
country,  his  fellow  and  his  (iod  as  he  believes  right,  and  he  believes  also  that  every  man  should 
be  protected  in  the  privilege  of  exercising  these  rights. 

The  wife  of  Senator  Boyd  was  Miss  Annie  E.  Jones,  daughter  of  Cereno  P.  Jones,  Escp, 
son  of  Judge  Jtuies,  one  of  the  Ijoyalists  and  earliest  settlei's  in  Weymouth,  N.S,,  their  marriage 
occurring  in  IS.') 2. 

Mrs.  Boyd  is  a  great  favorite  of  the  happy  circle  in  which  she  moves  in  St.  John,  ami  ever 
ready  to  help  with  heart  and  hand  all  who  ask  her  aid,  without  reference  to  creed  or  party. 


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HON.   BLISS    BOTSFORD, 

MONCTON,  N.  II. 

"T7)rdSS  BOTSFORD,  Judge  of  tlio  county  court  of  the  counties  of  Albert,  Westmoivland 
_U  and  Kent,  is  the  .seventh  .son  of  the  late  iron.  William  Botsford,  whose  family  history  is 
given  in  the  .sketch  of  Senator  A.  E.  Botsford,  an  elder  brother  of  our  subject,  found  on  other 
pages  of  this  work.  The  number  of  mendiei-s  of  this  family  who  ha\(i  been  speakeis  of  dif_ 
ferent  legislative  bodies  is  also  there  mentioned,  together  with  other  facts,  showing  the  promi- 
nence of  the  Botsfords  in  New  Briuiswick  and  Canadian  history. 

Our  subject  was  born  at  Sackville,  N.B.,  on  the  2(ith  of  November,  bM:! ;  educated  at 
King's  college,  Fredericton  ;  studieil  law  with  the  late  William  Knd,  Ks([.,  of  Bathiirst;  was 
admitted  as  an  i.tloi'iiey  in  lN:](i  :  called  to  the  bar  of  New  Brunswick  in  l.sH.S;  and  followed 
his  profession  at  Moncton,  from  l.s:](i  to  IbTO.  During  those  thirty-four  years,  he  had  an  ex- 
tensive civil  pviictic",  and  a  fair  share  of  criminal,  ami  gained  well  meriteil  <listinction  at  the  bar 
of  his  native  province.  This  is  notably  true  in  the  celebrated  .Mliertite  snit.  in  which  he  was 
the  defendant's  attorney,  ami  won  the  cau.se.  While  at  the  bar,  his  vigorous,  earnest  and 
persuasi\e  style  of  delivery  always  made  a  fastirable  impression  on]  a  jury  ;  and,  like  most 
of  the  members  of  that  family,  is  of  connnanding  presence,  and  possesses  a  fine  personal 
appearand'. 

Judge  Botsfonl  sat  for  Westmoieland  in  the  New  Iirunswick  .\ssendily  fiom  I.S.')l  to  IS,')4, 
from  is.")?  to  ISO  1,  and  from  I  Ml.")  to  October 'J  K  iS7(),  when  he  went  on  the  bench.  As  a 
judge  he  is  very  painstaking;  carefidly  weigliing  in  his  ndnd  any  case  presented  for  his  consid- 
eration, and  is  logical  and  concise  in  his  charges  to  a  jury,  lie  is  not  o\'er-exacting  in  his 
requirements  of  younger  members  of  the  profession,  always  allowing  theni  eonsidorable  la*'Mi.le 


THE  CASADtAS  liioaliAVHWAl.  hlCTlONAHW 


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iuiil  fivodoiii :  but  wlioii  called  upon  to  ilecidt;  any  Jioint  of  a  relevant  or  iireluvaiit  eliaracter, 
lie  is  generally  prompt  and  firm  in  Ids  decisi(jn. 

.ludge  Hotsford  was  appointed  surveyor-<j;cneral  in  iNfi'),  antl  was  a  mondier  of  the  execu- 
tive council  duriuir  tlie  administration  of  Hon.,  now  Sir,  AlKert  Smith,  and  was  speaker  from 
lN(i7  until  tile  ^'eneral  election  in  INTO;  his  ])olitics  hein;,'  Conservative. 

Judye  Botsford  mairied  in  1842,  at  Monctoii,  Jane,  daughter  of  John  ("liapnian,  from 
Cumberland,  England,  and  they  have  buried  one  son,  and  have  three  daughters  and  one  son 
living,  all  married.  Sarah  L.,  the  eldest  daughter,  is  the  wife  of  William  J.  CVoasdale,  civil 
engineer,  Moncton  ;  Kliza  is  the  wife  of  Cieorge  C.  Peters,  son  of  l>r.  (leorge  Peters,  deceased, 
St.  John  ;  Robert  L.  is  a  physician  and  surgeon,  Moncton  ;  and  Florence  is  the  wife  of  Thoma.s 
Bvei-s,  >[oucton. 


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ja:mes  M<':MrLLAN, 

.ST.  JOHN,  N.li. 

JANfES  JFcMILLAX,  senr.,  member  of  the  firm  of  J.  and  A.  McMillan,  the  mo.st  extensive 
]irinting  and  publishing  house  in  New  P>runswick,  is  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  on  both  sides 
of  the  family,  and  was  born  in  the  county  of  Antrim,  north  of  Ireland,  on  the  2ith  of  Decem- 
lur,  ISIO.  His  parents  were  John  and  Jane  (Futhev;  McMillan, and  his  father  wa.s  a  lK)okseller 
in  Belfast,  until  about  INIM,  when  he  emigrated  with  his  family  to  this  province,  .settled  in  St. 
John,  and  established  in  1.S22,  the  hi>use  (jf  which  our  subject  is  now  the  head.  Mr. 
McMillan  hiid  no  school  privileges  after  he  Wiis  eleven  years  old,  at  which  age  he  enteri'd  a 
printing  ofliie,  serving  an  apjirenticeship  of  .seven  years,  and  receiving  the  greater  part  of  his 
education  at  "  tlie  case."  Having  become  a  Journininan  printt.'r,  Mr.  McMillan  went  to  New 
Yolk  ;  there  worked  a  year  and  a-lialf,  and  then  went  on  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  spent 
several  years  in  the  well-known  stereotype  foundry  of  Lawrence  Johnson. 

In  ISSl,  we  find  Mr.  ^IcMillan  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  pul)lisliing  a  Presbyterian  newspaper 
called  Tin'  StiiniUird.  In  AS'i'l  he  married  Mi.ss  Rachel  tiiiscoti  Murray,  sister  of  the  wife  of 
Mr.  Johnson,  before  mentioned.  In  the  latter  part  of  I83!l  the  paper  and  plant  were  sohl  to  the 
South  Hanover  (Indiana)  college,  an  institution  comlucted  on  the  manual  labor  plan,  to  which 
place  he  went,  an<l  conducted  the  paper  for  about  IS  months. 

In  1.n:U  he  removed  to  Madison.  Indiana,  where  he  purchased  an  existing  Ixjok-store,  and 
remained  tliert'  for  ten  years  ;  at  the  eiul  of  which  time,  his  father  being  advanced  in  years,  and 
his  brother  an  invalid,  he  was  induced,  by  the  urgent  request  of  his  family,  to  return  to  St. 
John,  and  take  charge  of  the  business. 

In  IS.")'),  he  went  to  Philadelphia,  bought  out  Abram  Hart,  of  the  old  tirm  of  Carey  and 
Hart,  booksellers  and  publishers,  and  under  the  tii'u  name  of  Parry  and  McMillan,  managed  that 
house  for  five  years;  then  loturned  to  his  old  home  and  old  position  in  the  business  at 
St.  John,  at  the  same  time  taking  his  only  son  and  only  child,  John  .McMillan,  into 
partnership.  Two  or  three  weeks  afterwards  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  Johnson,  died,  and  as  Mr. 
McMillan  was  made  the  child'  executor  of  the  ileceased's  large  esUite,  he  was  obliged  to  go  back 
to  Philadelphia,  and  settle  it,  which  took  five  years. 

In  ISCiO,  .Mr.  -McMillan  once  more  returned  to  St.  John,  and  again  took  his  place  at  the 
head  of  the  business,  now  in  its   3Sth  year.     The  other  nicu\bers  of  the  _lirm  are  his  .son  and 


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TIfK  CANADTAK  JllOGlJAmiCJL  PlCTWKAJiY. 


tJeorjijo  W.  Wliilnoy,  who  atteml  to  the  general  business,  wliile  onr  sulject  takes  entire  charge 
of"  the  printing  and  iJuhiishing  ilepartnient. 

Tlie  firm  of"  J.  and  A.  MeMillan  is  eii''a<;eil  in  liookseliin'',  liook-iiiililishinyf,  book-liinding 
and  printing,  and,  as  before  stated,  is  the  leadini^  iiouse  of"  tiie  kind  in  tiie  province,  doing  very 
large  and  remunerative  business. 

Mr.  McMillan  has  lived  a  (piiet  and  retired  life,  never  having  accepted  a  public  office  of  any 
kind,  yet  his  life  has  been  a  very  useful  one.  He  is  eonneeted  with  nearly  every  lienevolent  institu- 
tion in  the  city  of  St.  John  ;  and  his  beiiefactinns,  though  bestowed  in  an  unobtrusive  nianni'i',  are 
never  stinted.  His(  'hristian  connection  is  with  St.  David's  Presbyterian  eh\ircli,  ami  he  has  held 
different  offices  in  diH'erent  chuiehes  of  that  denomination.  One  or  two  neighbors  state  that  ho 
is  "  a  man  of  an  earnest  Christian  character  ;  a  strong  advocate  of  temperance  principles;  one 
of  the  oldest  and  most  active  members  of  the  St.  .lohn  auxiliary  of  the  British  and  Foreign 
Bible  society  ;  vice-president  of  the  Evangelical  Alliance,  and  of  the  young  men's  Christian 
association  ;  was  a  director  at  one  i>eriod  of  the  "  home  for  the  aged;  "  and  is  always  ready  and 
willing  to  promote  every  Christian  work,  and  any  movement  for  the  benefit  and  imjjrovement 
of  the  people." 


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IIOX.    ]}ENJAMrX    HEVErvIDGE,   M.L.C., 

ASinWEU,  N.JI. 

TlIK  subject  of  this  biographical  sketch,  l<mg  a  prominent  merchant  and  lumber  manufac- 
turer at  Tobique  and  Andover,  county  of  Victoria,  N.B.,  and  a  member  of  the  Legisla- 
ture of  New  Brunswick  sinct;  f8(l3,  is  a  native  of  Kinrossliire,  S.!otl:iud,  hi-*  birth  being  dited 
June  lOth,  ISll  ;  his  father  was  William  Beveridge,  a  farmer,  belonging  to  a  numerous  f.nr.ily 
in  that  part  of  Scotland,  and  largely  manufacturers;  and  his  m  )ther  was  Betty  Blackwood, 
who  was  also  Scotch. 

Our  subject  had  a  comnnm  English  tnlucation  ;  early  leained  tlie  mercantile  trade,  and 
followed  it,  together  with  the  nuvnufacture  of  lundier,  until  LST-t,  when  he-  retired.  Since 
18-K),  ho  has  resided  at  Andover,  now  the  shire  town  of  tlie  county.  His  health  is  not  very 
well.  When  in  prime  health,  and  for  many  years,  he  was  one  of  the  leading  business  men  in 
Victoria  county,  identif\  ing  himself  with  various  public  inivements,  and  showing  a  great  deal 
of  enterprise  as  well  as  public-spirit.  lie  was  a  stoekiioidei'  on  the  New  Urunswiek  railwa}', 
and  took  a  good  deal  of  pleasure  in  encouraging  such  impro\cments  tending  to  open  the  market 
for  the  products  of  the  country,  lie  has  held  the  oflire  of  justice  of  tlui  peace  fur  many  years, 
about  the  only  local  office  he  would  accept. 

Mr.  Beveridge  entered  public  life  in  1N(!.'J,  wIkmi  he  was  electeil  for  N'ictoria,  and  .sat  in  the 
As.sembly  until  the  12th  of  January,  LSGO,  when  he  was  called  to  the  Legislative  Council ;  he 
was  appointed  a  member  of  the  E.xecutive  Council,  in  Seiitember,  18G7,  and  president  of  tho 
sanii'  in  October,  ISTO,  ri'signing  both  positions,  on  tlie  retirement  of  the  government,  on  the 
21st  of  Kebiuaiy,  l^TI,     His  politics  are  ijibeial. 

Mr.  Bevei'idge  is  a  lloyal  Arch  Mivson,  but  of  late  years  has  seldom  attended  the  niet'tings 
of  the  order.  In  religious  sentiments,  he  leans  to  the  Presbyterians,  but  is  not,  we  believe,  a 
HJcmber  of  any  ehuich.     As  far  as  we  can  learn,  he  has  lived  an  unblemished  lite. 


riiE  f'AXAniAK  moauAPiiUM.  i  ictiokauy. 


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Mr.  Hi'vcrid^'c  iiiairicil,  iu  ISIJI,  .fnaiina  Tiiyloi',  ct'  FriMl(>rictnn,  ami  tlu'y  liavc  luirici]  two 
cliildn-n,  iiinl  liavc  six  sniis  iind  one  (liiiijilitcr  liviiii,'.  Williaiii  HliifkuDud  is  an  M.IMV.skctcliiMl 
ill  tlic  tollowiiij;  pages,  ami  is  in  |.,utncrsliii)  witli  liis  younger  ln'otlicr,  Henry  Moiigias,  in  tlie 
nierciintile  ami  liiniiier  trade;  'rimiiins  T.  is  a  ]>liysician  and  surgeon,  Antli)ver;  two.  Meiijaniin 
and  Ciiarles.  are  in  Imsiiiess  in  A|i|iieton,  Wis.,  wliere  also  the  only  daiigliter,  Annie,  tlie  wifo 
of  Dr.  Lc'vings  ivside.s,  and  tlie  youngest  .son,  Eilwiii,  is  unsettled. 


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WILLIAM    W.    ni:\'i:i{IT)(iK,   M.IM'., 

AXDOVEIt,  N.i;. 

WllddA.M  MliACKWOOl)  BEVKHllXiK,  son  of  tlio  for.'going,  and  a  nieniLer  of  tiio 
New  I5ruiiswiel<  Asseiiilily,  was  lioin  in  tlie  jiarisli  of  I'ertli,  county  of  N'ietoria,  on  tlie 
Kitli  of  Deceinlier,  l.sS.'i.  lie  tiiiislied  lii>  education  in  the  academic  department  of  Mount 
Allison  college,  Sackville  ;  l(>arned  the  mercantile  laisincss  in  his*  fatliei-'s  store,  an<l  on  the  1st 
of  August,  iSTt.  took  his  f.ithei's  liusiiiess  oil'  his  hanils,  forming,  at  the  same  time,  a  |iiirtner- 
ship  with  his  hrother.  Henry  Douglas.  They  arc  extensive  deaK'is  in  general  merchandise  and 
lumlier,  cutting  the  latter  and  sriiding  it  down  the  St.  John  river  to  the  St.Johii  market.  They 
are  thoroughgoing  husincss  men  and  well  known  all  over  this  part  of  tin-  province. 

William  I!,  lieveridge  was  jMistmaster  at  Amiover  for  some  years,  and  in  In7+  transferred 
the  office  to  his  partner.      William  isa  juslic'  of  tic  peace,  jiiid  major  in  the  ri'seiNo  militia. 

He  was  an  unsuccessful  eamliilate  for  Victoria  (MUiity  in  the  House  of  Commons  in  I.SO?  ; 
was  first  returneil  for  his  jireseiit  seat  in  1.S74,  and  wa.s  re-elected  at  the  last  general  election  in 
IN78,  and  hence  has  attended  three  sessions  on  his  second  term  ;  he  is  a  Liheral-t'onservative, 
i  .id  from  the  start  favornl  the  free,  non-sectarian  school  system. 

Mr.  P.everidge  is  a  meiulier  of  l!enjaniiii  Lodge  of  I'l'ei;  Masons— a  lodge  named  for  his 
father. 

He  was  united  in  marriage,  in  Novemhcr,  lMi:i,  with  Mi.-s  dane  Klizalieth  Stevens,  daugh- 
terof  William  Stevens,  of  Woodstock,  an<l  they  have  three  children  living  and  liase  lost  ono 
son.     The  family  worship  in  the  Methoilist  cliurch,  of  which  Mrs.  lieveridge  is  a  meniher. 


-TOTIX    ,TAMr:S    KRASER,   Q.C, 

FHIWHItlCTOX,  N.H. 

ON'K  of  the  oldest  and  most  successful  law3'ers  iu  KreJericton,  is  John  J.  Kiusor.  E.s(].,  lio 
was  horn  in  Nelson,  county  of  Northuinl)erlaud,  N.ll,  on  the  1st  of  Augu.st,  Ls^il ;  his 
father,  John  Fraser.  was  a  native  of  Inverness,  Scotland  ;  he  came  to  this  eouuty  in  1S():1,  and 
settled  in  Halifax,  N.  S,,  where  he  stayid  until  LSI  "J,  when  he  moved  to  .Miramichi,  ami  did 
liusiness  as  a  luiuher  merchant  and  shi|)-liuilder  on  Heaubear's  island  ;  lie  was  also  a  large  ex- 
porter of  salmon,  a  laisiiiess  which  was  \-ery  profitable  at  that  time. 


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TllK  CAXADtAK  JUOaJlAPllICAL  DICTIONARY. 


Voiiii'^  Fiascr  was  I'llucatcd  iit  tlic  Nt-wcaHtU'  j^ianinmr  sclitiol  ;  lio;,'iui  to  study  law  in 
OctoliiT,  \H\a,  witli  till-  late  Hon.  ilolin  Anilnusf  Street,  sulisecjuently  att(>iney-«;eneral  i)f 
tlie  Province  of  New  Hiunswiek,  ami  was  ndniitteii  an  attorney  in  \H7A).  V\Hm  tlie  ajtpoint- 
nu'tit  of  Mr.  Street  a.s  att(iniev-<;eni'rai,  in  .lanuaiv,  IfS.'tl.lie  removed  to  Krederieton,  and  le- 
maiiu'd  with  liini  until  IN-H  ;  lie  was  admitted  to  tlie  liar  in  l!S.">2,  and  was  appointed  a  Queen's 
Counsel  in  1M7.S.     Mr,  Frascr  eoneerned  liimself  lnit  little  with  polities  until  KH(  -n  ho  was 

returned  to  the  proviiieial  jiurliament  from  Voik  eouiity.  in  conjunetion  with  ^l  v  Allen,  the 
|)resent  chief  justiee,  Hatheway  and  Needham,  as  ehamiiions  of  thxi  cause  of  anfi-eoiifeileration. 
The  J  loose  was  dissolved  in  ISUG  on  the  resij^'nation  of  the  Smith  (iovernment,  and  at  the 
election  con.sequent  on  the  dissolution,  Mr.  Fra.ser  ai,'ain  ran  hut  was  defeated.  In  June,  1871, 
he  wa.s  appointed  a  niemher  of  the  Legislative  Council  and  president  of  the  executive  council  in 
the  liatheway-Kinj;  (iovernment ;  he  held  both  these  j)ositions  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Hathe- 
way which  oeeurred  in  !«"-,  when  lie  resigned  ;  he  was  offered  the  post  of  provincial  secre- 
tary in  the  Ciovernment  of  which  Mr.  Kin^f  was  leader,  and  accejited  it;  upon  his  accejitance 
he  wa.s  again  returned  for  the  county  of  York,  which  county  he  eontinueil  to  represent  until 
May,  1878,  when  Mr.  King  retired  from  local  jiolitics.  On  his  retiiement,  Mr.  Fraser  became 
attorney -general  and  leader  of  the  governnieiit,  which  position  he  still  holds. 

He  was  married  in  Septembei',  lM()7,  to  Martha,  eldest  daughter  of  the  late  Alex.  Cumming, 
Esq.,  a  merchant  of  Frederieton,  and  had  l>y  her  two  children  both  of  whom  are  dead.  She 
died  in  March,  l.s'l. 


V      15 


GEORGE    S.    GRIMMEIJ,   Q.C., 

.ST.  ANDIiKU-'S,  y.li. 

aEORflE  SKEFFIXC.TOX  C. Ill MMKR.  banister  and  clerk  of  the  peace,  and  of  the  cir- 
cuit anil  county  courts,  antl  secretary  of  the  county  of  Charlotte,  dates  his  birth  at  St. 
Stephen,  in  that  county,  on  the  llth  of  June,  ISiiU.  His  father,  John  (^irimmer,  was  born  in  the 
,sanie  place  and  was  in  early  manhood  a  .ship-builder  and  ship-owiu  r,  and  later  in  life  collector 
of  customs  at  St.  Stephen,  where  he  still  resides,  being  in  his  !».Srd  year.  The  famil}-  were  ori- 
ginally from  Germany,  coming  to  this  country  from  England.  The  niothei'  of  Ceorge  was 
Elizabeth  Maxwell,  daughter  of  James  Maxwell,  who  was  in  the  American  colonies  when  the 
revolutionarv  war  broke  out.  and  before  it  closed  shovddereJ  the  musket  for  the  king. 

Mr.  (irimmcr  was  parti}'  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  St.  Stephen  parish, 
and  Washington  academy,  State  of  Maine,  finishing  his  liteiary  stuilies  under  tint 
private  tuition  of  the  Rev.  Skefiiiigton  Thomson,  a  Mi.l).,  of  Trinity  college,  Dublin; 
commenced  the  study  of  law  at  St.  Andrew,  with  the  Hon.  Jame>  W.  Chandlei';  linished 
at  Frederieton,  with  David  Shanks  Kerr,  Q.C.,  was  admitted  to  practise  as  an  attor- 
ney in  184'7:  called  to  the  bar  in  bS+H  ;  c'vated  a  (^lU'en's  Counsel  on  the  :2n<l  of  A[iiil, 
l.S7*{,  and  since  1847  has  been  in  steady  practice  in  the  county  of  ( "liarlotte,  having  an  ollice  at 
St.  Stephen  as  well  as  at  St.  Andrew.  He  has  always  had  a  fair  share  of  legal  business;  is 
well  read  in  Ms  profe.s.sion,  and  has  a  highly  creditable  standing  among  the  fraternity  in  this 
section  of  the  province. 

Air,  Urimmer  was  elected  to  the  local  legislature  for  Charlotte  county  in  1  M(i(),  .served 
three  sessions,  and  then  retired  having  never  been  before  the  j)ublie  since  that  period.     He  was  a 


77/ A"  CA\A]>1A\  lilOGRArmCAl.  lUCTIOSARY. 


t;03 


Tiiboriil  ill  tlio^^o  'lays,  nml  is  now  a  Lilti'ial  foiisfrvfttivt',  following'  tlic  Icml  of  Sir  S.  I,,  Tillry, 
Finaiifo  MiuisUr,  aiitl  lu'aitily  ('ndurNin^'  tlio  so-calk'il  "Natiuiuil  I'olii'y  '  of  tlie  Doiiiiiiioii  ;,'n\ - 
oiiiniont. 

Mr.  (Iriiniiit  r  was  appoiiitt'd  ( Icik  of  tlu-  peace  iti  l.S(!4,  clerk  of  the  ciiriiit  eoiiit,  in  isy.'t, 
clerk  of  tlie  eoniity  eoiiit  in  1S(!7,  and  secretai'y  of  tlie  county  in  ]!S77  ;  and  is  true  to  eveiy 
trust  coniidod  to  liiin.  He  has  lieen  for  soveral  years  a  director  of  tlie  St.  Ste|ilioii  liank,  and 
i.s  a  .stockholder  in  the  St.  Croix  cotton  mills  at  Milltown. 

He  is  a  vestryman  of  All  Saints  Kpi^copal  church,  St.  Aiulrew's. 

Mr.  (Jiimmcr  married  in  l.S.'jl.Miss  Mary  All.'in  Mazen,  of  Woodstock,  \.  H.,  and  they 
have  Iniried  three  children,  ami  have  live,  all  .sons,  iivin;^.  'i'hc  oldest,  .lohn  Davidson  is  a  mil- 
ler of  St.  Andrew's,  (ieorge  Diirell  is  a  njurchant,  in  the  same  place  ;  Warl  ( 'liipman  llazen  is 
a  lawyer  at  St.  Stephen  ;  Frank  Howard  is  a  graduate  of  the  university  of  New  15ni!!swick 
(I'liiss  liScSl),  and  (ieorL;e  K  rr  is  a  student  in  tlm  local  L,'ramnmi'  sclmol, 


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TJIKODOKK    n.   HAND,   M.A.,   J).C.L., 

FllEDEUICTON,  X.ll. 

THKODORF  HARDTNC.  RAM),  chief  .superintendent  of  education  in  the  Province  of  New 
Ihimswick,  is  u  native  "f  King's  county,  Nova  Scotia,  and  was  liorn  at  Canard,  town- 
ship of  (.'oiiiwallis.  <in  the  Stl'  I  I'eliruary,  In.'}.')  ;  his  father,  Tliomas  Woodw(jrth  Rand,  lieing 
lioin  at  the  same  jilace.  The  uiiuily  went  lo  that  province  from  Massachusi.'tts,  lieiuL;'  adhennts 
of  the  C'l'own  ;  and  we  have  heard  it  remarked  that  many  of  the  (.'hristian  names  of  the  Rands 
Imried  in  tln^  old  j;rave  yard  at  C'harlestown,  Mass.,  arc  the  same  as  those  of  many  of  the  Rands 
buried  at  ('(irnwallis,  tliey  lieiii;;'  diti'erent  liraiiclies  of  the  same  family.  The  farm  at  < 'ana id, 
once  tilled  l>y  Marchent  Rand,  grandfather  of  our  suiiject,  is  still,  we  helieve,  in  the  hands  of  the 
family.  Thomas  \V.  Rand  married  Irene  BarnaKy.  The  members  of  the  Rand  family  who 
settleil  in  Massachusetts,  went  thither  from  Eradfoid,  ^'orkshire,  Kng.,  wlusre  many  pijoplc  of 
that  name  are  still  fouml.  Tin'  jirogenitor  of  the  family  in  Kngland  was  pro!)alily  fium 
M  orway. 

Mr.  Rand  was  educated  at  Horton  academy  and  Acadia  college,  Wolfville,  and  is  an  .M..\. 
(18(13).  and  D.O.L.  (1^71-;,  of  that  university,  the  first  instance,  we  helieve,  in  which  "  .Vcadia  " 
has  confi'rreil  the  lidUiirary  degree  of  doctor  of  civil  laws.  Dr.  Rand  graduated  in  l.s(i(),  and 
after  teaching  a  few  mnntlis  in  Horton  academy,  he  was  appointed  by  the  (lovernment  of  Nova 
Scotia  to  the  chair  of  English  and  ('lassies  in  the  provincial  normal  school  at  Trui'o ;  and  when 
the  free  schoul  law  of  No\a  Scotia  went  into  o|ieration  in  ISCt,  he  was  appijinted  superinten- 
dent of  education,  which  position  lie  held  until  LS7(). 

A  writer  in  the  CainuUi,  ScIuhiI  Journal  for  January,  Ls7iS,  thus  speaks  of  Dr.  Rand's 
wtiiU  there  : — 

The  ^ovLTiiiiioiit  (if  the  day  solt'ctod  Dr.  Riiiul  fur  provincial  siiporiiitcixluiit,  and  n|iou  hiiii  aocordingly  do- 
vnlvi'd  the  i^ravo  responsihility  uf  inittin^  tlii!  new  law  into  operatinn.  The  task  wiih  an  iPiionnKs  tme,  for,  thi>iif<li 
till)  U'adrrs  nf  Imtli  pulilical  p.irliiM  teinhiniil  in  niatiiriii},'  tlie  .Vet,  and  thungli  tlie  eiliic.ite<l  .seiitinicut  nf  tho 
cciunti  V  was  ni.iinly  in  its  favor,  yet  there  was  a  iiopnlatioii  tn  be  dealt  with  Hliich  had  knie.vn  little  or  nnthini^ 
cif  direct  taxation,  and  whieh  ri'^/ariled  it  with  dread  and  nhlmrrenee.  The  nniltitude  reeniled  fnmi  ihi^  apparently 
heavy,  iiiovitivlile,  uiH)recedoiite(l   Inirdenti  vii  preperti'.     'L'lie  Agt  ip  sotne   pavticiilarfi,  j)roved  ulnin.sy  and  uu. 


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THE  CA XA DIA  A    BIOGKA  PHICA 1.  DICTIOXA  /.'  1'. 


worktible,  aiul  tliere  niis,  for  siiiuo  time,  UdiisiiK-rable  iipi>ro)iuiisiaii  that  tliu  a;;itati()n  whiuh  hail  sprung  up  in 
favor  I'f  rt'ponl,  iniglit  prove  succossfiil.  Happily  Dr.  Hami,  by  his  iinlimiitaliUi  onergy  ami  tact,  l>y  liis  Iniirs 
tliriMiyh  thu  ciiiintry,  his  skilful  inanagcmunt  of  tliu  springs  of  inHiieiici*,  anil  his  clear  and  forcible  expositions 
before  the  government  anil  the  legislature,  turned  the  agitation  for  repeal  into  an  irresistible  plea  for  rec  istuig, 
auieniling  nnd  perfecting  the  law.  The  improved  Act  of  IHIij,  carefully  matured  by  Hr.  Kmd,  is.  in  all  its  essen- 
tial features,  the  school  law  of  Nova  Scotia  to  this  ho\ir.  *  *  *  A  Jannial  nf  K'liiriitiiin  was  es- 
tablished, and  by  means  of  it  he  was  enableil  to  couimiinicate  with  teachers  and  trustees  reijarding  the  law  and 
its  proper  working  and  a  uniform  series  of  school  books  was  introduced,  vastly  superior  to  any  previously  in 
use. 

In  1870,  Dr.  Raiul  visitoil  (Jroat  Britain  and  Irclaiul  in  oidcf  to  insjurt  tlio  schools  of  tlioso 
coinitries,  and  on  liis  rotiini  was  iiiipointtd,  in  Soptenihi'i-,  1871,  vhk'f  snpeiintcndtMit  of  odiu-a- 
tion  in  Now  Brunswick,  iindof  tlio  tlion  new  five  .scliooi  systoiii.  The  iahir  oF  pnttiiv,'  this 
second  free  school  system  in  o|ieration,  des'olved  n|)on  Dr.  Hand,  and  he  did  his  work  to  tlic 
satisfaction  of  all  sensihle  parties,  as  he  hud  done  in  Nova  Scotia.  Snys  th"  writer  .ilivady 
{piotcd,  in  spe.akinu;  of  Dr.  Hand  : — 

In  his  new  sphere  the  exi>erience  in  Xova  Scotia  was  of  great  use  to  liiiu.  He  well  knew  the  ariluous  t;is!c 
that  lay  before  him,  and  he  addressed  himself  to  the  work  with  his  accustomed  energy  and  tenacity  of  purpose. 
Ho  has  done  for  educntioii  in  Sew  Hrunswick,  all,  and  more  than  all,  that  he  did  for  eilucation  in  Xova  Scotia. 
He  «a8  in  entire  sympathy  with  the  law  and  carried  it  out  faithfully.  ♦  ♦  *  \{^,  ,„ny  enjoys  the 
remarkable  distinction  of  having  bmui^ht  into  operation,  in  two  provinces,  an  emluriu,'  and  etlicieut  system  of 
public  education. 

Dr.  Hand  is  president  uf  the  educational  institute  id'  the  province,  and  a  inember  of  the 
corporation  and  seiiate  of  the  university  of  Ni'w  Brunswick. 

He  married,  in  Novemher,  lS(!l,  Kmeline  Anijiista,  daiiohter  of  Da\  id  Iviton,  of  <'anard, 
and  they  liave  no  is.sue.  The  children  of  the  whole  province,  however,  are,  in  one  sense,  liis, 
and  certainly  lie  has  a  fatherly  interest  in  their  wolfare,  moral  its  well  mental,  etornal  as  well 
as  temporal.  Dr.  Hand  is  a  t'hristian  man.  a  deacon  of  the  liaptist  church,  ;i  oeiierous  supporter 
of  lieiievoieiit  and  relijjious  us  well  as  literary  institutions,  and  an  aidiiit  well-wisiier  alike  of 
the  youiio;  and  the  old.     No  truer  man  lives  in  the  province. 


AMOS    IJ.   CIIAXDI.KIJ,    M.D., 
MoycTox,  y.ii. 

AMOS  IIKNKV  CH.WDI.KB,  the  suhj.'ct  o*"  this  skrlcli,  is  a  son  of  the  lato  (;,>v,riior 
Chandler,  of  New  Hrunswick,  and  was  iiorn  tit  l>orcliestcr,  in  this  provineo,  on  the  Mli 
day  of  Auo;ust,  l.s:i7.  lie  received  his  early  I'ducation  tit  Mount  .Mlisoii  Wesleyan  collej.;e, 
Sackville,  N.l>.,  and  sulisei|uently  at  the  Fredericton  j^rammar  sciiool,  then  ttinler  the  direction 
of  that  alile  and  successful  teacher,  (leorge  Ihiherts,  LL.D.  Before  eiiterino  u|ion  the  study  of 
medicine,  however,  he  received  a  course  of  instruction  in  philosophy,  'nider  tin  tiitoIuLje  of  the 
Hev.  Dr.  Humphrey  I'ickaid,  at  the  Sackville  institution,  which  hitter  may  theicfore  he  iv- 
Lfardcd  as  his  uIidii  VKilrr.  in  Is.")",  he  oldained  the  deoret'  of  doctor  of  medicine  :  jiradiiatino 
witii  honors,  at  (ho  university  of  I'hiladeiphia,  Beiinsylvaniii,  reccivino  at  the  .same  time, 
especial  commendation  for  his  medical  thesis  on  (he  siilject  id'  lnsani(v. 

Before  commeiicini,'  (he  practice  of  his  piofession,  in  which  he  lias  heeii  actively   eiii^rau'ed 
the  past  twenty  years.  |)r.  (.'handler  visited  the  old  country,  where  he  "  walkv'd  (he  hospitals  " 


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ilii'  Nth 

I'tlllcyC, 

liroctioii 
■^tmly  111 
('  (if  till' 
1h>  fe- 
ll nil  ti  Hi,' 
III'    linii'. 


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i'iiL,'Ui;i'iI 


THE  CAXAPTAX  UlOGRArillCAL  DICTlOyAUY. 


(i07 


for  three  years  in  LonJon,  Paris  auJ  Duliliii ;  au'l  wivs  for  several  luoiitlis,  in  tlie  English 
metropolis,  a  private  pupil  of  Sir  William  .Tenner,  physician  to  Her  Majesty  the  C^iieen. 

On  leaving  England  for  his  home  in  New  Brunswick,  he  married,  at  St.  Paneras  duireh, 
liontlon,  Elspeth  Russell,  second  daughter  of  James  Kirk,  formcily  a  wealthy  merchant  of  St. 
John,  New  Bruaswick. 

Dr.  Chandler  has  devoted  his  spare  moments  to  the  cultivation  of  literature,  and  lias 
already  aei[uired  a  piomising  reputati<  ii  as  a  writer  of  poetry.  He  recently  i)ulilished,  with  a 
literary  a.ssociate — the  iiev.  C'harles  Pelliam  Mulvany,  of  Toronto, — a  volume  of  poems,  entitled 
•'  Lyrics,  Songs  and  Sonnets,"  which  has  been  fiivoriihly  criticised  by  the  Press  throughout  the 
Dominion.     The  Quebec  Chronicle  thus  speaks  of  liis  poems:— 

"  We  give  a  few  specimens  of  Dr.  Chamller's  style  in  .sonnet  writing  and  lyric  verse,  eom- 
niencing  with  the  sonnet  on  the  death  of  his  fatlier,  which  e.\hibits  mature  thought  and  iiigldy 
concent ratdl  effort : — 

Hark  to  tho  Btriiins  !    the  dceyi,  slow  striiin.s,  so  j^ranil 

Yet  soleimi,  of  tliu  '"  1)lm(1  March  ;  '  whiU'  the  knell 

From  the  Cathedrars  .s[)ire  aoiinds  farewell  : 
His  name  among  the  honored  roll  shall  stand 
(>f  l{nnis\vick'»  statesmen  :  down,  beside  the  strand 

She  gently  bears  him,  whom  she  loved  so  well  ; 

Whose  memory  ever  m  that  heart  shall  dwell, 
Tliat  mourns  now  for  him  nj)  and  down  the  lau.l. 

lleni'atli  her  tlag,  where  he  lay,  hushed  in  "  state,'' 

Till  midiiiuht,  hundreds  on  those  features  gazv), 
(If  oue  who,  faithful,  served  his  eoiiiitrv  dear  ; 
While  at  his  houu-  sad  frit  mis  and  kinsmen  wait, 

Iteeounting  his  good  deeds,  in  generous  praise, 
'Mid  many  untohl     unrecorded  hi^e. 

Here  is  one  of  the  l)o(>.  ir's  elegies, — a  fair  sample  of  iii    lyric  style  : — 

Sail  and  low, 

.Sad  and  low, 
I  )ver  till'  liills  of  suow. 
Winds  of  the  dying  day  moan  from  the  sea  ; 

Ka-t  fall  the  shades  of  night, 

\\  hile  from  tho  stars  of  liylit 
.\ngols  speed,   guanling  her,  now,  tenderly. 

Softly  tread, 

S.fHy  treail, 
liaby  is  lying  deail. 
Fair,  calm  au'!  pure,  as  a  cherub  asleep. 

Neither  the  icy  breath. 

Nor  the  pale  hand  of  <leath, 
I'dasts  the  llo«crs  .Viigels  watch  over  and  keep. 

Lateht  I'Ue 

Latent  oiu' 
lllossouu'd  neath  Aiitiimtt  sun. 
White  rose,  and  lily,  in  one  essence  blent  ; 

Wiiuls  of  thi'  winter  wild, 

("hilling  the  ilarling  child. 
Only  restored  ag.iin  what  Meaven  lent. 


[i(?nT 

4m 

The  "  Songs  of  Immortality  '  alioiind  in  iinliji'  and  lofty  thouglits,  expressed  in  harmonious 
Tunnbers.  finenf  them, "The  Nnli\ity,"  is  tiiilv  a  sir  lime  lyric,  and  has  been  cdpiod  into 
some  of  tiie  religious  papers  and  has  lieon  greatly  admired.      Out',  writer  has  remarked  of  it, 


COS 


THE  CANADIAN  lUOGliAPllICA  L  DlCTIONAliV 


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thai,  without  in  any  way  copying  tlie  stylo  or  treatment  of  Milton's  great  poem  on  the  samo 
siltj^ct,  it  will  not  suH'er  in  the  comparison.     It  opens  iis  follows  :— 

O'er  the  winter-wold 
Clouds  (if  yold 
Clustered  'iieath  the  shadows  in  the  West ; 
Lo  !  a  lovely  star 
From  afar 
Lonely  twinkled  on  the  azure  breast 
Of  evenini;,  for  the  day  had  gone  to  rest. 

Glor)o\is  H8  a  sun, 
One  by  one 
Otlier  orbs  then  ylinted  beams  of  light  ; 
•Sparkling  as  tlie  stones 
i>n  the  thrones 
<^f  Angels,  whose  fair  wings  of  snowy  white 
Clave  the  blue  ether  all  that  hallowed  night. 

Wo  also  copy  two  other  verses  from  this  beautiful  poem,  showing  the  graphic  anJ  spirited 
force  of  the  author's  ver.se  : — 

Tost  in  temppst-rack. 
Frowning,  black  !  — 
A  million  shades  then  veiled  the  hallowed  sight. 
Covering  land  and  sea, 
Momently, — 
Kurtli,  Air,  Sky  thundered,  Hashing  tongues  of  liglit  ; 
The  Powers  accurst  meet,  rush  in  wretched  plight. 

Lo  !  descending,  lleo 
Suddenly, 
By  Satan  led,  who  as  a  bolt  is  hurl'd— 
Thick  as  locust-flights- 
Damned  sprites  I 
Hell  for  an  instant  shadowed  the  fair  World, 
While  all  her  Hand  were  down  to  Tarl'rus  whirled  ! 

The  late  Hon.  Charles  Wontworth  Upham,  of  Salem,  Mass.,  himself  a  piplishoil  writer  and 
author  of  .some  prose  works,  thus  winito  of  Dr.  Cliandler's  ojuiior  j)oi'ms  :  •" 'i'lic  diction  is 
natural,  easy,  simple  and  pure ;  the  sentiments  are  beautiful,  true  to  the  best  feelings  of  cur 
nature,  and  niorallj' and  religiimsly  most  exeellent ;  the  imagery  is  tasteful,  and  the  diserip- 
tions  of  nature  are  graphic,  while  the  general  style  of  ids  measures  is  smooth,  flowing, 
harnutinnus  and  original. " 

Dr.  Chandler  is  preparing  a  new  volume  of  ]iiR'ms  foi'  the  juess,  which  will  probalily 
appear  early  in  ISSii. 


FREI>EliICTON,  N.n. 


\~-  a   nati\e  of 
H<itli   parents 


JAMKS  SCOIT  MKB:K,  auditor-general  of  the  i'royimv  i.f  N.w  I'.ninswiek 
the  county  of  ('oik,  Irclanil,  and  ilales  his  birth  on  the  1st  (if  .lunc  ISll., 
•loseph  and  Mary  Hook,  were  born  in  the  same  county-  his  fatlior  in  the  city  of  t^ork. 
'I'he  f.ither  omigiateil  to  New  l{runswi(k,  in  JNS.S,  his  wife  ln-ing  dead,  and  .settled  in 
Kreileiieton,  wheic  he  held  the  office  of  registrar  of  dccels  and  wills  at  the  time  of  his  do.atli. 
The  subject  of  this  notice  hjid  some  mental  drill  in  the  [>ul>lic  schools  of  Kreilcricton,  Imt  m<  st  of 


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liis  education  was  obtained  by  private  study,  lie  acting'  as  his  own  tutor,  botli  before  and  wliile 
serviiiif  lis  a  ineroliant's  clerk.  ( Joinj,'  into  business  for  himself  in  Fredericton,  he  dealt  in  jjeneral 
merchandise  for  about  twenty  years,  retiring  in  1850. 

For  the  last  twenty-five  j'ears  Mr.  Beek  has  been  constantly  in  one  or  more  offices  con- 
nected either  with  the  municipality  of  the  city  of  Fredericten,  or  the  Province  of  New  Bruns- 
wick. He  wa-s  an  alderman  for  ten  or  twelve  years  ;  ma\or  for  three  consecutive  tenures,  com- 
mencing in  IS.jO  :  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  for  several  years  ;  has  been  a  justii'e  of 
the  peace  for  a  long  period ;  was  legislative  librarian  from  liS04'  to  18G7,  and  from  the  latter 
date  has  held  his  present  provincial  office.  His  annual  report  as  auditor-general,  makes  a 
vohnne  between  300  and  400  pages,  and  is  prepared  with  a  good  deal  of  cue.  Whatever  Mr. 
Beek  does,  he  .seems  determined  to  do  well — a  verv  jrood  rule  for  evervbodv  to  fallow. 

ilr.  Beek  is  a  Liberal  Conservative  in  his  pt)litical  views,  and  in  his  jounger  years  was  an 
energetic  worker  for  the  interests  of  that  i>arty.  He  is  a  master  mason ;  a  member  of  the 
Clunrh  of  England,  and  a  delegate  from  the  cathedral  to  the  diocesan  church  .society.  He  has 
long  .seen  the  evils  of  intemperance,  and  of  late  years  has  l)een  verv  active  in  trying  to  suppress 
the  use  of  intoxicating  li(piors,  he  being  a  prohil)itionist  out-and-out.  and  is  president  of  the 
provincial  lodge  of  the  united  temperance  a.ss  )ciation  of  New  Brunswick.  Hf  is  a  man  of  warm 
feelings,  and  a  true  friend  to  his  brother  man. 

Mr.  Beek  has  a  third  wife.  The  Hi'st  was  Miss  Margaret  Barker,  of  Maugerville  ;  the 
second.  Miss  Mary  Elizabeth  (.iarri.son,  of  St.  John,  and  the  third  is  Emma  K.,  daughter  of  the 
Hon,  John  R.  Fartelon,  Fredericton.  He  ha.s  two  children  living  by  the  tirst  wife,  and  one 
daughter  by  the  second,  and  has  lost  some  children  by  both  wives. 


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JOHN   S.  LErcIlTON,  :Nt.p.r., 

WOODSTOCK,  N.li. 

JOHN  STEWAUT  LEKHITUN,  member  of  the  New  Brunswick  A.ssembly  for  the  county 
of  C'arleton,  born  in  Charlotte  county,  N.  B.,  on  tlie  Mb  of  Noveuiber,  iN.So ;  his 
father  James  Leighton,  a  rai-mei',  lumberman,  and  mncliant.  was  lioin  in  this  provincf  ;  his 
giamlfather  was  from  England.  His  mother  was  Ann  Stewart,  also  a  native  of  New  Bi'uns- 
wiek.  Mr.  Li'ighton  was  edueatetl  in  a  connnon  country  .sehool,  and  has  always  been  engaged 
in  farming  and  lumbering,  adding  mrrehandiso  sixteen  oi'  seventeen  years  ago.  He  resided  in 
the  parish  of  Hiehmoiid,  Carlctou  county,  from  1S1)+  to  ls7.'},  nnd  while  there  served  for  four 
years  as  county  councilor,  and  kept  for  some  yeaiN  the  way  post  otKce  at  Hichnionil  station, 
until  the  ears  ceased  to  run  there.     He  was  also  a  school  trustee'. 

in  1873  Mr.  Leighton  sittlcd  in  Woodstock,  iiaving  a  storr  at  Ibxdton,  .Maiiu',  as  wrii  as 
at  his  home.  He  is  a  tliorough -going  Ijiisiuess  iiiun,  full  of  ciitcrprisc,  an  early  riser,  ami  no 
j>atron  of  idleness. 

Ht;  was  elected  to  the  jiual  ]iarliameiit  for  ('arlelmi  in  ls7+.  ai'.d  re-elected  in  187S,  his 
polities  being  Lilteral.  He  has  favored,  from  the  start,  tlii'  nou-sei  tarian  sehool  system  ;  has 
had  charge  of  sevei'al  l)ills  wliich  became  the  laws  of  the  provini-e,  and  carried  into  j)arliamen- 
tary  labors  the  same  industry  wlr'jh  he  manifests  in  attending  to  his  own  private  concerns. 


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Mr.  lifijrlitun  is  a  Miic  loil^''  iiiasdii,  an  atlcinlaiit  of  tlio  Baptist  cliui'di,  aiiii  a  iiiaii  oI'sdIIiI 
rliaractpi- ;  lie  was  iiianii'il  on  tlir  17tli  of  NovchiIht,  1S(1+,  to  Aniaiida  M.  (Collins,  of  ( 'liariottc 
coniity,  and  slu-  difd  in  Aiij^tisl,  ]S7"),  loavin;.j|;  six  cliildron,  tlirtu'  sons  and  tlirec  danj,'liti'rs,  ono 
son  liavinji  proecdi'd  licr  to  tlie  spirit  world.  NFi-s.  [icij^liton  was  an  active  incinlicr  of  Woodstock 
society,  an  ntfectioiiate  and  i^ind  wife  and  niotlicr,  and  a  winnan  of  excellent  diaracter,  i(eini; 
liij^hly  esteemed  l>y  lier  a.ssociates  in  tlic  Baptist  eliuivli,  and  liy  all  who  knew  lier  most  in- 
timately. 


ASAEL    WELLS, 


A 


llARVKY,  N.li. 

SAHI.  WKLl.S,  higji-slioi-ift'of  Alliert  county,  N.B.,  is  a  native  of  the  same  county,  datinij 
hisliirth  at  Harvey,  on  the  -'InA  of  .Inly,  1S.S+,  his  father  liein^^dames  K.  Wi'ils,  in  his  day 
a  .sea  captain,  a  meivliant,  ami  one  of  the  leading  men  in  that  part  of  the  counti'v,  his  giand- 
fathor,  Newton  Wells,  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  one  of  the  pioneeis  in  Alhert  county,  N.  B., 
was  at  one  time  a  cajitain  of  militia  and  a  prominent  citizen  of  Harvey.  The  mother  of  Asael 
was  Amanda  V.  Beckwith,  who^^  father  was  among  the  early  settlers  at  Coriiwailis,  N.S.,  and 
wliose  family  is  among  the  foremost  in  that  |)lacc. 

Otu-  suliject  received  a  good  Knglish  education  at  Ilai'vey  ami  St.John  ;  taught  school  about 
six  years  in  his  native  province,  and  suliscipiently  trailed  at  Harvey  and  on  the   Bay  of  ( 'Iim 


leiU's.     In  lNt)!>,  on  the  death  of  his  father,   Mr.  Wells  returned   to   Harve\-.  took    char; 


th 


old  homest-cad.  and  still  has  its  o\eisight  ;  lie  was  ajipointed  high-sheritf  in  May,    IS7!*,  and   i> 
a  witle  awake  and  ellicient  otlicer. 


Mr.  Wells  was  a  memher  of  the  first  hoard  of  mi 


iiuicipal  eouncillois.   when 


th 


municiiial 


Act  came  into  force  ;  has  hecn  a  Justice  of  the  j)eaco  for  the  last  ten  or  twelve  years,  and  was 
one  of  the  hoard  of  valuators  in  1^7");  he  is  a  deacon  of  the  first  Bajjfist  chinch  of  Harvey,  and 
a  man  of  staunch  moial  character.  Professor  Wells,  a  highly  pojiular  educator,  connected  with 
the  Canadian  Bajitist  Institute  at  Woodstock,  «  hilaiio. 


a  hrothei-  of  the  sheriff! 


in  1^(10  he  married  Uelu'cea  lircwstcr.  of  Harxey,  claiighter  of  Jan\es  Brewster,  Ks(|.,  late 
judge   of  the  inferior  coui'ts,   custom  house  officer,  etc.     They  have   huried   two  childn'U.  and 


lave  s 


ix  liviu' 


TJIOMAS    \V.    DANIKL, 

.s-r.  JOHN,  Nil. 

TII(»M.\S  WlI.hKR  DANIKI-,  one  of  the  l.-ading  merdianfs  and  hiisiness  men  of  Xow 
liruiiswick.  i--  a  natixi'  of  lied  f'ord>h  ire,  England,  and  dates  his  hirth  on  the  iJdth  of  June, 
l!SlN.  His  father  was  Wilder  I>aniel  who  lelonged  to  an  oM  lieilfonNliiri'  f'amiU  ;  and  his 
mother  was  .Maria  H.  Laiicasfei-,  uf  th''  ('oiinty  of  Laneasler  He  recei\t'.l  a  goocl  iaisiness 
cilucation  ;  came  out  to  St.  John  at  the  age  of  seventeen  is.')."  ,  aucl  was  with  his  uncle,  Thomas 
haiiiel,  for  twi'Ke  yeais,  sueceeiliii^-  him  in  Inisiness  in  1n+7.  Mr.  Daniel  was  iilonc  for  a  few 
years,  ami  in  1>S.')4  took  into  partnership  tlir  Hon   Jojm  lloyd,  wluise  ski'teh  apjiears  in  another 


THE  CAXAPfAX  lilOGRAPIlK  AL  DICTIOXAKT. 


on 


page  of  this  work.  Their  lino  of  TiitTchandisf  is  <liy  goods,  whoh'salo,  foniiprly  wholesale  ami 
retail,  theirs  heiiig  the  ieailiiig  house  of  th(>  kind  in  New  Krunswiek.  The  tirni  of  Daniel  and 
Boyd  is  well  known  all  over  this  inovinee  and  in  the  adjoining  provinees,  ami  is  n  synonym 
for  honesty,  promptness  and  honorahle  deiding.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  no  mercantile  house  in 
the  piovince  .stands  fairer  or  firmer. 

Mr.  Daniel  is  president  of  the  St.  .rohn  Board  of  Trade ;  on(>  of  the  I'overnors  of  the  \Vii'<'ins 
^lale  Orphan  Institution,  and  of  the  Madras  Board  of  edueation  ;  president  of  the  home  for  the 
aged ;  has  been  a  director  of  the  Bank  of  New  Brunswick  for  the  last  tsventy-four  years,  and  jus- 
tice of  the  peace  for  nearly  as  long  a  period. 

Mr.  Daniel  is  a  niendier  of  St.  John's  church,  parish  of  St.  Marks,  and  has  held  the  othce  of 
cli'irchwardeii  for  nearly  a<|uarter  of  a  century  ;  is  an  active  and  ethcient  momher  of  the  Church 
of  England  Synod,  and  of  the  Diocesan  Chinch  Societ}',  and  vice-president  of  the  New  Brunswick 
liraiu-h  of  the  British  and  Foreign  Bihle  .-ociety,  the  St.dohn  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
and  the  Evangelical  Alliance. 

His  heart  is  in  ail  enterprises  and  organizations  calculated  to  further  the  interests  of  the 
cause  of  Christ  or  of  humanity.  He  also  .seems  to  take  uuich  pleasure  in  trying  to  rebuild  and 
huilil  uj)  the  city  of  his  ailoption.  so  sadly  stricken  by  tire  in  the  summer  of  liS77.  To  this  eml 
he  has  stock  in  various  native  indu.^tries,  and  he  and  his  partui'r  are,  and  have  long  ln'en, 
prominent,  not  to  .say  foremost,  in  t'ncouraging  local  manufactures  ami  whatever  would  give 
labor  to  the  people  and  keep  the  "bone  and  sinew  "  of  the  city,  the  county  and  tlie  province 
at  home. 


ST.  JtUIX,  X.ll. 

J.\MKS  KIIODKS  RCKL,  collector  of  customs  and  registrar  of  shi[)i)ing  at  the  port  of  St. 
John,  is  a  native  of  llerefordshii(\  Kngland  ;  his  birth  being  dated  on  the  liOth  of  t)ctolicr, 
IS'JO.  His  father,  John  (!odfrey  Hue!,  was  the  descendant  of  an  ancient  and  ilistiiiguished 
family  in  .\ugsburg.  Saxony,  a  branch  of  which  settled  in  hjigland  about  l.")()  ye;irs  ago.  He 
was  an  otlicer  in  the  Ivo^al  Marines,  serving  on  II.  .M,  .S.  'J'hrtis  .ind  otiier  vessels  in  various 
paits  of  the  world  with  eonsi<leiabl(>  di^timtion,  and  dyin^  at  his  home  in  Portsmouth,  Kng- 
laml. 

Mr.  Huel  received  his  education  at  Monmoutli,  Kn-land,  and  in  tiie  St.  John  graiinu.-ii- 
scliool,  comine- to  tills  |iro\  iiice  in  iN;!.'{.  He  becniu'  connected  with  tlie  coi|)ciration  of  the 
citv  of  St.  .lohn  in  July,  is.'}'.',  holding  the  olliees  of  deik,  de|iuly  conniion  clerk  and  elerk  of 
the  peace,  auditor,  and  chamberlain,  luitil  November,  INTO,  when  he  was  a|ij)ointed  to  his 
present  othces,  already  mentit)ned.  For  a  jierio  1  of  thirty-oui'  years  he  served  the  city  with 
the  utmost  faithfulness,  attending  to  his  duties  with  noteworthy  ]ium'tuality  and  accuracy. 
The  post  of  collector  of  eustoms  an<l  rei;istrar  of  shipping,  he  has  lilleil  for  eleven  \e;irs,  and 
here  shows  the  .same  readiness  and  vav  in  atti-mling  to  his  responsible  labors.  During  foui- 
tei'U  of  the  years  that  Mr.  Kuel  was  eonneeted  with  the  corporation  of  the  city,  he  was  also 
eugai,'ed  in  journalism  ;  live  years  as  sub-eilitor  of  the ''/(/(/•(■/(  Wihnss,  a  paper  devoteil  to  tlu' 
interests  of  the  Chureh  of  I'aigland,  ami  nim'  yeais  as  managing  editor- of  the  same  paper. 
Duiing  the  latter  period,  his  condiined  labors  were  very  great ;    but    by   being  methodical   and 

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carefully  hiisbaiuling  liis  tinu-,  ho  never  tailed  to  be  prompt  in  liis  niniiieipal  (jldigations,  or  in 
the  weekly  issue  of  his  journal.  He  is  one  of  that  class  of  men  who  prefer  to  drive,  rather 
than  he  driven  by  tlieir  business.  He  conducted  the  Witiictoi  with  a  ^'ood  deal  of  ability  an(i 
di.seretion,  makir.','  it  a  very  useful  tlenominational  and  family  newspaper;  and  the  eommittee 
liaving  it  in  charge,  and  its  friends  generally,  deeply  regretted  that  he  had  to  leave  the  editorial 
chair. 

Mr.  lluel  has  held  ;(ome  ottiees  in  connection  with  the  church,  such  as  vestry  clerk  and 
warden  of  8t,  John's,  from  its  organiz.itioii ;  and  has  long  taken  a  deej)  interest  in  benevolent 
as  well  as  religious  enterprises. 

He  has  been  twice  married;  the  first  time,  in  18.')4,  to  Harriet  Kinnear,  daughter  of  John 
Kinnear,  St.  John,  she  dying  in  IS.")!);  and  the  second  time,  in  bSlil,  to  Sophia  M.  .(ohn.son, 
daughter  of  Hon.  Hugh  J(hn.scn,  long  a  nunil  er  of  the  Legislative  Council  of  New  Brunswick, 
and  at  one  time  of  tlie  government.  Mr  Uuel  has  five  children  living,  by  his  .second  wife  ; 
and  none  by  the  first. 


1,. 


REV.   ^J^nOMAS   TODD, 

WOODSTOCK,  N.H. 

3~)EV.  THOMAS  TODD,  thirty-three  years  a  preacher  of  the  gospel  in  New  Brunswick, 
rV  was  born  in  the  county  of  Londonderry,  Ireland,  on  the  L">th  of  November,  1n24;  his 
parents  being  Adam  and  .Martha  ((Jillj  Toild,  who  belonged  to  the  yeomanry  of  that  country. 
He  received  j)art  of  his  education  in  Ireland,  came  to  New  Brunswick,  in  JnS!),  and  finished  his 
studies  at  Fredericton.  His  parents  came  to  this  province  si'ven  years  latiT,  and  died  in 
Queen's  county.  On  his  way  out  froni  the  noi'th  nf  Ireland,  just  before  reaching  this  part  of 
the  world,  young  Todil  had  a  very  narrow  cscapi'  from  death.  Fifty  miles  east  of  Halifax,  ho 
was  .shipwrecked  with  many  others,  on  an  islaiul  of  rock,  an<l  was  for  throe  da^'s  and  three 
nights  without  food  or  di'ink,  being  finally  rescueil  by  a  fishing  vessel  and  taken  to  Halifa.x. 

Our  subject  was  converted  at  St.  John,  in  I  Nil',  being  tlii'U  eighteen  years  of  age.  He  was 
reared  a  I'resbyterian,  but  changed  his  views  and  iiecame  a  Maptist ;  prepared  himself  f<jr  the 
ministry  b}'  private  study  ;  was  ordaineil  at  Woodstock,  in  1S4.S,  and  here  held  his  first  pastor- 
ate, which  continued  for  eleven  years.  He  then  served  the  denomination  two  years  in  agency 
work,  extending  ovei'  the  whole  pnninee. 

In  ISOI,  Mr  Todd  settleil  as  pastor  of  the  Baptist  cluirch  at  Sackville,  wheie  he  remained 
for  twelve  years,  removing  thence  to  Sussex.  In  IS74,  he  was  taken  fiom  the  [jastoiate  to 
couduct  the  Clirintiiiii  Vlsitm:  A  year  later  he  settleil  at  Monctoii,  remaining  there  between 
four  or  five  years,  when  he  acceiiteil  a  call  to  St.  Stephen,  his  last  chai'ge.  In  May,  \HHl,  he 
returned  to  Woodstock,  whi're  he  is  taking  a  respite  from  pastoral  cares  and  responsibilities. 
Mr.  Todd  has  been  a  hard  worker,  ami  few  ministers  are  moie  desmviiig  of  a  "  vacation." 
During  the  thirty-three  years  that  he  has  been  in  the  ministry,  he  lias  baptized  at  lea.st  l,:i.')0 
persons,  all  on  the  profession  of  their  faith  in  Christ;  eight  of  whom  art-  now  I3aj>tist  ministers, 
and  one  is  his  son  and  only  eliiM  living.  I\ev.  F^-ecleiick  Shafl'ner  Todd,  jiastor  at  Upper  Oage- 
town  ;  has  burietl  tieurly  1,4(M)  persons,  and  married  aliout  half  as  man}-  cuiipies.  During  all 
these  yeai's  lie  has  never  been  pievented  from  occupying  the  pulpit  a  single  Sunday  on  account 
of  ill-health.     He  has  actetl  repeatedly  as  clerk  and  moderator  of  a.ssociation.s  and  other  meet- 


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Gl.'l 


inijfs,  and  also  as  a  school  trustee  in  dirt'erent  places  ;  was  at  one  period  a  governor  of  AoatUa 
follei,'(',  Nova  Si'otia  ;  and  has  boon  a  very  active  Sunda^y  school  and  teniperanee  worker, 
liaving  had  hestowed  upon  him  all  tlio  honors  that  temperance  st)cieties  could  confer,  and 
having  heeii  a  total  ahstjiiner  from  all  intoxicants  i'or  nearly  forty  yeais. 

Mr.  'I'ddd  was  united  in  marriage,  on  the  lOtli  of  Novemher,  l.s4!),  with  Maria  Antoinette, 
second  daughter  of  Col.  C.  ShaHncr,  of  Annapolis  comity,  N.S.,  and  besides  the  son  aln  idy 
mentioned,  they  have  had  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  who  all  died  y(tiing. 


f^AMTTEL  K   WILMOT. 

SAUSliVHY,  N.Ii. 

SAMTEL  STREKT  WILMOT,  one  of  the  oldest  resi(Knts  of  Salisl.ury,  and  many  years  a 
government  land  siu'veyor,  was  liorn  at  MuJicton,  N.  11,  on  the  lOtli  i>f  August,  LSOS. 
His  father,  Maleolin  Wilimit,  was  an  \niclo  nf  the  two  governors  of  New  Brunswick  ot"  his 
name  ;  and  his  grandfather  was  a  Loyalist.  Mis  mother,  Alary  Beiitley,  a  native  of  England, 
came  to  New  lirunswiek  when  nine  years  old. 

Mr.  Wilmot  was  educated  in  a  country  school ;  clerked  lor  his  father,  wlio  was  a  mer- 
chant, until  1820,  having  settled  in  Salislnuy  the  year  before,  and  has  been  a  land  surveyor 
and  farmer  for  luore  than  half  a  century.  He  still  bd'jngs  to  the  land  department,  but  rarel}- 
does  anywork  in  that  line,  though  ipiitc  smart  foi-  a  in.m  of  his  yeai-s. 

Mr.  Wilmot  has  been  a  Justice  of  the  peace  since  about  1.S4.7,  ami  is  a  co:iimissii)ner  for 
taking  affidavits  and  bail  in  the  supreme  court.  His  politics  are  Liberal,  and  in  his  younger 
years  he  took  ([uite  an  active  pait  during  an  active  canvass,  having  considerable  influence  in 
the  party.  In  religious  belief  he  is  a  New  ("hnrchman,  oi'  Swcdenborgian  ;  and  has  always 
been  a  liberal  man,  heli)ing  other  denominations  to  build  ehurclies,  and  contributing  to  any 
cause,  which  seemeil  to  him  beneficial  to  tlu-  conununity.     He  is  a  fourth  degree  ma.son. 

Mr.  Wilmot  was  joined  in  wedlock,  in  is.Sl,  with  Mi.ss  Lydia  Beck,  of  Salisbury,  and  nf 
thirteen  children,  the  fruit  of  this  union,  only  five  are  now  living.  Malcolm  Ticntley.  the  elil- 
est  son  living  is  mariied  and  is  a  farnu'r  in  Salisbury  ;  Mary  Elizabeth  is  the  wife  of  Robert  B. 
Taylor,  of  Ilavelock,  King's  Co.,  N.  B.,  and  Samuel  S.,  Alice  an<l  Isaliella,  are  at  home. 

Mr.  Wilmot  is  au  intelligviit,  eiieery  old  gentleman,  fiee  and  pleasant  in  conversation,  cor- 
ilial  and  coniiianionablc,  and  disiiosed  to  h^ok  upiiu  "  the  briglit  siile  of  things."  It  does  one 
L'ood  to  converse  with  sudi  a  man. 


JAMES    K   JXCII,  M.A.,   LL.D., 

SACKVILLE,N.H. 

JAMES  ROBERT  fN(  'H,  juincipal  of  Mount  Allison  Wesleyan  college,  Saekvllle,  is  a  son  of 
Nathaniel  ami  Ami  (Armstrong)  Inch,  both  natives  of  Fermanagh  county,  north  of  Irelaiul. 
He  was  liorn   in   «-^ueen's   county,  N.B.,  on   the   21>th   of  April,    l!S.'{.").      His  father  came  to  this 


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j)i(i\  iiice  ill  l.S:i2,  ami  liius  lifun  uiif,'!ij^L'(l  in  faniiinj^  all  liis  ilii\s,  ln'iiij^  Mtiil  alive,  ami  ii'sidin^f 
at  I'l'tiTsviilc,  C^iU'Lii's  countv.      His  wifo  diutl  in  \><'7\). 

Oin'  sulijt'ct  was  I'lhu'att'd  at  tin-  (ia;,f('t(iwii  ^ramniar  sclioul,  aii<l  tlif  Mount  Allison 
Wi'sk'\'an  colli'trr,  ii'c'civin!'  tlio  dciirft;  of  l>.A.  in  l!S(iK  that  of  M.A.  in  lN(i7,  and  the  lionoraiv 
(l('i,'rcf  of  LL.D.  in  1<S7S.  He  \va.s  principal  of  Mount  Allison  ladifs'  acadcniy  fioni  INlit  to 
JfST'S  ;  tlicn  oi'fujiii'd  the  chair  of  mental  sfience  and  lojjjic  in  tlu'  tolk'j,'(',  ami  took  the  pi'i'si- 
dt-nt's  chair  in  1iS7n. 

Dr.  Inch  is  known  as  a  ripe  and  accurate  scholar,  a  [)ainstakini,'  and  thoiou^cklv  cflicii'iit 
teacher,  and  a  man  of  sound  jud;i,nrient,  tine  executive  talents,  and  superior  methods,  he  heinj,' 
just  the  man  to  ho  at  the  heail  of  a  college.  He  has  a  good  deal  of  magnetism  ami  entkusiasm, 
and  tke  happy  faculty  of  infusing  into  the  hearts  of  his  students  the  nohle  Llemonts  of  his  own 
nature.  His  warm-heartedness  and  genial  nianiiei's  have  seeurid  t'oi'  him  a  very  wide  circle  of 
firm  friends.  Ho  i.s  a  vigorous  writer,  and  an  ahle  lecturer,  often  spi'aking  in  public,  and  always 
counuanding  tke  closest  attention  of  his  hearers. 

President  Inck  was  married  in  Julv',  liS,")."),  to  .Miss  Mary  Aliei"  Duini,  ado])ted  daugkter  of 
tke  llev.  (Jeorge  Stirling,  Congregational  minister,  of  York  county,  N.H.,  and  tlii-y  kave  ono 
daugkti'r. 

lie  is  a  trustee  of  tke  college,  over  wkick  ke  presides,  one  of  tke  senators  of  tlio  university 
of  Halifax,  and  was  a  repre.sentative  to  tke  geneial  conference  of  Ike  Metkodist  ckurck  in 
Canada,  lu'ld  at  Montreal  in  KSTn.  He  is  (piite  active  in  religious,  as  well  as  educational,  work, 
and  one  of  tke  most  [)ronunent  laymen  of  kis  denomination  in  the  I'ldvinco  oi"  New  Ikunswiek. 


T' 


SIAtEON    J0NE8, 

.s"/'.  JOHN,  N.  II. 

}\[Vj  present  popular  mayor  of  St.  Jokn,  witk  wkose  name  we  head  thi.s  sketch,  was  horn 
at  Prince  William,  county  of  ^'^lrk,  N.li.,  on  tlu^  22nd  of  .\ugust,  1S2N ;  his  father, 
Thomas  Jones,  was  horn  at  Weymouth,  N.S.,  where  his  grandfather,  Simeon  .lones,  a  loyalist, 
for  wliom  ke  was  named,  settled  at  the  clo.se  of  the  war  of  the  llevolution  with  the  United 
States.  The  uiotherof  our  subject  was  Klizabeth  ( 'aviwkill,  daughter  of  l>r.  ( 'averkill,  of  Dum- 
fries, Scotland.  .Ml',  Jones  was  educated  in  kis  native  parisli  and  at  Dumfries,  N.H. ;  Farmed 
two  years  witk  kis  latker,  and  was  then  invited  by  Kobert  Keltic,  brewer,  St.  John,  to  look 
after  his  business,  remaining  with  him  for  eight  years  ;  he  then  bought  out  Mr.  Keltic,  and 
has  continued  the  business  ever  since,  and  with  marked  success. 

Ill  1  sT-I',  ill  company  with  Messrs.  Oliver  T.  Stone,  .Joseph  U.  Stone,  Mr.  Jones  started 
a  private  banking-house,  under  the  tiriii  name  of  S.  iloiies  and  Co.,  and  it  is  doing  a  satis- 
faetorv  I'lisiness.  Indeed,  everything  to  which  our  subject  puts  his  hands  and  a|iplies 
his  i-nergies,  seems  to  prosper;  and  this  is  owing,  no  doubt,  in  a  very  large  measure  to  his 
elose  attention  to  his  business,  and  his  shrewdness  as  a  manager.  These  excellent  (jiialities 
were  noticed  years  ago  by  his  fellow  citizens,  and  he  was  urged  to  accept  a  seat  in  the  city 
council,  or  allow  himself  to  be  placed  at  tke  liead  of  tke  municipality  ;  but  ke  pi'cfcrred  to  at- 
tend, for  a  few  more  years,  exclusively  to  kis  own  jirivatc  concerns,  until  lie  could  place  him.si'lf 
in  comparatively  easy,  not  to  .say  independent,  circumstances.     Finally,  afttM-  much  urging,  iu 


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l.sTlt,  lie  c'oiisiiitcMl  to  ;ri)  into  tlio  cit}'  cduiK'il,  wlioie  \\v  scivcil  for  two  years  a.s  cliaiiniau  of 
till'  liiiaiicf  coiiiiiiittci'.  ,S(j  wfll  iliil  lie  fill  that  respoiisihlc  jMwt,  ami  with  so  iiiuuh  satisfaction 
to  tlio  jteople,  that  at  tlie  end  of  his  second  year  Mr.  Jones,  in  April,  1H«S1,  was  elected  mayor 
without  opposition,  a  mark  of  distinction  never  before  witnessed  in  St.  John.  His  excellent 
Idisine.ss  capailtics  and  tino  executive  talents,  show  themselves  to  j,'ood  advantage  in  his  present 
position,  and  he  is  one  of  tlie  most  popular  chief  majjistrates  that  St.  John  has  ever  hail. 

Mayor  Jones  holds  one  or  two  other  civil  offices  of  minoi'  consequence,  hardly  necessary  to 
name ;  he  has  been  for  several  years  a  vestryman  of  Trinity  (K|)iscopal  i  churcli,  and  is  a 
j.;enerous  supporter  of  religious  and  benevolent  societies  of  various  names  ami  worthy  aims  ;  he 
is  never  backward  in  contril>uting  to  any  enterjirise  designed,  in  any  way,  to  benefit  the 
commurity. 

The  M'ife  of  Mayor  Jones  was  Annie  M.  McLaughlin,  daughter  of  Daniel  J.  McLaughlin, 
of  St.  Jolui,  tiieir  marriay-e  bein;:  dated  in  Jauuar,,  liSlil.  'J'hev  have  five  sons  and  two 
dauiihters. 


MOST    1ZE\'.  JOHN    MEin^KY,   D.I)., 

FREDElilCTOX,  KJ!. 

THE  oldest  bishop  in  r>ritish  North  America  is  the  gentleman  whose  name  we  have  ])laced 
at  the  head  of  this  sketch,  tlie  Metropolitan  of  Canada.  His  reputation  extends  over  the 
whole  Dominion,  and  his  naiiu'  is  familiar  to  Uritish  ears.  He  was  born  in  London,  England, 
on  the  l!)th  of  December,  iSO-t ;  was  educated  at  Wadliam  college,  Oxford,  and  graduated  with 
honors  in  iJsiO,  and  became  a  master  of  arts  four  years  later.  He  was  ordained  deacon  in  1N2.S, 
priest  in  l.S'JO,  and  was  minister  of  St.  John's  chapel  in  Truro,  Curnwall,  from  \H'M  to  1S3.S, 
liaving  previously  been  a  curate  in  the  county  of  Devon.  He  was  vicar  of  St.  Thomas,  Exeter, 
from  1.S3H  to  184.'),  having  i>reviously  been  made  prebendary  of  Exeter  cathedral.  His  reputa- 
tion as  ii  preacher,  and  "  wise  master-builder,"  had  now  reached  beyi)nd  the  eastern  continent, 
ami  when  the  diocese  of  Fredericton  w.v:;  foinied  in  ISI'"),  and  a  bishop  was  reipiiied,  the  most 
suitable  person  to  occupy  that  St'e,  according  to  the  judgment  of  the  Archbishop  of  ( 'antfibiiry. 
was  tlie  Rev.  John  Medley,  who  was  consecrated  at  Lambeth  palace,  and  was  installed  in  the 
parish  church,  I'^-ederictun,  in  June  of  that  vi'ar. 

Here  Bishop  .Medley  has  laborecl  dili^fently  for  thirty -six  3'ears,  meeting  St.  Pauls  idea  of 
such  a  church  officer,  he  being  "  vigilant,  .sober,  of  good  behavior,  given  to  hospitality.  iii>f  to 
fmcli."  Without  striving  to  be  eloipient,  he  is  eminently  instructive,  his  sermons  being  full  of 
"strong  meat."  His  published  woiks,  also,  are  of  the  same  eliaiacter.  His  last  work  on  "  The 
]}ook  of  Job, "  is  critical.  The  bishop  aims  also  at  a  more  literal  translation  of  the  Helirew. 
His  life-aim  seems  to  have  been  to  teach  the  people  the  "better  way,"  and  to  guide  them  into 
"the  higlier  life  ;"  nor  has  he  labored  in  vain.  He  has  lived  to  .see  wonderful  progress  in 
spiritual  as  well  as  material  things,  in  New  Brunswick,  his  See  including  the  whole  province. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Provincial  Synod  in  l.S7'.>,  tlie  bishops  of  Canada  elected  our  subject 
as  their  M«>tropolitan,  his  claim  to  that  position  being  that  of  seniorit}'.  In  June,  18.S1,  Bishop 
Kiiigdon,  recently  fiom  the  old  country,  and  a  learned  and  most  worthy  man,  was  appointed 
coadjutor  of  the  Metiopolifan— thus  greatly  relie\ing  the  latter,  in  his  old  age,  of  the  weighty 
responsiiiilities  resting  upon  him.     Although  seventy-seven  years  of  age,  he  does  not  walk  like 


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an  old  man,  ami  tlioiv  is  no  (IfcivpittKlo  in  liis  tlionj^lits.  That  lie  may  havi-  anotlior  docaile 
of  activo  servici' in  till'  "  vincyanl  "  must  In-  the  prayer  of  overy  Cliiistian  who  knows,  or  has 
heard  of,  Bishop  Modk-y.  Tlu-  llev.  ('.  S.  Medli'v,  rector  of  Sussex,  and  elsewhere  mentione<l, 
is  a  son  of  this  veneraMe  man  of  tunl,  l>y  his  tii-st  wife,  Thristiana  IWon,  to  whom  he  was 
Viiurried  in  l<Si7,  and  who  died  in  1^^2.  IJo  was  married  a  seeond  time  in  iSG'v  to  .Mar>,faret 
Hudsim. 


EDAVARD    SIMPSOX, 

flAGETOWN,  N.  li. 

fl'^IlK  suhjeet  of  this  sketch  w.is  horn  in  the  villaL;e  of  (la<,'etown  (where  he  is  i.ow  serving 
_I_  as  postinastei).  nn  the  l.'Uh  of  Septendier,  iNli.j.  He  helonjjs  to  a  family  somewhat  noted 
for  its  louijevitv,  his  fatliei',  Jerard  Simpson,  dvinjr  at  seventv-eii'ht  vears  of  aLr<',  his  iiiandfather 
at  eighty-oii,dit,aud  a  ureat-unele  at  past  ninety,  The  last  nameil  ancestor  was  eonneeted  witli 
the  Bank  of  Plymouth,  Kni,dand,  and  attended  re<,'nlarly  to  his  duties  in  connection  with  that 
institution  till  within  twoyears  of  his  demise.  The  niotheiof  Kdward  Sim^ison  was  Mary  .McMul- 
kin,  a  native,  like  her  liushand,  of  the  count}'  of  Kermanaj,di,  Irelanil,  and  they  came  to  this 
country  ht'fore  tliey  weri' miui led.  Tiie  son  was  educated  at  tlu'  Madras  sch.ool,  his  ranj^e  of 
stuilies  emhraciiiLr  the  coiiinii-n  KuLjIish  only  ;  he  suhscipientiy  eularif('d  ins  stock  of  knowledge 
outside  the  scliool-rnom  ;  learned  tiie  trade  of  a  house-joiner,  iiein^'  apprenticed  to  Thomas  .M. 
Tillev,  father  of  the  present  minister  of  tinance;  and  followed  that  traile  until  ISl!"),  in  Sep- 
tember of  which  year  he  was  appointed  to  his  present  otliee  of  postmaster:  he  was  holdim;'  tlie 
treasurei'ship  of  tjueen's  county  at  that  time;  and  since  the  Munieiiial  Act  has  liooii  in  forei'  he 
has  held,  in  adilition,  the  otliee  of  set'retary  of  the  county  -the  secretary-treasurership  hciui;'  one 
otfice ;  ho  also  lield  commissions  of  captain  and  adjutant  in  the  (^)ui'en's  cmnty  militia  for  a 
numher  of  ^eais. 

.Mr.  Simpson  iuis  never  Keen  hai'kward  in  idrnlifyini;-  himself  «itli  puhlic  interists  ;  has 
done  a  ;.'ood  deal  of  ^;ratuitous  work  as  a  trustee  of  the  ])u!ilic  schools,  and  he  is  now  acting,'  as 
.secretary  of  that  hoard.  I'loliahly  no  man  in  (lanctown  takes  a  trreater  interest  than  .Mr.  Simp- 
son in  this  his  native  village.  Ilr  is  a  mendicr  and  trustee  of  the  Methodist  chuich,  a  some- 
what aetne  temperance  m.m,  and  a  truly  valuahlr  mendier  of  society. 

His  wife  was  Hlizaln'th  Klihett,  iif  the  |)arisii  of  llampstead,  t^lueen's  county,  N.  1!  'i'hey 
Were  joined  in  wedlock  in  I.S-').'{,  and  havi'had  eleven  children,  only  six  of  them  now  liviii;;'. 


(ii:oia;K  v.  camit.klt^ 

ST.  Ayj>i!i:n-s,  .v./;. 

^■^IIK  oldest  postnuister  in  tlie  Doinini"  of  ( 'anada,  and  proliahly  in  North  America,  is 
(Ieor;,fe  Ki-edfiick  ('amplMll,  in  a  co].\  of  the  "'{"allies  of  the  poslniasti'rs  in  tin'  I'liiticl 
States,"  puhlished  in  Is.'ll,  when  (Jen.  .lacksDU  was  in  liie  third  \e,ii  nf  his  pre--idency,  we 
nolii'c  a  list  of  I'nited  States  mail  aijents  fo.    Ihitisji  North  .\ rica.  and  in  that  list  the  name 


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of  rieo.  F.  (""aini)bt'll.  ffe  liad  U>':.i  I-mmi  postinnster  at  St,  Andrew's  for  two  yoaiN,  Tie  is  a  lialo 
(lid  mail,  lioni  at  I'ciitieltl,  in  this  (C-liaiiotti-'j  county,  on  tin-  1st  of  Juni',  ISO.S,  and  is  attending 
ivgularly  and  faitlifully  to  tlu'  dntifs  of  liis  otHeo.  His  fatluT,  Jaini\s  Canipliell,  a  Hivadailiano, 
from  Scotland,  was  a  Lo^'alist,  and  old  enough  to  tal\0  p.u't  in  the  war  of  ITTI-Si,  serving  iis 
licntonant  in  the  .")Uli  foot,  his  conunission  lieariug  tlic  signatui'o  of  King  (ioorgc  III.  .lauu's 
Canipln'll   married   Amy  (larihier,  of  Newport,  U.I. ;    settled  at   IVnIield,  and  had  a  family  of 

1  t*ii  i>1  t   r  i1  J  nil, I,!  1*1111  it  PTI*  >• 


Cam  I 
t 

si 


^illlllMU'll       IllitllieU       .nill>       1  1,11  t  IIICI  ,     Ul      .1  1/ \1   I  MM   (y,     11. t.,       .'M^'LLll.li      lit      I    1.'lllU'|i|,     (IIHI      lUlU      It     litllKlV       Wl 

welve  cluldren,  of  whom  (ieiirge  was  the  young(\st.  The  father  was  killed  liy  the  falling  of  ii 
.■>eatlold  a  few  months  liefore  (ieorge  was  luirn,  and  the  widow  shortly  afterwaiil  moved  into  St. 
Andrew's,  where  she  died  in  1.M7,  as  we  learn  from  the  family  I«ible,  printed  in  i(!")<>. 

Mr.  ("amplu'll  was  engaged  in  the  meieai\tile  trade  in  his  ycnniger  years,  and  during  that 
jieriod  of  his  life,  visited  British  (luiana,  and  spent  two  years  at  Demerara  au'l  Kssequiho.  He 
had  retuine<l  fron»  South  .Vmeriea.  and  w:is  again  vi.Hing  gunds  in  St.  .Vndrew's,  wlien,  in  I.Sl'!', 
he  was  appointed  postmasli'r.  The  agency  fur  the  rnite(l  States  mail  came  two  years  later, 
the  appointment  heing  for  the  four  maritime  pros  iiiees. 

Mr.  Campliell  was  joined  in  wedlock  with  Miss  (Jeorgi ana  llo.sa  Forties,  of  St.  «Iohn,  on  tlu' 
IHst  of  July,  18;?S,  and  has  two  sons  living,  and  has  Iniried  two  chiMrcn.  (,'luirles  is  in  the 
Bank  of  New  Brunswick,  St.  John,  and  Ihnvard  has  connnand  of  the  Ai/Av  Xipcfion,  Beaver 
line  of  steamers. 


i. 


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fiia:nc'is  w  siiAiic, 

wool 'STOCK,  y.ii. 

»K.\N('1S  I'K.MJODV  SlI.Mir.  a  leading  horticulturist  in  the  IVovince  of  New  IJrnns- 
wii'k.  and  a  striking  s.imple  of  ,i  silf-edui'ated  man,  is  a  native  of  this  province,  Kcing 
liorn  at  Woodstock  on  tile  ."ird  of  Septi'mlier,  lS:!(i  ;  his  father,  .Vdain  Sharp,  a  farmer.  Inmlier- 
man  and  merchant,  was  also  horn  at  Woodstock.  His  mothei  was  .Maria  l'ealiod\'.  The 
faniilv  is  Knglish  on  hoth  sides,  descended  from  the  well-known  realioily  and  Sharp  families, 
licing  among  the  oldest  in  Kngland.  .Mr.  Sharp  receivrd  a  sm.ittering  of  knowledge  in  the  com- 
mon schools  iif  the  day.  and  has  Keen  a  student  ever  since  he  "  gradiiatecl  ;  "  he  was  a  salesman  and 
liook-kcepcr  in  his  failicr's  store  until  twenty  years  of  ag<',  and  since  that  time  has  heen  eic^'aLred 
in  raising  fruit  trees  and  growing  fruit,  coimnrncing  with  an  orchard  of  perhaps  one  acre,  expand- 
ing his  opciat  ions  from  time  to  time  Ky  iiicr.a>ing  the  si/e  of  his  nurseries,  and  the  nnnilicr  of  his 
orchaids.  I5<'fore  fairly  eoninnMcing  llie  ivaiingcif  IVnit  decs,  hr  lirg.ui  the  -tiidy  of  the  nature 
undipialities  of  soil,  as  id  in  a  few  yea  is  Iccuiu'  maslrr,  sd  to  >pi;ik,  nf  ihr  Miciicc  of  ugrieultnral 
chemistry;  he  now  has  seven  orchaids.  witli  Ill.dOO  trees  in  all,  and  ^>>\\u-  of  thi'sc  orchards  are 
eight  or  nine  miles  apart,  and  on  dilfeient  kinds  of  soil,  scattering  them  in  that  maniu'r  in  order 

to  test  the  ((iialities  of  the  land,  anil  a'-ciiiain   tl \aei  ctlect  of   snil   ,ui  i    i\pci-,iiic    ii|iiin   the 

growth  of  fruit.  Some  of  his  orchards  of  [iliim  and  apple  aii' the  tiiicst  and  most  jirodnctivc, 
for  their  age,  in  the  world,  and  he  claims  lo  Im-  the  lirst  discoverer  of  the  true  circulation  of 
the  sap  in  plants,  and  ncthods  therctVoiii  de\  ised  for  easily  controlling  the  forces  of  the  tree, 
anil  the  promolion  of  fruit  or  woml-^row  lli  at  plrasurc. 

Some  idea  nf  the  e\tenl  of  his  nurseries  may  !»'  inferred  from  the  fad  that  he  has  I7,V0(I(I 
apple  I  rei's  and  SO.tXMt  plum  trees  of  a  single  \  ariety  ;  he  has  also  snnie  |)e;ir  t  rers,  an  extensive 
lot  of  cherries,  goo.sclierrii's.eurrant.s,  etc. ;  hi.s  miirket  extends  over  no  iiiconsideralile   part  of 


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THE  CAX.II>/A.\   JilOaJLiriIlC.il.  DICTIOKARY. 


the  Maiitiiiie  Provincos,  iiiul  into  six  of  the  Northern  and  Western  States,  lie  havin;^ 
agencies  in  Aineriean  cities  as  far  west  as  Chieaijo.  Of  j^rafted  aj)i)le-trees  alone  ho  has 
sold  more  than  half  a  million;  he  is  known  aiiionif  fruit-yrowers  t)f  tlu*  Dominion  and  the 
Unite  I  States,  as  a  hij^h  authority  on  horticultural  nuitters;  he  is  conversant  with  the  jijeoloj^y 
ot'N'i  w  Ihunswiek,  and  is  well  road  on  a  j^reat  variety  of  subjects — one  of  the  lust  informed 
men,  in  fact,  in  the  count}'  of  t'arleton  his  conversation  is  free,  Howiii;^  an(lhii,!dy  instructive. 
It  will  do  aiiyhody  jifood  to  have  a  chat  with  this  prince  of  Maritime  fiiiit  jjrowers. 

Mr.  Sharp  has  cleared  in  all  about  .")0()  acres  oi"  forest  land,  ami  has,  in  [)ast  years,  devoted 
a  j^ood  deal  of  time  to  cxjierimentini^  in  a^iiculture,  hut  at  pi'esciit  frnit  cnltur(^  ahsorlis  his 
whole  attention  ;  he  has  kept  out  of  politics,  and  out  of  olliee,  j^ivin<^  his  time  to  the  turninj^  of 
the  leaves  of  the  "  Rook  of  Nature,"  like  Henry  D.  Thoreau.  Ihit  unlike  the  (Joneord  hermit, 
the  author  of  "  W'alden  :  or  Life  in  the  Woods,"  who  never  voted,  n<'ver  went  to  chuich,  and 
never,  if  he  could  help  it,  paid  a  tax.  Mr.  Sharp  is  practical,  making  a  <,'oo(l  use  of  his  know- 
ledi^e,  and  lillinnj  his  place  as  a  society  man  and  conniiou-sense  citizen  ;  he  has  a  wife,  who.so 
inai<len  namt>  was  Maria  Shaw,  of  Waketicld  parish,  county  of  Carleton,  married  in  1«j3,  and 
tlu'v  have  reared  li'  e  children,  and  also  buried  three. 


B 


HON.  benja:min  \i.  ste\'e:n8ox, 

ST.  AMHiEW's,  y.n. 

EN.IAMIN  ROBKIIT  STKVKNSON,  barrister,  and  Sjieaker  .if  the  llous.^  of  Ass,.ml>ly, 
N.  B.,  was  born  at  St.  And cw's  m  the  lOtli  of  .\\^v\],  IS.S.").  his  parents  Iieing  Robert  and 
C.^hristiann  (_Millikeii)  Stevenson,  tie  latter  beinj,' frniii  tl;e  State  of  Maiiir.  I  lis  grandfather, 
llobert  Sleven-;on,  came  to  St.  Andrew's,  from  Uenfrewshire,  Scotland,  in  bsll). 

Our  subject  was  educated  in  the  St,  Andrew's  grammar  sclmol,  and  tin-  imivrrsity  of  New 
Brunswick;  lieing  graduati'd  i>..\.,  in  1S.")4;  here  lir  studied  law  witli  the  Hon.  .laiiics  \V. 
Chandler,  Esq.,  afterward  county  court  judge  for  W'estinori'Iand,  Kent  and  Albert  counties;  was 
admitted  to  praeti.'e  in  1S.')S;  called  to  the  bar  in  'I'linity  'reriii,  IS.)!),  and  has  bfcn  in  practice 
at  St.  Andrew's  since  tlu'  former  date,  making  a  good  success  in  his  profession,  and  having  a 
highly  credital'le  stamliiig  at  the  ('luul.jtte  county  bar.      In  law  as  well  as  in  politics,  he  is  one 


.)f  tl 


le  rising  men  o 


f  New  Brunswick. 


Mr.  Sti'vensoii  was  registr.ir  of  jirobates  for  ('liariotte  county  from  jsii;]  to  ls(17,  wlieii  h 


resiirnei 


ensii'ii 


I;  h 
1 


las  also  sci\ed  as  a  school  trustee,  and  is  majoi-  ol'  niililia,   rising  from  the  rank  of 


le  was  in  ai 


tivc  scr\iee  three  moiillis  at  the  tiiiir  of  tin'  Kciiian  raid  of  iNtld 


lb 


as  tirst  retr.riii'd   to  jiarliameiit  I'or  h's  pii'scnt  seat,  to  represent  ('liariotte  county  in 


October,  1N(17,  ai 


id  was  re-( 


lectecl  in  INTO,  IsTk  and  IN7>>.      lie  was  ap])ointed  a  meiiiln 


)f  th 


executiv'  eouneil  ami  surveyor-general  on  the  •J'Jnd  of  l''eliiuaiy,  l>71,  resigning  the  otiice  of 
snrvevoi -general  in  .Inly,  1N7N,  but  retaining  his  position  in  (lie  eseeiitive  council.  He  carried 
tiie  Frei   (bants   Ait,  while   surveyor-general,  in   I.S7-,  and   also   .several   acts    m  regard   to   the 


illti'lll.d  ecollolliv  of    the  ( 


row  I 


1   Lands    depai  tliielit  ;   hi 


initiated  the  stain 


page    systelil  of 


eolleetiiig  tiiiil'er  dues.     He  was  electeil  .Speaker  on  the -Jiltli  of  Kebniary,  I .S7l>,  and  makes  a 
pii;mpt,  courteous  and  etlieieiit  otlicer.     Mr.  Stevenson  has  luen  sent  to  Ottawa  ivs  a  delegate, 


i\   ' 


mammB^ 


-^mmm^^r^^nwrvm 


i  ! 


mm\ 


rilK  VAX  A  Dl  AN  niOCRArillCAL  DICTIOKAUY. 


(521 


'     i 


on  Ut'liiilf  of  tlie  local  jrnviirmiu'iit  on  sin'oral  ocfa.sioiis,  ami  liaH  tlio  fiiilcst  confidence  of  tlio 
liiijiifst  ollieials  in  tin;   jirovince,  as  well  as  of  liis  eonstitucMts. 

Mr.  Stevenson  in  lii^'h  up  in  Masonry,  lieinj^  ( Jrand  Master  of  tlio  (Irand  Loilj^e  of  New 
Brunswick,  and  lii\s  lield  the  oIKco  of  ilepnty  i,'rand  ivia<ter  and  seiiioi-  jj^rand  warden  ;  lie  is  well 
known  to  tlio  order  tliroULcliont  tlie  Maritime  Provinces. 

Oin- snliject  was  mariiel  Anuust  1,  ISdl),  to  Kate  15olton,  sister  of  dolni  Molton,  deceased, 
who  represented  Charlotte  in  the  Ifonse  of  ( 'oinmons  from  \Hi'u  to  l.S"-'  ;  and  they  have  two 
children,  a  daui^htcr  and  son.  The  family  ai-e  mend>ers  of  All  Saints' church,  of  uhieli  Mr. 
Stevenson  is  a  warden. 


(iEOR(;E    KDWAlil)    FE^'ETY, 

FUEDEllICTON,  N.li. 

r-\  VA)\\(t\\  K.  KKNKTV,  (Queen's  Printer  of  the  Province  of  New  Ihunswick,  was  horn  in 
7"  Halifax,  N.S.,  in  the  year  lNl:i ;  he  is  the  fourth  son  of  William  Fenety  of  Halifax,  an 
architect  and  draui,ditsman.  who  lor  some  years  was  en^'ajjed  in  the  Kinjj's  works;  he  died  in 
iMVi;  his  mother,  Mary  Hall,  went  to  Nova  Scotia  in  1783  with  her  fathei',  Uiehard  Hall,  a 
staunch  Loyalist,  one  of  llu-  sturdy  hand  who  settled  in  Shellnirne,  a  town  which,  at  one 
time,  contained  a  population  of  l:i,0()0,  chiefly  made  up  of  Loyalists  from  the  States  of  Massa- 
chussetts,  New  Yolk,  and  New  Jersey. 

At  the  aire  of  s"Vinteen  Fenety  entered  the  otlice  of  th(.'  Xiirn  Srotiiiii,  the  champion  jiajier 
of  the  Liherals,  owned  hy  the  Hon.  Jo.seph  Howe  ;  and  during'  his  connexion  with  that  jiapcr, 
which  lasted  for  several  years,  he  freinieiitly  travelh'd  over  the  Provinces  of  Nova  Scotia,  New 
ilrunswick,  and  Prince  Kdward  Island,  collecting,'  accounts;  he  continui'il  to  enjoy  the  esteem 
and  confidence  of  Mr.  Howe  until  his  death,  which  occurred  duriiii,' his  adininistration  as  lii'ii- 
tenaiit-L;ovcriior  of  hi^  native  province,  in  Ls7-"i. 

In  Novcmhcr,  LS.S.'i.the  year  of  the  ^neat  cholera  jilayiie,  Mr,  Fenety  went  to  .New  >'ork, 
where  he  residetl  for  twelve  month-;.  At  the  end  of  that  time  he  was  attached  to  the  I'luntirs 
Aiii-ntiilf,  as  assistant  editor,  a  periodical  jtiililished  at  Donaldsville,  a  town  situated  ahoiit  sixty- 
live  miles  aliove  New  (.)i  leans,  on  the  Mis>i-,si|i|ii  ;  and  in  six  months  after  liecjinu'  half  pinprie. 
tor,  '!'he  climate,  which  aiimially  fosters  y.llow  fever,  came  iii;,di  proNJiiL,'  fatal  to  his  nortliciii 
constitution,  too  accustomed  to  frosts  .nul  snow. and  compelled  him,  in  LS.Sli,  to  sell  out,  and  once 
mole  turn  his  face  hoinewaid  ;  he  si'ttled  in  St,  .John,  full  of  eiiteipri.si',  hope,  iiidiisti  v,  and  a 
couraec  to  faci'  clitliciilties  which  no  oli,.,tacle  could  daunt  ;  he  so<jn  after  started  the  first  penn\- 
paper  ill  the  Maritime  Provinces,  calleil  the  M'liutny  Xvv.x.  The  idea  of  issiiinj,'  a  paj)er  at  so 
sncill  a  price  was  met  at  first  with  imlifleionec,  especially  hy  the  weekly  journals,  of  which 
there  were  not  less  lliaii  li\c  at  that  time;  hut,  in  spite  of  all  the  diHiculties  whit'li  met  him  on 
every  side,  his  determination  carried  it  throu;,di,  and  it  was  when  he  left  it,  the  leading;  poli- 
tical daily  of  St.  .lohii,  although  its  name  has  since  l.eeii  changed  liy  the  jirwent  proprietors  to 
])<iil-l  Xnrs.      It  is  iiow  in  its  foity-secoiid  year,  liein;^  the  oldest  p!i[ier  in  the  province. 

Ill  lN."i(i,  Mr.  Fenety  was  appointed  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  tin-  city  and  couiitv  of  .St. 
•lolin,  anil  in  l.S'>7,  hy  the  (lovernmeiit,  a  commissioner  to  investigate  and  report  upon  the  man- 
agement  of  the  lunatic  asylum,  the  provincial  peuitcntiary,  the  marine  hospital,  and   light 

TO 


arrgftes  J'x'ir.-j.:)  Ttjt  tf. 


THE  CAKADIAX  niOaiiAPIHCAL  DICTtONAtiY. 


liousfH  till  the  coa.'st,  all  of  which  had  hfon  cun(ha'te<l  at  what  was  eoiisitloivd  too  yroat  an  ex- 
pense. The  eoinmissioneis  consisted  of  the  Jlon.  David  Wark,  James  Macfarlane,  G.  E.  Fenety, 
Henry  Fislier,  and  Joel  Reading.  After  a  tedious  and  lahorious  investigation,  which  occupied 
several  weeks,  the  conunissioncrs  made  a  report  to  tin  tiovcrnment  of  sui^h  a  piTniI  "il  nature 
that  great  good  I'esulted  from  it.  As  a  journalist,  Mr.  Fenety  was  credited  with  beixg  instru- 
mental in  a  largo  degree  of  having  this  investigation  made. 

in  ISO.'i,  Mr.  Fenety  was  appointed  Queen's  piinter,  that  ]>osition  having  heecme  vai-ant 
thidtigh  the  death  of  John  Simjison,  F.s(i.,  and  he  has  continued  to  hold  it  since  tluu  time. 

In  1N(!7,  Mr.  Fenety  published  a  volume  of  ■")()<)  pages,  entitled  "  Political  Notes  and  Obser- 
vations," which  furnishes  a  history  of  the  legislative  struggles  in  New  I'rnnswick  for  the  prin- 
(•ij)les  now  recognised  as  "  liesp(msilile  (iovernnient."  His  e.xjiericnce  an<l  knowledge  of  all  the 
]»ulilic  men  wlio  j>erfoiined  active  parts  in  the  debates,  covering  a  period  of  tifteen  years,  which 
the  volume  embraces,  viz.,  from  1840  to  IS.')."),  ami  the  materials  which  were  exclusively  at  his 
comnumtl,  enabled  liim  to  accomplish  a  work  which  has  turned  out  to  be  of  great  iu.portance. 
We  understand  it  is  his  intention  to  j)ublish  the  second  vnlunie,  upon  wliich  he  is  now  engaged. 

Mr.  Fenety  was  elected  mayor  of  Frederictou  in  1N77,  and,  on  his  retirement,  was  presented 
by  the  citizens  with  a  piece  of  plate  (an  eiKMgne^  valued  at  8:2.")().  and  an  address  signe<l  by 
U])wards  (if  nOO  |>ersons.  Mr.  Fenety,  besides  spending  largely  of  his  money  in  i>eautifying  the 
city,  devoted  his  salary  of  !?-0(l  a  year,  which  he  was  entitled  to  as  mayor,  towards  paying  for 
the  clock  erectc'l  in  the  city  hall  tuwi'r. 

Amongst  the  honorary  positions  which  he  has  occupied  niight  be  mentioned  that  of  president 
of  the  auxiliary  Mible  society  ;  trustee  of  schools;  director  of  (loggins  coal  association,  St. 
John  ;  director  of  central  tire  insurance  company  ;  presi<h'Ut  of  the  gas  company  ;  chairman  of 
Forest  Hill  cemetery  company ;  chairman  board  of  health  ;  vice-president  of  Church  of  Fug- 
land  temperanci' society  ;  delegate  from  t'hrist's  church  cathedral  to  diocesan  cliurch  society  ; 
delegate  from  cathedral  to  diocisin  synod  :  diit'ctorof   Fretlericton  leatlu'r  com)ianv. 

lie  was  married  in  New  ^'ork.  in  Sept.  1S47,  to  Flizji.  youngest  daughter  of  Robert  Arthur 
bv  whom  he  hail  nine  children,  sis  of  whom  are  -^till  lisin'' 


1)A\11)    MINUO, 


O 


ircoZW/'Oi'K,  si:. 

NK  of  the  best  known  men  in  Carleton  i    nity,  N.  B.  is  David   Munro.  the  registrar  of 
deeds  foi'  t'arlrtou  couiitv.     lb'  i-^  a  native  of  Ross  shire,  Scotland,  and  was  born  in  tiie 


town  of 'i'ain,  on  the  M\  of  May.  b'sl4,  his  father  bring  Donald  M 


unro. 


a  stone  u\ason,  like 


Hugh  Miller,  (ln'  si'lf-t^iught  geologist  of  that  neighborhood.  l>onald  Miuiro.  sr.,  the  giand- 
fathcr  of  David,  li\ed  near  Fowlis  castle,  the  seat  of  the  chief  of  the  clan  .Munro.  The  niothei 
of  our  subject  was  Helen  Main,  also  of  Ross-shire,     liotli  parents  died  in  the  old  country. 


Mr.   Munro  was  educated  at   the  Tain    Ro\;d  iuvidei 


UN- 


came 


)Ut     ti 


I 


I  MUSWIC 


bs;i;J  ;  clerked  three  years  in  a  store  at   Monipiat,  cnunty   of  Cailctoii;   then  iuo\i'.|  jui,.  Woii.l- 


stock,  and  here  lield  a  similar  position  for  two  year 


ten  years  i^^bs:ts  to  IMM  he  was  en- 


gaged in  farming  in  the   parishes  of  (^)ueensbury  and    Dumfries,  York    comity,  retnridng  to 
Wooilstock  in  I84!t,  alter  having  >eriously  contemplate!  taking  a  (rip  to  (.'alil'urida.     Hero  two 


nil  III    Mi—¥T^nF    iM.i  .1  li    ^MlcIiiTTOi:^* 


THE  CAKADIAX  lUOGKAVIIICAL  DKTIOKARY. 


023 


miles  from  tlio  villa^jfc,  he  wa.s  oin})loyo(l  as  a  clerk  and  part  of  the  time  a>s  iii,'ent  of  tlic 
charcoal  iron  works;  besides  being  a  lumber  merchant,  aiid  was  thus  employed  when,  in  iMil, 
he  was  elected  to  the  local  legislature  for  Carletoii.  After  serving  in  that  bodj-  for  threi-  terms 
lie  resigned  to  accept  the  otlice  of  registrar  of  deeds,  made  vacant  by  the  death  of  Oeorge  A. 
Bedell.  That  ottice,  as  already  intiniated,  he  still  holds,  and  he  is  ver}'  punctual  in  discharg- 
ing its  duties.  He  takes  pleasure  in  bfing  proni|>t,  and  in  obliging  peoi)le,  and  is  a  j)opular 
county  otHcial.  The  lumber  business  which  lie  commenced  in  1!S.k*S,  he  continued  until  lN7<i, 
and  showed  a  great  deal  of  enterprise  in  that  line. 

Mr.  Muiuo  has  usualh'  been  independent  in  |H)liiics,  with  Liberal  Conservative  leanings  ; 
is  a  third-tlegree  Mison,  an  elder  of  tlie  kirk,  an  1  a  man  of  good  m  iral  character. 

He  has  been  twice  married  ;  tirst  in  XKVJ  to  Mrs.  Sophia  Cannon,  of  Fairfield,  Maine,  she 
d^ing  in  l!S47  ;  an  1  the  second  time  in  iN.')^  to  Miss  (Caroline  Rose,  a  native  of  King.selear,  Yoik 
I'o.,  N.  B.  He  hasa  daughter  Sophia,  and  twosons,  George  and  William,  living  by  the  first  wife, 
all  married  and  li\  iiig  in  Baiigoi'.  Maiiu',  ami  tive  sons  and  four  daughters  by  the  pn'sunt  wife. 
Donald  is  deputy  n'gistrar  in  his  father's  otHee  ;  l>avid  is  in  the  Woodstock  branch  of  the  Bank 
of  Ni)\a  Scotia  ;  .lauies  and  Ciiaries  are  merehants'  clerks  in  Woodstock  ;  .Maiy  is  a  teacher  in 
the  [uiblic  schools  of  Woodstock,  and  most  of  the  others  are  pnisning  tliejr  studies, 


LIKUT.-C'DL.    KOIJEUT    T.    JiAinJIT, 

<;AHHTinry,  x.n. 

T^C^BKRT  THORN  K  HAI5P.IT,  registrar  of  deeds  for  the  county  of  Queens,  N.ll,  was  born 
\  and  has. always  lixcd  in  ( liigetown.  except  nine  yeai's  residence  in  Canning,  <j).C.,  dating  his 
birth  on  the  "Jltli  of  September.  IN.'U.  His  father,  Kikanah  I'abbit,  was  born  in  the  same  town- 
ship. His  patern.d  grandfather  was  a  Loyalist.  The  mother  of  Robert  was  Dorothy  Creighton, 
a  native  of  New  lirunsw  iek.  He  lost  his  lather  when  he  was  five  years  old.  an<l  went  to  live 
witli  a  f;irmei'  \Nitii  whom  he  remained  for  seven  years,  at  the  end  of  wnieh  time  he  iiecame  an 
appivntiet'  to  the  harness-maker's  trade,  whicii  he  followed  in  all  about  a  dozen  years.  He  then 
commenced  mercli,iiidi/.ing  at  I'pjnr  (lagetowii.and  was  also  engaged  for  a  peiiod  r.f  three  years 
in  the  con->tinetion  of  the  Kui'o|)ean  and  North  .\iiieiie;ui  railway  from  ,*st.  John  westward, 
being  tlun  in  the  enijiloy  of  K.  II.  Burpee,  Hs(|. 

In  lN(I(i  Mr.  Babbit  was  eh'eted  to  the  Hnu.>e  of  Assembly  for  the  county  of  t^tueen  s,  and 
after  the  first  year  took  a  bold  si.uid  in  ojipcisiiinM  to  the  govertunent.and  wa>!  (piite  prominent 
on  that  side  of  'he  House,  he  being  a  deeided  L'lieral.  He  was  iv-eleeted  in  In7<I  and  resigned 
in  .March,  b^TL  to  accept  the  oflice  of  registrar  of  deeds,  which,  as  alrt>ady  intimated,  he  still 
holds,  and  the  duties  of  which  he  is  pei  forming  w'th  prom|it'ic  vs  and  care. 

Mr.  Balibit  has  been  connected  with  the  militia  of  the  province  for  a  long  tiine,g<iiiig  in  as 
a  priv.ite  ami  being  proniute.l  through  evfry  grade  to  Lieut. -Colonel,  which  rank  he  now  holds 
in  the  (,)neen  s  eoucty  militia. 

( 'ol.  Babbit  takes  a  good  deal  of  interest  in  educational  matters,  an  1  has  servid  as  a  .school 
trustee  at  different  limes  never,  in  fact,  we  bcliexe,  declining  any  otliie  where  he  could  l>e  of 
use  to  sovji'fy,     H*'  may  1m'  cal|e(|  a  thorough-going,  putilic-spiiitcd  litizeii.  an<l  happy  tln'  com- 


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iminity  well-icpivscTitt'il  l)y  such  a  ela.'s.  He  is  a  county  cunjiior,  iiiid  a  couiiuissiomn'  for 
takinj^  special  bail  in  the  supreme  court  of  New  Brunswick. 

Col.  Balibit  is  a  nienilier  of  the  Canning  Baptist  churcli,  and  (|uite  active  in  leliyions  and 
reformatory  work,  being  secretary  of  tlie  united  temperance  a.ssociation  of  New  Brunswick, 
and  one  of  tlie  foremost  men,  as  a  private  worker,  in  tliat  noble  enterprise. 

He  niarrieil,  on  July  (!th,  l(s.")4,  Ella  L.  Currey,  daughter  of  deacon  John  ('urre\',  in  his  day 
one  of  the  pillars  of  the  Canning  Baptist  church,  and  the}'  have  had  five  children,  all  yet  living 
but  one  daughter. 

Col.  Babbit  is  living  a  somewhat  ([uiet  life,  attending  faithfully  to  Ids  othcial  duties,  but 
liis  intlueiiee  in  the  social  circle  is  strong,  and  wholly  on  the  side  of  ordei',  sobriety,  and  what- 
ever tends  to  the  welfare  of  the  community. 


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110^\  AVILLIAM    '\\nn\ 

Sr.  STEPHEN,  'N.  II. 

"T 117  J  Iii..l  A.M  TUDl),  who.se  long  and  active  particijiation  in  the  connncrcial,  moral,  and 
V  V  educational  movements  of  his  adopted  country,  entitles  him  to  a  |iromiiient  |iiace  in 
any  record  of  the  public  men  of  New  Brun.swiek,  was  born  on  the  lOth  day  of  July.  lx():i,  in 
North  Yarmouth,  in  the  county  of  Cundierland,  and  State  of  ^hline.  His  father,  William  Todd, 
of  Scotch  and  Irish  ancestry,  was  born  in  (iotlstown.  New  Tfumpshire.  His  mother,  wliose 
maiden  name  was  Hannah  VVorthley,  was  of  Kngiish  descent,  and  a  native  of  North  Yarmouth. 

In  the  early  years  (jf  the  centiny,  William  Todd,  sen,,  was  engaged  in  ship-building  at 
North  Yaiinouth,  his  operations  being,  for  those  times,  on  'juite  an  extensive  scale.  Meeting 
with  heavy  los.ses,  he  retired  from  business,  and,  removing  to  New  I'runswick,  settled  at  St. 
Stephen,  in  the  valley  of  the  St.  Croix  river,  in  the  year  IMl.  His  land ly  consisted  of  Hve 
scms,  and  tive  daughters,  of  whom  .seven  came  with  their  pari'Uts  from  the  State  of  Maine,  and 
three  were  born  in  St.  Stephen.  They  all  .settled  tm  the  St.  ( 'roix.  Some  of  them  became  pro- 
nnnent  by  theii-  business  enterprise  and  success,  and  were  among  the  most  active  promoters  nf 
every  movement  thnt  sought  to  develop  the  resources  of  tlie  valley,  an>l  its  neighboring  countrv 

The  subject  of  tliis  sketch  had  only  a  conmiou  school  education,  but  his  thoughtful  auil 
inquiring  mind  created  opportunities  of  personal  culture,  while  the  exigencies  of  the  tinu>.  and 
the  resiionsibilities  that  early  came  upon  Inm,  called  out  all  his  facidties,  and  developed  a  man 
of  sterling  character,  and  large  resource.  lu  early  uuudiood,  he  entere(l  upon  a  business  life  iu 
Milltown,  which  be  followed  with  activity  until  aliout  fifty  years  of  age,  lieing  diictlv  engageil 
during  that  period  in  the  manufacture  and  exportation  of  lundie!',  in  this  pursuit  he  achieved 
a  satisfactory  success.  ,\s  a  business  man,  he  maintained  a  cluuacter  of  high  integiitv,  his 
dealings  being  uidforudy  goveiued  by  a  strict  regard  to  the  piinciples  of  justice  and  lnjnor.  While 
yet  in  the  prime  of  life,  he  passed  over  this  manufacttu'ing  business  to  a  .s(m,  and  thenceforth 
largely  employed  his  attention  ami  capital  in  enterprises  connected  with  pidilic  interests.  Tho 
re|iutation  alreaily  ac(pured  for  .sagacity  and  integrity,  not  less  than  the  resources  at  his  com- 
maml,  caused  his  aiil  to  be  .sought  for  iu  any  work  pertaining  to  the  growth  and  welfare  of  tho 
neighi>orhooil,  or  of  the  country  at  large. 


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Takini,'  a  ki^'fii  interest  in  everytliiiiL;  that  coulil  promote  the  growth  of  tlie  pvovineo,  he 
very  early  iV'It  tie-  neei.l  of  railroa>K  to  open  np  tlie  eoiintiy,  ami  develop  its  resoiures.  Ho 
was  one  uf  the  tirst  pronioteis  of  tlicse  rnterpris 's  in  the  valley  of  the  St.  ('mix,  and,  especially 
after  his  retirement  from  liwsiness,  devoted  much  enefLjy  and  public  spirit  to  the  prosecution  of 
these  and  other  works  of -^'t^neral  utility,  so  that  when  they  came  to  take  detinite  fiinn  in  the 
luinds  of  corporations,  which  he  ha'i  lii'en  hir^n.-ly  instrumental  in  i'onnin^',  he  was  looked  to  as 
their  natural  head.  For  many  y^ars  Ik;  was  president  of  tlie  Princeton  railroail,  ruiinin;,'  tVom 
Calais  to  Piinceton,  in  the  State  of  ^^ainl•,  and  now  a  part  of  the  St.  Croix  and  I'enolj.scot  rail- 
roail. He  was  the  tirst  presid<nt  of  the  St.  Stephen  branch  railway,  and  held  that  otlice  until 
the  consolidation  of  the  St.  Sicpln'ii,  Woodstock,  and  Houlton  branches  with  the  New  Brinis- 
wick  and  Canada  railroad,  wlien  hr  was  chosen  president  of  the  laii,'er  corporation.  In  1^44, 
he  \va.s  elected  a  director  of  the  St.  Stephen's  bank,  and  in  ls4li  w,is  mide  presiilent.  He  held 
this  office  in  the  two  last  named  corpoi'ations  until  his  death. 

His  public  spirit,  and  his  prominence  in  his  own  county,  secured  for  him  a  seat  in  the 
Lejiislative  Council  of  the  [)ro\  ince,  lo  which  he  was  appointed  in  lN-"i4,  and  in  the  business  of 
wdiich  he  alway.s  totik  an  active  and  influential  pait.  Two  classes  of  nieasiues  especially  en- 
<fa;,'ed  his  interest  and  sujiport  :  one  those  relatiuij  to  the  de\(dopmi'nt  of  liie  material  resources 
i}i  the  country  by  means  of  railroads,  which,  as  he  luul  liberally  promoteil  by  pei.-.,iiuvl  action,  he 
also  supported  in  his  place  as  a  lee-islator.  Movements  looking  to  the  advaneenicnt  of  general 
I  education  also  found  In  Mr.  Todd  a  .sagacious  and  zealous  supporter.  He  had  already  evinced 
his  interest  in  the  supply  of  the  best  educational  facilities,  by  liecoming  one  of  the  founders  and 
maiiae'ers  of  the  Milltown  acadeni\',  an  institution  which  was  maintaineij  uiim  a  hi'di  ^tanilin-' 
dui'ing  a  long  term  of  years,  until  the  special  need  of  it  was  su|ier-iecU'd.  lb'  had  c\er  been 
friendly  to  a  sy.stem  of  cilucatioii  which  should  be  open  fri'cly  to  all  clas-cs  of  the  people,  while 
it  aimed  at  the  highest  results.  \\  hen,  therefoiv,  the  ipiestion  of  giving  a  free  education  to  all 
the  children  of  the  pi'ovince  came  beb>re  the  LegislMtive  Council,  he  ga\ e  to  tlie  measmes  pro- 
pose<l  his  hearty  support.  The  nieii.-.ures  were  adopted,  and  when  they  came  to  be  put  into 
practical  effect,  Mr.  '{'odd,  as  a  private  citi/en,  cordially  contributed  a  liber.d  part  in  rendering 
the  law  etlicieiit.  Mr.  Todd  also  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  legislature  as  an  .advocate  of 
reform  in  the  maiuigenient  of  the  public  lands.  He  was  convinceil  that  the  resources  of  the 
country  in  this  direction  wi're  undergoing  a  rajiid  sva-^te,  the  effects  of  which  would  be  disas- 
trouslv  felt.  Accordingly  he  Miught  to  secure  a  change  i,\'  policy,  with  a  \iew  t(>  makine-  this 
form  of  public  property  bring  in  an  increaseil  and  more  pernuuient  rexcnue  .Mtliough  he  then 
stood  in  advance  of  the  general  sentiment  upon  this  matter,  time  has  vindicated  the  wisilom  of 
his  \iew,  the  enli.inced  iucoMie  derived  in  latei-  years  from  the  crown  L-ueN  lia\ingbeeu  secured 
in  coHipliano'  with  the  jirinciples  of'  management  which  he  ilesirecl  to  see  adojited.  He  was 
warmly  interested  in  the  t'onfed'ration  of  the  pro\  inces,  and  in  1S(J7  his  name  ap[H'ared  in  the 
(.Jueen's  proclamation,  constituting  the  union,  as  a  Senator  of  the  Dominion  of  ( 'anada.  The 
condition  of  hi-'  health  compelled  him  to  decline  this  honor,  atul  he  retained  his  seat  in  the 
Legislativi'  <  'oiuicil  to  the  end  of  his  life 

A  free  trader  on  ])rinci[ili',  and  believing  that  tiie  prosperity  of  his  own  jirovince  in  parti- 
cid.ir  demande<l  the  fieeest  counnercial  intercourse  with  its  neiglibors,  an<l  with  the  world,  he. 
on  this  ground  chiefly,  gave  his  .support  to  the  I.ilieral  jiarty.  ISut  he  was  not  a  partisan.  If 
an\   measure  conuucuded  itsidf  to  his  judgment,  its  origin    lid  not  hinder  his  h('art\-  support. 

Mr.  'J'odil  always  took  an  eager  interest  in  religious  mattei-s.  Hi-  was  .i  niendier  of  the 
Congregational  chinch  in  Milltown  from  its  oigani/.ation  ;   was  fur  many  years  an  ofVicC'beart'r, 


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nnd  always  an  active  worker  in  tlie  I'hnrcli.  For  ni'iuiy  tnrty  years  lie  was  siipfrintenik'iit 
of  the  Sabliath-school,  and  found  a  sincere  and  hearty  delight  in  its  work.  The  interest  which 
lie  felt  in  the  youn;,',  ami  the  tender  rej,'ard  which  he  always  showeil  toward  them,  won  their 
hearts;  and  the  reverential  respect  with  which  they  treated  him,  as  they  jj^rew  up,  tr'stilied  to 
the  impression  which  his  character  nnd  teaching'  had  made  upon  them. 

He  was  president  of  the  St.  Stephen  Auxiliary  Bihle  Society  from  1X56  until  his  death. 
He  took  an  early  and  decided  staml  on  the  subject  of  temperance,  and  always  i-eniained  a  con- 
sistent advocMte  of  its  ]irinci[iles. 

On  the  12th  of  February,  lSi(i,  Mr.  Todd  married  Clarissn,  daughter  of  Abiier  Hill,  one  of 
the  early  settlers  of  Milltown,  a  man  of  hit,'h  character,  and  of  extensive  liusine.ss.  Mrs.  Todd 
died  Februury  27th,  IStil.  Twelve  eliildreii  wert;  born  to  them,  of  whom  five  died  in  infanc}-, 
anil  seven  are  still  iivinj,'.  Of  their  three  sons,  the  elilest,  (leorge  F.,  is  a  gentleman  farmer  at 
Milltown;  William  H.,  a  [ihysiuian  and  surgeon  of  extensive  and  lucrative  practice  in  St. 
Stephen  ;  and  tJharle8  F.,  living  at  the  homestead  in  Milltown,  a  merchant,  lumber  manufac- 
turer, and  farmer,  in  each  of  which  branches  his  operations  are  on  a  very  large  scale.  The  four 
surviving  da>ighters  are  all  married.  Mary  11.,  the  eldest,  is  wife  of  Leonard  IVabody,  woollen 
nuvnufacturer,  residing  in  I'rinceton,  Maim.' ;  Louise  T.,  wife  of  lle\-.  .Foiin  A.  Ross,  now  in  Hel- 
fa.st,  jiaine ;  Marcia  B.,  wife  of  Cieorge  A.  Cobban,  merchant  in  Marion,  biwa,  and  Elia  A.,  wife 
of  William  A.  Murchie,  lumber  manufacturer  and  merchant,  in  Calais,  Maine. 

On  the  0th  of  July,  1802,  Mr.  Todd  married  Mary  Jane,  widow  of  Capt.  Ilaiiey,  of  Indian 
Island,  in  the  county  of  Charlotte,  who  survives  him.  He  died  after  a  very  brief  illness  on  the 
5th  of  August,  187;],  aged  70  year-s. 

Mr.  Todil  posses,sed  a  tine  physical  presence,  being  tall  and  connnanding  in  person,  while 
his  bearing  combined  dignity  with  attractive  couitesy.  His  eountenanee,  cspceially  in  later 
life,  presented  an  aspect  of  peculiar  benevolence,  a  true  index  of  the  gracious  eharaeter  of  the 
man. 

In  every  relation  of  life,  he  was  a  faithful  and  I'xenijilarv  man.  He  was  always  tender 
and  kind  in  his  family  ami  among  his  friends;  was  generous  in  his  eontiibutions  toward  the 
work  of  the  church,  and  l\tr  the  relief  of  the  poor,  and  was  ever  ready  to  aid  any  institution 
or  enterprise  that  would  promote  the  inteiests  of  his  coiintr}',  or  the  good  of  his  fellow  men. 
His  name'  is  held  in  honor  by  all  who  knew  him,  and  the  examiile  of  his  Christian  character 
y,nd  succcssfid  life  is  [>rized  by  liis  deseemlants  as  the  noblest  part  of  their  heritage. 


iio:n.  rip:RKE  a.  landhy,  ^i.im\, 

DOnClIF.STEli,  N.  It. 


I'JIKUUH  A.  LANDRY,  who  represents  We.stmorelaml  county  in  the  New  Ihuuswiek 
House  of  Assi'udily,  is  of  Acadian  descent  and  was  born  at  Dorchestei-,  N.l'..,  on  the  1st 
of  May,  184(i;  his  father,  Amand  Landry,  was  a  inend)er  of  the  same  legislative  body  from  the 
year  LSKi,  the  year  our  subject  was  born,  almost  niiinterrn])tedly  to  1870,  when  he  retiicd  from 
pulilic  life,  dying  in  1870.  'i'he  mother  of  I'ierre  was  Miss  I'elagie  Ca.sey,  a  native  of  the  parish 
of  Dorchester;  she  died  in  187L 


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Mf.  Liindrs,  was  I'clucatfil  at  St.  Josi'iili's  coUcirc,  Mcmi'Aiiicooli,  near  T)()ivlu'ster ;  stuilioil 
law  with  Sir  Aibcit  J.  Siiiitli ;  wits  calleil  to  tlic  liar  of  New  JJiiinswiek  in  1870,  ami  is  dili- 
fjently  eii{,'a<,'e(l  in  tlic  practii-o  of  his  profession,  wliifli  extends  into  tiie  several  eourtsofthe 
|irovinco  ;  lie  does  a  jjood  (K-al  of  counsel  luisinoss  in  preparing  causes  for  the  ctjurt,  and  has  also 
eonsideralile  criminal  praetiee.  .Mr,  Landry  was  junior  counsel  with  the  late  Samuel  \\.  Thoiii- 
,son  in  the  celebrated  Caraijuet  riot  and  murder  cases,  they  beinj,'  conn.sel  for  the  defemlants, 
and  cleared  them  ;  his  reitutation  as  a  lawyer,  both  as  to  attaiiuiients  and  talents  is  highly 
creditable,  and  being  studious  and  anilntious,  lie  is  a  growing  man. 

Mr.  Landry  was  tirst  elected  to  the  local  ])arliament  at  the  general  eleclion  in  INTO,  at 
which  date  his  father  retired  ;  was  defeated  in  187-1',  on  the  separati-  school  (picstion  ;  was  once 
more  successful  in  1878,  and  is  now  serving  liis  second  term  in  a  legislative  body  ;  ho  was  aji- 
pointed  a  member  of  the  executive  council  and  chief  coiinnissioner  of  puhlic  works,  .luly  I.S, 
1878,  lieiiig  then  letuiiU'd  by  acclamation  and  still  holds  that  position  ;  his  politics  are  Lilieral- 
C'onservative  ;  Mr.  Landry  serveil  two  years  in  the  county  council,  and  one  of  them  as  warden. 

Mr.  Landry  is  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  ("hurdi,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  nohody 
who  knows  him,  doubts  the  sincerity  of  liis  belief,  the  fervor  of  his  faith,  or  the  purity  of  his 
life. 

He  married  in  September,  1872,  Mi.ss  15.  A.  McCarthy,  ilaughter  of  Timothy  McCarthy,  of 
Frcdericton,  and  they  have  buried  three  children,  and  have  two  sons  living. 

.Mr.  Landry  was  a  delegate,  in  June,  1874.  to  the  Frencli  re-union,  held  at  Jlontreal,  and 
again  at  (^tiiebec  in  1880  -it  being  a  meeting  of  all  the  French  elements  in  the  Dominion.  He 
was  jirt'sident  of  the  Kivnch-Acadian  convention  held  in  .July,  1S81,  at  .Memranicook. 


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GEORGE    CALIIOUX, 

UorKWELl  CAVE,  y.it. 

/^  ICOllCiE  CALirOUN,  registrar  of  deeds  for  the  county  of  Albert,  and  a  native  of  the  same 
vj~  county,  was  born  at  Hopewell,  on  the  28th  of  January,  181  k  His  fathei-,  John  Calhoun, 
was  born  in  the  same  parish;  the  ( 'alhoun  family  in  this  province  being  iiriginally  fi-om  Balti- 
more, Maryland,  leaving  there  when  that  country  was  under  the  Ihitish  thig.  Thomas  Calhoun, 
grandfather  of  Ceorge,was  the  first  and,  as  long  as  he  lived,  tlie  only  magistrate  in  what  is  now 
the  county  of  .Mbert,  which  was  formerly  a  part  <if  Westmoivlaiid.  .rohn  ('alhoun  marricil 
Rebecca  I^Tiul,  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  she  was  the  mother  of  twelve  children,  of  whom 
(ieorw  is  the  tenth  child,  and  sixth  sun.  He  had  oniv  an  oiilinaiv  common  school  drill,  and  is 
largely  self-educated ;  farmed  with  his  father  at  Hopewell  Cape  until  lu'  had  reached  his  nia- 
jority,  and  was  subsci|ue)itly  a  nn'ichaiit  and  j>ost-master,  never,  however,  completely  abandon- 
ing agriculture,  his  farm  consisting  of  150  acres,     lie  is  in  very  comfortable  circumstances. 

When  Albert  county  was  set  off  from  Westmoreland,  ami  the  county  officers  were  ajipointed 
(1 840),  the  post  of  registrar  of  deeds  was  assigned  to  him,  and  he  has  luld  it  ever  since — a 
perioil  of  thirty-five  years.  He  is  also  a  justice  of  the  peace,  ntlicial  assignee,  commissioner  for 
taking  aflidavits  and  bail  in  the  suj)reme  court,  and  has  helil  other  local  oflices.  There  is  no 
more  faithful  ofKcial  in  AUiert  county. 


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Mr.  ( 'allioiiH  is  n  iiii'inlu'r  of  tlic  I'ltptist  clmi'di,  and  liis  iicii^'liluirs,  wlio  best  know  liiiii, 
givt'  liiiii  criMlit  fur  liaviii;^;  livod  «  fonsistcnt  iiiiil  i'Nciii]iliii  y  lit'i'. 

lie  inaiiicil,  in  ISJtS,  Miss  riiivinid  I'cok,  liaiiLjliti'r  ol"  IiciiImii  I'nU,  df  iliipL'wcli,  ami  slic 
lias  Iiad  five  iliildrfii,  bnrviiif^  two  of  tliciii.  .loliii  II.,  tlic  ciilfst  .son  ii\  iiii,',  is  a  ImuiptT  and 
woolen  niaiinf'actMri'r,  at  Snninicisidc,  I'.K.I.,  and  was  lately  a  ini'niliei'  of  tlie  local  J.e;,'islatnre ; 
Natlianiel  C.  is  a  Iiotel-koeper  at  Aiiiliorst,  N.S,,  and  Amelia  Jane  is  married  tu  l>r,  Hiadley,  a 
dentist  at  Moncton,  N.H. 

Mr.  (,'allioiin  lins  .>-(ime  veiy  interesting  lei,'al  and  otlier  jiapers,  issiH'd  in  tlie  days  of  liis 
<,'vandfatlier,  'i'liomas  ( 'allmim,  ami  liis  ^'reat-^^randfatlier,  .lolin  Callionn,  durin^r  tlie  reif^n  of 
(ieore;e  III.;  a  needle-wronLjIlt  poeket-l'ook,  Iiroiij,dit  to  tliis  province  by  Lis  j^randfatlior  ;  a 
letter  fi'om  Hon.  Jolin  ( '.  Callioun  (1m2S),  then  vice-president  of  the  I'nited  States,  etc.,  etc. 


irr.    WVA.   .lAMKS    KOCKUS,    D.I)., 

CJIArilAM,  N.li. 

nlS  LOKDSII  IP,  wliose  name  we  liave  placed  at  the  head  of  this  -ketcli,  is  a  native  of  the 
county  of  DoncLjal,  Irelaml,  datint;  his  liiith  at  Mount  Chaiies,  on  the  llthof  July, 
liS^il,  he  hein^- tlie  eldest  child  and  only  son  of  Jului  I'o^^'crs  and  .Mary  Uritton.  Both  jpareiits 
weic  iiorn  in  that  pait  of  Ireland.  The  family  emi,i,'rated  to  Halifax.  N.  S.,  in  IN.Sl,  our  subject 
beiiif,'  in  his  tifth  year.  There  he  ^rew  to  manhood,  and  received  his  ijcueral  and  elas.sical  edu- 
cation in  St.  Marys  collei,'e,  completinj,^  his  theological  studies  at  the  Snipieian  seminary,  Mon- 
treal. His  pr^imoticius  in  orders  were  as  follows:-^!)  To  tonsuics  and  minor  orders  at  the 
cathedral,  Halifax,  on  the  2.')th  of  August,  1S.")0  ;  (2)  to  sub-deai'on  on  the  day  fcMlowing;  (3) 
•leacon  at  the  j^rand  seminary,  Montreal,  on  the  1  Hli  of  June,  ].s'»l.  by  liishop  Iioiu'get,  and  [i) 
]>riest,  at  Halifax,  on  the  2nd  of  July,  same  year,  by  Arehbishup  Walsh. 

He  was  eULjaL^'ed  as  priest  in  the  arehdioeese  nf  Halifax  in  various  missions  in  th(>  counties 
of  Digby,  .Vnnapolis,  Cundiei'lantl,  etc.,  in  NUva  Scotia,  and  fur  two  years  (bS.lT-IH'nS)  in  the 
island.s  of  Hermudas,  where  he  commem-ed  the  erection  (jf  the  first  Catholic  church  ever  built 
in  tho.se  islands.  In  1S.')!I,  lie  was  apjiointed  secretary  to  Arcliliishop  ('onnolly,  of  Halifax,  and 
at  the  .same  time  to  a  prufes.soi-ship  in  the  St.  .Mary's  college,  in  which  institution  he  had  held  a 
.similar  position  prior  to  liis  onlination 

On  the  8th  of  May,  l.SliO,  he  was  appninted  to  the  new  I \  -erected  diocese  of  <  'liatham,  which 
eouiprises  tlie  northern  half  of  New  lirun^wick,  and  received  episcopal  consecration  at  t 'liai- 
lottetuwn.  1*.  E.  1.,  in  company  with  liishop  Mclntyie  uf  that  See,  at  the  hands  of  .Archbishop 
Connolly,  on  the  l.lthof  August  following.  Bishops  M<d\innon  of  Arichat,  Sweeney,  of  St.  John, 
Is.  H.,  Mullock,  of  St.  Johns,  \.F.,  and  l.)alton,of  Harlnn-  (Jrace,  N.l''.,  being  also  present  l''rom 
that  ilate  he  has  continueil  to  perfurni  with  great  assiduity,  zeal  and  faithfulness,  the  various 
duties  of  his  otiice  as  bishop.  Huiing  this  ])eriod  several  religioiis  institutions  of  eckuation 
have  been  established,  churches  built,  the  numlier  of  eler'^v  incieased,  and  the  wurk  nfcnerallv 
ha.s  greatly  pro.spereil  in  hi.s  hands.  He  is  a  man  of  gical  industry,  \\hully  ile  voted  to  the  duties 
of  his  sacred  calling,  and  a  good  organi/ei'  of  clerical  forces  for  spiiitual  work, 

The  pastoi'al  letteis  of  his  lordsliip,  the  bishop,  are  inimerous,  and  they  bri'athe  an  excellent 
.spirit.     Three  or  fourof  them  the  wiiter  hapi>eii.s  to  have  in  his  po.s,sessi()n,  and  will  take  the 


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lilicrty  of  iiiiikin^'  \w\\'  ami  tlu'iv,  an  I'Xtiiict,  slutwiiii,'  tlu'  spirit  of  tln'  man,  his  tomler  rci^anl 
for  Ills  flocis,  etc.  In  tlic  suninicr  of  llSd?,  ln'  alti'iidol  tlic  i'ii,'litt.'L'ntli  ci'ntciiai'y  ci'lfliration  of 
tlio  martynloiii  of  S.iints  I'ctcr  ami  I'aiil,  and  tlio  caiioni/ation  of  saints,  lioid  in  tlic  N'atican 
Basilica  of  St.  I'l'ti'i's,  at  llunn',  ami  adilivssed  a  pastoral  Ifttor  to  tlic  clergy  and  laity  of  his 
diocese,  openin;,'  in  the  following'  manner: 

The  (ililiyiitiiiiiH  ef  till'  |iiist(ir:il  cliari,'!!  in  ii  new  cinnitry  whcru  iiur  on-Iiilinren*  nf  thu  I'liTjjy,  tlnni^li 
lU'Vetuil  anil  faillifiil,  were  tun  U-w  in  ninnlier,  in.iUin.;  it  n  huh.i  iry  fur  n-t  tn  ..triw  tn  Hupiily  teni|iipnirily  tliin 
ntiini'iiciil  (li'lirii'miy  liy  iMircuvn  liiliur  in  vaiiciiis  |iaits  nf  eur  ilicn'i'so,  f^avo  in  oivasinn  clnriiii;  tlic  past  years  nf 
our  t'liisiMipatc  fii'i|iiently  t(i  visit  ami  aiJilresH  in  piTs  )n  all  t lie  scat terod  iiniiiiliei'd  nf  miw  ileveteil  llnck .  Itiit 
now  aJHoiit  fill'  tlie  lirst  tiiiie,  mi  tliat  vi.iit  nf  lilial  ri)!<pei't  anil  aU'etinn  wliii!li  it  is  llie  iliity  of  a  liislmp  tn  pay  t'l 
the  successiir  of  St,  IV»er,  the  vioeneieiit  of  l.!liii8l  mi  eaitli  ami  visihle  lieail  of  Hiscluircli  ;  ami  this  almeiico  lieini; 
pi'olmi;,'eil  for  tlie  purpose  of  uniting!  «illimir  veiieralile  lirotliers  in  the  Kpiseopaey  frmii  all  parts  of  the  Woria, 
who,  at  the  invit  itioii  nf  the  llnly  Katluir,  inseiiilileil  nroiiml  the  iliair  of  I'eter,  we  gladly  fullil  a  duty  in 
addro-iHini,'  ymi  frmii  Koine  itself  a  word  of  pastoral  iiistrnetioii  ami  ronsolatimi. 

Ymi  know  tlie  olijeL'l,  dearly  lieloved  liri'threii,  for  wliieli  the  I'ope  in\ited  the  liislinps  to  Koine.  On  tlio 
2!tth  of  .1  line  this  year,  ocenrreil  the  ei^hteeiilnimlreilth  aiiiiiversary  of  the  inirlyrdmii  of  Saints  I'eler  and 
I'a  il  ;  and  in  the  presi'iit  distiirlied  slate  nf  C'hrisleiidmn,  the  Ijoly  Father,  siicejssor  of  St.  I'eter,  deiireil  that 
the  liisliops  fiiltillin;.,'  thrmii,'liout  the  iiitimiH,  the  mission  of  St.  I'aiil,  wnnld  eomo  to  imito  with  liini,  over  the 
toiiil)  of  these  apostles,  mi  the  centenary  festival  of  th'ir  heroic  trinniph,  in  delilieratimi  and  prayer  ;  prayer  of 
thanKsi,'iviii.»  to  (!od  for  the  past  visilile,  iiiiraeilloiis  pioteetion  and  triiiiiiph  over  dilliiiilties  which  lie  has  ever 
Vouchsafed  to  His  cliiirch  ;  prayer  of  sniiplic  ilimi  for  the  continuation  of  His  .\lininhty  aid  to  that  cliuivh,  lli.t 
spouse,  the  inother,  nurse  and  guardian  of  His  people,  in  the  midst  of  the  moral,  social,  and  national  dillii'iiltieH 
nf  nur  times  :  dilliciiltics  which  the  irreliLtious  and  ievoliiiii)|i;iry  spirit,  so  indiistrioiisly  propa<,'aled  for  moiiio 
years  past,  has  created  not  alou  •  for  Kmiie  and  Italy,  hut  for  all  the  nations  ami  peoples  throuj;hout  t'liria- 
tendoni." 

(  hi  tlie  occasion  of  Ills  (lc|i;ii'tui'c  for  Kuiiic  to  tissist  at  the  iMcmucnical  Cotincii,  convoked  hy 
his  Holiness,  Pope  Pins  I  .K.,  for  tlie  Nth  of  Ducemhcf,  IMI!),  liishop  llogcfs  addi'u.sscd  to  the 
clci'i,'y  and  laity  of  his  diorcsc  iinotlicf  pastoial  li'ttcf,  full  of  such  wholesome  tciichiiiLjs  tis  tlio 
followino',  immcdiiitfly  after  (piotiiio-  from  Jainrs  ii.,  10,  "  Whosocvcf  .shall  ollcnd  in  one  of  tho 
commaiidmciits,  is  liocomc  i^nilty  of  all." 

"  Now  this  law  of  Oml  follows  lis  into  all  the  cniidifimiH  and  relatioiisliip<  of  life,  ami  exai'ts  that  all  our 
actions  lie  siilijcct  to  and  le^ul.ited  liy  it.  As  not  even  a  liiirciii  fall  from  our  held  without  (lod's  knowled'^e, 
nor  a  sparrow  fall  to  the  t^roimd  without  Hi.s  pcriuis.simi,  so  no  thoui^ht,  word  nor  act  of  ours,  no  matter  hnw 
trivial,  can  lie  indepundeut  of  Hini.  '  lii  Him  we  live,  inovo  and  have  nur  being. — [Acts  xvii.,  "JH.  ]  '  Every 
idle  Word  that  men  .sliall  speak,  they  shall  have  l,o  account  for  in  the  day  of  iiid','nii!iit.'  |  Mitt,  xii.,  'M.\  Not 
only  are  we  siiliject  to  Him  as  private  individuals,  but  in  every  possible  condition  of  life  are  wo  His  subjects  and 
bound  by  His  law.  It  regiil.ites  not  only  our  [irivato  and  personal  duties,  but  our  domestic  duties  in  our  rel  i- 
tions  with  our  family,  our  social  duties  in  our  relations  with  our  neighbors  ami  friends,  our  civil  duties  in  our 
relations  with  mir  fellowciliz  }iis  and  the  state  or  civil  government  under  which  we  live.  This  law  of  (iodaUii 
governs  emniiiunities  or  bodies  of  men  acting  collectively,  so  that  societies,  cities,  slates,  nations,  and  empires, 
acting  through  their  ollicial.s,  who,  in  tluMiame  of  all  the  fellow-citizciis  are  appointed  to  make  or  e.veciitc  the 
particular  lawsof  such  .society,  are  bound  like  individuals  to  resp,;ct  and  olicy  the  laws  of  the  Supronio  Killer  nf 
the  universe  Tiie  l.iws  which  they  make  for  their  nwii  iiitornal  governnient  can  only  be  binding  inaamuch  as 
they  arc  autlmrized  or  empowered  to  do  so  by  tho  law  of  tied — 'liy  Mo  kings  rule  and  princos  distrihiitii 
justice'  I  I'rov.  viii.,  lo.  Hi.  |  So  that  if  any  law  or  regulation  bo  made  or  put  in  force,  which  is  niauifestly 
opposed  to  the  divine  law.  such  law  is  not  binding  because  no  man  or  body  of  men  can  have  authority  to  cause 
(tod  to  bo  disobeyed.'' 

W'c  will  here  aild  iiii  address  of  tlic  clcio'y  of  the  diocese  of  Chatham  to  His  Holiness  Popo 
Pius  IX,  on  the  completion  of  his  Satli  anniversary  as  Pope,  together  with  the  response  of  his 
Holiness.  The  address  was  dated  at  Chatham  on  the  Mth  of  August  1S71,  and  signed  hy  Bishop 
lingers  iind  the  clergy  in  his  diocest^,  and  is  as  follows : 

Mild   IJi'lij  Ftitlur: 

We,  the  bishop  and  chrgy  of  the  dioecso  of  Chatliam,  being  .issombled  during  the  past  eight  days  in  the 
lioly  exercise  of  a  pastoral  retreat,  feel  it  a  grateful  duty  before  wo  separate,  to  express  to  Yniir  Holiness  tho 
Bcntnneiits  of  lilial  love  and  religious  Veneration  which  we  entertain  for  yoiir  sicred  p.'rsoii,  and  for  your  most 
uxiilted  oHice  as  vicai-  of  Christ  on  earth,  successor  of  blessed  I'eter,  and  visible  head  of  (lo  I's  Holy  (Jhurch. 

Wo  uuitu  with   our  brethren  in  all  parts  nf  tho   world  in  expro.ssii;^  mir  full  mid  rovoroiitial  iisiout, 

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lullit'siiiu  ami  oUilicnci;  to  tlio  tlccrues  of  the  lioly  Valican  Council,  which  procliiiiii  the  iiifiilliliility  of  the 
AiMi.stolic  Suo  ill  !.ll  its  ex  cittlinliu  dt'cisioiis. 

S\  c  siibiiiit  « ith  roviroiitiiil  docility,  huiii  'ily  and  love,  to  all  the  saerod  ordinances  of  the  same  Holy  Soo. 

In  atVectionatt  synijiathy  with  your  holiness,  wo  are  tilled  with  grief  and  indignation  on  account  of  the  cruel 
wro  ^8  and  injustices  which  rolilied  ymi  of  tlie  [latriiiiony  of  Peter,  ,ind  even  of  the  gnveriiiueiit  of  the  eternal 
city  itself,  inaking  you  virtually  a  ijrisoner,  and  dciiriving  you  of  the  liherty  necessary  t'  adiiiiuister  tlie  ali'airs 
of  the  miivcr.sal  church. 

Nevertheless,  amid  these  iiriefs  we  rejoice  at  tlie  singular  favor  wliich  (iod  has  licfito.ved  on  yon  in  jiro- 
longing  your  illustrious  poutilicate  to  the  '  years  of  I'eter  '  ;  which  favor,  the  tlrot  of  the  kind  as  yet  granted  to 
any  I'oiie  since  St.  I'eter.  has  called  f<irtli  the  grateful  rejoicings  of  t'atholics  evorvwheie. 

We  iiray  Onr  Lord  .lesus  Christ,  ami  implore  the  i  itcrcessiiui  of  llis  ever  iiiiiiiacnlate  ^'irL;ill  Mother,  of 
blessed  I'eter,  prince  of  aiiostles,  and  the  sull'r.iges  of  all  the  saints,  that  yon  may  still  live  long  and  happily 
until  yon  witness  the  triuini>h  of  the  Ciiurcii  and  of  the  Holy  See  '.  " 

Tlie  rt'lily  to  the  iiliove  ii<hlie.ss  was  maile  tn  lUsImp  Rogers,  in  the  iollowi'ig  lemler  and 
aft'ectionate  niannei- : 


]'vHi:ruhli-  Urvthi  !■  : 


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IIKALTII    AMI     AVoSToI.lc    llKM:|iIlTIOV. 


From  your  most  dutiful  letter,  tlated  the  liitli  of  last  .August,  together  willi  the  enclosed  adilrept  to  nr., 
Buhscribed  by  the  clergy  oi  y,.urdiocese,  we  have  been  as.iUred.  venerable  In  >ther,  of  the  sincere  respect  with 
which  yon  veiieiM  e  the  i>rero4atives  Divinely  conferred  on  this  .\postolic  .Sie  :  we  have  dso  seen  the  glowing 
zeal  of  yourael':  \vA  faithful  clergy  fi'r  the  cause  of  theChiirch.  as  vmIi  as  your  anil  tlieir  devoted  love  for  us,  ot 
which  many  e.idcnt  proofs  liiivc  liceii  given  both  in  our  attUctious  as  well  as  in  celebrating  tlie  favors  coiiferied 
on  us  by  a  -..lost  luercifnl  tiod. 

Tliesi' testimonies  of  your /,eal,  venerable  brother,  and  if  the  piety  and  faith  of  your  clergy  and  faithful 
people  have  iii'cli  giatilied  us;  and  whilewe  bliss  the  l)i\iiu' gcnidni  ss  for  arousing  in  tlie  children  of  the  Churdi. 
at  a  time  so  nnuli  in  rdcd,  tlu^  alacrity,  fervor  aiul  spirit  of  faiili,  ami  foi  strengthening  them  to  contend 
valiantly  for  the  most  holy  '■i.ise  of  religion,  we  im^reoxer  convey  to  you  .-ind  to  all  aliove  nientioiied,  with  our 
alt'ectioii.iti'  and  [uiliriiai  uelings,  the  eNpiessioii  of  merited  jiiaise  ami  onr  grateful  good  will  for  the  ollices 
of  illial  symiiatliy  and  b.ve  which  y(Ui  have  rendoied  us. 

Vol!  will  therefore  in  our  name,  vcneiable  brother,  make  known  the  sentiments  of  onr  paternal  charity 
Viotli  to  your  clergy,  thiougli  whom,  with  the  lulp  of  tiod,  we  irust  niuc)i  good  will  coiuf  up  'ii  tliat  di  icese,  .'itid 
to  all  those  beloved  children  of  yonr  Hock  wliosi' gn^at  loVc  and  devotiir.  for  us  y>ii  h. no  related,  .\lsoan- 
iiounci'  to  all  of  those  same  cliildren  the  apostolic  iM.uiediction  wliicli  from  our  inmos)  heart  we  impart  to  tlieiii. 
supplicating  for  them  the  abiiiid.iiice  <if  heavenly  grace,  that  tiny  may  evi-r  tiring  foitii  jojful  friiits  of  faith  and 
justice  : 

Not  doubting  but  that  you  will  continue  by  your  prayers  to  (b.d  to  aid  ns  in  our  so  great  contest  against 
iiiiipiity,  as  a  p~oof  of  our  good  will,  .iiid  as  an  eaincst  of  nil  tiiave/dy  succor,  we  nn  st  lo\  ingly  grant  to  you, 
vcueralile  bii'thcr.  and  to  your  tlock  our  Aposiohc  lluicdictioli. 

Dateil  at  St.  I'eter's,  Kome,  the  ITtli  day  of  .January,  iii  the  year  lAI'J.,  being  the  t weiily-si.xth  year  of  our 
jiontiticate. 

To  oiir  venerable  brother, 

.lames,  ilishop  of  Chatham, 

Clii.tham,   N.  Ihunswick,  Canada. 

Plls  IX..  PoiT,. 


Tiishop  Rogers  i.s  regaideil  as  one  of  tlic  alilest  preacliers  In  the  Roman  t'athulie  C'hiireh  in 
tlie  Miuitiine  I'nivinees.  lie  i-i  a  gentleman  of  jnost  l-imlly  iiiul  eimllal  ilisj)!>>ition,  ami  amoilel 
in  all  the  I'lnislian  cv)Uite.siea  ami  aiuonitie.'?  of  life. 


WILLLXM    I!.   MTf'K,  Q.C, 

ST.  .iniLW  iV./;. 


"tTTHvLl.VM  IIKNHV  TfCK,  hairister,  clerk  of  ilir  eiown,  ami  loiMiilor  .if  the  eily  of  St. 
V  V  .I.ihn.  was  horn  in  this  eoiinly,  on  tlio  27tl)  of  Fi'tiniaiy,  18:J1.  liis  parents  heing 
Mosi's  'i'm-k,  from  Maiite,  ami  Kli/.al>eth  Tia\  is,  a  itative  of  King's  euiinty,  N.U.,  and 
a  doseomlant  of  loyali-^ts.  Mr.  'I'liek  was  ediieated  in  St.  John,  ami  at  Snek>  ille,  dfSdtiiig 
I'oiii  yoais  (>>  study  ul  the  lattrr  [ilace  ;  slmlied  law  lietwe  n  tv..^  and  tlirec  years  with  the  late" 


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Tlon.  Li'inucl  A.  Wilmot,  lii-foro  lie  wont  on  thr  liencli  in  1S.')1  ;  finislioil  with  William  Jack, 
(^>.( '.,  ot"  St.  Jiilui,  ami  \V!is  aihnittcil  to  I'l-actise  in  iN');?,  ancl  calli^il  to  the  liar  in  IS.').').  He  was 
created  a  (Queen's  Counsel, and  appointed  clerk  of  the  crown,  in  June,  1N(;7,  and  Kccorder  of  tlie 
city  in  IsT^  Soon  aft^r  his  adnii.ssion,  ho  acquired  a  larj^e  practice,  which  has  steadily  in- 
creased. He  has  heen  eni,'ai,'e(l  as  loader  in  some  of  the  niost  ini])ortant  eases  in  the  ]>rnvince, 
civil  and  erinii?i;il.  and  his  reputation  has  extended  heyond  the  ]iro\  inee,  and  has  seemed  for 
him  i-etainers  \\\  important  cases  in  Nova  Scotia.  As  an  advocate,  lie  is  very  skilful,  and  is 
hold  and  enorjjetic,  and  has  a  niarkoil  re.iditioss  in  applyini,'  tin  law  to  the  \aryini^  facts  of  a 
case  durin;.,'  the  proi^ress  of  the  trial. 

-Ml'.  d"u' :k  is  a  very  active  jiolitician  few  men  working;  hardei'  than  he  for  his  confreres 
who  are  up  foi-  ]iailiamentary  otHce.  For  hiiriself,  honors  in  that  ilirection  seem  to  have  had  no 
attraction.  Ho  is  a  man  of  iniich  influence,  and  will  lahor  untiriiii^dy  to  send  a  frir-ml  to  Ottawa, 
wheri  ho  will  not  1,^0  himself.  He  is  a  Liheral-l.'onsi'ivati\e,  and,  as  far  as  we  can  asci'rtain,  a 
warm  admirer  and  an  onllm-iiastic  snpjiorter  of  Sir  Samuel  Leonard  Tllley,  the  leader  of  that 
partv  in  the  Province  of  Now  fh'unswiek. 

Mr.  Tuck  was  nia'ii' a  Frr.'  Mason  in  iNoO,  and  is  a  mendier  of  Portland  Union  LodLTe. 
He  is  an  adheieiit  of  the  Methodist  church  of  ( 'anada,  and  a  liliei'al  sujiporter  of  the  ( lospel, 
and  of  liene\()lent  institutions  ^rnerally. 

Mr.  'i'uck  married,  on  the  1st  of  Deci'inhrr,  l8.')7,  Sarah  Plnmmrr  Fa\dr,  dauuditer  of  ("o|. 
]f.  S.  !-"a\(ir,  of  Fastpovt,  Maine,  and  tlu'v  have  two  sons  and  two  <lani,'hters  living,',  and  have 
li'st  'wo  sons.     The  eldest  son,  Frank  H.,  has  just  ln^eii  adinitti'il  to  the  juactice  of  la^''. 


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HON.   CJIAr.LKS    N.   .sKIXMlvlf,   Q.C., 

,sT.  ./(///A',  N.n. 

^HAIHiFS  NKLSON  SKI  NX  Kit,  jud-e  of  piol.ate  tor  the  county  of  St.  John,  was  horn  in 
J  this  city,  on  the  I2th  March,  ls:?.T  ;  his  fatlier  Samm  1  Skintier.  a  contractor  and  huilder, 
was  l)(.vn  in  No\a  Seolia,  ami  his  patiM-nal  Lrrandfather  was  an  early  settler  in  the  .Maritime 
Provinces,  comin;.'' first  to  New  Brunswick  a  iVw  veai-  hefore  thooutiireak  of  the  American  colonies 


c 


Tl 


le  rilollK 


th 


if  Mr.  Skinnei  was  riielT  Shei'wood  (1   Idini.;,  whose  father,  Kohert  ( Sold 


luir. 


wa'-  ,1  SI 


war  tirst  rrterrt 


in  of  <  'iiptain  GoldiuL;.  «  loyalist,  haviri:,'  command  of  a  company  of  drai,'oons  durin^'  tin 


T 


\r    (, 


.Mi 


f:imil\ 


«t.Hr 


m  <,)iii'rn  s  c.iinitv.    ^■\v  ilrunswirk 


Mr.  Skiiuiii-  w 


as  e(;u-a 


ted  in  the  lornnion  and  u'liuiunar  schools  of  St.  John  ;  stmlied  ! 


iw 


withChailes  W .  Stockton,  Hsi|.,  same  city,  and  was  admitted  fo  practise   in  Is.'iS,  and  callfd 
to  the  liar  in  iMiO  ,  in  li.is  always  prartised  in  lii--  native  city,  and  hasliad  a  i^'ood  run  of  Im^iness 


th 


•vefd  co'irts  of'  tlie  p'-ov 


mce 


lu!  is  wli.it  w  ml  I  lieeall'd  a  "  clever  "   !a»'\er     well  ifjid 


in  his  profession,  a  tluent,  clear,  and  loi^'ical  speakor.  and  ne\i  1  failing;  to  present  his  cause  in  it.s 
hest  possilile  IJLjht  liefore  a  ji'iy.  II is  mind  is  of  tin-  judiidid  ca'^t  .  he  is  candiil.  homst  and 
impartial,  an  1  isadmiia'ily  adapted  for  the  jiost  width  he  holo^. 


Ml     SkllUicI'  W.is    I  lected    to    f h 


''islatuiv 


for  St.  Jol 


in  in 


isdl. 


'U    Olllv  twillt  V   eedlt 


yt'ars  of  i«;^e,  and  after  sciviii'.f  thrci'  years,  his  pnrt_\   was  defeated  <>n  tin'  ipicstion  01"  ( 'oiifedt-ra 


lion,  which  lie  fa voird  ;   lie    Nviis.i^iiili  elected  li\   tliesailK 


-titueiiey  in  iNi.i;,  and  in  AuLTtist 


of  the  ne.xl  yeai,  wu.s  apj>oiti(,cd  soiicitor-ycmral,  wliicii  nilice  he  lidd  until  lie  retired  tron 


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politics  in  tlio  spriui;  of  1S(!S,  in  wliich  year  lie  was  appointed  judge  of  probate ;  he  was  also 
created  a  Queen's  counsel  by  the  Provincial  (Jovernnient  in  that  year,  iiml  I ly  the  Dominion 
(jovernment  in  ls7.'? ;  he  continues  his  practice  at  the  bar  of  St,  John,  and  has  m  highly  credit- 
able standing  among  the  legal  fraternity. 

Judge  Skinner  has  been  a  member  of  the  city  council  (hiring  the  last  throe  years,  and  is, 
we  believe,  chaiiiiianof  the  connnittee  on  appeals  and  city  laws ;  he  is  an  oddfellow,  an  atteml- 
ant,  though  not  a  mendier  of  the  Baptist  ehurcli,  and  a  man  nf  libi'ial  impniscs  ami  unblemished 
characti'r. 


JuilLre  Skinner  mai'ried  nn  th 


Uli  of  .lanuarw  iMl").  Kliza  Jane,  clauLjhter  of  Daniel  Mc- 


Laughlin, of  St.  John,  and  tluv  have  eight  chilihvii. 


^^■|LIJA.M    rARKS    axd   so^\ 


W 


.ST.  JdllN,  N.H. 
HdiTAM  PAHKS,  {\\o  founder  of  the  first  cotton  null  in  Canada,  ami,  in  his  dav,  a  man 


if  much  enter])ii.se,  was  1 


torn  in 


the  county  of  Monaghan,  north  of  Ireland,  in  l.S(»(t. 


At  twenty-two  years  of  age,  as  we  learn  frnm  Uavin's  "The  Irislunan  in  ('anada,'  Mr.  Parkrs 


sniigrated  to  .New  Urun^wick 
cantile  trade  and  siiipping  bus 


iiin''inLr  w 


iih  liim  a  stock  of  linen 


1  goods,  and  rngMging  in  mcr- 


IJi'fon'  li'avin;;  tin-  old  co\intrv  he  had  mairied  Anne  HcLra 


u. 


i\-  w 


dioi 


n  111 


had  two  soirs  and  two  daiiidite 


In  bSffi  his  eldest  son,  Samuel  l^aiks,  1 


K'ln 


enouidi  to  iro  into  liusincss,  tjic  firm  of  William  Parks  am 


1  Soi 


1  was  loriiii' 


Samui. 


Park,-^ 


worthy  citi/m,  born 


in  IM!:!,  did  in  I^S(j3. 


John  Hegan  Park.s,  the  .sccon<l  son,  born  at  Portland,  adjoining  St.  John,  September  !)th, 
l.s3(),  and  educated  in  the  St.  John  ''raminar  school,  fitted  himself  f( 


ar 


or  a  civil  engineer,  being 
tided  to  A,  L.  Liglit,  then  chief  engineer  of  tlie  Kuropean  and  North  American  railway,  and 
serving  an  appienticeship  of  four  years. 

The  firm  of  William  Parks  and  Son  ha\iiig  made  up  their   minds  to  start  a  ci)tton  mil!,  in 
l.S(!l  John  11.  I'arks,  who  had  jdiiied  the  fiiiii,  went  to  Kiiuland,  seleetid  the  nenssary  maeliin- 


erv, 


ind  in 


a  short  tim 


ll 


le  mill   was 


u))  and  running,  starting  with  not  more  than  1. •")()() 


lindl 


es. 


T'p  to  I  be  time  (if  stalling  tliis  mill,  (dttoii  y 


irn   lia'l 


been    impdl'tl 


i\  ll  war  \\iis 


pr(ii:ressiiig  in  the  I  iiited  States  ;  the  price  of  cotton  had  gone  lip;  the  fdreign  niMiiufaetiir('i> 


Were  olili;;ed  to  Use    tli(!   cIk 


iipcst  (iiialilies;  and    the  (•(iilcii   yarn   made  was  so  in'   'jot-, -in 


un:<atisfactory  that  tliisseeiiie(l 
th'   character  of   this  article. 


o  l>(   t  he  (I 
•bi- 


ppol'lulK 


time  for  I'ai  k  -  an(|  Son  to  step 


ii>  they  (IkI  Willi  iheir  iiii|ir(i\c(l  maciimeiA 


p  in  .iikI  icijeem 
Using  llic  best 


American  cdltdii.        Their  success,"  writes  Davin,  "  cNceeded  tlieir  e.spectaiions,  and  th.  y  were 
aide  to  put  their  cdttdii  upon  the  market   at   but  a   slight   advance  over  the  inferior  JMigiish 


uticle.     With   t'onfedeiatioK  (l.S()7j   tluy  found  their  gooils  so 


niu 


ch 


n  (leinaml   th.'it    they 


direi'ted  all  their  ."tieiilidn  and  machinery  td  the  jirodiiction  of  yarn,  wliich  xmn  aliaiiie(|  as 
liigh  a  re)iuta.idn  in  the  I>dminion  as  it  enjoy (d  in  NCw  I'-runswick." 

In  ls7l»  V\  illiam  I'.iiks  having  sduie  business  t.o  transact  in  Kngland,  embaiked  on  llit> 
('ill/ III  liiixtiii'  and  she  wa.s  ne\er  lenid  froie.  His  death  was  a  sa<l  I'ws  to  tl**"  eomniunil*', 
he  ln'ing  idontilied  in  many  way.s  with  ilie  jiublic  intiuests.     IK-  hud  been  for  se%.  n   veins  pre- 


lUllWIlI    Vp  III    .     I^l| 


I  -Ir" 


s   1. 1 


i^^ 


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sidcnt  iif  tlio  ('V)inin('rcial  Ikiik  of  St.  Jolin,  .and  was  prcsidi'iit  of  the  woRt(>rn  extension,  now  St. 
Jolin  and  Maine  railway,  from  its  organization  to  its  completion  to  McAdani,  and  up  to  the 
time  of  his  death.  He  was  a  delej^ate  in  1H(I5  witli  tlie  Hon.  Jolin  Boyd,  W.  H.  Steeves, 
('.  H.  Fairweathc;-  and  otliers,  from  tlio  St.  John  hoard  of  trade,  to  tlie  IJetroit  commercial 
conNcntion. 

William  Parks  wa.s  one  of  the  founders  of  the  St.  John  I'reshytciian  church,  and  one  of 
its  ruling  ehlers  until  his  death  ;  also  a  member  of  the  evangelical  alliance  on  its  inception  in 
this  eommunity,  a  hody  which,  at  an  early  day,  did  good  work  in  the  higher  polities  of  the 
province.  In  the  ordinary  affairs  (jf  life  ^[r.  Parks  was  reserved  ami  s(df-reliant ;  and  to  one 
who  <lid  not  know  him,  might  he  considered  distant :  hut  one  of  the  delegates  with  him  to  the 
1  ictroit  convention  once  remarked  to  the  writer  of  this  sketch  tliat  to  those  who  knew  Mr. 
Parks,  and  obtained  eutr(^e  to  tlie  iinier  circle  of  his  life,  he  was  one  of  the  most  amiable,  genial 
and  lovable  of  men. 

The  demist  of  William  Paiks  left  the  cotton  mills  in  the  hands  of  John  H.,  who  is  now  the 
sole  proprii'tor  of  the  works,  which  cover  an  acre  or  more  t)f  ground,  turn  out  .'UXOOO  pounds  of 
yarn  weekly,  and  give  employment  to  between  :)•")()  and  400  men  and  women.  A  large  bleech- 
ing  ami  dyeing  department  is  included  in  tlu"  work--,  whirh  are  located  in  the  town  of  Portland, 
vet  a  shoit  mile  from  the  St.  John  post  otlice. 

The  pivsent  proprietor  of  thes(!  works  seems  to  have  iidu'rited  the  enterprising  spirit  of 
his  father,  he  being  a  director  of  the  St.  John  gas  light  company,  and  iilcntitied  with  other 
organizations  of  a  public  character.  He  has  heeii  eonnecteil  with  tlie  militia  from  his  youtii ; 
has  risen  from  the  ranks  to  the  post  of  niMJor,  and  is  jireside-nt  of  the  pro\incial  ritie  associ- 
af'on. 

He  marrietl,  in  18G3,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Kdwiii  Ketchuiu,  ileceased,  of  St.  John,  and 
the}-  have  nine  children.    The  family  wcjiship  at  St.  Stephen's  Presbyterian  church,  St.  John. 


HON.  Lii:uT.-(.'OL.  A.:\i()s  E.  ]Krrsroi{D, 

SACKVll.Li:,  N.ll. 

A  Mo;'  KJiWlN  liOTSKOUD,  --iMiator  from  New  P.tnnswick,  belongs  to  one  of  the  most 
pi-oiiiineiit  families  in  the  province.  His  grandfather,  .Vnios  Itotsibrd,  a  I'inted  JMnpire 
bo\alisi  fiom  Newton,  < 'oiiii.,  was  the  first  --peaker  of  the  New  l)ruii--wiek  .\ssemblv  aftir  it 
liecame  a  separate  province,  holding  that  otlice  for  tui  iity-eight  yi'ars  ;  and  his  father  Hon. 
William  Piotsford,  was  sp<'aker  of  the  same  iegisl;ui\e  hody,  and  one  of  the  judges  of  the  su- 
preme court  ot' the  provinee.  His  biothei,  also  Hon.  llliss  liotsfoid,  now  oiii'  of  the  judges  of 
the  pi()\ine",  has  also  been  sjieaker  of  thi'  New  ISriuisw  iek  ANsenibly.  The  piogenitor  of  the 
famiiv  on  this  continent,  Henry  IJotsford,  setileil  in  ('omieetieut  in  Ui.'U),  onh  nineteen  vears 
after  the  J/",'/  Hoi'rr  ero.ssed  the  ocean. 

Senator  llot.^ford  was  born  in  St.  John,  N,  M,  mi  (he  •2')th  of  September,  I.SOI-;  wa^  tdu- 
cated  at  Saekviile,  and  engaged  in  agrieiiltur.il  pursidts  He  mairied  in  I^G4,  Mary,  widow  of 
.biseph  v.  .Mlison.  of  Saekviile,  aiel  has  no  issue. 

Ml',  iiolsford  was  for  several  years  president  of  the  provinci.d  board  of  agrieullure,  takiii"- 
much  interest  in  sueh   matters;  was  connected  for  a  long  time  with  tlie  active  militia  of  the 


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j)r()viiico,  ami  now  holds  tln'  rank  of  liont. -colonel  of  tlin  2n(l  liattalionof  Wcstniorolaiul  county 
rcscrvo  militia  ;  was  president  of  tho  Dominion  I'itle  assoeiation  from  its  or^fanisation  nntil 
1S71,  and  is  now  vico-piesidont  of  tliat  l)ody  ;  was  senior  judL,'e  of  the  connuon  pleas  for  West- 
moreland for  a  numlier  of  years;  a  commissioner  with  Hon.  H.  R.  Chamllor,  iato  lieutenant 
governor  of  New  Ihunswick  (]8.S(i),  to  settle  the  boundary  line  lietween  Nova  Scotia  and  New 
Brunswick  ;  a  delegate  in  IS.SO  to  ^\'ashinJ,fton,  D.  ( '.,  resjiectinj^  the  liorder  ditlicuity ;  a  dele- 
gate to  Queliee  during  the  government  of  Lord  Durham,  to  discuss  measures  connected  witli 
the  general  interests  of  British  Noith  America;  a  coumiissioner  with  Colonel  William  Rohin- 
son,  and  Colonel  Joscjih  Bouchette,  to  define  the  disjmted  houndary  hetwi'eu  Canada  and  New 
Brunswick  ;  and  a  delegate  a  second  time,  to  Washington,  in  1S."):2,  re.i]ieeting  a  i-eciprocity 
treaty  with  the  United  States. 

Senator  Botsford  was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  Westmoreland  in  tlie  New  Hrunswhk 
Assenddj-  in  LMiO;  was  a  memher  of  tlie  executiv  council  from  iJSSiS  to  1S4(),  when 
he  resigned,  and  was  a  mendier  of  the  Legislative  Council  from  IS.S.S  luitil  the  Con- 
federation, l.s(i7.  Mr.  Hotsford  moved  and  carried  in  l.S.').'),  an  addition  to  the  stand- 
ing Older-;  of  the  Legislative  Council,  to  allow  the  puhlic  to  he  present  at  the  delihi'r- 
ations  of  that  hotly,  and  lie  moved  in  the  .sami'  House,  in  April,  1800,  resolutions  ajipr"\  ing  of 
the  Confederation  of  the  British  Noi'th  American  colonies.*  In  that  same  year  he  was  re- 
([Uested  to  foi'ui  an  aduunistration  for  New  iirunswiek  hut  declined. 

He  was  callfil  to  the  Senate  ly  roval  proelamation  in  May  1^07,  and  was  speaker  in  l^.^(•, 
makintr  the  fouitli  memher  of  that  familv   wlio  has  heeu  a  siieaker  of  a  l'arliamentar\-  hodv. 

His  experience  in  legislation  h.is  heen  wvy  extensive,  and  truly  \aliialile,  he  heing  a  man 
of  a  clear  mind  and  excellent  judgment.  He  is  a  prominent  layman  among  th(>  Kpiseopalians 
of  the  province,  and  a  man  of  sterling  character. 


IIOK  JAMES   r;.   STEVENS,  g.c, 

ST.  STEPHEN,  N.  II. 

AMKS  (ilv.W  STKVENS,  judge  of  the  county  courts  of  the  eounties  of   Charlotte.  Carle- 
ton.  N'ictoiia,  and  Madawaska,  was  liorn  in  IvlinKurgh,  Si'otlaud,  (pU  tl'.e  :2.")th  of  Fehruary, 
1  is  consei|uently  in  his  sixtieth  year.     l\r  is  a  son  of  .\ndiew  Stevens,  Hsi|.,  writer  to 


am 


J 

IS-J 

the  signet,  in  his  life  time  solicitor  of  the  sujier-      eourts  of  Scotland,  ami  freiMnan  of  'he  city 

,'r  of  Sir  Colin  <'amphell,of  Aui'lHidaeck, 
■haiaeti'r  and  line  talent,  a  eonlrihutor  to 
,'rolessor  Wilson  ('  Christoph(>r  North  "), 
the  authoi-  of  •'  Llewellyn,  or  the  Vale  of 
Although  descended  on  his  mother's  side 


of  Kdinhurgh,  and  (Irace  Ihichanan  Cam|)h.  II,  u, 

Ari'vleshire.      His  mother  was  a   woman    <>'  ma 

'Blackwood's  Magazine,"  an  intiuLate  aeipiaintaiu'e  .. 

and  the  founders  of  the  "  Kdinlairgh    Iteview."  and 

riiidvnnnon,"  "  Fanny  Fairtield  "   and  other  works. 

directly  from  tlie  utihility  of  Scotland,  we  .louht  if  Judge  Str\ens  thinks  as  much  of  it  as  of  the 

nohilitv  of  intellect  whieli  lie  inherited  finiii  his  moiher,      It  may  not  lie  out  of  |  iaee  to  here  rc- 

♦(li>e  of  till  iililcst  P]ii'filus  wliirli  Ml.  l'Mit«f<iril  iitiuk'  iliniiig  tlie  liiiii,'  iioriml  tliiil  hi"  was  in  the  le^'i.sl.iturii 
i.t  NuH  I'lruiiKWitU,  wiis  thiit  I'lie  lure  ri  tiinil  t",  ilelivcivil  iiii  the  4th  of  .\|  ril  (Isiili).  \  ..i|iy  of  the  «i.,i'c|i 
JM  liefiiri'  im.  :ili  iliilMiriite  ileluil  I'f  the  cniiillliuli  nf  Ihr  si-Vi-riil  |itnviMres  tifleeii  yeiifn  ai:  iiml  tin  liriiilits 
wliiih  he  lirliiv.  il  wniilil  he  ilurived  fvni  luiifeihraliiiii.  I'his  foriii.sio  itlWrt  slinws  ii  K'""'  <h  al  nf  liireflil  re- 
Hoan-li  uml  invi-HUyatien  nii  the  |iaii  "i  the  s[u  ■lUer  .iinl  hi.s  (li'lintini,'  imwrr.'t  tn  die  liest  mh  iiiniye. 


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mark  tliat  liis  maternal  aunt  was  tlic  first  wife  of  tiie  celebrated  Sir  John  Richardson,  an  asso- 
ciate of  Sir  John  Franklin  in  Arctic  exiHMlitions.  Ono  of  the  hrotliers  of  our  suhject  was  Alex- 
ander Oaini)l)ell  Stevens,  a  prominent  ])hysician  and  surgeon,  wlio  died  in  Edinburgh  about 
twentv-tive  years  ago,  and  anotlier  brother.  Rev.  An<liew  Stevens,  whom  the  judge  accompanied 
to  this  iirnvince,  i.s  a  nunister  of  the  Cliurch  of  Scotland,  in  New  Zealand. 

Judge  Stevens  fiiushed  his  literary  education  in  the  Edinburgh  university,  partly  under 
the  tuition  of  such  men  as  Sir  William  Tlamilton  and  "  Christopher  North";  came  to  New  l^runs- 
wick  in  l.S+O,  and  located  at  St.  Stejihen;  c  luner.ced  the  study  of  law  at  St.  Stephen,  with 
Alexander  ( 'ampbcll,  now  (formerly  a  judge)  in  California,  finished  with  David  Shanks  Kerr, 
then  practising  at  Fredericton  :  was  admitted  to  practise  in  1845  ;  called  to  the  bar  at  Michael- 
mas term,  l>s47  ;  createcl  a  Queen's  Counsel  in  February,  ISO?,  and  practised  his  profession  at  St. 
Stephen  until  appointed  to  hi-  present  position  on  the  bench,  June  lOth,  lN(!7.  While  at  the 
bai',  as  we  learn  from  the  "  Legal  Directory,"  lu-  "  had  an  extensive  and  varied  practice  in  law 
and  wpiity  courts.  He  was  bruuglit  into  more  prominent  notice  in  the  conduct  and  argument 
of  a  case  in  ec|uity,  in  wliicli  lie  acted  as  counsel  for  the  plaintitts— the  jiresident,  directors,  and 
company  of  the  St.  Stephen's  Dank — against  the  New  Biunswick  and  Canaila  Railway  and 
Land  Company.  The  case  was  ajipealed  to  the  Privy  Council  in  England,  and  the  judgment  of 
till-  provincial  court  wa.-  there  sustained  in  fa\c)r  of  plaintiffs,  Mr.  Stevens'  clients." 

Judge  Stevens  sat  for  the  county  of  ( 'liarlotte,  in  tlit;  New  iJruiiswick  Assembly,  from  l.SOl 
to  MaK'h,  ING"),  when  he  was  d<deated  on  the  (juestioii  of  confederation,  of  which  he  was  in 
favor,  and  again  from  iNGfi,  until  he  went  on  the  bench  the  next  year.  He  succeeded  in  getting 
an. Vet  |)assed,  ielie\iiig  the  port  of  St.  Stephen  from  payment  of  export  duties,  which  was  much 
opposeil,  on  account  of  lieuig  considered  as  exceptional  legislation,  and  former  attempts  by  others 
to  pass  the  liillluKl  been  unsuccessful.  He  dictateil  much  of  the  correspondence  which  had  to  be 
transmitted  to  the  home  government  liy  the  attormy-general  through  the  then  lieut.-governoi-, 
and  nuich  credit  was  awarded  to  Mr.  Sti'\ens  for  ability,  tact,  and  persistency  in  carrying  a 
measure  which,  at  the  time,  was  so  important  to  the  interests  of  St.  Stephen. 

IFis  speech  in  the  legislature,  on  on(;  of  the  most  important  (piestions  of  the  then  time,  for 
the  extension  of  lailwaj's  through  the  provinces,  is  described  by  one  of  the  leading  papers  as  one 
of  the  most  cloipii'Mt  and  brilliant  speeches  relative  to  the  importance  of  the  subject,  and  the 
men  who  in  foinier  years  ailvocated  it,  as  was  evei-  hearil.  Judge  Stevens  was  a  successful  legis- 
lator, and  there  are  sevnal  of  his  Acts  on  the  statute  book  which  mark  his  diligence  and  ability 
in  this  respect. 

Judge  Stevens  is  till'  autiior  of  I,  ■  .\n  .Analytical  ]>igest  of  the  Decisions  of  the  Supreme 
Courts  of  .New  Diuuswick,  fiom  lM2.')  to  Easter  term,  1N73,  inclusive. "  St.  John,  l>s73.  -nd 
edition,  Toronto,  LSM)  ;  (2),  "  Index  to  the  Statutes,  Rules,  Orders,  Regulations,  Treatises,  and 
Proclamations  of  the  Donnnion  of  ("anada."  St.  Stephen,  ls7<»,  and  (8),  "  Indictable  Offences 
and  Sumnuiry  < 'onvictious. "  Toronto  Issd.  'i'hcse  several  woik>  were  prepared  with  great 
care,  and  havi'  had  a  large  sale  among  the  legal  profession. 

Though  always  very  studious,  and  whether  at  the  bar  or  on  llie  bench,  attending  promptly 
and  f.iithfully  to  his  duties,  yet  the  jud^e  has  found  time  to  attend  to  ofhi'ial  woik  of  various 
kinds  in  the  public  interest,  and  has  never  failed  to  identify  lumself  with  enterprises  cah-uJated 
to  benefit  the  couMuunily.  He  was  for  nearly  thirty  years  president  of  the  St.  Croix  agricul- 
t\n-al  society,  and  for  eight  years  secretary  of  flu-  provincial  board  (jf  agriculture,  he  luiving  a 
tasti'  for  such  junstnts,  and  especially  for  horticulture  and  Injtany  The  jud^fe  is  rarely  happier 
than  when  among  his  llowei-      In  Fel)ruaiy,  lN(jl,  he   wa-  jiresented  by  the  prcjviucial  board 


040 


THE  CANADIAN  nWGI{APniCA  L  DWTIONAItV. 


of  iij,'iic'ultun'  witli  a  liaiidsoiiic  «ilvi'i'  urn,  as  a  \w\yx'  for  an  i.'.ssay  on  liic  agricultural  condition 
of  (.'iiailotte  county. 

His  interest  in  education  is  especially  a.s  great,  and  lie  was  for  twenty  years  a  school  trustee 
under  the  old  system,  and  is  now  diairnianof  the  board  of  trustees  under  the  new  law.  He  has 
often  lectured  on  a  variety  of  topics  before  niechanies'  institutes  and  other  societit\s,  and  always 
draws  a  full  luiuse.  In  the  last  thirty  yeai's  he  nuist  have  spoken  at  least  eii,dit  iiv  ten  times  be- 
fore the  St.  .lohn's  mechanic  institute  alone  ;  and  seems  to  be  nmst  popidar  wlieii  ofteiu^st  heard. 
Some  years  ago  he  travelled  in  ditlerent  parts  ol'  the  jirovince,  and  lecturetl  to  the  farmers  on 
agi'ieulture,  and  tlnis  awakened  among  them  fresh  interest  on  that  subject. 

Helieving  that  manufactures  tend  to  builil  up  a  town,  ami  indirectly  the  country,  Judge 
Stevens  has  never  been  slow  in  trying  to  enrourage  their  establishment;  nor  was  he  seendngly 
ever  more  interested  in  such  matters  than  at  the  present  time.  He  was  the  prime  mover  in  the 
last  enterprise  of  this  kind  in  St.  Stejihen — the  buiiiliiig  of  a  cotton  factory,  which  is  now  in 
the  jirocess  of  eirction.  and   which  will  cost  aliuut  .S,")()(),()()(). 

Judge  Stevens  is  pi-esiJent  of  the  St.  Stej)hen  liranch  of  the  Ihble  society,  auxiliary  to  the 
Briti.sh  and  Foreign  society,  and  is  a  very  prominent  layman  in  the  I'resbyterian  church.  In 
January,  ]M."):2,  he  was  jiresented  M'ith  a  gold  watch  by  the  membeis  of  the  chureli,  as  a  mark  of 
their  respect  and  estrcin,  and  that  watch  he  still  carries.  He  was  a  delegate  to  tlie  great  con- 
vention, held  at  AbiMtreal,  in  June,  1X7."),  and  which  resulted  in  the  consununation  of  a  final 
union.  He  was  called  out  on  that  occasion,  and  made  a  platft)rm  speech,  which  the  news})aper 
reporters  called  "  lively,  racy,  soul-stirring,"  and  saitl  it  "  drew  forth  great  and  repeateil  biirsts  of 
applau.se." 

Judge  Stevens  married,  in  DeeiMubei-,  18t5,  Elizabeth  Helen,  daughter  of  John  Marks,  son 
of  a  Loyalist,  and  slie  is  the  mother  of  fifteen  children,  all  yet  li\ing  but  two.  James  (tray,  Jr., 
the  elilest  son,  is  of  the  firm  of  Stevens  and  Jliti'hell,  barristrvs,  St.  Stejihen  ;  Andrew  isagrain 
merchant,  Monticelio,  Illinois  ;  Atlieling  Campbell  is  a  clerk  for  E.  ( '.  Clark  and  Co.,  merchants, 
St.  Louis,  .Mo. ;  John  Marks  is  a  law  student,  St.  Stephen  ;  Helen  .Marks  is  married  to  John  G.  Or- 
chard, manager  of  the  Canadian  Bank  of  (-'onunerce,  ('hieago;  Klizabeth,  to  John  J.  Morrison, 
accountant  I>ank  of  Itritish  North  .Vnurica,  St.  .lohn  ;  Sarah  Oiiuuir,  to  Wi'liam  H.  T<irrenee,  ac- 
countant Canadian  Lank  of  Conuneree,  ISrantford,  Dutario  ;  and  (irace  Buc.ianan,  Fannie  Alice, 
Ami  Wardlaw,  Kate  Aubrey,  Robert  Walton,  and  Walter  Scott,  arc  at  home,  most  of  them  pur- 
suiui,'  their  studies. 


I 


IJEV.   CIIAJILKS    S.   MEDLEY,    li.A., 
SUSSEX,  y.  /;. 

CIIAllLKS  STIJNKOrFF  MEE)Li:V,  rector  of  Sussex,  was  born  in  Truro,  Cornwall,  Eng- 
land, on  the  Uith  of  Septemlier,  1  h.'}.'> ;  ho  is  a  s  m  of  the  Right  Rev.  John  Medley,  D.  D., 
Bi.sliojiof  Fredericton  and(  'liristiana  Bacon,  a  granddaughtei'  of  the  great  English  sculptor  of  that 
name;  he  received  his  early  education  iu  the  cla.ssici  and  mathematics,  at  .Marlbdrough  college, 
Wiltshire,  a  preparatory  school  for  boys  ;  came  out  to  New  Brunswick  in  bS-').'),  his  father  having 
preceded  liim;  took  the  arts  conr-^e  at  Ring's  colieM-c^  Frcdericton  ;  studied  thenlogy  with  his 
fatJM  I.  and  was  oidained  deacon  by  his  father  in  -Inne.  iN.')!),  and  juie^t  tiie  nest  year;  he  was 


TUE  CAXADIAK  BtOGUAVIlICAL  DWTIOXAliY. 


G41 


first  sent  to  tlic  mission  of  Don^'las,  York  county  (N.  15.),  wlierc  lio  laliorcd  fiftci'ii  nioiitlis, 
sfi'vihi,'  nu'imwliilr,  as  ii  scliool  trustee  iind  doinji  <'ooil  literarx'  as  v.cll  as  n-liifions  work. 

l''roni  D()Ui,'las,  Jlr.  Mcdlex'  returned  to  Frederietoii,  to  assist  liis  fatlier  in  tlie  catliodrni  ; 
went  tlience  to  St.  Joliiis,  XowFoundlaiid,  wliere  lie  was  incunilient  ot'St.  Marys  foi' three  years, 
returned  to  New  I'lunswick  to  lieeonie  rector  of  Sussex,  in  l.Sd?.  Since  lie  settled  liere,  a  neat 
and  .'asty  eliiircli  of  tlie  Gotliic  style  lia.s  been  Iniilt,  witli  Mack  asli  and  |)ine  slleatllill^^  ami  no 
plaster  visihle  — one  of  the  first  liouscs  of  worship  of  tlie  kind  erected  in  this  province.  The  old 
cliurch,  whose  ]ilace  it  took,  was  one  of  the  first  Imilt  in  thi.s  part  of  New  Brunswick,  and  Siisse.K 
was  early  settled  liy  U.  Iv  Loyalists.  The  church  is  situateil  half  a  iiiiie  out  of  the  vilhiij-e.  anil 
like  the  residence  of  the  rector,  a  few  rods  from  it,  has  lieautiful  rural  surroundintrs,  and  is  an 
itnitiiiiT  place  in  which  to  woi'ship  (iod. 

Air.  Medley  was  ajjpoiuted  canon  to  the  cathedral  at  Freileiicton  in  IS(Jt),  rural  dean  in 
duly.  liSSO;  he  is  an  elej,'ant  sc'liolar,  a  polisheil  writer,  a  sound  theologian,  and  has  a  i>leasant 
delivery  ;  hence  his  pulpit  efforts  are  very  satisfactory  to  his  parishioners. 

Canon  Medley  was  mnrried  on  the  21.st  of  April,  I,S(i4,  to  ("harhitte,  daughter  of  llohert 
Bird,  Ksc|.,  of  Birdtown,  York  county,  N.  B.     They  have  no  children. 


I'c,  ac- 

.\lice, 

[iiir- 


E 1  )AVARI)    :Nt.SWE KN E Y, 

MONCTOX,  X.li. 

Til  hi  suli'iect  of  this  notice,  one  of  the  leading  merchants  ii:  Moncton,  and  late  chairman  of 
its  town  council,  was  liorn  in  JUllsliorough,  N.B,,  on  tlie  lOtli  of  ])(!cember,  1.S.S8,  his 
parents  being  Peter  and  Joanna  (Downing)  .McSwiM'iiey.  His  father,  a  gentleman  of  means  and 
]insition,  is  a  justice  of  tlie  peace  for  the  county  of  Westmoreland.  He  cnnie  from  Keiimare, 
Ireland,  and  his  motliei'  from  Killarney,  in  the  .same  country. 

The  family  moved  from  Hillsborough  to  .Moncton  when  Kdward  was  two  fir  thiee  years 
old,  and  he  was  educated  in  the  jiublic  .schools  of  the  latter  place,  with  supplementary  instruc- 
tion by  his  father,  who  is  an  excellent  classical  scholar. 

When  almost  ei'diteen,  Mr.  McSweiiiev  was  placed  for  two  years  in  tlie  warehouse  of 
Messrs.  Doherty  and  .McTavish,  of  St.  .bihn  and  returned  thence  to  Moncton,  in  charge  o:  a 
brancli  house,  owned  by  the  same  firm,  going  into  business  for  liiinself  in  lS(i7.  He  is  of  the 
firm  of  NbSweeiiey  Brothels,  his  partner  being  Thomas  McSweeiiey.  a  younger  brother.  They 
have  one  of  the  largest  and  tiiiesi  waielioiise-  in  this  jncixince;  deal  largely  in  general  dry 
goods,  and  make  a  specialty  of  cari>etiiigs  and  household  furnishings  of  I'Very  description;  and 
\\t)o(|  and  u])liolsterv  furniture  of  every  grai'i'  from  common  to  the  most  expensix'c.  Foi-  these 
tlie\-  Iind  numerous  eustomers  in  the  diti'erent  sections  of  the  lower  |iidvinees.  'i'liey  ha\'i'  aNo 
a  custom  clothing  manufactory,  where  a  large  niiiiib',.'r  of  hands  are  given  constant  employment 
the  year  round. 

Mr.  McSwc.-ne_\  is  a  member  of  the  local  school  board,  an<l  has  been  for  some  years,  he 
taking  a  good  dial  of  interest  in  education,  lieing  willing  to  devote  a  reasonable  anioimt  of  time 
to  the  i'liitlieianee  of  that  canst".  He  was  eliairman  of  the  town  council  for  two  years  jsTl) 
and  liH.SO)  and  made  an  eliicient  head  of  the  miinicipality,  several  important  public  improve^ 
meiits  being  canieil  out  while  he  was  in  that  position. 


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C42  THE  CAX.HU.IX  niOGRA  I'lltCA  I.  DIVTlOXAlir. 

Mr.  McSwi'ciicy  is  a  IJciiimn  Catliolic,  fiml  Ih'mts  an  cxrrllciit  cliiiractci'  t'ui'  ('(Hisistciicy  i\' 
life.  He  iiianiccl,  in  |S7N,  Jcniiii'  Masters  Arcliiiii\lcl,  daiii^'litcr  nf  William  ArcliiliMlil,  aiul 
ffraii(Maiii,fhtiM'  of  tlic  late  Alexander  Ijdckie  Areliilialil,  wlu)  represeiiti'il  the  tii\viislii|)  of  Truro 
ill  till'  Nova  Scotia  House  of  Asseiiil>ly  from  l.s:i()  to  ISii',  niut  from  IS47  to  l.S">l,  his  ^'rand- 
father.  Matthew  .\rehiliahl.  beine;  also  a  ie|ireseiitative  of  the  sume  to^nsliij)  in  tlu'  .\ssemhly 
from  \7>^'>  to  170!*.     They  have  one  son,  Kdwaril  Aivhiliald,  aj;e(l  two  years. 


SAMUEL   THOMSON,   ().C., 

NEWCASTLE,  X.ll. 

SAMITEL  THOMSON,  jiiil-e  of  prol.ate  and  el.rk  of  tlie  cniiiU- conrt,  Nortlnniiherland, 
N.B.,  was  born  nt  <  'hathani,  in  this  eounty,  on  the  17th  of  Oetoiter,  18:^.').  His  fatlicr  was 
the  !lev.  James  Thomson,  a  Presbyterian  minister,  who  eami'  from  Dumfries,  Scotland,  to  New 
liriinswiek.  in  iNKj,  preached  at  t'hatham  and  there  died  in  1X30.  His  mother  wa.s  Catherine 
McKny,  who  was  also  from  Scotlaml  and  died  in  bS.'iS.  .Mr.  Thomson  received  a  i;rammar 
school  ethication  ;  studied  law  with  John  Ambrose  Street  and  (leoiixe  Kerr,  Chatham;  was 
admitted  to  practise  as  an  attLiiiey  in  ].S4(i;  called  to  the  bar  in  J.S+8,  and  has  been  in  tlie 
practice  of  his  profession  thirty-tive  years,  the  tirst  two  or  three  in  partnership  with  Mr.  Kerr, 
and  since  that  time  mIoiu;.  He  was  created  a  Qneen's  Counsel  liy  tlu'  Dominion  ( lovernnient  in 
1874.  'i'ho  practice  of  Mr.  Thomson  extended  from  th''  start  into  the  several  courts  of  the 
province,  and  ho  has  always  done  a  ijood  law  biisiiu'ss  and  has  loni;'  had  more  or  less  to  do  in 
an  otlleial  capacity.  In  18.')8  he  was  appointed  clerk  of  the  peace  and  moved  to  Newcastle, 
still  holdiiij,'  that  otlicc,  to<j;ether  with  the  otIuM-  othces  alre;idy  mentioned — clerk  of  the  county 
court  and  Judf^e  of  probatt — and  is  also  secretary-treasurer  of  tb.e  county,  and  issuer  of  niai- 
riayc  licenses. 

Judii-e  Thomson  has  the  reputation  of  liein^r  h  very  cnn'fiil  as  well  as  perfectly  reliable  and 
prompt  business  man,  and  he  is  one  of  the  best  known  men  in  Northuniberland  county,  and 
h(dd  in  lii^^li  esteem,  lb'  is  a  Free  Nlason,  and  one  of  the  ohhwt  members  of  Northumh'rland 
Lod^'e,  of  wliich  he  was  .\bister  for  two  years,  i'oiities  thus  tar  he  seems  to  have  meiisurably 
i;_fnored  ;  his  relii^ious  connection  is  with  the  I'resbyterian  cluirch. 

Jud<;e  Thomson  was  nianied  in  I8.")!t  to  .Miss  J;nie  .Mc( 'iirdy,  of  Truro,  N  S,.  iiinl  thi  v  have 
ciyht  children,  five  daughters  and  three  sons.  'J'he  jiidLTe  lias  a  LTcnial  disposition,  is  easy 
and  atfable  in  his  manners,  an  I  is  oiu-  of  those  i,o'utlemeii  who  L;i\e  a  stranger  i.s  well  as  an 
acijuaintance  a  cordial  yreetin^. 


IIOK.  OIIAIfLES    A\^A'I^T.EUS, 

ST.  JdllX,  Nil. 

C'^llAULKS  WATTEKS,  judge  of  the  court  of  vicc-admiiulty  for  New  Jhuiiswick,  and 
J  judge  of  tlie  county  court  of  St.  John  and  Kings,  was  born  in  the  city  of  St.  John,  on 
the  :;(>th  of  .Ndveinber,  1S18:  his  parents,  'I'honias  W.itters  and  Eleanor  Toole,  wei"  natives  of 
Dulilin,  Ireland,     'i'hey  canie  to   New  lirunswick  two  years   bef ire  he  was  born,  and  iiith  died 


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aii'l  iirc  luiricil  ut  St.  .loliu,  Mr.  Wattors  wuh  t'ducatccl  in  tlu'  St.  Jolm  ;,'iiiiniiiai' .scIimi!  ; 
.studied  law  svitli  H(jii,  W.J.  Kitcliic,  imw  (.!liiof  .liistitjc  ut"  tliu  Siipiviiic  Court  nl' t 'aiiada  ;  \va.s 
aduiittod  as  an  attorucy  in  iS-f.'i,  and  callL'd  to  the  liar  of  New  r>ruu.s\vicl<  in  l.stT.  li'ii' lio 
practisod  Ins  prufu-^-siDU  until  lie  was  a|ipi'int('il  a  county  cDurt  judi,'!',  .luni-  Ml,  Isii?  ;  liis 
aiipoiiituK'nt  to  lii.s  present  (iliicc  oF  vit'i'-adiniralty  judi,'!' licar.s  datcof  NoNiMnlirr  I,  |s7t!.  Iln 
is  Well  posted  on  the  laws,  civil  anil  criniinnl  ut"  liis  country;  ci)nducts  the  court  with  the  most 
hocdiniiij^  order  and  with  despatch  ot"  husincss,  heini;  most  empiiatically  a  .si)e>.Mly  and  ellicimt 
administi'ator  of  ju.stice.  In  his  case,  to  Iei,'al  ahility  ai-i-  added  solid  connnon  sense,  a  iar^e 
amount  of  iiuman  kindness,  and  all  the  ipuilities  ofa  j;cntleman  ;  lience  lie  is  esteemed  as  well 
a.s  respected. 

Judi^'e  Wattei's.sat  for  \'ietoria  county  in  the  New  Hrunswick  lei,'islatui'e  fiom  Septemher, 
l!S-">.')  until  l.SfiO,  and  for  the  city  of  St. . I  oh  n  from  the  latter  date  until  ISd.'),  ami  wasamemher 
of  the  executive  council  duriiii,'  the  whole  of  that  |>i,'riod,  exceptiui,'  one  year,  and  held  the 
ortice  of  solicitor-geiii'ral  from  July,  JS.')7,  to  Kel.ruaiy,  ISO."!.  During  tlie  latter  part  of  ids 
legislative  career,  he  was  chielly  ideutitit'il  with  the  (piestion  of  Confederation,  of  which 
measure  he  was  an  earnest  and  ahh.'  supporter. 

While  in  parliament,  lie  drew  up  the  ci'iininil  law  bills,  and  aide  I  in  as-iinilatin,^;  the  laws 
of  New  Brunswick  to  those  of  England  at  the  time. 

Judge  Watters  is  a  Koman  ('atholie,  and  has  t\w  reputation  of  liaviu','  lived  a  lughly 
oxem|)]ary  life ;  lie  is  a  man  of  tlie  most  c()urteoiis  demeanor,  and  , the  kiiid-st  _inipuls"s,  and 
Iiromjit  to  aid  the  ])oor  oi'  to  relieve  suti'ering  of  any  kind. 

He  married  in  LSHl',  Malvina,  clanghter  of  Ma,jor  I'riestlv,  form  ■rl,y  of  Her  Majesty's  4:ird 
regiment,  and  they  have  eight  children,  five  sous  and  three  daiigliters, 


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(iKolJOK     1).    STHKKT, 

.ST.   ANDREW'S,  X.H. 

/"^  K()1?(!K  DIXON  S'i'KKKT.  judge  of  probate  for  the  county  of  Charlotte,  was  horn  in 
\jr  Calcutta,  India, on  tlie  >Sth  of  October,  1.S12.  He  is  a  .son  of  Thomas  Ueorge  Street,  who 
was  in  the  East  India  merchant  servici.'  until  his  death,  wliieh  occurred  at  Calcutta  in  bsiiO  ; 
and  grandson  of  Hon.  Samuel  I).  Strec.'t,  in  his  day  a  biirrister  at  Krederictoii,  a  member  of  the 
New  Ihunswick  Assembly  for  a  long  time,  and  of  the  Legislative  ( "ouiicil  until  his  demise. 

Mr.  Street  was  partly  educated  in  Hngland  :  came  to  New  Brunswick  in  \s-2i,  beingtwelve 
years  of  age;  iini.shed  his  liti'rary  .studies  at  St.  Amlrew's ;  then  entered  tlie  law  office  of  his 
uncle,  .Vlfieil  b.  Street,  Ksij. ;  was  called  to  tlu'  bar  in  bS.S."),  and  has  practised  in  St.  .VndiVA  s 
forty-eight  yeais,  being  successful  in  his  profession. 

Mr.  Street  was  appointed  registrar  of  ju'obates  in  IstO,  and  juilge  of  probati;  in  bsij(],  siill 
holding  the  latter  office,  and  faithfully  serving  the  public  in  that  capacity. 

Judge  Street  i'(>presented  the  county  of  Charlotte  for  two  sessions  in  tlu'  New  liiun^w  i'k 
House  of  Assembly — bs")<)  and    bs.")!.     His  politics  are  ( 'onservative. 

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up  ;  was  alho  a  director  at  one  time  (  f  the  Ne\\'  Hrunswick  ani|  Canada  laiUvaNj  an'l  has  shown 
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He  is  senior  warden  of  All  Sjiints'  Epim'opiil  church,  a  delegate  to  Iwth  the  diocesan  and 
provincial  Nynods,  and  a  prominent  layman  in  this  part  of  the  province,  having  an  irreproach- 
able name. 

Judge  Street  married,  in  1835,  Susan,  davightor  of  Hon.  Thomas  Wycr,  formerly  a  meml)er 
of  the  Legislative  Council  of  New  Brunswick,  and  they  have  two  .son.s  and  two  daughters  liv- 
ing, and  have  burieit  one  son.  George,  the  tdder  son,  wits  captain  in  the  JCth  regiment  of  foot 
(Enjjlish),  and  now  holds  the  .same  rank  in  the  active  militia  at  Winnipeg,  Manitoba;  Thomas  H.  is 
a  merchant  at  St.  Andrew  ;  Kliza  is  the  wife  of  Henry  Osburn,  manager  of  the  New  Brunswick 
and  Canada  railway ;  and  Knuua  is  with  her  paix>nts. 


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WILLIAM    BAYARD,  M.D., 

ST.  JOHN,  N.H. 

WILLIAM  BAYARD,  one  of  the  most  eminent  phyi-icians  in  New  Brunswick,  is  a  son  of 
Dr.  liobert  Bayard,  who  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  BritLsh  army  at  thirteen  years  of 
age,  an  M.D.  of  Edinburgh  utiivei-sity,  a  D.C.L.  of  King's  college,  Windsor,  N.S.,  and  manyyeai-s 
profes.sor  of  midwifery  in  the  univei-sity  of  New  York,  leaving  that  state  on  the  breaking  out 
of  war  with  F^ngland  in  1812,  because  he  wuuld  not  take  the  oath  of  allegiance.  His  property 
was  eonK.scated.  He  went  to  Kentville,  Nova  Scotia,  where  our  subject  was  born,  on  thi;  2lst 
of  Augu.i.,  1813.  Dr.  Hol)ert  Bayard  practised  his  profession  at  Kentville  fur  several  years.  In 
1824  he  removed  to  St.  John,  N.B.,  and  here  died,  in  Juno,  iNfiS,  at  the  great  ag(!  of  cighty-ono 
years.  He  was  a  son  <ff  t'ohmel  Samuel  Vetch  Bayard,  of  the  British  army,  a  descendant  of  the 
Chevalier  liayard,  the  family  still  carrying  the  same  coat  of  arms. 

The  mother  of  Dr.  Willium  Bayard  was  Frances  llolKjrtson,  whose  father  was  a  cominis.sary 
in  the  colonial  war  which  couimenced  in  1775,  and  he  was  killed  in  that  war.  Her  grandfather 
was  i'olonel  Billop,  who  owned  at  one  time  a  large  i>ait  of  Staten  Island,  N.Y., and  who,  lieing 
a  loyalist,  had  his  property  contiscatod. 

Dr.  Bayard  received  most  of  his  literary  education  at  a  popular  institution  conducted  by 
the  Hev.  William  Powell,  in  Fordham,  near  New  York  City,  and  his  medical  education,  with  the 
exception  of  one  winter,  as  a  private  student  with  Dr.  Valentine  Mott,  the  eminent  .surgeon  of 
New  York,  an<l  at  the  univei-sity  of  Edinburgh,  from  which  institution  he  received  the  degree  of 
doctor  of  medicine,  iii  1837. 

On  returning  to  this  province,  Dr.  Bayard  settled  r.t  St.  John,  and  practised,  in  company 
with  his  fathei-,  for  many  yeai-s.  His  reiiutation  for  skill  has,  almost  from  the  start,  stood  high, 
and  of  his  profession  he  has  ma<Io  a  brilliant  success. 

It  may  lie  .said  that  the  general  public  hospital  in  the  city  of  St.  John  owes  its  existence 
to  the  perseverance  and  energy  of  Dr.  Bayard  ;  aiio  he  has  iieen  ])resident  itf  the  lK)anl  of  com- 
mi.ssionei-H  since  its  establishment  in  18«1((.  He  held  the  office  of  coroner  for  the  city  and  county 
of  St.  John  for  twenty -eight  years,  and  resigned  the  situation  in  18(i7.  He  is  cluiinuan 
of  the  Iniard  of  health  for  the  city  and  ctmnty  of  St.  John,  which  office  he  has  held  since 
IS.').').  He  has  U'en  president  of  the  New  Brunswick  Medical  Society  for  fo>n- yeai-s ;  resigned 
the  situation  in  June,  1881.  He  is  president  of  the  council  of  physicians  and  surgeons  of  .New 
Brunswick,  having  been  ap])ointed  July,  1881,  to  hold  the  position  for  four  years. 


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Be  hfts  been  greatly  honored,  alike  liy  the  medical  fraternity  and  his  fellow-citizens  geno- 
lally,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  no  man  in  his  profession  in  the  province  is  held  in  hiyliur  estwin. 
Tliere  is  not  a  city  or  large  town  in  New  Brunswick,  Nova  Scotia,  or  Prince  Edward  Island  to 
which  he  has  not  been  called  on  professional  business. 

Dr.  Bayard  has  lK;en  accustomed  for  years  to  write  for  medical  periodicals,  particularly  tho 
Montreal  Mcdlad  ami  Sunjical  Journal,  of  which  he  was,  at  one  time,  the  New  Brunswii-k 
editor.  He  is  reganled  as  an  high  authority  on  any  branch  of  medical  science  which  he  sees  tit 
to  discuss. 

He  is  a  inemV)er  of  Trinity  Episcopal  church,  and  an  exemplary  man  in  all  the  walks  of  Ufe. 

The  wife  of  Dr.  Bayard  was  Susan  Maria  Wilson,  daughter  of  John  Wilson,  Esfj.,  of  (.'ham- 
cook,  near  St.  Andrews,  in  his  day  a  large  ship-owner  and  merchant,  their  marriage  taking  place 
in  1844.  Mrs.  Bayard  died  in  187C,  leaving  no  children.  She  was  a  woman  of  tine  .social  (juali- 
ties,  always  happiest  when  she  had  a  house  full  of  friend.s,  and  was  a  splendid  entertainer.  She 
had  also  wonderful  energy,  as  shown,  in  attending  to  the  details  of  domestic  life,  in  looking 
after  the  poor  ami  the  unfortunate,  and  in  visiting  the  home  for  aged  women,  the  Protestant 
orphan  asylum,  etc.  She  was  truly  "  an  angel  of  mercy,"  and  her  death  was  nothing  short  of  a 
calamity  to  the  city. 


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THEOl'IllLUS    DES   ERISA Y, 

BAT  HURST,  N.H. 

HE  subject  of  this  biographical  notice  is  a  son  of  Theopliilus  Des  Bri.say,  a  native  of  P.E.  I., 
1  and  many  years  naval  oHicer  at  Miramiehi  and  the  eastern  jwrts  of  New  Hninswick, 
and  grandson  of  Rev.  Theophilus  Des  Brisay,  graduate  of  Magdalen  CuUege,  Oxford,  the 
first  rector  of  Charlottetown,  P.  E.  I.,  wlujre  he  died  in  1H24.  An  account  of  the  pi'digrec,  kc, 
of  the  family,  may  be  found  in  the  sketch  of  Juilge  Mather  Byles  Des  Brisay,  of  Bridgewater, 
Nova  Scotia,  in  another  part  of  this  book. 

The  mother  of  our  subject,  before  her  first  marriage,  was  Lucy  Wright,  daughter  of  Hon. 
Thomas  Wright,  of  Charlottetown,  first  surveyor-general  of  Prince  Edwr.rd  Island.  She  was  the 
willow  of  C"a|itain  and  Adjutant  Colledge.  who  died  in  the  first  dee^ide  of  this  century,  while  in 
the  .service  of  the  King,  at  the  Fortress  of  Quebec. 

Mr.  Des  Brisay  was  born  at  Charlottetown  on  the  13th  o»'  Deceml)er,  1810;  educated  in 
the  <Mammar  school  at  Miramiehi ;  studied  law  at  Newcastle  with  John  Ambrose  Street,  Ewj. ; 
atlmitted  to  jiiactise  a.s  an  attorney  at  Hilary  term,  bs;j9,  and  called  to  the  bar  at  Hilary  term, 
1!S4!,  and  has  l)een  in  practice  for  forty-two  years,  .settling  in  Batliur.st  in  1.S44,  and  doing  busi- 
ness in  all  the  courts  of  the  province  ;  he  has  long  been  a  leading  barrister  in  the  counties  of 
Restigouche  and  tUoucester,  and  stands  high  among  the  legal  frdti-rnity  in  the  northern  part 
of  New  Brunswick ;  he  is  a  barrister-at-law  for  Prince  Edwanl  Island. 

Mr.  Des  Brisay  was  appointed  clerk  of  the  peace  in  iH'iO,  and  has  held  that  ofiice  thirty- 
one  yeara ;  he  has  been  clerk  of  the  county  court  of  Cdoucest<>r  since  such  courts  were  estab- 
lished in  IH07.  and  is  also  clerk  of  the  circuits. 

Mr.  Des  Brisiiy  contested  (ilouccstcr  for  the  Local  Legislature  in  18.")(),  and  for  the  House 
of  Couimons  in  1872,  and  was  defeated  Iwth  times,  he  being  a  Con-servative  in  |M)litic.s,  and 


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residing  in  a  Liberal  district;  he  was  solicitor  for  the  Intercolonial  Railway,  while  that  milroad 
was  bt'inj^  built  through  Gloucester  county. 

Mr.  Des  Bri.say  is  past  master  of  St.  John's  Lodge  of  Free  Masons,  Dathurst,  and  a  member  of 
the  Church  of  England ;  has  served  as  warden  of  St.  George's  churcli  for  many  years;  is  a  dele- 
gate to  the  Diocesan  Synod,  and  a  man  of  excellent  moral  and  social,  a,s  well  as  legal  standing. 

Mr.  Des  Brisay  married  in  1851,  Miss  Jemima  Swayne,  daughter  of  David  Swayne,  of 
Dysart,  Scotland,  and  they  have  five  children,  four  sons  and  one  daughter.  Lestock,  the  eldest 
.son,  is  rector  of  All-Saints  church,  llan.ilton,  Ont. ;  Andrew  Normand  is  a  farmer;  T.  Swayne 
is  an  nttorncy-at-law  with  his  father ;  Charles  Albert  is  a  graduate  of  the  \\Ai\a\  Military  col- 
lege, Kingston  (class  1880,  the  first  class  that  graduated)  and  a  civil  engineer,  teiiiporaiily  in 
Iowa  ;  and  Lucy  Isabella  is  at  home. 


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HON.  WILLIAM    LINDSAY,   M.L.C., 

WOODSTOCK,  N.B. 

ONE  of  the  members  of  the  Legislative  Council  of  New  Brunswick,  is  Willianj  Lindsay,  a 
successful  hardware  merchant  in  Woodstock.  He  was  born  in  Fermanagh  county,  Ire- 
land, on  the  .Srd  of  August,  181.'}.  His  parents,  Alexander  Lindsay  ami  Elizalieth  Hetheriiigton, 
came  to  New  Brunswick  in  18.S4,  and  the  father  died  in  1877,  in  his  97th  year. 

After  receiving  a  moderate  English  education,  Mr.  Lindsay  learned  the  .saddle  and  haine.sa 
maker's  trade  in  the  old  country,  and  in  this  country  has  been  a  merchant,  dealing  mainly  in 
hardware,  ami  meeting  with  good  success. 

He  sat  for  Carleton  comity  in  the  New  Brunswick  As.scmbly  from  18(i2  until  April,  187 •♦, 
when  he  was  called  to  the  Legislative  Council.  He  was  a  member  of  the  e.vecutive  council 
without  ottice,  from  18GS,and  surveyor-general  from  Octolier,  INTO,  to  February  21,  1871,  wlien 
he  retired  with  tlie  other  members  of  the  government.     He  is  a  Liberal. 

Mr.  Lind.say  has  been  a  meml)er  of  l)oth  the  county  and  town  council.^,  and  (|iiite  service- 
able as  a  citizen  of  either  nuinicipality.  He  belongs  to  the  Methodist  church.  His  wife  was 
Harriet  Parsons,  of  Woodstock.     They  have  five  children  living,  and  have  lost  a  larger  number. 


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FliEVERlCTON,  N.B. 

JOHN  'PK^KAllD,  the  member  of  Parliament  for  the  county  of  York,  N.  R,,  is  a  <loscendant 
of  ont!  of  the  many  loyalist  families  that  left  the  New  England  and  Midtlie  States  at  tho 
clo.se  of  the  American  revolution,  and  settled  in  the  Maritime  ami  other  provinces  of  ('anadu. 
The  progenitor  of  the  Pickanis  in  New  Brunswick,  was  Humphrey  Pickard,  who  came  from 
Ma,ssacbusetts  to  the  valley  of  the  river  St.  John,  and  was  among  the  pioneers  on  that  stream, 
his  axe  aiding  to  clear  the  broad  and  dense  W'lt  of  timber  there  seen  ninety  and  a  hundred 
years  ago.     He  was  the  grtimlfather  of  our  subject, 


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Mr.  Pitkaid  is  a  son  of  David  and  Hcp/iba  (Burpee)  Pickard,  the  Burpees  also  being  from 
Massaehusetts.  He  wan  born  at  Douglas,  York  county,  N.B.,  on  the  27th  of  April,  1824  ;  re- 
ceived an  ordinary  country  8ch(X)l  training,  and  early  learned  the  business  of  Ids  father,  an 
ext«}nsive  mill  owner,  who  died  in  1858. 

Mr.  Pickard  early  develojwd  good  working  capacities,  and  seeinotl  to  be  at  homo  at  any 
business  to  wliich  he  applied  himself,  whether  it  was  tending  a  grist-mill,  a  saw-mill,  n  carding- 
mill,  or  a  fulling-mill,  in  all  of  which  lie  laliored  at  times.  His  leading  business  for  the  last 
thirty  years  or  more,  ban  been  the  manufacture  of  lumber,  of  whicli  lie  has  in  some  prosperous 
years  turned  out  as  high  as  30,000,000  feet.  Latterly  the  average  hits  been  considerably  below 
that  figure.  When  he  did  his  large  business  he  was  of  the  firm  of  Temple  and  Pickard,  whicli 
partnership  continued  for  nine  years,  and  they  average  at  least  2.'»,000,000  feet  a  year. 

Mr.  Pickard  is  a  director  of  the  People's  Bank  at  Fi-edericttm,  and  of  the  New  Brunswick 
railway  company  ;  vi(;e-president  of  the  York  Agricultural  Society,  and  quite  a  prominent  man 
in  his  part  of  the  provivce.  From  187»  to  1878  he  was  Right  Worthy  (irand  Master  of  the 
Orange  tJiange  of  New  Brunswick.     He  is  also  a  Master  Mason. 

Mr.  Pickard  entered  public  life  in  the  autumn  of  1808,  when  he  was  elected  to  a  seat  in 
the  New  Brunswick  As.senibly,  wliich  he  resigned  the  ne.\t  year,  and  was  elected  to  the  Hou.so 
of  Commons  by  acclamation  on  the  resignation  of  the  sitting  member,  Charles  Fisher,  now 
judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Plias  in  that  provu.a'.  He  was  re-elected  by  acclamation  at 
the  general  elections  in  1872  and  1874,  and  by  an  overwhelming  majority  in  1878,  Injing  quite 
a  favorite  among  his  constituents.  He  is  rather  an  independent  politician,  but  is  classed  with 
the  Liberals,  and  gave  a  steaily  support  to  the  late  administration  of  Mr.  Mackenzie. 

Originally  he  was  opposed  to  Confederation,  but  cheerfully  bowed  to  the  will  of  the 
people,  and  is  evidently  doing  his  best  to  make  the  union  a  graml  success. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Pickard  was  Miss  Mary  Yer.xii,  daughter  of  Daniel  Yeixa,  farmer,  of 
Douglas,  tlieir  union  In-ing  dated  in  October,  18.51.     We  believe  they  have  no  children. 

Mr.  Pickard  has  the  qualities  of  a  useful  and  popular  citizen:  is  public  spirited,  and,  as 
as  they  say  in  the  United  States,  "  whole-souled  "  ;  "  generous  to  a  fault,"  obliging  and  nceommo- 
dating  to  his  neighl>ors,  and  not  likely  to  ever  turn  the  needy  "  empty  away."  Those  who 
know  him  best  have  the  kindest  words  in  regard  to  him. 


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HOPEWELL  CAVE,  N.li. 

MARTIN  BKNT  PALMER,  Urrister-at-law,  an.l  judge  of  probate  for  tlie county  of  All>ort 
from  1840  to  187-1,  is  a  brother  of  Hon.  A.  L.  Palmer,  judge  in  equity,  St  John,  and 
son  of  Philip  Palmer,  land  surveyor,  and  Sarali  Ayer,  his  birth  Iwing  dated  at  Dorchester,  West- 
moreland county,  N.B.,  on  the  20th  of  Deceml)er,  1812.  Both  parents  were  born  in  tliat  county. 
His  grandfather,  (lideon  Palmer,  was  a  loyalist,  from  the  State  of  New  York,  and  was  a  cap- 
tain during  tlie  war  for  independence. 

Mr.  Palmer  was  educated  in  the  ('oiiinion  and  graniniar  schools  of  Saekville,  N.B.,  where 
the  family  settled  W'fme  he  can  remember  ;  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  K.  B.  Chandler,  late 
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183fi,  and  as  a  barrister  in  Februnry,  1840,  and,  nftcr  \mng  in  partniMsliip  with  Mr.  flmndlcr 
five  or  MIX  yenrH,  removed  to  HopowellCape,  wlien  AllH;rt  county  was  set  oti"  from  Wostmoreianfi, 
and  the  officers  were  appointe<l  (1846),  he  accepting  tiie  office  of  judgeof  prolwite.  That  position 
he  resigned  on  the  deatli  of  his  brother,  Dr.  Hufus  Pahuer  (1873),  in  order  totaiiethat  brotliers 
seat  in  the  local  assembly  for  the  county  of  Alliert,  the  brother  having  occupied  it  for  three 
sessions.  The  judge  was  successful  in  the  contest,  and  filled  the  unexpired  term  of  one  year ; 
was  unsuccessful  at  the  next  general  election,  and  has  made  no  further  attempt  to  serve  his 
country  in  the  capacity  of  legislator.     His  politics  are  Conservative. 

He  is  practising  his  profession  in  a  quiet  manner,  attending  to  attorney  and  office  business 
only,  doing  all,  we  presume,  that  he  cares  to  do,  being  in  quite  comfortable  circumstances,  and 
letting  the  world  do  its  own  fretting. 

Mr.  Palmer  is  a  man  of  a  good  deal  of  public  .spirit,  and  he  and  his  brother,  the  doctor, 
were  among  tl*e  leaders  in  getting  the  Albert  railway  built,  he  being  still  a  director  of  that 
company. 

He  married,  in  January,  1857,  Rebecca  Bennett,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Bennett,  of  Hope- 
well, and  they  have  lost  one  child,  and  have  one  son,  llufus  Philip,  living. 


RANDOLPH   Iv.  JONES, 

WOOD.^TOCK,  N.B. 

EANDOLPH  KETCH  JM  JoNES,  mayor  of  Woodstock,  and  a  prominent  lavvyor  in 
Carleton  county,  was  born  in  the  parisli  of  Simonds  in  this  county,  cm  the  l!Uh  of 
October,  1840;  his  father  is  James  Jones,  son  of  a  Loyalist,  who  came  to  this  province  from 
Staten  Island,  N.  V.,  about  the  time  that  the  war  for  independence  clo.sed,  and  settletl  in  the 
county  of  York,  where  James  Jones  was  Iwrn.  The  mother  of  Randolph  was  Eliza  Shaw,  the 
daughter  of  Daniel  Shaw,  and  grand-daughter  of  John  Shaw,  the  progenitor  of  a  large  family  of 
Shaws  in  this  province;  hei-  mother  was  a  Phillips,  and  came  to  New  Brunswick  from  tlie 
United  States  when  twelve  yeai-s  old,  her  father  K'ing  an  adherent  of  the  Crown. 

Mr.  Jones  was  educated  in  the  arts  at  Woodstock  grammar  school  and  the  Sackville 
acaden\y,  and  in  law  at  Uarvatd  law  .school,  l)eing  admitted  to  practise  in  18(i(3,  and  called  to 
the  bar  a  year  later.  For  fourteen  yeai-s  he  has  been  in  steady  practice  at  Woodstock,  iit)ing 
b\isiness  in  all  the  courts  of  the  province,  and  making  a  success  of  his  profession  ;  he  is  a  dose 
student,  and  constantly  growing  in  reputjition  as  a  lawyer.  Being  a  good  spi-aker,  a  clear 
rea.soner,  and  candid  and  horicst  in  his  stato.  ents  of  a    case,  he  very    favorably  impre.s.ses  a 

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Mr.  Jones  has  held  a  variety  of  civil  offices,  faithfully  performing  the  duties  of  all  of  them. 
In  January,  18G7,  he  was  apjiointed  secretary-treasurer  of  the  municipality  of  Carleton,  and  has 
been  reappointed  without  a  di.s.senting  voice,  annually  to  the  present  time  (1881).  He  was  clerk 
of  the  circuit  court  from  18G8  till  he  resigned  in  1874  to  contest  ('arleton  for  the  Legislative 
Assembly,  in  which  step  he  was  successful,  .serving  four  years,  and  refusing  to  be  renominated; 
he  is  inclined  to  be  independent  in  his  political  notion.-*. 

Mr.  Jones  is  a  school  trustee,  anil  vice-president  of  the  .society  for  the  prevention  of  cruelty 
to  animals.     He  was  town-treasurer  of  Womlstock,  when  nominatol  for  mayor,  and  resigned  to 


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accept  tliai.  oHico,  tn  wliitli  lu'  wns  (.'Kcttd  in  IVtrinlKT.  ISSO,  to  serve  out  the  nnexjiired  term 
of  Fredeiick  T.  IJiid^'es,  wlm  liiiil  (lied.  Mr.  .ruiics  was  re-eleeted  in  tlie  followinjj  Mareli — in 
l>oth  cases  liy  aeelaniation.  He  iins  the  interests  of  the  town  thoroii^'hly  at  iieart,  andUuikH 
aft«r  them  with  n  vijjilant  eye.     He  i  i  a  third  (h-jjiee  Mason. 

Mr.  Jones  married,  in  Anj,'nst,  lS(il,  llaniettiertrnih',  (hmj^hterof  (ieori,'e  L.  Ilaymond,  Ksq  , 
of  Woodstock,  and  they  have  lost  two  children,  and  have  three  sons  and  two  dani,diters  livin;,'. 


]1C)N.  JOHN    II.   CT^AWFOIIT),   M.IM\, 

IIAMI'TOX,  s.n. 

JOHN  HElUiKiriM'HA\VK(>Ul),l.arrister,niuls(>iieit(.rt,'enenii(>f  New  Brunswick,  wius  horn 
at  Hanii)ton,  where  lie  now  resides,  on  the  "Jnd  of  Novendier,  INW  ;  Ids  parent.s  arctieorjje 
and  Kliza  (Sederqnest^  Crawford,  hoth  heinjj;  still  alive, and  Ids  i^'randparent-n  were  loyalists,  wlio 
left  Massachusetts  in  ITMl,  a"id  st-ttleil  on  the  Ki'iuulM>easis  river,  where  they  died  ;  he  wa.s 
eihicated  at  the  St.  John  ;,'rannnar  scIiod!  ;  studied  law  with  (jleor;,'e  Olty,  Ksii,  now  judi,'e  of 
prohate,  and  was  calleil  to  the  har  in  LNtiN.  Most  of  his  praeliee  is  at  St.  John,  ami  he  is  of  the 
firm  of  Pnsijley,  Crawford,  l*us;,dey  and  'rnienian,  who  do  an  extensive  Imsiness  in  the  .several 
courts  of  tne  province,  and  in  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Uominion.  He  is  well  read  in  his  |)ro 
fcssion,  attentive  to  his  husinoss,  and  has  a  remunerati\<'  ])ra('tiee. 

Mr.  C'rawford  was  tlrst  elected  to  the  House  of  Assendily  for  his  present  seat,  at  the  <:;eneral 
election  in  1S7(>,  and  wa.s  reelected  in  1S74  and  187.S:  he  was  appointe<l  a  mendier  of  the  Exe- 
cutive CAunicil  on  the  17th  of  Jamuiry,  1872,  ami  solieitor-j.'eneiaI  in  Ahi\\  1n7!>,  immediately 
after  which  he  was  re-electcil ;  his  polities  are  Lilnral. 

Mr.  Crawford  has  heen  connected  for  some  years  witli  the  militia  of  the  province,  and  holds 
the  rank  of  lieutenant  in  the  King's  volunteer  cavalry  ;  he  is  also  secretary  of  the  King's  comity 
rifle  a.ssociation. 

He  is  a  memher  of  tlie  Church  v(  Kngiand  and  a  man  of  irrei>roaehahlo  eluiracter, 


LIEUT.-COL.   HON.   DAXIEL   HANIiSCJTON,   M.L.C, 

siiHitiAr.  N.n. 

COL.  HANINdTON,  a  mendier  of  the  Lei,'islative  Council  of  New  lirunswick,  is  a  son  of 
William  Haiungt(m,  Es(nnre,  a  native  of  London,  England,  who  settled  at  Shediac,  New 
lirimswiek,  in  17'*^*!',  being  the  first  English  residtsnt  there  ;  and  was  hoin  there  in  LSOi  ;  he  was 
educate<l  at  the  Sackville  grammar  .school,  is  a  farmer,  and  Wii.s  controller  of  customs  at  the 
port  of  Shediac  for  more  than  forty  yeais,  retiiing  from  that  post  in  LSSO. 

He  wa.s  also  connected  with  the  nulitiaof  the  province  for  .some  time,  and  now  liolds  the 
rank  of  lieutenant-colonel  of  Westmoreland  county  militia. 

Mr.  Hanington  sat  for  Westmoreland  county,  in  the  provincial  aHsomhly  from  IS.'W  to  1S(I2, 
M'hen  that  county,  for  the  tirst   fifteen  years,  included  what  is  now  Ali>ert  county,  and  wa.s 

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appointt'il  to  tlio  Lejjislativi'  CouiH'il  in  l.H(!7,  of  wliicli  lu-  i>  still  a  iiuiuIiit.  Hj  was  a  iiU'iiilior 
of  the  rxffiitivL'  i-ouiu-il  from  IN4.S  to  l.sjl  ;  was  spiNikor  for  two  tcnii^  i^"i.L,'l>t  voirs),  aii<l  has 
ha<l  as  iiiiicli  cxpcrieiu't'  in  the  lc;,'islalioii  doin^^s  as  am-  man  now  livin^j  in  New  nrunswick  : 
ho  is  a  man  of  soli<l  j^ood  scnsf,  ami  liiis  livcil  an  I'liiinontly  nsL-fni  life;  iiis  polilics  arc  Lihi-ral 
(.'oiisoivativf. 

Mr.  Hanington  manioil  in  Is.'U.  Marj^'aret,  ilau;,'litt'r  of  Williain  rctois.  Ksi|,,  a  IJ.  E.  Loy- 
alist. an<l  for  years  a  mcmlu'r  of  tin-  Nesv  Hrnnswick  Assomlil}-  \'>v  t^iu'cn's  ciamty  ;  and  tiny 
lostono  child  in  infamy,  and  havo  nine  sons  and  thivodanj,'liti'rs  livin^j.  Tlir  second  son,  Daniel 
L.  Hanington,  is  sketched  on  other  pages  of  thi.s  Iniok.  The  oldest  son,  William  .1.  M.,  is  a 
Inmlter  mannfactnrer  and  ineiehant  at  Shediae  ;  the  thinl  son,  Thomas  I!.,  is  a  hioko' .  and  lato 
con.sus  commissioner  for  New  Hrnnswick  ;  the  fourth.  Kdward  A.  M.,is  rector  of  New  Kdinlangh, 
Ontario,  and  chaplain  to  lier  Royal  Highness  Princess  Loniso  ;  the  tiflh,  Angiistiis  H.,  is  a  har- 
ristor  at  St.  John  ;  the  sixth,  James  <).,  is  a  chemist  ami  drnggist,  in  the  same  city  ;  the  seventh, 
Charles  R,  is  a  civil  engineer  in  the  government  employ  in  liritisli  (Columbia  ;  the  eighth,  Ernest 
1*.,  is  diief  snrgeon  in  charge  of  <  hiderdonk's  works,  on  the  (""aniida  I'aeilic  Railway,  and  Walter 
is  comptrolK-r  of  customs  at  Shediae.  These  nine  sons  are  all  first-class  imsiness  men,  of  whom 
any  parents  might  be  proud.  Mr.  ami  Mrs.  H;inin.,'ton  have  been  niirried  just  tifty  years,  and 
have  raised  a  truly  remarkable  family  ;  the  three  tlaughters  having  also  done  well.  Mr.  Haning- 
ton refused  two  departmental  offers,  because  the  duties  of  the  otKce  would  e<impel  him  to  bo 
away  from  home  much  of  the  tinn-,  and  he  prefi-rred  country  life,  to  oversee  the  education 
and  ti'ainng  of  his  children.  He  is  a  nuin  of  the  kindest  feelings  and  of  the  highest  integrity, 
and  an  active  and  useful  member  of  the  Church  of  England  to  which  all  his  family  belong. 


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ST.  JOHN,  i\.  I!. 

J 'AMES  1'>EN  NET,  pastor  of  the  St.  John,  I'resbyteriau  church,  St.  John  city,  for  the  ia.st 
twenty-seven  years,  was  born  in  Lisban,  p;»rish  of  Killamy,  county  Down,  Ireland,  on 
the  I7th  of  February,  I.S17.  The  family  were  originally  Huguenots,  tliree  brotluMs  going  from 
France  to  the  nortli  of  Iicland.  to  avoid  p  rsi  i-ution,  and  there  settling  among  the  Presbytt-rians. 
From  these  three  Bonnets,  it  is  believed  that  nK>st,  if  not  all  the  [jcoplc  bearing  that  name  in 
the  north  of  Ireland,  are  descended.  The  parents  of  James  liennet  were  John  Rennet,  a  fanmr, 
and  La'titia  Patterson,  his  wife,  the  lattci-  being  of  .Scotch-Irisli  d<'scent.  Tlu'  IJcnnets  lived  at 
Lisban  fi.r  at  least  six  or  .seven  generations. 

Mr.  Rennet  linished  his  primary  education  in  the  classical  school  of  tin-  Royal  academical 
institution,  Relfast,  under  the  head  mastership  of  the  Rev.  Tluimas  Dix  llincks,  fatlu'r  of  Sir 
Francis  Hincks ;  took  his  undergraduate's  couiso  at  Relfast  college;  studied  theology  at  Rel- 
fa.st,  Cdasgow,  and  at  the  Edinbmgh  l.'niversity,  under  Drs.  Chalmers,  Welsh  and  Brunton, 
and  was  ordained  over  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Tassagh,  county  of  .\rmagli.  Ireland,  on  tin; 
.'JOth  of  March,  IMt.S,  retaining  that  pastorate  for  nearly  eleven  years. 

Having  been  invited  by  the  chinch  in  St.  John,  already  mentioned,  to  become  their  pastor, 
Mr.  Rennet  accepted  Jio  invitation,  arrived  in  this  city  on  the  .Srd  of  March,  \HM,  and  was  in- 


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<luet<'il  l)y  tlio  Pn-sliytcrv  of  St.  John,  on  tho  17tl>  of  Afay  followinj,'.  For  nioiv  tlmii  a  i|tmrtor 
of  a  wiitury  lie  lias  liilinicd  witli  all  ilili.;ciicr  to  feed  this  flnck,  ami  not  witlimit  mioci'ss. 

He  reci'ivicl  till-  ilcjfit  r  of  (Inetm-  of  divinity  from  Davidson  colle^^c,  South  ("amlinn,  in 
1S77.  Hi".  HeiMU'tt  has  writti-n  a  ;^ood  deal  for  the  press,  secular  as  well  as  relij^ious,  his  un- 
acknowlodi^ed  pieces  liein;;  (|uite  numerous;  he  ecUted,  in  coiUKK'tion  with  Hev.  William  Klder, 
its  ori^'inator,  the  (Joli'ii'ml  I'rfibi/t'riini,  and  a  few  of  his  sermons  wert!  puhlished  in  tluit 
paper.  Still  more  have  heen  pulili.^hed  in  the  daily  |>aperH  of  St.  dolm-  -in  ull  more  than  fifty. 
Due  of  th'>«e  sermons  attracted  a  '.,'reat  deal  of  atti-ntion,  its  suhjict  heiiii^  "Tho  divinity  of 
Christ  proved  from  lii>  ehaiJietir  and  cliiims."  It  was  jireaehod  hy  him  as  moderator  of  tho 
synod  of  the  church  (if  the  lower  |iri)vinees -.  was  prepared  with  j^i'cat  care,  and  is  rei,'arded  as 
" an  admiraiile  specimen  rf  clcisc  reasnnin;^  and  pulpit  elni|iii'nce,  and  added  consiiloralily  to 
his  fanu'  as  a  |ireacher."  The  only  honk,  we  holieve,  of  which  he  is  the  author,  is  entitled  the 
"  Wisdom  of  the  Kitig  ,"  a  volume  of  iH)  ]ia<;es,  puhlishi-d  in  Hdinl>uij,di,  187(h  It  met  with  a 
j^ood  reception  on  the  part  of  the  press  and  the  puhlic. 

Dr.  IVnnet  was  the  oiij,'inator  and  one  of  tho  editors  of  the  Muritiinc  Motillili/.  which  wa.s 
jinhlishod  for  some  years  in  St.  John,  ami  which  contained  many  literary  articles  from  his 
facile  and  prolific  pen,  iiicludin;,'  some  of  Ids  metrical  compositions;  he  also  wrote  ,1  few 
jiapei-s  for  St<:n>iirt's  <J(.<(/7(r///,  which  was  |iulp|ished  in  St.  John. 

Dr.  I>ennet  married,  in  l.s">(>,  Miss  .Mary  Jane  Scott,  of  Ueifast.and  they  have  two  sons  and 
tiM'  dau!,ditcrs  liviiiL,'.  and  have  lniried  one  dauu;hti'r  I''i-ederick,  the  elder  son,  is  marrieil,  and 
is  in  tho  customs  at  Ottawa  ;  J<ilin  Ivlward  is  connected  with  the  Hudson  Hay  Company  in  tho 
N\)rth-west ;  liietitia,  the  eldest  dau;,diter,  is  the  widow  of  Dr.  James  Fred  m  I  K  ini  •  ly,  St. 
John;  Catherine  Amelia  is  the  wife  of  William  (lardnerof  Montreal,  and  tho  younger  duughtcn 
are  yet  unmarried. 


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COL.  uoBEirr  w.  ckooksuank, 

ST.  JollS,  N.H. 

EOWVMT  Wlld,IAM  cnOOKSIIANK.assi.stiint  recciver-freneral  for  tho  province  of  New 
I  HiunswicU,  and  manaecr  of  the  Dominion  savings  l>aid<  of  St.  John,  was  horn  in  this 
city  on  the  21st  of  August,  ls-2-.  Jlis  father,  for  whom  ho  was  named,  was  a  native  of  Strom- 
ness,  in  tho  Orkney  Islands,  au'l  a  resident  of  New  Jersey,  and  a  Fjoyalist  dining  the  revolu- 
tion, emigrating  to  New  lirmi-'Wiek  at  the  ijose  of  the  war,  ami  engaging  in  mercantile  purstiits 
in  St.  Joiui,  and  here  dviug  in  iStii',  in  the  !):inil  yi'ar  of  his  age.  Koliert  W.  ( 'rookshank,  sen'r., 
married  .lane  .Mackenzie,  a  native  of  St.  Aiulrtnv's,  N.H.,  and  she  was  the  mother  of  eight 
children,  five  .sons  and  three  dangliters,  of  whom  our  suhjoct  was  tho  third  child.  His  mothor 
died  in  184(5. 

Mr.  Crookshank  was  e(lucated  at  the  Ujjper  Canada  college,  Toronto,  wluiro  ho  was  a 
student  for  six  or  .seven  years,  i)eing  there  in  the  exciting  time  of  the  rebellion  (IH:17,  '.S.S). 

On  completing  his  eiliicatiou  Mr.  Crookshaitk  returned  to  St.  John,  and  cominenecd  life  a.sa 
clerk  in  the  old  and  highly  rospectahlo  house  of  Messi-s.  Rolicrt  llankin  and  Co.  Wo  next  find  hini 
in  the  railway  department  of  the  province,  acting  as  secretary  of  the  Kuropean  and  North 
American  railway.     A  few  yt'ars  laU'r  he  was  employed  hy  the  local  government  in  charge  of 


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the  pulilie  works  dojmitmont,  in  tlio  city  of  St.  John,  tilling  tho  otHcos  of  .sOL-rotary  aiiJ 
trea.siiror. 

Iinniediately  after  Confederation  (lH(i7),  Mr.  Crookshiink  was  ajipointeil  colloctor  of  inlaml 
revenue  for  the  port  of  St.  John,  whieh  post  he  held  until  1M73.  when  lio  was  appointed  to  hin 
pre.sent  oHices  of  a.s.sistunt  receiver-yeiieral  and  nianaj^er  of  tlie  |)(Mi\iniou  ,savinj,rs  hank.  In  tho 
several  position.s  in  wliich  liu  ha«  been  phicud  ho  han  shown  liiinself  to  l)e  a  very  e-ucfiil  and 
eminently  trustworthy  and  competent  hu.-iinc.ss  man  ;  and  he  lias  tlie  unbounded  confidence  of 
the  community  as  well  as  i)^  the  ^'overnmetit.  Ilo  is  vice  president  of  tho  boiird  of  eommis- 
sioners  of  the  jj;eneral  public  hospital,  St,  .lohn. 

Mr.  Crookslnuik  heli)ed  to  orj,'ani/.e  the  (iiiid  battalion  of  volunteers  about  \Wt\,  of  which 
lion.  John  Robertson  was  the  first  colonel,  and  our  subject  his  successor.  He  retired  in  Novem- 
ber, IMGt-i,  with  the  rank  of  colonel. 

He  is  a  member  of  St.  James'  Kpiscopal  diureh,  St.  .John,  and  has  been  warden  of  tho 
same  for  a  number  of  years.  Parties  who  know  him  best  speak  most  hij^hly  of  his  t.'hristiau 
character. 

Colonel  Crookshank  married  in  Di-eendjcr,  IH4N,  his  .siicond  cousin,  Elizabeth  Irons, 
dau^diter  of  Robert  \V.  Crookshank,  St.  .loliii,  and  they  have  buried  three  chili Iren,  and  have 
four  sons  and  two  daughters  living.  Robert  Percy,  the  eldest  son,  is  a  graduate  of  tho  colleg(! 
of  physicians  and  surgeons  of  New  York,  and  resilient  physician  of  the  gonoral  pi'jlic  hospital, 
St.  John  ;  tieorge  Young,  is  in  the  civil  service  attache  I  to  the  tiiiinci!  depart  nu'iit,  Ottiw.i,  an  I 
the  other  children  are  at  home. 


LK    iiAKON    IJOTSFOllI),   :M.D., 

ST.  JOHN,  N.II. 

THK  medical  gentleman  who.se  name  we  have  placed  at  the  head  of  this  sketch,  and  who 
was  born  at  Sack ville,  N.B.,  on  the  iJiJlh  of  .lanuary,  1S12,  belongs  to  a  family  which 
has  been  tpiite  prominent  in  this  province  for  more  than  tlui'e-i(uaiters  of  a  centiny  ;  no  less 
than  three  generations  of  it  h.iving  been  speakers  of  .some  legislative  assembly.  An  account  of 
the  pirentige  and  peiligreo  of  our  subject  m.iy  be  fouu'l  in  a  sketch  of  his  elder  brother, 
Senatm-  Hotsford,  of  .Saekville.  Sketclies  of  two  otln'r  brothers,  lion.  HIiss  Botsford,  judge  of 
the  county  courts  of  Westmorelaiio,  Ali)ert  and  Kent,  and  IJIair  Rotsford,  warden  of  the  peni- 
tentiaiy  at  Dorchester,  appear  in  this  volume. 

Le  Raron  Botsfonl  was  educated  at  King's  college,  Fredericton,  and  at  the  iniiver.sity  oi 
Glasgow,  Siotland,  receiving  the  di'gree  id'  doctor  of  mediciMe  from  the  latter  institution,  in 
liS3,').  Before  returning  to  this  country,  he  visited  Paris,  and  walked  its  hospitals.  He  opened 
an  office  at  Woodstock,  N,B.,  in  1>S3(!,  and,  after  practising  tlieie  for  three  years,  settled  in  St, 
John,  which  has  since  been  the  field  of  his  operations.  He  has  had,  in  all,  forty-five  yeai's' 
experience  in  practice,  and  has  always  I'njoyed  a  good  reputation  for  skill  in  the  profession, 
both  in  medicine  and  surgery.  His  main  business  now  is  in  connection  with  tho  marine  hospi- 
tal, of  whieh  he  has  been,  for  .some  time,  superintending  physician,  and  which  affords  him 
about  all  the  employment  in  a  profession.al  line  that  he  is  solicitous  of  having. 

Dr.  Botsford  is  well  known  among  the  medical  fraternity,  not  oidy  in  this  province,  but 
in  other  parts  of  the  Dominion  :    he  being  at  one  time  president  of  the  Canaila  medical  asso- 


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elation.  Before  that  body,  he  read  papefs  on  Hygione,  which  wore  publislied  in  medical 
periodicals,  and  had  a  wide  circulation.  The  doctor  was  also,  for  ono  or  two  terms,  president 
of  the  St.  John  medical  society,  and  is  now  president  of  the  natural  history  society,  in  which 
he  takes  gieat  interest,  fostering  it  all  ho  can. 

Dr.  Hotsfoul  is  a  vestryman  of  Trinity  Episcopal  church,  and  pn^sident  of  the  New  Pruns- 
wick  bible  society,  auxiliary  to  the  Hiitisli  and  Foreign  .societ}' :  and  of  the  St.  Ji>hn  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association,  which  he  represented  at  t'lo  internatioiial  conventimi  of  Voung 
Men's  Christian  As.sociations  held  at  Washington,  J).C.,  a  few  yeai"s  ago.  He  takes  much 
interest  ii<  all  such  enterjirises. 

Dr.  Ilotsford  married,  in  bS.'lT,  Margaret  S.  Maine,  a  native  of  Scotland,  and  we 
believe  they  have  no  children.  The  doctor  has  a  fine  literary  taste,  an  active  and  in(|uiring 
mind,  and  devotes  his  leisure  time  largely  to  miscellaneous  reading  and  to  certain  branches  of 
scientific  research. 


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ZECllAKJAll    CJllPMAN, 

>T.  STEPHEN,  N.lt. 

AMONli  the  older  and  most  successful  class  of  business  men  in  St.  Stephen,  is  he  whose 
name  heads  this  sketeh.  Voy  more  than  ftrty  years  he  was  an  active  trailer  and  sliip- 
owncr  in  this  place,  and  won  an  enviable  naiee  for  uprightness  of  life  and  honesty  of  purpose 
in  his  business  transactions,  and  for  his  etticiency  in  disch-'rging  public  trusts. 

Zechariah  Chipman  was  born  at  Corriwallis,  King's  count}-,  N.  S,  on  the  ISth  of  April, 
1814,  several  of  his  relatives  still  residing  in  that  county,  one  or  two  of  tin  in  being  nu'ntioneil 
in  the  Nova  Scotia  part  of  this  work.  His  parents  were  Holmtss  and  Hli/.abi'th  Chipman,  who 
both  died  in  Nova  Scotia  ;  he  receivi'd  a  jilain  Knglisii  cducatiun  ;  is  largely  self-taught ;  was 
early  employed  in  a  general  mercantile  h.,r,si',  going  into  business  foi' himself  in  IN.'JT,  at  St. 
Stephen,  being  at  tirst  in  partiuiship  with  Mr.  V.  .M.  I'ingree,  and  ilealing  in  niirchandise  exclu- 
sively. Subse(|Uently  Mr.  Chipman  addeil  ship-building  and  shi]i|iing,  and  launchivl  out  exten- 
sively in  the  Wi'st  India  tiinle  in  l.S.H,  assiieiMting  with  himself  .luhn  I'olton,  nf  St.  Ainlrew's, 
N.L).  Litterly  he  li.is  l.ci'ii  alone,  and  siner  the  almost  total  failure  of  his  eye-sight,  three 
yeai"s  ago,  his  only  son,  John  S.  DeWolf  Chipman,  has  had  the  entire  charge  of  his  business. 

.Mr.  ('Iiipman  has  served  as  a  magistrati'  fm'  a  lung  perioil  ;  is  a  mend»er  of  the  board  of 
Mchool  tnisices;  a  director  of  the  New  Brunswick  and  Canaila  lailioad,  and  St.  Stephen's  bank  ; 
was  presidi'ut  for  some  yeais  of  the  Kruntin  strjunlidat  cninpany  ;  triistei  of  tht;  Calais  and 
Darin',  lailroad  tor  the  last  twenty  years  ;  w.is  one  of  tlie  piomotors  of  the  Saint  Croix  cotton 
mill,  now  beii\g  built  <in  the  St.  Croix  river  at  Milltown.  N.D.  ;  and  inileeil  it  wo\dd  be  diflicult 
to  mime  local  enterprises  with  wliich  In-  has  not  had  an  ollieial  coiniection,  hr  taking  pride  in 
aiiling  to  j)ush  forward  any  project  calculated  to  advance  the  interests  of  his  adopti-d  home. 

Mr.  Chi{)inan  has  long  been  one  of  the  pillars  of  the  .Methodist  ehuix;h,  ami  long  served  as 
an  ellicient  sunday-.school  superintendent,  no  man  in  St.  Stephen,  it  is  .safe  to  .say,  having  the 
spiiittwvl  welfare  of  the  young  more  thoioughly  at  heart.  He  has  held  various  ofhces  connected 
with  his  cluireli,  and  is  also  secretary  of  the  St.  Stcpluin  liraneh  of  the  Ihitish  and  K<>ri«igii 
Biblo  .society.     I'robably  no  man  in  this  town  is  more  estcemecl  for  his  consistency  of  character 


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and  Christian  worth,  than  the  suhjcct  of  tliis  sketch.     Whon  sucli  nu-n  arc  laid  aside  from  their 
labors  hy  intirniities,  it  is  a  serious  loss  to  tliecoimnuiiity. 

Mr.  C'liipnian  was  joined  in  niarria<,'c  in  liS+2,  with  Mary  K.  DeWolf,  of  Wolfville,  N.  S., 
and  they  have  five  cViildren  livinj,'.  Alice,  tlu-  eldest  daughter,  is  lady  Tilley,  wife  of  the  Min- 
ister of  Finance ;  Florence  is  the  wife  of  Owen  Jones,  civil  enjiineer  New  Zealand  ;  Annie  F.  is 
the  wife  of  Frederick  Toller,  of  thi'  finance  de])nrtnient,  Ottawa  ;  and  Laura  E.  is  the  wife  of 
W.  H.  Howlaml,  Toronto,  son  of  Hon.  W.  P.  Howland.  The  only  son,  wliose  name  we  have 
already  mentioned,  and  who  is  one  of  the  hest  Imsiness  men  of  the  joimg  class  in  St.  Stephen, 
is  a  director  of  the  Frontier  steamhoat  cnmpaiiy,  superintendent  of  the  Methodist  Sunday-school  ; 
treasurer  of  the  Ijihle  society  ;  and  is  a  tluirou;,di-eoiiiH;  husiness  man  and  Christian  Avoiker. 
His  wife  is  a  daughter  of  Sir  S.  L.  Tilley. 


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AVILIJAM  J.  LEWIS,  M.D., 

HILLSJIOIWCGH,  N.n. 

WILLIAM  .TAMKS  LEWIS  is  n  sun  of  Hon.  John  Lewis,  sketdicd  on  precedinif  pages, 
and  was  horn  at  llillshorough,  N.J!.,  on  the  "2.")th  Septendur,  1n3().  The  pedigree  of 
nis  family  may  he  found  in  the  sketch  refeiieil  to.  He  was  educated  at  Hiilshornugh  and 
Sackville  ;  .studied  medicine  at  the  university  of  (Uasgow,  and  is  a  memherof  the  Royal  College 
of  Sni'geons,  Ediidiurgh,  at  which  institution  he  was  graduated  in  l.s.").').  He  is  one  of  the  lead- 
ing men  in  his  profession  in  Alhert  county,  his  rides  heiiig  extensive,  and  his  rep\itation  for 
skill  and  succcs.s  (jnite  high. 

He  is  one  of  the  coroners  for  the  county,  and  has  done  .some  useful  work  as  a  school  trustee. 
He  may  have  hilil  other  local  otiices  of  which  we  are  not  cognizant. 

At  the  last  general  election  for  mendicrs  of  the  New  Ihun.swick  legislature,  held  in  June, 
187><,  the  doctor  contested  Alhert  county,  ami  was  succcs.sful,  and  is  now  .serving  his  first  term 
in  a  legislative  hody,  his  jiolitics  heing  Liheral  Conservative.  In  religious  .sentiment  he  is  a 
Hapfist. 

The  wife  of  Dr.  Lewis  is  Melissa,  <laught(r  of  llichard  E.  Steeves,  Es(|.,  postmaster  at  Hills- 
borou'di,  thev  heiny;  married  in  1M77.     We  believe  tliev  have  no  children  living. 


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T.   TLKNEU    ODKLL. 
ST.  a.\]>i;kw%  y.n. 

THOMAS  TI'HNKK  ODELfi.  a  hailing  importer  and  wholesale  and  retail  dry  goods  mer- 
chant at  St.  Andri'w's,  and  warden  of  the  coinity  of  Cliariolle.  U  a  native  of  j'edturd- 
.shire,  England,  a  son  of  Whitiiread  and  Anna  I'ercy  (Turnei)  t)dell,  and  was  born  on  the  I  '(lli 
of  Jamiarv,  1^112.  His  parents  belongeil  to  the  agricultural  class,  lb'  received  a  goo(l  EiiLrlish 
education;  and  came  out  to  St,  Andrew's  in  ISbV  to  his  luaternal  umle.  Thomas  Turner,  for 
whom  he  had  lieen  named,  and  with  whom  he  leariieil  the  mercantile  trade.     Tluit  uncle  was  a 


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siifccssfiil  Imsincss  nmiia^iT  ami  prominent  anioiiLj  tho  men  of  liis  class  in  this  community, 
<I villi,'  in  liS.')0.  On  lii.s  den.  oui'  suli'nct  toi<k.  cliarj;o  of  tin-  business,  and  has  heen  ono  of  the 
fini'iiiost  mcicliants  lure  for  tliiity-ouo  yt-ai's.  His  ivputation  for  promptness,  honesty,  fair 
(ioaiinj^,  and  all  the  clonu'iits  of  mercantile  honor,  is  second  to  that  of  no  citizen  of  the  town. 

Mr.  Udell  was  connected  with  the  militia  at  one  period  of  his  life,  and  at  the  time  of  the 
Fenian  raid,  fifteen  years  a^jo.  was  1st  Lieutenant  of  Artillery,  and  was  ow  duty  for  three 
months  at  Fort  Tipperary,  St.  Andrew's,  b,.'in^  in  connnand  at  the  time.  He  has  been  a  magistrate 
for  many  years;  is  chairman  of  the  local  board  of  school  trustees,  and  warden  of  the  county,  as 
already  stateil.  i[r.  Odell  was  first  elected  to  the  last  named  otfice  in  1877,  on  the  chaiiire  of 
the  law  regarding  numicipal  matters,  he  being  the  first  officer  of  the  kind  in  the  county.  He 
has  given  such  excellent  satisfaction  in  that  position,  that  the  l>oard  of  county  councillors  has 
seen  fit  to  re-elect  him  from  year  ti  >  year,  and  he  is  now  serving  his  fifth  term.  It  is  also  because 
of  his  activity  in  the  cause  of  education,  that  he  is  kej)!  at  the  head  of  the  board  of  school 
ti'ustees.  He  seems  to  shrink  fnnu  no  iliily  as  a  citizen,  and  in  various  ways  is  niaking  himself 
eminently  useful.     No  town  can  have  a  suiplus  of  such  pulilic-s|)irited  men. 

Mr.  Odell  is  a  mendter  of  the  vestry  of  All  Saints  E[ti.scopal  church,  and  a  man  of  .solid 
Christian  character. 

Hi'  manied  in  IS.')  1.  hLmma,  daughter  of  Alexamler  .McCirotty  of  St.  J(jlin,  and  they  liave  lost 
one  child  and  ha\e  two  sons  and  two  daughters  living.  Tiie  sons,  Edward  and  Thomas  Tiuiier, 
are  in  their  father'.s  ofiice  and  warehouse,  and  the  daughters  are  also  at  home. 


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LTEUT.-COL.  CIIAHLES   R  RAY, 

ST.  JonS,  N.li. 

CHARLKS  ROl^FdlT  KAY,  merchant  and  ex-mayor  of  St.  John,  dates  his  birth  at  his 
pre.sent  liome,  on  the  IJttli  of  Deirndter,  ISrlO.  His  father,  lloliert  lliiy,  was  boi'n  at 
Digby,  N.S.,  and  learned  the  merhanieal  business  of  a  sail-maker  at  Her  Majesty's  dockyard, 
Halifax.  His  grandfather,  Robert  Ray,  born  in  174+  in  the  county  of  Donegal,  Ireland,  went 
to  New  York  before  the  revolution  ;  wa.-^  a  merchant  there,  and  when  the  colonists  took  up  aims 
against  the  erown,  he  went  to  Digl'V,  leaving  a  groit  amount  of  property  behind  him.  His 
widow  and  two  daughters  letiiined  to  Ni'W  N'oik.  and  one  of  the  tl.uigiiters,  Rachel,  married 
William  llallett,  a  prominent  lawyer  and  politician  of  New  York,  and  an  intimate  friend  of 
I'resident  Van  Jhiieii,  'ria  otlier  daughter,  M  irgaret,  mairie  I  .lames  Hawes,  also  a  luominent 
lawyer  of  that  city. 

The  mother  of  our  subject  wiu  Abigail  Hatfield  Oariison,  daughter  (d'  David  HattieM,  a 
loyalist,  and  mercliant  from  New  York,  au'l  widow  of  Capt.  Isaac  (iariison.  She  was  the  third 
wife  of  Robert  Ray,  and  dieil  wlieii  Charles  was  eighteen  months  old.  The  father  married 
a  follltll  wife, 

Vv.  Ray  was  kept  at  a  boariling  school  from  eight  to  sixteen  years  of  age  ;  tiu'U  went  to 
Kngland,  and  on  his  return,  learned  the  dry  goods  Ijusino.ss,  which  he  luw  followed  for  himself 
since  IHCII. 

-Mr.  Ray  joined  the  volunteer  service  when  a  young  man,  and  commanded  the  (I2nd  bat- 
talion for  several  yt'ars,  retiring  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant  colonel,     lie  was  mayor  of  St.  John 


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for  two  tciiiis — 1879  and  ISSO — lieiiij:j  lo-clectod  witlioiit  njjpositioii,  aiul  made  an  tftiiiciit 
chief  magistrate.  He  is  cliainuan  nf  tliu  Loanl  of  Cdiimiissioiu  is  vf  sowciiimto  and  wati-r  supply 
for  the  city  of  St.  John  and  the  town  of  Portland,  and  president  of  the  St.  John  Reform  Clnh. 
Col.  Ray  mairied,  July  1st,  iNtii,  Agnts,  daughter  of  (leorge  Pagan,  Ksq.,  deceased,  and 
granddaughter  of  the  Hon.  Jahez  Tpliam.  formerly  one  of  the  judges  of  the  supreme  court  of 
this  province  ;  and  they  have  had  six  children,  burying  tliree  of  thom.  The  names  of  tho 
living  are  Marion  Pagan,  Gilbert  Robert,  and  CJeorge  Pagan. 


SILAS    ALWAED,   AM., 
ST.  John,  n.b. 

SILAS  ALWARD,  banister,  and  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the  younger  class  in  his  ])rofe.><- 
sion  in  the  city  of  St.  John,  is  a  native  of  New  Brunswick,  his  biitli  l>eing  dated  at  New 
Canaan,  Queen's  county,  on  the  14th  of  April,  1^41.  His  father,  John  Alward,  a  well-to-do 
farmer,  was  born  in  the  ,same  pari.sli.  His  grandfather.  Benjamin  Alward,  was  a  I'nited  Kmpiie 
Loyalist,  who  came  to  this  province  from  New  Jersey,  at  the  close  of  the  cohmial  war,  settled 
in  Queen's  comity,  and  there  died  at  the  great  age  of  !)()  years.  The  mother  of  Silas  Alward. 
before  her  marriage,  was  Mary  A.  Corey,  whose  family  were  also  early  settlers  in  Queen's  county. 

Mr.  Alward  was  educateil  at  Acadia  college,  Woll'ville,  N.  S.,  ivceiving  the  ilegree  of  luichelor 
of  arts  in  18C0,  ma-ster  of  arts,  lS(i4,  ami  a<l  t'ini<li(rii,  of  Brown  university,  Providence,  R.  I., 
in  1871  ;  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  Charles  N.  Skinner,  Q.  C., now  judge  of  probates,  St.  John; 
was  admitted  to  practise  in  IStl'i,  and  called  to  the  bar  in  18G(i.  and  has  always  practised  in  St. 
John.  His  business  is  large  and  reumnerative,  e.xtending  into  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Domi- 
nion, as  well  as  into  the  general  courts  of  tiie  ])rovince.  Says  a  gentleinun  who  has  long  and 
intimately  known  Mr.  Alward  :  "  He  stands  pre-eminent  in  general  literature  and  legal  attain- 
ments ;  is  attentive  to  business,  a  very  ettieient  a<lvocate  and  an  ornami'ut  to  tlie  liar  t)f  New 
Brunswick." 

Mr.  Alward  takes  a  good  deal  of  interest  in  literary  and  eilucational  matters,  and  was 
at  one  time  president  of  the  St.  John'  mechanics'  instutute,  and  is  now  a  school  trustee,  under 
government  ajipointnient.     His  polities  aii-  bilieral  ;  Ids  religious  .sentiments,  Bajitist. 

Mr.  Alward  marrifd,  OctoVier  12,  lS(j'.\  Kmilie,  daughter  of  Peter  ^Viekwire,  of  Nova  Scotia, 
and  sister  of  Dr.  Wickwire,  Halifax  ;  she  died,  leaving  no  issue,  June  20,  187!>. 


HON.   DANIEL    L.   HANIKCTON,  M.P.I', 

DORCIlt:sTEli,  N.ll. 

DANIKL  LIONKL  HANlNC.TON,  member  nf  the  Provincial  Parliament  and  e\eciitlve 
council  of  New  iirunswicU,  was  born  at  SluMliae,  county  of  Westmoreland,  New  Hiuns- 
wiek,  on  the  !l7th  of  June,  bS.S.")  ;  Ins  paiTnt.tge  ami  pedigree  may  be  fomid  in  a  sketch  of  his 
father,  Hon.  Daniel  Hanington.  njipearing  on  preceding  pages  of  this  volumej  he  received  a  gram- 


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mar  school  and  aoulemio  etlueiition  at  Sackville,  in  his  native  county;  eoniniencetl  studying  law 
witli  CliHiles  (latt'judgo)  Fisher. of  Fredeiicton  ;  finislied  with  Judge  A.  L.  Pahner, of  Dorehester; 
was  called  to  the  har  of  New  l^rtuiswick,  in  18(51,  and  is  doing  luisiness  in  the  several  courts  of 
this  province  and  that  of  Nova  Scotia  ;  also,  in  the  Supreme  ('ouit  of  the  Dominion;  he  has 
heen  quite  successful  as  a  lawyer,   and  ha,s  placed  himself  in  very  ci)mfortal>Ie  cii'cum-ttaiicos. 


Mr.  Haningtoii  was  a  school  trustee  for  sixteen  or  sevcnt.'on  year-!; 


•IS  clerk  of  circuits, 


and  of  the  county  court  for  Westnioicland,  from  iNIi"  to  1S7<),  resigning  in  the  latter  year  to 
contest  the  election  for  his  piesent  .seat,  in  which  he  was  successful ;  he  held  that  seat  from 
Deceinher,  1S7(),  to  the  summer  of  1.S7+.  when  he  was  defeated  on  the  i|uestion  of  the  "  Hihle 
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the  conuuon  .schools,"  which  policy  he  advocateil ;  he  was  again 
elected  at  the  last  general  election  held  in  June,  InTn,  and  was  a})pointed  a  memlier  of  tin,'  exe- 
cutive comicil  on  the  llUh  of  the  following  month. 

Mr.  HaningtiUi  is  put  down  in  the  "  I'arliamentary  ( 'ompanion  "  as  "  a  Lihcral  of  the  old 
New  Brunswick  school,  and  supports  the  Lilteral  Conservative  Government  i>f  Canada  ;  he  is  a 
mendter  of  the  Lihcral  Conservative  Association  of  Westmoreland,  and  took  an  active  part  in 
supj-H)rt  of  the  candiilate  of  the  present  (^uiadian  Ministry."  Mis  religious  comiection  is  with 
the  Church  of  Kngland. 

Mr.  Hanington  married  in  Octohei-,  I.Hdl,  Emily  Myers,  daughter  of  Thomas  llohert  West- 
more.  Ks(|.,  hariistei-at-law,  ami  Judge  of  prohate,  tiagctown.  New  Jhimswiek.  ami  they  have 
seven  children,  foui-  daughters  and  three  sous  living. 


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FHEDEIilCToy,  N.ll. 

JAMKS  CHARLKS  McDKVlTT,  priest  of  St.  Diuistan  church.  Krederlcton.  was  horn  near 
St.  John,  this  province,  May  (5.  1S20,  his  parents  being  (n'orge  and  Hose  (McMenamin) 
McDevitt,  nativi's  of  Ireland,  and  inemhers  of  the  fainiing  couMuiniity.  I li' was  educated  in 
the  St.  John  schools  and  the  univeisity  of  WiJieington.  Delaware,  sidisecpii'Utly  spemlingafew 
months  in  the  city  of  (.Quebec,  in  order  to  aci|uire  some  knowledge  of  the  French  language  ;  he 
was  in  that  city  in  the  spring  of  1N47,  when  the  ship  fever  binke  out  at  Ctros.se  Isle,  and  people 
were  dying  hy  the  scores  daily.  Siveral  ])riests,  who  went  there  to  assist  the  sick,  anil  to  min- 
istei-  to  the  comfort  f)f  the  <l\ing,  fell  -uddenly,  and  Mr.  .\l(d>evitt  was  asked  if  he  woul<l  go 
there  and  help  till  the  gaps  nunle  Ity  death  ;  he  answered  promptly  that  he  would  go.  The  case 
was  an  urgent  one  ;  his  aid  was  neeile<l  innnediately  :  and  conscijueiitly  he  was  (udained  priest 
at  eight  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  half  an  hour  lati'r  was  on  his  way  to  the  i|uarantine  island, 
where  he  lahoieil  day  and  night  for  ten  weeks,  when  lie  caught  the  fever  and  wa-;  laid  up  for 
three  months. 

Late  in  the  autunui  of  that  year  Mr.  M(d)evitt  was  appointed  to  his  present  charge.  iJishop 
Dollard  then  being  a  resident  of  Ki-ederictou.  Not  long  afterwards  this  tield  was  left  entii'oly 
to  the  oversight  of  our  sulijeet,  who  has  from  the  start  been  an  imlustrious  and  faithful  laborer. 

Since  Mr.  MiDcNilt  settled  in  Fredericton.  he  has  completed  the  building  of  St.  Dunstan's 
church,  and  has  put  up  the  St.  Viiu-ent  convent,  St.  l>uustan's  hall,  and  otlur  buildings  in  the 
vicinity  ol'  the  chuicb  ;  has  purchased  the  "  Hermitage, "  a  \eiy  \ahi;ib|f  property,  using  part  of 

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THE  CAXADIAX  IttOCRA  I'/firM.  PICTIOKAIIY. 


it  for  a  iH'iiiett'iy,  ami  \Mi\i  for  plcasiiiv  y:ii>iiiiils ;  anil  by  tlu-  aid  of  an  assistant,  wlioni  lie  al- 
M'a\'.s  has,  ho  lias  hiiilt  tm  i-huiches,  iocatnl  from  tiMi  to  tweiity-tive  miles  from  Kreilerictoii ;  he 
has  also  more  than  twenty  missions  to  which  he  attends ;  ami  hence  it  is  almost  needless  to 
.state  that  he  is  very  active  in  his  Master's  cause. 

Mr.  AIcDevitt  is  a  freiinent  contiihntoi-  to  the  secular  as  Wi-ll  as  r(:lii,'ioiis  press,  thf)nifh  we 
(lonbt  if  this  fact  is  jrent-ralU  known,  even  amoni:  his  intimate  friends;  and  it  is  donhtful  if  ho 
will  thank  the  writer  for  makinjj  this  statement  to  the  jmlilic;  foi  Mr.  Mei)evitt  is  evidently 
not  working  for  this  world's  applause.  Parties  who  do  know  his  writings,  are  aware  that  in 
dealing  with  a  snhject,  he  comes  directly  to  the  point,  and  wields  a  ti'enchant  pen. 


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IlCm.  ALEXANDER    ^FL.   SKRLY,   M.L.C., 

ST.  JitllX,  X.ll. 

ALKXANDEll  M»'LE(>1)  SKKLV,  pre  lde.it  of  tlie  I/'gislativ.-  ('  Mincil  of  New  Brunswick, 
was  horn  in  the  city  of  ,St.  .lohn,  in  Isll,  his  fatln-r  hcing  Setli  Scely,  jiniior,  and  his 
grandfather,  Seth  Seely,  senior.  The  latter  was  a  loyalist  from  Stamfoid,  <  "onn.  Alexander 
was  e<lucated  in  the  pnMic  sejioojs  of  St.  John,  and  was  early  engagi'd  in  surveying  hn.ilier, 
and  a  little  later,  in  its  manufacture  in  his  own  mills.  At  one  period,  he  was  also  a  ship-huilder 
and  merchant,  showing  great  energy  as  a  inisiness  man.  i-'or  several  years  he  was  president  of 
the  Connneicial  Hank  of  New  Mi  luiswirk,  and  is  a  director  of  the  International  Steamship  Com- 
pany. 

He  was  called  to  the  Legislative  ('ouncil  in  \S'A.  and  was  elected  its  president  in  lM7i>, 
his  politics  lieing  Liheral.       He  is  a  memlier  of  the  senate  of  tln'  university  of  New  Brunswick. 

Mr.  Seely  is  vite-president  of  the  Ni-w  Brunswick  Baptist  eilucation  societ)',  president  of 
the  New  Brunswick  Baptist  home  mission,  an<l  vice-president  of  the  Ba|iti>t  convention  of  New- 
Brunswick  and  No\a  Scotia.  He  has  also  heen  president  of  the  St.  John  i-cligious  tract  .societ}', 
and  is  a  man  of  high  Christian  character.  Latterly  his  usefulness  has  liceii  gi'e.atl}'  diminished 
l.y  feeble  health. 

Mr.  Seelv  has  had  two  wives,  and  has  four  children  living  hv  each  of  them. 


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GEOHGE    HADDON,   M.D., 

hAl.irnusiK.  X.li. 

("^  KOlUiE  H.\i)l)(>N,  representing  Besligouche  comity,  N.  B,  in  the  House  of  Commons. 
^  i>  a  son  of  Ivobert  Haddon,  from  Ayrsliin',  Scotland,  . and  dates  his  birth  at  Douglas- 
town,  Miramiclii,  N.B..  oiithe  loth  December,  Ls:{;i,  his  mother  bi'ing  Elizabeth  Taylor,  of 
Chatham,  N.  B.  He  received  his  mental  drill  at  the  Noithuiulieiland  graiumar  school  ;  was 
clerk  for  ten  or  eleven  years  at  Chatham,  Uestigouehe  ami  .Miiaiiiichi,  and  coinnienced  business 
for  himself  at  Dalhousie,  in  IN.')!),  merchamlising  and  canning  tish,  adding  shipbuilding  on  a 
niodi'iate  scale,  in  INti.S  At  present  lie  is  a  general  merchant,  and  dealer  in  fresh  anil  canii(>d 
tisii. 


77//;  CASADIAS  liUHi I! .{I'll l<  M.  I>l(  7/o.V.I/,')' 

Ho  was  lirst  ri'turntid  lor  his  pii'sciit  scat  in  pailianiciU,  on  tlio  l^'tli  of  .lanuaiy,  l!S7H,  liy 
ncclaniation,  ami  was  re-cli'cti'il  in  tlu-  saiiii>  manner  in  the  autumn  of  tlif  same  year.  He  is 
iii(lt'|it'nili;nt,  witli  Lihoral  lfaniiii;s,  liavin:,'  always  lpt'lonj,'t'il  to  the  oM  Liticral  party  of  New 
Krunsxviek.  He  iiolifvos  party  jiolitios  n\v  a  caust'  of  very  y;n'at  injustice  to  tliese  sections  of 
tlic  Dominion,  which  do  not  happen  to  suppoit  tlie  j)arty  in  jiowei-. 


Mr.  Iladdon  is  vice-consul  for  N 


)rway  ant 


1  Sweden  ;   a  memhei'  of  the  oriler  of  tlic  sons  of 


temperance,  and  of  the   I'reshytcrian  church,  and  one  <if  the  most  upii^ht,  lelialile  citizens  of 


Dall 


lousie. 


He  marrie  I  in  l.s.V.i,  at  ( 'hatliam,  Cliristiana.  daui^'hler  of  the  Uev.  .lolm  McCardy,  l).|). 
and  they  lost  their  olilest  dau^,'hter,  Kate,  in  ls7'V  '"id  have  one  son,  IJohert,  and  four  "laugh- 
tc'i's,  Katie,  Bessie,  Lena,  and  (.ieor<ric,  livin<r. 


in  l.H7i>, 

miswick. 

•sident  of 

of  New 

,s(  )ciety, 

miiiislied 


.lOIIN    FKKins,    KX'M.I'., 

MoNCmx,  K.li. 

JOHN  FKRHIS,  son  of  .lohn  Ferris,  sr.,  of  \Vateilioroui,di,  (j)ueen's  county,  N'.Ii.,  was  horn 
in  that  place  on  the  !Hh  of  January,  IM  1.  He  hail  mmv  limited  o])|)ortunities  foi'  ac'u- 
niulatin;^  knowledge  in  his  younj^er  years,  cnnflninit  his  studies  to  t!ie  elementary  hranchcs 
and  not  completely  masteriuf;  even  them. 

In  Is.").',  he  mariied  Sarah  .M(d.ean,  dau,L,diter  of  ('aptain  .luhn  Mehran.  hy  whom  he  hius 
three  children  livini,',  ami  a  lari,'er  numher  who  died. 

Mr.  Ferris  is  one  of  the  li'.tdiiiL;'  lumher  manufacture  is  in  <,)ueeirs  county,  and  is  also  an 
exteii.sivo  farmer,  and  a  \ ei y  eneri^elic  Imsinos  man.  He  entered  pidilic  life  in  1S44,  and  .sat 
I'oi'  t^)ueen's  county  in  the  local  assembly  nnlii  iN'iK  when  Ic  retiied  for  a  short  time,  anil 
asjfain  from  IMHI  until  the  couMuunuition  of  the  union  in  Jul}',  i.sUT.  At  that  time  he  wiw 
idected  to  the  House  of  Conuuons.  and  hy  repeated  re-elections— twice  liy  acclamation — he  sat 
till  1S7M,  when  he  w;is  defeated,  He  is  a  Lilieral.  and  a  po^iti\c  num.  firm  in  all  his  senti- 
ments, rcliL,nous  as  well  as  ])olitical.  He  is  a  Uaptist,  and  a  liheral  supporter  of  Christian  and 
henevolent  oi'j,'anizations,  haviuL;-  a  lai'i^'e  heart,  and  'he  means  as  well  as  the  dispo.sition  to 
gratify  its  best  impulses. 


onuuoir-i, 
l)ou;,^las- 
I'avlor,  of 
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liusiness 
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JIOX.   ANDIJKW    i:.    WKTMOin:,   (,).("., 

FKKDEItlCTOX,  N.li. 

ANDllKW  l{.\INSFOIH»  WKT.MOHK,  one  of  ihe  eminent  Jurists  of  New  I'.nmswiek,  is  a 
grandson  of  the  lion.  'Mmuias  Wetmore,  a  loyalist,  who  was  attorney-general  of  this 
prinince  fiom  IM)!t  to  the  L''_'nd  of  March,  1  S*J8,  the  date  of  his  tlejith  ;  and  son  of  (leorge  Lud- 
low W'etmoie,  who  was  a  |iromi-.ihg  vouul;  lawyer,  and  held  tlu'  otiices  of  clerk  of  the  House  of 
A'-senibly,  and  clcik  of  the  peace  for  (^hieen's  county,  d\iiig  .-uddcnl>'  oii  the  "JOlh  of  Oetolier, 
1H21,  at  the  nurly  age  of  twenty-six  years. 


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Tlu'  siiltjoet  of  tliis  slioit  Mo^niphical  ski'tdi  was  lM»in  at  FitMlfiictoii,  liis  presoiit  homo, 
on  tlio  Kitli  of  Aui^ust,  1820,  ami  \va.s  oclucated  in  t!u'  (jfiainiuar  si'honl  ot'liis  native  city.  IIo 
conunenctiJ  the  study  of  liisv  at  Dorchester,  county  of  Westniorelaml,  with  Hon.  K.  H.  CiwiniUer, 
late  licut-f^uvcrnor  of  New  Hi iinswii'k,  nRiitioncd  in  other  pages  of  tliis  work  ;  and  tinislieil 
with  (ieorjje  .'.  Dihlile,  Ks((.,  Fiederictun  ;  was  aihnitted  to  practise  as  an  attorney  on  tht;  14th 
of  Octolier.  INil  ;  laUed  to  the  har  on  ilie  I2th  of  (-)ctolier,  184.S;  and  practised  liis  profession 
at  Oroniocto,  county  of  Su)il)iny,  from  ISH  to  IS47,  when  he  removed  to  the  city  of  St.  John, 
where  lie  continued  his  practice  until  IMO  ;  was  elevated  to  the  bench,  and  subsetpientl}',  in 
1874,  he  removed  to  Kredericton.  Me  early  made  a  hrilliant  reconl, particularly  as  a  nini  iiriiin 
lawyer,  and  paved  his  way  for  elevation  later  in  life. 

In  Deeeinher,  Is.')?,  Mr.  Wetmore  was  appointed  clt-rk  of  the  crown  in  the  su|)reme  court, 
which  otHce  he  held  until  18(i5,  when  he  resij^'ned,  in  order  to  become  a  candidate  to  represent 
the  city  t)f  St.  John  in  the  local  asseudily.  In  18(i:},  by  her  Majesty's  command,  he  was  ap- 
pointed Queen's  Counsel,  by  letters  jiatent,  mider  public  seal  of  New  ihunswick. 

In  I8(i.'),  Mr.  Wetmore  was  elected  to  represent  the  city  of  St.  John  in  tlu!  provinOial 
a-ssenibly,  ami  a  dis.solution  soon  taking;  i)lace,  he  was  re-elected  in  the  following  year.  He, 
however,  vacated  his  seat  in  I8(i7,  when  lie  was  appointed  attorney-general,  and  was  again  re- 
turned by  a  lluttering  vote.  He  held  the  otiice  of  attorney  general,  and  leader  of  the  govern- 
juent,  initil  his  appointment  to  the  bench  of  New  Ihunswick,  on  the  2()th  of  May,  1870.  His 
liigh  attainments  as  a  lawyer,  and  his  judicial  cast  of  mind,  well  (pialify  him  to  till  his  present 
exalted  position. 

Judge  Wetmore  was  married  in  September,  1848,  to  Louisa,  eldest  daughter  of  Thomas 
Lausdowne,  formerly  .sheriH'of  the  county  of  Kent,  N.B.,  having  had  by  her  nine  children,  los- 
ing two  of  them.  Tlie  eblest  ilaughter,  Sarah,  is  the  wife  of  Charles  Holdeii,  M.I).,  St.  John  ; 
Louisa  is  the  wife  of  'I'.  Cailton  Allan,  liarrister,  same  city  ;  the  eldest  son,  (Jeorge,  is  an  a.^sist- 
ant  I'ugineer  on  the  Canada  Pacific  railway  ;  the  second  .son,  Andrew  llainsford,  is  a  student  in 
the  royal  military  college.  Kingston,  Ont. ;  and  the  youngest  .son,  aged  fourteen,  is  at  tlie 
Fredericton  high  school.  Two  daughters  are  at  home.  The  family  are  members  of  the  church 
of  Kngland. 


HON.   .IA.\rE^    I).  LEWIX, 

.ST.  .lOliy,  N.li. 

JAMKS  DAVIES  LKWIN,  one  of  the  New  Brunswick  senatoi-s  in  tlie  Canadian  parliament, 
is  descended  fiom  the  I^ewins,  of  Womaston,  llailnorshiie.  South  Wales,  and  was  there 
horn,  on  the  1st  of  April,  1812,  his  father,  Samuel  Lewiti  jun.,  and  his  grandfather,  Saiuuel  l..ewin, 
^eii.,  being  in  their  day  private  country  gentlemen.  His  mother  was  Mary  Furniage,  a  native  of 
Middlesex  county,  Kngland,  member  of  a  family  for  generations  largely  represented  in  both  the' 
army  and  nav3' of  (ireat  Jhitain.  ilr.  licwin  was  educated  in  the  Kingston  grammar  school, 
Herefordshire,  England  ;  at  eighteen  years  of  age  went  into  the  civil  service,  under  the  Kiii'lish 
Government;  in  1830  came  to  New  Brunswick, and  remained  in  the  same  clcpartnient  until  the 
introduction  of  responsilile  government,  when  his  department  was  al)olished. 

Two  or  three  years  afterwards  fbS.'i,'),  Mr.  Lewin  was  elected  presi<leiit  uf  the  Bank  "f  New 
Brunswick,  the  duties  of  which  oIKce  he  is  still  performing  with  great  acceptance.     The  in.stitu- 


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tion  at  (he  liciul  of  wliirh  he  stands,  is  mana;,'otl  with  yieat  earo  and  is  sixind,  jH)i)idar,  and 
jirospcrous. 

Mr.  Lcwiii  is,  and  has  long  hei-n,  a  justice  of  tlie  peace  for  the  city  and  county  of  St.  John, 
and  was  called  tu  the  Senate  in  187(5,  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  hy  the  <leath  of  the  Hon.  John 
KolK-rtsDii,  his  polities  Iteing  Liheral.  He  is  a  man  of  .sound  judgment,  and  makes  a  vahiahlu 
legislator. 

Senator  Lewin  is  po.Hsessed  of  a  liiieral  degree  of  pulilic  spirit,  and  was  one  of  the  foremost 
men  \n  projecting  and  building  the  St.  John  .suspension  bridge,  of  which  company  he  was  presi- 
dent for  years.  He  has  also  been  identitied  with  other  local  enterprises,  and  i.4  not  backward  in 
any  movements  ealeidated  to  benefit  the  |public. 

Senator  Lewin  is  a  nieinlier  of  the  Methodist  church  of  Canada  ;  has  held  various  otlices 
connected  with  the  .same,  and  is  a  man  of  pure  and  generous  inipul.ses. 

He  married,  in  \KV1,  Sarah  Ami,  daughter  of  ivichard  Samuel  Clarke,  for  many  years  . sher- 
iff of  Northumberland  county,  N.H.,  and  they  have  five  chililren  living,  and  have  lost  several, 
all  but  one  in  infancy.  The  eldest  son,  Samuel  Lewin,  .M.I).,  a  graduate  of  the  imiversity  of 
New  York,  practised  his  profession  at  Chatham,  N.B.,  tlying  a  few  years  ago,  at  about  forty 
years  of  age, 


AX  DOVER,  N.lt. 

THOMAS  KKAN'CTS  KENNY,  one  of  the  youngest  members  of  the  local  parliament, 
representing  the  county  of  iJestigouche  in  the  Lower  House,  is  a  natue  of  (iloueester 
county,  in  this  province,  dating  his  birth  at  Hathui-st,  on  the  2.5th  of  .March,  J!i+7.  Both  parents, 
Michael  and  .\mi  (Hughes)  Keiniy,  were  from  Indand,  the  Kennys  being  a  We.sford  family, 
from  which  county  the  father  emigrated  in  IfS^'-l.  'riiere  Thomas  received  a  grannnar  school 
education,  and  learneil  the  trade  of  tanner  and  currier,  and  was  eiigageil  in  the  manufacture 
of  leather  at  Dalhousie,  county  of  Itestigouche,  for  eleven  years.  While  there  he  served  as  a 
hi'di  .school  trustee  for  the  parish  of  Dalhousie  for  seven  or  eight  yi-ars,  and  was  also  an  over- 
seer of  the  poor. 

In  Se[)tembei',  IS?!',  Mr.  Kenny  nujved  to  Andover,  the  shiretown  of  Victoria  county, 
where,  in  addition  to  the  numufacture  of  leather,  he  is  also  trading  in  general  merchandise,  do- 
ing a  careful  and  well-paying  business  in  both  branches.  He  is  comparatively  a  new  man  in 
Victoria,  but  will  no  doubt  eventually  make  as  useful  a  citizen  here  as  he  did  in  llestigouche. 

Before  leaving  that  part  of  the  province,  in  the  sununer  of  l.S7<S,  Mr.  Keiuiy  yielded  to  the 
solicitation  of  his  political  friends,  the  Liberal-Con.servativcs  of  Kestigouehe,  and  con.sented  to 
contest  that  constituency  for  the  Hou.se  of  Assendily.  He  was  successful,  and  has  alieady 
served  three  sessions  in  that  body,  making  a  good  working  member,  being  efficient  a.s  well  as 
punctual  in  the  comndttee  room,  shirking  no  resp^jusibilit}'.  ffe  see(jnded  the  address  to  the 
Throne  at  the  .second  session,  and  moved  the  Address  at  the  third. 

Mr.  Kenny  is  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  <'hurch,  ami  a  man  of  excellent  social  as 
veil  as  moral  habits.  He  can  say  what  too  many  men  of  his  age  cannot,  namely,  that  he  does 
not  know  tlie  ta.ste  of  intoxicating  liipiors.  Such  "ignorance"  is  truly  "  bli.ss."  He  learnecl  to 
say  '  No"  when  young,  and  Ids  decision  of  character  i.s  one  of  his  most  connnendable  traits, 


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Tlio  wife  of  Mr.  Koniiv  wiis  Helm  I'litclianl,  dau^'litcr  of  Kiilpli  I'ritdmnl,  of  New  llidi- 
iiiond,  county  of  lionnvi'iitiiif,  I'.Q.,  ami  j;ranilil(iu;,'liti'r  of  one  of  tlic  I'liitt'il  Kiii|iin'  Loyalists 
of  English  descent.  Tlicy  were  nianied  in  Septcndier,  1S7H,  and  lost  one  daughter  in  infancy, 
and  have  four  children  living. 

An  intiniatf  aciiuaintance  of  Mr.  Kenii}'  tlius  writes  in  regard  to  liiin  :  "  In  all  matters 
nU'ectiiig  the  county  he  represents,  he  lias  lieen  a  most  faitliful  and  energetic  re|)resentative. 
In  affairs  of  provincial  concern,  lio  has  evinced,  hoth  liy  his  speeches  and  votes,  a  desire  to  snj)- 
port  every  meaiiurc  calculatctl  to  promote  the  general  interests  of  the  province.  On  the  Hoor 
of  the  House  he  gives  expression  to  his  views  in  a  clear  manner,  and  is  courteous  in  dehate,  and 
very  generally  respected  by  his  co-memheis  for  stniightforwardiiess  and  reliahility  in  statement. 
He  does  not  address  the  House  very  often,  hut  when  he  does  speak  his  remarks  are  always  to 
tljc  point  and  command  attention." 


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HON.   AVM.   MOOlil-:    ICELLY, 

MONVTOX,  y.ii. 

THE  Hon.  William  Moore  Kelly  (son  of  M.  Kelly,  who  came  to  New  J5runswick  from  l?el- 
fjist,  in  ITO'S),  was  horn  in  Moncton,  N.  H.,  in  |Si7. 

In  ISO.S  he  was  appointed  a  memlier  of  the  executive  coiuicil  and  chief  commissioner  of 
public  works  for  the  Province  of  New  Bnniswick  ;  he  resigned  with  the  (iovernment  in   ]S~S. 

Mr.  Kelly  was  tii-st  returned  to  Parliament  "in  liS(l7,  by  acclamation  ;  was  re-elected  at  the 
general  election  of  1.S70,  and  again  at  the  last  general  election,  in  l.s7''^;  he  was  called  to  the 
Legislative  Council  in  l(S7N,  and  still  continui's  an  active  nieniber  oi"  that  Inuiorable  body. 

Mr.  Kelly  is  a  Liberal  in  politics,  an<l  opposed  the  sectarian  schools,  [n  leligious  persuasion 
he  is  a  Methodist. 

The  lionorable  gentlemim  married,  tirst,  Kliza,  (laughter  ol'  the  late  James  Long,  Ks(|,,  of 
Cocagne,  N.  B.,  (decea.scd) ;  ami  the  second  time,  Margaret,  daughter  of  th(>  late  Alexander 
Eraser,  Esq.,  of  Northumberland,  N.  Jl.,  director  of  the  Chatham  branch  railway. 

The  opporttinities  enjoyt'd  by  Mi-.  Kelly  while  tilling  the  oflice  of  commisioner  of  public 
works,  combined  with  his  extensive  business  experienct>  since  holding  that  responsible  oltice, 
make  liim  a  valuable  advi.scr  to  his  colleagues,  in  their  delilierations  which  they  fully 
appreciate. 


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HON.  A.  L.  pal:mi-:ij,  g.c\, 

,sT.  JOHN,  iV./;. 

ACALUS  LOCKWOOI)  PALMER,  judge  in  cpiity.  and  for  years  one  of  th.'  heading  bar- 
vistei-s  in  New  Brunswick,  is  a  descendant  of  an  Irish  family  which  settled  in  New  York, 
altout  1742;  his  gi'andfather,  Cajitain  Ciideon  Pahner,  being  boi-n  in  that  pi'ovince  in  1740,  antl 
serving  as  lieutenant, and  later  as  captain,  in  the  famous  l)e  Lancy  corps  of  royalists,  duiing  the 
"revolutiou."     At  the  close  of  that  long  struggle  for  independence,  Ca|itain  I'ahuer  left  a  liand- 


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soiiK'  iii<^>p<'rty  ill  Wt'stilii'sttT  (N.V\  cnnic  to  New  Hrmiswick  niul  scttlctl  at  I^orclH'stcr, 
county  of  Wistiiioicliind.  Ou"  siilijcct  was  Ijorn  at  Siu-kvillf,  in  that  county  on  tltc  "JMtli  of 
Aujjiist,  IHiJO.  'I'lic  naino  of  his  jiarcnts,  I'tc,  nia}'  he  fuunil  in  a  sketch  of  liis  cMcr  hrotlicr, 
Martin  li.  Painicr,  found  in  tliis  work. 

Judj^t'  I'ahncr  was  cducatfd  in  tlio  Sackvillf  i,n'ninniai'  school,  principally  under  the  in- 
struction of  that  excellent  teacher,  Mr.  llo.ss,  now  at  the  head  of  Dalhousic  collej,'e,  Halifax. 
N.S.  lie  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  K.  H.  Chandler,  late  t^fovcrnor  of  New  l'>runswick  ;  was 
ndniitted  to  piactice  as  an  nttoriiey  in  1^4+;  and  ciiilcd  to  the  liar  in  INK!,  and  practised  at 
Dorchesti!r  until  lH(i7,  in  which  yeai'  he  wa.s  created  a  (Jiueen's  Counsi'l  and  removed  to  St. 
John,  which  has  since  heeii  liis  lioiiie.  He  was  president  of  the  har  association  of  New  Uriiiis- 
wick  for  five  or  six  years  and  while  he  remained  in  practice  stood  in  the  front  rank  anion;^  tlio 
lawyers  of  tlie  province,  heing  in  fact  considered  the  strongest  in  the  province. 

Prior  to  ( 'onfedcratioii,  .Mr.  Palmer  twice  contested  nnsuecessfiilly  West moieiand  county 
in  that  interest;  was  also  an  unsucce.ssfiil  candidate  for  St  John  city  in  tin-  local  lej;islatiiie,  in 
liS70  ;  was  elected  to  the  Ho.ise  of  Coninions  for  the  city  and  county  of  St.  John,  at  thi'  ;,;eiieral 
election  in  IS?-,  and  re-elected  in  lH7t,  serving  throii;,'li  the  .-iccond  and  third  pailiaincnts,  and 
wa.s  succeeded  hy  ('h;iiles  \V.  Welden.  The  appointment  of  Jiidj,'(!  of  ei|uity  is  dated  in  May, 
lfS7!l.  Jud^'e  Palmer  is  the  au'.hor  of  the  hill  aliolishin;^-  the  usury  laws,  which  passed  the  Do- 
minion Parliament  in  Ajuil,  ls7.'>.     Jlis  polities  are  l/iheral  ( 'uiiscrvative. 

As  a  judj^e  he  is  accommodatiii;,',  painstakin,^'  and  soiuhI,  cloiuM- credit  to  the  ermine. 

Jiiil^'e  Palmer  is  a  director  of  the  maritime  Kunk  ;  a  trustee'  of  the  ( 'entennary  Methodist 
church,  and  a  man  of  much  decision  ami  stahility  of  character. 

The  wife  of  Judge  Palmer  was  Martha  Ann  Welden.  old(>t  daughter  of  Andrew  W  Ideii, 
Ivsii.,  of  Dorchester,  and  iiieee  of  Judge  Welden  of  the  suiiniiie  court  of  New  Hruiiswick,  their 
marriage  heing  dated  in  IS.")(),  They  have  hiirieil  one  son,  and  liaNe  a  son  and  daughter  living; 
Charles  is  a  harrister  at  St.  .lohn.  and  Fannie  H.  is  at  home. 


•I 01  IN    WALLACE, 

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JIlLLSHOIloUaH,  N.n. 

JOHN  WALLAtJH,  an  enterprising  farmer  and  manufacturer,  and  I'ormerly  a  memher  of 
the  House  of  ( 'oiiimons,  was  Korn  where  he  now  resides,  on  the  iNth  of  Novemiier.  l^'2\. 
Hi.s  grandfather  for  whom  he  was  named,  emigrated  from  Donegal,  north  of  Ireland,  to  Nova 
Scotia  in  I7(IS  :  lived  at  Hortoii  in  that  jiioviiice  until  I7S!),  when  he  removed  to  Hopewell,  New 
Prunswiek,  and  tinally  died  at  <  'ovenlale,  on  the  Petitcodiae  river,  in  ]S'\'\  age<l  !»7  years. 
This  grandparent  married  Miss  ( 'atherine  ( 'ocliran,  who  was  also  from  the  north  of  Ireland,  and 
she  hail  ten  eliihlien.  dxiiig  in  1SI2. 

The  fathei- of  our  siihject  w;is  James  Wallace,  who  maiiieil  Catherine  Cop]>.  and  was  an 
enterjirisiiig  farmer,  d}  ing  at  Hiilslioroiigh  in  IS.").'!  His  wife  hail  eleven  children,  and  died  a 
few  months  after  hei'  hiisliand  ;  John,  the  tenth  child,  was  educated  in  the  .school  of  Hillshoi- 
ough.iind  has  lieeii  a  farmer  all  his  life.  He  was  also  engaged  a  while  in  niircantile  imrsuils. 
His  farm  eom]uiscs  2."»()  acres,  largely  under  im])rovement.  and  is  one  of  the  hest  farms  in  the 
township  of  Ilillsl'orough,  having  every  indication  of  thrift  and  tine  tillage. 


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Mr.  Wallaco  was  some  years  president  of  the  Albert  a^^rlciiltural  society,  and  is  a  stirring 
business  nnin.  To  his  other  business  lie  added  some  years  ago,  a  gang  saw  mill,  which  is  cutting 
large  ([nantities  of  deal  kc,  for  the  Englisli  market.  Mr.  Wall.ice  was  persuaded,  in  l.SO",  to 
contest  Albert  county  for  a  seat  in  the  House  of  Coininons,  and  was  successful,  being  re-electeil 
also  in  187-  and  IST^.  He  is  a  l^iU'rid,  and  while  that  i)arty  was  in  power  in  the  Dominion  ho 
gave  the  Mackenzie  government  a  sti-ady  and  earnest  support. 

Mr.  Wallace  is  a  men  l)er  of  the  first  Baptist  church,  of  Hillsborough,  and  a  lib(>ral  sup- 
porter of  religiiius  ami  benevolent  causes.  He  first  married  in  IS-KJ,  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
(Jeorge  Russell,  of  Hopewell,  she  dying  in  18')8.  leaving  si\  children  ;  the  second  time  in  bS.V.), 
Miss  ( Vmintha  Foss,  of  New  Hampshire,  she  dying  in  18().'>,  leaving  three  children,  two  of  them 
still  living,  and  the  third  time  in  1872.  Mr.s.  Charlotte  Stackfonl,  nre  Robinson.  James  the 
eldest  son,  is  a  widower;  (ieorge  is  mai-ried,  and  the  rest  are  single. 


(JATNS    K   TURNER,   M.P.P., 

IJAliVEY,   N.B. 

r^  AIN.S  .SAMUEL  TURNER,  who  represents  the  county  of  .Albert  in  the  Hoaso  of  Assembly, 
\Ji^  is  a  native  of  the  county,  and  born  at  Harvey,  on  the  liJth  of  August,  1838,  his  parents 
being  Lsaac  and  Elizabeth  (Colpitis)  Turner.  His  education  was  confined  to  the  connnon  Eng- 
lish branches,  and  he  early  engaged  inshi])-building  and  merchandising,  which  he  is  still  follow- 
ing, and  in  which  he  has  always  shown  a  good  deal  of  enterprise. 

Mr.  Turner  is  ;i  justice  of  the  peace,  and  a  railroad  din^ctor,  and  may  hold  other  local  ottices. 

He  was  returned  for  a  seat  in  the  legislature  at  the  last  general  election,  and  is  conse- 
f|uently  serving  his  first  term.  His  jjolitics  are  JiiVieral  Conservative.  He  is  a  master  ma-ion, 
belonging  to  AUiert  Lodge,  and  a  memlK'r  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Harvey. 

He  married  on  the  Kith  of  August,  187(i,  Miss  Lucy  Stiles,  and  they  have  one  son.  .Mr. 
and  .Mrs.  Turner  are  nmcli  esteemed  in  the  community  in  which  they  live. 


noX.   ROBERT    L.   IIA/EX,  Q.(\, 

ST.  JOHN,  Nil. 

ROBERT  LEONARD  H.VZKN.  lute  Judge  of  the  vice-iidmiralty  court  of  New  Brnn.swick, 
was  born  at  Fredericton,  in  this  province,  in  I8(»S,  and  died  in  187").  after  holding  several 
high  positioiis  ;  he  was  the  yi^ungest  son  of  Wi'liam  HazfU,  junior,  a  cajitain  in  the  king's 
rangei-s,  during  the  American  revolution,  and  at  his  death  provincial  treasurer  and  sheriH'of  St. 
John,  and  grandson  of  Hon.  William  Hazen,  who  was  out'  of  the  pioneer  grantees  on  the  river 
St.  John  (1702,  and  from  17S.3  to  his  death  in  1 8 1L  was  a  member  of  the  first  Executive 
Council  of  New  Ihunswick,  being  ap|>ointed  at  the  separation  of  this  jirovince.  The  |irogenitoi' 
of  the  Hazen  family  in  America  was  Edward  Hazen,  who  emigrated  from  Northumberland, 
Eng.,  to  .Mas,sachusetts,  in  l(!+8,  ami   whose  descendants  are  now  scatteied  ovi'i-  the    United 


THE  CA.KADTAX  lUOOHA  PllICA  L  DirfroS'AR]'. 


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States  aiii'l  ('aiiiula.  Tlio  inatenial  <,franilfiitlicr  oF  mii' sulijcct  was  Col.  Juliii  Murray,  a  distin- 
giiishi'<l  loyalist  iiiciitiomMl  l»y  Mr.  liinc  in  his  |H)|mlar  work  :  lie  was  driven  from  liis  lar^e 
estate  in  llutlaiid,  Mass.,  in  1774,  tlie  year  licfore  war  liroke  out  in  the  eolonies;  joined  tlie 
royal  army  in  I'oston  ;  aceonipanied  Sii'  William  Howe  to  Halifax  in  177(i  ,  was  jiroseribed  and 
banished  in  177S  :  went  to  Knj,'land  and  received  compensation  for  his  losses  ;  whi'n  ]ieaco  was 
declared  (l7f<;i),  settled  at  Mauj;erville.  N.H.,  and  finally  removed  to  St.  John,  where  lie  died  in 
17il4. 

Judge  llazeii  received  liis  literary  and  leyal  ednc.ition  in  his  niUive  province;  was  called 
to  the  br.r  in  l>S;ll,  and  cn'atcd  a  Queen's  Counsel  in  IHiS,  and  was  for  a  \o\v^  time  one  of  the 
foremost  lawyers  in  New  Hrunswick. 

Judifo  Tlazen  sat  for  the  city  of  St.  Jolm  in  the  Loral  Assembly,  from  bS37  to  1S40:  was 
then  appointed  to  the  leyisiative  assembly,  in  which  liody  he  held  his  scat  until  f'onfedera- 
tion,  bciiii^  a  member  of  thi>  executi\e  council,  witliont  otlice.  from  ISi.S  to  bS-H,  and  was 
called  to  the  Senate  bj-  royal  proclamation,  ^b^y.  1S(J7.  In  politics  he  was  always  a  Conserva- 
tive; in  reIii,Mon,an  English  Clnirehman. 

He  was  at  one  period  a  mendicrof  the  council  of  King's  college,  Kn'ilci-icton,  and  a  director 
of  the  Commercial  Hank  of  New  I'runswick  ;  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  wa.s  recorder  of  St. 
John,  a  bencher  of  the  barrister.s'  society.  N.  B.,  and  judge  of  tlie  vice-admiralty  court. 

Judge  Hazen  married,  in  1S.S7.  Sarah,  eldest  daugliter  of  Hon.  Judge  Hotsford,  and  sister  of 
Dr.  Botsford,  whoso  sketch  and  portrait,  and  sketches  of  three  other  brothers,  appear  in  this 
voUimc;   she  died  in  February,  1S(>7,  leaving  three  children. 


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offices. 

coiise- 

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Mr. 


iiiswick, 

several 

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cecutive 
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iTox.  -loiiN  i;i-:\vis,  :\r.T..(\, 

niu.sJtDnouGH,  x.ii. 

JOHN  LEWIS  a  member  of  tlie  Legislative  Council  of  New  Brunswick,  is  descended 
fi-om  a  family  which  emigrated  from  Wales  to  New  ^'ol■k,  about  \7'W.  and  his  fallier. 
Ichabod  iicwis,  and  grandfather,  Alanson  T-cwis,  were  U.  E.  i.oyalists,  both  born  at  Stattan 
l.-.land.  New  York,  tlie  family  coming  to  New  Brunswick  at  the  close  of  the  revolution.  Our 
subject  was  born  nt  Moncton,  on  the  ■J7th  of  August.  l.s<*+.  The  maiden  name  of  his  motlier 
was  Reliccea  iteail.  she  being  a  iiatise  of  this  province,  her  father  remo\  ing  fiom  the  Massa- 
chusetts colony  to  New  Brunswick  before  the  war  with  the  niither  country. 

.Mr,  Lewis  wa.s  educated  in  the  ci  mnion  sdiools  of  this  province,  and  at  Halifax,  N.S.,  and 
has  beiii  a  mercliant  at  Hillsborough  sinci>  bS.Sl,  a  piiiiil  of  just  fifty  years,  and  ha,s  always 
maintaiiieil  a  good  character  for  fair  dealing.  He  has  had  his  "  ups  and  ilowiis  "  like  most 
merchants  who  have  been  in  traile  half  as  long  as  he  has,  and,  on  the  whole,  has  been  (piite 
successful. 

Mr.  Lewis  luis  lieen  a  justice  of  tlie  peace  since  iSKi  ;  was  a  juilge  of  the  inferior  courts  of 
common  jilen?  until  LMi7,  when  that  othee  was  superseded  by  that  of  county  juilge  ;  was  elected 
to  the  pio\  incial  House  of  Assembly  for  the  county  of  .Albert  in  bS.")2,  and  held  that  seat  almost 
const  iiitiy  until  1S(!7,  when  he  was  apjiointeil  to  the  Legislative  Council.  During  the  peiiod 
that  h<  was  in  the  Lower  House,  it  was  an  exciting  time,  the  ipiistions  of  railways,  confederation, 
prohibition,  etc.,  being  under  coiisiderati(ni,  and  theie  were  t'rei|Uent  dissolutions  of  I'arliament. 


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He  was  dcfeati'd  twice,  and  eloctod  no  less  than  six  times,  all  in  a  in-riod  of  fifteen  years.  In 
politics  ilr.  Lewis  was  ori^'inally  a  Liberal,  and  latteily  has  been  a  Liberal  Conservative. 

He  is  an  enterjirisini,'  man,  and  was  for  four  or  five  years  president  of  the  Albert  railway, 
and  .subsequently  a  director  of  the  .same  until  June,  ISSl,  when  lie  resigned.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  First  liaptist  church,  of  Hillsborough. 

Mr.  Lewis  lirst  married,  in  182;),  Lavinia  Taylor,  of  Hillsborough,  .she  dying  in  1863,  leav- 
ing three  children,  all  yet  living;  and  the  second  time  in  18(14,  Mi-s.  Mary  Bennett  no'  Dickson, 
widow  of  Captain  William  Bennett,  having  by  her  no  issue.  His  eldest  son  is  Dr.  William  J. 
Lewis  of  Hill.sbo rough,  who  is  mentioned  in  the  following  pages  ;  Iiis  only  da>ighter,  llebecca, 
is  the  wife  of  Elisha  Peck,  Esq.,  of  Hopewell  Hill,  and  John  Read  i.s  a  farmer  at  Hillsborough. 


FliEEMAN    II.   TODD, 

ST.  STEPIlEy,  y.B. 

FREEMAN  H.\LE  TODD,  for  nearly  fifty  years  a  merchant  at  St.  Stephen,  and  one  of 
the  mo^t  successful  business  mi'U  in  the  place,  is  a  native  of  the  State  of  Maine,  and  was 
horn  at  North  Yarmouth,  near  Bortland,  on  the  7th  of  August,  l.S()!>.  His  father,  William  Todd, 
was  born  in  Ciotlstown,  New  llami)shire,  and  was  a  <lescendant  of  one  of  the  first  families  to 
settle  in  that  town.  William  'I'odil  was  a  school  tcachei'  in  his  younger  years,  and  afteiwards, 
a  merchant  in  I'urtland,  Maine  :  and  when  our  subject  had  attended  an  academy  one  yeai' — the 
(.iardniM-  Lyceum — he  entered  a  store  as  a  clerk,  and  thi're  remained  till  of  age,  soon  afterwards 
(INJJH)  conuuencing  busin''ss  foi-  himself  at  St.  Stephen.  Hert'  he  has  been  engaged  in  mer- 
chandising, manufacturing  hniibrr,  and  shipping,  owning  at  one  periml  a  large  amount  of  ton- 
nage, and  being  in  the  foreign  as  well  as  domestic  trade.  The  firm  is  now  E.  H.  Todd  &  Sons, 
who  are  not  doing  nmch  in  the  shipping  branch  of  their  business. 

Mr.  Todd  is  an  entiiprising  man,  and  has  bten  for  sfven  or  eight  years  president  of  tlie 
New  Brunswick  and  Canada  Hallway,  and  also,  for  about  the  .same  perioil.  president  of  the  St. 
Stephen  bank,  one  of  the  most  substantial  institutii  ns  of  the  kind  in  New  Itrunsw  ick. 

He  is  a  menibvr  of  the  L'niversal  church  at  Calais,  Maine,  there  l>eing  no  organization  of 
tlie  kind  at  St.  Stephen,  and  his  nioial  charactci'  has  always  stood  above  i-eproach.  He  is  a 
total  abstainer  from  all  into.\icants  ;  has  iieeii  an  active  workei'  in  temperance  organizations  for 
many  years,  and  his  example  in  sobriety,  in  industry,  in  economy,  etc.,  coidd  safely  be  copied 
by  young  men  of  the  present  day. 


DA\1D    M' LKLT.AX,  .M.IM\, 

iM'iANTiiirx.  y.ii. 

DA\'ID  M(  LELIj.VN,  one  of  the  representatives  in  the  Local  liCgislature  for  the  city  and 
countv  of  St.  ibilm,  was  born  in  the  town  of  I'ortland.  that  county,  on  the  iOtli  of  .fune, 
IfSIV.I  ;  his  father,  for  whom  he  was  named,  was  a  ship-builder  from  Dumfries,  Scotland,  and  hiN 
inotlier,  whosi'  nuiiden  name  was   Maiy   Knighl,  deseimled  from  .i  (i>uaker  fandly  in  Penn.syl- 


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vania.  Our  sulijeot  was  educated  cliii'Hy  in  the  eonnntTCial  niul  iniithematieal  school,  St.  John, 
taiii,'lit  hy  William  Mills,  rccijiving  a  yood  Imsiness  outfit  in  that  res]K'ct,  and  early  became  a 
snrveyoi-  of  anil  dealer  in  lnmlii;r ;  he  is  of  the  firm  of  Mchellan  and  Holly,  who  ai-e  extensive 
dealers,  largely  in  lumber  in  the  rough,  thoy  being  the  leailing  firm  in  their  line  of  trade,  in  the 
town.  They  turn  over  from  40,000,000  to  G0,0()0,000  logs  annually  ;  and  as  Mr.  McLellan  is  a 
politician — proud  to  bo  called  a  "  Urit" — there  is  no  impropriety  in  calling  him  a  '  log  roller." 
In  a  l)usini\ss  sense  and  in  every  other,  ho  is  a  wide-awake  man,  up  earl}-  and  stirring  late,  and 
doing  nothing  at  hap-liazard  or  in  a  slipshod  manner. 

Mr.  McLellan  entered  the  political  arena  as  a  candidate  for  ottice  In  lS7s,  and  came  out  at 
the  heml  of  the  poll  in  Hie  constituency  already  mentioned,  and  is  serving  his  first  term  among 
the  law-making  and  law-mending  Solons(.'f  New  Brunswick  ;  lie  belongs  to  the  younger  chussof 
legislators,  and  has  in  him  good  working  elements,  which  he  is  never  slack  in  calling  into 
re(juisition. 

Mr.  McLellan  is  a  Free  Mason,  an  Oddfellow,  and  an  ailherent  of  the  liaptist  eliundi.  He 
was  married  in  December,  ISd.l,  to  Fannie  I!.  Richards,  daughter  of  Henry  Richards,  of  St. 
John,  and  they  have  two  sons  and  one  daughter  living,  and  lost  a  son  in  infancy,  .Mrs,  Mc' 
Lellan  is  a  membi'r  of  the  Rrassell  street  Baptist  church,  St.  John, 


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.ST.  STEI'liEN,  N.li. 

J  "AMES  MUROHTK,  late  member  of  the  House  of  Ass.^mbly  for '( 'harlotte  county,  N.  R, 
and  one  of  the  leading  merchants,  lumber  manufiietiirers  and  slii|i-owneis  of  that 
county,  is  a  native  of  St.  Stephen,  his  birth  being  ilated  on  the  Kith  of  August,  \S]?>.  His 
father,  Andrew  Murehie,  was  from  i'aisley,  Scotland,  and  his  mother,  JaiK't  ("ampbell,  was  a  na- 
tive of  New  i'liuii^wick,  and  a  daughter  of  ( 'olin  < 'anijibrll  :  he  was  niucaled  at  St.  Stephen 
reared  on  his  fathei's  farm  till  of  age,  and  since  that  period  has  bei^n  enga'^ed  in  manufacturin;: 
lumber  on  till'  St.  Croix  river,  merchandising  anil  shipping,  luing  one  of  the  most  extensive 
operators  in  those  liranclie>  of  industry  in  this  valley.  The  firm  of  .1.  MMniiie  and  Sons  lias 
mills  at  Deei  Lake  and  liiMiton.  on  the  New  iiriiiiswick  and  <  'anada  railway,  as  wi.dl  as  at  <  'a- 
lais,  .Maine,  and  are  cutting  about  I'O.dOO.OOO  feet  per  annum.  Th'-  lirm  owns  :i(m,()00  acres  of 
timber  lands,  nearly  half  of  it  in  the  I'lovince  of  (,)uebec,  about  ;1m,()00  acres  in  .Maine, and  the 
rest  in  New  Rrunswick. 

.Mr.  .Murehie  was  a  captain  of  militia  in  his  younger  years  ;  is  one  of  tl Idest  magistrates 

ill  this  |iart  of  the  county;  served  for  some  years  as  a  school  trustee;  and  has  held,  in  fact . 
nearly  all  the  local  olHces  in  the  gift  of  the  people,  being  painstaking  and  eflicieiit  in  discharg- 
ing everv  duty  which  he  assumes.  He  represented  Charlotte  county  in  the  House  of  .\sseml»ly 
from  I.s7i  to  bSTN,  being  sent  there  by  his  Liberal  Conservative  t'rieuds  ;  and  while  in  that 
legislative  body  secured  tln'  repeal  of  the  Wild  Land  'I'ax  .\ct,  which  step  had  been  attempted  in 
vain  by  jirevious  representatives  from  his  county;  he  also  carried  other  bills,  legarded  as  of  a 
good  deal  of  importance,  and  proved  himself  a  diligent  law  as  well  as  lumber  maker. 

He  is  a  liireetor  of  the  St,  Stejiheii  liaiik  ;  of  two  bridge  eorpoiatioiis,  the  St.  ('rois  Lloyd 
insurance  comjiany  ;  the  t.'aiais  tug  Iwat  company,  and  oilier  iiii'or[ioiati'diom[)anies  ;  viee-presi- 


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dent  of  the  New  Brunswick  and  ( "anada  railway,  and  president  of  the  Frontier  steamboat 
company,  and  of  tli<'  newly-formed  St.  Croix  cotton  mills  company.  He  was  a  leadinj.,'  force  in 
engineering  this  last  enterprise,  givinjj;  several  weeks'  time  to  getting  the  company  organized,  it 
cupitid  (S")00,()(>0)  taken,  the  site  for  the  mills  secured,  the  eorner-stono  laid,  kv.,  kc.  The  last 
act  mentioned  was  done  !>}■  the  Masonic  order,  on  the  '1M\\  of  June,  ISHl,  and  marked  an  epoch 
in  the  liistory  of  the  village  of  Milltown,  in  which  our  subject  resides,  being  the  finest  house  in 
the  place.  The  mills  are  to  be  ")17  feet  long,  iis  feet  wide,  and  four  stories  above  the  basement. 
This  movement  will  eonvert  ouc  of  the  lowest,  most  siiuaiid  i>arts  of  the  village,  into  a  neat 
and  tidy  hive  of  industry,  and  call  for  an  addition  of  (iOO  and  700  inhabitants  to  tlie  place. 

Mr.  Murchie  owns  an  axe  factory  at  Milltown  (St.  Stephen},  but  we  believe  he  has  rented 
it.  He  lias  done,  and  is  doing,  a  great  deal  to  encourage  home  industries,  knowing  that  all  such 
enterprises  tend  to  increase  the  value  of  his  own  property,  as  well  as  the  prosperity-  of  the  countrj'. 
It  is  a  few  such  men  as  he — men  of  energy,  push  and  pluck — fouud  in  St.  Stephen,  Calais 
and  Milltown,  that  have  Imiit  up  this  trinity  of  towns,  and  given  them  their  present  air  of  thrifti- 
ness.     Milltown,  the  smallest  of  all,  is  just  now,  probably,  the  liveliest  of  all. 

Mr.  Murchie  is  a  member  and  trustee  of  the  Congregational  church.  Milltown,  which  boily 
lias  a  house  of  worship  which  is  a  gem  ;  and  it  is  the  impression  of  the  community  that  no 
hueh  elegant  and  co.stly  structure  couM  have  been  reared  in  that  little  village,  without  both 
the  shaping  baud  and  plethoric  pocket  of  Mr.  Murchie. 

He  was  (list  married  in  l.S8(!  to  Miss  Maiy  Aim  (irimmer,  daughter  of  John  Cuiuimer 
E.sij.,  late  eoilector  of  customs  at  St.  ,Stephen,  and  still  living,  being  in  his  !t;bd  year.  She  died 
in  May,  18.")7,  leaving  ten  children.  He  was  married  the  second  time  in  18G0,  to  Miss  Margaret 
Thorpe,  da;ighte>-  of  Jaekscm  Thorpe,  of  St,  (ieorge,  Charlotte  county,  having  by  hrr  three 
children.     She  died  in  Dee.iidicr,  1S72. 

Most  of  till'  ten  children  by  the  first  wife  are  .settled  in  life.  Three  of  the  sons,  John  G., 
William  A.,  and  James  S.,  are  married,  and  are  in  business  with  their  father;  the  first  being  an 
iddcrman  of  Calais,  the  ,second  captain  "f  a  volunteer  company,  St.  Stephen,  and  tin'  third  vice- 
consul  ff-r  Hra/il  and  thi'  Aigi'iitiiu'  llepublic.  Two  other  s(jns,  Cli,iilfs  K,,aiid  Horace  !>.,  are  in 
business  in  New  Voik  city  :  and  another,  ( Jeorge  A,  is  a  lumber  iiiauutacturer  at  Woodstock, 
N.  B.     Two  of  the  daughters  ari'  married,  and  the  rest  are  at  h(jme. 


DAVID    TAI'LEY. 
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DAVID  TAPLKV,  poiiic  magistrate  and  Judgr  of  the  civil  court,  Portland,  is  a  native  of 
Suubiiry  county,  N.  l!.,  dating  his  birth  at  Shetiield,  on  the  llMli  of  .April,  l^'Hl  His 
father  l)a\  id  T!i|)ley,  sr.,  a  fanner  and  liimbermaii,  was  born  in  the  same  county,  and  his 
grandfather,  James  Hubert  Tajili'V,  was  from  tht;  I'nited  Stati's,  His  motln'r,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Hannah  Fletcher,  was  from  the  same  eouiiti  \ ,  and  many  nl'  her  iclations  !i!e  living  in 
New  JMigland,  the  miiMIe,  and  western  states. 

Mr.  Ta[pley  had  a  eommoii  Hnglish  education;  farmed  iinlil  lie  was  of  age,  and  then  mov- 
ing to  St.  John,  eoninienceil  lumber  surveying  and  the  general  lumber  busine.ss,  wliieh  he  fol- 
lowed until  18jt],  when   he   was  eleeted  to  the  local   legislature  for  the  county  of  Sunliury, 


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where  he  still  owned  a  faiiii,  ami  where  his  family  resided  in  the  summer  time.  He  was  re- 
elected the  next  year  and  served  until  1801,  when  his  second  term  expired.  His  politics  are 
Liberal.  He  wa-s  the  father  of  the  bill  reducing  tlie  iinmber  of  coroner's  jury  from  twelve  to 
seven.  Since  leaving  parliament  he  ha.s  been  freijuently  solicited  to  again  enter  public  life,  but 
has  thus  far  resisted  the  importunities  of  his  political  friends.  After  leaving  parliament,  Mr, 
Tapley  remained  on  the  farm  three  years,  and  then  settled  in  Portland,  accepting  the  appoint- 
ment to  the  two  oHices  first  mentioned  in  this  sketch.  The  tluties  of  these  offices  absorbed  liis 
time,  and  to  them  he  devotes  his  strict  and  careful  attention,  giving  general  satisfaction  to  the 
people,  excepting  law-bnakers.  He  may  be  strictly  called  a  "jiist  man."  In  LS70  he  com- 
menced tie  study  of  the  law  professicmally,  passed  a  creditable  examination,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  October,  1880. 

Judge  Tapley  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  a  Knight  Templar,  and  an  honorary  member  of  Union 
Lotlge,  St.  John,  in  which  he  was  made  a  mason  many  years-  ago.  He  is  also  a  vestryman  of  St. 
Luke's  Episcopal  church,  Portland,  an  exemplary  man  in  all  the  walks  of  life,  and  held  in  much 
esteem  by  his  neighbors  and  all  tho.se  who  know  him. 

Judge  Tapley  was  married  on  the  ll)th  of  November,  1841,  to  Miss  Margaret  Ann  Dalton, 
and  of  seven  children,  the  fruit  of  this  union,  five  .s(ms  and  two  daughters,  otdy  two  sons  are 
now  living:  Frederick,  chief  clerk  in  the  Inteieolonial  office,  St.  John  station,  and  Horace, 
station  master  on  the  St  John  and  Maine  Railway  Co.,  at  the  Fairville  station. 


JOHN    rAI.:MER. 

OAGETOWN,  N.  B. 

JOHN  PALMER,  ex-sheriff  of  Queen's  co\inty,  New  Brunswick,  is  a  grand.son  of  Daniel 
Palmer,  who  was  born  in  174.S,  proliably  in  the  An\erican  colonies,  and  who  came  to  New 
Brunswick,  with  otiiei-  icfiigees,  at  the  close  of  the  struggle  lor  iiidependeni'e ;  anil  son  of 
David  Palmer,  wlio  was  lioni  at  Canning,  (,)ueen'.s  county,  N.li.,  in  ITM),  and  there  died  in  I8(!(i. 
David  Palniif  was  a  farmer,  and  a  man  who  took  much  pains  to  improve  his  mind,  and  who  bad 
no  inconsi<lerable  skill  in  versification,  leaxing  a  number  of  poems  in  manuscript,  wliicli  were 
published  in  a  small  volume  after  liis  ileatli,  and  wliicli  are  treasured  in  the  family  and  by 
friends  as  a  precious  memorial  of  tlie  good  and  -ifted  man.  The  mother  of  .Mi'.  Palmer  was 
Marion  Hunter,  a  native  of  Glasgow. 

He  had  a  common  English  education,  ami  farmeil  until  iSfiS,  five  years  of  that  time  in  the 
county  of  Carleton  ;  the  I'cst  of  the  time  at  (iagetown.  He  was  sli(>ritf'  of  (Queen's  county  from 
1S(].S  to  INTO,  a  period  of  sixteen  years,  when  politics  ilemandeil  the  olliee  for  a  less  deserving 
man.  His  politics  are  [liberal,  Mr.  Palmer  had  been  justice  of  the  peace  prior  to  l)cing 
appointe<l  .sheriff,  and  resigned  the  former  office  to  accept  the  latter.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
board  of  trustees  of  the  grammar  school,  and  in  different  ways  is  making  himself  very  service- 
able to  the  connnunity. 

He  is  an  active  member  of  the  ^^•thodist  church,  of  which  he  is  the  circuit  steward  ;  and 
he  was  a  delegate  to  the  general  conference  of  (he  .Methodist  chinch  of  Canada,  which  met  at 
Montreal,  in  1N7H.  He  is  a  meudier  of  the  uniti'd  tem]perance  association,  and  was,  at  one  time, 
most  worthy  grand  chief  of  the  British  templars.      His  impulses  and  the  aims  of  his  life  have 


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always  licen  of  a  fjenorons  natiiiv,  ami  liis  record,  piivah;  ami  otticial,  is  witliuut  a  stain.      He 
is  one  of  the  best  known  nu'ii  in  (Queen's  county,  ami  as  widely  esteemed  as  lie  is  known. 

Mr.  Palmer  was  married  <m  the  2(ith  of  Jamiary.  18.52,  to  .Miss  Eleanor  A;,mes  .Marshall,  of 
Canning,  Qneen's  count}',  and  of  ten  children,  the  fruit  of  this  imion,  nine^two  sons  and  .seven 
daughters — are  yet  living.  George  G.  P.,  the  elilost  son,  is  teaching  school  at  Sussex,  King's 
eo\inty;  Jaujes  .M.,  a  B.A.  of  the  university  of  New  Hrunswick  and  Jjorne  gold  medallist  in 
IN.SO,  is  teaching  at  Campliellton,  Ui'stigouche  county  ;  Phehe  Klizaheth,  the  elilest  daightcr,  i^ 
married  to  Jothani  P.  Bulyea,  of  (Jagetuwn,  and  the  other  daughters  are  at  home. 


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IIOX.   CIIAliLES   FISHEK,   :M.A.,    D.C.L., 

FliEDEIUCTON,  N.  fl. 

CHARLES  FISHER  was  horn  at  Eredcricton.  Septemhcr  Ki,  1  SOS,  iieing  the  oldest  of  six 
brothers,  two  only  of  whom  now  sm\ive.  Peter  Fisher,  his  father,  a  lumber  merchant, 
was  born  in  the  State  of  New  Jersey,  and  was  of  Dutch  extraction,  and  came  here  with  his 
father  at  the  close  of  the  revolutionary  war.  in  17si$.  L.  P.  Fi.sher.  Es((.,  the  youngest  siu'viving 
brotlier  of  the  judge,  an  eminent  (Jueen's  Counsel,  was  mayoi-  of  Woudstook  from  its  incorpora- 
tion, in  1S50,  till  his  lesignation,  in  l.ssO — a  perio(l  (.)f  twenty-four  years. 

Our  subject  was  gniduatcd  at  King's  colleLTC,  Frederieton,  in  1820,  being  the  first  graduate 
of  that  institution  ;  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Judge  U.  F.  Sweet,  at  that  time  advocate- 
general  of  the  province  ;  was  admitted  an  attorni-y  at  Hilary  term,  1n:U  ;  bt'came  a  barrister  in 
Michaelmas  term,  18;}3,  lia\ing  in  the  meantinu^  spent  a  year  in  Englaiul,  at  one  of  the  iims  of 
court;  and  connnenced  |iract ice  in  Frederieton.  In  ISG'!,  the  honorary  degree  of  D.C.L.  was 
conferred  upon  him  by  his  (dnid  mulir. 

He  entereil  the  political  arena  when  yoimg,  his  fii-st  contest  being  in  1<S21',  when  he  was 
defcate<l.  In  IS.'JT,  at  an  election  brought  aliout  by  the  death  of  King  William  I\'.,  he  was  re- 
turned as  one  of  the  four  members  fur  the  eoimty  of  York.  In  February,  bS-12,  .Mr.  Fisher  took 
a  leailing  ))art  in  the  debate  in  the  House  of  .\sscMibly,  in  ivgard  to  tlie  surrendering  the 
initiation  of  money  grants  into  the  hands  of  the  executive  council.  He  was  returned  as  a  re- 
presentative of  the  county  of  Yoik,  in  December,  ISlil,  again  in  lS4li,  and  in  IS.")I,  when  he 
■\va.s  cnlleil  upon  by  the  governor  to  form  a  government,  of  which  he  became  leader,  and  in 
which  Mcssi-s.  S.  L.  Tilley,  A.  J,  Smith,  and  John  W.  Johnson  held  office.  This  was  the  first 
piirely  Liberal  ailministration  formed  in  New  IJrunswiek.  .Mr.  Fisher  was  also  elected  in  IS'iG 
and  Is.")?,  when  he  was  again  called  upon  to  form  a  government,  in  which  he  became  attorney- 
general,  ami  .Mr.  Tilley  provincial  secretary.  .Mr,  Fisher  eoiuimied  at  the  head  of  aflJiirs  till 
istil,  when  he  resigned,  owing  to  certain  questions  arising  out  of  the  crown  land  investigation. 
He  was  defeated  at  the  general  election  in  IN.')'),  and  in  the  following  year  by  the  Hon.  Charles 
McPhci-son. 

In  ls.')2,  he  was  appointed  by  the  government  one  of  the  commi.ssioners  to  consolidate  and 
coilify  the  .statute  law  of  the  province,  and  to  inipiirc  into  tht>  jtroeeedings  of  the  courts  of  law 
and  eciuity,  and  into  tlu?  law  of  evidence.  'Ilie  work  of  the  connnissioners,  which  was  a  very 
important  one,  is  embraced  in  the  volumes  issued  in  the  sunm\er  of  IS.Ki. 


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^fr.  Fislier,  tlit-n  attoim'V-LjeiR'ral,  ami  Hon.  John  IloliortsDii,  were  sent  to  fjij,'Ifin(l  as  ilo- 
h^i^'atos  of  the  j^'os'eiiiiiu'iit  for  tlif  inoniotioii  of  ruilways  in  thi'  jtruvinee,  and  niinK' a  contract 
with  Messrs.  IVto,  Jiiassry  ami  Co,  foi-  the  construction  of  the  line  from  St.  .F(.ilin  to  Sheiliac. 

At  the  general  eli'otion  in  1M(!:2,  Mf.  Fislu  r  \s'i)s  aj,'ain  returned  for  York,  hut  in  January, 
1.SG'),  he  experienced  an  overvvlielniin^  defeat  upon  the  (luestion  of  Confederation,  which  lit^ 
favored.  He  was  one  of  the  New  Ihunswick  deleixiitrs  to  the  Quebec  Conference,  in  1IS()+,  re- 
presented F)t'dcrictt)n  at  the  Detroit  Convention,  I  SI)"),  and  was  one  of  tlie  delegates  wlio 
went  to  Enjfland  in  ls(i(!,  to  settle  the  terms  of  Confederation. 

In  ISOS,  Jlr.  Fi-iJicr  was  appointed  jndj^e  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  also  judge  of  the 
Court  of  divorce  and  matrimonial  causes  for  New  Ih'unswick. 

.Jud^fc  Fisher's  aciiievenirnts  as  a  l(!!,dslator  were  extensive  enou^fh  to  redeem  his  fume, 
even  if  lie  liad  l.ieen  less  aMi;  as  a  judge.  No  man  has  left  a  hroader  mark  on  the  statute  hook 
of  his  native  provincf  than  he,  and  lie  was  the  advocate  of  .several  good  measures  which  have 
heen  [)assed  since  he  went  on  the  hench,  hut  in  which  he  was  a  little  ahead  of  liis  age.  Judge 
Fi.sher  and  the  late  Judge  Wilmot,  were  known  as  the  two  great  clianipions  of  responsilile 
government  in  New  Brunswick. 

As  a  constitutional  lawyer.  Judge  Fisher  stood  very  high.  None  of  its  politicians  liave 
had  hroader  and  more  statesmanlike  views  than  he.  There  was  nothing  small  or  mean  in  his 
composition,  and  not  the  slightest  trace  of  vindictivene.ss.  He  was  an  honest,  consistent  J..iberal 
from  lirst  to  last.  One  of  tlie  strongest  features  in  his  character  was  his  ardent  love  of  liis 
country,  and  more  especially  of  his  native  province.  He  was  ready  at  all  times  with  tongue 
and  pen  to  advocate  their  interests  iind  to  contribute  in  promoting  tlieir  welfare. 

lie  was  married  on  Sth  Septembtir,  ISJJ.j,  to  Amelia,  seventli  daughter  of  David  Hatfield,  a 
Loyalist,  from  New  York,  l)v  whom  he  had  two  sons  and  four  dauirhters,  three  dau'diters  onlv 
now  living.  Judge  Fisher  died  at  liis  residence  in  Fredericton,  on  the  .Stii  Deccmlier,  18!S(),  of 
congestion  of  the  lungs,  and  true  to  the  wi.-h  which  he  had  expressed,  "  left  the  impress  of  his 
mind  on  the  institution  of  his  country." 


JACOB    IJEADSIIAAV, 

iHMi'Toy.  y.r. 

JACOB  IJRADSKAW,  years  ago  a  prominent  ship-builder  in  St.  John  county.  N.B.,  and  now 
one  of  the  oldest  men  li\  iiig  ill  King's  county,  was  born  at  .Ni'wp.irt,  Hants 'county, 
N.S.,  April  1,  IT'.il'.  His  father,  William  IJrad.shaw,  was  born  in  Boston  .Mass..  and  came  to 
Nova  Scotia  with  his  parents  when  a  child.  The  mother  of  Jacob  was  Mrs.  Rebecca  Freeman 
Bradshaw,  uce  Harrington.  His  parents  moved  to  St.  Martin's,  St.  John  county,  N.B.,  when  he 
was  ei'diteeu  months  old,  Tliecountrv  was  then  a  \\  ilderncs.s,  without  schools  in  his  iieiLrhlior- 
hood,  until  he  was  si.xteen  ye.  s  old,  when  he  attended  school  one  winter  and  spring  f<ir  six 
months  obtaining  the  n  st  oi  his  education  by  ex|>erience,  observation,  an<l  some  reference  to 
l)(n)ks. 

Mr.  Bradshaw  farmed  at  St.  Martin's  until  twenty  years  old;  then  .spent  most  of  a  year  in 
Prince  Fdward  Island,  and  started  in  a  ves.sel  for  the  United  States.  The  ve.s.sel  put  in  at  St. 
Martin's,  where  his  older  biothers,  William  and  Abram  Bradsliaw,  had  a  ship  ready  to  go  to 


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sea,  and  tlu^y  ptTsuadud  him  to  cliauge  Iii.s  plans,  ami  accompany  tliom  on  hor  first  voyafjc.  Ho 
followed  the  sea,  mostly  in  tin-  summer  si'iuson,  for  a  do/on  years,  W()rkin<;  at  ship-l>nildin;f 
nsnally  during  the  winteis.  Sulisciiucntly  lie  was  engaged  in  sliip-liuilding  the  year  round, 
first  at  St.  Martins,  and  then  at  St.  John,  whither  he  removed.  Occasionally  he  sailed  his  own 
ships. 

About  1n70,  Mr.  Bnidshaw  sold  his  property  at  St.  John;  moved  t^t  New  (ilasgow,  I'.E.I., 
where  his  only  son  and  child,  Hiirrington  Bradshaw,  M.D.,  was  engaged  in  the  ])rjietiee  of  mede- 
cine,  and  where  he  icinained  three  j'ears.  While  there  he  lost  his  first  wife,  whom  he  had 
married  in  ISiiO,  and  whose  maiden  name  was  Maria  Vail,  a  daughter  of  Reuben  Vail.  Two  or 
three  yeai*s  after  this  sad  event,  Mr.  Bradshaw  came  to  llami>ton:  married  the  widow  Halstead 
in  the  autunui  of  1877,  and  is  living  a  retired  and  very  (piiet  life  in  his  own  new  hou.se  on  tlie 
hill,  overlooking  tlie  village — the  house  bei.ig  among  the  bent  in  the  place. 

Mr.  Bradshaw  joined  the  Baptist  church  when  about  thirty  years  of  age;  removcul  his 
connection  to  the  Brussels  street  chiu'ch,  when  he  went  to  St.  John  ;  to  the  Baptist  cliurch  at 
Nt!W  Glasgow,  when  he  went  there,  and  from  the  latter  cliurch,  we  belii.'ve,  he  has  never  taken 
his  letter.     Now,  in  his  iS7th  year,  he  is  waiting  to  be  "called  home." 


HON.   TIIOM2VS   R.   JONES,  ^r.L.C, 

ST.  JOUX,  N.JI. 

THOMAS  ROSENKLLE  JONES,  one  of  tlie  prominent  merchants  of  St.  John,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Legislative  ( 'ouncil  of  New  Brunswick,  belongs  to  one  of  the  earliest  English 
families  that  settled  in  New  Brunswick,  his  great-grandfather,  John  Jones,  moving  into  this  pro- 
vince in  177fi,  seven  years  ahead  of  the  loyalists.  He  came  from  Essex  count}',  Jlassacliusetts. 
John  Jones  built,  a  little  below  St.  John,  the  first  ship  in  this  province.  It  was  destroyed  by 
the  Yankees  on  the  stocks.  A  second  ship  which  he  built  was  lost  in  the  falls,  coming  down 
the  St.  John  river.  Not  finding  his  luck  lying  in  the  direction  of  ship-building,  the  old  gentle- 
man took  up  some  land  at  Mistake  Point,  King's  county,  and  made  a  farm,  which  is  still  in  the 
liands  of  the  family,  being  ownc<l  by  a  grandson  of  John  Jones. 

The  parents  of  our  subject  were  John  and  Eliza  (llosenelle)  Jones,  his  mother  being  a 
native  of  this  province.     Her  jiarcnts  were  from  the  I'nitdl  States. 

Mr.  Jones  was  born  in  the  city  of  St.  John,  September  1 2,  IM2.5,  and  received  a  common  Eng- 
lish education,  leaving  school  at  thirteen  years  of  age  ;  hence  the  greater  part  of  his  knowledge 
was  acquired  by  experience  and  private  study.  At  the  age  mentioned,  he  commenced  hi.s 
ajiprenticeship  in  the  mercantile  trade,  and  has  followed  it  steadily  ever  since.  At  times  lie 
lias  been  a  shipowner,  8,nd  has  dealt  in  lumber;  but  his  principal  Imsiness  is  wholesale  dry 
goods,  reaily-made  clothing,  and  clothing  manufacture ;  and  in  the  amount  of  his  trade  and  in 
financial  standing  his  place  is  in  the  front  rank  of  New  Brunswick  merchants. 

Mr.  Jones  has  been  president  of  the  St.  John  bortrd  of  trade;  was  three  yeais  a  common 
councilman,  ami  five  years  an  alderman  for  King's  ward,  St.  John;  and  was  a  director  of  the 
C\)nsolidate<l  European  and  North  American  Railway  for  extension  westward,  and  was  president 
of  the  Coldbrook  Rolling  Mills  Co.  He  is  a  stirring,  thorough-going  business  man,  and  one  of 
that  class  of  citizens  whom  St.  John  would  not  like  to  spare. 


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Mr.  Jones  was  aillctl  to  the  L(%'isliitivi'  <\)imcil  on  tlic  \'H\\  of  Janniuy,  iSflT,  ami  was  a 
nii'inlicr  of  tlic  cxci'iitivc  coinu'il  nncl  |)rcsiilcni  of  tliat  liudy,  fVoiii  tlic  iUid  of  Kuliniary,  IH7I, 
to  till'  :inil  of  .huK',  of  till'  .same  yt'ar,  rrsiijninj,'  on  aci'oinit  of  a  iirossiiri'  of  liis  own  private 
Imsine.ss,  nmcli  to  the  n'j.;ret  of  all  his  coili'aLr'U's  in  th.'  ('onneii. 

Mr.  .loiu's  is  a  fourth  dej^ree  mason,  and  an  honorary  mi'inhcr  of  Alhion  Ijodj^e,  St.  John  ; 
also  a  vestryman  of  St.  I'aid's  Kpiscopal  chinrh,  Porthiml,  adjnininf,'  St.  John. 

He  married,  Feliruary  2iS,  l,S.')l,  Mary  Jani>,  eldest  ilan^'hter  of  Charles  Doni'V,  Ksi|.,  of 
Johnston,  (^)uoen's  Co.,  N.li,  and  they  have  lost  two  ehildren,  and  have  .si.x  .sons  and  three 
dauirhters  livin''. 


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THOMAS    Y.   (JILLESmE,   ^U\\\, 

CHATHAM,  N.B. 

rnlloMAS  FRANCIS  (ilLLKSriK,  a  memher  of  the  New  Bnniswi.k  House  of  Assembly, 
_1_  for  Northnniherland,  is  a  son  of  John  and  Kliza  (Sheelwiii)  (!illes|iie,  and  was  Imin  \u-.\v 
Mallow,  eounty  of  Cork,  Iieliind,  on  the  j.")th  of  DfCenitiiT,  IS^S.  lie  was  cdiieateil  in  the  old 
eountiy  ;  eame  to  New  Jinuiswick,  in  It'i.S;  lived  a  few  years  at  St.  John  ;  settled  in  Chatham 
in  18.')-1',  and  after  heinj,' a  clerk  a  few  years,  purelia.sed  ;  180.5)  a  foundry,  svhieh  he  is  still 
eariyinj^  (in,  totrether  with  insurance  and  general  merehamlise. 

.Mr.  (!illes|)ieeoiiteste<l  Northumlierland  unsuccessfully  for  tlie  local  assemhly,  in  Isdll,  and 
thi'  House  of  Conmions  in  INtiT;  was  eleeted  to  the  I'oi'mer  hody  in  1870;  defeated  in  1874.  on 
the  school  nuestion,  and  was  again  successful  at  the  last  general  election,  in  1878,  his  polities 
heing  Conservative. 

He  is  a  justice  of  the  peace,  county  valuator,  port  vvai'den,  and  secretary  of  the  tire  wards; 
was  lieutenant  of  artillery,  in  180.S,  captain  in  I8(iti,  and  now  liolds  the  rank  of  lieut. -colonel 
garrison  artillery. 

He  is  secretary  of  .Masonic  ijodge.  No.  18,  New  Brunswick  registry,  First  Principal  of  Mount 
Lehanoii  lloyal  .\rcli  Chapter,  and  vestryman  of  St.  I'aid's  Kpisco]ial  church. 

Mr.  (lillespie  manieil  in  1n.'!.">,  Miss  Klizalieth  Cormack,  of  < 'iiatham  and  she  has  had 
eleven  children,  only  six  of  them  now  living. 


.rt'DGE    ALFRED    ]].   OULTON, 

DORCllK.srKIi,  N.l{. 

A  LFRl';n5  KDWIN  OULTON,  judge  of  piohate  for  tlie  county  of  Westmoreland,  is  a  s,mi  of 
/~\  Thoinas  Kdwin  (lulton  and  Elizahcth  Carter,  liotli  natives  of  Westiiiorel.iiid  coiintv,  and 
lioth  descendants  of  C.  H.  Loyalists,  -who  left  the  Cnited  States  about  the  close  of  the  war  for 
independence;  and  he  wa.s  iiorn  in  Westmoreland,  on  the  2nd  of  March,  184.");  he  received  his 
early  education  in  his  native  place,  anil  after  lieiiig  in  his  father's  store  a  while,  went  to  Sack - 
villi'.  New  Ihunswick,  and  s]ient  three  years  at  Mount  Allison  academy,  taking  a  course  of 
studies,  which  embraced  the  higher  mathematics  and  the  l.atin  language.     He  studied  law  with 

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Mr.  A.  li.  (nuw  juiI;,'(V)  Paliiit'r ;  wms  admittoil  an  attDnn'v  in  .liiiic,  iMi".  iiiul  ns  u  tiairistcr  in 
the  .liiiic  t'dllowitii;,  ami  practisi' 1  tlii^'c  veins  in  ciimpaiiy  svitli  Mr.  I'liliiii'i,  wln'ii  Wv.  I'aliiicr 
rcinovt'd  to  St.  .Inliii,  tui<l  tlic  j)iutiifi'.slii|i  was  dissolvi'd. 

Mr.  OidtuiiV,  iiiacticc  cxtciids  into  all  \\m  cinii'ts  nt"  tin' provinci'.  and  into  tlie  Sujin'nii' 
Conrt  1)1"  tlic  Doininioii,  ami  as  a  professional  man,  liis  standin:.^  is  liiiflily  cicditaMi' ;  lit;  ilocs  a 
great  deal  of  olliee  work,  (•iillcetin'4'  claims,  eonveyaneinjf,  and  ni)tary  |inl)lie  liusine.ss. 

He  was  elected  secretaiy  oF  the  nuiniei]iMl  eoiini'il  of  l)oicli(!stei-,  on  its  lieiiiij;  oryani/ed, 
June  7tli,  1N77,  and  >till  lioMs  that  otliee  ;  his  a|i|)ointment  as  jndnc  of  prohato  is  dated  An;,mst 
1st,  lH7iS,  he  takni^f  the  place  of  (rovernor  Chandler,  deceased.  Mr,  Oiilton  is  junictual  and  faith- 
ful in  tlifdi.sehiirge  of  his  ollicial  duties,  and  ^ives  ^^reat  .satisfaction  to  the  imlilic;  he  is  a  eom- 
niissioner  for  the  adniiialty  court  of  the  |irovinc<'. 

He  was  nuidi'  a  Free  Mason  in  i.Sdti;  was  for  thiee  consecutive  years  master-  of  the  hlue 
lodge  at  Dorchester,  and  is  a  royal  arch,  being  anne::ed  with  the  cliapti'r  at  .Moncton. 

Mr.  ()iilton  is  a  menilier  of  the  ('hnrch  of  Kngland,  and  a  mm  who  has  alwa\s  maintained 
a  good  character. 


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THOMAS    (ilLT.Kirr, 

ST.  joii.w  y.ii. 

THOMAS  GFKHKllT,  a  native  of  St.  .).)lin,  1.  .rn  .Inly  .-list,  lM20,  is  a  .son  of  Henry  (iilhort, 
who  was  a.lso  h  )rn  in  this  city,  and  a  grandson  of  Itrailford  (iilliert,  a  Liyalist,  who  with 
his  father.  Thomav  ( iilhert,  ,ir.,  was  pioscrihed  and  lianished  from  Freetown.  Mass.,  in  I77>S, 
and  who  settled  in  New  lirnnsuick,  in  17>i-"<,  receiving  the  giant  of  a  lot  in  the  city  of  St.  John. 
We  learn  from  Sahine'.s  "  Loyalists  of  the  American  llevolntion,"  that  liradford  (Jilhert  wjvs  a 
nicmlier  of  the  St.  John  loyal  artillery  in  I7'J5,  an  alderman  of  the  city  in  IMO.S,  and  ihat  ho 
died  in  this  city  in  IMi,  aged  sixty-eight  yeais.  Ann,  his  widow,  died  in  I.S.");{,  in  her  nine- 
tieth year.  The  piogenitor  of  this  hraneli  of  the  (iilln'rt  family  in  America.  <as  we  learn  from 
Saliine's  woik,  was  .lolm  tolKerf,  who  wa.s  snp[)oseil  to  be  from  Devonshire,  Kng.,  and  who  died 
at  Dorchester,  .Ma.ss.,  about  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  century  ;  he  was  one  of  tla^  tirst  two 
representativt's  from  Taunton,  Mass.,  to  the  (Jener.il  ( 'oinl  |legislatuie],  at  I'lymontli,  in  lU.S.O. 
Thomas  (iilbert,  the  great  grandfather  of  onr  subject,  a  desiiendant  on  his  mother's  side,  from 
William  liradford.  the  second  goveruoi-  of  the  Plymouth  cohtny,  was  a  cai)tain  in  1745,  under 
Sir  William  I'epiierell,  and  ai<led  in  the  siege  and  taking  of  Louisbonrg.  He  was  a  lieutenant- 
colonel  in  the  French  war  of  17-')"),  under  Drig.idier-general  Unggles ;  wiis  in  the  siege  of  Crown 
Point;  and  when  Colonel  Hphiaim  Williams  fell  in  the  battle  with  the  French  at  Lake  George, 
under  Baron  Dieskau,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Gilbert  took  command  of  tin;  regiment.  Just  before 
the  revolutionary  war  broke  out,  Colomd  GillxMt  was  a  member  of  the  House  of  Hejiresenta- 
tives,  a  justice  of  the  quorum,  and  a  colonel  in  the  militia,  and  he  took  a  very  decided  stand 
for  the  crown,  raising,  in  the  autumn  of  177+,  at  the  re(piest  of  (ieneral  Gage,  a  body  of  three 
hundred  loyalists,  to  keep  down  the  conunotions  in  Jhistol  county.  This  was  six  months 
before  the  "battle"  of  Lexington,  in  April,  177."),  in  which  month,  wiites  Sabine,  "the  Congress 
of  Massuchnsetts  unanimou.sly  declared  that  '  Colonid  'J'honias  Gilbert  is  an  inveterate  enemy 
to  his  country,  to  rea.son,  to  justice,  and  the  common  rights  of  maid^iml,' and  that,  'whoever 
has  knowingly  cspoasc'd  his  cause,  or  taken  arms  for  its  support,  does,  in  common  with  hini.self; 


TIIK  C.I.V.l/'/.l.N    niOfniM'lllCAL  lUi  rioSMtV. 


(iH.'l 


(lesiTve  to  l>i'  instantly  cut  dll' IVnin  tln'  licin'tit  ofcoinnu'icf  willi  or  coiiiitriiiiiicr  of,  any  t'lii'ml 
of  virtue,  AiMci'ica,  or  tin-  liuinan  rate.' "  lie  was  al'torwanis  .spoivcu  (  t'  Ijv  ( 'oiij^n'SH,  in  liis 
connection  witii  otlicr  ailliercnts  of  Kiny  ( ieorf^o,  as  "(iillieit  and  liis  handitti,"  wliicli  sliows 
tiiat  lie  nnist  lia\c  lieeii  a  leader  anion;,Mlie  loyalists. 

Colonel  (lilltert  acconijianii'd  tlie  royal  ai'uiy  to  Halifax  in  I77ti,  and  tsvo years  at'terwan Is, 
at  tlio  sanio  time  with  liis  sons,  was  proserihed  and  lianishcd;  lie  did  not  K'avo  the  royal  troops 
till  tlie  war  ended,  and  did  all  lie  could  to  suppress  the  "  ichellion,"  In  17.s;{  \vi- find  him  at 
Conway,  Annapolis  county,  N.  S.,  petitionin;f  (lovcrmir  I'air  for  a  erant  of  land.  A  little  later 
he  came  to  New  lirunswick,  aini  dieii  on  (he  St.  tlojin  river  three  ov  lour  years  heforo  the  <'lo>>e 
of  the  last  ceiituiy  ;  liavini,'  |)a.ssed  his  t'oiirsc,»re  years  ;  he  deelineil  half-pay  for  service  in  the 
French  war;  liehl  no  commi.ssiun  in  the  war  of  177')-'cS,'{,  hence  had  no  allowance  as  a  dishamled 
otlicer,  liut  was  eom|iensatcil  for  his  los>es.  He  was  a  firm  and  eouiani  ■  i^  ■idheri'nt  of  the 
crown,  looked  upon  the  reiiellion  a:;  a  ^'leat  i-rime  a;.,'ainst  the  mother  coUn  \  ,  and  deeiared 
that  the  lehels  were  "  more  savai^e  and  cruel  tiian  heathen,  or  any  other  er.  .imrs,  and,  it  is 
j,'enerall_\'  thoujrlit,  than  devils."     The  little  sketch  of  his  life  in  SaMiie's  work  s  the  reader 

a  clear  idea  of  the  "spirit  of  '7<i'  on  hotli  sides  of  the  ipiestioii  of  loyalty  ami  di>ioyalty. 

The  mother  ot'  our  suhjeet  was  V.Wvm  Simoiids,  diiiiLjhtrr  of  James  Simoiids,  who  came  from 
Newliuryport,  .Mass.,  to  this  |iro\ince  lief)re  the  .Vineiieaii  levujiitioii.  .Mr  (lilliert  receiveil  a 
classical  education  in  St.  .lohn,  leaiiied  the  mercantile  trade,  and  was  en;;au'ed  in  it,  and  inship- 
hiiildiiif,'  and  shipjiinj,'  for  several  years,  hejuL,'  (piite  suecessfid,  and  retirim,^  aliout  fifteen  years 
aj,'o. 

Mr.  (iilhert  was  a  director  of'  tiie  Hank  of  New  liiiinswiek  tor  twenty-three  years,  and  has 
been  its  vice-president  for  seven  or  cii,'ht.  'I'his  is,  we  lielie\c,  tlie  only  otiice  lie  uow  holds. 
He  is  a  I.iheral  in  politics,  and  apjiears  to  lie  leaily  to  aid  his  friends  into  ;;ettinL,'  into  ])osts  of 
honor,  hut  asks  nothinj,'  for  himself  ;  he  is  living'  a  .somewhat  cpiiet  life,  and  seems  inclined  to 
let  the  world  Imve  all  its  woi'ryin<^  to  it.self. 

Mr.  (Iilhert  married,  in  187(),  Marion,  dauLihter  of  Fnuieis  Ferguson,  of  St,  .lulin,  and  wo 
believe  tbev  ha\e  no  children. 


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LEML:EL    .1.   'rWKKDIK, 

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LKMrEl.  JOHN  TWKKDIK,  hairistei-atdaw,  and  late  member  of  tli.'  New  I'.iun.^wiek 
Assembly  for  Nortliumlierlaml,  was  born  in  (  hathaiii.oii  the  SOtli  November,  j.si.'iO.  His 
fatlier,  Joseph  Tweedie,  a  farmer,  born  in  Leitrim,  Ireland,  and  his  mother,  (.'atliariia?  .Mctjarv, 
were  from  the  same  country.  Her  father,  Rev.  .1.  It.  .Met  lary,  lieini;  the  first  .Methodist  mi>sioiiarv 
in  Newfoundland.  Lemuel  was  educated  at  the  I'resbytirian  academy,  in  his  native  town, 
his  studies  including  the  classics ;  commenced  the  study  of  law  with  .lohn  .M.  Johnson,  Es([., 
and  he  dying,  finisheil  with  William  Wilkin.son,  Ksc[ ,  now  jiuige  of  the  county  courts ;  was 
admitted  as  an  attorney  in  1S71,  called  to  the  I'ar  at  Michaelmas  term  the  next  year,  and  has 
been  in  jiractiee  at  Chatham  alone  for  ten  years,  doing  business  in  the  several  courts  of  tlie 
province,  and  working  his  way  u|)ward  to  a  highly  creditable  standing  in  llie  profession.  Ho 
lias  the  largest  practice  of  any  lawyer  in  the  county  ;  has  laid  a  good  foundation  in  his  legal 
attainments,  ami  is  building  gradually  and  surely,  and  is  a  rising  young  man, 


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Mr.  Twceilie  lepreHonted  the  county  of  Nortluiinborland  in  the  provincial  pailiament  from 
1874  to  It<7lS.  He  favors  free,  non-sectarian  schools,  and  that  wiw  the  issue  on  which  he  was 
elected.     In  Dominion  politics  he  is  a  Liberal  Conservative. 

Mr.  Twcodie  is  a  good  deal  interested  in  the  cause  of  education,  anil  has  served  as  a  trustee 
of  the  (. 'hathani  public  .schools  for  several  years,  lie  holds,  or  has  held,  other  local  otficcs,  but 
not  perhaps,  of  sufficient  importance  to  be  enumerated. 

He  is  a  member  of  Victoria  Lodjjro,  York  county,  Oddfellows  ;  a  trustee  of  St.  Andrew's 
Presbyterian  church  ;  a  man  of  good  moral  as  well  as  legal  standing,  ami  has  in  every  respect, 
a  highly  creditable  standing  in  the  community. 

Mr.  Tvveedie  married  December  (ith,  1876,  Agnes,  daughter  of  the  late  Alexander  Loudoun, 
merchant,  Chatham,  and  they  have  buried  one  daughter,  and  have  two  children  living. 


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JAMES    HARRIS,  J.r., 

PORTLAND,  N.B. 

JAMES  HARRIS,  a  pioneer  foundryman  and  car-builder,  in  the  Maritime  Provinces,  and  one 
of  the  most  enterprising  mechanics  in  this  |>art  of  Canada  ;  is  a  native  of  Ainiapolis 
county,  N.  S.,  born  on  the  2.)th  of  October,  1803  ;  his  father,  Benjamin  Harris,  was  born  in  the 
same  county  ;  and  his  grandfather  was  a  loyalist,  from  the;  United  States,  and  a  descendant  of 
au  English  emigrant ;  his  mother,  Rachel  halctjmb,  was  born  near  Clementsport,  N.S.  Mr.  Harris 
never  had  many  advantages  in  his  young  days,  being  almost  entirely  self-educated  ;  he  learned 
the  blacksmith's  trade,serving  fiveyeara  in  Annapolis  ard  one  year  in  St.  John.condng  to  the  latter 
place,  when  twenty  years  old  ;  he  worked  four  years  as  a  journeyman,  and  then  (1828)  formed 
a  partnership  with  Thoma.s  Allan,  and  the  firm  of  Harris  and  Allan,  machinists,  foundrymen, 
&c.,  was  continued  for  thirty-three  ^ears,  when  (I8ljl)  Mr.  Allan  died, and  Jlr.  Harris  purchased 
his  interest  in  the  firm.  Theirs  was  the  first  foundiy  in  the  lower  provinces,  and  they  were 
leaders  in  their  enterprises,  being  the  fii-st  in  these  ]»arts  to  start  tlu^  "go-ahead"  saw  mills,  of 
which  they  built  a  great  many.  They  weie  the  first  to  make  cut-nails  in  New  Rrunswick. 
Many  years  ago  they  erecteil  a  woollen  factory  at  Mispec,  and  run  it  for  .several  yeurs  and  then 
sohl  out. 

While  with  Mr.  Allan,  Mr.  Harris  was  a  leader  in  introducing  not  only  new  branches  of 
industry,  but  novel  and  improved  mai'hinery,  with  very  little  abatement  of  his  zeal  in  this 
direction,  even  at  the  present  time.  While  we  write,  in  the  sunnner  of  1<S81,  Mr.  Harris,  in  his 
78th  year,  is  bu.sy  in  introducing  a  new  style  of  car-wheel,  called  the  "  Allston  Wheel, "  which  he 
is  sanguine  will  be  a  great  success.  Mr.  Haiiis  was  for  nine  or  ten  yeai-s  president  of  the 
York  and  Carlton  mining  company,  for  the  mainifacture  of  pig  iron,  he  and  his  partner  being 
one  fourth  owners  of  the  works  until  the\'  were  sold. 

He  is  manufacturing  a  great  variety  of  implements,  machinery,  \c.,  \:c.,  such  as  are  tinned 
out  in  maihine-shops,  foundries,  agricultural  works  and  rolling  mills.  In  addition  to  car-wheels 
made  i'  the  foundry  or  the  rolling  mill.>,,  he  nmkes  car-a.xles,  nail  plate,  bar  iron,  .ship's  iron 
knees,  shafting,  and  all  kinds  of  hanniiereil  shapes  ;  he  has  made  car-building  one  of  his  leading 
branches  for  years.  Large  (quantities  of  stoves,  of  all  kinds,  grates  and  mantel-pieces  arc  made 
at  these  works ;  and  Mi.  Harris  has  a  large  store  in  St.  John  for  the  sale  of  these  articles,  to- 


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gethei'  with  agricultural  iuiploments,  etc.,  etc. ;  he  ha.s  a  shop  devoted  especially  to  slate  inantol.s, 
which  he  iiiarbleizes,  making  an  elegant  article,  for  which  he  finds,  as  for  his  other  works  gen- 
erally, a  ready  sale  ;  he  puts  nothing  imperfect  on  the  market. 

More  than  4,000  tons  of  iron  are  consumed  yearly  in  these  shops,  nearly  one-half  of  it  in 
the  car-whoL'ls  alone.  The  charcoal  iron  for  wheels, comes  from  the  United  States;  the  pig  and 
malleable  from  England  principally.  The  foundry,  shops,  etc.,  are  all  on  a  liberal  scale ;  the 
blacksmith  shop,  for  instance,  running  fifteen  fires,  and  the  whole  works  cover  about  four 
acres  of  ground. 

Fifty-three  years  ago  Mr.  Harris  and  his  partner  commenced  with  a  capital  of  poi'ha{)s 
§5,000;  ilr.  Harris's  share  being  the  earnings  of  his  own  toil-hardened  hands:  to-day  he  is 
giving  employment  to  about  2.S0  men,  mostly  skilled  mechanics,  and  is  doing  annually  at  least 
i<200,000  ;  he  placed  himself  in  comfortable  circumstances  jears  ago,  all  his  accumulations  being 
the  fiuit  of  shrewd  management  ami  diligence  on  his  own  part. 

Mr.  Harris  is  a  magistrate  ;  has  done  some  work  in  the  town  council  of  Portland,  and  may 
have  held  other  civil  posts;  but  he  has  never  been  an  ofiice-seekcr,  preferring  the  (piietude  of 
private  life;  he  is  president  t>f  the  Portland  branch  of  the  Britisli  and  Foreign  Bible  Society, 
chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Methodist  church,  Portlai  d,  and  a  man  who.se  Christian 
char.acter  is  far  above  reproach  ;  he  has  lived  a  temperate  life ;  has  always  been  careful  of  his 
health  and  to-day  has  a  clear  and  active  mind  in  a  sound  body ;  his  life  carries  with  it  a  lesson 
for  young  men,  in  industry,  abstemiousness,  self-control,  and  true  christian  manhood. 

Mr.  H.irris  was  joined  in  wedlock  in  1.SH7,  with  .Miss  Louisa  .\nn  Wilson,  of  Dorchester,  N. 
15.,  and  they  have  buried  one  son  and  one  tlaughter,  and  have  seven  daughters  living. 


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Alien IHAT.l)    FITZ    RANDOLIMI, 

IHKhEiaCTON,  N.ll. 

PROMINKNT  anidiiLfst  tlie  business  men  of  Fredericton,  tn  whosf  integrit}'  and  sterling 
worth,  the  city  owes  so  much,  stamls  .\.  F.  liandolph.  For  many  yeais  a  rf.sidoni, 
of  h'redericton,  he  has  )irciviM|  hiiiisflf  a  gnod  citizfu,  and  has  lived  a  life  of  great  industry, 
th(jrougbly  devoted  tn  liis  lnHJnos,  which  he  has  managed  with  great  prudence  ami  care  and 
unusual  success. 

He  was  burn  in  Higby,  Nova  Scotia,  .July  '2M\,  l.S:{S,  his  father  being  a  merchant  of  that 
town.  Mis  gran<lt'ather  was  at  one  time  a  member  of  tlie  i^egisiiitive  ( 'ouncij,  iiml  was  uiiieli 
respected  by  his  eonfreres  in  politics,  and  by  all  who  knew  him. 

Our  subject  was  ediu  ated  ;il  the  giiimmar  .school  of  his  native  town,  and  at  the  age  of 
seventeen;  having  early  developed  a  capaeiu  for  a  liusiness  life,  went  to  St.  .lohn  and  entereij 
the  otliee  of  K.  Stevens,  a  stove-di'aler,  a.s  clerk.  Me  held  his  situation  for  two  years,  when  think- 
ing to  better  hiniself  he  leinovcd  to  Fredericton  and  once  more  tried  his  fortune  in  the  ollice  of 
A.  T.  t 'oburn,  one  of  the  then  leading  linidier  mei'ehaiits  of  the  |iro\iiu'e.  He  only  staid  lu!rt> 
until  iHo.'i,  when  his  ambition  prompted  him  to  go  into  business  for  himself.  With  this  object 
in  view,  he  opened  a  geneial  store,  and  nn-t  with  such  success  that  in  ls(;."i  he  started  in  the 
picsent  undei  taking,  viz. ; — wholesale  tlour  and  West  India  giK>ds,  now  one  of  the  leading  houses 
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All  of  Mr.  Randolph's  business  vonturos  are  characteiistic  of  tlio  spirit  of  enterprise  wliich 
has  animated  liini.  His  success  is  largely  owing  to  his  energy,  discretion,  decision  of  character, 
shrewdness  and  tact,  and  that  crown  of  all  business  facilities,  common  sense.  He  possesses  in  a 
remarkable  degree  that  which  so  many  lack, — purpose. 

He  is  manager  of  the  People's  Bank,  of  Frcdericton,  and  has  held  that  position  since  its  incor- 
poration, which  took  j)lace  in  18G4. 

In  1871  the  present  school  act  of  the  province,  founded  upon  the  free  system,  came  into 
force,  and  Mr.  Randolph  was  appointed  by  the  government  to  the  position  of  chairman  of  the 
board  of  trustees.  With  the  exception  of  this,  he  has  avoided  all  political  oliicos,  leaving  them 
to  men  whose  ambition  proin])ted  them  in  that  direction. 

Mr.  Randolph  was  married  on  the  Dth  of  September,  18.")8,  to  Almina  Donaldson,  daughter 
of  William  Turnbull,  a  merchant  of  Bridgeport,  Nova  Scotia,  by  whom  he  has  had  eight  children, 
and  has  live  living. 


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EDAYARD    T..   WE'l\^rORE,   B.A., 

FliKDEHIcrON,  N.U. 

EDWARD  LUDLOW  WETMORK,  <.ne  of  the  leading  barristei-s  in  the  county  of  York,  is 
a  son  of  Charles  V.  Wctniore,  clerk  of  the  House  of  Assembly,  New  Brunswick,,  and  was 
born  in  Frcdericton  on  the  !i4tli  of  March,  ISH.  The  fiimily  came  from  New  York  to  this 
province  .soon  after  the  war  for  indepeiidtnee,  they  being  adhci'eiits  of  King  ( Jeorge  III.  The 
mother  of  Edward  was  Sarah  Ivetchum,  ilaughter  of  Colonel  Richard  Keti-hum,  of  Wood- 
stock, N.  B. 

Mr.  Wetrnore  was  educated  in  the  grammar  schoools  of  Freilericton  and  (lagetown,  and 
King's  college,  now  the-  univei-sity  of  New  lirur.swiek,  Frederictoii,  ami  was  gradnate<l  with 
lionors  in  18,")9.  Hestudied  law  with  tlu>  Hon.  John  C.  Alien,  now  chief  justice  of  New  Bruns- 
wick ;  was  admitted  to  practise  as  an  attorney  at  Trinity  term,  18(13  ;  called  to  the  bar  at  the 
same  ter»i  in  the  following  year,  and  after  piactising  his  profession  f<ir  I've  yeai-s  at  Sussex, 
King's  comity,  returned  to  Frcdericton.  He  is  of  the  tirm  of  Eraser,  Wetuiore  and  Winslow, 
his  senior  in  the  firm  l)eing  the  attorney -general  of  the  province,  nientioiu'il  elsewhere  in  this 
work.  They  do  business  in  the  Supreme  ( 'ourtof  the  Dominion,  as  well  as  in  the  seveial  courts 
of  Now  Brunswick,  and  have  an  extensive  and  highly  remunerative  practice,  being  the  leading 
law  firm  at  the  capital.  Mr.  Wetrnore  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  foremost  men  of  his  age  and 
profession  in  this  part  of  the  pi'ovince,  he  being  a  well-r(>ad  lawyer,  a  good  logician  and  an  ef- 
fective speaker. 

Mr.  Wetmore  was  mayor  of  Freilericton  from  187+  to  ls77,  and  made  an  etiicient  and 
po])ular  executive.  While  oecuiiyiug  that  jiositiou  he  was  ap|ioiiiteil  one  of  the  conmiissioners 
for  consolidating  the  law  of  New  Brunswick,  and  duiing  his  aduiiuistration  the  laws  relating 
to  assessinen*,s  were  consolidated. 

Since  commencing  his  professional  life,  .Mr.  Wetmore  has  taken  (|uite  an  active  part  in 
])olities,  having  strong  pii  t'.ilecticuis  for  the  Conservative  side.  11 irly  favored  the  move- 
ment for  C(»nl'ederation,  and  in  Ii;<i7,  at  the  first  election  aftei'  that  measure  was  e (fee ted,  he 
canvas.sed  the  county  of  King  in  the  interest  of  his  party,  speaking  iu  .several  places, 

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He  is  a  third-degree  Mason,  and  past  master  of  llirani  lodge,  Fredericton.  He  is  a  delegate 
to  the  Diocesan  (,^liurch  Society,  and  a  substitute  <lelegate,  usually  acting,  to  the  Diocesan 
Synod,  his  Chiistian  membership  being  in  Christ  church. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Wetmore  was  Kliza  J.  Dickson,  daughter  of  Charles  Dickson,  Esq.,  of  St. 
John,  their  marriage  being  dated  in  April,  IH72.     They  have  three  children. 


GEORGE    OTTY, 

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THE  present  judge  of  probate  for  the  county  of  King's,  N.  B.,  whose  name  heads  this 
sketch,  was  born  at  St.  John  in  this  province,  on  the  8th  of  August,  1820.  He  is  a  son 
of  Captain  Allan  Otty,  who  was  born  in  Yorkshire,  England,  and  served  in  the  royal  navy  un- 
der Lord  Nelson,  and  subsecjuently  in  the  American  lakes  during  the  last  war  with  the  United 
States,  1812-14,  at  the  close  of  which  war  he  settled  at  St.  John,  and  died  at  Hampton,  in  18')8. 
Captain  Otty  married  Elizabeth  Crookshank,  whose  parents  were  Loyalists. 

Judge  Otty  was  educated  at.  tin;  St.  John  grammar  school,  his  studies  including  the  classics 
as  well  as  mathematics  ;  studied  law  with  William  Wright,  Es().,  of  St.  John ;  was  called  to 
the  bar  in  1841,  and  practised  at  St.  John  until  184!t,  when  he  settletl  in  Hampton,  and  hero 
continued  his  legal  practice  until  he  became  judge  of  probate  in  JS47. 

The  judge  represented  King's  county  one  teini  prior  to  Confederation,  and  part  of  one  term 
afterwards.  He  was  opposed  to  that  meRS>ne,  and  in  18(1()  brought  in  the  famous  anti-Confed- 
eration resolutions,  which  created  violent  discussions,  an<l  caused  the  dissolution  of  the  House  of 
As.senibly.  He  was  again  returned  to  the  As.sembly,  by  his  Con.sevvative  friends  in  1872,  and 
was  holding  a  seat  in  that  body  when  appointed  to  his  present  office  of  judge.  He  is  also  sec- 
retary and  treasurer  of  the  municipality  of  King's  county,  and  clerk  of  the  peace,  and  performs 
his  various  duties  witli  eonnnendable  faithfulness  and  dispatch. 

The  wife  of  Judge  Otty  was  Eliza  A.,  daughter  of  Dr.  S.  Z.  Earle  of  King's  county,  their 
marriage  being  dated  in  184!>.  They  h.ive  two  adopted  children:  George  Otty  Dickson  t^Hty, 
a  law\er  at  St.  John,  and  Mai ia  Earle  Otty,  who  is  with  her  adopted  parents. 


KKJllT    REV.  -IOJ1:n    SWEENY,    D.l)., 

ST.  JUIIX,  N.ll. 

THE  Roman  Catliolic  Hishop  of  St.  John,  whose  nam«'  we  have  placed  at  the  head  of  this 
sketch,  is  a  native  of  Fermai>ngh,  Ireland,  and  was  born  in  Ma\-,  iN21,  his  parentis  being 
James  and  Mary  i^Macguire)  Sweeny,  meml  ers  of  the  farming  connnunity.  The  family  emi- 
grated to  New  Brunswick,  and  settled  in  St,  .lohn  in  1828,  and  here  the  father  died,  the  mother 
being  .still  alive  and  in  her  7ilth  year. 

liisho})  Sweeny  received  his  literary  education  in  New  Briniswick  ;  his  theological  in  the 
Seminary  of  (Quebec,  where  he  was  ordained  priest  in    1844  by  Archbishop  Turgeon.     Ho 


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returnee!  iimncdiately  to  the  city  of  St.  John  under  nppointment  as  a  missionary,  and  subse- 
quently labored  in  the  same  (rapacity  at  Chatham  and  Shediac,  so  continuinj^  until  ISol,  when, 
on  the  death  of  the  Right  llev.  Dr.  Dullard,  our  subject  became  administrator. 

A  little  later  he  was  Yicar-(ieneral  under  the  llight  Rev.  Thomas  Connolly,  bisliop  of  St. 
John ;  and  was  made  bishop  in  18G0,  on  the  appointment  of  Bishop  Connolly  to  the  arch- 
bishopric of  Halifax. 

During  the  twenty-one  years  that  Bi.shop  Sweenj'  lias  been  in  his  present  office,  he  lias 
done  a  great  work  irrespective  of  liis  spiritual  lalwrs.  lie  has  built  St.  Vincent  convent  and 
orphan  a.sylum  ;  the  Sacred  Heart  convent ;  the  cpi.scopal  residence  ;  the  side-chapels  and 
spire  of  the  cathedral,  and  a  considerable  portion  of  the  cathedral  itself ;  the  large  brick  struc- 
ture for  .school  purposes  after  the  great  fire — St.  Malachie  and  St.  Jo.seph  halls,  and  last  of  all, 
in  1<S«0,  the  industrial  school  near  the  city  of  St.  Jolin. 

The  diocese  of  Bisliop  Sweeny  includes  the  southern  half  of  New  Brunswick,  embracing 
the  counties  of  Westmoreland,  Albert,  King's,  St.  John,  Charlotte,  Queen's,  Sunbury,  York, 
C'iirlton,  ami  the  larger  part  of  Kent;  and  on  this  entire  field  he  has  a  vigilant  eye,  and  e.xer- 
cises  increasing  care.  It  would  seem  to  be  needless  to  state  that  he  is  a  veiy  active  man,  and 
untiring  in  his  etlbrts  to  serve  the  gi-eat  Head  of  the  Cluirch.  His  prejvcliing  is  eminently 
practical.  Whenever  he  propounds  any  doctrine  of  the  Catholic  Church,  he  never  fails  to  point 
out  how  this  doctrine  should  afl'ect  the  conduct  of  man  in  life.  His  style  is  plain,  simple,  and 
unatieeted,  .so  that  it  is  evident  he  seeks  to  instruct  ratlier  than  make  any  di.splay.  In  the 
administration  of  the  diocese,  he  keeps  ipiietly  at  his  work,  and  every  year  shows  the  advance 
of  that  work.     He  undertakes  nothintj  without  finishint;  it,  knowinjr  no  such  word  as  "  fail. ' 


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SUSSEX,  N.h. 

KOIKJE  H.  WALLACK,  collector  of  customs  and  stipendiary  niiigistrate,  is  a  native  of 
Nottingham,  Kngland,  his  birth  being  dated  March  2.")th,  1>S:!7.  His  father  was  William 
Wallace,  contractor  and  builder,  whose  grandfather  was  from  Scotland.  His  mother's  maiden 
name  was  Elizabeth  Bishop,  who.se  brother,  Edwin  Bishop,  .served  in  the  peninsular  war,  and 
led  at  one  time  the  "  Forlorn  Hope."  The  father  of  our  subject  died  at  Nottingham,  in  1871  ;  his 
mother  is  still  living,  being  in  her  7Htli  year.  He  received  a  good  English  education,  finishing 
under  the  instruction  of  an  English  clergyman  ;  in  his  sixteenth  year  he  entered  the  army  as 
a  private,  and  went  im.nciliately  to  Ireland,  where  he  served  in  Dublin  and  othei-  towr.i  for 
eighteen  months.  He  was  then, with  his  regiment,  transferred  to  Scotland,  where  he  >erveil  the 
snme  length  of  time.  While  stationed  at  Stirling  Castle,  young  Wallace  was  one  of  the  hun- 
dred soldiers  who  volunteered,  a  n(|U(st  made  at  the  War  ofHce,  to  go  to  India  at  the  outbreak 
of  wiir  ;  but  he  lieing  proficient  in  sword  I'xercise,  which  wns  then  being  introduced  into  the 
infantry  arm  of  the  service,  was  not  allowed  to  go.  He  was  created  a  ei>lor-seigeant,  and  sent 
to  his  native  town  as  reciuiting  officer,  v.hich  act  so  offended  his  father  that  he  inirneiliatel}' 
forwardetl  the  money  to  the  War  ofiiee  for  his  son's  discharge  from  the  service.  This  act  being 
accomjilished,  our  siibjiet  was  selected  by  the  county  magistracy  of  Nottingham  to  go  to  Mant- 
field  to  organize  and  drill  the  county  constabidary,  then  under  the  command  of  Caiibiin  P.  V. 


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Hiitton,  who  exiuesstd  gieat  satisfaction  at  the  manner  in  winch  this  duty  was  performed.  At 
the  end  of  a  year  and  eight  nioiith.s  lie  sotii^dit  and  seciircd  his  release  from  that  service  in  order 
to  emigrate  to  America.  Before  leavint,'  his  native  country  he  received  several  highly  compli- 
mentary testimonials  expressive  of  the  .satisfactor}'  manner  in  which  he  had  performed  his 
various  responsible  duties — testimonials  still  in  his  possession,  which  must  be  very  gratifying 
at  this  period  of  life,  and  so  remote  from  the  scene  of  his  labors. 

Mr.  Wallace  came  to  New  Brunswick  via  New  York,  in  May,  1S49,  and  in  the  July  follow- 
ing settled  at  Sussex,  where,  for  several  years,  he  was  a  eai-penter  and  builder,  doing  a  successful 
business. 

Ho  was  appointed  a  justice  of  the  peace  in  March,  11^57 ;  stipendiary  magistrate  for  King's 
county,  in  April,  1874,  and  sub-collector  of  customs  and  inland  revenue  for  the  outport  of  Sus- 
sex in  Maj^  1.S79.  These  last  two  appointments  drew  out  the  warmest  congratulations  of  the 
press,  which  spoke  of  his  trustworthy  character  in  the  strongest  terms. 

Mr.  Wallace  lias  also  held  nearly  all  the  local  othces  in  the  gift  of  the  people,  who  seem  to 
have  unbounded  confidence  in  his  honesty  as  well  as  ability. 

Ho  has  given  no  inconsiderable  time  to  work  in  the  temperance  cau.se,  and  was  atone 
jieriod  grand  lecturer  of  the  grand  lodge  of  Briti.sh  teniplais.  He  belongs  to  the  Orange 
association,  and  has  held  several  important  ortiees  in  that  .society ;  he  has  also  recently  joined 
the  Oddfellows.  He  has  long  been,  and  still  is,  a  local  contributor  to  the  St.  John  daily  and 
weekly  papers,  he  being  an  off-hand  ready  writer  and  good  news  collector. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Wallace  was  Mary  Ann  Stableford,  of  Sussex,  their  marriage  occurring  in 
1852.     They  have  buried  two  children,  and  have  five,  two  sons  and  three  daughtei-s  living. 


nOX.   ROBERT   D.  WTLMOT,  P.O., 

FREDERICTON,  N.R 

EGBERT  DUNCAN  WILMOT,  Lieutenant-Governor  of  New  Brunswick,  was  born  in 
Fredericton,  on  the  10th  of  October,  ISOi).  He  is  a  descendant  of  the  Loyalists  who 
.settled  in  the  Province  of  New  Brunswick  at  the  close  of  the  revolutionarj- war  in  \7M.  His 
grandfather,  Lemuel  Wilinot,  was  a  captain  in  a  loyal  regiment.  John  M.  Wilmot,  the  father 
of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  represented  for  many  years  the  county  of  St.  John  in  the  Legisla- 
tive Assembly  of  New  Brunswick.  His  wife  was  Susan  Harriet,  daughter  of  Samuel  Wiggins, 
a  merchant  of  St.  John. 

Mr.  Wilmot  was  educated  chiefly  at  the  grammar  school  in  St.  John  until  his  sixteenth 
year,  when  he  entered  the  office  of  his  father,  who  was  a  shipowner  in  St.  John.  In  l,s;}8,  he 
started  in  business  for  himself,  in  the  .same  line.  Since  184G,  as  we  learn  from  the  "  Parlia- 
mentary Companion,"  whence  we  obtain  portions  of  the  data  for  this  sketch,  its  subject  has 
been  almost  constantly  in  office.  He  was  a  memlier  uf  the  executive  council  of  New  Brunswick 
from  18")1  to  18.')4  ;  h'iu  18.)t)  to  18.17,  ami  again  in  his  own  government  in  lS6.i  ;  also  in  18(tU 
until  Confederation,  lie  held  the  nffice  of  surveyor-general  from  18.')1  to  1854,  and  that  of 
provincial  secretary  from  185(i  to  1857.  He  was  elected  mayor  of  St.  John,  in  1849.  In  I8(i.'), 
he  was  appoinfeil  a  delegate  to  the  confederate  cotuicil  of  trade,  which  as.sembli'il  at  tjuebec,  to 
discuss  what  conunercial  policy  should  be  piusued  iis  to  reciprocity  with  the  United  States,  and 

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to  the  colonial  ooiiference  which  mot  in  London,  in  tho  years  180()  and   18()7,  when  the  Act 
known  a.s  the  "  British  North  America  Act "  was  passed  by  the  Imperial  Parliament. 

He  was  appointed  one  of  the  commissioners  on  behalf  of  Canada  to  the  Philadelphia  Exhi- 
bition in  lS7l).  In  1840,  Mr.  VVilmot  beyan  an  active  political  career,  contestinj;  the  constitu- 
ency of  St.  John,  city  and  county,  successfully,  for  the  Le},'islative  Assembly,  a  seat  which  he 
retained  until  18(>l.  He  ran  in  that  year,  but  was  defeated,  and  did  not  oflTer  himself  again  un- 
til the  next  j,'eneral  election,  in  18G.'),  when  he  was  elected  ;  and  he  continued  to  represent  the 
Coaservative  interests  of  St.  John,  city  and  county,  until  Confederation,  1807,  when,  in  May,  ho 
was  called  to  the  Senate  by  royal  proclauuvtion. 

Mr.  Wilmot  was  sworn  a  member  of  the  Privy  Council,  without  portfolio,  in  October,  1878 
and,  at  the  same  time,  was  appointed  speaker  of  the  Senate,   a  position  he  continued  to  hold 
imtd  his  elevation  to  the  lieutenant-yovernor.ship  on  the  llth  of  February,  1880. 

He  was  married,  in  December,  1833,  to  Susan  Elizalteth,  youngest  daughter  of  David 
Mowatt,  a  ship-owner,  and  member  of  the  Lej^islative  Assembly  for  St.  Andrew,  county  of  Char- 
lotte, and  by  her  he  has  had  eight  children,  seven  of  whom  aie  living. 


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GEORCJE    F.   FISHER, 

FUEDERICTON,  N.B. 

r^  EORGE  FREDERICK  FISHER,  mayor  of  Fre.lericton,  his  native  city,  was  born  on  the 
VU"  !)th  of  March,  IS^i.  His  father  was  Henry  Fisher,  merchant,  and,  in  his  latter  years, 
chief  superintemUnt  of  education  for  New  Brunswick,  a  man  of  line  culture,  and  a  poUshed 
speaker,  dying  at  Fredoricton,  on  the  1st  of  February,  1800,  in  the  4'8th  year  of  his  age.  The 
name  of  the  family  was  origiiuilly  spelt  Fischer,  they  being  of  German  pe<ligree,  settling  on 
this  continent  at  tirst  in  New  Jersey.  The  great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  Lewis  Fisher,  was 
a  '  '"si,  and  came  to  New  Brunswick  at  the  close  of  the  war  of  \~liy-\~H',\.  Henry  Fisher 
niiu..  I  Saiah  Maria  Busby,  daugliter  of  the  Rev.  Samp.son  Busby,  a  We.-^leyan  minister,  and 
grar.ddaughte.-  of  Col.  Samuel  Vetch  Bayard,  of  the  British  arm}'. 

Mr.  Fi.sher  was  edueatetl  at  the  collegiate  school,  Fredericton,  Moiint  Allison  academy, 
Sackville,  and  the  university  of  New  Brunswick  (Fredericton\  and  is  a  H.A.  (180S),  M.A.,  and 
B.C.L.  of  the  last  named  institution.     He  is  also  vice-president  of  the  alumni  a.ssdciation. 

He  studied  law  witii  his  uncle,  the  late  Hon.  Charles  Fisher,  many  years  judgi'  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  New  Biunswick,  and  one  of  the  great  leaflei-s  of  responsible  government ;  was 
ailmitted  as  an  attorney  in  Hilary,  I8(j8,  and  called  to  the  bar  in  the  same  term,  in  18(19.  He 
and  his  elder  brother,  Cliarles  H.  H.  Fisher,  succeeded  to  the  practice  (if  their  uncle,  already 
mentioned,  and  the  firm-name  is  Fisher  and  Fi.sher.  They  <lo  a  good  business  in  the  several 
courts  of  the  province,  and  their  standing  in  the  legal  fraternity  of  York  county  is  highly  re- 
spectable, l)oth  as  it  regards  ability  and  integrity. 

In  addition  to  his  law  business,  .Mayor  Fisher  has  been,  since  January  1,  1877,  the  editor 
and  proprietoi-  of  the  XeAf  Ih'un»irirk  /f(7)yr/t'c,  the  oldest  paper  now  published  in  the  province, 
its  jM)litics  being  Liberal-Conservative,  and  its  publication  weekly.  He  makes  it  a  giKid  family 
paper,  as  well  as  an  exponent  of  the  principles  of  his  party. 


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Before  takinj;  liis  seat  at'  tlio  lu'ad  of  tlio  iminieipality  of  Frcilericton,  onr  subject  lin<l 
served  tliree  or  four  years,  at  (littbreiit  times,  as  alderman,  and  lience  hail  some  experieiiee  in 
municiital  matters.  He  had  also  held  the  ottieo  of  otHcial  assignee,  and  is  now,  we  hi-lieve,  do- 
pnty  clerk  of  the  county  comt ;  also  a  director  of  the  central  fire  insurance  company.  He  is 
one  ot  the  youngest  mayors  that  the  city  of  Freihnicton  has  over  had  ;  was  elected  in  January, 
1M><1,  and  is  filling  that  position  in  a  truly  creditable  manner. 

Mayor  Fisher  is  an  Oddfellow,  an  adherent  of  the  Methodist  cliurch,  and  a  man  of  good 
moral  character.  His  brother,  the  .senior  member  of  the  firm,  is  also  a  substantial  man,  well 
known  in  York  comity,  being  the  Liberal-Conservative  candidate  for  the  Hou.se  of  Commons 
in  1.S7M. 

Mayor  Fisher  married,  October  1.5,  18G.S,  Josephine,  daughter  of  Jose|)h  Robinson,  of 
Halifax,  N.S.,  and  she  died  on  the  22nd  of  December,  1IS70,  leaving  three  children. 


JOSIAU    AVOOD,   M.A., 

SACKr[LLE,N.li. 


JOSIAH  WOOD,  merchant,  banker,  fanner,  and  .ship-owner,  dates  his  birth  at  Sackvi'.Ie, 
Westmoreland  county,  N.B.,  on  the  18th  of  April,  1843.  His  father.  Mariner  Wood,  born 
at  Dorchester,  in  the  .same  count}',  wa-s  a  successful  merchant  at  Sackville,  and  died  in  August, 
1875.  His  mother,  wliose  nmiilen  name  was  Iit)uisa  Cynthia  Trueman,  was  born  at  Point  do 
Bute,  in  Westmoreland  county.  Her  family  came  to  New  Brunswick  from  Yorkshire,  Knglnnd. 
The  paternal  grandfather  of  Josiah  came  from  the  United  States  at  the  time  of  the  iutlux  of 
I^.  E.  Loyalists.     He  had  no  sisttsrs,  and  only  one  brother,  Charles,  who  died  in  Kngland  in  1871. 

The  subj(>ct  of  this  sketch  was  educated  at  Mount  Allison  Wesleyan  college,  Sackville,  and 
was  one  of  thi"  first  two  graduates— the  class  of  1803— the  other  being  the  Rev.  Howard 
Sprague.  Mr.  Wood  studied  law  at  Dorchester  with  Hon.  A.  L.  Palmer,  now  judge  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  New  Brun.swick  ;  was  called  to  the  bar  in  186(1;  and,  after  practising  a  short 
time  at  Dorchestei',  his  brother  Charles  being  in  dijlicate  health,  at  his  father's  reipiest,  he  clo.sed 
his  law  otfice,  returned  to  Sackville,  and  took  the  principal  charge  of  his  father's  btisiness,  and 
was  shortly  afterward,  with  his  brother,  admitted  into  partnership,  since  which  the  business 
has  been  conducted  under  the  style  of  M.  Wood  and  Sons.  Fjarly  in  1871',  the  firm  .started  a 
private  banking  house,  which  oui-  sulject  is  managing  with  fine  success.  Aftei'  his  father's 
death,  being  now  the  only  surviving  mend)er  of  the  firm,  he  discontinued  the  retail  branch  of  his 
mercantile  business,  and  is  now  wholesaling  exclusively,  dealing  principally  in  Hour  and  West 
India  goods.  \ 

In  company  with  other  parties,  he  is  also  engaged  in  .shi|)-building  and  shipping,  making 
a  success  of  this  as  well  as  of  every  other  branch  of  his  business. 

Mr.  Wood  has  alsw  a  large  farm  in  Sackville,  and  is  devoting  a  good  deal  of  attention  to 
stock-raising  and  stock-fattening,  prepnring  for  market  aliout  200  head  annually,  and  shipping 
them,  principally  of  late  yeai-s,  to  the  ^]ngli'il  nuvrket.  He  has  recently  introduced  a  few  h(!ad 
of  thoroughbred  Durhams,  and  in  futiue,  we  presume,  will  turn  l;is  attention  more  to  pure  bred 
stock. 


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He  is  a  director  anJ  larjife  stockhoMor  in  tlio  Moncton  giis  light  and  wator  conjpany,  and  in 
the  sugar  refinery  of  tlie  same  town.  * 

Mr.  Wood  is  a  magistrate,  hut,  we  believe,  does  not  act.  Three  years  ago  (187H),  he  was 
indiicetl  to  contest  Westmoreland  for  the  loeal  assend)ly,  but  was  defeated.  He  has  never  taken 
an  active  part  in  politics,  his  time  being  fully  occupied  with  the  several  brunches  of  his  business. 

Mr.  Wood  is  a  Master  Mason,  circuit  steward  of  the  Methodi.st  church,  and  one  of  the  boanl 
of  governors  and  treasurer  of  Mount  Allison  Weslcyan  college  and  aca<lemies. 

His  wife  is  Laura  S.,  daughter  of  Thompson  Trueman,  of  Sackville.  Their  marriage  took 
place  in  Januaiy,  1874.     They  have  three  children. 

A  friend  of  Mr.  Wood,  one  who  has  long  known  him,  thus  writes  to  the  editor  of  this  work  : 

Jogiah  Wooil  is  one  of  the  leading  niereliants  of  New  Brunswick.  j\b  a  land-owner  and  exjiorter  of  ngrii-id- 
tiiral  prodncts,  he  probably  stands  secoml  to  none  in  the  province.  He  is  one  of  those  business  men  who  com- 
bine, in  dne  proportion,  the  spirit  of  cantion  and  the  spirit  of  8a"j;acioiis  speculation,  of  whom  anj-  conntiy  may 
well  be  proud,  ilis  father  laid  the  foundation  of  a  splendid  business,  which  the  son's  enter|irise  and  skdl  have 
extended  and  contirmed.  The  train  of  circiimstanceH  which  directed  Mr.  Wood's  attention  to  his  pr«siMit  busi- 
ness, \nidoubtedly  drew  from  the  bar  of  New  Brunswick,  a  member  who  would  have  honored  it.  As  a  banker, 
West  India  merchant  and  landed-proprietor,  his  name  has  a  currency  and  a  credit  which  few  men  of  his  a;;e  in 
the  Maritime  Provinces  possess.  He  is  a  cultivated  gentleman  of  modest  bearini;,  scholarly  tiistes,  and  spot- 
less reputation.  Possessed  in  a  high  degree  of  the  contidenco  and  esteem  of  his  fellow-citixcns,  and  tilled  by  his 
Acquirements  for  olHcient  public  service,  Mr.  Wood,  though  personally  retiring  and  unambitious,  will  probcbly 
be  called  before  long  to  take  part  in  ailuiiuistorin^  the  affairs  uf  the  country  in  whose  welfare  fuw  have  so  largo 
a  stake. 


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SYLN'ESTER    Z.   EARLE,   M.D., 

.ST.  JOHN,  N.  li. 

SYLVESTER  Z.  EARLE,  ex-mayor  of  St.  John,  and  one  of  the  'leading  physicians  and 
surgeons  in  the  city,  is  a  native  of  New  Brunswick,  a  grandson  of  J.  Earle,  a  U.  E. 
Loyalist,  and  wa.s  born  at  Kingston,  King's  county,  on  the  7th  of  August,  1822.  His 
father,  for  whom  he  was  named,  was  born  in  Queen's  county,  New  bninswiek  ;  studied  medi- 
cine in  New  York  ;  married  Maria  Hughson  of  that  State  ;  settled  in  King's  county,  in  this  jno- 
vi  ce,  when  carriage  roads  were  unknown  ;  made  his  ])rofe.ssional  rides  on  horseback,  through 
forests  and  over  bridgeless  streams,  often  going  a  great  distanct>,  ami  being  absent  two  or  three 
days,  and  .sometimes  lunger.  The  old  gentleman  was  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  provin- 
cial legislature,  and  one  of  the  best  known  men  in  King's  county,  being  noted  for  his  skill  and 
success  in  his  profession,  and  was  greatly  esteemed  for  his  many  excellent  <iualitie8.  He  died 
at  Hampton  in  the  spring  of  187!),  in  his  eighty-sixth  year. 

Our  subject  received  a  gramiuiir  school  education  ;  studied  bin  profession  in  the  university 
of  New  York,  when  the  celelirated  Valentine  Mott  was  professor  of  surgery  there,  and  re- 
ceived from  that  institution  the  degree  of  M.I),  in  1841';  lie  practised  at  Hampton,  in  his  native 
county,  for  twenty  years,  his  rides  extending  over  nnich  of  the  same  ground  which  his  father 
under  nnich  less  favorable  circumsUinees,  had  traversed,  twenty  and  thirty  years  before. 

In  18G4,  Dr.  Earle  settled  in  St.  John,  and  is  still  in  ])ractiso,  having  all  the  professional 
business  that  any  man  of  his  number  of  years  could  reasonably  desire  ;  he  is  as  smart  and  ac- 
tive, seemingly,  as  ever,  and  as  ambitious  to  do  credit  to  the  profession  which  his  father  so 
much  honored. 


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Wlillo  a  I'osiilont  of  King's  county,  Dr.  Earlo  was  ont>  of  its  coroners,  and  lioMs  the  saint) 
office  in  St.  J(thn's  county  :  ho  was  also,  whilo  at  Hampton,  assistant  surgoon  of  a  volunteer 
force,  and  is  now  surgeon  of  the  (J2nd  hattalion  ;  he  aided  John  Saunders  in  organizing  the 
fii'.-t  regiment  of  cavalry  in  King's  county,  of  which  Mr.  Saunders  was  iippuinted  captain,  and 
the  Dr.  lieutenant. 

He  is  past  master  of  Alijion  Lodge  of  Free  Masons,  St.  John,  the  ol  lest  in  the  city,  and  has 
taken  the  22nd  degree,  being  of  Rose  ('njix  Chapter. 

Dr.  Earle  is  a  Justice  of  the  peace  for  the  city  ;  and  was  the  first  warden  of  the  city  and 
county  of  St.  John,  and  held  that  office  two  years;  he  was  chosen  ina\-or  of  the  city  in  April. 
liS77,  and  two  months  afterward,  June  20th,  the  great  fire  occurred,  destroying  827,000,000  of 
prope"ty,  and  laying  the  husiness  part  of  the  city  in  ashes.  It  was  the  most  trying  time  in  the 
history  of  St.  John,  and  the  burdens  and  res[)onsibilities  suddenly  laid  upon  the  mayor,  were 
simply  iinmen.se  ;  he  Vmre  up  manfully,  not  to  say  heroically,  under  them  all ;  exerted  himself 
with  almost  superhuman  effort  to  provide  a  temi)orary  home  for  the  sliclterless,  and  food  for  the 
hungry,  sccomled  by  a  tireless  band  of  assiduous  co-workers,  and  so  nobly  did  he  actpiit  him- 
self during  tliat  year  that  the  citizens  of  St.  John  insisted  on  his  serving  another  term.  Ho 
made  one  of  the  most  efficient  chief  magistrates  this  municipality  has  ever  had.  He  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  government,  in  1880,  a  member  of  the  board  of  health  for  the  city  of  St.  John, 
and  is  physician  to  the  public  licspital. 

]Jr,  Karlo  married,  in  ISIO,  Catherine  Ifcdill  Otty,  daughter  of  Capt.  Allan  Otty,  of  tlie 
Royal  navy,  and  sister  of  CJeorge  Otty,  Es(j.,  judge  of  probate,  King's  coimt}',  and  they  have 
six  sons  .,ii'I  fwo  daifghters,  all  yet  living,  but  one  son,  who  die  1  in  infancy.  Thomas  J.  (>., 
the  eldest  son,  is  a  graduate  of  Bellevue  hospital  medical  college,  \u\v  York,  he  being  the  third 
generation  of  medical  practitioners  in  this  family,  and  is  in  company  with  his  father  ;  Allen  (). 
is  a  barrister  at  St.  John,  and  author  of  Earlo's  "  Rules  of  the  (Jourts,"  just  published;  William 
Z,  i.s  assistant  engineer  on  tlie  Canada  Pacific  railway;  M.inneis  S.  is  at  Winnipeg;  Sylvester, 
Z.  is  in  a  store  at  St.  John,  and  the  two  daughters,  Eliza  and  Mary,  are  at  home. 

We  have  mentioned  onl}-  part  of  the  civil  and  other  offices  which  Dr.  ?]arle  has  held.  With 
otbei-s  he  has  been  honored,  and  with  still  others,  he  has  been  burdened;  and  he  has  never  ln-en 
backward,  in  otlice  or  out  of  it,  in  a.ssisting  to  carry  foi'wiird  enterprises  which  were  for  the  in- 
terest of  the  conuuunity.     Happy  the  city  ble.si-ed  with  many  such  citizens. 


HON.   GEOKGE    E.   KING,   M.A.,   Q.C., 

ST.  JOHN,  N.ll. 

/~^  EORCE  EDWIN  KINO,  one  of  the  judges  of  the  supreme  court  of  New  Rrunswick,  and 
\jr  late  leader  of  tlie  provincial  government,  is  a  native  of  the  city  of  St.  John,  dating  his 
birth  on  the  8th  of  October,  188!).  His  father,  George  King,  a  prominent  ship-builder,  was  also 
born  in  this  city,  and  here  died  in  18(J7.  His  mother,  whose  maiden  name  was  Mary  Ann 
Fowler,  vvas  a  native  of  King's  county,  in  this  province.     She  is  .still  living. 

Mr.  King  received  his  j)reparatory  education  at  Sackville ;  entered  the  Wesleyan  univer- 
sity, Middleton,  Conn,  in  185,'),  was  graduated  in  18.')9  ;  studied  law  in  St.  John  with  the  Hon, 
Robert  L.  Hazen  ;  was  admitted  to  practise  as  an  attorney  in  18tl.*3,  -as  called  to  the  bai-  in 


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June,  1865,  and  soon  huilt  up  a  good  practice  in  the  several  courts  of  tlifr  province.  Ho  was 
created  a  Queen's  Counsel  in  1873.  At  the  bar  he  was  recognized  as  a  souml  lawyer  and  an 
able  pleader. 

Mr.  King  entered  public  life  in  the  year  of  Confederation  (1>S()7),  being  returned  to  the 
local  legislature  for  the  city  and  county  of  St.  John  ;  was  apjiointed  a  member  of  the  executive 
council  in  February,  18(5}),  and  was  attorney -general  from  INTO  to  1878  inclusive,  and  leader  of 
the  government,  ail  but  the  fii"st  two  years.  He  resigned  in  1878,  in  oi-der  to  contest  the  same 
constituency  for  the  House  of  Commons,  and  was  defeated.  His  politics  are  Liberal  Conserva- 
tive. He  i.s  the  author  of  the  Common  School  Act,  and  the  Act  to  alioli'h  imprisonment  for 
debt,  and  many  others  of  more  or  less  importance.  During  the  long  period  that  he  was  attorney- 
general  he  conducted  the  criminal  business  with  gieat  ability  and  judgment.  His  appointment 
to  the  bench  is  (juite  recent,  being  dated  in  December,  1880. 

He  married  in  18!;6,  Lydia,  daughter  of  Aaron  Katon,  deceased,  and  they  have  twochildrca. 


REV.  JAMES    GRAY,  A.^L, 

mSSEX,  N.Ii. 

REV.  JAMES  (iRAV,  pastor  of  thi'  Presbyterian  church  at  Sus.sex,  is  a  native  of  the  parish 
of  Longside,  Abcniet  nshire,  Scotlaml,  a  son  of  Jolin  and  Elizabeth  (Ranisoy)  Oi-ay,  and 
was  born  on  the  10th  .of  February,  181  .S.  He  is  a  graduat(>  in  the  arts,  and  an  A.M.  of  Maris- 
chall  college,  Aberdeen ;  studied  theology,  for  three  years,  at  the  free  school  divinity  hall,  same 
city  ;  and  finisheil  with  another  year's  study  at  Edinburgh.  His  father  was  a  small  farniei-, 
with  a  very  large  famil_>  i.nd  in  very  moderiite  circumstances  ;  and  the  son  had  to  depend 
entirely  upon  his  own  exertions  for  his  support,  teaching  school  part  of  the  time,  while 
pursuing  his  college  studies.  He  had  a  hard  struggle  to  get  through,  Imt  being  self-reliant, 
industrious  persevering  and  plucky,  he  siiececclcd  beyond  tbt>  expcctjitions  of  his  ln'st  friends. 
He  was  licensed  to  preach  in  l.S.")l;  ami  immetliately  afterwards  commenced  teaching  in  an 
academy  in  Aberdeen,  which  profession  he  followeil  in  that  city  in  two  academies  until  iM.iO, 
when  he  wa.s  sent  out  to  New  Brunswick  as  a  missionary,  by  tlir  colonial  cnnnnittee  of  the 
Free  Church  of  Scotland.  A  few  months  afterwards,  he  received  a  call  to  his  present  charge, 
and  was  ordained  and  settled  over  it  on  the  <ith  of  JIarch,  X'^'u.  At  that  time  the  charge 
included  Hampton,  Stadholiu  and  Norton  as  well  as  Sii.ssex,  which  parish  then  included 
Waterford  and  Cardwell.  As  the  country  has  been  gradually  settieil  up.  the  field  of  his  labors 
has  been  slowly  contracted,  although  still  ipiite  large. 

Twenty-live  years  ago,  when  Mr.  (Jray  tii-st  saw  Sussex  Vale,  as  it  was  then  called,  there 
was  only  a  very  small  I'resbyter'an  mission  here,  there  being  but  the  beginning,  .so  to  speak,  of 
a  village,  where  there  are  now  nearly  2,0()1»  inhabitants  ;  and  lie  has  a  church  of  fair  .strength. 
He  also  preaches  at  other  |>nints,  at  one  of  whii'h,  near  Nortun  station,  he  Ims  built  a  church — • 
his  second  one  since  coming  to  New  IJrunswick.  He  made  his  home  at  Norton  for  a  period  of 
eight  years,  and  while  theie  served  as  a  school  trustei'.  '!"he  church  at  Sussex  was  erected  in 
IHd'i.  Me  pretmhes  also  at  .letlries,  eight  miles  south  of  Sussex,  wliere  it  is  proposed  to  soon 
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Mr.  (Iray  seems  to  be  never  idle,  and  the  result  of  his  twenty-five  yeai-s'  labor  must  be 
very  gratifying  to  liim,  and  to  the  friends  who  liave  co-operated  with  him  in  trying  to  advance 
the  cause  of  Christ  in  these  parts.  He  has  been  invited  to  more  prominent  fields  of  labor,  but 
prefers  to  remain  with  a  people  who  have  uniformly  treated  him  with  great  kindness — people 
of  all  denominations,  and  Catholics  as  well  as  Protestants. 

Mr.  Giay  is  very  well  known  in  this  province,  and  has  an  honorable  standing  among  the 
clergy.  He  was  moderator  of  the  New  Brunswick  synod,  at  the  time  when  tliis  synod  and 
that  of  Nova  Scotia  were  united,  Uev.  Dr.  Baj'iie  Iteing  moderator  of  the  Xova  Scotin  synod. 

He  married,  on  June  S^,  lS.5:i,  Miss  Margaret  Ligertwood,  of  Aberdeen,  ami  they  have  no 
children. 


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THOMAS    FUKLOXG, 

ST.  JOHN,  N.B. 

NE  of  the  most  suece.s-ful  merchants  in  St.  John  is  he  whose  name  we  have  jilaced  at  the 
head  of  this  notice.  He  is  a  native  of  Dublin,  Ireland,  a  son  of  Patrick  Furlong,  and  dates 
his  birth  on  the  18th  of  July,  18;}3.  He  was  the  youngest  son  in  a  family  of  eight  children, 
four  sons  and  four  daughters.  His  mother  died  in  Dublin;  his  father  in  St.  John,  in  187'>. 
When  a  lad  of  seventeen  summers,  Thomas  came  to  the  new  worlil  to  .'^eek,  more  properly  make, 
his  foituue.  in  l!S.")-t,  Vicing  of  age,  he  commenceil  business  for  himself  as  a  wine  meichant. 
Having  a  small  capital,  he  began  on  a  small  scale,  and  enlarged  his  business  as  his  means  in- 
creased. Refusing  to  accept  public  offices,  and  attending  e.velusively  and  carefully  to  his  busi- 
ness, his  accumulations  were,  no  doul it,  satisfactory.  He  has  a  store,  largely  devoted  to  the 
wholesale  trade,  at  the  corner  of  Princess  and  Water  streets :  a  retail  store  at  the  corner  of 
Charlotte  street  and  Country  market,  and  a  branch,  established  in  l.S7f>,  in  Hoston,  Mass. 

When  the  great  fire  of  June  "JO,  1)S77,  swept,  like  "  a  besom  of  destruction,"  over  half  the 
city,  Mr.  Furlong  lost  8I-jO,00()  in  stock  alone  ;  but,  fortiuiately.  he  drew  ?!)l',()()0  in  insurance, 
and  his  up-town  stort- and  his  house  (one  ot  the  very  l>est  in  the  province)  were  spared.  lie 
did  not  discniitiiuie  his  business  even  for  a  siu'de  diiv.  thoU'di  most  of  his  own  time  for  weeks 
was  spent  in  helping  those  who  had  lust  all. 

Mr.  i''nrli)ng's  residence,  which  is  on  Cobourg  street,  was  originally  built  for  Bishop  Dul- 
lard, and  is  a  favoi'ite  report  uf  the  lovers  of  the  fine  arts,  the  prujirietoi-  luoing  a  large  gallery 
of  paintings,  whieli  he  has  colieiteil  during  his  recent  visits  to  the  oM  wirld- -partieulnrly  Kng- 
land,  Ireland  and  Scotland.  Among  the  many  noteworthy  pictures  are  ■  The  lliversi(le"  and 
"  A  Sunny  Day  in  (ilemlalough,"  Iiotli  by  an  Irish  artist  of  high  stamling,  I'.  \  .  Dufiy  ;  '  The 
Braes  o'^^ar."  a  rough  Highland  scene,  and  "  Western  Highland  Cattle."  both  by  .Vlfied  Cray  ; 
a  picture  by  John  Cairns,  of  CUasgow,  being  a  study  of  the  celebrated  "  <  tM  Ash  Trees,"  com- 
nioidy  called  "  Adam  and  Kve  ;  "  "The  Stone  Breakers,"  a  charniing  water-color  painting  liy 
W.  Lucas;  and  "  You  Wouldn't  Take  Warning."  by  James (Jray,  re|)resentingareal  Hibeniian 

grasping  the  throat  of  a  crow  which  he  has  just  .shot,  and  whieh    did   not  h 1  the  •viimv'  rrmr, 

which  is  plain  enough  to  be  seen.  All  these  pictures,  and  a  score  of  others  in  Mr.  Furlong's 
gallery,  are  remarkably  true  to  nature,  finely  executed,  and  shows  the  owner's  good  Uwte  in  tho 
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Tlie  Furlongs  arc  an  old  and  numerous  Catliolic  family,  especially  in  the  county  of  Wex- 
ford, Ireland,  and  our  subject  firmly  adheres  to  the  Christian  faith  of  his  ancestors.* 

He  married,  in  ISa*,  Miss  Kate  Funnell,  of  Dublin,  and  thoy  have  buried  two  children  and 


have  seven  living. 


LEWIS    P.  FISHER, 

WOODSTOCK,  N.B. 

THE  parentage,  place  of  birth,  etc.,  of  Lewis  Peter  Fisher,  may  be  learned  from  a  sketch  of 
his  brother.  Judge  Charles  Fisher,  found  on  other  pages.  He  was  educated  at  Frederic- 
ton  ;  studied  law  witli  that  brother  at  the  same  city  ;  called  to  the  bar  in  Trinity  term,  18-43, 
and  has  been  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Woodstock,  the  shire  town  of  Carleton  county, 
for  thirty-eight  years,  being  an  elo(juent  and  powerful  pleader,  and  having  a  highly  creditable 
standing  at  the  bar.     He  was  created  a  Queen's  Counsel  in  1S7'3. 

Mr.  Fisher  was  appointed  judge  of  probate  in  IS.')!,  and  has  held  that  office  for  thirtj' 
years.  When  the  town  of  Woodstock  was  incoii)orated,  in  185(5,  he  was  elected  mayor,  and 
held  that  office  twenty-four  consecutive  years,  and  was  mged  to  accept  it  still  longer,  but  he 
persisted  in  retiring. 


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*  Mr.  Furlong  is  n  nejiliew  of  Thoiii.os  Fiirloiim',  for  whom  liu  was  named,  and  who  was  a  poet  and  an  asao- 
ciate  of  the  Hon.  i)aniol  O'Connor,  honorable  mention  l)L'ingmiule  of  him  in  the  Hon.  D'Arcy  McCJee's  "  tl't'on- 
lior  and  his  Friends  '"  This  promising  poet  died  in  Dnhlin  on  the  25th  of  July,  1827,  agetl  thirty-three  years, 
as  we  learn  from  the  Preface  to  "  The  boom  of  Deren/.ie,'  a  poem  showing  graphic  descriptive  powers,  pnb- 
lished  after  the  death  of  the  .tuthor.  Mr.  Furlong  gained  considerable  notoriety  by  his  translation  of  the  Songs 
of  C'arolan,  the  last  and  most  celebrated  of  the  Irish  bards;  but  to  o\ir  mind  his  best  pieces  and  his  original 
lyrics,  many  (>f  which  almost  match,  in  sweetness  and  rhythmical  perfection,  the  best  ult'orts  of  Thonuis  Moore. 
We  odd  a  single  speoimuii  :  — 

"  ()  EKIN  :  THE  BRIGHT  DAYS,  ek  . 

Bij  Thi'iiHiH  Fiirlotiij,  Aiithuf  «'/  "  Till'  PlwiHi'nof  lirlii}iil,'\lc. 

"  O  Krin  I  the  bright  days  are  past  when  thro'  danger, 

Thy  Kings  le<l  the  way  in  the  march  of  the  brave. 
When  thy  chiefs,  in  their  might,  met  the  dark-crested  stranger, 

\\  ho  came  in  his  galley  of  priile  o'er  the  wave  ; 
When  thy  si'iis  for  their  homes  and  their  kindred  contended, 
And  each  lov'd  the  friend  which  Iils  valor  tlefended, 
They've  shone,  but  tlie  tales  of  their  triumph  have  ended. 

And  Erin,  tiiy  children  are  ranked  with  the  slave. 

"  The  bards  of  the  land  have  h^ng  dwelt  on  the  glory, 
I'erived  froin  the  heroes  and  saj;es  of  yore  ; 
Thou  art  sunk,  lovely  Isle,  but  iiietliink'  still  the  story 

Of  worth  or  of  wisdom  should  eliiig  to  thy  shore. 
O  true,  but  fi>r  others  thy  light  is  stil    glowing, 
On  strangers  thy  virtues  '"resh  wreati  s  are  bestowing, 
For  tyrants  the  fruits  of  thy  genius  i  re  growing, 
They  bloom,  but  they  add  to  thy  leauty  no  more. 

"  We've  gB/.ed  on  thy  lulls  in  their  ^reeniiess  ascending, 

And  tiinuul  where  thy  glens  a'  d  thy  laker,  spread  m  pride  j 

We've  looked  i>n  thy  vales  in  th  ir  beauty  extending, 
Ami  wondered  if  vvietchediie  s  there  coiihl  abide. 

Wo  dreamt  not  of  chains  whic  i  the  tyrant  imposes. 

We  thought  not  of  wrongs  w'  icli  the  lost  one  discloses. 

Nor  deem'd  that  in  spots  wl.-re  enchantment  reposes, 
Disuaae,  and  grim  famiiK  ,  and  grief  Could  abide," 


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In  18GG,  Judge  Fisher  was  appointed  keeper  of  the  sinking  fund,  and  that  post  he  still 
holds. 

He  was  superintendent  of  the  Methodist  Sunday-school  for  twenty-five  or  thirty  years,  but 
is,  we  lulit  ve,  a  member  of  no  church.  His  wife  was  Mi.ss  DeMill,  of  St.  John.  They  have  no 
issue. 

Ju<lge  Fi.sher  has  fre(juently  been  urged  to  stand  aa  a  candidate  for  the  House  ofConunons, 
but  he  would  not  consent,  having  never  been  an  otHce-seeker.  He  seemed  to  be  partial  to  a 
retireil  and  (piiet  life,  and  has  the  wann  esteem  of  his  neighl>oi-s  for  his  many  excellent  (pialities 
of  mind  and  heart. 


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HON.   EDWABD    B.   CHANDLER,  Q.C,  :M.L.C., 

DOIiCn  ESTER,  N.B. 

EDWARD  BARRON  CHANDLER,  for  more  than  half  a  century  a  memUn-  of  the  legis- 
lature of  New  Brunswick,  and  late  lieutenant-governor  of  the  same  province,  was  l.>orn 
at  Amherst,  N.  S.,  on  the  22nd  of  August,  1800.  He  was  a  son  of  ('harles  H.  Cl)andler,  many 
years  high  slieriff  of  the  county  of  ( 'umberland,  N.  S.,  and  grandson  of  Joshua  ('handier,  of  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  a  noted  loyalist,  and  member  of  the  Connecticut  legislature  in  1775,  settling  in 
Nova  Scotia  at  the  close  of  tlic  revolution  (1783). 

He  was  educated  at  Amlicrst;  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  Willijini  Botsford,  of  Westcock  ; 
was  called  to  the  bar  of  New  Biiinswick  in  October,  182S,  settled  at  Dorchester,  and  then  prac- 
ti.  <>d  his  ])rofession  for  forty  yeai  ,  or  more,  being  created  a  Queen's  Counsel  fifteen  or  twenty 
years  afti'r  being  admitted  as  a  liarristei'.  The  great  power  of  Mr.  Chnndler  as  a  lawyer  in 
swaying  the  minds  of  a  jury,  lay  in  his  fixing  his  attention  upon  the  most  intelligent  of  the 
members  of  that  body,  and  then  using  all  his  great  mental  resources  and  bringing  to  bear  his 
wonderl'ul  peisuasive  style  of  delivery.  These  won  for  him  many  a  cause  outside  as  well  as 
within  his  native  ]iii>\  incr. 

Mr.  Chandler  was  ajipointed  a  .judge  of  ]irobate  for  Westmoreland  county,  in  182;},  and 
held  the  ottice  until  IiS7J^;  and  was  clerk  of  the  peace  from  1.S2.'J  to  lS(i2.  He  represented 
Westmoreland  county  in  the  House  of  Assembly  from  1827  to  18.S<J,  when  he  was  called  to  the 
Legislative  Council. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  K.vccutive  Council  from  1844  to  18.)8,  and  from  18(57  to  18(5!), 
when  he  resigned  on  being  ajipointed  an  Intercolonial  railway  eommissionei'. 

Ml',  ('hiindler  served  on  many  important  mi.->sions.  He  was  a  delegate  to  London  in  LS.S.I, 
on  the  casual  and  territorial  reveinies;  to  Toronto,  with  Hon.  Joseph  Howe,  in  l.H50,on  tlie  .subject 
the  Intercolonial  lailway ;  a  second  time  to  London  in  1852,  with  Hon.  Francis  Hincks,  on  tlie 
Intereolonial  railway  :  to  Halifax  in  the  same  year  with  .Messrs.  'i'ache,  Hincks  and  John 
Young,  on  the  same  subje<'t  ;  to  (Quebec  in  l.S.H,  to  complete  the  legislation  on  the  subject  of  the 
reciprocity  trinity  ;  to  Washington,  I).  C  ,  the  same  year  on  the  samesulject ;  to  Charlottetown, 
in  18(54,  as  a  member  of  the  conference  o  i  the  union  of  the  Maritime  I'rovinces  ;  and  to  London 
in  18(!(i.  as  a  nuMnber  of  the  British  North  American  colonial  conference  to  comj)lete  tlu'  terms 
of  ( "onfederation.  He  declined  a  seat  in  the  Senate  of  the  Dominion  in  ING'J.  His  [Militics  were 
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In  July,  1878,  he  was  appointed  lieutentant-governor  of  New  Brunswick,  a.\\([  died  at  the 
goveniment  house,  on  the  Gth  of  Felniiary,  1880,  in  the  80th  year  of  his  age. 

(Sov.  Chandler  wiisa  member  of  the  Trinity  Episcopal  church,  and  warden  of  the  same  for 
thirty  or  forty  years. 

He  married  in  lcS:i2,  Miss  Phct'be  \\'.  Millidge,  youngest  daughter  of  Stephen  Millidge,  of 
Wostcock,  and  niece  of  Judge  flotsfui'd,  riil  she  had  eleven  children,  on!}'  four  of  them,  all  sons, 
now  living,  Edward  Barron,  tlie  oldest,  is  a  barrister  at  Dorchester  ;  (leoige  W.,  the  second,  and 
Ciiarles  IT.,  the  fourtii,  also  reside  at  Dorchester,  and  Amos  H.,  i.s  a  pliysician  and  surgeon  at 
Moncton,  N.  B. 


EDWIN    A.  A' AIL,  M.1).,  M.1».R, 


IN  ARNOLD    VAIL, 


SUSSEX,  N.B. 


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Assembly,  and  at  ditt'erent  times 
jij  speaker  of  that  bi>dy,  is  a  son  of  John  ('oiigle  Vail,  deceased,  formerly  registrar  of 
deeds  for  King's  county,  N  B.,  and  representative  from  tliat  county  in  the  New  Brunswick, 
A.s.sembly  for  more  than  twenty  years ;  and  was  born  at  Sussex,  wliere  he  now  resides,  on  the 
lUth  of  August,  1M7.  His  mother  was  Cluirlotte  Arnold,  daughter  of  tiie  Rev.  Oliver  Arnold, 
an  Ei)iscopal  minister  from  Oonneetieut,  a  grailuali;  of  Vale  college.  New  Haven,  and  one  of  the 
tir.st  rectors  at  Su.sse.K.     She  died  in  18;}ii. 

Dr.  Vail  was  educated  in  the  grammar  schools  of  Kinj^'s  eounty ;  stndie<l  medicine  at  Edin- 
burgh and  (ilasgow,  and  is  an  M.D.  of  the  univei'sity  of  (Uasgow,  1887,  since  which  date  he  has 
been  in  general  practice  at  Sussex. 

Dr.  Vail  was  a  scIiodI  trustee  formally  years,  and  he  has  never  been  backwai<l  in  hel[>ing 
forward  any  caust"  wliieli  was  for  tlie  best  interest  of  the  community,  either  mentally,  morally, 
or  socially. 

He  was  Hrat  elected  to  the  House  of  Assembly  for  King's  county,  in  1N">7,  ami,  with  the 
exception  of  a  short  interim,  has  held  that  seat  to  this  date  ;  he  w.ts  elected  spc  ikeriu  I8i|.^, 
and  hi'ld  that  position  until  18(17,  when  he  went  out  on  tlieipieslion  of  CJorifederation,  he  being 
opposed  to  that  measure  ;  he  was  again  leturned  in  l.'S70;  was  again  electeil  speakei'  in  Keliru- 
ary,  l^<71,  serving  another  term,  and  was  re-elected  to  the  Assembly  in  IM7-I'  and  1S78  ;  his  p,)li- 
tics  are  Liberal  ;  be  is  the  authoi'  of  the  Bills  to  shorten  the  stuily  of  law  from  five  to  four 
vears,  and  to  make  the  general  elections  in  New  Brunswick  simultaneous. 


ClIAKLKS    \V.   WKLDON,   A.M.,  Q.r.,    M.l'., 

sr.  JOHN,  N.n. 

C^IIAIILES  WESid'lV  WELDON,  one  of  the  members  of  the  House  of  Commons  f<n-  St. 
J  John,  N.B.,  is  descended  fioin  a  family  which  settled  very  early  in  New  Hnuiswick,  iiis 
great-grandfathir,  Jolin  VVeldon,  coming  over  from  England  and  locating  in  the  county  of  West- 
moreland, nearly  a  century  ago.     Our  subject  is  the  eldest  son  of  Hon.  Jolui  VV.  Weldon,  nwmy 


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years  speaker  of  the  House  of  Assembly  and  now  one  of  the  jmlges  of  the  supieinc  court  of  New 
Brunswick,  ami  Frances  Chandler,  youngest  daughter  of  Hon.  Judge  rpluun,  ii  loyalist  from 
Miussaehusetts,  a  colonel  of  dragotms  during  the  rebellion  of  the  Anieiican  colonies,  and  in  the 
latter  part  of  his  life  a  judge  of  the  supreme  court  of  New  Hrunswiek.  The  mother  of  our 
subject  was  a  sister  of  Charles  W.  Uphanj,  of  Salem,  Mass.,  a  well  known  and  emincut  writer. 
She  died  in  \H^^.     His  father  is  in  his  T'ith  year. 

Mr.  Weldon  was  born  at  Itichilnurto,  N.B.,  on  the  27th  of  February,  IS.'U);  was  educated 
at  the  acadeniy  and  King's  college,  Windsor,  Nova  Scotia  ;  was  graduated  in  1IS47,  and  received 
the  degree  of  niiister  of  arts  in  ]8")1.  He  studied  law  with  his  father,  who  was  an  eminent 
barrister,  before  going  on  the  bench  ;  was  called  to  the  bar  in  October,  1JS.")1,  and  creatoil  a 
Queen's  counsel  in  187'J.  He  has  been  in  practice  at  St.  John  nearly  thirty  years,  and  luus  a 
highly  creditable  standing  at  the  bar  of  the  proviuce. 

Mr.  Weldon  was  first  elected  to  Parliament  in  Septeud>er,  1878,  and  hence  is  serving  his 
first  term  in  a  legislative  body.  He  is  on  the  Opposition,  or  Liberal  siile  of  the  House  ;  is  a 
free  trader  oi-  revenue  tariff  man,  and  hence  is  strongly  opposed  to  what  is  known  at  the 
National  Policy.  He  was  also  opposed  to  the  confederation  of  the  provinces,  and  used  his 
influence  against  that  measiu'e  in  l8(54-()() ;  but  cordially  acceded  to  the  will  of  the  people,  and 
is  doing  all  he  can  to  make  the  union  a  success, 

Mr.  Weldon  is  a  member  of  the  Church  of  England  ;  has  been  for  six  or  seven  years  warden 
of  Trinity  church,  St.  John  ;  was  a  delegate  to  the  provincial  synod  at  Mimtreal,  in  1874;  has 
also  served  as  delegate  to  the  synod  of  the  diocese  of  Fredericktou,  and  is  a  prominent  man  in 
church  and  benevolent  matters.     He  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason. 

The  wife  of  Mr.  Weldon  wa:;  Annie  Tucker,  only  daughter  of  John  Tucker,  Kscj.,  of  St.  John, 
their  union  taking  place  in  March,  I8(j(). 


ke:snedy  f.  JiuiJNs, 

IIATHURST,  N.ll. 

KKNNKDY  FRANCIS  BURNS,  ex-member  of  the  local  parliament,  ami  one  of  the  Ica.I- 
ing  merchants  and  manufacturers  in  (ilnucestci-  c(junty,  N.H.,  is  a  native  of  Tipperary 
county,  Ireland,  dating  his  birth  at  Tliomastowu,  on  tln"  8th  of  January,  I8t2;  his  father, 
Thomas  K.  Hurns,  was  born  in  New  Mrunswick,  while  tin'  grandfather  of  our  subject  was  in  the 
British  service  iu  this  |uovince;  and  his  mother,  whose  nuiiden  name  was  Ann  Hyan,  was  a 
native  of  Irelantl. 

Mr.  liurns  commenced  his  education  in  the  old  country;  eontimu'il  it  at  St.  Mary's  college, 
Halifax,  N.S.,  and  finished  at  the  Catholic  college,  St.  John;  commenced  business  in  life  as  a 
clerk  in  the  "  Conunercial  Palace,"  St.  John,  and  finished  his  clerkship  at  Chatham,  district  of 
Miramichi,  in  the  house  of  John  Burke.  In  lS(il,  he  removed  to  nuthui-st  to  open  a  branch  of 
that  establishment,  and  two  years  afterwards  bought  it  out.  In  I87.S  he  took  into  partnership 
his  younger  brother,  Patrick  J.  liurns,  and  his  i>rother-in-law,  Samuel  Adams,  and  the  firm  of 
Burns,  Ailams  and  t'ompany  continued  until  1880,  when  it  was  di.s.solved.  Since  that  time  the 
bi-olhers  have  continued  the  business  under  the  firm  name  of  K.  F.  liinii-i  and  Company,  and 
they  arc  engaged  e.\tensively  in  merchandising,  and  in  manufacturing  lumlier,  having  stores  and 


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mills  in  dift'erent  places,  and  showing  a  great  deal  of  energy  and  public  spirit.  They  have  a 
general  store  in  Bathurst ;  a  steam  saw  mill  one  mile  from  the  town ;  a  water  power  saw  mill, 
a  general  store  and  shipping  establishment  at  (Jaraquot,  and  a  branch  establishment  and  store 
at  Petit  Rocher. 

Tliey  cut  as  well  as  saw  their  own  logs,  and  ship  from  Bathurst  and  Caraciuet ;  their 
heaviest  trade  being  with  Great  Britain,  though  they  send  considerable  lumber  to  Franco, 
Spain  and  Germany.  Their  business  amounts  to  about  ^200,000  per  annum,  and  they  give 
employment  to,  on  an  average,  300  men.  Few  firms  in  this  vicinity  exhibit  more  enterprise,  or 
are  doing  more  to  furnish  home  employment  to  laljorers,  and  to  develop  the  interests  of  the 
country.     For  financial  staliility  and  honesty,  these  paities  stand  high. 

Mr.  Burns  entered  public  life  in  1874,  when  he  was  returned  for  Glouicster  to  the  provin- 
cial [legislature,  carrying  his  election  as  an  opponent  of  the  school  laws,  and  retiring  in  liS7<S  ; 
he  was  very  active  on  the  opposition  side  tluring  the  four  yeare  that  he  was  in  parliament.  Mr. 
Burns  framed  and  submitted  to  the  Government  tlie  propositioiL  which  resulted  in  the  temi)orary 
.settlement  of  the  vexed  school  (question  between  the  Catholics  and  the  Government;  lie  was 
also  the  author  of  the  county  corporation  bill,  and  was  a  hard  worker  while  in  the  legislature. 

Mr.  Burns  has  been  a  magistrate  for  a  long  time,  and  was  commander  of  a  volunteer  com- 
pany for  seven  years,  still  holding  the  retired  rank  of  captain.  He  married  in  Septemljer,  18(5.5, 
Harriet,  daughter  of  John  McKenna,  of  Bathui"st,  a  coroner  of  the  county,  and  they  have  four 
children  livin^j,  and  have  buried  the  same  number. 


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HON.   EDAVARD    l»ALMEJi,  Q.C., 

CHARLOTTETOWN,  P.E.I. 

EDWAllD  PALMKll,  elilef  justice  of  the  supremo  court  of  juiliwituro  of  Prince  Ed  ward  Island, 
was  born  at  I'linrlottetown,  in  tliis  province,  on  tlie  1st  of  Sej)teniber,  INOO.  He  is  a  son  of 
James  B.  Palmer,  in  liis  day  a  barrister  of  tlie  supreme  court  of  law,  Dublin,  Ireland,  and  Jlilli- 
cent,  his  wife,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Jones,  LL.l).,  of  London,  England.  Ho  was  educated  at 
Brown's  grammar  school,  t'lmrlottetown  ;  studied  law  with  his  father  ;  was  called  to  the  bar  at 
Michaelmas  term,  18.SI  ;  commenced  practice  as  a  barrister  in  1834,  and  was  created  a  Queen's 
counsel  by  royal  sign  manual,  in  IS.')?.  He  practised  his  profession  at  ("harlottetown  until  ho 
went  on  the  bench,  in  June,  187.'?,  when  he  was  appointed  judge  of  the  county  court  of  Queen's 
county.  He  became  chief  justice  on  the  18th  of  .Tuly,  1874,  being  the  successor  of  Sir  Robert 
Hodgson,  who  was  appointed  lieutenant-governor  of  the  province. 

We  learn  from  the  "  Canadian  Legal  Directory  "  that,  while  practising  at  the  bar.  Judge 
Palmer  ''  was  engaged  for  either  one  side  or  the  other  in  nearly  every  cause  of  importance  argued 
in  the  supreme  court  and  court  of  chancery  between  1845  and  1873.  He  is  not  only  a  sound, 
but  profound  lawyer,  and  while  practising  at  the  bar  stood  in  the  foremost  rank  of  lawyers. 
He  has  a  good  judicial  east  of  mind,  a  clear  head,  a  cool,  impartial  disposition,  and  is  a<lmirably 
qualitied  for  the  exalted  position  which  he  now  occupies. 

Judge  Palmer  entered  ])ublic  life  as  a  politi.;ian  as  early  as  183."(,  when  only  twenty-six 
years  of  age,  and  from  that  date  he  represented  Cliarlottitown  and  Royalty  in  the  Island  Assem- 
bly until  1800,  when  he  was  appointed  to  the  Legislative  Council,  and  was  afterwards  twice 
returned  to  that  body  under  the  elective  system,  being  unsuccessful  in  1870. 

During  the  many  years  that  our  subject  was  in  legislative  bodies,  he  held  various  positions 
of  honor  and  great  responsibility.  He  entered  the  government  in  1842;  was  solicitor-general 
fn)m  October,  1848,  to  August,  18.51  ;  attorney -general  a  short  time  in  18.')4,  I'osigning  before 
the  year  was  out;  was  president  of  the  executive  coinicil  in  18.")!> ;  attorney -general  from  Janu- 
ary 28,  1863,  to  ]86l»,  and  from  1872  to  Juno  20,  1873,  when  he  went  on  the  bench,  as  already 
stated. 

In  1847,  he  was  a  delegate,  with  the  Hon.  Joseph  Pope  and  .Vndrew  Duncaji,  to  the  Colo- 
nial othce  in  Great  Britain  to  jirocUre  the  removal  of  lieutenant-governor  lluntly.  In  18G3,  he 
and  the  late  Hon.  William  S.  Pope,  were  sent  to  England  to  lay  the  land  question  before  the 
imperial  government,  and  secure  its  appi'oval  of  the  acts  of  the  jiroviiicial  parliament  on  that 
subject,  a  mission  which  was  ultimately  crowned  with  success. 

As  a  member  of  the  Prince  Edward  Islaml  government.  Chief  Justice  I'almer  attended  the 
Charlottetown  conference  in  18(14,  and  also  attended  the  Quebec  conference  a  few  weeks  later 
in  the  same  year,  both  of  them  called  to  consider  a  scheme  for  the  union  of  the  .several  British 
North  American  colonies,  which  was  consummated  a  few  years  later.  While  a  Icoislator,  he 
"  was  clo.sely  identified  with  the  tpiestions  concerning  the  government  issue  of  paper  currency, 
free  trade  with  the  United  States,  the  revision  ami  the  consolidation  of  the  local  statutes,  and 
the  definition  of  tenants'  sterling  rent."  In  many  ways  and  to  a  liigh  degree  his  firm  legal 
talents  and  attainments  and  jtidicial  turn  of  mind  have  been  of  eminent  service  to  his  native 
province. 


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In  IHfiO,  wluni  Ilis  Royal  Higliiii'ss  tlio  rriiice  of  Wales  visited  Cliiulottetown,  our  stil>je(;t 
road  to  liim  the  executive  a<ldres.s  of  weicoiuo,  whicli  tlie  liistorian  Duncan  pronouiieed  as  far 
alM)ve  tlio  average  of  sueli  addresses,  in  neatness  and  j^uod  Uiste. 

( 'liief  Justice  I'alnier  niurried  Isalieila  1*.,  dau{,diter  of  IJenjaniin  'J' remain,  Ksii.,  of  Quel>ec, 
ami  tiiey  liave  eij,dit  cliildren  living,  and  liave  liuried  one  daughter,  llerhert  dames,  tlie  eldest 
son,  is  married,  and  a  practising  harrister  at  Chailottetown ;  Sarah  is  the  wife  of  Dr.  (Jeorge 
Canning,  L.K.C.l'.S.,  Kdinhurirh.  resident  suigeon  of  the  Hutesand  Scidcoates  Disnon.sarv,  N'ork- 
h\\\\'\  practising  at  Statlordshire,  Eng.,and  the  other  mcmbei's  of  the  family  ai'e  unmarried. 

' 'hief  Justice  Palmer  is  a  mondier  of  the  Church  of  England,  and  a  modest,  unas^,uming 
Christian  gentleman.  No  province,  commonwealth  or  country  can  have  too  many  citi/ens  of  lii.s 
stamp  of  charaetei'. 


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ai):mikal  iie:nky  ^\.  v>kyv\\^ja\ 

VHAULOTTETOWN,  F.E.I. 

HHMKV  WOLSEV  1'..\YF1ELD,  well  known  in  the  Maritime  Provinces  for  his  important 
iidndralty  surveys  in  this  jiart  of  the  Dominion,  is  a  mendier  of  the  ancient  fandly  of 
Bayfield,  fi)rmcrly  of  IJaytield  liall,  county  of  Norfolk,  England.  He  was  born  at  Hull,  N'^^rk- 
shire,  on  January  :21st,  17!*") ;  entered  the  navy  in  180(i,  before  he  was  eleven  years  old  ;  and 
■was  in  that  service  for  more  than  fifty  years.  He  started,  as  we  leain  from  O'Byrne's  "  Naval 
Biography,"  as  supernumerary  volunteer  (»ii  board  the  l'<>inpi'(',  bearing  the  flag  of  Sir  William 
Sidney  Smith,  soon  afterwards  joining  the  (Jaicn,  flagship  of  JiOrd  ( 'ollingwood,  off  Cadi/,.  On 
l)eing  transferred,  with  lieutenant  Francis  Brockell  Spillsbury,  to  the  DucliCKf'  of  Jicdfonf,  hired 
armed  ship,  lie  was  wounded  in  tlie  foreliead  in  a  severe  acJon,  in  which  that  ves.sel  beat  otl" 
in  the  gut  of  (iibialtar  two  powerful  Sjianish  feluccas,  defended  l>y  double  the  numlier  of  her 
own  mer.  For  his  brave  conduct  on  that  occasion,  young  Bayfield  was  promoti'd  (^September 
(5,  IN(Kj)  and  placed  on  board  the  Jii'mjli',  and  lie  assisted  in  comjielling  the  enemy  to  aliandon 
an  English  merchant  ve.s.sid,  laden  with  naval  stoii  s.  which  had  been  stranded  under  the  sand- 
liills  on  the  coast  of  Spain.  He  also  contributed,  as  we  learn  from  the  work  mentioned,  to  the 
cajiture,  at  dilleieiit  iiiiie.s,  oi  i.\tc  II iizttril,  Viiiiji  n r  i\ud  I'\/i  I iHir  privateers,  cairyiiig,  in  the 
whole,  44' guns  and  1  ■")•'>  men.  Mn  jiarticipated  in  Lord  ( 'ochrane's  attack  upon  the  Kreiuh 
shipping  in  Basipie  Hoails  early  in  April,  INOif,  and  in  the  operations  uf  the  11th,  I'Jtli  and 
IMth  of  that  mouth,  on  the  first  of  which  ilays  the  liit((/li',  in  company  with  other  vt'ssels.  di.s- 
tinguished  herself  in  an  engagement  of  five  hours  with  the  Orciiii,  Jicii'ihis  and  ItuHi'imr,  as 
these  lay  agroiuid  at  the  mouth  of  the  river  ('hareiite,  ami  was  exposed  for  sonu-  time  to  a 
heavy  fire  from  the  batteiies  on  Isle  il'Aix.  Jn  the  autumn  of  the  same  year,  .Mr.  Haylield 
accompanied  the  expedition  to  the  Walclu'ren,  soon  afterwards  attaining  the  rating  of  midship- 
man. 

In  April,  ISI  I,  our  subject  was  transforred  to  the  Wdnih-rer,  and  during  the  next  three 
years  was  employed  in  the  West  Indies.  Halifax,  Lisbon  and  Spanisii  stations,  .serving  in 
Canada  during  the  latter  part  of  the  war  with  the  Uniteil  States  (lis  14).  When  peace  was 
proclaimed  with  that  country,  "he  assisted  Captain  William  Fitzwilliams  Owen  in  surveving 
lake  Ontario,  the  upper  St.  Lawrence,  and  the  Niagara  river.  In  June,  LSI  7,  he  was  appointed 
admiralty  surveyor,  and  for  nearly  forty  yeai's  thereafter  was   engaged  in  the  survey  of  lakes 


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Eric,  Huron  ami  Superior,  witli  tlioir  poniioctin;:;  wntcrs  ;  tin-  j^iilf  of  St.  Lawrence,  ineiiKlinj^j 
the  ^reat  river  Sai,'iienay  ;  the  straits  of  Helle-Isle,  and  tlie  eoast  of  Ijiihrador  to  ('apt!  St.  Louis  ; 
the  islands  of  Anticosti,  I'rince  Kilwiird.  .Mai,'diden  and  ('ape  Iheton,  and  Sable  Island,  Halifax 
harlnir,  and  nearly  the  wholi'  coast  of  Nova  Seotia,  from  Halifax  to  the  j^ut  of  Canso, 
inclusive." 

Admiral  Bayfielil  olitained  his  first  commission  on  the  2()th  of  March,  l.Sl,');  acquired  the 
rank  of  comniamler  on  the  Sth  of  November,  l.S2(] ;  was  posted  for  service  as  a  maritime  sur- 
veyor on  tlie  ttli  of  June,  1M.S4 ;  was  elected  to  flag  rank  on  the  'J  1st  of  October,  l.S.")(l;  was 
made  a  vice-admiral  about  IN(i2,  and  then  retired  from  the  .seiv'ce  as  surveyor,  on  retired  half- 
pay.     He  was  made  admiral  in  lS(i7. 

He  surveyed  no  inconsideralilc  part  of  the  lakes  in  the  winter,  on  the  ice,  can\piny  out, 
and  often  exposed  to  severe  hard.sbip  and  sometimes  to  severe  suHcrings.  He  learned  to  speak 
tlie  languages  of  five  different  tribes  of  Indians. 

Aihniral  liayfield  received  a  medal  for  the  d(»sti'uction  of  the  French  ship])ing  at  Bas(iue 
Koads. 

He  married,  April  i,  LS:18,  Fanny,  only  daughti>r  of  Captain,  afterwards  General,  Charles 
Wright,  of  the  royal  engineers,  and  slie  is  the  mother  of  six  chiidien,  of  whom  oidy  the  four 
youngest  ai'C  living.  'J'he  eldest  .son  of  all,  Henry,  grew  to  maidiood  and  became  a  midshipman 
in  the  navy,  dying  of  yellow  fever,  at  17  yeai's  of  age.  The  eldi'st  of  the  sons  living.  Charles, 
is  a  theological  student ;  Horace  is  a  physician  and  surgeon  in  London,  Kngland  ;  Kdward  is  a 
barrister  in  Cliarlottetown* ;  and  (lertrude,  the  only  daughter,  is  married  to  Major  Freeland,  of 
Charlottetown,  formerly  of  the  4lh  King's  Own  re;^'iment. 


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ITOiS\    DANIEL    DA  VIES, 

CHARLOTTETOWN,  P. E.I. 

DANlKIi  DAVIKS,  who  was  for  yeais  a  mendu'i-  of  the  Local  and  Dominion  Parliaments, 
was  of  Welsh  and  Scotch  descent,  and  born   in  Chailottctown,  on  the  iSth  of  Jaiuiary, 
1S2-^,  and  edu.  ated  at  the  central  academy  in  the  same  city.      When  l<i  years  of  .age,  he  went 


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to  sea  in  his  brother's  ships,  and  followed   a  seafaring  lifr  for  t'  ' 
time  connnanding  a  ship  of  his  own  building.     He  wn     •  .ijiv. 
years,  tuiiiing  out,  in  all,  something  like  fifty  .sliips. 

Mr.  Davies  entered  public  life  in  18."if<,  as  a  mem  .i  the  i 
town,  and  .served  in  that  body  imtil  l<S(i(;,  b-ing  a  men  .  r  of  th 
until  l(SG(i.  He  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Commons  foi  Kii!  's  county,  on  Piince  Edsvaril 
Island  entering  the  Dominion,  in  Septendter,  187'},  and  on  the  Itdl  of  the  Macdonaid  ^Govern- 
ment in  the  latter  part  of  that  ycuir,  he  left  the  Conservative  part\-  of  which  he  had  h«       ofore 


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*  Mr.  Haytielil  is  a  notary  public,  master  in  chancery,  scilicitDr  in  chancery,  ami  uoniini.s.sionr'  akiiig 

affidavits  in  the  suiireino  court.      He  i.s  married  to  the  eldest  daughter  of  .ludf^e    I'etern,    master  rolU, 

Charlottetown  ;  and  they  have  fo\ir  sons.     Kdward  Haytield  was  born  in  ('harlottetowu,  on  the  2Hth  "i-rober, 

184H  ;  educated  by  private  tutors  in  Charlottetown  ;  studied  law  with  Kdward  .1.  Hod.^soii  ;    then  w  lo  the 

Temple,  London,  Kajjland,  and  studied  a  year  or  two  with  (J.  liaugli  Allen,  Ksi].,  the  noted  siieci;  .lU-ader; 
was  one  year  in  the  chancery  practice  with  Mr  Kekwitch,  Lincoln's  Jnn  ;  and  was  admitted  to  the  i  .:r  on  the 
3rd  of  November,  187L 


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Iwcn  a  iiioiii1»or,  and  Jiiiiicil  tlic  licfonncrs,  ivinl  ns  a  iiicinlicr  of  tliat  party  was  rc-flcctod  iti  Fcli- 
niary,  IN7+.  At  the  did  of  that  toriii  i  I.STMi,  lie  witlidnnv  from  piihlir  lil'c.  Nfr.  Davles  cairiod 
tlic  dt'ciiiial  iMirriMifV  Idll  and  otlicr  mercantile  lulls  throngli  the  Local  lloiis.',  and  was  (jultf  an 
inlliicntial  nH'inlitTdf  tlint  Ixuly. 

Hf  has  lict'i)  a  mai,'istrat('  for  many  years,  Init  has  not  acted  recently  ;  an<l  is  a  director  of 
the  Uanlv  of  I'rince  K  Iw.ird  rshu\d,  and  of  tin- ('iuirlottetown  ,i,'as  company  ;  presiilcnt  of  tin- 
steam  navigation  company,  ami  al.su  of  tlie  Meichant>'  Marine  I iisi nance  Company  ofChariotte- 
town. 

He  married  in  1S.");{.  ( 'atlierinc,  fonrtli  danLrliter  of  tlie  late  Kwen  Oameron,  Ksi].,  mereliant, 
ofCliarhjttetown,  and  had  issue  four  children,  three  ilauglit(>rs  and  one  son,  all  now  ilead  Imt 
Helen,  the  eldest  daugliti'r.  The  son,  Henry  Daniel,  a  promising  youth  died  from  the  ellecti 
of  a  scald  and  diplUlieria,  in  December,  LSNO,  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years. 


CIIAELES    l^ALMER,   Q.C, 

I  'a A  RLO  TTETO IVX,  P.  E.  I. 

CHARLES  PAT>MKll,  one  of  the  loailing  barristers  in  I'rinee  Edward  Island,  was  horn  at 
Crapand,  in  this  province,  on  tho  7th  of  August,  1828  ;  he  is  a  younger  brother  of  tlie 
Hon.  Edward  Palmer,  chief  justice  of  this  province,  whose  sketch  and  portrait  may  be  found 
in  this  volume,  and  in  which  sketeh  the  parentage  of  our  subjei't  may  be  found. 

Mr.  Palmer  was  educated  at  the  central  academy,  L'liarlottetown,  tho  course  of  studies 
inchuling  tlie  classics  anil  higher  mathematics  ;  studied  law  with  Sir  Robert  Hodgs(tn,  at  that 
time  attorney -general,  and  with  his  e'lest  bi'othtM",  Henry  Palmer,  and  was  aihnitteil  to  practise 
in  1847,  and  created  a  Queen's  Counsel  on  tlie  1st  of  July,  1872. 

Mr.  Palmer  does  busine.ss  in  the  admiralty  court,  the  divorce  court,  the  supreme  court, 
and  courts  of  ehancerj',  and  surrogate  and  piobate  courts.  The  firm  of  l'alm(>r  and  McLeod  do 
a  very  large  business,  partie;;!arly  in  tlie  foreign  department,  largely  in  the  (lilted  States  and 
Canada,  being  in  tliis  ro.spect  prolmbly  the  leading  law  firm  in  the  provjuee.  ,\fr.  I'aliin'r  is  a 
fluent,  ready,  and  persuasive  speaker,  and  is  considered  a  very  successful  advocate  on  l)e]iiilf  of 
criminals. 

Quite  a  number  of  the  younger  class  of  lawyers  in  ( 'harlottetosvn,  and  other  parts  of  the 
ju'ovince,  studied  their  profession  with  Mr.  Pabner,  and  the  [irotieieuey  and  standing  of  several 
of  them  is  such,  as  no  iloubt,  to  afford  pleasure,  not  to  say  pride,  to  their  pri;ceptor. 

Mr.  Palmer  is  a  notaiy  pulilic,  solicitor  in  tlie  court  of  chancery,  and  barrister  in  tlie 
•supreme  court. 

He  was  attorney-general  for  a  few  months  in  1n71,  but  refused  to  accept  the  otfiee  politi- 
callv;  he  is  a  Liberal,  but  not  an  ofHce-seeker,  and  lets  notiiing  interfere  with  his  professional 
studies  and  i)ractice.  He  is  and  has  been  from  its  organization  ;  president  of  the  Union  Hmlc 
of  Chariottetown,  one  of  tlie  staunehest  institutions  of  the  kind  in  the  cit}'  or  in  the  provinci'. 

Mr.  Palmer  is  a  meiiil»T  of  St.  raul's  Kpiscojial  Chui'ch,  superintendent  of  the  Sunday 
school,  and  one  of  the  most  prominent  laymen  at  the  capital  of  the  province;  he  is  one  of  the 
managers  of  the  Cliaiiottetown  Young  Men's  Christian  .\ssoeiation,  and  was  for  sc\(;ral  years 
at  the  head  of  that  impoitant  institution,  which  is  truly  a  power  at  the  capital  of  tlie  province. 

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A  man  of  sterling  Cliristian  chiiruoter,  and  a  zealmis  laVmrer  for  his  nustur,  lie  is  known  oiitsitlo 
this  province,  having  been  a  delegate  to  one  or  two  international  conventions  of  young  men's 
associations,  held  in  the  United  States. 

Mr.  Palmer  married,  in  18')8,  Caroline  Amelia,  daughter  of  the  late  Chief  Justice  Jarvis,  of 
Charlottetown,  and  they  have  seven  children,  all  single  luit  the  oldest  daughter,  Ada,  who  is 
the  wife  of  James  Palmer,  son  of  the  cliief  justice.  The  younger  ones  are  engaged  in  com- 
pleting their  education. 


HON.   DONALJ)    FEHOrSON,   :M.P.r., 

CIIAULOTTETOWN,  P.E.I. 

THE  Provincial  Secretary  and  Crown  Lands  Commissioner  of  Prince  Edward  Island,  whoso 
name  is  placed  at  the  head  of  this  sketch,  was  horn  at  East  River,  in  'his  jiroviuce,  on 
the  7th  of  March,  1.S31).  Just  thirty-two  years  before  that  date  his  grandfather,  Joim  Fergu- 
son, had  emigrated  with  his  family  from  Blair  in  Athol,  Perthshire,  Scotland,  and  settled  near 
(Miai-lottetown.  The  parents  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  John  and  Isabella  (Stewartj  Fergu- 
son, belonged  to  the  agricultural  class,  and  he  was  I'eared  on  the  farm,  receiving,  in  his  youth,  a 
grammar  .school  education.  He  has  always  followed  farming,  having  a  hundred  acres,  largely 
muler  improvement,  aixi  a  thrifty  young  orchard  on  it,  four  miles  from  ( 'harlottetown. 

Mr.  Ferguscin  became  much  interested  in  ]olitics  while  (juite  a  young  man,  being  one  of 
the  earliest  and  most  earnest  advocates  of  confederati.)n  in  the  ])ro\iiiee.  He  was  a  contributor 
to  the  press  during  the  many  yeai-s  thai  that  question  was  the  sidject  of  agitation  in  the  island. 
In  ]i*Sli7  he  wrote  a  series  of  letters  over  the  signature  of  "A  Farmer,"  wliieli  were  replied  to 
editivrially  by  the  Hon.  David  Laird,  now  Lieutenant-! iovernor  of  the  Noith  West  Territorie.s. 
Sub.secpiently  he  engaged,  over  his  own  signature,  in  a  discu.ssion  with  the  Hon.  (ieorge  Beer, 
(111  the  union  ((uestion,  and  became  at  once  known  as  one  of  the  champions  on  the  island  oH  the 
cause  of  Canadian  nationality.  Mr.  Fergus(m  was  political  -writer  for  the /.vAod/ ..I /'(/((.^  until 
the  island  formally  eiitereil  ( 'oiifedeiation  in  bs73.  He  w.i-;  also  a  strong  sn|)porter  of  the 
interests  of  the  tenantry,  and  also  an  advocate  of  railway  construction,  having  been  the  mover 
of  the  resolutifin  in  favor  of  tlie  railway  whicli  was  adopted  at  a  mass  meeting  of  tlie  electors 
of  (,)iieeirs  county,  held  in  Cliarlottettiwii  in  tlie  winter  cif  bs7l.  'I'he  givat  i(Uestioiis  for  which 
he  had  contended  having  been  earried  in  IS73,  Mr.  Ferguson  boldly  olfered  himseif  a  candidate 
for  the  second  district  of  Queens  county  for  tin-  Legislative  <  'ouncil.  This  constituency  having 
in  l.s7'2  relunii'd  the  Hon.  Kilward  I'aimer  (now  Ciiief  .lustice),  as  an  anti-railway  and  anti- 
confederate  by  a  majority  of  nearly  MOO  votes,  it  will  Ik-  seen  that  Mr.  Ferguson  undertook  no 
tritling  task.  After  a  spirited  ciuivass  and  a  good  light  against  great  odds,  he  ie<luced  tlie 
majority  of  the  anti-confederatts  to  i'A)  votes.  A  vacancy  o<^curriiig  next  year  in  tlie  same  con- 
stituency, Mr.  Ferguson  was  again  lirought  out  by  his  party  and  tlie  anti-eoiifederates  majority 
was  furtlier  r(^duced  to  74  votes.  These  defeats  weie  looked  upon  as  \ictoiies  b\  both  political 
partie.H. 

In  187*5  the  (picstion  '•''  denominational  education  caiiu'  prominentl\  before  tin'  electors,  Mr. 
Ferguson,  as  well  as  the  .  .on.  J.  C.  Pope  and  the  Hon.  F.  De  St.  ( '.  Bricken,  now  members  of  the 
Honsi'  of  Conimoiis,  pronounced  in  favoi'  of  a  system  of  paynu  Mt  for  results  by  which  tli((  State 
would   recognize  and  pi'y  for  secular  cducatic  i  in  schools  in  the  towns,  in   which   leliidoiis 


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instruction  might  also  be  imparted  at  the  expense  of  parents.  Religious  liitterness  was  intro- 
<%c('d  in  the  contest;  tlie  Protestants  becaino  alarmed,  and  the  people  divided  largely  accord- 
ing to  their  creeds,  and  the  payment  for  results  candidates  were  defeated  in  all  except  Roman 
Catholic  constituencies.  lielieving  that  almost  any  settlement  of  the  school  (piestion  was  better 
than  a  prolonged  politico-religious  agitjition,  Mr.  Ferguson  accejjtod  the  situation. 

In  187!S  he  was  invited  by  the  leading  electors  of  the  Cardigan  dist'ict  in  King's  county 
to  become  their  representative,  with  which  request  he  comi)lied,  and  was  elected  by  acclamation. 
In  March,  187!),  on  the  meeting  of  the  Legislnture,  the  Goverrunent,  led  by  the  Hon.  L.  H. 
Davis,  wiis  defeated,  and  the  Hon.  W.  W.  Sullivan,  who  was  entrusted  with  the  formation  of  a 
new  administration,  otlered  Mr.  Ferguson  a  seat  in  the  new  cabinet,  with  the  ottice  of  commis- 
sioner of  public  works,  which  he  accepted.  A  dissolution  of  the  House  of  Assembly  having 
then  taken  place,  Mr.  Ferguson  was  again  elected  by  acclamation.  In  March,  bS.SO,  he  resigned 
his  position  in  the  works  department  and  became  provincial  secretary  and  commissionei-  of 
crown  lands,  which  offices  he  still  holds.  He  was  collector  of  inland  revenue  during  i)art  of 
the  year  l«hO. 

Mr.  Ferguson  married  on  the  2(ith  of  March,  1873,  Fllizibeth,  daughter  of  John  Scott,  of 
(!harlottetown,  and  they  have  four  children,  three  sons  and  one  daughter.  The  family  attend 
the  Baptist  church.  Mr.  Ferguson  has  long  been  connected  with  the  temperance  reform  move- 
ment, and  one  of  the  foremost  workei's  in  that  causes  in  the  province.  He  was  grand  secretary 
of  the  grand  lodge  of  (lood  Templars  of  Prince  Edward  Island  two  years,  and  was  subse- 
quently at  the  head  of  the  order  for  the  same  period.  Mr.  Ferguson  is  a  thorough  teetotaller 
and  proudly  boasts  that  he  has  never  drank  a  glass  of  ardent  spirits. 

In  politics  Mr.  Ferguson  always  has  Ijeen  a  Conservative.  His  loyal  adhesion  to  that  ]>arty 
is  due  to  the  fact  he  regards  its  policy  as  most  patriotic.  That  party  in  Prince  Edward  Island, 
he  thinks,  has  been  chiefly  instrumental  in  settling  the  land  question,  promoting  railway  con- 
struction and  the  economical  adnunistration  of  public  affiiir-s. 


KIGirr   llEV.  PETKIi   .M'TNTYRE,  D.P., 

VIIAUIDTTETOWN,  P. E.I. 

ri~^HE  l{isho]i  of  Cjmrlottetown.  Prince  Edward  Island,  whose  name  is  at  the  head  of  this  sketch, 
J_  is  a  native  of  this  island,  lieing  born  at  Cable  Head,  St.  Peter's  Hay  parish,  on  tlic  2!>tli  of 
June,  1818. H  is  father,  Angus  Mclnlyre.a  farmer.  Was  from  Cist,  Inverness-shire,  Scotland,  and 
his  mother,  whose  maidi'ii  nanic  was  Saiali  .MiKinnon,  was  also  from  I'ist,  Scotland.  He  was 
educated  partly  at  St.  Amlrew's  academy,  on  this  island  ;  partly  at  the  i'olleg('  of  St.  Hyacintlic  ; 
and  tinished  his  course  of  theology  at  the  (Jncb{!c  seminary;  was  ordained  juiest  on  tlie  .'trd  of 
April,  ]>^V-\,  and  assisted  a  few  months  at  the  parish  church,  Quebec.  He  was  sulisc(|uently  ap- 
pointed pastor  of  Tignish  missinn,  to  which  was  attached  the  missions  of  Ca.scumpec,  St.  Marv's 
Hrae,  and  St.  Mai  ks,  lot  7  in  Priiiee  county.  There  he  gave. seventeen  years  to  hard  and  untiring 
labor  in  the  .Masti'r's  service,  and  wliile  there  built  at  Tignish  one  of  the  most  substantial  an<l 
elegant  (".itliolie  chiirclies  in  this  province. 

( )ni' siilijecl  was  consecrated  bishop  on  the   i.'itli  of  August,  bH(!(),  and  since  that  time  has 
been  a  resident  of  Charlottetown,  devoting  his  time   with  gieat  diligence  to  the  diver-pitied 


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labors  of  his  calling.  He  lias  a  colkge  called  St.  Dunstaii's  for  the  education  of  youn<;  men, 
and  the  ycneral  supervision  of  seven  convents  for  the  education  of  fenuiles  on  this  island  and 
of  one  on  the  Magdalen  Islands  which  are  included  in  his  diocese.  He  has  built  nearly  a  score 
of  ehurches  and  paroeliia!  houses  since  he  entered  upon  the  bishopric,  a  few  of  which  would  be 
an  ornament  to  any  ordinary  city. 

In  l!S()!)  and  KSTO  Bishop  Mclntyre  assisted  at  the  Vatican  Council  in  Rome,  and  traveled 
over  the  greater  part  of  Europe,  winding  up  his  tour  by  a  visit  to  the  Holy  Land. 

In  l'S78  he  foinided  the  I'liarlottetown  hospital,  which  is  open  to  everybody  without 
reference  to  creed  or  nationality,  and  whieh  is  a  very  i)rosperous  institution.  It  has  a  full  statt" 
of  medical  otliceis,  embracing  such  skilful  piuctitioni rs  in  metlicine,  surgery,  optics,  etc.,  as  Di-s. 
Taylor,  Hopkirk,  C'onniy,  Johnson,  McLeod  and  Heer,  all  of  whom  have  their  specialties,  and 
constitute  an  able  statt". 

Alter  such  an  enumeration  of  enter[)rises  and  general  labors  as  Bishojt  Nlclntyre  has  been 
and  is  engaged  in,  it  woidtl  seem  to  be  needless  to  suite  that  he  is  a  very  busy  man.  He  is  an 
excellent  planner  of  work,  has  good  managing  and  e.veeutive  talents,  and  everything  to  which 
he  puts  his  hands,  seems  to  be  executeil  with  dispatch.  He  is  a  gentleman  of  great  cheerfulness 
and  cordiality  of  disposition,  and  hence  is  a  very  po[iidar  as  well  as  useful  citizen. 


110.N.   t;EOI{(;E    W.   HOWL  AN, 

AIMEHTON,  P.E.T. 

HON.  (iKOBdE  WIFjLIAil  IKjWLAN,  senator  from  Prince  Edward  Island,  and  one  of  the 
leading  business  men  in  that  province,  is  a  native  of  Waterford,  Ireland,  his  birth  being 
dated  May,  IStli,  b'^^io  ;  he  is  a  son  of  William  Howlau,  merchant,  who  emigrated  to  Prince 
Edward  Island,  and  there  died  more  than  thirty  years  ago  ;  and  .Vun  Lomasmagh,  ilaughter  of 
John  Eomasiuagh,  in  his  d.iy  a  bookseller  and  stationer  at  Waterford,  Ireland,  and  brother  of 
Mjitthew  bi)niaNniagli,  for  some  time  connected  with  the  Widcrfoi'd  Chronicle.  She  was  the 
mother  of  six  children,  of  wlmni  (ieurge  W,  was  the  eldest  son  and  tirst  child.  She  died  in 
15S7.".. 

Our  subject  waseilucated  at  the  central  academy,  Chailottetown  ;  served  an  apprenticeship 
of  between  live  an<l  six  years,  at  that  place,  in  the  nu'rcanliie  liusiness,  and  at  twenty -one  years 
of  age  ciimnienced  trading  for  himself,  adding  ship-liuilding  soon  afterward,  launching  one  or 
two  new  vessels  every  year,  and  is  extensively  engaged  in  the  tish  business. 

He  is  vice-president  for  Piince  Edward  Island,  of  the  Dominion  Hoard  of  Trade,  and  a 
governur  of  I'l'ince  of  Wales  college,  < 'liariottetowii,  and  has  had  a  multiplicity  of  honi)rs  thrust 
\ipi>n  bini  dining  the  last  eigliteeii  or  twenty  years.  Ho  was  a[)pointed  consular  agent  for  the 
United  States  at  the  {msI  of  Alberton  in  July,  bstili,  and  still  holds  that  ofKce. 

He  was  elected  to  the  Provincial  Assembly  foi-  the  first  district  of  Prince  county  in  lS{',-2, 
and,  by  re-elections,  was  kept  thei'e  until  [fij-i,  when  he  re-'gned  to  accept  the  otKcc  of  comp- 
troller of  customs  for  P.  E.  I. 

lie  entered  the  executive  council,  in  ISllt!,  ami  eoiitinncd  a  nieiiiln  r  of  the  government  the 
gri-nter  part  of  the  time,  ancl  w.as  for  some  time  leader  of  tlu'  bower  House,  continuing  in  that 
body  until  the  ^Oth  of  June,  Its7;<,     While  in  the  local  parliament  he  was  an  earnest  advocate 


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of  tlic  Prince  Edward  Island  railway,  and  called  the  fa.st  railway  meeting  at  Tignisli,  in  his  dis- 
trict, and  carried  it  f(jr  that  scheme. 

In  l.S(i9  Senator  Howlan  was  a  delegate  to  Washington,  I).  (A,  on  important  mattei-s  con- 
nected with  international  trade  ;  and  in  1873,  he  was  a  delegate  to  Ottawa,  with  Hon  J.  V. 
I'ope  and  Hon  Thonias  H.  Haviland,  to  settle  the  terms  of  union  of  this  |)rovin  u'  with  Canada, 
which  terms,  says  the  I'arliamentari/  Comp<(nioii,  wore  ado[)ted  unanimously  by  both  houses 
of  the  legislature.  In  June  of  that  year  he  was  appointed  collector  of  customs  at  ('harlotte- 
town,  which  olhce  he  resigncil  tlnee  months  afterward  in  order  to  contest  the  county  of  Prince 
for  the  House  of  C()mmons,  and  was  defuated  on  the  Kith  of  October,  1^74',  he  was  appointed 
vice-consul  for  Norway  and  Sweden   for  Prince  Edward  Island. 

On  the  I8th  of  October,  1873,  the  month  in  which  his  province  entered  the  (Jonfedera- 
tion,  he  was  called  to  tlie  Senate,  a  life-ortice,  to  the  duties  of  which  he  is  very  attentive,  liis 
politics  are  Lil)eral,  l)ut  he  is  a  supporter  of  Sir  John  A.  Macdonald. 

In  October,  IMIO,  Senator  Howlan  was  juined  in  wedlock  with  Elizibeth  Olson,  who  was 
from  St.  John,  N.  ]J.,  and  daughter  of  James  Olson,  who  was  from  Norway  ;  her  mother  was  a 
Campbell,  from  Ireland,  a  sister  of  John  O.  Campbell,  of  St.  John.  Mrs.  Howlan  died  very  sud- 
denly on  April  Kith,  in  l.S7(i,  leaving  no  children.  He  was  married  a  second  time,  on  the  22nd 
of  Februaiji,  18.SI,  to  Miss  Mary  E.  J)oran,  of  Kingston,  Ontario. 


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UOK   .lOSEl'II    POPE, 

CHARLOTTKTOyVN,  P.E.I. 

ONK  (if  the  oldest  men  of  any  prominence  in  Prince  Edward  Island,  s,.i  >  living  here,  and 
holding  oHiee  under  the  Dominion  government,  ia  Joseph  J'oiie,  Dominion  auilitor  and 
manager  of  the  .savings  bank,  lie  is  a  native  of  Plynumth,  Devonshire,  Eng.,  his  birth  being 
dated  on  the  20th  of  Jinie,  ISO.').  Jlis  father  was  Thomas  Pope,  son  of  a  substantial  yeoman, 
who  belonged  to  ('ornwall,  and  occupied  his  own  estate.  Thomas  Pope  died  in  1801),  leaving  a 
huge  family  to  the  care  of  the  mother,  wliose  maiden  name  was  Annie  Hase.  Jo.seph  was  the 
youngest  of  six  sons,  most  of  whom  distinguished  themselves  in  different  professions  and  callings. 
He  came  to  Prince  Edwanl  Island  in  I.Sl!»,  being  preceded  one  year  by  two  bmthers,  John  and 
William  Pope,  merchants  and  ship-owners,  one  of  whom  left  the  island  in  1S23,  and  the  other 
in  1828.  On  their  departure,  he  continued  the  business  in  his  own  name  at  Hede(pK>,  Piince 
county,  where  he  resiiled  for  thirty-two  years,  doing,  most  of  the  time,  an  extensive  business. 

While  at  l!edei|Ue,  he  repri'sented  Prinic  county  in  the  local  jiarliament  for  twenty-three 
conscv'utive  years,  cnnuencing  in  l.S.'U),  and  was  twice  ehosi.'U  speaker,  and  in  that  honored 
position  seivi'd  two  full  teinis.  lie  had  picviously,  in  l82s,  beeii  appointed  captain  in  the  2nd 
Prince  county  militia  ;  in  Is.'tl,  was  appoititi'd  justiec  of  the  peace;  in  I,s;{2,  sub-collector  of 
custom'*,  and  coliectoi'  of  excise'  in  1837,  high  sheritl'of  Prince  county,  and  major  commanding 
the  2nd  I'rince  county  regiment  of  militia,  and  subsiMpiently  was  appointe<l  lieut. -colonel. 

In  183,s,  Mr.  Pope  was  sent  to  Canada,  with  Thomas  H.  Haviland,  father  of  the  present 
lieul.goMiiior  of  Prince  Edwar>l  Island,  .loseph  Howe,  William  Voung  Johnston,  Unicke,  Dr. 
l)abyni|(le,  and  others,  to  confer  with  Loid  Durham,  in  regard  to  a  feileral  union  of  the  P)ritis!i 
North  American  colonies.     In  lN30,  he  was  appointeil  memlier  of  the  executive  comicil,  remain- 


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inf,'  ill  tliat  position  for  fourteen  years.  He  received  tlio  .special  approbation  of  his  Majesty, 
William  the  Fourtli,  Cor  loyally  tlcfeiiding  the  government,  and  for  ii|)holdinij^  the  laws  of  the 
colony.  In  l«-t7,  he  and  Hon.  Kdwanl  Palmer,  now  ohii-f  j^'.^'ce  of  this  province,  were  sent, 
on  a  reijuisition'  of  the  principal  inhabitants  of  the  colony,  to  Enj.'land  (where  they  were  joined 
by  Andrew  Duncan),  entrusted  with  a  petition  to  her  Majesty  f  he  Queen,  for  the  removal  of 
Lieut.  Ciovernor  Huntley,  the  petition  being  signed  liy  4,200  electors,  and  approved  of  by  the 
members  of  the  Legislature.  While  in  the  niotlier  country,  Afr.  P(ij)e  availed  himself  of  the 
opportunity  to  confer  with  Lord  Vxva,-,  the  colonial  secretary,  with  reference  to  the  questicin  of 
responsible  government,  of  which  our  sidiject  was  an  earlj'  advocate.  When  he  ri>turned  from 
England,  accompanied  Ijv  a  new  governoi  Sir  Donald  Campbell,  he  and  Mr.  Palmer  received  a 
highly  complinii'iitary  addre-^s  of  tliaiiks  for  the  success  of  their  mission. 

As  a  mcndier  of  tlic  Hou.se  of  Assendily,  Mi'.  Pope  originatetl  the  ei-cction  of  the  [irovinco 
iiuilding,  and  obtainml,  through  the  intluenci'  of  Laily  Mary  Fit/rMV,  a  grant  from  the  Imperial 
Ciovernment  funds  for  the  building  of  the  lun;itic  a.sylum,  and  a  sum  from  the  province  for  its 
maintenance.  He  also  assisted  Dr.  (Jeorgo  Dalryniple  and  others,  in  obtaining  a  satisfactory 
settlement  of  the  glebe  and  school  lands  question,  securing  the  proceeds  of  the  .sale  of  those 
lands  for  the  promotion  of  general  education.  In  conjunction  with  Thomas  Owen  and  Hugh 
Macdonald,  he  obtained  the  eri'ction  of  jails  and  court-houses,  and  the  establishment  of  the 
■supreme  court,  custom-hou.se,  excise,  and  other  puldic  otlices  in  the  comities  of  King's  and 
Prince.  He  brought  the  lload  Compensation  Act  into  successful  operation,  and  was  a  su|)i)orter 
of  the  "One-ninth  Rill,"  and  the  first  Free  Ivhication  Act.  In  February  IS-SS,  as  the  records 
show,  he  introduced  the  first  resolution  for  the  sejiaration  of  the  executive  and  legislative 
councils.  Indeed,  it  will  be  seen  by  tiie  legislative  debates  and  acts,  published  from  year  to 
year,  that  he  wjis  tlu'  originator  cjf  many  important  IJills,  which  became  law.  He  made  a  wise 
legislator. 

Mr.  Pope  spent  the  sumnnr  of  liS48  in  making  an  extensive  tour  through  (Jreat  Britain 
and  Ireland,  and  in  November  of  that  year  was  married  to  Miss  Eliza  (Jooke,  of  Liverpool,  and 
then  icturned  to  the  island. 

On  the  introduction  of  responsible  government  in  iN.'jl,  he  retained  a  seat  in  the  executive 
council  with  Mes.srs.  Coles,  Wlialen,  and  other  promoters  of  the  change,  with  the  oflica  of  trea- 
surer of  the  province;  and,  as  treasurer,  hi'  negotiated  a  loan  often  thousand  pounds  on  dfben- 
tures,  payable  in  ten  years,  five  per  cent,  interest  at  par,  for  the  reclemption  of  treasury 
warrants,  bearing  six  per  cent.,  and  at  a  great  discount. 

In  185'^  he  I'csigned  1  srat  in  tlie  government  and  House  of  Assendily,  and  the  otilce  of 
trea-surer,  and  letiird,  with  i.cr  Majesty's  special  ]ierniissioii  to  retain  the  designation  of  honor- 
able. He  reeeiv'd  a  highly  cunijilimi'ntary  letter  from  Sir  .\lexander  Raniierman,  then  lietit.- 
governor  of  the  province,  an  address  from  die  mcnil)crs  of  the  executive  council,  and  a  letter 
from  the  attorney-general  (now  Judge  Hens'i'v),  in  addition  to  two  valuable  and  complimentary 
addresses  from  his  late  constituents. 

Mr.  Pope  purchased  (IN").'};  aii  Ainciican  tishin,'  vessel,  fitted  it  up  in  ch-gant  styl  >,  filled 
it  with  "  Yankee  notions,"  and  other  merchandise,  and  startccl  for  Australia,  purposing  to  make 
hi.s  home  there.  On  their  way  across  the  Atlantic  ocean,  his  wife  suffered  so  much  \\\{\\  .sea- 
sic'  ness  that,  for  her  sake,  he  abandoned  the  idea  of  proceeding  farther,  and  he  sent  his  vessel 
to  iV'istralia,  and  remained  in  liivrrpool  for  fifteen  years. 

Mi:  Pope  rctuiiicil  to  this  isli  nd  in  IN()N,  and  two  years  afterwards  was  appointed  pre  - 
vineial  treasurer  and  mana^'er  of  the  suviugs  ba.'ik.    In  lts7.'{.  he  was  reipicstod  by  the  Dominiou 


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government  to  act  as  auditor  in  the  island,  ami  continue  as  manager  of  tlio  savin<(s  bank,  this 
appointment  being  confirmed  by  order  in  council  in  November,  IH?.'}.  Those  ottices  he  held 
until  the  resignation  of  the  Macdonald  government  a  few  weeks  later,  when  he  was  dismissed 
b}'  the  Mackenzie  government,  Mr.  Pojte  being  a  Conservative.  He  was  almost  inuuediately 
re-appointed  provincial  treasurer,  and  two  years  later  commissioner  of  crown  and  public  lands, 
wliich  ottice  he  held  until  his  re-establishment  in  his  {^resent  oftice,  of  auditor  and  savings  bank 
manager,  in  June,  1880. 

Mr  Po]>e  has  had  three  wives,  but  no  children  except  by  the  first  wife,  who  was  a  daughter 
of  Capt.  Colledge,  who  had  command  of  a  company  in  the  Duke  of  Kents  regiment,  and  died 
at  Quebec.  The  two  sons  by  her,  Hon.  William  H.  Po|)e,  deceased,  and  Hon.  James  C.  Pope, 
Minister  of  Marine  and  Fi.sherios,  arc  mentioned  elsewhere  in  this  volume. 

Mr.  Pope  is  one  of  the  best  informed  men  in  regnrd  to  the  history  of  Prince  E<lwar<l  Islan<l, 
and  in  regard  to  political  matters  pertaining  to  the  Dominion,  found  on  the  island.  He  has 
always  been  a  careful  reader;  has  kept  himself  well  posted  in  histcrieal  matters  generally,  and 
is  a  very  instructive  converser  on  a  variety  of  suVyccts.  Being  one  of  the  old  "  landmarks"  of 
the  province,  he  has  an  extensive  circle  of  actjuaintances,  who  hold  him  in  very  high  esteem. 


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JA:N[ES    COLLEDCiE    POL'E, 

CHARLOTTKTOWN,  P. E.I. 

HON.  JAMES  COLLEDtJK  POPE,  minister  ot  miuine  and  Hshoiies,  is  dcsccnue  lluiu  i 
LVrnisli  family.  Was  born  at  Bedei(ue,  Prince  Edward  Island,  on  the  11th  ot  June, 
ISiil).  His  father  the  Honorable  Joseph  Pope  came  out  from  Engiauil  to  Prince  Edward  Island 
in  1818. 

He  received  his  education,  in  part,  in  his  native  island,  completing  it  in  England.  In  eariy 
manhood  he  entered  upon  a  mercantile  carcei',  and  as  a  merchant,  sliip-builder  and  sliip-owncr 
has  Ion"  been  looked  n[ion  as  one  of  the  foremost  business  men  'if  his  province. 

Mr.  Pope  enteied  political  life  in  18.j7,  ha\ing  been  chosen  in  that  year  to  represent  a  dis- 
trict in  Princi'  county  in  the  House  of  Assendily.  He  continued,  with  the  exception  of  a  very 
short  period,  to  hold  a  seat  in  tliat  body  until  1^7."!,  when  he  icsigned  tlie  jtositimi  of  premier 
and  was  eU'cted  as  one  uf  the  re|)resentativcs  of  i'rince  county,  in  the  Connnons  of  Caiuida. 

Karlv  in  bsTt  a  general  election  took  place,  at  which  Mr.  Pope  was  not  a  camlidate.  He 
re-entered  the  Itical  legislature  in  LS7">,  and  in  .\ugust  1n7<»,  was  defeateil  for  ('iiarlottetown 
in  the  "eneral  local  election  of  that  year,  lia\  ing  espr)iised  the  cause  of  the  minority  on  tin- 
school  tpicstion. 

Mr.  Pope  first  entered  the  execu'i"  e  council  in  18.V,)  ;  was  premier  from  18(i.")  to  l,S(i7,  and 
a"-ain  from  1870  to  1!S72,  wnen  his  government  was  defeated  on  their  railway  policy.  In  187;} 
he  was  again  designated  by  Lieutenant  Oovernor  Robinson  to  form  a  new  administration  a  duty 
which  he  succeedcil  in  accomplishing. 

His  frovernuient  was  signalized  by  several  iuiiioitant  acts,  <liief  among  which  were  the 
construction  of  the  Piince  Kdward  Island  railway,  and  the  negotiation  of  the  so-called  'W^er 
Itnn:^  on  which  the  colony  entered  the  l)ondnion  on  the  1st  day  of  July,  1873. 


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Mr.  Pope  was  olected  to  his  present  seat  in  the  House  of  Commons,  representing  Queen's 
county,  in  November,  1870,  upon  the  appointment  of  the  sitting  member,  the  Hon.  David  Laird, 
to  be  lieutenant  governor  of  the  north-west  territories;  was  re-elected  in  September,  liS7s  ; 
sworn  of  the  Privy  Couneil,  and  appointed  Minister  of  Marine  and  Fisheries  on  the  l!lth  .jf 
October  of  the  same  year. 

Mr.  Pope's  mother  was  a  daugliter  of  the  late  Captain  Collodge,  of  the  1st  oval  regimrnt 
of  foot,  of  which  tlie  Duke  of  Kent  was  colonel.  His  great-grandfatlier  the  Hon.  Thomas 
Wright  wajj  a  member  of  the  government,  and  one  of  the  commissioners  appointed  to  adminis- 
ter tlie  oaths  to  the  members  of  the  first  parliament  which  met  in  C'harlottetown,  in  177;{. 

Mr.  Pope  married  in  18.")2,  Kliza  Fethick,  .second  datighter  of  Thomas  Pethick,  Ksij.,  of 
Charlottetown,  1)3'  wli'^m  he  lias  had  eight  children,  five  of  whom  are  living. 

In  politics  Mr.  Pope  is  a  Con.servative. 


ARCHIBALD    :N[c'i^ErLI^ 

CUAHLOTTETOWN,  P. E.I. 

OXK  of  the  best  known  citizens,  among  business  men  and  politicians  of  Ciiarlottetown,  is 
Archibald  McNeill,  chief  clerk  of  the  House  of  Assembly.  He  is  a  native  of  this  island, 
dating  his  liirth  at  West  River,  on  the  IGtli  of  February,  1824.  His  father,  Charles  McNeill,  a 
farmer  from  Argylfshire,  Scotland,  was  one  of  the  early  emigrants  to  this  island,  settling  at 
West  River,  where  he  died  in  l.S7!),  in  the  89th  ye;ir  of  his  age.  This  pioneer  in  that  p.irt  of 
the  province  married  Flora  Bell,  who  came  to  this  country  in  bsOO,  in  the  sam(>  ship  with  him 
when  a  young  maiden,  and  .she  had  twelve  children  of  whom  Archiliald  was  the  fourth  child. 
She  died  about  1850. 

The  subject  of  this  notice  received  a  good  English  education  in  the  central  acaileniy, 
Charlottetown,  when  Mr.  Humphrey  was  priiici|>al,  and  wiw  engaged  in  teaching  in  town  and 
country  for  tifteen  or  si.vteeii  years. 

Mr.  McNeill  entered  public  life  in  Sc])teinber,  1854,  when  he  was  appointed  deputy-regis- 
trar of  deeds  for  the  whole  jnovince,  and  was  subse([uently  employed  in  tlie  ])ublie  lands  othce. 
Prior  to  entering  the  registry  ofHce,  he  became  much  interested  in  polities,  and  began  to  write 
for  a  local  newspaper,  Tlie  h'.niiiiiiicr,  '.hen  controlled  by  the  Hon.  Kdwanl  Whalen.  Mr.  .Mc- 
Neill supported  by  his  pen,  the  introduction  of  responsible  government,  the  free  school  .s^-stem, 
the  land  purchase  Ai-t,  and  other  progressive*  measures  under  coiisi(leration  twenty-five  and 
thirty  yi^ars  ago. 

He  took  an  active  part  in  -upporting  Confederation  and  in  railway  building  in  his  native 
]>rovince,  and  at  the  Charlottetown  conference  held  in  18(J4  reported  the  speeches  of  Sir  John 
Macdonalil,  Sir  Cleoige  E.  Cartier,  Hon  D'Arcy  Me(iee,  and  other  eminent  spi'akers.  lie  still 
writes,  more  or  less,  tor  the  press,  and  is  withal  a  good  platform  speaker. 

F(U'  the  last  nine  years  Mi-.  M<'Neill  ha,s  served  as  chief  clerk  of  the  House  of  Assembly, 
being  appointed  in  1873,  ami  he  makes  a  prom))t  ami  etticient  ofKci>r,  supplementing  his  parlia- 
nieiitarv  duties  by  engaging,  during  recess,  in  the  commission  and  auctioneer  business.  He 
is  a  very  active  man,  with  much  force  of  character  and  great  energy  in  projecting  any  enter- 
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Ho  taki's  inucli  inti'icst  in  agricMiltAual  matters,  and  iluring  the  last  thirteen  years  has  been 
secretary  to  tlie  hoard  of  eonunissioners  of  tlie  Piovineial  P^xliihition.  He  was  also  secretary 
of  the  advisory  hoard  a|)]iointed  to  re)irescnt  the  i)ro\inciid  interests  at  the  International 
Exposition,  held  at  Viiiladelphia,  in  LST'I,  and  of  the  Doniiidon  Kxhihition,  held  at  Montreal, 
in  1 8.S0,  also  of  the  Dominion  Kxhihition  held  at  Halifax,  in  iSM. 

Mr.  McNeill  wa-s,  for  eiifhteen  yt-ars,  nianai,'er  of  the  Charlottetown  reatlinjr  room  and 
jnerchants'  exehangi-,  which,  in  its  day,  was  a  very  inijiortant  institution,  .secoml  to  none  of  the 
kiwd  in  the  Maritime  Provinces. 

idr.  McNeill  married,  Ai)ril  12th,  18.')5,  Mi.ss  Jessie  Scanttlebmy,  of  Chailottctown,  and 
they  have  Hve  children  living.  William,  the  eldest  .son.  is  with  hi.s  father  in  the  commission 
business,  f'hailes,  the  next  son,  is  in  the  railway  and  telt'gra|ili  dc|initmcnt,  and  the  others, 
Joseph,    Annie,  and   Arthur  are  attending  school.      Mrs.    McNeill  died   in    Deeendier,    1H7-. 


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WTLLIAM    W.   T^OPiT), 

CHARLOTTETOWN,  V.E.I. 

WILLIAM  WAKREN  LOUl),  jnany  years  a  ship-builder  and  merchant,  and  for  nearly  a 
([uarter  of  a  century  a  mend)er  of  the  legi>lature  of  Prince  Edward  Island,  was  born 
at  Tryon,  lot  "iS,  on  this  island,  -.'he  11th  of  February,  ITHN,  and  is  ])robably  the  t)ldest 
native  of  this  province  that  is  still  living  in  it.  His  father,  John  Lord,  was  born  in  New  Eng- 
land, and  wa.s  the  son  of  a  loyalist  and  refugee.  The  mother  of  oui-  subject  was  Charlotte 
(louldrup.  Mr.  Lord  had  Imt  veiy  little  schooling  in  his  youth  being  mostly  .self-educated, 
and  becoming  a  very  well-infoinud  man.  He  worked  on  his  father's  farm  at  Tryon  until 
twenty  years  of  age;  in  1M7.  he  went  to  .Miiamichi,  .N'.l5.,  and  was  there  engaged  in  lumber- 
ing luitil  about  1.S2."),  when  he  returned  to  Tryon,  married  .Miss  Ann  Lea.  a  native  of  Lincoln- 
shire, Englantl  ;  and  he  carried  on  sliip-liuilding  there  for  a  dozen  years  or  nmre.  When  he 
left  Tiyon,  tlu'  citizens  of  the  pla<  e  pr<->ented  him  and  Mrs.  Lord  with  a  very  complimentary 
a<lilress.  and  some  year- aftei  warils  he  built  a  fine  hall  at  Tryon,  and  jiresented  it  to  the  village, 
where  it  still  stands  ami  is  kiioun  as  Tiyon's  hall. 

Ml'  Lord  then  --rttli-d  (JN-'lNj  in  ( 'h;irloiti'to\\  li  ;  continue.!  slii|)building,  and  also  c.irried 
on  geinjral  niercliandising  on  a  large  .scale,  lie  built  ioid  owned  wliaf  is  known  as  "Lord's 
wharf,"  and  for  ii  long  time  was  one  oT  the  fiecMiost  liusiness  men  of  ( "harlottetown,  retiring 
tifti'en  or  twenty  years  ago,  having,  for  a  [loor  l>oy,  plaeeil  himself  in  xer}-  comfortable  circum- 
stances. He  has  crossed  the  .Vtlantic  ocean,  in  bis  i\\\\\  ships  and  steamers,  as  a  passenger, 
twenty-eight  times. 

Mr.  Lord  was  a]ipointed  a  Justice  of  the  peace  while  in  Tiyon,  and  ha-^  held  the  otliee  at 
least  fifty  yeai-s. 

He  represented  i'rince  county  in  tin'  House  of  ,\ssendp|y  for  three  or  four  terms,  in  all,  we 
believe,  for  sixteen  years,  and  was  for  eight  years  a  nn  lubei of  the  J,egisl;itive  Council,  being 
also  in  the  Liberal  govei'inuent  at  least  live  or  six  yt'ars,  lie  aided  .Messrs.  ( 'ole,  W'lielan  and 
others  in  establishing  lesponsible  government,  and  in  carrying  through  pailiaineiit  other  im|)or- 
tant  measin'(^s  of  his  party. 

In  his  younger  vears,  Mr.  Loid  had  I'onniiMnd  of  a  company  of  militia  at  Tryon    inul  \U)W 


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holds  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel  of  retired  militia.  lie  has  held  various  local  ottiees,  besides 
that  of  justice  of  the  peace,  and  is  still,  and  has  l)een  for  a  lony  time,  a  director  of  the  Bank 
of  Prince  Edward  Island. 

Ml'.  Lord  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  and  his  neii,dd)i)rs  <jive  him  credit  for 
havinif  lived  an  unblemished  life.  His  jfood  habits  havt^  been  ineativ  in  his  fiivor.  He  is  a 
man  of  kindly  feelinijs,  and  has  always  stood  ready  to  lielji  the  neetiy.  Alth(iUi,di  eiyhty-tlireo 
years  of  age,  and  somewhat  infirm  in  body,  his  memory  is  very  yood  for  a  man  oi  that  age,  and 
liis  mental  faculties  generally  are  (juite  deai'  and  active.  He  is  well  posted  in  public  matters, 
and  (piite  communicative  and  agreeable  in  conversation. 


KcnVAX    R  FlTZCJEKxALT),   Q.(\, 

CHAIiLOTTETOWN,  P. E.I. 

ROWAN  ROBERT  FJTZCJERALD,  stipendiary  magistrate,  Charlottetown,  was  born  in 
the  county  of  Fermanagh,  Ireland,  on  the  14th  of  February,  1M47.  He  is  a  son  of  iiev. 
David  Fit/geralil,  rector  of  St.  Paul's  church,  Charlottetown,  and  ('heriy  Chri.stina,  I'unioii.  a 
native  of  Kerry,  Ireland  ;  was  educated  at  the  Piiiu'e  of  Wales  College.  (Miarlottetown  ;  studied 
law  with  Edward  .).  Hodgson  ;  was  admitted  to  practise  in  LSTO,  and  is  of  the  firm  of  Brecken 
and  Fitzgerald,  who  have  a  liberal  j)ractice  in  all  the  courts  of  the  Province.  Mr.  Fitzgerald  was 
created  a  Queen's  (\)unsel  in  l.S.SI.  He  is  a  well-read  lawyei,  anil  has  hiul,  fiom  the  start,  a 
highly  creilitable  stamling  among  the  legal  fraternity. 

He  was  aiipointed  stipendiary  magistiate  in  LSti.'),  and  the  duties  of  that  office  he  is  per- 
forming punctually  and  faithfully.  He  is  also  chairman  of  the  gaol  commissioners,  and  was  made 
city  recorder  in  l!S7!t.     He  and  his  partner  are  solicitors  for  the  Bank  of  Piince  Edward  Island. 

Mr.  Fitzgerald  is  a  Conservative  in  politics,  and  befoic  accei)ting  the  appointuu'ut  of  stipen- 
diary magistrate  was  (piite  active,  exerting  a  good  deal  of  intluence  in  his  party. 

As  a  judge  in  court  he  is  strictly  impartial,  and  appeals  from  bis  decisions  are  raiely  made, 
and  have  never  been  reversed. 

He  is  a  member  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  church,  of  which  liis  fathei',  who  is  mentioned  else- 
where, is  rector  ;  and  we  believe  the  son  finds  nothing  in  his  practice  of  the  "law  "  to  conflict 
with  the  "  gospel." 

ilr.  Fitzgerald  married,  in  August,  1870,  Agnes  Maria,  youngest  daughter  of  Thomas  B. 
Tremaine,  of  Charlottetown,  and  they  have  two  children. 


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HON.   W.    \V.   SULLIVAN,   Q.U., 

CHARLOTTETOWN,  P.E.I. 

ILLIAM  WILFRED  SULLIVAN,  premier  and  att<nney-gen.  lal  of  Prince  Edward 
Island  "'id  a  member  of  the  pi ovincial  parliament  for  the  second  district  of  King's 
countv,  is  a  son  William  and  Mary  (McCarthy)  Sullivan,  and  was  born  at  New  Lon(h)n,  P. 
H  L,  on  the  (Itli   of  DecemlKM',   1.S4S;   his    parents  are   both    luitives  of  the  county  of  Kerry, 


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Ireland  ;  ho  was  ediinitccl  at  tlie  central  aeadiMny  and  St.  DiuiHtan  si^itliolii'  colli  ;,'!•,  ami  early 
turned  liis  attention  to  jniirnalisui,  hcconiing  one  of  the  editors  of  the  ( .'harlottctuwn  Iftrn/d, 
when  it  was  founded  in  iHiii;  and  (lontinued  to  write  for  it  while  ])ursuin.,'  his  lc;,'al  stiilies 
with  the  Hon.  Joseph  llen.sley,  now  (Jiie  of  the  jiidLfes  of  the  .su})reine  eoiii't. 

Mr.  Sullivan  was  called  to  the  har  of  I'rince  Ivlward  Island  in  Trinity  Term,  iSliT,  ami 
l)ecanie  a  partner  of  his  ]ireceptor,  hoMing  tliat  connection  until  Mr.  llensley  was  apjioiuted  to 
the  supreme  court  l)cnch  two  yoars  Ip.ter.  No  client  ever  sutfens  at  the  hands  of  Mr.  Sullivan 
for  the  want  of  clo.se  application  to  that  client's  cau.so.  Possessed  of  nuich  coolness,  clear 
judgment  and  sterling  good  sense,  and  being  candid  and  loLcical  in  his  arguiueiits.  he  never  fails 
to  make  admirahle  points,  or  to  favoralily  impress  heiieh  and  jur}'. 

We  learn  from  the  "  Illustrated  Historical  Atlas  of  Prince  Edwai'd  Island,"  that  Mr.  Sul- 
livan was  created  a  Qneei.'s  Counsel  liy  the  government  of  Prince  H  hvard  Islmid,  in  .lime, 
lS7<i,  and  I py  his  excellency  the  governoi-general  undei-  l"tters  patent,  on  the  liHh  of  .lune, 
].S7!> :  that  he  was  one  of  the  counsel  foi'  the  governm-nt  in  the  interests  of  tlic  tenants  before 
the  land  conunissiduers  cmirt  uudi'r  "  The  LamI  Purchase  Act  of  1m7j." 

Mr.  Sullivan  is  at  the  head  of  the  extensive  tirm  of  Sidlivanand  Morson,  who  do  business  in 
all  the  courts  of  the  ]iroviuce  and  the  Su|>reme  Court  of  the  Dominion:  is  a  sui'rogati'  in  the 
admiralty  couit  and  a  notary  pulilie,  and  is  president  of  the  bo:ird  of  education,  ami  |)resideut 
of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Prince  Edward  Island  hospital  foi-  the  insane. 

Mr.  Sullivan  first  entered  public  life  in  187-,  when  he  was  electeil  to  represent  tlir  first 
<listrii't  of  King's  county  ;  he  was  returned  for  his  pi'esent  seat  at  tlie  general  election  in  April, 
1N7.S,  and  again  by  acclamation  the  next  month  on  being  appointed  to  otlice.  He  was  re-elected 
at  the  general  elections  of  l.S7(5  and  187!>,  ne\-er  yet  having  sutfered  a  ilel'cat. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  executive  council  from  22nd  of  April  to  .lune.  bS".'!,  wlnn  he 
resigneil  ;  was  reiippointed  to  the  executive  council  with  the  ottice  of  solicitor-general,  on  tli(! 
formation  of  the  Poj)!-  a  Imiuistration,  A|iril  bS,  l.'S7-'{;  resigned  his  seat  in  tlu;  executi' i' 
CoiUK'il  upon  th(!  resigiuition  of  the  ( 'onservative  govenmieiit  on  the  4tli  of  Se[)t(Mnber.  ls,'(i; 
and  was  inmnimoMsly  elected  leailcr  of  the  opposition  at  the  meeting  of  the  legislature  on  the 
nth  of  March,  1.S77. 

On  the  1st  of  .M.irch,  is"!),  Mr.  Sullivan  mo\ed  in  the  House  of  Asseudily.  a  icsolutioii  of 
non-coiitidencv  in  the  g.ivenmient.  which,  altera  long  and  animated  ilebate.was  c;irrii'd  by  a 
Vote  of  nineteen  to  tenon  tlie  litli  of  .March,  and  the  adminisliation  resigned  the  fullowing 
dav.  t)ur  subject  w.is  then  invited  by  the  lieutenant-governor.  Sir  Uoln-rt  Hodgson,  to  form  a 
new  govei'ument.  and  tid\e  the  position  of  pi-emier  ;  hi'  succeeded  in  furming  an  ailministration, 
and  the  government  was  sworn  in  on  the  11th  of  Mari'h,  IN7'.);  he  was  elected  leader  of  the 
government  b\  the  unanimous  vote  of  his  party  in  both  branches  ot'  the  legislature,  .;iid  was 
appointed  attorney  and  advocate  gcnerid  and  pri'sident  of  the  executive  council  on  the  for- 
mation of  the  administration. 

The  Hou.se  of  Assembly  was  dissolvecl,  and  a  general  election  held  on  the  !t(li  of  .V;iril, 
bs7'.l.  when  the  government  was  sustained  by  a  vote  of  twenty-six  to  four,  being  the  largest 
su|)port  ever  accorded  to  any  administration  in  the  island.  For  most  of  these  facts  we  are 
indebted  to  the  work  to  which  wi'  have  already  referr<'d. 

Among  other  acts,  Mr.  Sullivan  was  instrumental  in  securing  branch  lines  of  railway  to 
Souris  and  Tignish  in  1872;  assisted  in  carrying  through  the  island  legislature  terms  of  con- 
federation in  187?';  a.ssiste(i   in  |ia.ssing  "The  Land   F'urchase  Act,  187">,'  and  other  Acts  on 


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the  Hamo  sulijcct  in  1.S70  ;  introduced  and  eariit'<l  through  tlic  legislature  an  Act  regulating  the 
nianagcuji'nt  of  tlic  various  dcpartuK'tits  of  tlic  provincial  civil  st^rvicc  in  lN7<i;  introduced  and 
carried  through  the  legislature,  "An  Act  for  Aliolishing  lnij)risonnient  for  Delit,"  in  l!s7i(,  and 
"  the  Jury  Act  of  IKHO,"  which  provides  for  the  trial  of  all  civil  causes  by  seven  instead  of 
twelve  jurors,  as  well  as  several  other  uieasuics  of  law  reform  and  Acts  for  the  gcjneral  honefit 
of  the  province. 

Mr.  Sullivan  was  married  at  Charlottetown,  on  the  13th  of  August,  I.S72,  to  Alice  Maude 
Mary,  third  daughter  of  John  Kenton  Newbcry,  Es(|uirc,  B.A.,  of  Oxford,  and  formerly  of 
London,  England,  and  Siena,  Italy,  and  they  hav(;  five  children.  The  family  are  memhers  of 
the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

As  a  leader,  Mr.  Sullivan  matures  his  measures  thoroughly  before  submitting  them  to  the 
House,  hence  his  success  in  that  position  ;  his  industr\-  is  unwearied ;  he  clings  with  the  utmost 
tenacity  to  the  cause  which  he  advocates,  and  never  trusts  the  discharge  of  any  parliamentary 
duty  devolving  upon  himself  to  another  ;  he  speaks  with  exactness  and  jirei-ision,  is  extremely 
cautious,  and  takes  good  care  not  to  get  his  party  into  "  deep  water."  Having  a  strong  and 
determined  will,  once  con\inci'(l  that  he  is  right,  he  pushes  forward  with  uiillinching  persever- 
ance, and  success  almost  invariably  crcjw  ns  his  efforts. 


HON.   (JHARLES    YUuNG,   LL.D.,    (J.C, 

CUA  JiLOTTKTO  tfN,  P. E.  I. 

THE  subject  oT  this  biographical  notice,  surrogate  and  juilge  of  probate,  l*rince  Kilward 
Island,  was  born  in  (JIasgow,  Scotland,  April  :W,  \M-1.  He  is  a  yo\inger  brother  of  Sir 
William  Young,  chief  justice  of  Nova  Scotia,  in  who.se  sketch,  in  another  part  of  this  work, 
may  be  found  the  ])arentage,  &c.,  of  our  subject,  who  was  educated  at  l)alhoiisie  college,  Hali- 
fax ;  and  studied  law  with  his  brother.  Sir  William,  in  that  city.  He  was  called  to  the  bar  of 
Nova  Scotia  in  l.S:}8 ;  ami  to  that  of  I'riiu'e  Ivlward  Island,  the  same  year;  practised  a  .short 
time  with  his  brothers,  Sir  William  and  the  Hon.  (Jeorge  H.  Voung,  now  deceased;  and  was 
the  first  barrister  in  Prince  Kdward  Islaml  to  be  ereated  a  (^.('.,  his  appointment  being  date(l 
November  2.S,  I.S47. 

Judge  Young  entered  pulilie  life  in  Ajiril,  l.S+O,  when  he  was  returned  for  (^)neen's  coiuitv 
to  the  Island  Assembly.  In  the  Decendter  following,  he  was  a[>pointe(l  to  the  legislative 
council,  in  which  he  sat  until  180:?;  during  the  last  ten  years  of  that  period  bein^  president  of 
the  body.  Mv  was  attorney-general  from  May  '28,  18.")l,  to  May  2.  I8.)3,  and  from  Jinie  2!t, 
1S.")8,  to  April  11,  18,")!)  ;  and  held  the  eomnd.ssion  umler  the  myal  sign  manual  as  administiator 
of  the  government  of  the  Island  foi  four  years. 

Judge  Young  is  credited  with  being  the  first  statesman  in  I'rince  Edward  Island  who 
advocated  responsible  government,  and  he  was,  with  other  faithful  co-workers,  instrumental  in 
having  it  established  in  18.')1  ;  togetlu'r  with  other  important  arts  of  a  reform  character,  such 
a.s  free  .schools,  free  lands  for  the  tenantry,  savings  banks,  &c.,  ilvc. 

He  was  appointed  judg(>  of  probate  in  18.")2,  and  judge  in  bankruptcy  in  1808.  On  re- 
tiring from  the  latter  in  March,  187'),  he  was  presented  with  the  following  addre.ss  which 
contains  the  signature  of  every  member  of  the  bar  of  Prince  Kdward  Island  : — 


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To  His  IT')Noii  .rriHiK  Yoi'Nii,  LL.D.,  Ac,  Ac,  X:e.  * 

SiK,— Wo,  tlio  uiidorsiKiied,  ImrriiiterH  ami  iitturiHiys,  taiiiint  p 'rmit  tlio  Kpfiortiiiiity  to  jums,  of  yuiir 
Hiiiiiir'g  retiriiiK  from  tlin  .Fiiil«ushi|i  of  tlui  liiKolvi'iit  DclitoVH'  (!oiirt  tlic  jurisilictioii  of  wliii'li  is  now  im>ri{t>(l 
ill  iiiiotluT  uoiirt  l>.v  virtilo  of  "Tlio  limolvunt  Act,  iH'r),"  of  tlir  Uomiiiioii  of  ( 'aiiiiilii,  -without  t'X|)ronHiiiL;  our 
I'litiiv  NiitiHfiiotioii  at  tlio  iiiitiincr  in  wliicli  )oii  pivtiiloil  ovor  the  nmotiir^s  of  tlio  court  :  ami  at  tlio  saiiio  tiiiio 
thanking  you  for  your  many  conrtosii'H  I'xtoiiiliMl  to  us  iliiriii!^  tho  oij^lit  yisvrs  your  Ho.'or  ;>rosiilod  ovor  gaiil 
Court. 

[.Signed]  F.   Hkkckkn,  Attorney-donoral, 

\V.  \V.  Sri, I.IVAN,  Solioitor-tJuiieral, 

John   LoNcwoiirii,  l,>.("., 

Chaiii.kh  I'ai.mkii,  V''-i 

OlIAIIl.KS    HiNNS, 
Ull'lIAKll    KkIHiIN, 

E.  H.  Haviiash, 


KoWMtli   J.    MolMISlIN, 

Loi  IS  II.  Oaviks, 

It.   |{.  KirzdKHAI.Il, 

W.  I».  H  \s/,\uii, 
Mknuv   K.   Wiuoiir, 

MaI.COI.M    .Mel, Kill/, 
iiv.ll.  Mrl.Kol  . 


Cliarlottotown,  P.K.I.,  March  2!l,  IHTti. 

And  to  wliicli  tlie  followinj,'  reply  was  iiivcn  :~ 

(iKNTi.KMKN,— Hi'  ploasod  to  acou|it  my  l>^^^t  tlmiik<  for  the  addrosi  you  have  so  unotiioclodly  iiftscuti'd  ; 
and  ho  assurod  that  [  do  most  highly  valuo  it,  on  ,n:r:imiit  of  tlio  oxprossion  if  o mtaiiis  of  your  ontiri'  satisfac- 
tion with  tho  nianiior  in  which  I  liavo  prosidocl  nyvr  "Tlio  Insulvoiit  Dohlors'  t/'ourf,"  for  tlio  last  ei^lit  yaai's. 
Whoro  I  havo  always  hoon  tioatod  v^•ith  markoil  oonsidoratioii  hy  yoiiisolvo.s,  L;ontIoiiioll,  1  could  not  do  othor- 
wiso  than  rociprocatu  tho  coiirtosios,  to  which  you  so  kindly  ri'for. 

CIIAULKS    Vl>rN!!. 

Charlottetown,  P.E.I.,  March  29tli.  IhTc. 

Wliile  JikIo'o.  Vmiii;,'  was  practisiiit,'  at  tlio  liar  lir  jwnl  a  laiLfo  and  liicrativu  liiisino.s.s.  He 
was  engajjod,  mi  one  side  ov  the  otlier.  in  most  of  tlio  leading-  cases  then  j)endiiio  ;  In.  was 
alway.s  retained  on  behalf  of  tho  tenants  ao-ainst  the  lainllnids,  and  y'onoiully  suceet^ded  in 
irainini'  a  verdiet  for  his  elieiits.  It  was  he  that  oave  tlie  sonhriiiiiot,  cif  the  "bleedin<r 
tenantry  '  of  Prince  Kdward  Tsianil.     He  was  evei'  the  friend  and  advocate  of  the  ojipressed. 

Judge  Young  has  held  no  ottiee  which  he  has  imt  adoriicil.  <  liit  of  (ilHec,  !is  well  as  in 
office,  he  has  rendered  at  sundry  times, great  services  to  the  conniiiinity.  In  C'ampliell's  history 
of  Prince  Eilward  Island,  on  page  !)2,  we  read  tliat  "towards  the  cluso  of  the  year  I.S.'J.S,  a 
-Mechanics'  Institute  was  estahiished  in  < 'harlnttetown,  mainly  through  tiio  instrnmentality  of 
Ml- Charles  Young — now  the  Hon.  .ludge  Young,  LL.D.  The  intiddiictory  loctuic,  which  was 
sulwenuently  pulilislied  in  the  (lazttlc.wiis.  delivered  hy  that  gentlemau."  The  degree  of  LL.D. 
liere  spoken  of  was  conferred  Ly  the  Newton  (Tnited  States)  university.  In  LS.'i.S,  our  subject 
was  offered  knighthood,  but  declined  to  accept  the  honor. 

The  judoe  is  a  lloyal  Arch  Mason  ;  a  member  of  the  Methorlist  cliiiieh,  a  local  jneaclier, 
and  tills  several  offices  therein  ;  is  also  a.  l.ibh.-class  teacher,  and  an  untiring  Christian  worker. 
He  was  instrumental  in  founding  the  second  .Methodist  church  in  Charlottetown  ;  and  is  jiresi- 
dent  of  tho  Prince  Kdward  Island  iiuxiliaiy  Hiblc  society.  He  ha-.',  since  LS4."),  taken  a  great 
deal  of  interest  in  tlie  temperance  mo\cment,  and  was  grand  worthy  ])atriai-cli  of  the  Sous  of 
Temperance  several  times,  and  is  a  member  of  the  National  Division  Sons  of  Tcm|iei-ancc. 

ilc  niarrieil,  in  1838,  Lii  r-tia,  daughter  of  John  Starr,  Ks(|.,  of  Ilaiifa.X,  .N..S.  We  believe 
they  have  no  children.  Their  residence  is  "  FaiuhoL.M,"  Charlottetown,  with  its  .sylvan  sur- 
roundings, and  is  a  paradise  of  beauty. 

In  the  "Canadian  Legal  Directory,"  from  wliich  we  derive  much  of  the  information  con- 
tained in  this  sketch,  we  find  the  following  exti-act  from  th(>  minutes  of  the  e.\ocutive  council 
of  Prince  Edwai-il  Isl.-md,  ilated  at  the  council  chamber,  2Lst  (jf  May,  LS'i2:  — 

1 'o  Board,  having   niven    mature  considoration  to  tlio  several  documents  sulimitted  to   Ui.s  Excollenoy 
y  •■'  010  .V  upon  the  subject  of  the  appointment  of  a  successor  to  the  late  Chief  Justice  .larvis,  and  the  Attoniey- 


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TIIF  (  AXADTAS    niOCRA  rjl ir.il.  DirTInXARr. 


(ioneml  (('.  Ymiiii;),  in  his  [■!  i^c,  having  atiiti'd  tliat  ho  wi.slu'il  i><  withdraw  liis  cliiim  to  ami  iipiiliiatinii  fnr  tho 
.aoaiit  api>iiiiilmi'nt  (fiiuiulc.l  mi  lii.s  prosont  pi'sitimi  nf  rhii'f  law  ailvisor  of  the  }ioveiMiinMit ',  for  the  following 
reason,  naniily  :  '  That  liy  tlio  appointnii'iit  of  the  Hon.  Uohert  Ho.li^'son,  the  ])ension  of  tli:ii  f^enlleinan, 
anionntiin;  to  f'JtK)  per  aniniMi,  will  he  sived  to  tlie  eolony,  anil  its  host  interests  will  thus  he  siihserveil.' 

Ami  this  body,  fully  reeoiinizin'^  the  validity  of  tlie  Atlorney-tfi  leral's  claim,  wonid  rospeL'tfiilly    reooni- 
meud  to  His  Kxcelleiiey  that  tlie  Hon.  K  d)ert  Hodgson  he  provisionally  ap|)ointed  Chii'f  .Instice  of  tlie  Ishiud. 

A  true  extrai't, 

(SigneJJ  CHAULKS  DES  lilUSAV,  I'.C. 


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HON.  AVILLIAM    JIKNRY    POPE, 

SUMMEIL^IUH.   P. E.I. 

A  M(>N(1  tho  jiioiniiicnt  iiifii  rcci'iitly  ilico.ivi.d  in  I'limt'  Kilw.uil  l.slaiul,  no  unr  is.  iniii(> 
i^ A  woitliN  id'  a  sUidcli  in  ;i  vohiiiio  like  (!iis,  tlinn  tin'  Ucni  W'illiiiin  Ffi-ni-y  I'ojii',  late 
jinlo'o  of  tile- cDinil y  ciMiit  I'liiur  (■viiiity-,  lie  w.is  a  iiativi'  id"  tliat  i.slainl,  li'fitat  n(Mloi|iio, 
May  2!>,  liS2.) :  .spent  lii.s  il;(y>'  in  tliiiti.slai;il.  ami  tliiiin.i.j  tlie  last  twenty  years  of  lii.s  lifo  took  ii 
consjiieiions  jiart  in  tlie  politic-i  of  tlic  pro\ince.  anil  at  the  liar  ainl  on  tlie  lieneli,  lieini,'  very 
m'tive  ''iitil  liis  ilentli,  wliicli  oci  iiiinl  .'.t  iiis  heaiitifiil  resiiliMiee  in  Suimnef.si'le.  on  thoTtli  'if 
(htolier,  1S7!I. 

Mr.  l'ii|ie  \s.i-  the  il,ii-,(  mm  id'  t!i"  lliiii.  .liKoj.h  l*ope,  who  eini^^rateil  from  [V'voiishiir, 
iMiolaml.  to  i'linte  Kilwaiil  Islaml  inuuy  _\eais  a/.^).  anil  is  still  li\in','.  a  foloist  ami  "  tine  old 
iMiulish  i;entleinun'  in  liis  si\en(\ -seventh  Mar.  ( tiir  sulijiot  leceiveil  his  liter.uy  eilncatioii 
in  l-'.no!a!»il,  atid  his  leo-al  in  the  oilici-  it'  tli'-  (Ion  Isilnaiil  I'.ilnior.  iinw  ehief  Jnslieo  of  I'rjnee 
Kilwaril  islaiiil  ;  was  riilleij  t"  the  hai  in  istT,  and  after  [naetisino  ■^  few  years,  he  liee.inie  very 
mneh  inter, -sted  in  [inliiies  to  whieh  ho  lai't,'ely  turned  his  attention,  jireferrin;^  for  awhile,  as 
some  one  has  said,  '  llu-    l.e,dslaliv(!  .Xsseinliiy  to  the  ei  nit  loom. " 

In  Is.'i!!.  he  eiitiivd  fairly  on  his  pulilie  I'lreer.  lieiii;,^  aii|i'iinied  cnlonial  seci'etafy,  md 
fiinr  veai's  later  we  liml  him  s  ati  I  in  tl:e  lloiise  of  .\.sseiiilily  as  iijireseiitative  for  llelfast, 
lieino  ininiediateh'  in\  ited  to  a  place  in  the  e-'-inet.  .\  little  htter  the  ijiiestion  of  land  tetiores 
hei^'aii  to  excite  nincli  attention,  ami  Mi.  l'o|<e  am!  if.pii.  Ivluaid  I'almer  visited  London  iMi.S^ 
and  laid  their  case  lietniv  liie  liiijierial  u'ovei  nne'iit ,  the  iiiissi,,|,  Keiiio-  attendeu  with  o-,„id 
results. 

.Mr.  I'op''  was  a  dele^ad  to  the  ( 'harlot tetosN  II  uii'l  <^nel.ce  conferences,  whieh  was  helii  in 
iMif  to  considei  till  i|iiestii  ii  of  coiifedeiat ion.  he  liein;,'  a  Warm  ad\ocate  ot  that  scheme  :  and 
althiiiiLrli  there  was  some  d'lav  in  lie  case  id'  I'lince  IvUv.ud  Id.ind  in  comi  |o'  into  the  union, 
he  no  diiiild  aided  L,'iently  in  ]pieparin;4  ''"'  niini-  id'  the  pM|ile  tor  it.  Iiy  his  ahle  articles, 
w  ritlcn  from  time  to  time,  fer  the  inl,iii(i'  r  iiewspapi  t .  piildished  at  ( 'liarlottetown.  lie  was  one 
ofthethtee  « 'aiiaiiiaii  cominissioncr*  appointed  in  iMi,"*  to  visit  the  West  IluUii  Islaii'ls  and 
]ir«/.il   to  ic'ootiate  a  ti'eaty  of  reciprocal  tree  trade. 

'risnlioll  a  deiided   politician,    and   Weil   lead   ill    the    seiclUe  id'    political    economy    Mr      I'ope 

dill  not  n<\L'l''i't  his  le^ral  studii  s,  and  ii^e  to  ii  lii;;h  pinitioii  am  m;'  the  fraternity.  lioiii.j  in 
iMil  entrusted,  with  the  lion.  Kdvvnid  Palmer,  and  lli.ii  .lolin  L  •no;woitli,  with  tlie  responsilde 
dut\  iif  revisiiiL;  ihi  laws  of  the  province,  ptejiaratory  to  the  piililicution  of  ii  new  edition  if 
the  statute  liiMik  .\i!'l  here  we  may  ii'M  that  only  ih(>  year  hefore  his  death,  ,VIr,  I'ope, 
toift-'ther  with  .liidoc  4\lli  y.    of  the   <^>nlen,s  eoiintv    ceiirt.  had  tic  task  assi^ncil  thcin  i,>f    con 


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tlt.-nsing,  CDTisolidiiting  and  rovisiiitf  for  jnil)lieation  all  the  laws  in  foiro  since  tlie  ('onfeileratioii. 
On  tills  work  lie  was  enga>Teil  at  tlio  time  of  liis  doniiso. 

.Mr.  Pope  was  nppotnteil  jmlire  of  the  Tiince  county  court  in  liSTo,  and  in  a  nieinoirt-.f  'iiin, 
pnlilished  in  the  Montreal  (iiCt'tlr.  that  paper  thus  speaks  of  his  status  as  a  judye,  togetlu'r 
with  his  liti'niry  ia><tes  anil  attaimnent'',  liis  sin'iai  liahits,  \c. 

.Mr.  rii|ie  performed  the  dntiea  of  that  iiliice  nitli  ili!,'iiity,  ere'lit  ami  s,iti»f:iftii)ii  to  all  eoin-.'rneil  till  the 
licnu' of  lii.s  ileatli.  5>iiriiii;  his  teinu'e  I'f  ollice  he  rendered  iucli^iiient  in  severa'  tlioiisinds  of  ease.i.  iKit  of 
these  tint  two  were  api>eah'd  from,  and  in  Ivotli  instances  his  decisions  were  \niaiiinioiisly  conlirnied  h_v  tlu' 
superior  court  of  tlie  provinee. 

It  is  .seldom  that  a  eohmiai  imldic  man  who  is  ftlao  devoted  to  an  ahsorhing  profes.siou,  can  euhivate  or 
even  pri'si'rve  his  taste  for  literature  and  literary  pursuits  and  eompanionship.  Kut  .ludije  I'ope  found  time  in 
liis  I'lisy  life  for  the  i^ratiticaliou  of  a  deep-seateti  love  of  hooks,  and  of  the  company  of  those  who  wiMte  them. 
Husiness,  puhlic  or  private,  haviiii;  often  taken  him  to  London,  he  was  three  times  (ISo!!,  IStiti  and  l.s;(l)  elected 
an  honorary  meniher  of  tlie  wellknipwii  .Atheii.eiiin  (liili.  It  is  one  of  the  rules  of  thiscluh  that  the  honorary 
mem  hers  from  the  col  inies  and  forei'jn  parts  are  limited  in  nuinher  to  fifteen.  On  the  occasion  of  ,iudi;e  !'opi'"s 
last  visit  to  London,  tlnre  w.is  hut  one  vacancy.  Two  persons  were  nominated  to  till  it.  One  was.ludi,'e  I'ope 
-the  other  was  the  ceiehrated  l>islio]i  (dhnso,  of  N.ilal.  iludiie  I'ope  was  electeil  hy  a  lar;.,'e  majority,  a  tri- 
Imte  of  regard  from  a  distin-iiiished  company  of  ^'enllemeii,  of  which  any  man,  however  hiL^h  in  station,  miijlit 
well  feel  proud.  .\s  inii,'ht  hi'  e.\peeted  from  such  an  ilicidi  nt  as  the  ahove,  .Iuiii;e  I'ope's  acipiaint.iine  with 
literary  men  was  wide,  ami  included  such  names  as  Thackeray,  hickens,  I  >eaii  -\lfoid,  I'yiidall.  Huxley,  the 
Earl  ol  Kiiniskilu'ii,  I  oid  Stanley,  th.e  present  K.irl  I'erhy,  lettiis  from  the  last  named  appeariiii;  in  the  corres- 
pondence of  the  ileceased.  .Max  Miiller.  i.f  Oxioid.  a  man  distins,'uished  for  leaiiiin^  in  many  directions,  was  a 
IriemI  .ini!  corrt.spomlen'  of  .ludi;e  I'ope,  who  just  liefore  his  death  had  received  a  piest-iitatloii  volume  fioiii 
that  hi'iiliant  ami  famous  scholar.  .\  disinclination  to  talk  commonly  ii  iranlin^  his  literary  acipiaintances  ami 
corie^'pondeni  e  has  made  it  dilhciili  to  do  justice  to  the  purely  literary  aspeet  of  his  lite  ;  and  nest  of  the 
results  of  dceli  study  and  loii;,'  years  of  careful  leading,  have,  as  is  often  the  case  with  scholars,  ilepailed  with 
him.  ( If  the  e.irly  history  iif  his  own  I'olony,  and  of  iln'  I'.ritish  provinces  in  ;,'eneral,  he  was  an  eiithusiiistic 
slmleiit.  It  had  Ion;;  heeii  a  cherished  ho|ie  with  Inm  to  have  K  isup  to  wril.i'  a  history  o|  I'liiice  Kdv\aril 
Island.  To  that  ill  1  he  had  gathered  to;,'ether  from  many  sources  a  i^i  ..it  mass  of  uiforiiiatioii,  .mil  as  no  man 
was  more  ipialilied  for  the  task,  it  w.is  unfortunate  fi  r  Ins  province  tlia'  he  was  not  spared  to  acmmplish  it. 

In  social  life  .Mr,  I'ope  was  ilie  soul  of  h.ispit.ility  and  the  \ery  p.ittcrn  of  tioml  fello«  diip.  .\s  we  have 
said,  he  had  lieeii  all  his  life  a  student,  am!  in  the  course  of  his  reading  had  pickeil  up  much  v,ilu,!l)le  ami  much 
(piaml  informati.iii,  which  he  wove  with  sinmilar  skill  into  hi.s  con\eisation.  His  disposition  was  natiirall,v  ^'.ly 
and  eheirfiil,  and  his  hafijiy  flow  of  sjiirits  mii,dit  le.id  one  to  heiiive  that  In  iievei  knew  a  lioiil.l.  His  mother 
was  a  daULfhler  of  the  late  Captain  ('olleilL;i',  of  the  1st  Ihiyal  l!e;,'iineiit  of  liif.inlr_\ ,  of  winch  the  I  »iike  of  Kiiit 
was  col'iuel.  She  died  miny  years  ano.  .Mr.  l'o|ie  married  on  the  "Jiid  January,  \^i>\,  Miss  lleslii  isay,  of 
t'harlotieion  11,  who,  with  eiylit  children,  s'lrvixe  him  He  was  liurii^d  in  the  graveyard  of  the  parish  ehiircli 
of   .St.    Klc.liols. 

V,  e  cannot  more  tittini^ly  close  liiis  sketch  of  the  life  of  .ludije  I'ope,  says  the  (.'|J.•'^■,  than  hy  ipiotni;,'  the 
words  littered  hy  .lud(;e  I'llers,  of  tie  su)iieiiie  court  of  the  province,  whii'h  opened  its  sessions  it  Summerside, 
on  the  ihiy  of  .liuloe  I'.. pes  death.  The  lion.  Ljentlenian,  lu  addressiiij,'  the  uraiid  jury,  said  '  I  cannot  close 
my  charge  to  you  withoiil  allinliiii;  i  >  an  event  wliuh  has  cast  a  ',do,>ni  over  the  commiiinty  1  refer  to  the 
lie.ith  of  .IiidiiC  I'ope.  Possessed  of  a  keen  and  piwirfiil  intellect  he  devoted  his  whole  mind  to  the  iipri/ht 
discharge  of  liisciiltiis.  He  did  his  very  iilmosi  faiihfiilly  to  execute  his  oltice,  and  not  only  do  his  family 
mourn  their  h.ss,  hiii  the  whole  community  jjrieve  for  a  jiiat  .and  upright  pidnu.' 

We  ha\  ■•  iinly  t'    .nld  that  (he  Mi!ii>(i f  id'  .M:iiine  ;ind    Kishnir-..   II. m    •'    ( '.   I'ope.  whose 
>kelcli  a]ipiai-'  'Ui  otin  r  paoes  <d' thi-  wmk,  i--  iiii  i'iil\  I'lulloe  of  the  -uKirct  of  the  ahove  notice 


\IK\      l)A\ll>    l"n"/(.l.i;Al,|),    I '.I)., 

VUAIll.oTTKTon'N.   f  K  I 

DAVID  FI  rZi;KK.\I,|),  rector  uf  St.  Pfinls  t  hmch,  t 'harlotti  *->wn,  was  lnn-n  in  the  '•,.unty 
of  Kiiiy,  Ireland, on  the  Jhd  of  |i niher,  KM.'Mii*;  father  l.eiii:;  Williani  l-'it/.-erald.  I'.ii- 

liMtei-atlHw  One  "f  his  paternal  aiu'cstors  was  a  c«ptain  in  King.lanns  If.  army,  liveil  dur- 
ing the  reioii  i.>\'  ix  I'liiolish  kings,  tiiiil  died  at  the  iigo  uf  |  |(i  _\eai«.  Iiaviiig  a  full  set  uf  teelh 
at  the  aoe  ill' SO  \  eais,     Tin   w  if' iif  Williani   Kit/.o-erald  was  Anne  only  daughter  and  lieircsi!! 


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THE  caxaihax  nioGHAriiicAL  j^ictioxarv. 


of  Rev.  Robert  Minnitt,  nf  Black  fort,  slic  liciiij;  tlit^  inotlior  of  ten  children,  of  wlio/ii  Duviil  was 
tlie  fifth  child  and  eldest  son.      licr  Dunily  went  to  Ireland  while  Charles  II.  was  on  the  tliroiie. 

Our  sniiject  was  educated  at  Trinity  ( Vtllc^e,  Dulilin.aml  was  ordained  deacon  in  ISi."),  and 
jiriest  a  year  later.  He  beijan  his  ministry  as  curate  to  l{ev.  Dr.  Snuth  at  C'ooltrain,  county  of 
Ferinanaj,di,  Irelaml;  then  had  char^r'  of  the  district  church,  Mai;uiie's  Riidge,  in  the  same  county, 
and  in  l!S-i7  came  to  I'rinre  Kdward  Islaml,  as  assistant  minister  to  th<'  llov.  Dr.  Jenkip.s,  of 
St.  Raid's  church,  ( 'harlottetown. 

Mr.  Fit/.i^eralil  lieeame  rector  of  St.  Paul's  in  l.s.")7,and  although  it  has  sent  off  an  otishoot 
(hiring'  that  period,  its  strenj^th  has  Ijcen  well  maintained,  and  is  on  the  ^'radual  increase.  Jli> 
.sermons  are  ]iractieal  and  pointed,  and  calcidate(l  es|ieeiMlly  to  instiuci  the  people. 

-Mr.  Fitzgerald  has  liei'U  a  faithful  pastor,  and  of  a  good  deal  of  service  to  the  ]iuhlie,  out- 
side his  parochial  (hities,  iK'ing  for  upwaixls  of  twenty  years  a  memher  of  the  Board  of  Kduca- 
tion,  and  a  trustee  of  tlie  lunatic  asylum.  He  was  at  one  time  chajtlain  to  the  liCgislative  ('oun- 
cil,  and  may  have  held  other  offices  of  which  we  are  not  cigni/ant.  He  has  certainly  lieen,  and 
.still  is,  a  ver^'  valuaMe  citi/.eii,  ready  for  any  duty  that  seemed  to  devolve  upon  him. 

He  has  had  severd  sermoii>  and  otler  pamphlet^  puMi^hed,  and  most  of  tliem  h.ave  heen 
widely  circulated  and  eageily  read. 

He  is  a  B..\.  of  Duhlin  rni\ersity.  and  a  D.D.  of  King's  Colle^-e,  \\'inds.)r,  N.S. 

Mr  l"it/geralii  ivarried  in  iNt-'),  ( 'lierry,  sicciud  daugoter  of  Unwaii  I'urdon,  M.D.  a  native 
of  Kerry,  Irelaml.  and  they  li.-uc  three  children  ou  earth  and  three  in  leaven.  The  eldest  son. 
Rowan  Rolieri,  is  stijiendiary  magi>trate,  ( 'harlottetown,  and  mentioned  in  another  part  of  this 
woi'k  ;  Sidney  D.  is  ii  resi.lent  in  Kansas,  I'.S.,  imd  Minnitt  .1.  is  the  nia.nagei' of  the  .Montague 
hranch  of  tin    I  iiion  H.-mk  of  Charlottetuwn 


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LoriS  m-'-NliV  D.WIK.S,  late  lea.l.r  of  the  l.iheral  party  in  the  House  of  Ass.  inhly  of 
I'rinee  Kilward  Island,  is  a  son  of  llrnjiniiin  Davies  ex  .\l  IM'  ami  was  Imru  in  Cliar- 
1  ittetown,  oil  the  4th  of  May.  \>>\'>.  Ue  was  edueated  at  the  ('entral  Academy  and  I'rinee  of 
Wales  college,  Charlofti'town  :  studied  law  with  <  'harles  I'almer.  ()\  '.  ;  was  called  to  the  bar  of 
I'lince  Kdwanl  Island,  in  lN(i<i,  tinishe.j  lii>  legal  -ttidiis  in  th<'  1  iier  Temple,  London,  and  be- 
"an  practlHiiitr  in  September,  iStiT.  lie  has  been  in  praetice  in  ('harlottetown  foi  fourteen 
\fars,  and  '  'iie  of  the  ablest  and  most  inillianf  lawyei-  :it  the  I'linee  Kdward  Island  bar. 
With  a  strong  and  char  intellect  he  pie.sents  the  substantial  points  of  his  argument  ul\\a_\s 
wit),  singiilai'  teiseiiess  ami  force  :  and  in  his  address  to  a  jury  his  languagi-.altlioiigh  not  studi- 
ouslv  classical,  \i't  for  its  ei\ineN|  ein'rgetic  and  effective  tone,  i",  nil,  siirpasHed  liy  that  of  any 
meiidicr  cf  the  liar      He  was  erealed  a  (^>ueen  s  ( 'ounsel  in  .laniiary,  IH,SI. 

Ml  I'avics  entiTed  public  life  in  Is72,  when  he  was  elected  In  the  local  legislature  for 
Murray  llaiboiir,  U-ing  then  oidy  tvventy-se\cn  years  of  age.  He  was  solicitoi-general  in 
lHt»9-lH7l  and  again  in  |H7'J-I>>7"t  and  licM  his  seat  I'l  ilic  I  .  ^i>lat  uii'  until  1^7!',  when  e 
was  defeated  with  ills  party  .lU  (he  as.sessnient  bill       lb'  was  ..died  .m  to  form  a  goxeiiun.iit 


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in  SepU'inliiT,  187t),  ami  was  iirciuier  and  attonu'y-yL'iR'ial  fioni  that  date  to  1879,  wlion  the 
Conservative  party  came  into  power. 

Mr.  Davii's  is  tlic  father  of  several  important  hills  wliicli  heeaiae  law,  amonj^  which  w^ere 
the  education  liill,  l)ased  on  free  education,  the  halint  hill,  and  the  assessment  hill.  Tiie  latter, 
which  inti'odueed  a  new  system  of  taxation,  met  with  stroni.f  opposition,  hut  has  since  heen 
adoj)ted  by  hotli  pai'tie.s. 

In  1<S7.'),  .Mr.  Davies  was  appointed  hy  his  political  opponents,  as  leading  coinisel  before 
the  commissioners  by  wlmm  the  land  question  of  this  province  was  settled,  and  conducted  ail 
of  the  prot'eedinjfs  on  behalf  of  the  Government  until  the  compulsory  purchase  of  the  whole  of 
the  proprietors'  estates  had  licen  completed.  In  1N77  he  was  appointed  as  one  of  the  counstd 
for  the  Dominion  of  ( 'anada  befinc  the  International  Fishery  T'onnuission,  which  hehl  its  sittings 
in  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia. 

lie  is  a  mendicr  of  the  Masonic  order,  ami  |iast  master  of  Victoria  Lodge,  < 'hailottetown. 

Mr.  DaNies  married  at  St.  Eleanors,  in  this  island,  in  tluly,  1N7-.  Susan,  foiiith  d.uigliter 
of  Dr.  A.  \.  (I.  Wiggins,  deceased,  and  they  have  thri'c  children  li\  ing  and  have  lost  two. 


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FIJEDKIMCK    DE    ST.   ( ".    lillECMCKX,   M.I'., 
chai.'i.i>ttj:t<)H'.\'.  p. /•;./. 

UKDKRK'K  l>K  ST.  CROlX;  HIIKC'KKN,  member  of  tin'  Hoin,.  of  Cmimons,  Canada, 
foi-  (^)ueeu  s  county,  I'.lvl.,  beloi.gs  to  a  family  of  Irgishitors  ;  his  fat'irr,  John  Ihei'ken. 
represented  < 'hariottetown  in  tin'  House  of  Asseu  biy,  from  1S;^0  to  ISIM-.  wlwu  l"\vas  apjiointi'd 
a  member  of  the  Kxeeiitive  and  Legislativ'  * 'ouncils  of  tlii;  pros  inee,  w  hieb  po>ition  he  hell  up 
to  his  death  in  IM,")7.  The  grandfather  of  Frederiel<.  I!al|ib  Ihecken,  who  caun  to  this  island 
''rom  l]ngland  in  tin  latter  part  of  the  last  centuiy,  was  a  mendier  of  the  Housi^  of  Assemlily 
i'or  some  years,  and  s])eaker  of  that  bo(ly  when  he  died  in  IM.S  ;  and  his  great-grandfather,  ('ol. 
Jo.seph  Robinson,  an  a-^i-tanl  judge  of  this  prosinoe  ninety  years  ago,  was  speaker  of  the  House 
of  AsseMilil\   in  17!'<». 

'I'Ih  motiici  of  Mr.  ilreeken  was  Maru'aiet  De  St.  <'roi\,a  native  of  I'rii.ce  l-Mward  Islnnd  ; 
he  Was  born  at  <  'hariottetown,  on  tin:  '.Uh  of  |  )eec  ndier,  I  N"_'S  ;  eilnciited  at  the  eentral  aeademv 
in  this  city;  studied  l."\\  with  Sir  Itobi  rt  lloilgson,  then  went  to  London,  .•iml  attended  at 
Lineobi  s  Lin  :in  I  ili"  Inner  Teiniile  LMl'  LS.')'2',  and  w:is  admitted  lo  practise  in-liuie,  I8.)2; 
he  is  of  the  lirni  of  IJrecken  and  Kit/.gerald,  his  partner  being  Uowan  Itobert  Kil/gerald,  who  is 
iilso  a  stipi'ndiary  magistrate,     .NL;  Mncken   was  a  delegate  to  the   Detroit  cjuveution  in  LMi.'>. 

He  is  one  of  the  solicitors  foi  till'  IJank  of  Prince  Kdward  island,  and  director  for  many 
years  of  the  ( 'hariottetown  g.is  company. 

He  w.is  elected  to   the   provincial   leejslatino   for  Charlottetnwn,  t!ie   capital  of  the  island, 

in  iS(!.'{,  ami  was  reelected   at  each   sulisfi|Uent  general    election    until    LS7<i,  when  hi'  was  de- 

teatcd  on  the  school  ipiest ion  ;  he  was  attorney -geiici.d  and  a<lvocati'-general  front  .\|iril,  IfS.Mt, 

to  •'aiuiiiiy,  iNtl.'t;  a   iiiei,dier  of  the  e\ecuti\e   I  oiiiicil   and  attornex  general  rimii    Se|iti'ndier, 

1>y(»  to  April,  ls7-;  and  was  re-appoiuted  in  April,  1M7:{,  diid  held  otiiee  until  August,  lM7<i  : 

he  is  serving  his  tirst  term  in  the   House   of  (,'ominons,  being  electei!   in   September    LS7N  ;  hi.H 

politieii  are  Conservative. 

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THE  CAXADIAX  nlOGRAl'inCA  f.  DlCTtOXAh'V. 


It  was  diirinj,'  Mr.  lirccken's  attorney-!i,'oiii'nilsliip,  in  187"),  tliat  lie  iiitroiliu-cil  and  eariiod 
tlirougli  tlii.s  li'i,dslatuiv  tlic!  iiR'asuro  l>y  wliidi  tlic  laiKl-tciiiiiv  was  cliaiii,^^!,  and  the  old  country 
landlord  systfni  aludislicd  on  tlio  islaml.  In  lN7»i,  lio  intrudnccd  tin-  rcijiistration  of  rlectoi-s  and 
ballot  bill  vvlucli  on  liis  own  motion,  was  jirintcil  and  retVircd  to  tlu-  in'oi.jc,  and  tlic  following 
year  became  a  law,  wlucli  lias  since  been  modified.  At  tlie  opening  of  tlie  lirst  parliament  in 
Febrnary,  1.'S7!I,  lie  moved  tlie  address  in  answer  to  tlie  (liivrnior-(  irneral's  speech. 

He  married,  in  September,  bSoN,  at  St.  John,  N.l!..  Helen  Leith  i^oytl  Hmslie,  daiii;liter  of 
Capt.  Emslie  of  tlie  S.Srd  regiment,  asv.i  they  have  lost  one  son,  and  have  a  son  and  liaiigiitcr 
living. 

Mv.  and  Mrs.  Hreckeii  are  members  of  the  Clnu'ch  of  Km^land. 


LiEm\-(;o\'.  T.  iiExVrir  iiavti.zVXI),  q.c, 

VUAULOTTETO  U'N,  I '.  E.  I. 

rT"UU>MAS  HI;ATH  IIAMLAN]),  win.  has  been  a  prominent  iiolitieiiui  f  .r  the  last  thirty 
_L  years  or  iiinic,  juid  who  is  now  Jjieut.-t iov«  I'lior  of  Friuce  Kdward  Island,  is  a  son  o*' 
Hon.  Tiiomas  ibath  Ilaviland,  senior,  a  native  of  Cdoncesterr-.hire,  Kngland.aml  for  many  years 
before  the  intrndu(.tio:i  of  resp-jiisible  gmernment  'lS.")l),a  member  of  the  cxt'cutive  and  Legis- 
lative C<Miiieii  ami  colonial  secretary  of  I'linee  Kdward  Island  ;  lUi  1  \va>  liorn  at  ( 'harlottetown, 
on  the  i:{th  of  Noveiiibci,  \H2'2.  His  mother  was  Jane  Rebecca  l>recken,a  native  of  Charlottr- 
town.  He  was  edncated  at.  Jirussels,  in  Helginm  ;  stndied  law  at  ( 'hailottetown  with  .hidge 
I'etei's  ;  was  ca'leil  to  the  bar  of  I'rinco  Kilward  Island  in  iNtH,  and  practisi'd  !iis  profession  at 
Cliarlottetown  until  \i>~'A.  being  created  a  <i)neen's  Counsel  in  iMi.').  For  years  h(>  stood  among 
the  foremost  men  at  the  island  bar,  and  had  a  very  laige  business  while  in  practice.  Probably 
there  is  not  a  sounder  constitutional  law_\ei-  in  the  pro\iiic". 

In  his  younger  yi'ars  .Mr.  Ha>iiand  was  eonnected  'vitli  the  active  iiiilitiii  and,  rose  step  by 
step  until  lie  lu'ld  the  rank  of  lient.-colonel  of  volunteers.  He  was  also  master  in  chaiieery, 
notary  public,  and  direcior  of  the  Bank  of  j'rince  ivlward  Island.  He  first  entered  public  life 
in  l.s4(i,  when  he  wiis  elecled  to  the  provincial  As^'inbiv  for  (ieoigetown,  sitting  until  1  S7l!. 
He  wiu  a  member  of  the  executive  council  from  A]"'!!,  1N.")!>  to  Novi  inber  ISdJ,  iilso  for  a 
short  perioil  in  ISti.'i  ;  from  IMI';  lo  1N(!7  a'ld  li'im  .Sejitemiiei.  I.s7<>  until  .\pril,  I,S72,  during 
which  .seveial  periods  he  held  the  ollice  of  coiuiiial  secve'taiy  •ilniisi  continually,  except  in  b'^ti,"), 
when  he  was  solicitor  general.  Hi'  wns  speaker  of  the  Asseniiiry  from  bsti,'!  to  I.S()i,  iiinl  leader 
of  liie  Conservative  piirty,  then  in  opposition  in  tiial  cbumiier  from  !Mi7  until  the  general  elec- 
tion in  1S7I).  He  entered  the  cabinet  once  more  on  the  'stli  of  .\]iiil,  1.S7.'^,  and  held  the  office 
of  provincial  seeretary  until  In7'>.  when  lie  resigned  li.- ,  ing  been  in  the  legislalun  for  thirty 
consecutive  years. 

During  the  ninny  _\ ears  that  .Mr.  Ilaviland  wi's  in  the  I'lovineial  p.ai  liiiineiit  he  was  llie author 
of  a  large  nnmiiei'  of  bills  which  he  carried  through  and  which  are  on  the  statute  liook.s  to  Jjiv . 
Among  those,  the  most  imiiortnnt  were:  .\n  a(  t  to  incoipoinlc  tln'  first  liank  in  i'riiae  Kdwud 
Island  :  an  act  to  nniend  the  law  of  evidence  liy  making  parties  d;  a  suit  in  a  civil  aefion  ^  ,>ni- 
potent  vvitiie.s.ses ;  an  act  to  protect  the    rights  ,if  niariie<l  women  when  deserted   by  t]u-\c  hiis- 


TllF.  r.fXADlAX  lUOGl.'AI'inr.tL  lUCTfOXAh'Y. 


731 


linnds;  an  act  to  chaiij^e  tlio  constitution  of  (1r'  liUL'islativc  (.Vnincil  liy  ivMiJcriiiL;-  the  same 
elective;  ami  an  act  to  assist  leoseholileis  in  the  purchase  of  their  farms. 

Ml'.  Havilaiid  was  a  (le]ej,'ate  to  the  Qneheo  conference,  held  in  l.S{i(-,  to  consider  the  (|nes- 
tion  of  (' :>nf(Mleration,  and  to  Ottawa,  witli  Messrs.  J.  ('.  T'ope  ami  llowlaii,  in  .\lav,  1S7.S, 
to  arraiii:'  tlie  tinai  terms  on  which  Trince  Kdward  Island  was  admitted  a  province  of  the 
I  )ominion. 

Mr.  liaviland  was  called  to  the  Senate,  on  Prince  Kdward  Island  entering  the  ( 'onfedcration, 
October  IcS,  Is7.'>,  and  was  a  mendjer  of  tliat  body  until  appointed  [o  Ins  present  ollice  ot'  i>ieut.- 
(ioveniur  on  the  14th  of  duly,  187!'.  For  this  hi.;li  and  respon--ilile  fiosition  he  seems  to  lie 
jicculiarly  fitted,  lie  beinj,' a  lawyer  of  lar;.,fe  cnik  lience,  and  having  a  knowledi;e  of  constitu- 
tional law  se('ond  to  tli.it  of  no  other  man  in  the  pro\ince,  also  lii'-st  class  executive  abilities. 
At  the  time  of  his  ajipuintnient  the  Sii'-  Era  of  Charlottetown,  a  jiaper  opposed  to  the  i,'overnor 
in  politics,  thus  s]ioke  of  1dm: — - 

'riiiiiijih  ceiiiiiieiu'iti^  |inlilii-;il  life  US  a  Teiy,  lie  Kt'|il  iiluiiy.H  III  iulviiiiec  ef  liLs  imrty,  Jiinl  l,'iim>  liis  suppurt 
to  all  i>r  nearly  all  the  lilieriil  iuid  iiro;,'iessive  iiioaaiiie.s  which  hiivc  heiii  iilaeiMl  iip.m  mir  atatalc  hciuks.  To 
Mr.  Hiv'I.'vIkI  al.sip  boh  ii^.s  the  eiinlit  et  never  oarryiiiL,'  the  liilleriiess  nf  party  stiife  into  private  or  .sneial  life  ; 
lUiil  t!ioiii.;h  a  liittor  politual  opponent,  he  wis  nt  ver  an  nnuenerou.s  foe.  He  foU'.;lit  his  siile  of  the  various 
vexe.l  ipiestions  which  from  time  to  time  eiii;ai,'e(l  the  atteiiiion  cif  the  pii'ilie,  with  a  liery  zeal,  an  iiupassione.l 
uloipienee,  ami  a  fund  of  literary,  histoiieal  and  parliaiiieiitary  kiiowleclm'  which  jjave  him  a  front  place  in  all 
pohtical  contUNta  in  which  he  enyaj,'ed.  From  jiersonal  kiiowledno  of  .Mr.  liaviland,  whilst  In^  w.is  ,i  meiiilitM'  of 
the  e.veciitive,  umler  which  the  writer  served  a.s  l,)neeii's  printer,  from  ISVIi  to  ISTlJ.  we  found  him  invariahly 
courteous,  considerate,  and  iiitliieiiced  liy  a  lii^h  sense  of  rii,'lil  ,iiid  honor.  ( tii  personal  L;rouiids  alone,  then, 
we  have  to  L;ive  expression  to  feeliiins  of  heartfelt  phsisnre  that  he  will,  in  a  few  days,  till  the  place  wliii-li  he 
has  fairly  won  ;  and  we  inirst  further  f^ive  i'X|iressioii  to  onr  o|iiiiiiiM,  liasi^d  on  yeiii  of  oUscrvalioii,  tlcit  }i\f. 
liaviland  will  never  liriin;  a  stain  iqion  the  blent.  <  ■overiioiship  of  I'riiice  Iviwaid  Island,  no  matter  what  trvin^ 
ciiciiiii.staiices  may  arise  diirin.!  liiii  tenure  of  olliee. 

( lov.  Havilatid  married  in  lSl'7,  Anne  Kli/.abetii.  ■lauo'hter  vif  .bihii  (iiiibb.  Esi|  ,  who  was 
from   Horsendoii    House,    Berks,  England,  and   they    ha\e  si;;   chiiilreii.  three   sons   and   three 

illUL^htfl-:. 

The  governor  is  a  member  of  the  Church  of  Mnojanil.  and  a  promiu'iit  layman  iii  that  bcnly. 
lie  was  a  delegate  in  1877  to  the  pro\  incial  synod  held  at  Montreal,  and  has  the  utmost  coii- 
tideuce  of  the  jieopie  oeneraJly  in  his  ( 'hiistimi  inti'grity. 


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HON.    DAXIKI.    r.OKDOX,  M.1M\, 

i:EnU<;Er<>\VX.  I'.E.l. 

D.VN  I  V.\.  (i(  >|{|  >(».\,  nieiiilier  of  the  Hou>e  of  .VssiMulily  for  ( ieoroetowii  and  i;  >y  ilty,  was 
bdiii  at  iinnleiiell  river.  King's  comity  I'K.l  .  in  iN'il.his  parents  lieiug  IIenr\  (!  irdou, 
farmer,  frtuii  Perthshire,  Srollaiid,  and  MMigarel  .Macdonald.  a  native  of  this  island.  He  w. is  ed- 
ucated at  I  lie  local  gram  mar  M'hool ;  tauolit  jiulilic  school  two  yejirs  in  King's  county:  comuieneeil 

business  in  the  111.  icanlile   line    in    |,sH,;ind   has  followed   it  for   fuity  years,  being  tl Idest 

o-eiieial  merchant  in  ( leorgetcjwn  ;  he  is  also  a  ship-builder   and    sliip-usvner,  and  a  siining  and 
til  loiioliLroiiio  bu--iiiesN  man.  entering,  with  liis  wlnde  liearl,  into  any  eiiter|>rise  vvh'eli  will  ail 
vni"e  the  general  interests  uf   (he   comiiiiiiiit  y  ;  he  has   lieeii   i'or  years  chairiuan  of  tic  King's 
couutv  board  of  agi ieiiltura I  and  iiidu--tiial    exhibilion  coiniiiissiuners.  and  i,dves  a  good  deal  uf 
time  to 'be  promotion  of  such  matti-rs  in   his  native  county.     The   [nogress  uf  ttio  couutiy  in 


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THE  CANADIAN  lUOnnAI'llICAL  DlCTIttXAliY. 


this  respect  iniistbe  to  liiiii  a  sourcu  df  vi'i-y  ;,Moat  ^latitii'atiuii.  Otlier  iiR'i'i'haiits  in  tlic  (■(itiiit)' 
co-oporatc  with  liiiii  in  tliis  kin<l  oF  wdik,  ini'l  this  section  of  th  '  ])io\incr  is  slmwin;;  i;.\- 
ct-'llent  rosults  from  Hucii  etloits. 

^Ir.  (iuiiion  lias  Ix-on  a  iiia;,'istrati,'  since  ls.')l  ;  was  ap]i(jintcil  slieritf  of  King'.-  rminty  in 
1SG3;  lie  is  chaiiman  of  the  hoard  of  school  tni  t>,cs,  is  one  of  the  visitiiiLj  justices  of  ti:c  Kinj^'s 
county, jail,  and  was  a  eonimissioner  imiler  the  insohency  laws  of  the  piovincc  preNJoiis  to  itn 
entering  the  < 'ont\'ilcration. 

Mr.  (Jonlon  tirst  eiiteri>ii  puhlic  life  in  ISIKi,  when  he  was  elected  to  tiie  rje;,'islative  ( 'onn- 
cil  for  the  4th  electoral  (listri(.'t  of  Kings;  was  elected  t'l  the  House  of  Assemlily  for  ( ieor:_''c- 
town,  in  liST'i,  a)id  was  appointed  to  the  executive  council  on  the  foi'uiation  of  the  n<,'W  govern- 
ment, with  Hon.  L.  H.  Davies  for  leader,  icsigning  his  scat  in  the  council  in  I87x  ;  lie  was 
again  elected  for  the  same  seat  in  1S7!),  and  liejng  a  practical  husiness  man  he  makes  a  \alual)ie 
mendier  of  a  ii'gi^lative  lioily  ;  he  c>irdiall\'  supjiorts  the  general  policy  "f  the  Lil>ei'al-{ 'onscr- 
vati%e  party. 

Mr.  (iordon  is  a  mendier  of  the  I'resi)\terian  church.  He  married  in  Jinie,  ISH,  firido'ct, 
danyhter  of  John  Kearney,  of  (.ieorgetown,  and  they  ha\e  three  cldldnii. 


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IIOX.   JOIO    LONGWORTIJ,   (J.(\, 

CHA  ni. OTTETOWN.  I:  E. I. 

JOHN  hONdWOirril.  I>arri>ter-at-law,  and  formerly  connected  wiih  the  le-i>]at and 
govcrnnLeiit  of  I'rincc  Edward  Island,  was  l.<irn  in  ( 'harlottetow  n,  oii  the  I'.Hliol'  Sep- 
temlier,  IMk  His  father  l-'rancis  Longuorth,  Ks(|..  a  mendier  of  a  highly  respectable  faunU, 
long  .settled  and  owning  vaiual'lc  estate>  in  the  county  of  Wcstuieath.  Ireland,  came  to  this  is- 
land when  a  ynnng  man,  and  for  many  years  was  known  in  < 'liaihitletdw  n,  as  an  active  nni'ds- 
trate  and  an  inlluential  citi/.en.  holding  aUo,  for  a  Imig  period,  the  rank  of  m.ijir,  and  >uhse- 
(jnently  that  of  lieutenant-coloiud  in  the  provincial  militia  ;  iipun  three  several  occasion.s  In; 
held  likewise  tiie  respoiisililc'  oltiee  of  high  sheiitf  of  t he  wlin],'  isljuid,  dying  in  Fchruaiv,  l.S4;{. 
Francis  Longworth  mairieil  Ague-,  .\iild.  ;i  native  of  tliis  i-l,iii(l,  he:  p.irents  heing  from  Ayr- 
shire, Scotland. 

Oursidiject  was  educated  at  the  Charloltetown  erannuar  school,  afterwards  known  as 
the  central  ae.ademy.  and  nosv  the  Prince  of  Wales  college  ;  studied  law  with  Sir  liuliert  Hodg- 
son, when  he  was  attorney -ge"  ",\\  .if  the  province;  -.vas  admitted  as  an  attdiiiev  of  the  su- 
preme coMit  in  the  autumn  n.  and  was  called  to  (jir  l,ar  in  tlie  aiiiiimn  uf  tiie  rnxt  \ear. 

Mr.  hongwoith  spent  the  of   1^:1;)   in    Knglaiid,  and   •ipeiied  a  Ian  otlice  at  ( 'liarlutle- 

town  in  I'^+O.  and  has  hfcn  in  tl"  practici'  of  his  piufcssion  here  fn.m  (hat  late,  'iewas 
created  a  (jjueen's  Comisel  on  the  •_':>!, I  of  .M;i\ ,  Isiw'! 

He  is  also  a  deputy  judj.je  of  tlie  virc-admiially  curt  i.f  liie  province  h,.  entered  the  Le.r. 
islaturc  of  Prince  Kdward  Island,  for  (^>uc- n's  (.ainty  in  Ls4'!.  and  retiicd  at  the  end  of  the 
term  of  four  years  ;  was  again  elected  in  IS.')S.  ;ind  ivmaineil  until  lN(i7;  was  a  mendier  of  (he 
government  for  eight  xems,  iS.Mt  to  jstiT  and  at  various  times,  us  t^ueen's  ( 'oinisel,  discliar'ed 
the  duties  of  atioriiey-genei.d.  Tlie  administration,  <if  wliiel,  he  was  an  iiitliient  i;d  memlier, 
tirst  le<I  hy  the  Hon    Iviward  i'.dmer,  now  chief  justice  of  tie    province,  afterwards  li)  IJic  Hon. 


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THE  CAXAl'IAX  liloaUAl'llUAL  DlcriOSAliV. 


735 


Colonel  Gray,  CM. LI.,  was  a  .sti'onj^  ami  able  one,  ami  duriiiif  its  t'xi.strm'c  many  iiii'a>mt's  of 
great  iniportaneo  to  the  well-luMiij.;  of  the  provinco  were  caiiii'l  into  effect.  Amoni,'st  them 
wa.s  tlu^  purchase  by  tlie  yovernineiit  of  the  "  Selkirk  "  ami  "  t'lmai'il  "  estates,  two  of  tlie  l.ii'i;- 
est  ami  most  valiiahle  estates  in  the  ])ro\itico,  mmlo  ii|)oii  tefius  lii^lily  favorable  to  tin;  inter- 
ests of  the  government  and  tenantry  ;  ami  as  a  mark  of  the  Queen's  approval  of  the  general 
])oliey  uf  the  administi'ation,  Mr.  Lungwortli  and  his  coUeagnes  on  tlu-ir  retirement,  in  May, 
l.S(!7,  lecejved  ILr  Majesty's  special  .sanction  and  authority  to  retain  the  rank  and  title  which 
they  held,  as  members  of  Iler  Kxeeutive  '  'oinieil. 

Mr.  liongwortli's  politics  are  ("on.servative.  but  it  is  well  known  that  the  acts  and  legisla- 
lation  of  the  |>resent  government,  especially  in  connection  witli  the  pacitic  railway,  and  its 
trade  or  "  national  policy,"  havi!  not  met  lii>  ap[ii(jvai,  this  "policy,"  being  espeeiidiy  in  Mr. 
Longworth's  view,  higldy  detrimental  to  the  most  vital  interests  of  this  and  the  other  .MMritime 
Provinces, 

Mr.  Lonifworth  has  been  a  member  of  the  ( 'liailottetown  m'IiooI  bnard  >ince  its  establish- 
ment  under  the  [U'csent  system,  and  cliairman  of  that  boaid  ail  but  from  tlie  commencement. 
He  has  been  a  director  of  the  Bank  of  I'rince  Kihvard  Island  from  the  establi.vjmient  of  that  in- 
.stitntion  in  liS")0,  and  is  now  its  president.  lie  is  also  a  director  of  the  < 'liarlottetown  gas 
light  company;  he  has  lieen  connected  with  the  provincial  militia  fir  numy  years,  now  iiolding 
the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel,  ami  was  pi'oviiicial  aide  de-camp  from  \'S{\'\  to  bST'.'. 

Mr.  Longworth  is  a  member  of  St.  Paul's  Kpi.scopal  churcli ;  formerl\'  lield  the  otKci'  of 
warden  of  that  church,  and  is  a  man  of  the  soundest  Christian  character,  and  of  the  most  gen- 
erous Impulses,  lu'  being  a  true  friend  of  the  unfortunate. 

lie  married  in  August,  IfS-t?,  Klizabetii  W.  Treiuaine,  daughter  of  Kicliard  Tremaiiie,  lv;(i., 
of  llabfa.x,  N.  S.,  and  they  have  had  six  children,  losing  half  of  tliem.  <  )ne  of  the  deceased, 
Constance  M.,  married  \V,  < ',  lIobkirl<,  son  of  Dr.  W.  II.  Holikirk,  fellow  of  the  royal  college  of 
surgeons,  Eng.,  and  left  three  cjuldren.  The  other  two  died  young.  Brentou  F.  the  elder  son 
living,  is  opening  a  cattle  and  sheep  faiiii  in  Kansas;  .lolm  .V.  is  a  Liw  student,  with  his  fath(M-, 
and  Isabella,  the  onlv  daughter  living  is  at  home. 


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FIIEDEKK'K    W.   IILUMIKS, 

(  11 A  RLOTTETOWN,  l\  K.  I. 

FRKDEIMCK  Wli.bl.V.M  11 1 'lil  IKS.  assistant  clerk  of  the  Mo<rse  of  .\.ssembly,and  assistant 
librarian  of  the  legislative  library,  was  born  in  Halifax,  N.  S.,  on  the  2")th  of  .Inly,  bs^i). 
His  father,  dcorge  A.  Hughes,  many  years  of  the  comndssary  department  at  Halifax,  was  also 
bor)i  in  that  city,  the  ramily  being  originally  from  Wale^.  His  mother  was  Mary  .\nne  Majoi-, 
whosi;  father  was  a  native  of  Ireland.  Fre<lerick  wa>  educated  at  Dalhoiisie  college,  H,ilif;ix  : 
was  a  clerk  one  year  in  the  cununercial  li'jusi-  of  Hon.  .bilm  l,.eander  Starr:  then  enlereil 
the  excise  department  of  the  government  at  Halifax,  where  he  remainc<l  foi-  six  years,  sei'ving 
temiiorarily  three  dilfereiit  times  in  the  cuiimiissary  department 

In  18')1,  Mr.  Hughes  remo\eil  to  ( 'harlottetown,  I'  lvl.,of  which  city  he  has  been  a  i-esjdent 
for  thirty  years,  dining  the  first  ninetci'ii  of  which  be  su]HMintended  the  jmblication  of  Tin 
J'J.camitier,  a  weekly  newspaper,  of  wliich  his  brother-in-law,  Hon.  Edward  Wlialen,  was  the 


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political  editor.  Diiriiiy;  tlio  j^'rcater  pmtidii  of  thiit  pt-iiod,  Iw  was  assistant  i-lcik  of  tlir  Houso 
of  AsHeinlily.  For  seven  years,  In-  was  dtik  of  tlio  bankrupt  court,  under  .Iuiii,'e  Youiii^,  and 
lie  held  the  post  of  clerk  to  the  land  eoinniission  umler  Jud^'e  Wilniot,  of  Now  Brunswick.  We 
have  alitady  uientioneil  that  he  is  assistant  clei'k  of  the  tFouse  of  Assmdily,  and  assistant 
lihrarian  to  the  li'tfjhlative  liln'ary.  He  is  a  justice  of  the  ]ieace  for  the  county  of  (i)ueen's,  and 
connnissioner  fiu-  taking  affidavits,  and  a  clerk  in  the  comity  courts.  He  is  a!wa\'.s  found  at 
liis  post,  and  very  punctnal  iu  the  di,scliai'i:fe  of  every  duty. 

He  has  lieen  a  l'"ree  Ma.son  since  twenty-one  years  of  age,  l)ut  has  never,  we  lielieve,  cfOUe 
higher  than  the  third  degree.  His  ( 'hristian  nieiuliers]ii|i  he  holds  in  the  Baptist  church,  of 
M-liicli  he  may  he  cla.ssed  as  one  of  tlie  truly  active  meniliers.  His  integrity  of  character  is  un- 
([Uestioned. 

The  wife  of  Mi'.  Hughe-s  was  Margaret  Binns,  daughter  of  Charles  liinns,  senior,  K.s(|.,  for 
years  a  pi'oiuinent  barrister  at  (Jliarlottetown, their  man'  iie  taking  place  in  Charlottetown,  1st 
July,  ISoS.  They  have  six  children  li\ing,  and  have  buried  six.  The  eldest  son,  George  E. 
Hughes,  dinggist,  apothecary  hall  company,  Charlottetown,  is  married;  the  others  are  single, 
most  of  tliem  jiuisuing  theii  studies, 


GEORGE    ^Y.  m:  BLOTS, 

CHAIiLOTTETOWN,  P. K.I. 

/~^  KOKliE  \V.\ST1E  l)K  BLOTS,  as  the  name  would  indicate,  is  of  \oiiuan-Fren(di  ex- 
VUr  traction,  his  ancestors  being  Huguenots,  took  refuge  in  England  from  the  persecutions 
after  the  re\(>cation  of  the  Edict  of  Nanti's.  Sul  sequenti}'  members  (jf  the  family  settled  in 
the -American  colonies,  the  graie [father  of  .Nfr.  ile  Blois  being  a  loyalist  during  the  revolution, 
settled  in  Halifax,  No\a  Scotia,  at  its  close.  Steplen  di;  Biois,  his  fatluM',  was  a  merchant,  at 
Halifax,  where  the  sou  was  born,  on  the  li'tli  of  July,  ISii^, 

^Ir.  de  Blois  Avas  educated  at  the  collegiate  school,  Windsor,  \.S ;  and  in  Scotland  and 
France,  was  trained  in  mercantile  pursuits,  in  theotfico  of  his  father,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
three  married  and  coimuenced  business  for  himself  at  Charlottetown.  For  twenty  years  he 
managed  a  nuiulier  of  tht;  largest  "  pro]  nietary  estates  '  in  Prince  Edward  Island,  and  r.'-o 
different  mereaiitile  and  other  agencies,  ineJudiiig  the  fieneral  .Mining  Association  of  Nova 
Scotia  and  llalilax  (.'oal  conipany,  \vitli  whieli  he  is  still  connected. 

Mr.  lie  Bli>is  has  been  a  direct(jr  of  the  ( 'hailottetown  gas  ligiit  company  since  its  organ- 
ization in  lis.").'),  and  a  magistrate  since  l.S.')!l ;  was  connected  for  a  long  time  with  the  militia  of 
the  province,  and  after  several  promotions  became  riieut.-ruloiiel  in  command  of  tlie  (itli  regi- 
ment of  Queen's  county  militia,  a  rank  which  ho  still  holds. 

Mr.  de  Blois  became  interested  in  politics  very  early  in  life,  favored  the  cause  of  tlie  general 
union  of  the  pro\  iiie<'s,  long  before  the  act  of  uniiiu  was  consummated  in  the  hirger  provinces; 
was  one  of  the  famous  "  ninety-four"  in  I'rince  Edward  Island  who  went  for  ( 'oufederation  when 
it  was  an  unpopular  measure  there;  was  an  earnest  supporter  of  tln'  free  school  .systiim  now  in 
operation  in  the  island,  and  of  other  measures  having  for  their  eiiil  the  best  interests  of  the 
community. 


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At  tlic  ^fiicial  election  lield  in  An^'ust.  1>H7(!,  iio  wiin  fiectnl  to  tli''  House  of  Asseinlily  foi' 
tlie  city  of  (Jliiul(jtteto\vn,  coniiiioii  and  royalty,  and  in  tlie  inontli  followinj,'  was  appointed  to 
tlie  executive  council  and  to  tlie  office  of  provincial  st'cietiii_\'  iind  treasurer,  liavinj^had  to  run 
a  second  election  after  liis  appointment  ;  in  Aujfust.  1^17'^,  lio  ivsi^'ned  liotli  positions  anil  retired 
tVoni  tlie  Government,  with  tliree  other  ( "onservative  memliers  ;  he  was  ai,'ain  elected  in  187!>, 
refusing  orticu  ;  he  joined  the  iiiberal  Conservative  party  at  the  time  fif  Confedeiation  !'lsfl7\ 
and  has  since  heen  a  steady  supporter  of  it,  endorsinj^  the  political  measures  generally  of  Sir 
John  Macilonald's  Administration. 

He  is  a  member  of  tlu^  Church  of  England,  and  in  connection  with  several  of  its  .societies. 

Mr.  de  Blois  ninrried  in  liSl'7,  Sarah  Frances,  daughter  of  Hon.  'i'liomas  Heath  Haviland, 
sr.,  of  Charlottctown,  by  whom  he  has  a  large  family  of  .sons  anil  daughters. 


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WIIJJAM    8A>:DE11S()N,   ESQ., 

CEOUOETonS,  I'. E.I. 

WILLIAM  SANDERSON,  a  resident  of  Prince  Edward  I.sland  since  the  year  1832,  is  deputy 
prothonotaiy  of  the  Supreme  Court  for  King's  eoniity,  and  a  notary  public.  His  father 
was  John  Sandeison,  born  in  Auchterless,  Abiinleenshire,  Scotland,  wlm  was  body  servant  of 
Lord  Douglas,  of  Castle  Douglas,  near  Edinbui'gh,  and  tr.xvele«l  with  him  on  the  continent  of 
Europe  as  such  ;  was  with  hi!ii  at  several  battles,  including  Lodi  and  Austerlit/;  he  died  on 
the  Island  of  Maileira  from  over-exertion  in  saving  his  master's  life  in  shipwreck  in  Ciiecian 
waters.  The  wife  of  John  Sanderson  was  Margan.'t  Leith.of  Freefeild,  Aberdi'enshire.  William 
Sander.son,  born  8th  June,  180.'),  received  a  common  and  gramnuir  .school  education  in  the  city 
of  Aberdeen,  and  in  his  ^■outh  went  to  live  with  his  grandfathei-,  William  Sanderson,  who  did 
a  commission  business  in  disposing  of  merchandise  by  teams  in  the  country,  and  taking  in 
return  country  products  of  all  kind.s  ;  hi.s  giandson  taking  his  jilace  at  his  death,  conducted 
the  business  until  1825,  when  lie  married  Ellen  M(jir,  daughter  of  James  Moir,  tlaxdresser,  of 
the  city  of  Aberdeen  ;  in  ]82(i  he  purchased  a  business  in  the  city  and  became  a  wine  and  tea 
meichant,  and  general  grocer  during  live  years.  In  IH.'iii.  in  company  with  Alex.  Mackie,  block 
and  jiunip-inaker  and  ship-owner,  with  his  family,  Mr.  SandiTson,  with  his  wife,  started  for 
Ameri(;a.  (In  icaching  (Quebec,  the  cholera  broke  out  there — its  first  visit  to  the  western 
continent-- ii  nil  tluv  proceeded  to  Montreal,  where  everything  was  in  confir-ion.  not  to  .say  con- 
sternation, on  account  of  the  ravages  of  that  fell  ilisease  among  ."(tOOO  emigrants  who  had  ari-ived 
at  Monti'eal  at  that  time.  Returning  to  Quebec  with  .Mi'.  Mackie,  Mr.  Sanderson,  the  two  with 
tlu!ir  families  got  on  board  a  French  schooner  bound  for  Miramichi,  New  Brunswick,  where  they 
weie  placed  in  quarantine,  and  after  being  allowed  to  land  they  separated,  Mr  ihickie  and 
family  remaining  there,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sanderson  pi oceeding  to  Prince  Kdward  Island,  after  being 
dela^'cd  again  in  quarantine  at  Pictou,  N.  S  They  at  last  arrived  at  CUiarlottetown,  in  the 
steamer  Pooilioninn,  the  first  steamer  that  had  ever  entered  Charlottctown  harbour.  After 
traveling  over  a  laige  portion  of  the  island,  Mr.  Sanderson  purchasi^d  some  property  at  (ieorge- 
town,  antl  settled  down.  After  some  time  he  was  engaged  as  clerk  for  diHi-rent  ne'ichants  in 
this  place ;  in  18.'}8  he  commenced  a  small  commission  and  mercantile  business  for  hinisi'If. 
After  some  years  he  wa-  ap[ioiuted  clerk  of  the  small  debt  commissioners'  couit,  which  otKce 


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he  held  for  eighteen  years,  ondinp  in  18')9;  the  following  year  lie  went  into  business  on  a 
liljeral  scale,  otTUpying  the  store  at  Trinity  Corner,  which  he  had  built  for  himself,  and  con- 
tinued in  business  until  the  death  of  his  wife,  which  event  occurred  on  the  iJJStli  of  April,  1875. 

Mr.  Sanderson  has  only  one  daughter,  Helen,  and  she  is  the  wife  of  James  E&ston,  Es(j., 
to  whom  Mr.  Sanderson  sold  his  stock-in-trade  at  Trinity  Corner,  in  187C,  and  who  now, 
with  his  son  William  Sanderson  Easton,  constitute  the  tiriu  of  Jas.  Easton  and  Son,  a  highly 
respect^ible  house,  well  known  in  Halifa.x,  Quebec  and  Montreal,  as  well  as  in  the  Island  and 
adjacent  parts. 

Mr.  Sandei-son's  appointment  a,s  deputy  prothonotary  was  made  in  18j1,  consequently  ho 
has  held  that  ottice  thirty  yeai's ;  the  following  year  he  was  ajfi^inted  a  notary  public,  and  is 
now  one  of  the  oltlest  magistrates  in  the  county.  He  has  ever  Iwen  very  punctilious  in  regard 
to  the  discharge  of  any  duties,  public  or  private,  and  is  always  found  at  his  post.  He  is  a 
member  of  Trinity  church  (Episcopal),  since  its  formation  in  Georgetown,  and  has  repeatedly 
serve<l  as  warden  of  the  same.  In  a  financial  sen.se  as  well  as  in  every  other,  .Mr.  Saudcison 
has  been  (|uite  successful  as  a  self  made  man.  He  owns  debentures  in  the  islanil  railway  ;  is  a 
stockholder  in  Ixith  the  Union  and  Merchants'  banks  of  Prince  Ed'^'ard  Island  ;  has  a  handsome 
proi)erty  in  the  town,  and  also  a  qiiantity  of  the  five  per  cent.  "  Canada  Stock,'*  the  small  estate 
of  Burnsifle  in  the  Royalty,  and  other  property  in  the  county.  Mr.  Sanderson  became  a  .son  of 
temperance  29th  March,  1849,  on  the  formation  of  the  Diamond  of  the  Desert  Division,  No.  9, 
of  the  order  of  .sons  of  temperance,  (ieorgctown,  and  a  member  of  the  National  Divi.sionof  the 
order  at  its  session  in  the  city  fif  Halifax,  N.  S  ,  June,  lH<i:J. 

Mr.  Janus  Faston  was  born  at  Chailottetown  Royalty  ;  was  educated  in  the  central 
ncailemy  of  that  city  ;  is  a  son  of  ti-mperancr ;  has  been  an  infant  school  teacher  for  thirty-five 
yeare,  and  lay  reader  in  Trinity  church,  (Jeoigetown,  for  the  same  period  of  time,  and  is  a 
citizen  whom  the  people  of  the  parish  would  be  reluctant  to  sjiaie.  He  has  one  son  and  two 
dauL'hters,  the  ehler  ilanijhter  b(.'in>'  a.ssistant  oiicanist  at  Tiinitv  church. 


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"WlLLIA^l    E.  DAWSON, 

CIlARLoTTKTOWN,  I'.E.I. 

WILLIAM  EDDISON  DAWSON,  mayor  of  Clnulottetown,  and  one  of  the  leading  mer- 
chants of  the  city,  is  a  native  of  Leeds,  Vorkshire.  Eng.,  dating  his  birth  on  the  1st  of 
October,  1829 ;  his  father  was  William  Dawson,  a  cloth  manufacturer,  and  his  grandfather, 
James  Dawson,  was  a  British  soldier,  serving  in  the  peninsular  war,  and  i>eing  wounded  i.i  the 
battle  of  Waterloo  (ISl.jj.  The  mother  of  our  subjeet  was  Mary  Rest,  who  lost  her  husband  in 
the  old  country,  and  came,  with  her  family,  three  children,  to  Frinee  Edward  Island,  in  184H, 
and  died  at  Chailottetown,  in  I8.")7. 

Mr.  Dawson  received  a  common  English  education  in  Le  ,1s,  and  when  (juite  young  went 
into  the  othce  of  a  civil  engineer  U»  learn  the  profession  ;  a  little  later,  l>eeanie  a  clerk  in  a  store 
in  this  city,  and  went  into  business  for  himself  in  1H.)4,  opening  a  general  .store,  containing 
hardware  as  well  as  dry  goods  and  gn>ceries.  During  the  last  twenty  years  In  has  dealt  almost 
exclusively  in  hardware  and  wholesale  grocerii  s,  Iwing  quite  siu'cessfiil.  The  rej>utation  of  no 
other  merchant  in  the  city  stands  higher  for  strict  integrity  an  1  fair  dialing. 


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In  ISSO  Mr.  Dawson  took  his  oldest  son  iiito  Imsiness  witli  liin».  He  has  heen  a  niaj^istiMte 
for  more  than  twenty  years ;  served  in  tlie  city  council  eight  or  ten  years  ;  has  lK?en  a  meinbo" 
of  the  city  school  board  since  1N77,  and  is  serving  his  fourth  jear  as  mayor  of  the  city  ;  his  fine 
tusincss  talents  and  executive  capacities,  ailmirnbly  fit  him  for  the  position  which  he  (xieupics, 
and  make  him  a  very  useful  as  well  as  popular  chiif  magistrate  of  the  municipality.  Mayor 
DawNon  was  one  of  the  originators  of  the  Union  Bank  of  Chailottetown,  and  has  been  one  of  it-J 
directors  fiom  the  start. 

Mr.  r)aw8on  in  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  and  has  lieen  society  and  church  record- 
ing steward  for  more  than  a  cjuarter  of  a  century,  class-leailer  for  eight  yeai-s,  anil  a  fumlay- 
school  worker  since  liS'2,  serving  port  of  the  time  as  superintendent ;  he  is  also  one  of  the  vice- 
presidents  of  the  British  ami  Foreign  Bible  Society. 

Mayor  Dawson  mnni^jd.on  the  2!)th  of  June,  1H.).'>,  Ann  Farrent  Compton.tlaughterof  Wil- 
liam SpencerCompton,  and  has  (iight  children  living,  and  has  buried  two.  The  ehlest  son,  Kd<Iison 
William,  is  married,  and  his  business  has  already  been  mentioned  ;  Ernest  Frederick,  the  .second 
.>»on,  is  an  engineer  in  the  civil  service  of  the  Bomba}'  Presidency,  India,  and  the  other  children 
are  at  home,  most  of  them  pursuing  their  studies.  Mi-s.  Dawson  died  very  suddenly  on  the  12th 
of  March.  1880;  her  hu.sband  left  her  well  at  half-past  six  o'clock  in  the  evening  to  attend  to 
.some  official  business  in  the  cr)uncil  chamVKrr,  and  a  little  before  0  o'clock  was  summoned  home, 
and,  when  he  reached  the  house,  she  was  dead.  She  was  a  most  estimable  (.'luistian  wife  and 
mother,  and  her  loss  was  a  .serious  one  to  the  community. 


HON.  .TAJIKS    YEO,   M.i'., 

FOUTIllLL,  V.K.I. 

A  MONO  the  historical  families  of  Prince  Kdward  island,  ari-  th>'  Yeos,  the  progenitor  of 
that  family  in  that  island  Ixniig  James  Yeo,  senior,  vvho  came  out  from  Devonshire, 
Kngland,  in  1827.  and  settlid  at  Portliill.  He  was  a  prominent  business  man  there  for  more 
than  forty  years ;  was  largely  engaged  in  general  l)\isincss  — ship  Ij.iilding,  farming,  milling, 
mercantile  puinuits  and  lumbering,  and  was  for  thirty  years  a  member  of  the  Provincial  .\s- 
sembly.  He  mariied  Miss  Damrus  Sargent,  who  was  also  from  Devonshire,  England,  .ind  had 
by  her  six  rliiMifii.  two  sons  and  four  dauglitei-s  ;  he  died  in  iMiS,  and  his  wife  died  three 
months  earlier  in  the  same  \enr. 

Jamt's  Yen.  jr  tin'  subject  of  this  notice,  who  represents  tin-  county  of  Prince  in  the  Do- 
minion Pai'liaiiifiit,  was  the  .second  .son  of  Hon.  James  Yeo.  senior,  and  was  b  >rn  at  Portliill,  on 
the  31st  of  October,  18;{2.  He  was  I'lUicatcd  at  the  gr.immar  school  in  ( "harlottetown,  in  his 
native  province,  and  is  a  merchant,  flour  and  lumber  manufacturer,  and  ship-owner,  building 
vetwels  every  year ;  he  is  a  thorough-going  business  man,  and  a  magistrate ;  has  servotl  at  times 
as  a  school  tru.stee,  and,  like  his  father,  has  a  lilieral  share  uf  public  spirit,  together  with  a  great 
deal  of  enterprise. 

Mr.  Yeo  was  elected  to  the  Provincial  Assembly,  in  which  his  honored  father  had  occupieil 
a  seat  so  long,  in  1872,  and  sat  during  that  year  in  the  E.Kecutive  Council;  was  first  returned 
to  the  Hou»»'  of  Commons  on  Piiiice  Kdwaiil  Island  entering  the  Dominion,  in  Septemln'r,  187.'l, 
and  was  re-elected  at  the  general  elections  in  1871  and  I87n.    He  is  a  liberal,  and  when  his  party 


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is  in  power,  gives  it  a  cordial  support.  Ho  takes  a  lively  interest  in  polities,  is  well  informetl, 
and  often  participates  in  the  debates  in  the  House.  He  is  a  member  of  the  (!hurch  of  England. 
The  wife  of  Mr.  Yeo  was  Sarah  Jane  Glover,  daughter  of  WilHani  (illover,  Esq.,  who  w^as 
from  Devonshire,  England,  their  mairiage  Injing  dated  in  Febmary,  1855.  They  have  eight 
children  living,  and  have  buried  three. 


EDWARD   HACKETT,  M.P., 

TIGNISH,  J'.E.l. 

THE  subject  of  this  sketch,  n  nioniber  of  the  Hou.se  of  (.'ommons  for  the  county  of  Prince, 
is  of  Irish  desci-nt,  Ijoth  parents,  Thomas  and  Ellen  (Condon)  Hackett,  coming  to  Prince 
Edward  Island  fiom  the  old  country  in  the  early  jmrt  of  the  present  century,  and  settling  near 
St.  Peter's.  Subsequently  they  removed  to  ( 'hatham.  New  Brunswick,  and  returning  to  the 
island  a  little  more  than  fort,  y tars  .igo, settled  at  Tignish,  where  Edward  was  l>orn  on  the  Gth 
of  July,  1840.  There  he  itceivcd  a  granunar  .school  edu(;ation  ;  commenced  Viook-keeping  in  a 
store  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  and  in  I8(j4  went  into  the  mercantile  business  for  himself,  adding 
the  tish  trade  at  the  same  time,  still  continuing  both,  and  doing  a  fair  business, 

Jlr.  Hackett  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  from  ISJ'I  t)  187fi,  when  he  resigned,  and  has  since 
held,  we  believe,  very  few  local  ottices,  being  much  absorbed  in  his  business,  which  he  manages 
with  a  good  deal  of  prudence  and  care.  At  the  solicitation  of  his  ( 'onservative  friend.*,  in  187(5, 
he  eonsentei]  to  be  a  candidate  foi-  the  tirat  district  of  Prince  county  for  the  Local  Assembly; 
was  elected,  and  sei  vei]  two  sessions  in  that  body,  when,  in  September,  1878,  he  was  returneil 
for  the  same  district  to  the  House  of  Commons.  He  heartily  endoi-ses  the  policy  of  the  party 
now  in  power,  lielieving  that  the  industries  of  the  country  should  be  protected  and  encourngetl ; 
he  also  believes  in  the  rights  of  the  minorities,  and  advocates  any  measures  which  he  believes 
will  further  the  general  interests  of  the  Dfiminion. 

A<lliering  to  the  faith  of  his  forefathers,  .Mr.  Hackett  is  a  Roman  Catholic,  and  beai-s  a 
highly  reputable  character. 

In  18(i()  Mr.  Haekel.t  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Hannah  .Maria  Fitzgiblnm,  daugh- 
ter of  .lames  Fitzgiblxm.a  shipbuilder  and  prominent  Inisiness  man  of  Annapohs,  Nova  Scotia; 
he  has  had  si.\  children,  but  has  lost  two  of  them. 


HON.   NEfL    M*LEOD,  M.P.P., 

CHARLOTTETOWN,  P.E.I. 

aIHE  subject  of  this  sketch,  a  prominent  barrister  at  Chnrlottctown,  an<l  late  provincial 
_  secretary-treasurer  of  Prince  Edward  Island,  was  born  in  Queen's  county,  in  this  island, 
on  the  l')th  of  Decemlwr,  1842;  his  father  was  Roderick  McLeotl,  fanner,  and  his  mother. 
Flora  MclJonald,  daughter  of  Elder  John  McDonald,  of  Pinette,  P.E.I. ,  Iwth  parents  being  Ijorn 
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Mr.  McLeod  was  o(lucatLMl  at  WoIf\ille,  Nova  Scotia,  and  is  an  A.B.  (lf<(ii)),  and  an  A.M. 
of  the  university  of  Acadia  college ;  .studied  law  at  ('huriottetown,  witli  Messrs.  Palmer  and 
Meljeod;  wa.s  adinittttd  to  jiractise  as  a  barrister  in  1872,  and  is  a  pa.tner  of  Kdward  J. 
Hodgson,  under  the  firm  name  of  Hodgson  and  McLeod,  one  of  the  leading  law  Hnns  at  the 
capital  of  the  province,  their  business  cxU'nding  into  all  the  comts  (»f  the  island  ami  into  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  Dominion.  They  are  solicitoi's  for  several  fire  ami  marine  insurance 
com|ianies. 

Mr.  McLeod  excels  a.s  an  office  lawyer,  licing  thoroughly  ]Misted,  and  a  wise  founsellor  :  he 
is  indefatigable  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  to  his  clients. 

In  April,  1879,  Mr.  McLeod  wa.s  elected  to  the  Hou.se  of  Assendily  for  the  city  of  Charlotte- 
town,  and  soon  afterwards  was  appointed  to  the  provincial  offices  already  mentioned,  being  also, 
e.c-o^cio,  a  magistrate  for  the  whole  province;  his  politics  are  Liberal-Conservativ*'.  'J'he  office 
of  provincial  secretary  and  treasurer  he  resigned  in  1M80,  as  liis  practice  was  too  largt?  to  admit 
of  his  devoting  sufficient  tin^;  to  the  performance  of  his  otficial  dutiew  On  the  Hoor  of  tin- 
House  of  A.ssenibly  he  .showed  to  goo<l  advantage,  he  Ijeing  a  clear  and  logical  speaker,  and 
always  conunanding  the  attention  of  that  bod}-. 

He  is  a  trustee  of  the  provincial  lunatic  a.syluin  and  a  comniissionor  of  the  comity  poor 
house ;  he  is  an  adherent  of  the  Baptist  church,  and,  as  far  as  we  can  learn,  a  man  of  sterling 
integrity. 

Mr.  McLeod  married,  in  June,  l877,  Adelia,  daughter  of  James  Haydeii,  of  \'ernon  River, 
Queen's  county,  P.K.I. ,  and  they  have  two  children. 


HON.   WILLI ANt    G.  STJiONG, 
auMMh'Rsii>i:,  r  E.I. 

WILLIAM  CAMBEE  STUONC,  lute  member  of  the  Legislative  Council,  and  now  slieiiff 
of  the  county  of  Prince,  P.K.I. ,  was  born  in  Sackville,  N.H,  on  the  21st  of  Jiim-,  ISl't  ; 
his  parents  being  Hev.  John  B.  Strong,  a  Methodist  minister  from  Nottiiigliaiiisliiic,  Kiigiand, 
and  Elizabeth  (iambee,  who  was  of  Knglish  descent,  and  lK)rn  at  Three  Uivcrs,  l'.(^.  His  father 
was  a  preacher  for  sixty  years,  and  died  in  Summerside  in  1872,  iigdl  81  years.  His  mother 
died  in   |S7<>. 

Ml.  Strong  was  educated  in  the  grammai  schcol  of  St.  John,  N'.IJ.,  and  at  an  .Vniinpolis 
(N.S.)  boarding  school,  taught  liy  Andrew  Heiideisuii,  tlie  course  of  studies  including  the 
classics  ami  higher  mathematics.  lie  was  a  merchant's  e'eik  at  .St  John  fur  five  ye.n-s,  and 
then  rennned  to  Hedeiiue,  P.E.f.  (IS.")!),  where  he  was  engaged  in  menaiitiie  juirsuits  ;  Imying 
grain,  shipping  pioduce,  and,  part  of  the  time,  also  in  ship  building,  until  1877,  when  he  settled 
in  Summerside.  Here  he  was  engaged  with  his  .sons  in  mercantile  business  until  May  1st, 
1881,  when  he  was  ap|iointed  high  sheriti'of  the  county. 

Mr.  Strong  was  a  member  of  the  Legislative  Council  for  eight  consecutive  years,  unl 
l)rior  to  going  into  tliat  lM)dy,  contested  the  +th  district  of  Prince  county  for  the  House  of 
As.send>lv  and  was  defeat(Ml.  Part  of  the  time  while  in  parliament,  he  was  a  niemlM-r  of  the 
government,  and  leader  in  the  Fpper  House.      He  was  appointe<l  a  member  of  the  txecutive 


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couiu'il  ill  IN7.S,  and  ii'tained  tlint  ortice  eiglit  years  Wliile  in  pailiaiiu'iit,  In"  aiduil  in  carry- 
ing sovfiul  ini|iortant  measures,  among  them  tl:e  railway  bill  and  the  confederation  scheme. 

Mr.  Strong  ha.s  been  a  magistrate  about  a  (|unitcr  of  a  century ;  and  is  president  of  the 
commission  of  the  industrial  and  agricultural  association  of  I'lince  county,  a  director  of  the 
Sumnierside  Bank,  and  a  trustee  of  the  town  school. 

He  i.s  a  lay  preacher  in  the  Methodist  church,  and  has  held  the  offices  of  recording  steward, 
class-leader,  trustee,  and  every  other  office  in  the  gift  (tf  that  ecclesiastical  bo<ly.  He  was  a  lay 
delegate  lo  the  general  conference  lield  at  Toronto,  in  If^Ti.  and  to  the  similar  conference  held 
at  Montival,  in  llsTiS.  He  was  appoint<'d  a  memlter  of  the  hymn-book  committee,  umler  whose 
au.spices  a  new  l)Ook  of  that  class  has  recently  been  issued.  In  many  ways,  he  ha.s  made  him- 
self eminently  serviceable  to  his  denomination,  and  to  the  community  generally. 

Mr.  Strong  married  in  1H42,  Sarah  Jane,  daughter  of  Etlward  BonsHeld^  then  mayor  of  tlic 
borough  of  Newark -on-the-Tivnt,  and  they  have  seven  children — five  .sons  and  two  daughters. 
Frederick  W.,  who  is  married,  and  Charles  E.  are  general  merchiiiits  in  Sumnierside ;  Sarah 
Louisa  is  married  to  Colin  Wright,  merchant,  Bedeque ;  and  the  rest  are  single  and  at  home. 


THOMAS   KELLY, 

SUMMEIiSIDE,  I'.K.I. 

THOMAS  KKLLY,  judge  of  the  county  court  of  Prince  county,  is  a  son  of  the  late  Thomas 
Kelly  and  Mary  tJrace,  both  natives  of  Kilkenny  county.  Irelaiul,  coming  to  this 
island  a1>out  1822,  and  settling  at  Covehead  Road,  Queen's  county.  There  our  subject  was 
burn  in  October,  IN.S.S  and  was  educated  at  the  same  place.  He  i)ursue(l  his  law  studies 
with  the  present  Judge  Walters,  of  St.  John,  N.I5.,  and  wliile  a  law  student,  was  for  two 
years  president  of  tlic  Irish  friendly  .society  of  that  city.  He  was  admitted  an  attorney  of 
the  snj>reme  court  of  New  Brunswick  in  Trinity  term,  ISOIJ,  and  called  to  the  bars  of  that  juo- 
vince  and  of  Prince  Edward  Island  in  bS(M.  He  immediately  ecmmieiiced  the  practice  of  his 
profession  us  a  barrister  and  notaiy  public  at  Suiiiinerside,  the  western  caj)itul  of  the  jtrovince, 
where  he  has  since  resided.  For  many  years  he  was  engaged  actively  in  the  politics  of  his 
province,  and  more  prominently  in  connection  with  the  jiarty  controversies  arising  out  of  the 
educatinii,  railway  and  confederation  ((Uestions,  as  they  e.xisteil  in  P.  E.  Island.  He  was  twice 
elected  a  representative  from  Prince  county  to  the  island  legislature.  In  Is7()  he  was  ap- 
pointetl  a  master  in  chancery,  and  in  ISjl,  railway  connni.s.sioner,  and  n -elected  in  1872  to  that 
ofTue,  which  he  resigned  a  few  weeks  subseijiiently  on  the  overthio-.v  of  the  Pope  adminis- 
tration. In  1H7.'?  he  was  offered  the  chairmanship  of  the  railway  bond,  and  in  bS7+,  the 
speakeiship  of  the  House  of  Aj-seinbly,  both  of  which  positions  b.  declined  in  conse(|uence  of  a 
misunderstanding  on  the  school  question.  In  1^7(i  he  retirei!  temporarily  from  public  life,  but 
was  an  unsuccs«ful  cantlidate  for  the  legislature  at  the  jrcneral  elections  in  187!).  For  several 
vears  he  was  a  director  ef  the  Suinmerside  Bank,  and.  afterwards  solicitor  for  that  institution  ; 
was  elected  license  commissioner  in  1877,  and  the  same  year  appointed  recorder  for  the  town 
of  Summei'side.  He  is  a  commissioner  for  Quebec,  Nova  Scotia,  New  Brunswick  and  P.  E. 
Ishiml,  for  taking  affidavits,  proofs,  &c.,  for  use  in  those  jd-ovinces. 


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Judgf  Kelly  lecoivod  liis  appuiiitmeiit  to  Uic  bencli,  as  suoct's<«)r  to  Jud^^i-  Poiw,  ilect-aseil, 
oil  the  24tl)  (i  October,  187!>.  VVlien  lie  was  a|)j)oiiitcMl  to  that  honorable  |)08itioii,  The  I'reshy- 
terian,  published  at  Chnrluttetown,  warmly  con<j;iatiilated  him  on  liis  a|>{)ointnient,  and  the 
jiress  generally  of  the  island  did  the  same.  The  Jhiili/  Knnn'nu');  of  Chailottetown,  of  Octolx-r 
25,  1S7!>,  said:  "  Mr.  Kelly  will,  we  believe,  be  a  <.;o()d  judj^e.  He  is,  if  wo  mistake  him  not, 
emphatically  a  '  fair-minded  man' and  his  dignified  bearinj^,  his  moderation  and  urbanity,  to- 
j^ether  with  his  sound  judgment,  will  appear  to  advantage  in  the  high  and  responsible  office  to 
which  he  has  been  called.  We  heartily  congratulate  His  Honor  Judge  Kelly."  From  the 
J'rogress,  Oct.  2.),  1879:  "  We  are  extremely  gratiKed  to  learn  that  Thomas  Kelly,  Ks(j.,  of  this 
town,  has  l)een  appointed  to  the  judgeship.  Tlu!  ap]>oiiitinent  is  both  popular  and  deserved. 
The  news  of  his  promotion  to  a  seat  on  the  bench,  while  not  unexpected,  will  \x'  received  witli 
approbation  by  the  great  majority  of  the  people  of  this  county.  We  beg  to  ctjngratulate  Judge 
Kell^'  on  his  elevation,  and  wish  him  a  long  and  useful  career."  From  the  Aiyiix,  Oct.  28, 
1879:  "Mr.  Kelly's  ap])ointmcnt  will,  we  believe,  be  a  popular  one,  and  we  have  no  doubt  that 
he  will  pmve  a  worthy  successor  to  the  late  lamented  Judge  Pope.  He  is  possessed  of  gooil 
abilties,  and  has  the  reptitalion  of  bein/  a  fair  minded  man." 

In  becemlK'r,  1880,  Judge  Kelly  was  ajtpointftl,  with  the  judges  of  the  supreme  court,  a 
coiunii.ssioner  to  swear  in  Dominion  officials  in  Prince  Edward  Island. 

Judge  Kelly  is  a  memljer  of  the  Roman  ( 'atholic  church,  and  a  gentleman  of  irreproach- 
able character. 

He  was  first  mairied  in  Sei)ttMiil)er,  IN'J7,  to  .Maiy  Kiiieline,  daughter  of  Henry  Eskildsoii, 
of  New  York,  she  dying  in  October,  18(58,  leaving  one  child  ;  ami  the  second  time  in  November, 
1871,  to  Marianne  H.  daughter  of  the  late  William  A,  ( 'ampljell,  barrister,  Toronto,  Ont.,  having 
by  her  three  children.     Residence,  "The  Priory,"  Summei'side, 


JUIIX    BALL, 

VHAHLOTTETOWN,  I'.E.L 

JOHN  BALIi,  clerk  of  the  Legislative  Council  of  Prince  Edward  Island,  was  born  at  Char* 
Idttetown  on  the  Cch  of  March,  1833,  he  being  a  son  of  Joseph  and  Emily  (^l]:ildry)  Hall. 
His  father,  a  land  Kurveyur,  died  at  ( 'liarlottetown,  on  the  25th  of  April,  1881,  and  at  the  time 
of  his  dtatli,  Tin'  Knimiii'  r,  a  local  paper,  thus  s[)oke  of  him: — 

To  Jay  wo  rtworel  tliu  duath  of  a  geiitlcinnii,  froiu  his  chililliiMul  n  resident  of  thi.i  province,  whose  name 
from  active  ais  'ciittioii  witli  its  iiihaljitaiits,  has  becoino  a  hoiisuhold  word.  Wu  refer  t>  the  late  Jose|ih  Ha'l, 
Esc].  Born  at  Hi;.;1ii;itte  Mill,  London,  Kujland,  uii  the  17th  of  March,  17!*  J,  he  came  to  this  island  with  his  mother, 
and  uncle  (.loliii  I'law,  architect^,  in  th"  year  18013.  Hu  received  his  education  in  Quebec,  an  i  adopting  the  pro- 
fession of  land  Hurveyor,  returned  here  un  the  death  of  his  uncle,  where  he  has  ever  since  renrkiiio<l,  almost  until 
tlie  day  of  his  deutli,  in  the  active  [lurbuit  of  his  calling.  In  18^30,  he  was  appointed  deputy  surveyor-general, 
under  the  late  Mr.  Wright,  and,  at  various  periods  since,  when  the  fortunes  uf  the  old  Liber.il  party,  under 
whose  banner  he  fought,  were  in  the  ascendant,  he  held  the  position  of  surveyor-general.  Kindly  and  genial 
in  his  Bueial  relations,  standing  high  in  the  ranks  of  his  profession,  he  wa^  withal  a  Christian  gentleman.  Many 
and  varied  were  his  experiences  in  travel  on  the  island  over  bridle-paths,  and  through  unbroken  forests,  and 
now  at  the  close  uf  a  long  and  useful  life,  wearied  and  spunt,  he  his  laid  his  burden  d  jwn,  and  gone  tu  his 
heavenly  rest. 

The  mother  of  our  subject,  a  native  of  Stradbroke,  England,  died  on  the  2nd  of  April, 
18GG.     Mr,  Ball  was  educated  at  the  central  academy,  Charlottetown  ;  was  ap])ointed  a.ssistant 


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colonial  socrotary  in  IS).'{;  wiw  aiwiHtant  clerk  of  the  Hlxecutivo  and  Logislativo  Council  from 
1854  to  1858,  and  in  1H(»7  waa  ai>pt)int«?<l  clt-rk  of  the  Legislntive  Council,  which  position  hi-  still 
hoKlH. 

In  his  younj,')']'  yt-ars  Mr,  Ball  learned  his  father's  profession,  that  of  land  survoyinji;,  and 
Htill  ])raetisi>8  it. 

lie  married  in  l)ecemlH.'r.  l8.'»7,  Ellen  Sarah,  oldest  dnu<;;htfr  of  Hon.  (leorge  Cole,  <le- 
cea«ed,  whose  sketch  a|ipcai°s  on  another  pai;e  of  this  work,  and  they  have  three  children  liv- 
ing, and  have  hurit'd  twi>.  The  rider  dau<,'hter,  Kmily  Augusta,  who  died  in  Octobtu,  1878, 
aged  twenty  years,  was  a  jtroniising  jrirl  of  tine  taste,  antl  |>ossessing  no  inconsiderahle  skill  for 
painting.     Mr,  Hall  is  a  nienil>er  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  church. 


II()^^  EDWARD    WHELAN, 

i  HA  RLOTTETO  WN,  P.  E.  I. 

AMONGST  the  mo.st  noted  statesmen  and  orators  in  Prince  Edwartl  I.sland,  fifteen  and 
thirty  yeai-s  ago,  was  Edward  Whelan,  a  self-taught  man  and  sagacious  politician.  He 
was  born  in  the  county  of  Mayo,  Ireland,  in  1824,  and  after  mastering  the  simplest  rudimentary 
branches  of  knowledge,  he  emigrated  to  Halifax,  X.S.,  where  he  spent  some  time  in  the  printing 
ofHce  of  the  Hon.  Jo.seph  Howe,  and  learned  the  art  of  editing  a  new.spaper.  At  the  age  of 
eighteen  yeai-s,  he  came  to  this  island,  and  shortly  afterwards  ent<'red  upon  a  brilliant  career  of 
journalism,  having  great  p<jwer  with  the  jm-u,  and  wielding  it  on  the  side  of  the  people.  In  the 
local  parliament,  of  which  he  was  a  mendx-r  for  a  .score  of  yeai-s,  he  was  a  great  power — the 
premier  part  of  the  time,  and  one  of  the  most  courageous  spokesmen  of  his  jiarty,  the  Liberal, 
at  all  times.  Few  men  in  this  province,  living  or  deail,  have  done  more  service  in  getting  im- 
|K)rtant  measures  through  parliament,  and  extending  civil  liberty  throughout  this  i.sland,  than 
Edward  Whelan,  who  died,  in  the  prime  of  life,  on  tlie  10th  of  December,  1807. 

Mr.  Whelan  was  a  Roman  Catholic,  an<l  his  death  is  reported  to  have  been  the  triumph  of 
faith. 


IIOX.   KICIJARD    ]i.   liEID, 

ALHERTON,  P. E.I. 

RICHARD  BERNARD  REID,  mendjer  of  the  Legislative  Counoil  of  Prince  Edward  Island. 
was  born  in  St.  Johns,  Newfoundland,  on  the  24tli  of  April,  18;}+,  his  parents  being 
James  and  Mary  (Vicai-s)  Reid,  l»oth  natives  of  Ireland.  His  father  came  to  Newfoundland 
about  fifty  years  ago,  removing  thence  to  this  islaml,  an<l  was  a  general  merchant  at  Charlotte- 
town,  dying  in  186(5.  His  mother  is  still  living.  Mr.  Reid  was  educatc<l  at  the  central  academy, 
Charlottetown,  taking  the  ordinary  English  course,  and  served  an  apprtmticeship  of  four  yeais 
as  a  druggist  in  the  same  city,  but  tlid  not  follow  that  branch  of  mercantile  pursuit.  In  18.32, 
he  took  charge  of  his  father's  business ;  and,  on  the  death  of  that  parent,  he  and  his  brother, 
William  P.  Reid,  conducted  the  business  together,  under  the  firm  name  of  Reid  Bi-otheis.     In 


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1858,  onr  Hubjoct  Hetthul  in  Allx-ilon,  buying  out  Uic  interest  nf  his  faMicr  ftnd  hi-other,  ami  liaa 
sineo  been  alone  in  trudo. 

Mr.  Reid  is  major  of  the  4tli  Prine«'  county  rcgiint-nt  of  retired  militia,  and  senior  justice 
of  the  ])enco  for  the  village  of  All>erton,  and  a  connnissioner  for  taking  acknowledgments  of 
deeds,  and  for  taking  nttidavits  in  the  Supreme  Court. 

Mr.  Reid  was  elected  to  the  Legislative  Council  in  I8u0,  and  re-elected  in  187-li,  and  hiM 
servetl  fifteen  years  in  that  branch  of  the  legislatuiti,  being  leader  of  the  government  in  the 
Upper  House  during  the  sesjiion  of  1881.  His  Jaboi-s  in  parliament  have  lieen  of  a  general 
character,  and  he  has  aided  in  carrying  .several  important  measures,  such  as  the  railway  bill, 
confederation,  etc.,  etc.     He  is  a  Con.servative. 

Mr.  Reid  is  a  member  of  the  Roman  Oatholii-  church,  and  his  reputation  for  consistency  of 
Christian  character  stands  well.  He  married  in  1872,  Miss  Margaret  Burke,  of  Georgetown, 
and  they  have  three  children. 


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REV^  NEJL   Mf-KAY, 

SUMMKRSIDE,  P.E.I. 

EEV.  NEIL  McKAY,  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Summerside,  and  one  of  the 
leading  clergymen  of  his  denomiiifition  in  Prince  Kdward  Island,  was  born  in  the  county 
of  Colcliester,  N.S.,  on  the  12th  of  April,  182!(,  his  parents  lieing  John  McKay,  a  farmer,  and 
Dolina  McKay,  lH>th  natives  of  .Sutherliind;>hiio,  Scotland.  Mr.  McKay  was  educated  at  the 
Fictou,  N.S.,  academy,  and  the  Free  church  college,  Halifax,  and  was  ordained  on  the  li>th  of 
September,  185'),  at  Murray  IIarl)or,  where  he  was  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  church  for  six 
years.  In  18G1,  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  St.  David's  church,  St.  John,  N.B.,  where  he  remained 
until  1873,  when  he  was  settled  over  the  Presltyterian  church  in  Summei-side.  At  that  time  it 
was  quite  a  feeble  bo<ly,  but  in  1874-'7'),  a  general  and  wide-.sweeping  revival  was  experienced 
in  this  province,  ami  in  the  course  of  eighteen  months,  aV)out  l.')()  members  were  added  U)  his 
church,  which  is  now  a  strong,  vigorous,  and  intluential  boily. 

As  a  preacher  Mr.  McKay  stands  deservedly  in  high  estimation.  Pos.ses.sed  of  an  active 
and  well  fiirni.shed  mind,  his  discourses  exhibit  solid  matter,  ciirefuliy  arranged,  clearly  an<l 
correctly  expressed,  with  ample  illustration,  delivered  also  with  a  warm  and  animated  manner. 
The  topics  are  always  important,  practical  in  their  iiearing,  and  pressed  home  upon  his  hearers 
in  direct  and  fervid  api>eai.  His  hearers  are  never  at  a  loss  to  know  what  points  he  .seeks  to 
make,  and  never  fail  to  regard  them  as  worthy  of  the  preacher's  theme,  and  calling,  and  of  their 
own  careful  attention. 

Mr.  McKay  has  done  considerable  woik  with  his  pen  outside  his  lalxirs  as  pastor  and 
preacher,  he  having  Insen  for  a  long  time  a  regular  contributor  to  both  the  religious  and  secular 
press,  embracing,  in  his  writings,  a  wide  range  of  subjects. 

His  views,  clearly  and  forcibly  put,  receive  attention  and  respect.  They  .show  a  turn  of 
mind  and  a  facile  pen  which  would  rea«lily  make  him  an  influential  journalist  were  he  inclined 
to  devote  his  talents  to  that  honorable  profession.  With  varied  and  extensive  information,  an 
active  raind,  and  a  singularly  warm  and  sympathetic  heart,  Mr.  McKay  would  Ije  a  valuable 
man  in  any  community. 


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Mr.  McKay  hn«  served  repeate«ily  hh  clerk  of  the  synod  of  the  Maritime  IVoviiioes;  is  now 
iiuMlerator  of  the  Prcsliytcry  of  Prince  KdwanI  lMlnn<l,nnd  lie  wns  a  memlter  (>f  the  conuiiitt«H's 
in  Pictou,  N.S.,  |8C(),  and  St.  .lolm,  N.B.,  on  consolidation  at  tlie  time  of  the  union  of  the 
Presbyterians  of  this  Island.     He  is  a  Master  Mason. 

Mr.  McKay  was  married  in  October,  I8r».'),  to  Isaljella,  d)iiij,'hter  of  Alexander  KMi;,'ht,  Ksq,, 
of  Halifax,  and  they  have  six  children  living,  three  dan^'hters  antl  three  .sons,  and  have  bnried 
one  daughter.  Isabella,  the  eldest  daughter,  is  married  to  Frank  R.  Morrison,  manager  of  the 
Bank  of  Nova  Scotia  at  Newcastle,  N.B.,  and  the  others  are  single,  niost  of  them  attendinjj 
ttcbool. 


WILLFAM   E.   CLARK, 

MOUNT  STEIVAHT,  F.E.l. 

THF)  .subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  native  of  Prince  county,  P.K.I. ,  lieing  Imhii  at  Daniley  on  the 
9th  of  Septendier,  1814.  His  father,  William  Clark,  a  fanner,  was  boiii  in  (Queen's  county, 
same  province,  the  family  being  originally  from  Scotland;  and  his  mother,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Margaret  McKwen,  was  also  of  Scotch  descent.  Mr.  Clark  received  an  ordinary  K:iglish  edu- 
cation at  Darnley  ;  farmetl  until  18.i+,  when  he  was  appointed  cijllcctor  of  customs  and  e.\cise  at 
Charlottetown,  and  held  that  oftict^  until  May,  IS.j!),  when  Im  ri'UKJved  to  Morell,  and  wa-s 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  Hour  and  lund)er  for  i-ight  years. 

In  April,  18G7,  Mr.  Clark  was  rc-apjMiiiitcd  collector  at  Charlottetown,  and  held  the  ottico 
again  for  four  yeaix  In  1872  he  came  to  Mount  Stewart,  built  a  hotel,  and  is  engaged  in  that 
business,  acting  also  as  a  magistrate,  which  office  he  has  held  for  tliiity  yeais. 

Mr.  Clark  repre.sented  the  third  electoral  distiict  of  Prince  county  in  the  House  of  Assembly 
from  184()  to  18.38,  and  in  18G7  was  elected  to  the  same  l>ody  for  the  St.  Peter's  ilistrict,  and 
resigned  immediately  to  accept  the  ottice  of  collector  of  customs  and  excise,  as  already 
mentioned. 

Mr.Claik  married  on  the  2}>th  of  .lune,  1847,  Miss  Sarah  Jewel  Hooper,  of  Bede([ue,  P.K.I. , 
and  they  have  buried  a  son  and  a  daughter  and  have  three  daughters  living.  Margaret  E.,  the 
oldest,  is  married  to  Elisha  H.  Wright,  merchant,  Summerside  ;  Sarah  K.  to  Krancis  C.  Uamble, 
engineer,  British  Columbia  ;  and  Eva  E.  is  at  home. 


SIR    ROBERT   HODGSON,    Kt., 

CHARLOTTETOWN,  P.E.T. 

THE  late  Lieutenant-(!overnor  of  Prince  Edward  Island  was  a  prominent  man  on  this 
island  for  more  than  foity  years,  holding  at  least  two  of  the  highest  ottices  that  can  1h5 
held  either  by  election  or  appintment.  He  was  l)orn  at  (.'harlottetown,  in  March,  1798,  and 
took  the  first  name  of  his  father,  who  was  a  meml>er  for  years  of  the  House  of  As.sembly  of 
Prince  FMward  Island,  and  at  one  time  speaker  of  that  bo<ly.  His  mother  was  Rebecca,  daugh- 
ter of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Joseph  Robinson,  of  the  South  Carolina  royal  regiment  at  the  time 


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of  the  revolt  of  the  Anioricnti  colonius.  Mr.  Hoil^^r  wa.s  «>iliicHt«d  at  X\w  collt'^iatt*  hi-IiooI, 
Windsor,  N.8.,  read  law  at  Halifax,  with  Uoliio  and  JoliiiNto.  ;  wax  called  to  tli«>  bar  of  Nova 
Scotia  in  \^V),  and  a  few  inonths  later  to  that  of  Priucc  Edward  Island,  settling;  that  year  at 
{ 'harlottetown.  He  diHtin^tiiHlud  hinisclf,  in  a  very  few  yeari*,  at  the  l>ar,  and,  in  \H'1H,  was 
appointed  snrroj,'at«  and  jmlge  of  prol»ate,  and  also  attorney -general  and  advocate-general  U;- 
fore  the  close  of  that  year. 

He  was  president  of  the  Legislative  Council  in  !S40;  acting  chief-justice  in  IS+I,  and  ten 
years  later  (1 8.') I),  on  the  introduction  of  responsihlo  government,  he  resigned  all  the  offices  he 
then  hel.l  except  those  of  surrogate  and  judge  of  proltatt!.  He  was  appointed  ch iff- justice  in 
1852;  judge  of  the  court  of  vice  iidiniralty  in  18.'».*],  and  wlniinistered  the  goveriunfut  of  the 
island  from  ISO'*  to  18(JS,  and  from  July  JU),  1873,  to  July  4,  1874,  when  lio  was  appointed 
lieutenant-governor.  That  office  he  held  until  the  yww  ln-foro  his  death,  which  occurred  in 
Septemlter,  1880.  At  the  time  of  his  demise,  the  newspapers  of  the  province  and  of  other  parts 
of  the  Dominion  were  tilled  with  wtll-merited  notices  of  his  eventful  ami  highly  honorable  life. 

Governor  Hodg,son  was  a  mendK'r  of  the  Church  of  KngLml,  and  seems  through  life  to 
have  aimed  to  adorn  the  Christian  profession  as  well  as  the  bench  and  the  gul)ernatorial  chair. 


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IlENltY    F.  JAHVIS,   M.I)., 

SCMMKliSIDE,  V.E.I. 

HKNKV  KITZ(}KUALI>  JAHVIS,  son  of  Hon.  Kdward  James  Jarvis,  Chief  Ju.stiee  of 
Prince  Kdward  Island  from  182.")  to  I8.)2,  and  Anna  Maria  Hojtl,  his  v/j,"".,  was  lM)rn  on 
the  Lsland  of  Malta,  on  the  2()th  of  May,  iHiM.  Chief  Justice  Jftrvis  was  Ixtrn  in  New  Bruns- 
wick, on  the  15th  of  J'lly,  1788,  In-iiig  the  son  of  a  Vnited  Kmpire  Loyalist,  who  left  the  Unit«'d 
States  and  .settled  in  that  province  about  the  time  of  the  cK)se  of  the  Revolution.  Chief  Justice 
Jarvis  was  judge  advocate  of  Malta  from  1824  to  1827,  when  that  office  was  ilone  away  with. 
He  was  also  at  one  tieie  a  member  of  the  Council  of  New  Brunswick.  He  was  offered  the 
appointment  of  Attoniey-tJenend  of  Austialia,  but  declined,  and  accepted  the  office  which  he 
held  at  his  death.  During  the  twenty-seven  years  that  he  sat  on  the  bench  of  this  province  he 
wore  the  ermine  with  dignity,  and  was  greatly  respected  for  his  urbane  maimers  and  ui)right- 
nes.s,  and  solidity  (jf  character.  He  dii-d  at  Spring  Park,  near  (.'harlottetown,  on  the  l>th  of 
May,  1852. 

Chief  .lustice  Jarvis  left  three  sons  by  his  first  wife,  and  one  son  by  the  .second.  The  eldest 
Bon  of  all,  Monson  Jarvis,  wa.>'  a  )iariister-at-law  at  (.Jharlottetown,  where  he  died  a  few  yi-ars 
ago  ;  the  .sccimd  is  our  subject ;  the  third  was  Kev.  William  Townshend  Jarvis,  a  Church  of 
England  minister,  who  died  at  West  Hoboken,  N.  Y.,  and  the  fourth— the  half-brothei'  of  these 
—  is  a  civil  engineer  at  Winnipeg,  Manitoba. 

Dr.  Jarvis  was  educated  at  the  central  academy,  (!harlottctown,  and  at  Edinburgh,  and 
Paris,  being  an  M.  D.  of  the  Edinburgh  University  (184!)),  and  a  member  of  the  Roy,il  College 
of  Surgeons,  Edinburgh.  He  conunenced  practice  at  (liarlottetown,  continuol  it  at  St.  John, 
N.  B.,  and  in  1857,  .settle<l  in  Sununersidc,  where  he  is  in  general  pmctice,  and  has  his  full  share 
of  both  medical  and  surgical  ca-soa. 


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Dr.  Jarvis  is  one  of  the  coroners  of  the  county,  surycon  to  the  Prince  county  jail,  medical 
referee  for  .several  life  insurance  companies  ;  surgeon  of  the  Prince  county  battalion  of  infan- 
try ;  medical  otticM-  to  the  marine  and  fisheries  department  for  the  port  of  Sumincrside,  and 
health  otHoer  for  the  .same.  He  is  a  Ma.ster  Mason  of  King  Hiram  Lodge,  and  a  vestryman  of 
St.  Mary's  (Kj)is(;opal)  church. 

Dr.  Jarvis  married  on  the  30th  of  Suptemlier,  1858,  Lucy  Des  Brisay  Harding,  daughter 
of  Charles  A.  Harding,  barrister  of  New  Brunswick,  and  they  have  seven  children. 


LIEUT.-OOL.   IIOX.  .JOSEPH    WJGHTMAN,  M.L.C., 

ST.  ANDREW'S  POINT,  P.E.L 

JdSKPH  WKiHTMAN,  a  member  of  the  Legislative  Council  of  Prince  PMward  Island,  and 
many  yeare  an  enterjjrising  merchant,  ship-builder  and  ship-owner  at  St.  Andrew's 
Point,  King's  county,  wius  born  at  Dumfrie.s-shire,  Scotland,  in  1804,  his  parents  being  John  and 
Margaret  (Hay)  Wightman.  He  was  educated  at  Lockerby  acatlen»y  ;  eauje  to  this  islaml  aljoiit 
1  S2:i,  and  was  engaged  extensively  in  fanning,  merchandising,  ship-building  and  the  Kshing 
business  until  a  few  years  ago. 

He  was  connected  for  some  time  with  the  active  militia  of  the  province,  and  hohls  the  rank 
of  retired  luiit. -colonel  of  militia. 

Col.  Wightman  was  liigh  slieriH"  of  King's  county  fur  several  years,  and  has  held  other 
local  otHccs,  always  being,  until  recently,  when  he  became  infirm  of  paralysis,  a  very  active  and 
public  spirited  man. 

He  sat  in  the  Prince  Kdward  Island  Hou.sc  of  Assembly  from  18SS  to  1870,  when  he  was 
elected  ti)  the  Legi.-^lative  Council,  and  was,  in  his  prime,  (juite  a  prominent  ni(>inber  of  tlie 
legislature,  being  connected  with  the  executive  council  some  year.s,  and  at  one  period  Speaker 
of  the  Hou.se  of  As.sembly.     His  politi&s  are  Liberal. 

Col.  Wightman  niniiicd  Margaret  Macdnnald,  daughter  of  Alexander  Macdonald,  of  Lower 
MontagUf,  King's  county,  and  .she  had  six  sons  and  three  daughters,  three  of  the  sons  and  the 
three  (laughters  are  still  living.  (i(H)rge,  the  eldest  son,  is  a  nu'icliant  at  Montague  Bridge  ;  Wil- 
liam is  jmstmaster  at  Ceorgetown  ;  Joseph  is  a  farmer  at  the  old  homestead;  Margaret  is  the 
widow  of  (iecirge  Clow  ;  Mary  is  the  wife  of  ,].  K.  McLean,  ex  M.  P.,  Souris,  and  Jessie  is  at 
home,  unmarried. 


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\)\l.    I)A\II)    KAVE,  L.li.C.a, 

OEOROETOWN,  r.E.I. 

THE  subject  of  this  notiei",  for  forty  years  a  prominent  physician  an<l  surgeon  in  King's 
county,  IMvI.,  and  at  different  periods  a  menil)er  of  both  branches  of  the  Local  Parlia- 
ment, was  bom  in  the  coimty  of  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  on  the  (ith  of  Jime,  1802,  His  parents 
were  George  and  Catherine  (Phillips)  K aye,  of  the  agricultural  cla-ss.  He  was  educat<,'tl  in  a 
parish  school  and  the  university  of  Edinburgh,  and  is  a  licentiate  of  the  lioyal  College  of  Stu- 
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Dr.  Kaye  practised  Iiis  profassion  at  the  county  town  of  Jedburjjli,  until  1S39,  when  he 
eaiiie  \o  this  island,  settled  at  Georgetown,  and  tor  years  wtis  the  only  physician  in  King's 
county,  over  the  whole  of  which  his  ridas  used  to  extend,  and  also  into  the  edge  of  Queen's 
county,  lie  is  one  of  the  best  known  men  in  the  western  part  of  the  Provinc.',  and  is  very 
much  respected,  not  onh'  for  his  skill  and  success  as  n  medical  practitioner,  iiut  for  his  nuiny 
excellent  (|ualities  of  head  and  heart. 

Dr.  Kaye  lias  been  a  health  officer  of  his  district  for  something  like  thirty-five  years,  and 
a  county  coroner  nearly  as  long.  Many  years  ago  Dr.  Kaye  was  appointed  a  mond>er  of  the 
Legi.slative  Council,  at  a  time  when  his  |)rofessional  laboi-s  were  very  extensive,  ami  finding 
that  his  parliamentary  duties  interfered  too  nuich  with  his  medical  practice,  he  resigned  at  the 
end  of  one  year.  A  few  years  ago  the  tloctor  con.sented  to  contest  the  Murray  Harbor  District  for 
the  House  of  As.seiubly,  and  was  successful,  sitting  the  full  term  of  four  years, and  serving  dur- 
ing that  period  as  a  member  of  the  executive  council,  Hon.  J.  (,".  Pope  being  premier. 

Dr.  Kaye  was  one  of  the  seven  mendiers  of  that  body  who,  at  that  time  were  in  favor  of 
Confederation. 

Dr.  Kay  married,  in  IS.SG,  Mrs.  Isabella  Watson,  who  filed  in  lS+7,  being  lost  at  sea  on  the 
ship  ('<iooi)v>i,  which  sailed  from  J^iverpool  for  Pictou,  N.S.,  •,yni\  was  never  heard  of. 


I)Kn:nls  o'm.  hkj)J)1K, 

rnAllLoTTETOWN,  r.K.I. 

DKNNlS  O'MKAllA  llEi)DIN,  judge  of  the  county  court  of  King-  comity,  is  a  native  of 
Charlottetown,  dating  his  birth  in  October,  1S:.M>.  His  father,  Dennis  Kediliu,  was  born 
in  lieland,  emigrated  to  this  island  about  sixty-three  years  ago, and  was  a  prominent  merchant, 
ship-owner  and  leading  business  man  in  Charlottetown  for  years,  dying  in  l.S(i.S  ;  and  his 
mother,  whose  maiden  name  was  Ann  Kmighan,  was  a  native  of  this  island,  dying  in  INOG. 

Mr.  Ileddin  was  educated  iit  St.  Andrew's  college,  P.  K.  I.,  and  at  the  Quebec  seminary; 
studied  law  with  Sir  Roliert  Hodgson,  late  Lieut.-Oovernor  of  I'rince  Edwaid  Island;  was 
called  to  the  bar  in  IS.")2,  and  has  been  in  practice  at  Charlottetown  since  tiiat  date.  He  was 
solicitor  general  at  ditl'crent  times  frt)m  lS-"):i  to  iM(jt),  entering  upon  the  duties  of  that  oHiee  at 
the  age  of  twent^'-two,  bef  h"  had  fairly  opened  a  law  office  ;  was  attorney  and  advocate- 
general  in  i.S(i7  and  18(18,  and  (nr  ten  years  wa-  sulicitnr  f  ir  the  liCgislative  Council  and  Leg- 
islative Assendily.  He  was  alsu  a  meiiil"'r  nf  tlir  lioaid  of  education  for  nine  yi^ars,  and  has 
been  a  magistrate  for  tin;  whole  island  since  isT-'f. 

Our  subject  was  appointed  to  the  judgeship  already  mentioned  on  the  '23rd  of  June,  1.S73, 
and  the  duties  of  that  ottiee  lie  is  performing  witli  the  utmost  faithfulness. 

Judge  Reddin  Was  a  good  deal  interested  in  politics  in  his  younger  years,  with  .strong 
leanings  to  iiilperalism,  sjnipathizing  with  Hon.  (leorge  Cole  in  his  struggle  for  Uesponsible 
(i.>.ernmcnt  and  other  measures  of  the  liilK'ial  party  which  that  gentleman  ehampioneil, 

Mr.  Reddin  is  ,i  mendier  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  and  a  man,  as  far  as  we  can  learn, 
of  good  solid  character. 

Ife  married,  on  the  .jth  of  August,  liS.'»(i,  Susan  .1.  K.  Ihown,  (laughter  of  Professor  Alex- 
ander Brown,  a  native  of   Dumfries,  Scotland,  and  in  his  lifetime  a  teacher  in  the  central  acad- 


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emy,  Charlottetown ;  and  they  have  had  eight  children,  six  of  whom  are  still  living.  Ciitherine 
Matilda  is  the  wifci  of  Dr.  Joseph  M.  Creamer,  formerly  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  now  of  Charlotte- 
town,  the  others  are  young  and  unmarried.  The  eldest  son,  Dennis  O'Moara,  has  just  completed 
his  studies  in  chemistry,  prepai-atory  to  becoming  a  druggist. 


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ALEXANDER   AISDERSON, 

SUMMERSIDE,  V.E.I. 

AMONG  the  old  "  landmarks"  ami  legislators  of  Prince  county,  Prince  Edward  Island,  is 
Alexander  Anderson,  a  native  of  Rustico.  in  this  i.sland,  born  on  the  IGth  of  April,  1795. 
His  parents,  Alexander  and  Margaret  (McCollum)  were  from  Scotland.  His  father  was  a 
Loyalist,  and  left  tin-  United  States  for  Canada  at  the  close  of  the  war  for  independence,  ami 
settled  in  this  province  when  the  son  was  two  years  old.  In  his  youth  our  subject  was 
drilled  in  the  rudimentary  branches  of  knowledge,  and  reared  to  farming,  and  was  engaged  at 
that  business  at  Bedeipie  until  18.S0,  when  he  moved  into  the  town  of  Sumnierside.  When  a 
young  man  he  leanied  the  art  of  land-surveying,  which  business  he  commenced  in  1830,  and 
continued  it  until  four  years  ago,  part  of  the  time  operating  under  the  provincial  government. 

Mr.  Anderson  was  appointed  a  magistrate  quite  early  in  life  ;  was  a  commissioner  of  the 
small  de1»ts  court  at  one  jieriod,  and  high  .sheriff  of  the  county  of  Prince  one  year. 

He  was  api)ointed  to  the  Legi.slative  Council  at  two  different  periods  of  his  life,  and  when 
the  ofHce  Ijecame  elective,  he  ran  for  it  and  was  successful,  serving  eight  years,  and  in  all  alyout 
twenty  years,  his  politics  1)eing  Conservative.  His  religious  belief  is  Presbytorianism,  and  his 
Christian  faith  is  .strong.     He  is  waiting  to  go  home. 

Mr.  Andei-son  married  on  the  oth  of  February,  182D,  Elizabetli  Gribble  Patten,  daughter  of 
Joseph  Patten  of  St.  John,  N.  B.,  .she  dying  childless  in  October,  l<s7ti. 


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.         HOK   GEORGE    COLE, 

CHARLOTTETOWN,  P.E.I. 

THK  late  Hon,  George  Cole  was  one  of  the  most  valuable  statesmen  wliuse  voice  has  evt  r 
been  rai.sed  in  the  council  halls  of  this  province.  He  first  entered  public  life  in  lSi2,  us  a 
representative  of  Covehead  and  La  Sable  district,  and  continued  to  bold  a  seat  in  the  House  of 
AssemV)ly  until  18Gf<,  the  last  ten  years  for  tlie  Fort  Augustus  district.  To  him  the  island  is 
indebted  for  .some  of  the  most  important  acts  on  her  stAtute  books.  He  is  sometimes  calli'd 
"  the  father  of  responsible  government."  The  Land  Purchase  Act  was  another  pet  measure  of 
his ;  so  was  tlie  Electoral  Franchise  Act.  Tii(>  "  One  Ninth  Bill  "  was  ])iusso(l  while  lie  was  the 
leader  of  the  Liberal  party,  "  But  the  greatest  measure  of  his  life,"  said  one  of  the  local  new.s- 
papers  at  the  tini"  of  his  death,  "  was  the  free  eilucation  law.  This  measure  was  in  ailvance  of 
the  age,  and  whatever  may  be  said  of  it  now  that  it  has  been  allowed  to  grow  imperfect,  it  can- 
not be  denied  that  it  was  the  agency,  in  its  day,  of  raising  young  men  all  over  the  country  on 


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a  level  with  those  in  the  city — preparing  Iheni  to  exercise  the  franchise  with  safety  and 
discretion." 

From  1N.')8  to  18G7  the  ("onservative  i)arty  was  in  power  in  this  province,  and  Mr.  Cole 
was  at  the  head  of  th  Opposition,  leading  his  party  on  to  victory  in  the  latter  year.  On  the 
return  of  the  Lilxjrals  to  power,  lie  was  ap[X)inted  leader  in  the  Executive  Council,  and  became 
colonial  secretary  for  the  colony. 

The  oonton^poruries  of  Mr.  Cole,  his  fo- workers  in  the  legislature,  know  with  what  zeal 
he  applied  himself  to  every  task  devolving  upon  him.  So  hard  did  he  work,  so  much  anxiety 
of  mind  had  he  for  the  welfare  of  the  people  in  the  adoption  of  wholesome  laws,  that  his  mind 
tinally  gave  way  under  the  great  pressure  and  incessant  strain  upon  it,  and  for  awhile  he  was 
under  a  cloud.  It  did  not  break  away  until  ju.st  before  his  death,  which  occurred  on  the  21st 
of  August,  l(S7->. 

Mr.  Cole  was  a  native  of  this  island,  a  son  of  James  Cole,  and  born  on  20th  of  September, 
ISIO.  His  literary  advantages,  in  his  youth,  were  meagre  enough,  but  he  was  a  close  observer, 
a  student  till  near  the  close  of  his  life,  and  made  himself  one  of  Nature's  self-taught  noblemen. 


WILLIAM    I).  STEWART, 

t'lIAIiWTTETOJVN,  P.E.I. 

WILLIAM  DflNBAR  STEWART,  commission  merchant,  and  lato  member  of  the  pro- 
vincial goveinmcnt  and  commissioner  of  public  woiks,  is  a  native  of  New  P^rth, 
King's  county,  P.K.I. ,  and  was  iioni  on  tin-  l.")tii  of  Augu.st,  1.S3!).  His  father,  Peter  Stewart, 
farmer,  was  from  Pertii,  Scotland ;  his  niotiiei',  Lizzie  Mclntyre,  was  l»orn  in  Crcjnock,  Scot- 
land. Mr.  Stewart  was  educated  at  the  central  aci.diiny,  now  known  as  the  Prince  of  Wales 
{•olK'go,  ( 'liarlottetown  ;  taught  schou]  fur  three  years  in  different  parts  of  this  ])rovince,  and 
in  1N")7  became  a  merchants  clerk  in  New  London,  Prince;  county.  In  ISO")  he  went  into  the 
meicantilo  business  for  himself  at  the  same  pl.ice  ;  two  years  afterwards  .settled  at  the  capital 
of  the  province,  which  lias  since  l)een  IiIn  home,  ami  where  he  has  been  and  still  is  engaged  as 
a  cuinmission  niercliunt  and  auctioneer. 

Mr.  Stewart  entcnd  public  life  in  IST'I,  when  he  was  returned  for  tlu-  local  parliament 
ftr  the  tirst  district  of  l^>Mcen's  county,  and  sat  four  years  on  the  Liberal,  then  opposition,  side  of 
the  House,  lie  was  re-elected  in  lS7(),  and  became  a  member  of  the  Davies  government,  with 
llie  otiice  ol"  cijiiiniissioiicr  of  pulilie  works,  as  already  mentioned. 

While  in  the  House  of  Assembly,  Mr.  Stewart  took  a  leading  part  in  getting  the  bill  for 
tlie  establislimont  ol'  a  lunatic  asylum  tlinjugli  the  legislature — ^the  most  notesvorthy  act  of 
bis  public  life,  ami  one  of  which  he  may  well  fed  proud  ;  he  is  a  trustee  of  that  asylinn.  He 
aided  in  getting  llinnigh  parliament  the  Public  School  Act  of  1.S77;  the  A.s.se.s»ment  Act  of 
the  .same  year  ;  the  Koad  and  15ridge  Act,  and  other  important  measures. 

.Mr.  St4-'wart  is  past  master  of  St.  .bihn's  Lodge  of  Freemasons,  ('liarlottetown,  and  a 
meniljer  ami  chairman  of  the  board  of  tiii^tees  of  the  Kirk  of  Scotland,  Charlottetown, 
Kev.  Kenneth  .McLennan,  pastor. 

He  married,  in  18(iG,  Thomascnia  Amelia,  daughter  of  James  I'idgeon,  of  New  London, 
and  they  have  six  children  living,  and  have  Imiied  two. 


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INDEX. 


Allnn   "i-  Hugh  and  A 

Alien,  Clmi'les 

Alien,  (ieo.  H 

Allun,  Hon.  Jnhn  (' 

Alloyn,    Hon.  .histicL"  H 

Alnion,    Hon.  W.  .1.,  M.D... 

Ahvnrtl,  Siliis  A.  M 

Auii's,  Holilun  it  Co 

Aiulersoii,  .\ltx:iniler 

Andurson,    Kcv.  William 

Annors.  Hon.  .\ngiisto  It 

Ariliiuul)anlt,  r.K 

AirhiliiilJ,   H..n.  A.   <! 

Aichiliiilil,  Donalil 

AirliilMia,  .!.   S..   .M.A 

ArcUilMlil,  lloti.  T.  I) 

Atln-rt.n,  A.  I!.,  M.  !>.,  li  H.Cl'.S, 

lialibit,  Lii'iit.-Col.   I!.  T 

IW.y,  Hon.  L.  V.  (!.,  (}X' 

Bllitl'iUIX,  (unrjrc,  .M.  1) 

lla.lgli'y,  Hon.  William 

IJauK.  Stanley  (' 

Haillaunc,  l".  1'.  V.,  M.S 

liakif,  iloM.  (i.  I'..,  .M.A.,Q.C.  .. 

liaktr.  Hon.,  I,.  K 

liakvr,  Henry  -M.,  .1.1*   

HaliUvin.   Kev.  MS 

Hall,  .lohu    

Hiirnani,  KcImiiuiiI   

lta|itlisl.  <  leoige 

Havanl,  WiHmmi,  M.  I) 

B:ivtiel.l,  A.  H.  W 

Heamlry,  Hon.  .Kan  L   

Heek,  .laniis  S 

Bolleail,  Sir  Naivisse,  K.C.  M.'i. 

Helleniare,  Itiiilia -I 

lii'imet,  Kiv.  .lames,  1).  I) 

licnt.  Charl.'S,  M.l» 

Hi!Vori>li,'e,  Hon.   !',  ■njamin  .... 

Ueveria^e.  W.   U.,  .M.IM' 

lUU,  W.C,  .M.IM' 

Uinnoy,  lit.   Ue..   lleiL.it,  It.  I) 
HIaek,  U.S.,   M.D  .   I..  li.i'.S.  (J 

Blair.  W.   I!  ,  .Ml'.  I' 

nianoliavd ,  .I.mies  F 

lilaiichanl,  'ieo.  .\    

Ulanehet.  I.ieut.  t'ol.,  .1.  <i 

Hoak,  Hon.  It.beW.   M.L.C 

lion.l,  Itiylit  Itev.  W.  It.,  LL.D. 

I'.onlen,  Kev.  .1.  It 

Hosse,  Hon.  .loHepli  N 

Hotsford,   Hon.  Lieut.  Col.  A.  K, 

Hotafoiit,  lilair 

Itotufold,  ll')n.    lUlHH 

Hot.slni-,1,  l,.H.,.M.I) 

Hourahsa,  Nainileon 

Hoiiryean,   .Me.xander 

Houii^eois,  Hon.  .1.    It 

Hoiilellier,  F.  (i  ,  -M.l'.l' 

Itowen,  Hon.  K<l»anl 

Howen,  Cieo.  F 


F.VilK 

Montreal 7 

Waterloo 2;U 

Waterloo 2:i5 

Freduricton .ui 

(Quebec   lt> 

Httlifiix 44.-. 

St.  John (iDO 

Montreal |L'(» 

Sninmerside To- 

Montreal o;! 

Qllebee I '.Mi 

Montreal H.'i 

Halifax 4l»4 

.  .Miisiiuodoboit..  r>4."i 

Aloiitroal .SH 

North  Sidney.  .    oOo 
Freduricton   . .  .   ."i'.>2 

Gagetown (i'.'It 

.  Jolietto :ivi 

.Three  Rivers  . .   'Xi'.t 

.  Montreal    lOii 

.Montreal 4:! 

.Qnebeo ilMi 

.  Sweetsbnri;.  .  . .  "JTti 
.  Varmoiitli  .  .  .  .  40'.t 
.Three  Itivers   .  .    U'otl 

..Montreal !•:! 

.  L'harlottetoHii ..   74 '■ 

.  Montreal :i  i!> 

.Three  Uivir.s  ..    ilj!) 

SI.  .lolin r,4t 

.(.'liarlottetown..    7111' 

.  .Montreal 7S 

.Krederieton <i  IS  ' 

t,»ilel)ee •_'.SIi 

.  .Mo:itreal    .  . .Vi 

.St.  .lohn tl.VJ  ■ 

.Trnro 414 

..\ncl(iver IliHI 

.  AnduM'r     tiltl 

.  IlillDwn ."■>!:) 

.Halifax y.iH 

..Halifax  .    002 

.( hislow   4'JI> 

..Truro  ollt) 

.Kentvillo 4!C 

.  Levis 5!) 

Halifax 544 

.  Montreal '-'li? 

.  Shelbnrne.    . .  .  M 1 

.l^uebeo !Jl 

.Saekville    Ii:t7 

.  Dorehestir.    .  .  .   .")!•'-' 

Moiieton r>!>K 

.St.  John (m4 

,   Montreal !I4 

,   Aylnier :!28 

. .  Ayhnur it'.Mi 

.  Alontrial 131  o 

.Shtrbrooke ....  ol 
.Sherhrooke ....     5'J 


Boyd,  Hon.  Julin 

Bradley,  Earnshaw 

Itradshaw,  Jacob 

I.raasard,  Thonnis 

Itrecken,  F.  De  St.  ('..  M.I' 

Ilrooks,  E.  T.,M.A.,  y.C,  Ml'.. 

r.rou^.st^an,  Jean  I) 

Ill-own,  ( Jeor>,'e  S 

Itrown,  Hon.   Stanley 

Brush,  (ieor!,'o ' 

liiiller,  Frank,  M.  I> 

I'.iireaii,  Hon.  J.  (>.,  N.I' 

I'linnet,  Itev.  Koln'rt 

Iluriis,  Kennedy  F ... 

Ituriis,  It.  F.,  l).l> 

liuri>eo,  Hiui.  Isaae  

I'urwa.th,  I'rof.  Johu,  .M..V 

Itutler,  Hobart  A.  M 

Cildwell,  John  M 

< "alhonn,  (iec 

Calkm,   I!.    H 

Calkin.  IViiKipal  J.  li.,   M.\ 

Cameron,  |{.  v.  \n;,MiH,  i'li.  D..  D.  D. 

C.imer.m,  Hon.  Hiiyh.  .M.D 

Cameron,   Ut.  Ri;v.  Jolm 

Campbell,    .\reliibald    ... 

Campbell,  Capt.  E.,   A.C 

C.imiibell,  Lieut. -Col.,  Hon.  • '.  .1 . 
Campbell.  Duiuaii,  .M.D..  .M.l'.l'. 
('am|pbell.   Dun.  in ..... 

Cauipliell,  I  ieo 

Campliell,  (ieo.  F 

CanuichacI,  .1.  \V 

Carr.au,  Lieut.  tV.l.  J.   I' 

Cai'oii,  Hon.  .1.   I* 

Cart.r,  K.l».i, (,».('.,  ll.C.  I..  ,I.L.  D 

(.'artier.   Sir  ( leorjfe  E 

Casnidy,  Fimikmh.  (,).(J 

CliamlH'rlaiid.  .1. ,   I !  .\ 

Chandler,  Hon.  E.  I! 

Chan. Her,  A.   II., 'M.D 

Cliapleail,  Hon.  .losepli    .\ 

Charland,  .Mfred  .N.,  <,>.C 

Ch  niveau,  I'ierre  .1    (».,(,»  C. .  . 

Cherrior,  C.  S.,  LL.D 

Chipniaii,  Lieut. -('id.  L.    De  \' 

Chipuian,  Zechariah 

Coehran,    Hon.  A.  .M..  .M.L.C. 

I'ochrane,  Hon.  .M.  H 

Choiiinard,  II.   .1.   J.    It 

Clark,  W.   V. 

Clarke,  Nepean 

Clements,    N.  K 

Cole,  Hon.  (ieorj,'e 

Colltlee,    Loin*    .Si 

Cowie,   Andrew 

Cowliiii,',  E.  U 

Cmik,   Kobert,  .M.D 

Cramp,  liev.  J.  .M.,  D.D 

Crawford,   Hon.  J.  H.  .M.l'.l' 


rM.r. 

St.  John r>m 

Three  Rivera...  :i:t;t 

Hampton (i7'.> 

Knowlton    7!t 

.Charlotteti  iwn . .  7'.'*.> 

Sherhrooke 2K!> 

l,>iiebee ;i."»rt 

.Yarmouth 44(> 

Varmonth 41ti 

..Montreal '.«» 

.Montreal  IKt 

..Montreal ti'.t 

I'lctou VM 

Halliur.st 7(»;» 

.Halifax ."i(».T 

St.  J.diii  :,H2 

Saekvilhj ."»(i7 

.  Itedford    V27 

(Jornwallis     . . .  487 

Hopewell   Cape  (>•.'!» 

Keiitville     4(i'J 

Truro    4;t4 

\ntif,'oiii3h  ....  4:>.t 

.Maboii .Vmi 

,  .Vntiijiuiisli      . ,  ,"rJ1l 

t,biebeo      14 

St.  Hilaiie 41 

lladdeek      424 

I'ort  Hood     ...  ;V.':t 

ILdifax     .140 

.Truro    4H1 

St.  Andrews    ...  f.lS 

.New  (ila.iyow.  .  5;i4 

St.  .lohn'.s :t.H',( 

.(,)uebec 2."»4 

..Montreal :t2ti 

Montreal IK 

.Montreal :!I  I 

If  iviere  Du  Loup 

A'li  /;.M.  .  .  .  :i.sl 

.  Doivlenter 7IM 

,  .Mon    -tti (104 

.(,•111      c .  l!t 

.St.  John's l!t."» 

.  Montreal 247 

..Montreal ;t;W 

.Keiitville 4.'i(> 

.St.   .Stephen.  .  . .  (i.-i7 

.  Maitland 4'.':t 

.(  omptoii 'J^l 

.(,>ilebee    '^Xi 

.Mount  Stewart.  74H 

.Halifax 447 

.  Varnioutli oMi 

.Cliarlottetonn...  7.">2 

.  .Vylmer :i8l 

.  Liverpocd  417 

.  .\iinapcdis...  ."r_'7 

.Montreal    '.12 

..Wolfville 4'M; 

Hampton   (i.'il 


^^mmmmmm^. 


fi 


hi: 


756 


ISDF.X. 


v.w.v. 

Crawley,  Rev.  E.  A.,  D.I) Wolfville    442 

Creulniitn,  Hon.  Saiiiiicl  L.C I'liperStewi.icko  408 

Cr.Kjk8liaiik,  Col.  U.  W St.  John 05;j 

Cro88,  Hon.   Alexandi-r Montreal 10 

Ciirran,  J.  C.    g.C,  O.C.L Montreal 27t» 

Cutter.F.  A.,  M.U Sutton L'Kt 

Daley,  M.  H.,  M.P Halifax .".(iC. 

Daniel,  Th  .nms  \V iSt.  John tllO 

Davies,  flon.  Daniel ChaiLittetown. .  710 

Davis,  Hon.   L.   II Chailottetown..   7-H 

Davison,  Kdw.iiil  D Britlgewater 

Dawson, C,   -M. I),  S.A.U.S.M..    Montreal   .. 

Dawson,  Joliii  \V.,  M.\ 

Dawson,  Wilti^mi  K 

De  Hlois,  (ies.   \V 

De  Mille,  Prof.  Janu-H,  A.M.. 
De  iSaint  Maurice,  Ka\irli<  r.  . . 
De  Saint  Maiiriee,  N.  ('.  K.  ... 


PAiiR 

Fraser,  John  .F. ,  t,>.C Fretlerioton (HH 

Froser,    Williani Fraaerville '12'.\ 

Frechette,  Louis   H. Montreal ;W7 

Fullorton,  W.  M.,  Q.C   Amherst oln 

Fnrlon({,  Thomas St.  John (>!»!» 

(iarneau,    llnu.    I'ierre        (,|uflK'e 2IJ7 

(ianlt,  M.  H.,  J.l'.,  M.l' Montreal 400 

(iaiivreau,    Pierre (Quebec lt(4 


(icmlr.in,  P.  S Montreal. 


}I1 

•J(i4 

TM 
7:t7 


.   Montreal.  . . . 

.("harlottetowi 

.    Charh  tteti.wr 

.  Halifax iVitI 

.  .Quebec :;x'.' 

.  .(,)uebec ','M7t 

D.i  WiAi,  ("has.  E Winil.sor IU\ 

Des  lUrres,  Hon.  \V.   F Halifax l^H 

Des  llrisny,  Hon.  M.   It Uriil^ewater.  .  .  427 

De»  Urisay,  Tlu'oiiliilus liathurst ti47 

Defoy,  .loHi'lih  .V ..(Quebec        ....  L'.'id 

Delap,  Ijiwrenee    .Anuaiiolis    ....  4."iS 

Desjiulniers,  L.  L.  L,  .M.lt,  M.  P  .Montr.al    :i.". 

Desjardins,  .\l|ihonHe,  M.P .Montreal      ....  4."> 

Dessaullrs,  (ico.  C St.  Hyaointhe    .  177 

Dickey,  Hon.  11.  P.,t^C Amherst .V.H 

Dickie,  Hon.  Charles     Cannini; UW.S 

Dit'-.ie,  Hon.  Joim  I! Truro    4:;8 

Dickinson,  IJiclianl    Itedford l:i7 

Doherty,   Hi-n.  Marcus  Sherbrooke  I'.t4 

l>onnelly,  James St.  John's   ....  IL'8 

'  Doriiin,  Hun.  \.  .\ Montreal      'JIm 

D'OrsoiineUH.   (iustave  D l,luebec "Jl'.l 

Drolet.  (iaspard l,biel)ee HO 

Dubi',  Charles  P.,  M.D Kivii'-re  Du  Loup 

(/•;»  /(.(.<) :f4« 

Duhamel,  Josiph,  (.».C Montreal liO 

Dumouliii,  Severe   Three  Hiveris  .  .  1^7 

Duncan,  Hon.  C.  .M.  A.,  D.C.L.  .  .  Knowltoii 114 

Dupr.',  Kiv.    L.  \. Horel :;.")! 

Duval,  Hon.  .1.  F.  J. (iiiebec L'li:! 

Duveruay,  Lmlixer .Mimlnal ItIO 

Dser,  I'o'l    (liM.  C S\itt<.n    8<1 

Ki'irle,  S.  Z,  M  1» St.  .Ii.liu (1;M 

Pabre.  Ut.  liev.    P.iMhipp Montreal......  •_'ltl 

Karrell,  Hon.    K.lwanl,    M.D Halifa.v   .V_>J 

Pelii'U,  '>\  illiaiu  1...  <J.C Iielvedere  .  . 

Fenety,  (>eo.  K Fredi'rictc.n  ....  li'Jl 

F.inviVk,  tie...  K.,  M.D Montreal I'.IH 

FerguR.u.  II, ,n.  Ponaid,  .M.  P.  P...CIiarlottetottii  ..  71'.' 

Perricr,  Hon.  Ja ^( Moutri'al 242 

Ferris,  .fohn,  .M.P Moucton litii; 

Koick,  Sti'iilich Lnnenburi,'  ....  4I.'> 

Ki.srt,  l.oui.'<  .1.  C <,»ueb<c 251 

Fisher,  Hon.  Clias.,  M.  .A.,  D.C.  L..  Fredirictol,..    ..  (i7H 

Fisher.  <ico.  F Fredi'iiiloii.  .  .  .  (i'.t2 

•  Fisher,    Lewis  P Woodstock 7<KI 

Fit/i;crald,  lUv.  Havid,   1>.|) Charlottetown  .  .  727 

Fiti-.ijerald,  I!.   I!.,  (,t.C Charlottetown.  .  720 

Flyun.  Hon.  K.  .1  ,  LL.D guel>ec 2^0 

Forbes.  CM .innapolis i">2:i 

Forrest,  Lieut.  Col.  W.  H t^iiebeo 17<i 

-Fortier,   Feli  x (Quebec 1  oO 

•Foster,  Hon.  .\sa   H Waterloo 7r» 

'  Foster,  S.  S.,  .M.D Knowlton 2(it> 

Foster,  Samuel  W Knowlton 2(iiS 

Foster,  W.  V Hridj.'etown 5:t<t 

Franclievill",  Hon.   t'.M.,  M.L.C.(iuysl»>rini!,di. .  .  f>27 

Fraser,  Hon.  D.  C New  (ihisgow . .  4(iO 


.Three  Kiver.i. 
.  .  .Three  Uiveis. 
.  .  .  I'ridijetown. .. 

.  ..St.    Jidiu 

.  .  .Soivl 

.  .  .(hat  ham (1«I 

.  .Montreal :t21 

.  .  .(  b'oii^etown  ....   7III 


110 

:i25 

401 

iViti 

(;«2 
:i:sii 


tjierin,  Klzcar 

(Jervais,  .M.  K.,  M.l) 

(;iiliicy,  .\.  -M 

( iilbert,  ThoiuaM 

(Jill,  Hon.  Charles 

(iill.spii-,    T.    F.   .M.P.P.... 

(ilackiiicvi'r,  Charles 

(Jordou.Hon.  Daniel,  M.P.P 

(loujjli.  .lohn Bedford    Wh't 

(iraut,  Donald     New  ( Jlasi^ow  . .    Til'J 

(Jraiit,  lloii.lt.  P I'ictou iVC) 

(Jray,  I!.  <i Halifax 40:1 

(iray,  l!ev.  James,   .A.M Sussex ti'.W 

(Mimnicr,  (i.  S..  (,).C St.  Andrew's...   002 

Ha.kett,  Kdward,  M.P 'hj.'ui.di  740 

H.iddoii,  (ieory  .  M.D Dalliousic  .    ...   ti02 

Hadhv.  .1.  W.,  .M.P.P (iuysl...rough  .  .   401 

Hall,  i''.  F Sweeisburg 272 

H;iiiinj,'tnn,  Lii.'Ut.-Col.  Hon.  1) Shediac  (iol 

HaIlill^;toll,  Hon.  D.  L DorcI.ester  ('.(iO 

Haniliutoii,  I!.  J.,  H.A Montreal 120 

Harris,  .lames,  .1.1* 

Hart,  L.  .\.,  M..\..   If.C.L. .. 
Havilaud.  Lieut. -Col.  T.  H.   . 

Ha/cii,  Hon.  |{.  L.,  (,».(' 

Ilenilrrsiii,  liev.  William,  M 

lleiisliaw.  Frederick  W 

Hicks,  Principal  W.  H .M..iitreal 275 

Hill,   liev.  (i.    W.,  .A.M., D.C  I,   .Halifax 548 

Hiucks.Sir  Francis, K. C.M.I. •.('.!;  .Moulreal 

Hi.iL'stou,   William  H.,   .M  D .Montreal 

Hodgson,  Sir  Kobcrt Chailiptti'tiavu 

^llolloii,    Hon.   Luther  II MoiiUcal 

.llolims,    Ifev.    .\.  L.,    M..\ Staiistead 114 

lloluies,    Hon.  S.   It Halifax .544 

Honld.Jean,    I'.  I..,LL.II Three  lUvers...    I«4 

Howard.  I!.  P. ,  M.D.  L.  It.C.S.  K.  .  .  Montreal . 

Howe.  II.   .\.,  M..\.LI.  I> Montreal. 

How'-,   lloii.   .loseidi Halifax... 


.I'(.rtlaiid 084 

Montreal ;Mi4 

Charlottetown.  .  7:tO 

St.  .lohn  070 

A.. Montreal IHl 

.  .  .  .  Montreal ](i.") 


-I  I 

20 

748 

:i4;i 


i»!l      llowlaii,  Hon.  (Ico.  W.. 


.    ;tl8 

.   451 
. . .  .Mberton 714 


Hiiliiiii,   Louis  K M<mtre.il 108 

Hubert,   I{e..e  .\,  I! Moulreal pit; 

Iludoii,  Victor .Moiitr.'al 2.18 

Huyhes,  V.  \\ Charlottetown..  7:t."> 

Hiilcliiniiou,  .Matthew,  PC.  L.  ..  .Montreal iM.'i 

Idler,  I'lrm.sl .Montreal loH 

Inch,. I,   lf.,M.\.,   i.LD.. Sackville (;l;{ 

Irwin,  Ibiberl  (i Sheibuine  ....  570 

.laek.soii.  .\lfi.d,   .M.D t.)iiebee Wm 

.lacobs,   S.  .I.,.M.D Luneiilniri; 5:i.'» 

.larvis,  II.  F.,  M.D .Siinimersiiie  ....  740 

■lar\is,  .lohn  .\ Fra.serville  .  .  .  .  2S0 

.leiikiiis.  Itcv,  , lohn,  D.D.,  LL.D.  Montreal 1I2 

.lette,  Hon.  Louis  .^.   LL.D Montreal 220 

.lohnson,  .\.  H Widfville .V,.-. 

.Iidinson,  Hon.  Francis  (i .\l    nlieal HI 

.lohnsou,  .1.  W Dartmouth..,.  5l,"i 

.lohiisoii,  Thomas  Lockport 470 

.lohnston,  liev.  IL,  M..\ Montreal 01 

.lolinHtoii.  Hon.  J.  W Halifax  WM 

.lolmsltiiie,  .1.   K.,  M.L> Sorel \\\'i 

Jolicieiir,  Philliiiiic  J <^>ueb«c 157 


r 


INPKX. 


767 


Jimea,  Lieiit.-Cul. ,  Uuii.  A. (J Halifax 55(1 

•Jones,  R.  K WuotUtock (iTK) 

■lones,  Saint  Clair. Weymouth r>r>7 

•loiiea,  Simeon St.  John <il4 

Jones,  Sttrns Weymouth i">;(7 

Jones,  Hon.  T.  R.,  M.  L.  C St.  John (iSO 

JoBt,  Henry  S Lunenburg 432 

Kane,  George  A Mnrriiy  Hay.. . .  297 

Kiiye,  Dr.  David (ioorgetown 7M) 

Keith,  Hon.  Alexander Halifax 4(i8 

Kelly,  Thomas Sninnieriiilc.  .  ..  741' 

Kelly,  Hon.  Wm.  M Moncton titiH 

K('Mi|i,  Orrn  It Waterloo Kt 

Kenny,  T.  F.,  M.IV  I' Andover li(>7 

King,  Hon.  (Jeo.  K.,  M.A.,  Q.C.St.  Jo'in »;!t7 

Kinnear,  John  1> Amherst 471 

Kinney,  J.  R.,  M.l*.  I' Yarmouth 4:i7 

Kirkwood,  Henry,  M.I> I'ictou o'.'it 

Labadie,  J  .  A Montre.il ICJO 

Ltihelle,  Captain  J.  H Montreal 77 

Lafontaiiie,  J.  \,.,  M.P.  P Ro.vtoii  Falls  . .  27S 

La   .Montague,   Lieut. -Col.   K . . . .  Vuelxio 402 

Landry,  J.  K. ,  M.l) (}iielKc :i72 

Lan.lry,  H(  u.  \\  A.,  M.P.I' Dorehester »i2H 

Lang,  Rev.  (>avin,  M..\ Montreal 204 

Langovin,  Hon. Sir  H.  L Quebec 2(1 

•La  Kne,  F.  H.  A.,  M.A.,  M.D....<^iebec i:(2 

Lenth,  Wni.   T.,  M.A.,  D.C.L.,  Montreal 20:i 

Li'  I'danc,   Isidore,  M.  P.  P .\ridiat .'»r>:i 

Lcfcbvro,   Josciih Wjitcrioo IISO 

Lifebvre,  .losuph  H Waterloo 140 

Liiijlitoli,  .1.  S.,  M.  P.P Wondsto.  k (iO!> 

•1^!  May,    Loon    P <i)uebef L"il 

•  \a-  Mesiirier,  lolni    t^uebec .'!22 


Lopiioux,  C.  J'l..  M.I) 

LeMoim-,   .lanie.s  M 

Levey,  Chiirles  Krnest 

Levey,  ('harle.s   K 

Lewin,  H.)ii.   I.I) 

Lewi.s,   Hon.  .John,  ALL.*,' 


.t,»iiohec 

.  . .  .(,)uelH'C 

. . .  .(.'nebec 

<,>uol)eo 

. .  .  .  St.  John.  . 

.  MilUboriiugli 


:(24 

.•!7r. 

.'i7S 

;t'.t".t 

<'il'.4 

(17 

(ir.rt 

224 
10.1 

(14« 


]i<<wi,s,   W.  .1.,  M.l) Hillsborough 

Light,  Alexander   L (,»uetK'C  . 

Ijindsay,  Rev.  iJavid U  iitt'vloo  ..    . 

Lindsay.  Hon.  William,  M.L.t'. ..  \Vi.i..lstock. 

Lobloy,  U.v.  J.  A.,  MA 

I^ocke,    Hun.  Saniiu;!,  .M  L.C LuekiMirt 

Longwovth,    Hon.    .lolm ('li:irli>ttetown 

Lt>raMger,  Hon.  T.  .1.  J.,  Lli. !>.... Montrc.'d 

Lord,  W.  W Cbarlott.tMwn 

Lome,  MarijuiH  of ( tltawa ."> 

Loverin,  Nelson,  M.  D Montre;il 2.-|2 

Lovitt.  The  Kauiily Varuioulli opt 

Lunii,  Willi.'im .Montreal .... 

ljyn<b.  Hon.  W.  W Knoulton  

MeCarthy.  Haniel  Sorel 

MoC!art!iy,  John Sorel  

Mc(;ni»h,  Alexatider,  -M.P.P St.   Peter's 547 

Mct'urly,  Hon.  David Itaddeck iVill 

jMeDevitt,  Rev.  J.  »-' Frederieton  (KlI 

MeDonal.l,  A.  N.,  M.P.P Mierhro..ke 505 

McDonald,  .\.  R Rivii're  du  Loui)  ;{I7 

MeDonald,  Hon.   Hugh, '^.C .Antiironish 547 

McDonald,  H<m.  James, (^.C,  P.C.Halifax 5(1!) 

McDougall,  Hon.  H.  F Christmas  Island  507 

McDoUgall,  John Montreal :<l!t 

McKachran,  Prof.   D.  M Moiitri'al 4(1 

Mdiee,  H'Ui.  Thomas  D Montreal      2|K 

Mc<«ray,  N.  D Cape    Islund, 

Harrington    402 

MeOreevy,  Hon.  Thomas (Quebec    :141 

Mclsoac,  .\ngus,  M.P Antigonish  ....  540 


Lennoxville 124 

512 
7:12 
2:l!l 
710 


170 
:i57 
:t4o 
:i4o 


Mclntyro,  Rt.  Rov.  Peter,  D.D.  Charlottotown .. 

McKay,  Rev.  Neil Sumuiersido    ... 

McKinium,  Hon.  .lohn,  M.L.C.  . .  Antigonish  . . . . 

Mcljelan,  Hon.  A.  W Londonderry  ... 

McLellan,  David,  M.  P.P Indiantown 

McLeod,  Hon.  Neil Charlottotown. . 

McLeod,  W.  Me. ,  M  D. ,  >L  P.    . .  Sydney     

McMillan,  .Fames    St.  .John 

McNeill,  Archibald    .  Charlottetown. . 

McSlhine,  James,  M.P.P ?.lontreal     

McSweeney,  Edward Moncton 

Macdoiiald, Lieut. -Col., Hon.  C.J.  Halifax    

Macd.uuild,  H.m.  J.  S,  M.li.C. .    Halifax    

iMac'illivray,  .Angus,  M.P.P ..Antigonish  .... 

MaiLjrt^gor,  Rev.  Alexander Yarmouth 

Machiii,   Henry  T (Quebec 

Maekay,  Alexander,  M.P.P West  River 

M.ickay,  Hon.  Robert Montreal 

Maclean,  Rev.  .lohn,  i>L  A Pictoii 

Maclwan,  Roderick .Vudierst 

Mair,  David Cowansville 

Malhio*,  Hon.  Henri  (J Three  Rivers... 

Marchaiul,  Lieut.  Col.  Hon.  F.  <!.  St.  .Jtdin 

Marmette,  .losepli (Quebec 

Marsden,  W.,  1M.A.,M.D Quebec 

Marsh,   Rev.  David t|»uebec 

Marshall,  .1.  N.  S Liverpool 

ALirtin,  Nye  (! Ijiper  Hedford. 

Massey,  Rev.  SamiU'l Montreal 

Masson,  Lieut.  C<d.  Hon.  !j.  F.  R.  Terrebonne 

Mathieu,  Michel Sorel 

Maynard,  itev.  Thus..  .M..\.,  D.D.Windsor 

Medley,  Rev.  C.  .S.,   R.A .Sussex 

Medley,  Rev.  .lohn,  D.D Freilericton 

Mercier,  Hon.  ILuuire,  M.P.P.   ..St.  Hyacinthe... 

.  .(Quebec    

,  Three  Rivers  . . 

..t,)ui.'l>ec   

.Halifax  


,  C. 


M.'redith,  Hon.   W. 

Methot,  Jo.sei.h,  V. 

Miles,  H.  H.,  LL.D.,  D.C.L. 
Miller.  H(ui.  William,  (J.C.  .. 


I     Moody,  F;.  W.  R Yarmouth. 


.  Yarmouth 
.  Kentville  . 


.Moody,  Rev.  .I.T.  T.,  A.M 
Moore,  S.  H. 

ALink,  Hon.  S.  C Montreal 

Morison,  Ii.  F St.  Hyacinthe.. 

Morris,  L.  K.,  M.A.,  LL.M Sherbro.ike. ... 

Aiorrisoii,  .lohn,  .\.  M.I'.I' St.  Ann's 

Mornscui,  Hon.  T.  F\,  M.L.C Little  Dyke. . . 

Morse,  Samuel  (! Hopewell  Cape 

Morse,  Hon.  W.  A.  D Amherst 

Moaes.  Nathan Yarmouth  .... 

Mo\iK.Kea\i,  .1.  .A.,  <,».C.,  M.P Montreal 

Miniro,  Diiviil .  . Woodstock  . .  . 

Monro,  Rev    A.  H Montreal 

Murcliie,  .lauiis St.  Stephen. .  . 

Muriiliy,  Kilward Montreal 

jMurpliy,  <  >«eti Quebec 

Murray,  Ceo.,  M.D New  (Jlasgow. 

Murray,  -lames Yarmouth 

Nels.m,  Horatio  A.,  M.P.P .Montreal 

Nornum,  Rev.  Richard  W Montreal 

Ni.rmand,  T.  K Three  Itivers. . 

Noyes,  .lolni  P.,  <^.C Waterloo 

Cakes,   Hon.  K.  R Digby 

Cdcll,  Thiunas  T St.  Andrew's... 

Ogilvie,  A.  W  .  fc  Co Montreal 

C'Hallorau,  .lames,  M.A.,  Q.C Cowansville.  .. 

Osier.  William,  M.D Montreal 

Cttv  (iecr-ge Ilampt<m . ., 

Duinut,  (iedcon,  (,>.C.,  D.C.L.   ...Quebec 

Ouimet,  J.  A.,  LL.  IS.,M.P Montreal 

Culton,  .Judge  K.   E I>orchuster 


l-AdK 

7RJ 
747 

487 

4841 

072 

740 

4:i3 

6i»9 

718 

:i5(i 

041 

501) 

448 

483 

455 

2.30 

4lil 

214 

5.1!) 

453 

2i»I 

217. 

130 

203 
23 

257 

540 

14(1 
(1(1 

208 

1.52 

501 

(140 

017 

2'27 

231 

180  « 

302 

502 

.507 

543 

404 

200 

•271 

120 

505 

4".»5 

503 

453 

5,-.4 

2!»0 

022 

140 

073 
80 

31M» 

482 

551 
71 
72 

310 
121 
.  538 
,  0.'i8 
.  285 
.  141 

300 
.  081) 
.  214 
,  i:t3 
.  081 


t!l 


mmm 


758 


Tiff]  CANADIAN  nWGHAl'mCAL  DICTIONARY. 


I  :ihi 


i  ! 


Palmer,  Hon.  A.  I-.,  ()X St.  .lolm 

i'aliiiur  Clmrlo.s,  t^.(J l'hiiili)ttutuwii  . 

I'HiiiiHr,  Hon.  Kilwcril,  Q.C ('Imilutti'tnun.. 

Palmer,  .lnlm (iajji'tuwii 

I'aliiier,  .Martin  15 Iluiiuwill  Ciij>e.. 

Pa)>inenii,  Hon.  [<.  •! M'XitrcHl 

l'ai|uet,  Hen.  K.  T.,  .M.P.  P (,>uol.ic 

Puiker,  Hon.  I».  McN.,  M.U D.utniuntli 

J'.iiks  .V  Son,  Williiiin St.  .lolin 

I'liton,  .Vndrew Slicrlirooke  ..    ., 

Piitterwiii,  \V.   A..    M.P.  I' 'ratAiii.iynuolii'.. 

IVUetu-r,  N.   (i FiMSiTvillo 

.  Peiiault,  ('.  () M.intrL'iil 

•  Perraiilt,  JotU'iih  S.,  I.L.I) .Mnrmy  l!;iy..  .. 

Peters,  Simon,  .1.  P (,)iieliec 

Plielim,  ('.  .1.,  K.K.M  D.C.M W  iiterloo 

I'iekarci,  tlojin.  M.  I' Vrederioton  ..  .  . 

'  Piekel,  Horace  1)    Sweetslmrj;.  .  .  . 

Pilknigton.  Wooilfonl  M.  1.,  C.l':.(,>neliec 

Polotie,  Hon.  .\ Three  Hiver.s... 

Poiiliot,  Jean   H Itiviere  Du  Lon 

I'oiili^it,  Jose|iU  V. I''ra8brville,. 

Pope,  .lames  (" (,'liarlottetown  .. 

Pope,  Hon.  .loMepli <  liiirloltetown.. 

Pope,  Hon.  .1.   II..  .M.P t'ookshire 

Pope,   Hon.  \V.  II SuniniiTsiilo  .  .  . 

i'onpcpre,  John,  .M.I' ('hiLlR»ler   .  .  . . 

Prefont.iiiie,  K.  R,  M.IM' Montreal  

Prentiss, 'J'honian  H \yliinr 

Price,  \\  illiani    <,)nel)eo 

■  Price,  W.  K Quebec 

Pryor,  Col.  lleiny Halifax   


r\iiK 

«UiH 

.  711 

.  7'M> 

.  »>77 
•))<.) 


11/ ^ 


Pcj^h,  John,  .M.IM' Halifax  

Pnniey,  .lohii  .\.  F. ,  M.l> Slullmnie 

Haciiie,  night  Kev.  A Sheilaooke 

Pae,  William (,»iieliec 

Kainville,  Hon.  H.  K.,  LL.I! Moniival 

Haml.T.  H.,  .M..\.,  U.C.i, KretUii.ton  .. .. 

Itandolpli,  \.  K l''i\Hleri<  ton 

Kay,  l,i«nt.-(.'ol.  ('.  1! St.  .lohii  

lU-ailiiii;,   (leo 'I'mr 

Uetlilin,  DennLs.  (I'.M ( '  harlot  t>l  own. 

Ueiil,  K.'V.   <".  P.,  H.f.l, Sluihrooke..  . 

liei.l,  Hon.  K.  I". Mi.ertoii 

Itichey,  M.  H.,<.».r.,  M.l' Il,.lif„x  

Kigl.y,  S.  (I  ,  (,).(' Il..lifa\  

Hitehie,  l!ev.  J.  .).,  .M..\ \miapolis 

Uitehie,    Hon.  .loliii  W Halifa';   

Kohh,    .Me.xaiuler .Vmhcisl 

Itoliliins,  \.  C \  ainioiith 

Pol.illar.l,  K.liiioii.1.  All) Montreal 

l!ohin«,S.  P.,  M  -A.,  1J,.D .Moiitr.al 

Kobinsoii,  llezekiah  L Waterloo 

Kobilaille,  Hon.  'I' (,)nel>fi  

|{oberlHon,   Hon,  Jo.srjihti Sheilninike    ... 

Uoililiek,  Thomas  <i.  M.D Montreal 

J{oe,  Kev.  Henry,  l).l) la'inioxville    ... 

Uogers,  Jtt.  Ilev.  J.imes,  l>  D,  .  .  .('liatham 

Kogers,  N\  .  H \nihel>t    

Kolland,  Jean  11 .Montreal 

Ross,  tieo.,   M.l).     Montreal, 

lloss,  Hev.  .lames,  1),  I) Halifax 

Hoss,  Hon.  J.  J.,  M.l) Qmhee 

Uoai!,  William Halifax 

Koulhier,  J.  .\.   1!.,  1.1.1) (,»iielMC 

'  Roy,  Rev.  James,  .M.  A .M.Mitreal 

Ruel,  .lame.s  j! St.  .lolui , 

Ryan,  Michael  P.,  M.I' .Montr,  al 

Rjerson,  John   K Vaniioiith  .... 

St.  (iermain,  .1.  L.,  M.l) St.  1  lyaciiithe.. 

St.  tJermain,  \'.  H.  L St.  Hyaciiithe.. 


.  i:i4 

.   4U 
.   (kW 

.  :iii 

.  17:. 

.  •-•Ill 

.  •^^>•2 

.  :i.s(» 

.  i«s 

.   ()4H 

.  ;!'.»H 

.  17rt 

.  ;i7<» 
i:!7!t 

I.SL" 

717 

71."> 
•J',).". 
T'-'ti 

•J  1 1! 

II.'. 
:iii(i 
;'(;s 
rr.'ii 
514 
M-2 

•s.w 
•jh;{ 

(ic:! 
ii-'7 
(m'.I 
4!»:! 
7.">l 

7«ii 

4;.". 
1:1 

.Ml 
4lt) 
5(h; 
47s 
l.".(i 
lit.'. 

JH.-. 

II 

L'iKt 

;i8:'i 
4, ".7 

KKI 

.•.Ii7 
47-.' 
'J.V.l 
.■||!» 
175 
14:! 
(ill 

:'.(ii 

542 


PARR 

Sanl.orn,  lliiii.  J.  S MoiUrual liVJ 

Sainleraun,  WiUiaiu (ieorgctown ~'M 

Saveiy,  .\.  W Diijl'y '*"'"' 

Sawyer,  Rev.    .\.  W.,  D.D Wolfville 4S5 

Scliiilt/.e,    Edward Montreal  ^'27 

Seoit    W.  K.,   M.l) Montreal 21'.', 

Scri\er,  Jiiliim,  MP Hmnniingford  ..    lOlt 

Seriver,  Lieiit.-C  d.  .lolin Hunimingfuril ..    107 

Seelev,  Hon.  \.  McL,  M.L.C St.  John (id'J 

.Sewell,  J.  .v.,   .A.M.,   M.l) Quebec 3.)0 

Sharji.  Francis    P Woodstock Oli) 

."^hart   I'fos.    iV;   Cassils Montreal 8!) 


.  St.  Hyavinthe..   147 

..Qiwbec   148 

..(iagetown (118 

.  St.  John «3;J 

.  .Dorchester 580 

..Windsor 488 

..Windsor 492 

.  .Mah<.ne  Ray  . .  501 
4-25 
528 


.sicoiti',  Hon.   I.onis  V 

Simard,  Lonis  J  .  A.,  .M.l) 

.Simpson,   Kdward 

Skinner,  Hon.  C.  N.,  Q.C.     .. 
Smith,  Sir  A.  .1,,  tJ.C,  M.P.   . 

Smith  li.'iinett    

Smith,  T.  IS.,  .M.l'. P. 

Snyder,  Rev.  W.  H 

St;iirs,  Hon.  .loiin  F Dartmonth 

Stairs,  Hon.  W.J Halifax 

Stiitiu's,  Lietit.-l'ol.,  Hon.  H  ....Montreal ;t'.)5 

.sti'iilieiis,  llarri.son   , Montreal    347 

Stiplu'iis.  Hon.  .lames  (J.,  (»)C.  ...St.  Stephen 038 

Stevens,  H'.n.  tiardiierti Waterlo< V2'2 

Steviiisoii,  Hon.  I!.  I{ St.  Andrew's   ..   C2(» 

Stevenson,   Rev.  .lolin  F Montreal 174 

Stewart,  H-n.  A.(! Halifax    413 

Stewart.    William  D Churlottetown..   753 

Street,  (iror^'e  1) St.  .Andrew's  ...  (143 

Stioiii;,   Hi'ii.   W.   C Sninmerside  .. . .   741 

Stuart,  Hon.  (ieorge  O Quebec 

Sullivan,  Hon.  W.  W.,  Q.C Ulmrlottotown.. 

Sweeney,  Rt.  Rev.  John.D.D...  .  St.   John. 
Taehe.    Knirene  K Qmd.ec  .  . 


la.  he,    L  .iiis St.  Hyacinthc. 

Tailloii,  A.  A .Sorel 

lailloii,   I,.  ().,   M.l'.l'. 

Tai.ley,  Uavi.l Portlantl  .    .  .  . 

T.iselicreaM,  Hon, Henry  T Fraserville.  .   . 

Taselieitaii,    Hon    .1.  t..    LL.D. .  .(,)iiebec 

lellier,  l.oiiis,  .M.P St.  Hyacinlho. 

leiiiple.   Th IS Frederictoii,,  . 

reiiill,  Hon.  T.  L Stanstead  :.  .  . 

le.iMer,  H,. II.   N.  .1.  1,1,1) (.)nel,ec 

riieiiatilt,    l.te.il.  t'ol.,    Hull  L.  ...FrasiMville  ... 

Thoiuas,    Daniel Sherbrooke... 

Thompson.  Hon.  J.  S.  1).,  M.K,('.  Halifax    

Thomson,  S.imiiel,  Q.C Newcastle  .... 

Tliom.s..n,  S.   n,  Q.l' St. John 


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138 
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.Montreal 102 

t;74 

70 

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40 
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150 
142- 
412 
042 
584 


Tilley.  Hon.  Sirs.  L.,C.I!.,  I'.C .  .St .  John 578 

Todd,   F.  II St.  Stephen 072 

Todd,  Rev.  Thoiiia.s    Woodstock 012 

TcmII,    Hon.   William   St.  Stephen.  .. .  024 

Toriaiiee.   Hon.  F.  \V Montreal 13 

Tovviisheiid,  Hon.  C,  J.,Q.O Vmherst 443 

Triidel,   Hon.  F.  X.  A .M,,i,tieal 125 

Tiuk,  William  II.,  i^.C St.  .lohn 032 

Tiipper,   Rex.  CliarUs,  D.D King.ston 405 

Tnpper,  Hon.  Freeman   Milton 531 


Tnpper,  N.ilhan.  iM.D 

Tnpper.  .Miner 

Tnreotle,  Hon.  .Arthur,  (,).t' 

Turner,  (i.  S,  .M.P.P 

Tweeilie,   L.  il 

Vail,  E.  A.,  .M.D.,  M.P.P. 

Vuil,  Hon.  W.I! Halifax   508 

Valin,  I',  v.,  .M.I' Quebec   34<J 

Veiiean,  H,  .V.  D.  L Montreal 3!)7 

Aeziiia,  Fraiicriis Quebec  144 


.  .Vmherst 4liO 

.  liridiietown. . . .  541 

.Three  Rivers  .  .  270 

.  Harvey   <i70 

.(,'hathain ti83 

.Sussex 702 


THE  CANADIAN  BIOGRAPIIICAL  DICTIONARY. 


Viokery,  Rdw»rd,  M.P.P Parr«b<»ro fiUo 

WnllacB,  (Je<).   H Sussex 0!K) 

Wallace,   John  Hillsborough...  (Hi!) 

Walters.  Hon.  Chas St.  John  ...     .  042 

Wol.b,  Hon.  W.  H.,  yc   Mellioume..!..     27 

Wt.iaon,U.\V.,A.M.,Q.C.,M  P...St.  John 7(t2 

Wells,  Asael Harvey (ilo 

Welsh,  John Diijhy 6(54  i 

Wetmore,  Hon.  A.  R.,  Q.C Fredorioton (iiW 

Wefnioro,  E.  L.,  B.A Fredericton (>88  , 

Wholan,  Hon.  Edwa/d ("Iiarlottetown  .  "4(» 

White,  Hon.  N.  VV.,  (^.C.,  M.P.P.  Shelbumo 552  i 

White,  Rev.  T.  H. ,  I).  D Shelbumo 524 

White,  Thomas,  M.  P Montreal 'M 


Whitman,  Thomas  S AnnalMdis 

Wickwiro,  W.N.  M.  1) Halifax 

Wight,  R.  H.,  M.U «t.  Johns 

Wixhtman,  Lieut.  Col.  Joseph St..Vndrow's  Pt 

Wilke.1,  Rev.  Henry,  l>.|).,  LLU.  Montreal 

Wilkias,  Hon.  Lewis,  D.C.L Wi,.dsor... 

Wdniot,  Hon.  R.  1).,  I'.O Fredericton 

Wiluiot,  Siiinuul  S Salisbury.. . 

VVoiid,  Josiuh,  M.A Sackville... 

Worthiiijcton,  E.  D.,  A.M.,  M.U.  Sherbrooko. 
NVurteiu,  J.  S.  C.,Q.O.,  M.P.P..  .Montreal... 

Vuo,  Hon.  James,  M.I' Portliili 

Young,  Hon.  Chas.,  LL.l).,  Q.O.  CharlottetownV. 
Young,  Sir  William Flalifax 


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